Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Bloom
by Rosie Sandler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s an invitation Steph Williams can’t refuse when she’s handpicked to compete in a flower show at the prestigious National Trust property of Coleton Fishacre. With the country’s top garden designers as rivals and a stunning historic estate for inspiration, it feels like a dream come true.
But things quickly turn thorny when the youngest competitor falls mysteriously ill and Steph suspects foul play. Her fears are confirmed when a scream echoes through the gardens, leading her to the shocking sight of a dead body at the foot of a cliff…
Backwater Justice
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
The small Oregon town of Mountain Valley seems like the perfect place to safely raise a family, away from the dangers of the big city. Vanessa’s parents think so, until the day their fourteen-year-old daughter doesn’t come home for dinner. They call her cell. Straight to voice mail. They call her friends. Nothing…
One of the Broken
by John Carson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
You can run…but you can never hide from the truth
A man is found murdered in his home, bludgeoned to death. In his hand is a piece from a jigsaw puzzle. Despite being widely liked, someone harboured a deadly grudge.
DCI James Craig, who recently relocated from London to Fife to work with Police Scotland, leads a dedicated team tasked with unraveling the mystery behind the murder and the significance of the puzzling clue left behind. Despite the victim’s seemingly spotless reputation, lingering shadows from his past hint at a possible motive…
X
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss…
Perhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath. The test is whether private investigator Kinsey Millhone can prove her case against him—before she becomes his next victim.
Violets Are Blue
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Her perfect home. Her perfect man. How wrong can she be?
After a bitter divorce, criminal solicitor Laila moves to idyllic Violet Lane where she quickly falls for Max—her charming, piano-playing neighbor. They begin a wildly passionate affair and Laila feels she is really starting to live again.
But the tranquility of this close-knit community is shattered when Jackie, a young mother from across the street, goes missing. Her husband is the chief suspect and Laila agrees to act as his lawyer.
Watching
by Jeffrey Jay Levin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
After watching a documentary about a 50-year-old unsolved crime, an otherwise ordinary guy finds himself both blessed and burdened by the ability to travel through time and space, but not in the physical sense, and only as it may relate to that unsolved crime.
Braving the debilitating physical effects of his space time continuum journeys, he faces 1970s Mob bosses and their cronies, and murder and deceit, from both sides of the law. Determined to solve the crime and find the long lost art, and buoyed by the still unclaimed $5,000,000 reward, he has to come up with a means of convincing the FBI that his information is valid, without being locked up himself.
Midnight Macabre
by Christopher Michael Blake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN FRIGHTENING AND TERRIFYING STORIES
Midnight Macabre contains fourteen short horror stories by author Christopher Michael Blake. The stories are intended to fill the reader with a sense of dread and leave them craving more.
The ominous versatility of these stories grabs your curiosity, instilling fear in your imagination.
The stories in Midnight Macabre’s anthology deal with lust, greed, wrath, foreboding, and the impossible. Beware of sinister beings lurking in the shadows or hiding under your bed.
Dear Judas
by James Finke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the moment Tommy Finch’s heart stopped beating, his life would never be the same. A successful medical device salesman thriving in a high-pressure corporate world, Tommy had no need for God—until a near-death experience shatters his disbelief and forces him to confront a new reality.
As he grapples with the complexities of life, love, and faith, he unwittingly becomes the target of dark forces determined to lead him to “their father’s house below.” But there’s one complication: Tommy is married to Elizabeth, a devout Christian whose unwavering faith becomes a nightmare for the demons scheming to undermine him.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Visions of Sugar Plums
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn’t got a tree. She hasn’t bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There’s not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment. And there’s a strange man in her kitchen.
Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy-and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life. The question is, what does he want with her?
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The Woman in Ward 9
by Naomi Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Laura Winters doesn’t know why she has lost her memory, or why she was found alone, soaked in someone else’s blood.
The only thing she is certain of is that I am the only psychologist she can – or will – talk to.
I have six days to help Laura unlock her memories and find out the truth.
But what has she forgotten – and what is she hiding? And how does she know so much about me?
We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
Hunting Eve
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She was taken for a reason. Chosen for her skills as a forensic sculptor. Abducted by the deranged father of a serial killer and forced to reconstruct his dead son’s skull from bone fragments. Now Eve Duncan has escaped her captor—and she’s running for her life. Alone. Unarmed.
In the mountains of Colorado, Eve must use all of her strength, courage, and wits to survive this madman’s obsession. But Jim Doane is not the only player in the game. While Joe Quinn, Jane MacGuire, and Kendra Michaels search for Eve in the abandoned mining town that could be her ultimate refuge—or her grave—a stranger with ties to her long-ago past is closing in, circling like a wolf, and HUNTING EVE.
Vendetta
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vowed to change their lives, empower themselves, and be there for each other, no matter what. Now, they’re ready to answer the call for the woman who started it all, Myra Rutledge.
Five years ago, Myra’s pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver—the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime…
Rainbow Gardens
by James Malone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shortlisted for the 2016 OZMA Fantasy Awards!Japanese immigrant Harry Shikita dreams of becoming a successful businessman by building Rainbow Gardens, Minnesota’s first neon-lit motel. But the 1920s are a tough time to be an “Oriental” in America, and Harry must deal not only with prejudice and foul play, but also the trolls.
Yes, trolls–the kind that turn to stone. Cursed descendants of Cain, the trolls are trying to find their way back to God through their Redeemer. The trolls think Harry’s their guy, but he’s on his own quest to be accepted, to be an “old boy.”
Off Broadway
by William A. Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Haunted by a troubled past, Army veteran Dave Knight pursues success in the cutthroat 1970s New York City business world. His newfound sales talent propels him up the corporate ladder, but a dishonest boss, a wife with her own agenda, and his alcoholic father’s sudden arrival threaten to derail everything. Will Dave escape the web of deceit that threatens, or will his past inability to cope reassert itself? An early reader said, “Off Broadway has a Mad Men vibe, while adding a deep dive into the pressure-packed world of a corporate sales rep.”
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Deadly Night at the Theatre
by Katy Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
MURDER IS WAITING IN THE WINGS . . .
Actresses Posy Starling and Caro Hooper both gained a name for themselves playing fictional detective Dahlia Lively on screen – but now they are back treading the boards in London’s theatre district, starring in two very different plays.
Their fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King, is in the city to catch their opening weeks, but she can’t help but notice some tensions between Posy and Caro. Perhaps because of Caro’s new friendship with her co-star Luke Burrows, who seems to have a history with Posy . . .
Tooth and Nail
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times calls Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus books “A superior series,” and Tooth and Nail is another outstanding entry.
Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from “North of the Border” to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can’t, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks and tears on each victim’s body. Now it’s only a question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules–or the psycho painting London with blood…
The Soul Thief
by S L Howe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
MANCHESTER 1888
Through the darkness of a mid-winter nightshift, the flicker of a candle flame illuminates the exhaustion in Dr Warren Carter’s eyes; memories of a painful surgery and the fine line of human frailty haunt his every thought. A nightcap with the beautiful Rosie is just the tonic he needs.
What should’ve been a pleasant encounter soon turns sinister when the young nurse disappears without a trace.
One by one more disappearances occur at the hospital, until a private investigator is brought in to assist. But rather than finding answers, he becomes trapped in a nightmare of his own making…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos.
As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Out of the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. The second book in a prequel story arc of the Dollanganger series delivers a gothic family saga set within the shadowed halls of Foxworth Hall.
Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her as insufficient—as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers.
Deadly Pleasure
by Brenda Joyce
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Brenda Joyce has enthralled millions of readers with her New York Times bestselling novels. Now, join us in the next chapter of her unforgettable storytelling: the Francesca Cahill novels. Step into the glittering world of New York City’s high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon…
Francesca Cahill comes from one of New York’s best families. Her mother is a leading socialite, her father, a millionaire. Their expectations for their daughter are simple– marry well, and soon. But the intrepid and self-styled “Crime-Solver Extraordinaire” has other plans…
Gifted
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
A world changed forever by war. Kids exploited for their gifts of mind and strength. Can the gifted keep the ones they love safe? Or is there more at stake than they know?
In 2050, the Cataclysmic Wars erupted, triggering natural disasters. Tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes. The country once known as England was changed forever.
Some survivors developed physical and mental gifts in the century since. The king uses “gifted” children for entertainment, and some die from the strain.
For seventeen-year-old Kelwin, his gift of second sight is a curse. Physical contact is painful, and he keeps his family at a distance.
Making a Killing
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime showInfamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case – the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford – he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.
Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Most Bookish
by Anthea Fraser
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Cosy up with a cup of tea and treat yourself to an utterly irresistible mystery, set amid England’s breathtakingly beautiful Chiltern Hills.
Meet Rona Parish, a feisty biographer with a talent for digging up murder and mystery wherever she goes — and Gus, the golden retriever, nipping loyally at her heels!
Rona jumps at the chance to write about Theo Harvey, a famous author who drowned in stranger-than-fiction circumstances. But is she diving head-long into danger?
The Shadow Land
by Elizabeth Kostova
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novelthat spans the past and the present – and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi—and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes.
Windslash
by Chris Bennett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
10,000 years ago. On a mythical island.
Where powerful magic exists that is destined to be lost to the seas.
Timaeus is a Wind Student, training to be a Wind Elemental. It is through an extraordinary anomaly that it is discovered he can use more than Wind Magic, this marks the beginning of an extraordinary adventure as he learns the extent of his abilities.
The Dark Elementals, malevolent and monstrous warriors, corrupted by Dark Magic, seek to revive a great evil that was sealed away long ago. After centuries of waiting they put their plan into motion, they invade Atlantis causing a war to break out, slaughtering Atlantis’ forces to find what they need to revive the great evil…
Dark Horse
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gregg Hurwitz’s New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission–The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn’t interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
The Craving
by J F Saxby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What happens when two people long to be together . . . but are worlds apart?
‘The Craving’ is an award-winning, split-time Christian romance for young adults. A stadium collapse. A coma. A breathtaking journey of discovery.
Will Sutherland saves a girl from a falling beam in a stadium collapse, and is plunged into a coma. Finding himself on the Island of Eldrad, Will longs to go home to Aporto Bay. He battles addiction and anger against his rival, Ben Maddock, and his own father who has walked out.
His Last Text
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A romantic anniversary dinner. A heartfelt message. Then silence.
Anna Stanten’s world shatters when she learns her boyfriend Wyatt’s corporate jet has crashed. With the company dragging its feet on the search, Anna takes matters into her own hands, assembling a team of volunteers to find the man she loves.
But as she retraces Wyatt’s last known steps, danger lurks at every turn. Her uncle, driven by an insatiable greed for a mysterious key mentioned in her grandmother’s will, seems to be pulling strings from the shadows. And who is this new “aunt” that suddenly appeared in her life?
Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, magnetic thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more sinister.
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Whispers at Midnight
by Karen Robards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Carly Linton returns to her hometown of Benton, Georgia, to open a bed-and-breakfast in the house she inherited from her grandmother. She’s also dead-set on burying her former good-girl image – by seducing the one man who can give her a guided tour of the wild side…Matt Converse, the local sheriff, was once the town’s bad boy who shared one magical night with Carly at her senior prom. But igniting the sparks of the past can lead to a blaze of danger: First her house is burglarized, then someone comes after her. A mysterious enemy wants Carly out of Benton for good, and now she needs Matt more than ever—to keep her alive.