Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Written in Blood
by Caroline Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a visiting author is suspected of murder, the case is hardly open and shut in this English village mystery novel by the author of Death in Disguise.
The Midsomer Worthy’s Writers’ Circle has never had much luck in attracting guest speakers. Consequently, there is much surprise when best-selling novelist Max Jennings accepts their invitation. But the members are even more surprised by their secretary, Gerald Hadleigh, who furiously objects to hosting Jennings—and offers no explanation.
Surprise turns into a variety of responses when Hadleigh is found dead the morning after Jennings’ visitation…
Learning to Breathe Again
by Tonya Cam
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two women. Lives they didn’t choose. A friendship that dares them to want more.
Miami, 1933. Mary Simons was supposed to fill her scrapbook with photos of her baby’s first smiles, locks of fine hair, and handwritten milestones. Instead, she records respiration rates and temperatures, hoping science can save what love can’t. When her baby dies, the future she imagined dies with her.
A thousand miles north, Elena Wagner has spent years burying the girl who nursed her mother and sister through their final days. Silk dresses and a husband who adores her keep the grief at arm’s length. But an unplanned pregnancy, and a Depression that won’t end, threaten to pull her back into the one role she swore she’d never play again…
Twilight Eyes
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this chilling thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, the carnival is coming to town—and it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Slim MacKenzie is no ordinary man. With eyes the color of twilight, he’s been blessed with a psychic gift: premonitions. He’s also been cursed, for Slim can see the monsters hiding among us, feeding on our suffering…
And when Slim joins a traveling carnival seeking sanctuary, what he’ll find is a hunting ground—with humanity as the prey.
Look for Me
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’s latest twisty thrill ride, Detective D. D. Warren and Find Her’s Flora Dane return in a race against the clock to either save a young girl’s life…or bring her to justice.
The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one—a sixteen-year-old girl—missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case—but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, Look for me.
The Me I Used to Be
by Kristan Higgins
Kindle $3.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
At their twenty-fifth high school reunion, four former best friends discover that growing up is way messier than anticipated—and the past isn’t nearly as finished as they thought.
Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the smart one, the sporty one. They had color-coded dreams, inside jokes and a lifelong friendship they thought would last forever. But graduation night ended in a tragic accident, followed by the kind of silence that stretches for decades.
Now, they’ve returned for their reunion, each carrying a life that looks nothing like the glossy future they imagined…
Magic and Mayhem: Two Complete Series
by Sarah Noffke, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real. So are monsters. And the world is finding out how real they are.
A war with the humans is brewing, Azure is set to be crowned the new queen of Virgo. But on coronation day everything changes. Princess Azure isn’t who she thought she was and that’s a big freaking problem.
Paranormal Defense Agent Izzie Berens and her partner are called in to investigate a series of violent attacks in Austin. Izzie soon realizes she’s no longer just tracking a rogue magical but something far worse.
Killing in the Shadows
by Kate Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet returns in the new book in Kate Ellis’s gripping crime series set in Yorkshire.
The quaint Yorkshire village of Eaglethorpe was a sanctuary for famous TV personality, Lexi Verity, away from prying eyes and camera flashes. But a life led in the spotlight can create envy in its shadows.
When Lexi is found dead in her swimming pool, DI Joe Plantagenet and DCI Emily Thwaite are called to investigate. The murder of the celebrity is front-page news and the pressure is on the Eborby CID to find the killer.
Exit Party
by Emily St. John Mandel
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers.
Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift.