Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Irish Pub
by Carlene O’Connor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he’s called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack’s pub, it’s time for the garda to take matters into their own hands.
Detective Sargent Macdara Flannery would lay odds it’s a simple suicide—after all, there’s a note and the room was locked. But officer Siobhán O’Sullivan suspects foul play, as does Foley’s very pregnant widow…
Restless in the Grave
by Dana Stabenow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #a
New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time.
Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
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.
Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself…
The Pyramid
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Wallander’s First Case” introduces us to the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first homicide case: his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. In “The Man with the Mask”, Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve. On the brink of middle age, he is troubled by a distant wife as he unravels the poisoning of a lonely vacationer in “The Man on the Beach.” Newly separated in “The Death of the Photographer,” Wallander investigates the brutal murder—and the well-concealed secrets—of the local studio photographer. In the title story, he is a veteran detective uncovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of elderly sisters.
Audition
by Ryu Murakami
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don’t intend to produce. As the résumés pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama’s attention—Yamasaki Asami—a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. Blinded by his instant and total infatuation, Aoyama is too late in discovering that she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.
Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family…
Dual Image
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An actress yearns to become the real life love interest in a screenwriter’s heart in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s Dual Image.
In a role that propelled her to daytime television stardom, Ariel Kirkwood’s soap opera character reflects her actual playful personality. So when she gets cast as a devious bombshell in famous screenwriter Booth DeWitt’s semiautobiographical film, her dreams of a silver screen career seem assured. Impressed with Ariel’s believable portrayal, Booth can only see her as his heartless ex-wife, the basis for the character…
Rhyme, Riddle, and Romance
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s a grumpy faerie with a failing bakery and one very inept employee… too bad she can’t fire him. He’s a fastidious werewolf with a fondness for feng shui and one very sloppy boss… too bad he can’t quit.
When Sophie inherits the Rhyme ’N Riddle Bakeshop from an elderly relation, it’s a dream come true for the faerie with the magic touch for baking. Even when she discovers she must employ her auntie’s former companion, Sophie figures it’s a small price to pay… until she meets him.
Handsome-as-a-Norse-god Teddy has never seen the inside of a kitchen. The ridiculous werewolf sneezes at dust bunnies and would rather clean floors than bake cookies. What was her auntie thinking?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sassy Senior Sleuths
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Travel can be murder. Can Miss Riddell and Nona catch the villains before they become victims?
Travel forward from the Miss Riddell series to the twenty-first century with the demure Miss Pauline Riddell as she befriends a strangely lovable, fly by the seat of her pants amateur sleuth, named Gretta Galia aka Nona. The two sixty-five-year-old travel companions visit tourist traps around the United States.
Short Stories: Over the Falls Without a Barrel, Deadly Dunes, The Man in Seat 13B, California Adventure, Destined for Sandestin and A Christmas Caper
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible cozy mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery…that only she can solve.
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, a perfect skill for an amateur sleuth and an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by…
Thawed to Death
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s non-stop laughter and suspense as 60-year-old antique “picker” Zoey Thunderbird explores the local ghost house and discovers a body in a freezer. She knows it was murder—no one deliberately thaws themselves to death—but she doesn’t know that her search for truth will endanger her life. Killers don’t want to get caught.
Her quest to catch a killer introduces Zoey to strange crime motifs—everything connected with the murder has a tendency to vanish, and the apparent killer seems to have an affinity for sitting in her lap…
Aim for the Heart
by Ridley Pearson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An Idaho sleuth hunts a missing woman after a series of bizarre accidents, in this mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
After a small plane plummets into a gas station in rural Idaho, ex-musician and sometimes-sleuth Chris Klick knows that his dream of a quieter, simpler life far from Los Angeles may not be as easy to achieve as he hoped . . .
Now he must team up with his buddy Lyel to track down a missing county courthouse employee connected to the plane crash and other freak accidents. Was she kidnapped? Is she on the run from her creditors? Searching for answers and finding only trouble, Klick’s questions pile up as the stakes climb ever higher.
Don’t Back Down
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Justice brought him home. Love might be what keeps him there.
When Army veteran Cameron Pope returns to Jubilee, Kentucky for the first time in years, he expects to confront ghosts—but not the kind that steal children in the night. He’s barely unpacked when his young niece has a chilling brush with a human trafficking ring, plunging him into a life-or-death investigation that threatens the fragile peace of his hometown.
Rusty Caldwell—the woman Cameron loved and lost—has her own reasons to join the search for justice. She’s still strong, still stunning… and still untouchable…
Taking Fire
by Ron Alexander, Charles W. Sasser
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Some of the best action writing in the field . . . Electrifying.” – New York Times–bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin
Nicknamed “Mini-Man” for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped by enemy fire, and a fearlessness that became legendary, Alexander earned enough official praise to become the second most decorated helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era. Yet, for Alexander, the real reward came from plucking his fellow soldiers from harm’s way, giving them another chance to get home alive.
Spellbound
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts spins a tale that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy as a man and woman discover just how deep their bond lies—and how some dreams are meant to be…
While on a much-needed vacation in Ireland, world-famous photographer Calin Farrell is bewitched by the ravishingly beautiful Bryna Torrence, even if he refuses to believe in the spell that has brought them together—and could destroy them both…
In the Knight’s Chamber
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $02.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sir Justin Beverley is the youngest son of a noble family. He believes no one expects anything more from him than drinking and charming his way through life. Riana, his eldest brother’s ward and sister-in-law, tempts him with her sweet sensuality, but he vows to never give in. But when the temptation proves too much can he step up and be the man she deserves?
Lady Riana Lichfield has always been different, more in tune with the emotional than the intellectual. Though safe under the protection of her sister’s new husband, Riana believes she’ll never have her own life. She wants a love of her own, a hero to save her like her sister was saved.
Headhunter
by Michael Slade
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The first in a series of crime thrillers featuring the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—world-weary cops hardened enough to deal with the most heinous of crimes.
A serial killer is loose on the streets of Vancouver. A sadist preying on women, leaving a trail of decapitated corpses—and a totem pole displaying the grisly head of his latest victim.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin
by Katy Brent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer.
I don’t want to kill. It’s just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He’s making it very hard for me to control my murderous urges.
Meanwhile I’m in the South of France to watch my mother marry a man I’ve never met. I should be drinking cocktails and focusing on my tan, not plotting a murder.
All the Beautiful Sinners
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This novel “masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective” (Publishers Weekly).
For more than eight years, a serial killer has been stalking the country, visiting towns with biblical names and leaving pairs of victims behind—one female and one male, their bodies broken and twisted to create the same gruesome scene over and over again.
In rural Nazareth, Texas, a Native American man suspected of shoplifting shoots and kills the local sheriff, then takes off running. Found in the trunk of the shoplifter’s abandoned car?
A Good Hanging
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Good Hanging is packed with twelve remarkable, gritty mystery stories starring DI John Rebus, “probably the most interesting man in detective fiction,” in his home city of Edinburgh, as only international #1 bestselling author Ian Rankin can portray it (Kirkus Reviews).
Not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims—blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It’s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows.
The Inquisitor
by Mark Allen Smith
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent child
Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business—called “information retrieval” by its practitioners—that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market.
Geiger’s clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques—some physical, many psychological—to push his subjects to a point where pain takes a backseat to fear. Because only then will they finally stop lying.
Wolf
by Mo Hayder
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Edgar Award–winning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home.
Wolf kicks off when a vagrant—the Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder’s fiction—finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words “HELP US” attached to its collar. He’s sure it’s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Det. Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved—until the Walking Man promises to exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery’s brother. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it’s a race against time.
Deadshot
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Deadshot buried his gun four years ago. The West dug it back up.
Once the most feared bounty hunter on the frontier, Deadshot walked away after bringing in more outlaws than any man alive. At forty-nine, his body is worn, his hands ache, and the quiet life suits him just fine. He hunts, fishes, and keeps to himself – until a bleeding teenage boy stumbles out of the dark.
Rider isn’t a fighter. He was meant to inherit his father’s ranch, not outrun the men who destroyed it. With his family taken and bandits on his trail, Rider’s only refuge is the cabin of a legend who swore he’d never hunt again.
Adventure Nobody Wanted
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They came from all over the country to the one place each believed offered more than where they came from. For some the trip was short and quick…but for others, it was thousands of miles that had to be traveled through mostly treacherous conditions.
Their reasons were different but their destination was the same. They were all equally determined to get there safely.
Beth didn’t need her brother to remind her that she’d made a huge mistake…she knew too that Brett wasn’t going to let her forget it. But her mistake was only one reason why she agreed to make the trip with him to North Dakota.
Black Water
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two years ago, James Bridger shot Zedd Hightower off a bridge and watched him fall into the river below. Then he buried his wife and tried to bury the rest. But now Hightower is back.
He rules the deep bayou, commanding a network of smugglers and hired killers from an island stronghold no one enters without permission. Settlements pay to be left alone. Those who refuse are made into examples.
When a young woman is taken from Cypress Bend, a battered midwife comes looking for a man. Rosalie Fontenot believes this man is the only one who can stop Hightower.
Mommy’s Boy
by Jennifer Huston Schaeffer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
LOVE WAS WAITING AT THE SHELTER, NOT ON MATCH.COM
Jennifer has always dreamed of getting married and having children, but after dealing with men who can’t commit, she shifts her focus from meeting the man of her dreams to finding her four-legged soulmate.
When Jennifer meets Benny, she knows instantly that he’s “the one.” He wiggles his way into her heart and takes up permanent residence. Despite his angelic face and calm demeanor, Benny harbors a mischievous side. He steals any food that isn’t nailed down, nearly breaks his neck chasing squirrels, and suffers from chronic allergies, separation anxiety, and a Napoleon complex…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Framed in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb.
Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist’s career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work.
Apartment 239
by Elford Alley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Sixth Sense with equal parts creepiness and charm – Elford Alley has the stuff to make you smile while you squirm in this ghost-infested, serial-killing whirlwind set around one very unlucky young man’s overcrowded apartment.” — Daniel Barnett, author of Nightmareland Chronicles
“Apartment 239 is Alley’s best work yet. This compelling genre-mash-up is a page-turner of the cinematic sort – a splendid mixture of lovable and despicable characters, horrific and heartfelt scenes, and humorous and witty dialogue. Highly recommended!” — Jeremy Hepler, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Sunray Alice.
The Oriceran Rich and Famous Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A witch running Hollywood’s only magical talent agency. A billionaire wolf shifter hunting criminals through the rain-soaked streets of Seattle. Neither one signed up to be a hero. The monsters didn’t care.
The Agent Operative Complete Series
The Diary of a Dark Monster Complete Series
Hush Little Babies
by Don Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The true crime story of the Texas mother who murdered her two young sons in 1996.
Not since the Susan Smith case have two murders so shocked the nation . . . Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood’s most wonderful mom, who, one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood.
Darlie claimed an intruder had come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with the same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant sons slept upstairs.
The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Welcome to Eris: a remote Scottish island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago in a baffling cold case.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
Bones Never Lie
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Kathy Reichs’s upcoming novel Two Nights.
The evidence is irrefutable: In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself “a genius at building suspense” (New York Daily News). In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine who’s brilliant to the bone. “Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden,” says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed author’s thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered.
Finding Angus
by L.K. Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond…
Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.
Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s.
Hannah Bloom
by Jacquie Herz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Hannah Bloom dreams of the day she’ll have chased away all those doubts and worries that plague her and be free to call herself a poet. In her everyday life, she works in the business she and her husband, Jake, founded together. While their two young daughters are away at summer camp for the first time, Hannah expects to have time for her poetry. But life has other ideas.
Every day, she finds gut-wrenching letters sitting in their mailbox from their homesick, unhappy children. Then, as she comes to grips with the sudden news of her unexpected pregnancy, she learns her mother’s contemplating a move to Switzerland—a move back to a Europe their whole family fled to escape the Holocaust.