Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
4th of July
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The world’s bestselling detective series has never been more suspenseful. Trapped in deadly showdowns, courtroom trials, and dangerous secrets, the Women’s Murder Club must fight for their lives.
In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and Lindsay herself at the mercy of twelve jurors. During a break in the trial, she retreats to a picturesque town that is reeling from a string of grisly murders-crimes that bear a link to a haunting, unsolved case from her rookie years…
A Poisonous Palate
by Lucy Burdette
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The heat is turned up for Hayley Snow and her friends in the next installment of the Key West Food Critic mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lucy Burdette.
When food critic Hayley Snow receives an intriguing email about a mysterious, decades-old disappearance, her curiosity is piqued. Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway’s wives, but she’s also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley quickly agrees to help investigate and they hit the road to see what clues they might find.
The Hidden One
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley, where the Amish culture differs dramatically from the traditions she knows…
A Cold Case in July
by Joan Hetzler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who shot Adam Cranford?
One hot Fourth of July night, crowds filled the streets of a small rural Georgia town and fireworks exploded overhead. Adam Cranford sat at his office desk waiting on a visitor. Someone stepped inside and aimed a single, accurate deadly shot at Adam’s head.
Was it his political opponent for his incumbent seat on the county commission? Was it his gentle wife who never argued until the day before he died and moved out of the house? Was it the law partner who loved the widow from afar and disapproved of Adam’s ethics? Was it one of Adam’s criminal clients who thought he knew too much? Or was it an unknown person to the small town where everyone knows everyone?
North of Sunset
by Haley Ahern
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s the year 2125, and the gritty metropolis of Los Angeles is more divided than ever.
South of Sunset, Oleander Briggs exists in a drab reality of the Seventh Industrial Revolution and the demise of social media, where his monotonous life consists of working the factory assembly line for Fleur Industries—a mysterious company that sells flowers preserved in gold. His future, like so many of his generation, is bleak, but Oleander dreams of more.
When he unexpectedly catches the attention of Mr. Fleur—Fleur Industries’ elusive owner—his luck changes as he’s offered a job to work directly with the Fleur family at their palatial estate, North of Sunset. There, he encounters eccentric characters, extravagant wealth, and youthful beauty the likes of which he has never seen. The Fleur family may be his ticket to a better life—but at what cost?
Buried Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.
Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month—and not a single islander has reported her missing…
Murder in Bloom
by Rosie Sandler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is in full bloom, but can Steph and her sidekick Mouse weed out the killer?
It’s an invitation Steph can’t refuse when she’s handpicked to compete at the prestigious National Trust property 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…
The Room on the Right
by MD Lawrence Mieczkowski
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
A heart-wrenching yet hopeful story of facing trauma, abuse, and PTSD-and the heroic path to healing.
To others, Dr. Lawrence Mieczkowski (Dr. Mitch) was a successful physician, caring father, and good husband-but inwardly, he was suffering from deep despair. When the 1999 Columbine shootings triggered a descent into near madness, he lost his ability to fight off the demons dragging him further into the darkness of depression and hopelessness. Something had to be done.
Finally seeking help in 2001, Dr. Mitch found a trusted psychiatrist and embarked on a yearslong journey that unlocked the deepest parts of his childhood and adult life-painful memories of abuse, neglect, and trauma. In this memoir, he recounts the struggles, fears, and successes on his path to healing with clarity and directness, proving that even in the face of overwhelming odds, it’s possible to find a path to the light.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
by Don Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.
The hot sultry night of July 22, 1991 was one the tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget. A panic stricken young man–a pair of handcuffs still dangling from his wrists–ran out of Apartment 213 and told police an incredible tale of terror.
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet.
The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $9.24 Rating: Brand New Re;ease #ad
A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still “one of the most fascinating mystery writers today” (Houston Chronicle)
One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life – from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor.
A Billion Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
by Mike Tranter
Kindle $9.24 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you could ask a neuroscientist anything about the brain—and get answers that make sense, feel relatable, and change how you see yourself?
** Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards
** Award Winner in Independent Publisher Book Awards
** Award Winner in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
“Excellently written, just like the first book. The conversational tone used to break down complex topics using easily relatable language makes it much more engaging & accessible than other science books. The recap sections were really handy, and the addition of QR codes linking to more detailed videos works really well for presenting things in a different way and again makes it more engaging. Highly recommended.” by Amazon Customer