Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tea with Jam & Dread
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts leaves New England for old England to attend a party for an aristocratic centenarian – but what goes on there is anything but noble . . .
Long ago, Lily’s grandmother Rose worked as a kitchen maid at Thornecroft Castle, and now Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Frockmorton, is celebrating her 100th birthday. Rose still has fond feelings for her onetime employer, so a group trip to Yorkshire is planned. It’s also an opportunity for Lily to visit her boyfriend, who’s currently working in England—and to indulge in some British tea…
CREATION HORROR
by Joe Belcastro
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Founding Fathers created our independence…while burying America’s horrifying secret…
A chosen group of alumni are relentlessly chased by a mysterious figure in the mid-1800s.
Known as the Rush Bloods, these alumni are hunted due to possessing a private journal encompassing shared notes between Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Their professor, Benjamin Rush, was the sworn caretaker of the Jefferson & Adams journal – where its contents warn of a colonial secret which must remain hidden forever.
For horror genre and subgenre fans of JAWS, The Terror, IT, and Stephen Graham Jones
USA Noir
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Features Dennis Lehane’s story “Animal Rescue,” the inspiration for the movie The Drop starring Tom Hardy.
Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. The stories in USA Noir “represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies, and the list of contributors include virtually anyone who’s made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade . . . a must-have anthology” (Booklist, starred review).
Crescent City Curse Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some legacies are written in blood and magic.
Elle Beauregard inherits magical powers and a mysterious necklace which leads to her discovering she’s the last guardian protecting New Orleans from an ancient evil.
Detective Mateo Cruz has seen enough to know when someone’s in danger. What he hasn’t seen is magic that burns through technology, illusions that taste like memory, and a woman whose very existence threatens to unravel reality.
Can Ellie master her powers in time to save New Orleans and the budding relationship with Mateo? Grab this complete trilogy to find out!
Island Countdown
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Past failures still torment Allie Harkwood. But she’s determined to prove herself.
Three months ago, her massive misstep derailed her career as a private security agent—and got her shot.
Still healing physically and emotionally, she jumps at an unexpected offer to return to work. She’s resolved to save her career, but bears no hope for resurrecting her short romance with fellow agent Knox Coulter. Her mistakes are unforgivable, and she’ll live with the consequences…
The clock is ticking. Literally. If they can’t find the bomb maker in time, innocent lives—and their second chance at love—will meet a tragic end.
WHAT THE YEARS REMEMBER
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the author of Twice a Broken Breath, which precedes this novel, and Too Far Standing Still, which was published after this novel. All books stand alone, but some characters reappear as supporting characters.
Growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley, fraternal twins Amber and Jade were always different. Amber, somewhat shy and affable, is a happy, well-liked child. Jade, often angry, laments from an early age that others have what she covets. As the girls grow up, Jade’s jealousy escalates. Dangerously so.
At sixteen, enraged by their classmate Michael’s affection for Amber, Jade lures her sister to an abandoned lot, shoves her onto concrete, and leaves her for dead. Knowing Jade would try again, her parents agree to fake her death. Amber moves to New York City with her father, and Jade moves with her mother to Los Angeles.
The Count of 9
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam investigate their twistiest case yet in this thrilling crime novel from the creator of Perry Mason.
Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason. At the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals . . . and The Count of 9 is Gardner at his twistiest.
Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: How could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party—least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun—when the guests were X-rayed coming and going?
The Devil’s Bible
by Steve Berry
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries.
Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas—the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it’s been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way it also acquired another more mysterious moniker … The Devil’s Bible.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Swamp Story
by Dave Barry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems—if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse has it.
Meanwhile, Ken Bortle of Bortle Brothers Bait and Beer has hatched a scheme to lure tourists to his failing store by making viral videos of the “Everglades Melon Monster.”
Surviving the Silence
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Power’s gone. Rules are gone. Mercy is gone.
Stephanie thought she’d outrun her survivalist roots forever. A mom who built a life of normalcy for her twins, she buried every knot-tying, fire-starting, threat-spotting lesson her father forced on her. Then the grid collapsed. As cities turn into killing fields and armed packs hunt the unprepared, those buried lessons claw their way back. To keep her girls breathing, she must become the predator she once feared most.
Killfile
by Christopher Farnsworth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Part James Bond, part Jason Bourne, part Professor X, only smarter, wittier, and can run faster. Adrenaline action at its mind-reading best. Christopher Farnsworth’s Killfile unleashes the greatest weapon ever: the human mind.” —Beau Smith, creator/writer of Wynonna Earp
John Smith has a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people’s thoughts. He hears the songs stuck in their heads, knows their most private traumas and fears, and relives the painful memories they can’t let go of. The CIA honed his skills until he was one of their most powerful operatives, but John fled the Agency and now works as a private consultant, trying to keep the dark potential of his gift in check—and himself out of trouble.
Bright Expanse
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Are humans alone in the universe? Everyone wants to know the answer—until suddenly the truth is staring them in the face.
The ExPAnSE Project is a bold new advance in SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. With this project, humankind is poised to answer some of its biggest questions. Are we just one of millions of civilizations in the galaxy? Are advanced alien life forms reaching out to us even now? Is Earth ready to join a galactic community of planets? Or instead, are we completely, terrifyingly, alone?
Lacey’s Star
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Get in, sit down, buckle up, and hang on!
Was it an accident? Or was it murder? Private pilot Cassie Deakin lands in the middle of an unwanted adventure and reluctantly agrees to team up with Deputy Frank White to investigate the mysterious death of young Lacey Alderson.
But as Cassie and Frank peel back the layers of one mystery, they uncover deep and sinister secrets in the rural community Lacey’s family lived in. Armed with only a single, cryptic clue to the death of the child, Cassie makes a crucial discovery that lands her in the crosshairs of a murderer.
Full Throttle
by Carolina Mac
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
win gang leaders spell double trouble for Farrell Donovan and the newly expanded Night Vipers.
When unexpected help comes out of the blue from an old enemy, will Farrell be able to accept it?
Find out when you read Full Throttle.
A Reluctant Spy
by David Goodman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.
But he has a secret…since the age of 23, he’s had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.
When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it’s swiftly followed by the thud of a body…
Original Sin
by P. D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm’s fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies—a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues, one of who apparently killed herself a short time earlier…
NEVER ENOUGH UNEXPECTED HEROES
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
With the long snowy nights of winter still ahead, it’s time to curl up with your Kindle…
Whether you enjoy reading stories about shy, sexy doctors and nurses, military men and women, intrigue and secret identities, Christmas romance and weddings, or even kids – and dogs – in desperate need of second chances – this collection featuring accidental heroes has it all!
You’ll be sure to find your Unexpected Hero in the pages of these sweet and steamy happy-ever-after winter romances, from EIGHT NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY, AWARD-WINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Prospect
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
On spring break, Eve Sawyer conquers her fear of flying to help a friend, only to find herself drawn into a murder case.
Her friend Bob is grieving the death of his beloved Uncle Will and feels something’s not right. It was ruled that he died of natural causes, but shortly after arriving, Eve begins to suspect foul play.
No stranger to murder cases, journalism student Eve puts her sleuthing skills to use to help Bob get the answers he needs, peeling away the layers of the mystery in her hunt for the truth.
Silent Witness
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After the murder of his high school sweetheart left him shattered, Tony Lord vowed never to return to his Ohio hometown of Lake City. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful California criminal lawyer with a beautiful celebrity wife. He’s living the good life…until long-buried memories come crashing down when he hears from an old friend, who needs his help.
Sam Robb is a track coach at Lake City High. He swears he is not responsible for the death of one of his female team members…even though forensic evidence reveals that he’s the father of her unborn child.
Code Red
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins?
Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago. He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help.
They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
A Missing Manuscript and Murder
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A simple puzzle turned deadly. With scandal and folks with something to hide, can this retired inspector close the book on homicide?
North Yorkshire, 1966. Tom Ramsay can’t seem to escape mysteries. Reluctantly taking on a straightforward case to appease his assistant, the former investigator suddenly finds himself caught up in two capers when a literary agent begs for his help. But when tampering becomes theft, the frustrated man can’t walk away when a best-selling author turns up dead.
Attempting to stay out of a police matter, the diligent sleuth soon realizes he can’t pretend the two incidents aren’t connected…
The Street Between the Pines
by J.J. Alo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This debut psychological thriller by award-winning author J.J. Alo will scratch readers’ horror itch like the writing of H.P. Lovecraft or modern-day master Stephen King.
Curtis Reynolds hasn’t slept well in months. Years, even, if you include the deadly DUI that ruined his life. Returning home today to a pile of debt, his estranged wife, and son between third-shift work assignments has been anything but bliss.
This morning, his elderly neighbor was brutally murdered, and the local police are now prodding him for answers…
Slayer of the Dead
by Tom Atwood Jr.
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Kingdom of Melora is on the verge of civil war as rioting mages clash with zealous Templars.
Erik Wynnson dreams of escape, of becoming a mercenary and carving out his own future. Instead, a forbidden ritual unleashes an ancient Nightmare upon his village and awakens a raw, uncontrollable magic within him.
To survive, Erik must master this dangerous power under the guidance of Bowen, a mysterious Druid who reveals a hidden world of elemental magic and legendary monster hunters. But when the resurrected vampire lord Kerrigan rises with an army of the dead, Erik’s path collides with the kingdom’s secret war.
Sullivan’s Woman
by Nora Roberts
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times bestselling “word artist” (Los Angeles Daily News), paints a passionate portrait of how pursuing a single moment of beauty may become a lifetime of love in Sullivan’s Woman.
Despite possessing a look envied and desired by everyone she meets, Cassidy St. John’s modeling career has stalled. So when famous painter Colin Sullivan wants her as the model for what he believes will be his visionary masterpiece, she knows this isn’t just a job but a chance to be immortalized. And as Colin strives to capture Cassidy’s allure, both artist and subject realize their growing attraction for one another cannot be contained on a canvas.
Apples Don’t Fall
by Terry Toler
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ellie Austen has spent her life living in a shadow.
As the daughter of Jamie Austen—the most lethal female assassin the CIA has ever known—Ellie enters the Agency with expectations she never asked for and a legacy she can’t escape. Her first assignment is supposed to be simple. Quiet. Routine.
Travel to the Cayman Islands. Identify a suspected CIA mole. Report back.
But routine ends the moment Ellie realizes she’s being watched.
The Bishop’s Pawn
by Steve Berry
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case.
Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Mortuary Mound
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An ancient burial mound. A fatal accident. Can a retired inspector unearth the real threat before another victim ends up in the grave?
Isle of Man, 1967. Tom Ramsay is at a crossroads. Taking a vacation while deciding whether to continue the new agency on his own, the ex-policeman has also arrived to investigate stolen finds from an archaeological dig. But the case takes a dangerous turn when a trench gives way and a young student loses her life.
Finding the site a hotbed of romantic triangles and jealousy, Ramsay suspects the death is linked to secrets beneath the surface of theft, vandalism, and festering resentment.
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Lion & Lamb
by James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the world’s #1 bestselling author, rival Philadelphia private investigators Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are two wrongs that can make a right. They are Lion & Lamb.
Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes is murdered. His even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes is suspect #1.
For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution: Veena Lion, a sleuth so bright she’s got to wear shades. Between them, they know every secret in Philadelphia. Together, they carry the burden of proof.
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother.
But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world…
Black Cherry Blues
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife — but he can’t escape his past forever. Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he’s trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.
Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be safe — until two Native American activists suddenly go missing. When Robicheaux begins investigating, he is led into the dark world of the Mafia and oil companies. At the same time, someone from his past comes back to haunt him.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle 5.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Light from an almost full moon bathed the flat expanse of land in a milky glow. A scraggly coyote trotted into sight, and when it stopped a few yards in front of his pickup, Lincoln wrapped his arms around the steering wheel to study the animal. Seconds after hearing the report, bullets pinged off his pickup…”
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
All the Flowers Are Dying
by Lawrence Block
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling author “ratchets up the suspense with breathtaking results as only a skilled, inventive and talented writer can do” (Orlando Sentinel).
A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn’t . . .
An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much—and is ready to leave the darkness behind . . .
Dead Body in a Pickup Truck
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
This second in the Christian Cozy Mystery series featuring Texas Miz Mike (originally published as “Bridge Beyond Betrayal”), is aptly titled. When successful mystery writer Michal Rice, better known as Miz Mike in Three Prongs, Texas, engineers a “chance” meeting with her cowboy hero Marty Richards—it becomes a fiasco after she spots a dead body in the back of a red pickup truck. The truck immediately disappears.
No one believes her, so Mike searches for the elusive truck and murder victim herself. When she finds—and loses—them again, chaos reigns and even Marty, Mike’s longtime secret romantic crush, questions Mike’s sanity. Mike finds herself out of sync in Three Prongs, the place where misfits fit, when she identifies the murder victim as a well-known celebrity. However, his family and his business partner insist that he’s still alive.
The Madness of Crowds
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s latest spellbinding novel
You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.