Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Memory in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized young girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her.
Trudy claims she came all the way to New York just to see how Eve is doing. But Eve’s fiercely protective husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail attempt by Trudy proves his suspicion correct…
The Sex Club
by L.J. Sellers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A pipe bomb explodes at a birth control clinic, then a young client turns up dead in a dumpster. Kera, the clinic nurse, discovers that the girl’s Bible group is sharing more than the Good News. Confidentiality keeps her from telling the police, so she digs for the truth on her own—becoming the bomber’s new target.
Meanwhile, Detective Jackson races to find the killer, fearing his own daughter could be next. But his investigation is blocked by power politics at every step. Can Jackson uncover the killer’s shocking identity in time to stop the slaughter?
Lazytown
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Something funny’s going on in Lazytown…
For jobbing writer, Sam Bryant, life in the eccentric Oxfordshire village of Idleborough – known to all and sundry as Lazytown – is relaxed, despite living in the unfortunately named Slaughterhouse Cottages. The most he has to concern himself with is the annual cricket grudge match with neighbours, Stockford, organising the local Duck Race, watching Granny’s Bobbins matches and deciding which of the village’s four pubs to frequent, whilst smiling at the antics of Lazytown’s collection of weird and wonderful residents…
Paint The Dead
by Jack Gatland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Some cases need more than the police…
Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed ‘cop for criminals’, and the person the underworld calls when they can’t call the police.
Working for favours, freely given at a time and place of her choosing, Ellie and her team of fallen angels work the cases the police never see–while Ellie builds enough favours to discover who in the force framed her for murder, who ordered it, and who really killed the man she loved…
Vincible
by Jay Jameston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Breakups are hard, but going viral during your meltdown is alarmingly easy.
Jake Durham just got dumped, humiliated online, and shoved back into the dating pool with absolutely no idea what he’s doing. Meanwhile, his ex racks up likes and glow-up photos across social media.
Desperate for closure, or at least a distraction, Jake plunges headfirst into dating apps, ill-advised hookups, and a series of HR “misunderstandings” that spiral wildly out of control. Each swipe, text, and morning-after pushes him deeper into post-breakup purgatory and closer to torching his job, his reputation, and what little self-respect he has left.
The Bleeding Woods
by Brittany Amara
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
In this chilling debut horror novel, a young woman discovering dangerous new powers finds herself lost in the Appalachian Mountains with her first love, the sister she betrayed, and an infatuated stranger bound to her telepathically as a string of vicious murders taints the woods red.
Clara Lovecroft didn’t mean to kill her parents. She was fourteen when it happened. Something inside her had awoken, something terrible and dangerous that Clara’s kept at bay with pills ever since. Not that her sister, Jade, will ever forgive her for what happened. Not that Clara will ever forgive herself.
She-Wolf
by E.K. O’Connor
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In ancient Scandinavia, a land beset by monstrous creatures and legends, Beowulf is warrior of extreme renown. Born in battle and shaped by steel, she has spent years proving that strength is not solely a man’s domain.
When the halls of Heorot threaten to buckle under the horror of a monstrous creature known as Grendel, Beowulf answers the call.
As she battles creatures of nightmare, she finds herself drawn to a queen who she should slay for the good of the realm, a woman whose heart holds both solace and peril.
An Act of Treason
by Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the fourth novel in the New York Times–bestselling series, a Marine sniper is targeted by a man he once idolized—a true American hero turned traitor.
Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. Lauren is accused of being a double agent. The one person they trust to help is the man who sent them on the black operation—Jim Hall, a legendary CIA agent, Kyle’s sniper mentor, and Lauren’s boss and former lover.
Deadline for Justice
by Kristen M. Fraser
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When the past comes calling, justice demands an answer.
Tahlia Gibson thought she’d left her past behind when she moved to the coastal hamlet of Tidewater Point. After helping uncover a powerful sex-trafficking ring, the former investigative reporter sought a fresh start far from danger and the shadows of grief. But when chilling threats begin arriving and someone starts targeting her, Tahlia realises the past isn’t done with her yet.
Landon Cheney, a burnt-out ex-homicide detective, is also starting over, hoping the quiet town will offer healing and bring him back from the brink of burnout…
Jigsaw
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, the most beloved duo in American crime fiction, return in this electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling “master of suspense” (Los Angeles Times).
This one looked like a slam dunk: a young woman found dead at her kitchen table, DNA on cigarette butts linking quickly to an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record. Or so homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis thought. Then everything changed and a quick close turned into a mind-bending whodunit. That’s when Milo called in psychologist Alex Delaware, his best friend and a long-term consultant on “those cases.” The ones that are different…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Charmed City Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Lila Matthews is just a barista trying to make rent in Manhattan until mysterious green sparks erupt from her fingertips during her shift and her life bursts into flames.
Lila finds a mentor in Caleb Blackwood, a stern warlock from a secretive Council of Magical Guardians, but the attraction develops into more than mentor and student.
With Manhattan becoming a battleground of dangerous, swirling magic, will Lila embrace her magical destiny and save the city or will she lose everything, including the forbidden love that’s developing for Caleb?
Grab this complete trilogy today to find out!
“L” is for Lawless
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“L” Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl– quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky– poking her nose into everyone’s dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with a major headache and an empty bank balance.
The Ice Man
by Philip Carlo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Philip Carlo’s The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. For thirty years, Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey.
Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano’s partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers…
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by P. D. JamesP. D. James, Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes’ friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891. Further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle’s death in 1930. The tales cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.
Total Control
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world’s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear — leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.
The Charley Huxley Mysteries
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $3.00 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Charley Huxley had two mysteries in his life that have never been solved. The first one was about his sister, Linda, who died when they were both children. The only thing his parents would reveal was that she succumbed to a horrific accident. Charley and Linda had been close siblings, and he desperately needed to find the answers.
Charley’s second mystery concerned the true love of his life. Back in 1969, a young hip girl stepped out of the Meeman-Shelby Forest in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his heart. She called herself Moon Beam. After a long, wonderful conversation, she faded back into the forest, just as mysteriously as she had arrived…
Deep Lie
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Kate Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base…a crafty Russian spy-master in command…a carefully planned invasion about to be launched from dark waters.
Her suspicions, however, are dismissed by those higher up; her theory, they say, is too crazy to be true. But to Kate, it’s just crazy enough to succeed—unless she can stop it. If she’s right, an attack sub has already penetrated friendly waters. Worse yet, the enemy has penetrated deep into her own life, so deep she can touch him. And in this game, one wrong touch can mean Armageddon.
My Husband’s Wife
by Alice Feeney
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Stolen in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the next thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke—who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage
by Asia Mackay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Dangerous Second Chances: Boxed Set
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get swept away into a world of love, danger, and second chances!
Tender romance, humor, family, faith, mysteries, and suspense combine in a set sure to keep you reading and give you hours of reading satisfaction. Each story is a clean romance with a heartwarming and uplifting happy ending!
Book 1: Seaside Cowboy’s Second Chance
Book 2: No Second Chance for a Cowboy
Book 3: Season of Affection
Book 4: Whisper of Danger
Book 5: Show Me a Second Chance
Book 6: Badge of Honor
The House of Cross
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Washington, DC…
The president-elect is tapping the country’s brightest legal minds as candidates for the Supreme Court. Then one of them is gunned down. Another is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street.
Now it’s up to Detective Alex Cross, the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior, to go inside the mind of a diabolical killer and protect the country’s best hope for justice.
Theme Music
by T. Marie Vandelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She didn’t run from her dark past. She moved in.
For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was spared, becoming infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter.
Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family she can’t remember. So when her childhood home goes up for sale, Dixie sets aside all reason and moves in…
Behind the Border
by Nina Kossman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
With poignant innocence, Kossman writes of her childhood experiences in Russia…. Each chapter relates a memory tinged with the effects of the totalitarian regime that influenced every aspect of her and her family’s lives. The opening vignette reveals the unexpected restrictions of the border when a beach ball floats out to sea and young Nina is told that she would never be allowed into Turkey to retrieve it.
In the subsequent chapters, the author describes situations through the eyes of a 7-to-10-year-old in which adults reveal either fear of authority or of autocratic bullying. Her parents try to protect her, but her experiences at school eventually result in surprisingly mature conclusions as she comes to realize, fear, and resent the strictures under which she lives…
Stay Close
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES!
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller.
Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer but now finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo. Broome is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case. Each is hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect.
“O” is for Outlaw
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone’s past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained a blip on the screen until now.
The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week he bought a stack. They had stuff in them–Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he’ll sell her the lot…
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere.
The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. F…
Vigil
by George Saunders
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
“Vibrant, fiendishly clever . . . Vigil is pure Saunders: the death of empathy, he insists, is greatly exaggerated.”—The Boston Globe
Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bridge to Nowhere
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The first Miz Mike Cozy Christian Mystery finds best-selling author Mike Rice—or Miz Mike to friends in Three Prongs, Texas, the place ‘where the misfits fit’—minding her own business…sort of. Mike’s son accuses his mother of meddling because her compassionate heart spurs the slightly clumsy, slightly bonkers, forty-something Mike into solving mysteries and rescuing the unloved and unlovely. And it doesn’t help that Miz Mike’s motto is: Never Let an Adventure Pass by Unmolested.
Mike is playing her secret M&M candy game and envisioning her upcoming lunch date with cowboy hero Marty Richards when a lovely young stranger barges into her office and asks her to solve her sister’s murder…
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.
Finding Love in Pine Valley
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Award-winning author Judy Ann Davis weaves another heartwarming and compelling romantic mystery of two disenchanted people searching for a stolen vintage trinket box and love again.
Lena Starron knew that leaving her two-timing ex-husband and her job in New York as a writer would be a challenge. Starting over always is. But she never thought she’d return to her old hometown in Pennsylvania where two new jobs awaited her, only to discover she had no place to live.
Wyatt Taylor of Taylor Tree Farm hired Lena to organize and open a new café while she also worked writing publicity for Pine Valley’s 200th Anniversary Celebration…
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
Before the Fall
by Ellis Grayson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Before the Fall is the gripping first book in The Fall Series, showing the final days before society collapsed. As panic spreads and the dead begin to rise, Derek, Jennifer, and their friends fight to protect each other while the world they knew unravels around them. Survival starts here.
The Silent Girl
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead.
Included bonus short story Freaks
What We Did
by Brian R. O’Rourke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She can’t remember what happened that night. But someone else does.
After years of struggle, Raven Kendrick is giving up on her dream of a theater career in New York. Returning to her hometown, she moves back in with her parents and resigns herself to a quiet life.
But that humble dream is shattered when her tyrannical father is murdered. Even worse, Raven is convinced her beloved mother killed him while sleepwalking. So instead of calling the police, she decides to cover up the crime.
Bone Valley
by Gilbert King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo’s case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can’t shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.