Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
by Bruce Rolfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter…
The Dark Side of the Island
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A former WWII intelligence agent searches for redemption in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
It’s been nearly twenty years since Hugh Lomax set foot on the Greek island of Kyros. During World War II, British Intelligence sent him there on a mission to take out a high-tech German radar station. Aided by the local resistance, he succeeded—but was also captured and spent the rest of the war imprisoned.
Now, he’s returned. But he is far from welcome…
Of Sorrows and Silence
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The exciting conclusion to the Audrey Baker suspense series! Audrey receives a mysterious text from a stranger that says he might know what happened to her sister. Could Caitlyn really still be alive?
Audrey Baker has never given up on her missing sister, even though she was abducted five years ago. When she receives a text from a stranger stating that he might know what happened to Caitlyn, Audrey can’t help but feel hopeful. She will follow any trail, however unlikely, that might lead her back to her sister, even if that means confronting the greatest threat she has ever faced.
Crash & Burn
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Private Investigator Tessa Leoni comes up against a case where even the victim cannot be trusted in this propuslive thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author–with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren.
Nicole Frank shouldn’t have survived the car accident, much less the crawl up the steep ravine. One thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help—she must save Vero. If the girl even exists.
Arriving at the scene, Sergeant Wyatt Foster joins the desperate hunt for a missing child, only to learn that Nicky suffers from a rare brain injury that causes delusions. According to her husband, there is no child. Never has been. And yet Nicky remains adamant. She must save Vero.
Pieces of Me
by Shaun Allan
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Poetry is not just words. It’s emotion given form. A place where grief, hope, love, and uncertainty intertwine. In this collection, we explore the depths of mortality, loss, and mental health, weaving personal experiences into universal reflections.
Each poem speaks to the struggles we carry, the quiet moments of solace, and the truths we wrestle with, offering recognition to those who have felt the same weight.
These words do not seek to provide answers but to remind readers that they are not alone. If you have ever searched for meaning in sorrow or comfort in shared experience, this book stands as an open hand, reaching out.
Flesh and Blood
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing…
Dominion
by C.J. Sansom
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Britain, 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against Germany’s war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people suffer increasingly authoritarian rule, with British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill’s Resistance soldiers on. And there are whispers of a secret that could forever alter the balance of global power. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.
Searing Fire
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
At thirteen, Ari already knows that life is difficult. But things become even more difficult when she must leave her village and travel to the city of the king to find her only surviving relative.
Wes is a young soldier, but also a mage who understands very little of magic. In a kingdom where everybody distrusts mages, Wes knows that he must keep his power secret and never attract attention, even when the king sends him on a dangerous mission.
A Thing Immortal
by Barry K Gregory
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When gods bleed on the frontier, a girl’s secret becomes humanity’s last hope.
Ana watches her mother’s murder and barely survives the outlaws who kidnap her and take her away. Now trapped by mystical wards in a mountain man’s shack, she’s lost both her freedom and her hope.
Her salvation arrives in the form of a pale old gunfighter with eyes the color of wildflowers and his companion, a black wolf the size of a shire horse. The old gunfighter offers Ana escape from her nightmare, but she has learned that trusting a stranger comes with deadly risks.