Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Village Detectives and the Deadly Brew
by Fiona Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When handsome, former-rugby-playing, pub landlord Mil asks Juno Mulligan for a favour, she immediately says yes. Although she’s initially disappointed that the favour doesn’t involve any sort of romantic shenanigans, Juno is reminded that she does love investigating mysteries. And perhaps it is just her destiny to choose crime-fighting over afternoon-delighting?
It’s an interesting case. Mil needs Juno and their fellow Village Detective, Phoebe Fredericks, to investigate a targeted campaign against the local Wyche Craft Brewery, now run by his friend, Ashleigh Wyche, a former-Lioness. A series of recent near-misses and attempts at sabotaging her property are surely no coincidence?
In the Crosshairs
by Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a grave is blown up during a funeral attended by CIA operative Kyle Swanson, it’s clear that the former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant is under attack. A week later, Kyle narrowly survives a grenade attack in Berlin, and he realizes that someone wants him dead.
Partnered with skilled operative Luke Gibson, Kyle is tasked with finding the assassin Nicky Marks, who now works for a shadowy power broker known as The Prince. As they uncover a global drug empire using CIA planes to transport opium and heroin, Kyle and Luke must identify the man behind the threats before it’s too late.
The Dark
by James Herbert
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A spine-chilling tale of ancient evil unleashed, James Herbert’s The Dark is a chilling masterpiece of supernatural horror.
It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. Somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned. Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants, while in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an unstoppable evil.
Uncovered
by Rich J.B. Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When construction crews rebuilding the Harborview waterfront uncover a gold class ring beside human remains, Detective Sarah Sloane recognizes the initials inside. N.H. Nathan Hollis disappeared eleven years ago. At the time, his death was ruled an accidental drowning. Sarah signed the report.
Now Nathan’s remains have surfaced, raising troubling questions about what really happened that night. As Sarah reopens the investigation, she must uncover the truth about Nathan’s disappearance while confronting questions about her own life that she has buried beneath a job she loves. And someone else is determined to keep the truth buried.
The Delivery
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She’s healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he’s drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance. And they welcome “Mr. Man”—a humanoid AI companion—into their home.
Designed to anticipate their needs, he’s like a miracle at first. The house runs like clockwork. Meals appear on the table. And Maddy thrives under his patient attention.
First Explorer
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Kyle Russ signed up for Mars. He got the galaxy instead. Chosen for humanity’s first attempt to colonize another world, he expects adventure, danger, and a new life. Then twenty-seven ships leave Earth, and the Explorer Program reveals its true purpose: investigate a mysterious extraterrestrial warning before whatever sent it reaches humanity.
Kyle’s mission goes wrong almost immediately. Stranded on an alien world, he has no way home, no understanding of the civilization around him, and no idea what might be waiting at the coordinates he was sent to investigate.
Rings of the Fallen
by William Pickrel
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Don Holler has never met a puzzle he couldn’t solve. He does it blindfolded, in hotel ballrooms, for crowds. Then he opens a relic in a Texas museum that nobody had opened in forty-five years, and a donor he has never met sends for him.
The job is in the Golan Heights. Five rings of black stone, five thousand years old. The Arabic name is Rujm el-Hiri. The Hebrew name is Gilgal Refaim. The wheel of the giants. Or the wheel of the dead.
Your Heart Belongs to Me
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.
One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant.
What Al Left Behind
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Did you know that history is being rewritten in your neighborhood? And it’s happening in surprising ways. People without dementia are taking care of people who have dementia. And they are experiencing that time differently and telling those stories differently than they were initially told over twenty years ago when the subject began to grab the national consciousness.
Inside neighborhood homes traditions and long-held opinions are being questioned. Minds are being changed and lives improved because of the shift in thinking about dementia care and how to react to the diagnosis that someone you love has it.
Awakening Series Box Set
by Jacqueline Brown
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Siena starts life like every other girl … every other girl who is massively wealthy and completely adored. She has nothing to fear until her mom is killed, and she is locked away in her family’s expansive estate. But she is happy there, and she is safe … until Luca moves next door.
Luca lives in a world that is in between. A world where good and evil cannot be denied. He is gifted … he sees what the rest of us don’t and feels what the rest of us can’t.
As his connection to Siena grows, the world she knows begins to fade away. What begins as a prayer uttered without thought, turns her life upside down. She too is gifted, but with her, the past is brought into the present with the slightest touch. A past filled with secrets …