Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dogwood Springs Cozy Mysteries Books 1-3
by Sally Bayless
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dear reader, if you like a cozy mystery with a pet who will win your heart, friends who feel like family, and a hint of romance, you’ll love the first three books in this series! These are clean reads with no profanity or graphic violence. Curl up with Libby, her lovable golden retriever Bella, and their friends to start solving these mysteries today!
Book 1 – Antiques, Artifacts & Alibis
Book 2 – Sales, Secrets & Suspects
Book 3 – Home Tours, History & Homicide
The Brothers McKay
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A masterful new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series
When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire’s attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening before his body is discovered, McKay’s very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer, a cosmopolitan journalist, a reclusive monk, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps things running at their family’s lodge. Each had a motive. Each claims he’s innocent.
Forgotten Identity
by Penny Zeller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Who is he really? And why is someone after him?
Mariah Holzman never imagined a whiteout blizzard would sever all communication from the outside world—communication desperately needed for the injured man Mariah finds near her home. Nor did she imagine helping nurse the man back to health would lead to threats and intimidation. As danger escalates and questions rise, Mariah is left to wonder what kind of person she has allowed into her home.
Grant MacGuire never imagined he would wake up one day in a strange cabin, surrounded by strange people, with no memory of who he is or how he was injured. Nor did he imagine his presence would put the lives of those who saved him in danger…
Breach of Duty
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has had a hard life and learned at a young age how hard life can be. Two marriages, a treacherous battle with the bottle, assorted midlife and moral dilemmas, and a few decades as a homicide detective haven’t convinced him otherwise. When Beau and his new partner Sue Danielson are assigned the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Beau finds himself distracted by Sue’s difficulties at home.
Distraction turns to terror as Sue and Beau find themselves caught up in a series of events that will leave them and their carefully constructed investigation shattered.
Eastbound
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After the Civil War, Barrow Coltrane found a living hunting men the law couldn’t catch. Seven years later, two ruthless outlaws bring him back to the last place he ever wanted to go.
Hazel and Chett Underhill are wanted for robbery and murder, and Barrow has tracked them across Colorado Territory.
Their trail leads him to a remote relay station run by a woman.
Alma Anderson. She is the woman he once expected to marry.
By morning, the station is in ashes. With Alma’s family homeless, Barrow agrees to escort them to Kessler Junction. He remembers Verity only as Alma’s kid sister. The woman traveling beside him now is much harder to overlook.
Vortex
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present.
Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college frat rave with her best friend, Serena, when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena, who was never seen nor heard from again. Now an investigative journalist covering the political scene in New York City, Mia discovers old photos taken the night of Serena’s disappearance and begins to uncover a sinister string of events going all the way back to that disastrous party. Working with Sherlock, the secrets begin to unravel…
The Giant of Cold Rive
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Zane Hollister never stayed anywhere long enough to call it home.
A giant of a man and deadly accurate with a rifle, Zane has spent years drifting from one ranch to the next. When the last ranch he worked for is burned and its people slaughtered, he rides into a new valley carrying nothing but grief and a saddlebag.
Home is the last thing on his mind.
Widowed rancher Elspeth Dalton is struggling to keep her Cold River Ranch alive for herself and her children. Short on help and surrounded by men eager to see her fail, she reluctantly hires the towering stranger who rides into her yard asking only for honest work.
Dear Judas
by James Finke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Grab book one now as the sequel drops this week. Perfect for fans of C.S. Lewis and Frank Peretti.
From James Finke, author of the bestselling Christianity Uncomplicated series, comes Dear Judas, a gripping Christian novel where love, apologetics, and spiritual warfare collide.
Tommy Finch has built his life on evidence, logic, and measurable results. A successful medical device salesman in a demanding corporate world, he has no need for God. Until his heart stopped.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Board Stiff
by Annelise Ryan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A rest home makes a coroner-turned-sleuth restless in this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Ringer.
Sorenson, Wisconsin’s deputy coroner Mattie Winston is back on the job . . .in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase—the now former president of the Twilight Home’s board of directors—who is covered in a powder used to turn liquids to solids.
The home’s residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much . . .and the patient that found him can’t remember a thing.
Neon Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in this nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford.
Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don’t much care about a low-level guy–it’s his boss they want–but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation.
Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese’s rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves.
Something’s Wrong With Maddie
by Taylor Z. Adams
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it.
One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen.
As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she’s willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.
Tell Me Your Dreams
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Somebody was watching her
She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.
Thus begins Sidney Sheldon’s chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders…
What Simon Said
by Alissa Lace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nora is struggling to raise her daughter alone in a harsh world. Earth has been destroyed in a fight between android and humanity. The androids lost, humanity’s prize is a desolate Earth, yet reminders of the war and life before remain. Forgotten in ruins an android, Simon, remains.
Until Nora finds him and brings him back to life. And now that Simon is awake? Well, he doesn’t really know what to do with Nora now either. What Simon Said is a Sci-Fi android romance that explores how love can overcome any programming.
How the Light Gets In
by Joyce Maynard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby’s older brother, Al, is married and living in Seattle with his wife; their sister, Ursula, lives in Vermont with her husband and two children. Although all appears stable, old resentments, anger, and bitterness simmer just beneath the surface.
House of Margins
by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened…
Anaya Sebeya is missing.
Before her disappearance, Anaya was a brilliant writer: a rising star. Invited to a prestigious writing residency at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, Anaya was supposed to craft the next great African literary masterpiece—and so were four other young, emerging writers, all competing for the grand prize. But Anaya never made it home.
Fury in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office—but what was Larry Chu’s mistake?
The victim’s corpse is so mangled and damaged it’s hard to believe a lone, unarmed assailant could have managed it. The killer was clearly unnaturally strong—and smart enough to find a way into Chu’s highly secure building. Most of all, whoever did this was very, very angry.