Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café
by Laura Briggs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The perfect new cozy-up-with-a-pumpkin-spice-latte read that’s meant for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Rebecca Raisin!
Professional pastry chef Blaire Reese is blindsided when her beloved Aunt Rachel dies, leaving her the Sugar and Spice Pastry Cafe in Willow Grove. Returning to her hometown, Blaire discovers her beloved family business is in trouble, and—to make things worse—its most-cherished recipe is missing.
Her first love and former summer crush, Evan Hadley, is also back in town, having traded a corporate career to help manage his family’s Heath Acre Farm, famous for its autumn Hay Daze corn maze…
The Billionaire’s Double Take
by J.M Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Art gallery owner Erin Cameron has a problem. Not only has she lost her way after the death of her parents, she lost a bit of herself as well. Her only solace, is the constant, loving care of her housekeeper, Mrs. Hardy and the beloved family art gallery that she inherited from her father. In order to side-step the limelight and still get her work done, Erin creates an alter-ego named “Penny Boucher” as her assistant. Each day, the beautiful, violet-eyed brunette transforms herself into a brown-eyed, blonde and heads off to work. Her disguise works so well, that her own staff prefers having Penny around rather than Erin.
But a double life has a way of creating double trouble…
Innocent In Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher—and uncovers some extraordinary surprises—in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
Eve Dallas doesn’t like to see innocent people murdered. And the death of history teacher Craig Foster is clearly a murder case. The lunch that his wife lovingly packed was tainted with deadly ricin. And Mr. Foster’s colleagues, shocked as they may be, have some shocking secrets of their own. It’s Eve’s job to get a feel for all the potential suspects—and find out why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant…so innocent.
The Peter Blauner Collection Volume One
by Peter Blauner
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Gripping crime thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Intruder and Proving Ground—”Nobody writing suspense novels does it as well” (James Patterson).
Praised by everyone from Stephen King and James Patterson to Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author Peter Blauner has proven himself a master of the crime thriller. In the three novels collected here—including Blauner’s Edgar Award–winning debut—the former journalist delivers breathtaking suspense alongside provocative questions of morality and ethics.
The Woman in the Villa
by Helen Cooper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A holiday to Italy with my husband and his family should be a dream trip. Spending two weeks in the scorching sun, relaxing by the pool, sipping on local wine…
Two weeks of trying to hide what I’ve done.
When I meet Carmen, the woman staying in the villa next to us, I’m immediately drawn to her, thankful to have some normalcy against the intensity of my in laws. I didn’t expect to tell her my biggest secret, one that could tear my whole life apart.
Spasm
by Robin Cook
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner, she and Jack find themselves uncharacteristically free for a couple of weeks. And the timing couldn’t be better when they receive a call from Jack’s former medical school classmate, Robert Neilson, who is the sole family practitioner in Essex Falls, an idyllic town tucked away in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. Serving also as the Hamilton County coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand. Unable to resist a good mystery and a vacation in one, Laurie and Jack agree to help and head upstate.
The Paleontologist
by Luke Dumas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel.
Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent breakup and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never found.
The Anniversary
by Alex Finlay
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Every May 1st, a serial killer stalks a small town. Every year he comes for them . . .
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other.
Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer—a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone.
By morning, their lives are forever connected.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Open Season
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis race against time to find a twisted killer in this riveting novel from the “master of suspense” (Los Angeles Times).
People come to Los Angeles to chase their dreams. Sometimes they find themselves cast into a nightmare. And sometimes, the most ardent dreamers turn out to be the most vicious monsters.
The body of an aspiring actress is found dumped near a hospital emergency room. She’s been drugged and murdered and the motive for the callous crime remains maddeningly out of reach…
Murder off Route 82
by Jane Suen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A missing girl. Her boyfriend, gone without a trace. Can a tenacious undergrad find them both before the case becomes a homicide?
Eve Sawyer is ready to wave goodbye to summer. Fresh off helping solve a puzzling beach crime, the inquisitive college student can’t wait for fall classes to start. But her newfound fame has attracted an anxious mom’s cry for help to track down a classmate who never returned home. Eve soon learns that the girl’s boyfriend is also missing.
Constrained by a ticking clock and scarce evidence, Eve enlists the aid of two friends and her journalism professor in the search…
Artifacts
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Able Monroe went out to the Nevada desert hunting space rocks.
What his trowel strikes two meters down isn’t one of them. It isn’t anything he can name. And it’s far too big to dig up alone. Lucky for him, his two best friends came along for the ride.
Able makes one mistake. He keeps digging.
That’s when his ordinary life ends. Swept off their own planet and flung across the stars, the three friends land in a galaxy with one favorite pastime: hunting lost relics. Fortunes change hands on a single find. They don’t know the rules. They don’t know the players. But they didn’t arrive empty-handed, and out here, word of a new find travels fast.
Prince of Darkness and Deceit
by Samantha Britt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Elara Stonebloom must risk her life to save her greatest enemy: the cruel Fae who oppress her homeland.
An orphaned human healer, Elara hides in the shadow of the powerful Fae who rule her homeland with an iron fist. But her carefully controlled world unravels when a Fae Lord strides into her quiet village and presents her with a brutal choice: heal his dying soldier or watch her village burn.
Though the task is far beyond her skill, she must try to save her loved ones from suffering, but as she struggles to save the life of one of her enemies, the Fae Lord’s piercing dark eyes linger on her with an intensity that makes her heart race…
Blood, Rust and Steel
by Stuart MacBride
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
All good things must come to an end . . .
Acting Detective Inspector Roberta Steel has never been shy, but she’s finally retiring. After thirty years of policing Aberdeen’s underbelly, she’s all set for her twilight years to feature gardening gloves, afternoon tea, crossword puzzles, and shouting at the telly.
So, when a body turns up in a wheelie bin, it looks like an excellent way to round off her career and go out with a bang. But the Northeast of Scotland isn’t finished with her yet…
A Desert of Bleeding Sand
by Lucia Damisa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As a half-blood, I am feared for the magic that coils through my veins like a curse. When my academy is attacked and its students abducted, I am chosen to attend the king’s coronation as an envoy.
I am there to hunt the ones responsible.
The palace is steeped in deadly magic and secrets men will kill to protect. My only chance of uncovering the truth may be Dathan, a rival spy f
Psychological Thriller Box Set
by Emily Shiner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
INTRODUCING SIX GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS BY EMILY SHINER.
Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, John Marrs and Kiersten Modglin.
THE SECRET WIFE
HER HUSBAND’S SECRET
HER PERFECT LIFE
THE PROMISE
THE BETTER MOTHER
THE CARETAKER
Travis Delta Thriller Box Set
by Russ Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
INTRODUCING FIVE FAST-PACED, ACTION-PACKED THRILLERS FEATURING FORMER NAVY SEAL TRAVIS DELTA.
Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Jason Kasper & David Archer.
HOLLOW POINT
GHOST STRIKE
WIPE OUT
CHAIN REACTION
IRON CURTAIN
True Crime
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident. She unflinchingly shares overcoming obstacles that later gave her the ambition to become an award-winning police reporter. From there it was research in a medical examiner’s office that would turn into a full-time job. She would become a forensic expert and worldwide publishing phenomenon.
The Country Road Murders
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family.
After surviving a shocking accident and a brush with fame, Silas Tucker returns to his backwoods hometown. Cross Rivers, North Carolina, is where he fell in love with a local girl—and where his father was murdered by the roadside. Now Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia crime ring aiming to destroy not only his past but his future.
The Boat House
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An unexpected inheritance from their late uncle brought Madison (Taylor) Wainwright and her brother Lincoln to Smuggler’s Cove. But it’s the quirky, close-knit locals who’ve convinced them to stay for the summer. The little town may be worlds away from the privileged existence the siblings knew before their father was arrested for fraud, but here, they’ve found a sense of belonging.
After renovating the dilapidated boat house that once served as a local marina for crabbers and clammers, Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a true Jersey Shore summer, complete with the town’s famous Seafood Festival.