Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Twenty-something bookseller and sleuth Meg Gates has a confession: solving crimes may be easier than writing. She’s been working on a guide to becoming a detective—but she’s her own worst critic. She needs a how-to in order to write her how-to!
At the Bainbridge Island writers’ group, she meets freelance food critic Lee Anderson, who invites her to join him for dinner at the Local Crab so he won’t be suspected of reviewing the place. Lee is a bit of a crab himself and intends to do a hatchet job on the eatery.
Pickled Hearts Complete Series
by Robin Cutler, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A grieving widower who hasn’t written a word in years walks onto a pickleball court — and meets the one woman stubborn enough to drag him back to life.
Iris Reyes doesn’t do pity, and somehow that’s exactly what Jack Harrington needs. As their unlikely doubles partnership transforms from disaster to triumph, something shifts between them — and then something pushes back. Strange, impossible things that make Jack question his sanity and his past.
Grief was never his only opponent. It just took the longest to name. Pick up this complete series and find out if Jack and Iris find love in an unexpected place.
Sassing Saul
by Gail Koger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Annie used to believe in all that happily ever after crap, until the day she found out her Prince Charming husband was a conman with a wandering eye. On the same day she booted him to the curb, an alien fleet double-parked over Earth and life as she knew it ended. To survive she joined a militia unit and used her unique physic powers to fight off the alien invaders. She was so successful she earned the swell nickname of the Grim Reaper. Now she must fight for her own freedom because Saul Jones, a Coletti-hybrid warlord, has decided she’s his and he won’t stop until he possesses her.
General Saul Jones has his hands full. Not only is he a four-star Marine general, he’s also a Coletti warlord. To complicate matters, he’s the Coletti Overlord’s liaison to Earth and one of the patriarchs of “the” Jones clan.
Three Novels of Creeping Terror
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three novels of creeping horror from the New York Times–bestselling author who “delivers terror with skillful ferocity” (Publishers Weekly).
This collection from the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award–winning author of the Matthew Corbett novels includes:
The Night Boat
Baal
Bethany’s Sin
Saltwater
by Katy Hays
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Fans of family dramas and thrillers will devour this tense, suspenseful novel.”—Woman’s World
In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, Italy, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family returns to prove it’s true. But on the thirtieth anniversary of her death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died.
The Heretics Bible
by J. Robert Kennedy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
FROM USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY
AN ANCIENT TEXT, THOUGHT NOT TO EXIST, HAS BEEN FOUND.
AND THE FIGHT TO DESTROY IT HAS JUST BEGUN.
In the thirteenth century, a battle for control of Christianity raged, pitting the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II against Pope Gregory IX. Both men claimed to be the legitimate leader of the Christian faith, and both would stop at nothing to attain their goal.
Full Blast
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 45 #ad
There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave’s spiked the mercury—and everyone’s sex drive. When newspaper owner Jamie Swift runs into millionaire playboy Max Holt, it’s all she can do not to tear his clothes off—and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he’s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, the bakery’s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes, and even Jamie’s dog is dodging passes from an amorous French poodle!
But when someone starts bumping off some of the town’s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie’s newspaper.
The Third Victim
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The past isn’t over….
An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty.
Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It’s hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy’s life at stake, she won’t let anything stop her from finding the real killer.
Scratch Moss
by David Barnett
Kindle $7.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
It’s bad when the heart is ripped out of a community… it’s worse when it loses its soul.
1865. There is coal under the fields of Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get at it. But there is something else in the ground as well, something dark and evil
1905. A more Godless set of people the Reverend George Ackman has never known than the people of the northern town of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?
1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. But something is amiss in Scratch Moss, with a disturbing number of deaths at the mine and children going missing in the tunnels.