Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hot Six
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.
Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He’s at the scene, he’s with the victim, and he’s the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He’s Stephanie’s mentor–the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he’s more than her friend.
Out of Jurisdiction
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two time zones. Same body count.
DI Liam McLaughlin thought he’d left murder behind in Derry. The body found in a field under a full moon was bad enough—savaged, staged, and whispered about as something not quite human. But when McLaughlin travels to Egypt for a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter, death isn’t finished with him yet.
On a Nile cruise crowded with international tourists, he crosses paths with a group of mature students from Derry. When their charismatic lecturer, Dr. Maggie McCracken, is found dead during a nighttime visit to an ancient temple, McLaughlin is suddenly hunting a killer on foreign soil—alone.
The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town—and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.
Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes—obscure bible verses, odd symbols—have the police stumped.
Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene.
Fantastic Revelations Vol. 1
by Grant Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
These five tales explore the resilience of the innocent when confronted with unbridled wickedness in its various forms.
The Last Weeping Willow
Battle of the Marne
Gonzalez House Murders
Kos-Soo-Kah’s Lost Arrow
Check’s Mate
Death’s Door
by Michael Slade
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Canadian Mountie Robert DeClercq and his Special X team are facing down a stolen mummy with a trail of corpses in its wake. The question is: Is this the work of one killer? Or is it some sort of diabolical conspiracy? DeClercq’s investigation leads him to a local porn king who specializes in snuff videos and a fresh trail of mutilated female bodies being dumped around the Gulf Islands. But just when DeClercq narrows in on the criminality behind these abominable murders, an old enemy returns. Not only is Mephisto determined to destroy DeClercq once and for all, but this megalomaniac won’t stop until he puts all of humanity at the brink of Death’s Door…
White Fire
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly arsonist. In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the miners’ remains. When she makes a shocking discovery, town leaders try to stop her from exposing their community’s dark and bloody past.
Just as Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to rescue his protege, the town comes under siege by a murderous arsonist who-with brutal precision-begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside…
Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Special Agent Constant Marlowe, a quiet college town hides a nest of malice and revenge in this twisty novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is passing through the charming college town of Prescott, Illinois, when a chance encounter with a terrified student stops her in her tracks. Kathleen Delaine thought she was doing the right thing when she demanded an inquiry into traumatic brain injuries among the university’s football team. But after a manosphere shock jock picks up the story on his radio show and makes it personal, the online uproar bleeds into the real world…
The Pact
by Lisa Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They all share a secret. But only one knows the truth. Who will be the first to break?
Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing College with dreams of literary greatness, but soon discovers that ambition comes at a cost.
Drawn into a tight-knit group with fellow writers Ethan, Theo, and Jaz, Tess’s world is upended when their charismatic tutor is found dead. Believing someone in their circle is responsible, Tess flees the elite literary world and abandons the future she once craved.
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One USCG Commander + One Veteran Navy SEAL = Fireworks from Stem to Stern
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder within Murder
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman.
Miss Amelia Gipson doesn’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she’s ever made a mistake, and it’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There’s simply no question: She was poisoned.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Fallout
by Jeff Rovin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series.
After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis.
The Butcher
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They called him the Butcher because he never left work unfinished.
Once a soldier, now a hunter, Caleb earned the name tracking men who believed themselves untouchable – and proving they weren’t. When the war ended, he buried that life and walked away.
Or so he thought. When a ghost from the battlefield resurfaces, Caleb’s rules return with it:
1) hunt without mercy; 2) finish the job; 3) never look back.
Code Name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A woman must rescue her cousin’s family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
Quiet War
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Keller Ward asked little from life. Honest work. A roof over his boys’ heads. Enough peace to keep the past where it belonged. Then one son is murdered in a gold convoy ambush, and the other is left broken between life and death.
Everyone in Calico Ridge knows who did it. Randall Vexler.
Heir to a cattle fortune and nephew to the town marshal.
When the courts turn their backs and Randall walks free, Keller decides to settle things himself. Soon men begin turning up dead. As fear spreads, Keller continues his silent war.
Black Swan Rising
by Lee Carroll
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman discovers a magical world within New York City in this urban fantasy trilogy opener—”Fans of Charles de Lint and Mercedes Lackey should enjoy this vibrant addition to the urban fantasy genre” (Library Journal).
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, asks her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly matches the ring given to Garet by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe this eerie coincidence until she opens the box and otherworldly things start happening . . .
What Remains of Heaven
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
London 1812. When the controversial reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, reluctantly agrees to investigate. As his search for the killer leads him from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of Whitehall, Sebastian must confront the well-guarded secrets of his own family’s past—and a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who—and what—he really is.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
Criminal
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage…
The River Runs Silent
by Kathryn Beck
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He needs her to find the truth. She may be the one thing that destroys it.
Private Investigator Devanie Hutchins has spent years outrunning her past—former homicide detective, former foster kid. Former college sweetheart of Jackson Everett.
Now a powerful Texas congressman, Jack has built his life on control, a flawless reputation, and distance from the woman who once knew him better than anyone.
Until his sister is murdered.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Personally selected by Richard Matheson, the bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, the stories in Nightmare at 20,000 feet more than demonstrate why Matheson’s regarded as one of our most influential horror writers.
Featuring the story “Duel,” a nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg’s first film.
Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination.
A Reluctant Spy
by David Goodman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.
But he has a secret…since the age of 23, he’s had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.
When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it’s swiftly followed by the thud of a body…
Speaking in Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
Professionally, Temperance Brennan knows exactly what to do—test, analyze, identify. Her personal life is another story. She’s at a loss, wondering how to answer police detective Andrew Ryan’s marriage proposal. But the matter of matrimony takes a backseat when murder rears its head.
The Twenty
by Sam Holland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end?
Adam has no idea—until Dr. Romilly Cole knocks on his door with damning evidence pointing to a series of murders twenty five years earlier—a case she knows intimately from her past. Now, it’s personal—and the next knock on his door could be fatal.
HOTEL OBSCURE Collection
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of The Waiting House: A Novel in Stories
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.” Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
The Last Mandarin
by Louise Penny, Mellissa Fung
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A gripping thriller about family and power co-written by Louise Penny, #1 bestselling author of the Gamache novels, and Mellissa Fung, an award-winning journalist.
A mother and a daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller that reaches from Tiananmen Square all the way to the White House.
Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese American and former food blogger, has long lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li— a Tiananmen Square dissident turned world-renowned human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
Return, Ericka Stone Case #013
by Felicia Rogers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ericka Stone has succeeded in all measures of life. She’s been in the military. She’s become a police officer and detective for multiple police departments. She’s married the love of her life. Now all she wants to do is settle down to a simple life in a small town with her new name: Ericka Stone Kane. But the adage that expectations often set one up for failure has now become a reality.
When Greg and Ericka are let go from the small-town sheriff’s department in Clifton, Tennessee, their high expectations are exchanged for worry. Worry about meeting the bills.
Playing for the Ashes
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage’s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten—not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, begin their investigation, they soon find themselves in conflict with the local investigator—and discover ripples of shock spreading outward from the crime: from the victim’s husband, who claims indifference to her faithlessness, to the estranged wife of a member of the national cricket team, to an angry teenager, a former prostitute, and an ex-lover of Gabriella who has sworn her off to save his marriage.
The Last Hour
by Mason Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller Boxset
When the power goes out for good, chaos takes over. Evelyn Hart, a surgeon haunted by loss, must survive gangs, violence, and betrayal. With only her skills and courage, she faces a ruthless new world where every choice could mean life or death.
The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A man with a mysterious past must find a missing teenage girl in this shocking thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away.
Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Now an adult, he still doesn’t know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing.No one seems to take Naomi Pine’s disappearance seriously, not even her father—with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school.
The Long Burn
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
When an EMP kills the grid on Halloween, Lance Cooper races through a city of fire, fear, and violence to reach the people he loves.
“This book was very well written. No annoying typos. There was nonstop action and the characters were likeable. I hope there is more from this author. Great job! I read it in two days. It was that good.” by Amazon Customer
The Devoted Game
by Debra Webb
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A disgraced FBI agent is challenged to a life-or-death match by a deviously clever kidnapper in this propulsive novel by USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.
Former FBI agent Ryan McBride crashed and burned three years ago after a case took a fatal turn. He swore he was done with the Bureau forever—until Special Agent Vivian Grace shows up at his door with a new case he can’t refuse.
Six-year-old Alyssa Byrne has been kidnapped, and her abductor, alias Devoted Fan, has threatened to kill her in twenty-four hours. He promises to reveal the girl’s location to the FBI on one condition: He’ll only talk to McBride.
She Made a Mistake Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two worlds. One destiny.
Lord Dickus Kahn is unbeatable in the online gaming world, but in real life, Laith Kelso is a pushover—allowing his ex-girlfriend to walk all over him while she dates other men in their shared apartment.
His life changes forever when a mysterious portal sucks him into another world called Krish.
Pick up this complete trilogy today and journey between worlds with Laith where online gaming skills might just save humanity.
The Fourth Option
by Jack Carr, M.P. Woodward
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When law enforcement, the courts, and the prison system fail, there is a fourth and final option. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr launches a new thriller series cowritten with New York Times bestselling author M.P. Woodward.
Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker’s help. Thrust into a conspiracy that goes deeper than he ever imagined, Walker must go up against the system and the very Constitution he once swore an oath to support and defend in order to find justice for his friend’s widow.