Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Gracie and the Trouble with Pinatas
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What you see is not always what you get. In fact, what you see may be nothing at all.
Finding a woman attacked and left for dead in her driveway hadn’t been anywhere near San Antonio law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner’s cold January plans. She immediately jumps into action and soon discovers a link to what appears to be a benign local research institution. Of course, what seems to be often isn’t, and it takes a series of explosive illusions that rock a small slice of the city before Gracie and her coworkers understand the fuller picture: a rogue relationship between the research group and a corrupt faction inside the Pentagon…
Grant Us Mercy
by DC Little
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ninety percent of the world’s population will perish—they fight to be a part of the 10% that survive.
Blake Chantry knows disaster is coming—but nothing can prepare him for the inferno that tears his world apart. When a massive solar storm wipes out the power grid and plunges the nation into chaos, his mission to protect his superiors takes a deadly turn.
Now, with vehicles exploding, mobs rising, and wildfires raging, Blake faces an unthinkable choice: abandon his post or risk everything to save his wife and son…
What Happens in the Dark
by Kia Abdullah
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now, Lily is the nation’s favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace.
When news breaks about suspicious bruises on Lily’s body, Safa attempts to rekindle their old friendship. But Lily claims the bruises are nothing to worry about. And then one night the police are called to Lily’s home. Lily is strangely calm – and a body lies dead at her feet.
Lily pleads not guilty, and then says nothing more. Driven by her desire to give a voice to all victims, Safa begins her own investigation into what happened that night.
The Girl Who Sees Angels
by Jeffrey McClain Jones
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lights in the darkness, shadows in daylight, she has seen them all her life, and feared them. Can she break free now? Does she really want to?
Sophie Ramos has always thought she was cursed and maybe crazy. Even her mother doubted her when she was a child. Priests and psychiatrists doubted her too. But psychics tried to recruit Sophie to enrich and empower themselves.
Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, keeping her secret from everyone except her mother and a few close friends. But a threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake.
Almost Dark
by Letitia Trent
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
In 1993, teenage Claire and her twin brother, Sam, sneak out to Farmington’s old textile factory, where they’ve heard the high school kids go to party. When Sam falls into a basement window and injures himself, Claire runs for help, thinking she’s left Sam alone. But something horrible is inside the otherwise empty factory with him . . .
Fifteen years later, Claire is working as Farmington’s librarian, secretly wrestling with her guilt after her brother’s death. She leads a quiet, lonely life—until Sam begins visiting her.
Uma’s Head
by Kristin Kelly
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the dangerous world of Southeast Asia’s illicit antiquities trade, a curator’s search for a missing colleague uncovers a decades-old conspiracy—and a stolen artifact that could unravel it all.
When art curator Sarah Burroughs glimpses a half-hidden Khmer sculpture in her mentor’s Bangkok apartment, she doesn’t yet realize she’s staring at Uma’s head, a stolen national treasure—and a clue to a dangerous secret. Across the border in Cambodia, fellow curator Sam Heng uncovers a shocking diary written at the start of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal reign—by the father he never knew. Soon after, Heng vanishes without a trace.
Death’s Savage Passion
by Jane Haddam
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
McKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war
The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre’s “true” authors fight back, a battle breaks out in every high-class gin joint in Manhattan. It is take-no-prisoners fighting, and Patience McKenna is caught in the middle.
This ex-romance author has just turned to true crime writing when Sarah English comes to visit.
Fall From Grace
by Nora Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tim Morrison seems to be a model of respectability – until the day he comes home to tell his devoted wife Felicity that he is no longer the trusted partner in a solicitors’ firm. He has been fired – and may go to jail – because he has been caught ‘borrowing’ the money his clients trusted him with.
At first there seems to be hope: Tim’s mother will give him enough money and more to pay back his partners. Against her better judgement, Felicity agrees to cope with her shame – and Tim’s broken-hearted mother – without sharing his secret with their daughter. But then the truth begins to come out – about Tim’s other secrets and lies. Soon it seems that no matter what Felicity does, Tim’s dishonesty will ruin the lives of all three women.
Less of a Stranger
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What begins as a business proposal turns into a roller coaster ride through life and love in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Less of a Stranger.
Megan Miller’s beloved grandfather has run Joyland Amusement Park her whole life. But he’s not as young as he used to be, so she agrees to help him keep their family playground going even if it means sacrificing her own dreams. So when David “Katch” Katcherton thinks he can just buy Joyland with a quickly scrawled check, Megan isn’t about to let some wealthy, attractive hotshot with a need for speed take her and Pops on a merry-go-round ride—no matter how much fun and joy he’s determined to bring her…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Passions in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene in the next novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, J.D. Robb, Passions in Death.
On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii…
Edge of the Blackout Boxed Set
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When the power grid collapses, Shelly grabs her gear and heads into a world spiraling into chaos.
No phones. No rescue. Just survival.
With danger around every corner and a criminal brother by her side, she must fight to stay alive or be swallowed by the darkness.
Every Woman’s Nightmare
by Steven Long
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical schools, Mark was on the road to continuing his family’s legacy of achievement. And with a beautiful wife by his side, Mark seemed to have it all. But what he had was a tangled web of lies…
For eight years, Mark lived a double life of deceptions, petty crimes, and failures, duping everyone, including his trusting wife Lori. But when Lori uncovered his most extraordinary lie, Mark Hacking turned from deceiver to stone-cold killer…
Armored
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney’s Audible Original drama, Armored.
Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent—a professional bodyguard—and he’s one of the world’s elite operatives. That is, he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg.
There’s not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in New Jersey. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory on earth, but miracles can occur even in Paramus.
I Heard You Paint Houses
by Charles Brandt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now updated with substantial post-publication corroboration of Sheeran’s confessions to the killings of Jimmy Hoffa and Joey Gallo.
“I heard you paint houses” are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly 5 years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than 25 hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. He also provided intriguing information about the Mafia’s role in the murder of JFK.
This Magic Moment
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Become enchanted with #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s This Magic Moment when a woman casts a spell to open the heart of a man who’s tricked himself into believing that love doesn’t exist.
Master magician Pierce Atkins has made a career conjuring realistic illusions and escaping elaborate traps, mystifying audiences around the world. Mesmerized by his seemingly otherworldly abilities, Ryan Swan is desperate for a peek behind the curtain of the brooding, attractive genius—only to uncover a personal tragedy his magic cannot fix. And as she watches Pierce engage in one death-defying act after another, Ryan finds herself becoming spellbound by the man, not the magician.
Suckerville
by Chris Sorensen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A CREATURE FEATURE WITH TEETH…
JD Speers is having a stretch of bad luck: his wife left him, the law is on his tail, and to top it all off, bloodsucking leech people are attacking his favorite bar.
Together with his buddy Rowdy and the barflies of Doc’s Dockside Tavern, JD must stop the suckers before they spread their contagion up and down the Mississippi River.
Dust to Dust
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?
Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop’s death, uncovering one motive and one suspect after another. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city’s elite, but into the very heart of the police department.
Scott Jackson
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sheriff Scott Jackson thought life in Pine Valley, Texas, would stay quiet. He was wrong.
When word comes that his twin brother, Lance, has been shot in nearby Logan, Scott saddles up for answers.
Rumor points to Eldon Ivy – a ruthless land baron who owns half the county and doesn’t take “no” for an answer. When Ivy wants something, he sends his enforcer, the brutal Jed Henson, to make it happen.
One of Ivy’s targets is Frank Ames, a respected farmer whose daughter Nancy has captured Scott’s heart. As violence spreads across the valley, Scott must draw on every ounce of his lawman’s grit to stand against Ivy’s empire and bring peace back to Logan.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Valentine
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last. Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Macbeth’s newest constable and blushing bride-to-be.
While locals think Josie is quite a catch, Hamish has a case of prenuptial jitters. After all, if it weren’t for the recent murder of a beautiful woman in a neighbouring village, there wouldn’t be a wedding at all. For it was a mysterious Valentine’s Day package—delivered to the victim before her death—that initially drew Hamish and Josie together on the investigation.
Cops and Clobbers in Deadwood
by Ann Charles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Violet Parker has big troubles these days—the ticking kind. To duck the Grim Reaper, she needs to get her hands on eighty-plus rare, mystical clocks locked up tight by a thick-headed detective.
The solution? Hijack the truckload of ticking time bombs out from under Johnny Law’s nose. But no caper ever goes according to plan. What starts out as a game of clocks and robbers twists and turns into a chaos of cops and clobbers.
Will Violet beat the detective in time? Or will she spend Valentine’s Day behind bars?
Rose Dhu
by Mark Murphy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Winner of the Literary Titan Silver Book Award
A highly regarded surgeon has gone missing. Will the search for her whereabouts tear a community apart?
Dr. Janie O’Connor’s disappearance from her Savannah estate, Rose Dhu, has shocked the town to its core. Her former fiancé, Phillip Carruthers—once the most eligible bachelor in coastal Georgia and the playboy son of Savannah’s most powerful billionaire family—is the prime suspect.
Phillip maintains his innocence and seems to have an airtight alibi, and the case has local police stumped. But Detective Frank Winger, who has his own personal connection to Janie’s family, is determined to discover what happened . . . as long as false witnesses, evidence tampering, and ghosts from his past don’t get in the way…
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
by Laurie R. King
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award
It is 1921 and Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology–is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell’s attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible.
Those Empty Eyes
by Charlie Donlea
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling author of Twenty Years Later and master of modern suspense is back with a brilliantly twisting, skillfully plotted thriller perfect for fans of Jeneva Rose and Colleen Hoover’s Verity.
Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s no longer the terrified teenager a rapt audience saw on television, emerging in handcuffs from the quiet suburban home the night her family was massacred. That girl, Alexandra Quinlan, nicknamed Empty Eyes by the media, was accused of the killings, fought to clear her name, and later took the stand during her highly publicized defamation lawsuit that captured the attention of the nation.
Redemption Post Morte
by Emil Buchman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a recently deceased soul is offered a chance to escape Oblivion, he must locate the lost Book of Remedies—an ancient text of miraculous healing power—before Demons use it to turn Earth into Hell.
What happens when you die? Forget clouds, harps, or fiery pits. Here, bureaucratic Angels—supervised by rival Archangel cabinet members and assisted by poker-playing Demon janitors—run Creation from celestial offices plagued by politics and back stabbing.
When a nameless soul with no memory of his past steps into this surreal afterlife, the Heavenly Department of Justice offers him a deal: go on a mission to expose Satanists and idolaters on Earth…
Don’t Say a Word
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The police ruled Elijah Martinez’s death an accidental drug overdose, but the teen’s grieving mother isn’t convinced. With the case officially closed, Angelhart Investigations is the only one who can help her find the truth. Margo Angelhart’s sure this will be an easy solve—she’ll talk to Elijah’s friends and employer, retrace his steps, and figure out what happened in his final hours.
Except none of his friends believe he did drugs, and the teacher who’s been vocal about the police mishandling the case turns up dead. Every thread Margo pulls leads back to a dangerous drug ring that once ran through the school…
A Slowly Dying Cause
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.
Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made…
The Hard Line
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The Gray Man, the world’s deadliest assassin and apex predator, discovers he’s really the prey in the most shocking entry of this #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Family means different things to different people, but in the Gray Man’s world, family is defined by blood—the blood you share with some and the blood you shed with others.
Court Gentry’s current family operates out of an office park in Norfolk, Virginia…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tea with Jam & Dread
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts leaves New England for old England to attend a party for an aristocratic centenarian – but what goes on there is anything but noble . . .
Long ago, Lily’s grandmother Rose worked as a kitchen maid at Thornecroft Castle, and now Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Frockmorton, is celebrating her 100th birthday. Rose still has fond feelings for her onetime employer, so a group trip to Yorkshire is planned. It’s also an opportunity for Lily to visit her boyfriend, who’s currently working in England—and to indulge in some British tea…
CREATION HORROR
by Joe Belcastro
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Founding Fathers created our independence…while burying America’s horrifying secret…
A chosen group of alumni are relentlessly chased by a mysterious figure in the mid-1800s.
Known as the Rush Bloods, these alumni are hunted due to possessing a private journal encompassing shared notes between Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Their professor, Benjamin Rush, was the sworn caretaker of the Jefferson & Adams journal – where its contents warn of a colonial secret which must remain hidden forever.
For horror genre and subgenre fans of JAWS, The Terror, IT, and Stephen Graham Jones
USA Noir
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Features Dennis Lehane’s story “Animal Rescue,” the inspiration for the movie The Drop starring Tom Hardy.
Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. The stories in USA Noir “represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies, and the list of contributors include virtually anyone who’s made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade . . . a must-have anthology” (Booklist, starred review).
Crescent City Curse Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some legacies are written in blood and magic.
Elle Beauregard inherits magical powers and a mysterious necklace which leads to her discovering she’s the last guardian protecting New Orleans from an ancient evil.
Detective Mateo Cruz has seen enough to know when someone’s in danger. What he hasn’t seen is magic that burns through technology, illusions that taste like memory, and a woman whose very existence threatens to unravel reality.
Can Ellie master her powers in time to save New Orleans and the budding relationship with Mateo? Grab this complete trilogy to find out!
Island Countdown
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Past failures still torment Allie Harkwood. But she’s determined to prove herself.
Three months ago, her massive misstep derailed her career as a private security agent—and got her shot.
Still healing physically and emotionally, she jumps at an unexpected offer to return to work. She’s resolved to save her career, but bears no hope for resurrecting her short romance with fellow agent Knox Coulter. Her mistakes are unforgivable, and she’ll live with the consequences…
The clock is ticking. Literally. If they can’t find the bomb maker in time, innocent lives—and their second chance at love—will meet a tragic end.
WHAT THE YEARS REMEMBER
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the author of Twice a Broken Breath, which precedes this novel, and Too Far Standing Still, which was published after this novel. All books stand alone, but some characters reappear as supporting characters.
Growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley, fraternal twins Amber and Jade were always different. Amber, somewhat shy and affable, is a happy, well-liked child. Jade, often angry, laments from an early age that others have what she covets. As the girls grow up, Jade’s jealousy escalates. Dangerously so.
At sixteen, enraged by their classmate Michael’s affection for Amber, Jade lures her sister to an abandoned lot, shoves her onto concrete, and leaves her for dead. Knowing Jade would try again, her parents agree to fake her death. Amber moves to New York City with her father, and Jade moves with her mother to Los Angeles.
The Count of 9
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate their twistiest case yet in this thrilling crime novel from the creator of Perry Mason.
Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason. At the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals . . . and The Count of 9 is Gardner at his twistiest.
Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: How could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party—least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun—when the guests were X-rayed coming and going?
The Devil’s Bible
by Steve Berry
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries.
Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas—the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it’s been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way it also acquired another more mysterious moniker … The Devil’s Bible.