Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Murder Most Fowl
by Carmela Dutra
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A food truck run by twins serves up a clucking good murder in this cozy debut mystery, perfect for fans of Lucy Burdette and Joanne Fluke.
When their late aunt Dolly passes away, twins Beth and Seth Lloyd inherit a chicken themed food truck. Despite the challenges, the siblings rise to the occasion, even going as far as signing up their truck Kluckin’ Good to compete on a top cooking show and ruffle a few feathers for some good publicity. But the competition goes from heated to lethal when a contestant is found dead…
Lost for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kymber Allan might get lost in a cardboard box, but she has no problem finding trouble. After she gets fired on her second day at work for getting lost—she finds a dead body. That discovery thrusts her into a path of danger and dark secrets. From attempts on her life to thefts from her aunt’s art collection, Kymber struggles to stay one step ahead of the menace stalking her.
Finding a murder victim while being lost might be an unusual beginning for romance, but in this little Scottish village, the unusual is usual. The crook and the copper. Two men vie for her love and she must choose which one to believe.
The red-headed girl from Texas is determined to turn her famous artist aunt’s home into a museum for the Scottish village her aunt loved. That would prove a lot easier without a killer stalking her, and a next door neighbor who is quick to blame her for repeated damage to her dahlias.
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A groundbreaking project. A chance to cure the criminal mind. A vivid hope that spirals into a nightmare of human frailty and murder.
Rand Aroyan thrives on ambition. A rising star in academic circles, the thirty-five-year-old philosophy professor has already earned work as a medical ethics consultant for research into revolutionary gene therapy. And he anticipates further accolades as a study kicks off to turn a narcissistic no-good into a healthy member of society… until the subject turns violent and escapes.
Joining forces with a psychologist and an ex-pastor from the advisory council, Rand pursues his own investigation in a desperate need for answers…
Buying Time
by Joe Haldeman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out . . .
The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel.
Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling desperately for his next essential million, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life—and makes two chilling discoveries: Not all Stileman “immortals” were created the same. And their days may be more numbered than they think . . .
Final Appeal
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Murder, intrigue, and romance collide in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline’s clever and fast-paced legal thriller.
Starting over again after her divorce, Philadelphia lawyer Grace Rossi works part time for handsome Judge Armen Gregorian in the federal appeals court.
Assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal, a long day of work unexpectedly leads to a night of passion with the chief judge. But when Gregorian is found dead the next morning, an apparent suicide, Grace knows she must uncover the truth…
Fortune’s Price
by Frank Nissen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pegg, 14, yearned for adventure. He and his father left their family on a hardscrabble farm in Vermont to chase a desperate dream. After his dad died of fever on the high plains, Pegg’s confident world fell apart. He found himself saddled with their partner, Fred Hoyt, who proved worse than useless.
Now, it is up to Pegg to keep his father’s dream alive. But California in the 1850’s is a raw, lawless place, full of constant danger. Subsisting largely on hope, Pegg battles wild rivers, savage beasts, floods and fires. Even when the American River yields the gold that will allow Pegg to return home in triumph, Hoyt’s addiction to trouble threatens not only Pegg’s success, but their very lives. Can the boy who trusts too much keep his duplicitous partner from driving them to ruin?
Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she’d hoped for as she’s confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.
Tularosa
by Michael McGarrity
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into action when Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for his wounds, pleads for Kerney’s help. Yazzi’s son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range.
Kerney’s investigation resurrects the long-forgotten thrill of the hunt—and other emotions surface after meeting the tough-but-beautiful Capt. Sara Brannon, the Army’s investigating officer…
Show Me Betrayal
by Ellen E. Withers
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.8 #ad
Two deaths occur decades apart. Is it possible these deaths are related? What motivates a killer, who got away with murder sixty years ago, to kill again? Was it uncontrollable rage or the hope of silencing someone who fit all the puzzle pieces together and deduced who committed the crime?
Set in the picturesque town of Mexico, Missouri, Show Me Betrayal takes flight in words and emotions of rich characters woven together into a story you won’t want to put down.
A Murder in Hollywood
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Comes a new Hollywood mystery thriller, originally written in 1973 by Crichton but never before published, that will keep you guessing until the very end.
In the glitz and decadence of 1970s Hollywood, an era when sex and drugs were readily available on any movie set, the writer of the next Western blockbuster, Bloodrock, has just been found dead in his motel bathtub. Now publicist Harvey Jason is desperately trying to keep the project on track while the famed Harlow Perkins, a brilliant and ruthless investigator, begins to unravel the mystery and hunt the killer down.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Game of Luck
by Sandra J. Cady
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The puzzling murder of a beloved teacher leaves Detroit homicide detective Sam Roma searching for answers. To her chagrin, not only does Sam have a murder to solve, she’s been assigned a new homicide investigator, Tom Green, who comes with his own set of problems and challenges. As Tom makes a series of rookie mistakes, Sam wonders if she’s up to mentoring a partner with personal struggles-one who she suspects is involved in departmental politics.
To top it off, Sam’s personal guilt over her own history intersects with the conflicts faced by the middle school students close to the murder. She needs to navigate complicated relationships and face memories that have haunted her for years while keeping her family’s secret safe.
Divine Justice
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone’s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.
But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead.
Famous Last Words
by Gillian McAllister
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive psychological thriller about a new mother’s world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. In this gripping suspense novel, Camilla must ask herself: How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?
It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.
The House in the Pines
by Ana Reyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer.
Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can’t account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer—the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey.
Morning Noon & Night
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A beautiful woman attends a family gathering following the mysterious death of Harry Stanford, claiming to be his long-lost child and stating her rights to a share of the tycoon’s estate, in a hypnotic, roller-coaster novel.
When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon’s estateis she genuine or an impostor? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs, and murder.
Defining Chances
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Even the most unexpected circumstances may teach us how to forgive what cannot be changed…
Ember Wilde returns to Candlewood Falls to reconcile her life. Recently divorced, she quits her banal job and decides the timing is good to care for her ailing mother. Only her parents don’t want her help.
Raf Alvarez built a respectable life although the odds were stacked against him. When his world epically turns on its head, he isn’t prepared. Falling for Ember Wilde surprises him most of all because her family will never accept him and his family’s questionable history.
Ember isn’t interested in any man at the moment—especially not one with strong opinions and who works at her father’s orchard. But sometimes the heart knows better.
The Doll Maker
by Richard Montanari
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children.
A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week’s time.
Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano: a delicate porcelain doll.
Reverse
by Steven F. Havill
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A road to nowhere . . .
Recovering from a near-death collision with a giant elk, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is back to finish her last month at the Posadas County sheriff’s office. It’s supposed to be a quiet road to retirement, until a body is found at the bottom of a water-filled quarry. The barely alive figure of the grandson of the wealthiest man in town also lies further down the ravine.
Figuring out what really happened is going to take everything that Estelle and her understaffed, overworked team have.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
House of the SpiderKing Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One city hides two worlds. Elana Bishop is about to shatter them both.
Elana thought she knew who she was—a hardworking business owner in Ashford, carrying on her late father’s legacy. Then she hits a fleeing vampire with her truck.
The shock? She’s not just human—she’s one of them.
Pulled into Haven, Elana discovers she’s the daughter of a murdered Arbiter. Now she’s entangled in deadly vampire politics and ancient conspiracies threatening Haven’s very foundation.
Under the mentorship of the enigmatic Valeria Draven, Elana must navigate a treacherous society where everyone has an agenda.
High Bluffs
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Joanna Dresden lives an idyllic life in High Bluffs, Maine, running her family inn with her husband and daughter. She’s devastated when her husband is killed in a car accident, leaving her emotionally shaken and vulnerable. The inn they have spent their lives tending no longer interests her, and some unusual occurrences are happening around town.
A relationship develops between Joanna and a younger man, much to her surprise. Rick reawakes her in a way she didn’t realize was possible, but something isn’t quite right in High Bluffs. The dark secrets surrounding her in this supposed idyllic existence have started to surface.
The Devils of D-Day
by Graham Masterton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Thirty-five years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day turned the tide of World War II against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Reich, and it’s been more than three decades since the residents of the tiny French village of Le Vey witnessed the horrific slaughter of hundreds of German soldiers by thirteen black tanks. One of the tanks remains on the outskirts of town—its hatch mysteriously sealed, trapping its controller inside—only to be discovered by American surveyor and cartographer Dan McCook.
Driven by curiosity and an inexplicable compulsion, McCook is about to do the unthinkable and release what lives within the tank upon an unsuspecting world. And once the monstrous occupant reunites with others of its demonic kind, a new world war will begin, one that threatens to wash the earth in blood and drag every man, woman, and child through the fiery gates of hell.
Fade Away
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating heroes in suspense fiction: the wisecracking, tenderhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar. In this gripping third novel in the acclaimed series, Myron must confront a past that is dead and buried—and more dangerous than ever before.
The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legos—and blood. The signs of a violent struggle…
Betrayal
by Phillip Margolin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.
Now the situation couldn’t be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family…and Kerrigan’s only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago…
Ashley Bell
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The girl who said no to death. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live.
She replies, “We’ll see.” Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell.
But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she?
Masque of Honor
by Sharon Virts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the bestselling author of Veil of Doubt and The Grays of Truth comes a riveting tale of political intrigue, romance, and betrayal set in antebellum Virginia.
John “Jack” Mason McCarty and his second cousin Armistead Mason are proud sons of the Virginia aristocracy—and as different as two men can be. Deeply ambitious and politically minded, Armistead has his sights on Congress and demands a level of respect he may not deserve. Jack, too, longs to make a name for himself, if he can stop gambling and drinking long enough to use his considerable wit to his advantage. Jack has little patience for Armistead’s arrogance, while Armistead views Jack as a debaucherous adolescent unworthy of honor or respect—and neither is afraid to voice his opinion of the other.
Two Kinds of Truth
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Exiled from the LAPD, Harry Bosch must clear his name, uncover a ring of prescription drug abuse, and outwit a clever killer before it’s too late. Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery.
Bosch and the tiny town’s three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch’s days with the LAPD comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it.
Caller Unknown
by Gillian McAllister
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
There is nothing that Simone won’t do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don’t tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four volumes of short stories featuring the iconic British aristocrat and sleuth from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals are all most pleasant diversions. In these Golden Age whodunits, “Lord Peter can hardly be spared from the ranks of the great detectives of the printed page” (The New York Times).
Lord Peter Views the Body,
Hangman’s Holiday,
In the Teeth of the Evidence,
Striding Folly
World War Z
by Max Brooks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet…
The Camel Club Kindle
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After witnessing a shocking murder, four conspiracy theorists team up with a Secret Service agent to uncover the government corruption that threatens to cause an international terrorism crisis in this New York Times bestselling thriller.
Welcome to The Camel Club.
Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man known as “Oliver Stone,” they study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government to discover the “truth” behind the country’s actions. Their efforts bear little fruit—until the group witnesses a shocking murder … and becomes embroiled in an astounding, far-reaching conspiracy.
KILL THE MESSENGER
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A serial killer leaves a chilling note on the bodies of his victims: They should’ve kept their mouth shut. His rule is simple; whoever reports the body of his last victim becomes his next target. But when Alyssa stumbles upon the crime and refuses to report it, she becomes his obsession.
He can’t kill her, it’s against the rules… but he can’t let her go, either. Instead, he starts toying with her mind, pushing her to the edge.
In a deadly game of survival, one question remains: Who will break first? The killer or Alyssa?
The House on Serpent Lake
by Brenda Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
EARTHBOUND, HE WAITS FOR HER TO BE REBORN. Hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her through the house. A stirring of air whispers, “Remember . . . remember.”
Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years.
When her husband inherits his abandoned childhood home on a north woods lake, Lindsay Peterson is delighted.
Until . . .Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time; she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. After they move in, dreams of a lover from another time haunt her sleep then intrude on her days with déjà vu until the present blurs with the past. A stirring of air caresses her with whispered touch. Then the touches become real.
Out of Time
by Mario Diana
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One moment Jay was ordinary. The next, he’s assigned to an elite time traveling force. The rules are strict: take DNA samples, and leave the past exactly as you found it. But time travel was the easy part.
On his first mission to Venice, Jay encounters an object that inconveniently jumped across centuries. Events shift, and the more Jay tries to contain the breach, the more the damage spreads.
The fracture draws in an American nursing student on vacation in Italy, whose presence compromises everything Jay has been trained to avoid. As Jay follows the object across shifting timelines, he races to repair a growing paradox, desperate to undo the mistake that began it all. Jay’s companion, an intelligent AI with a cloned human brain, has to come to their rescue. But she uncovers a forbidden truth: humanity was created by a primal Maker. And the story of that creation has been deliberately buried.
The Mersey Ferry Murders
by Brian L. Porter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A new serial killer is at large in Liverpool. The victims appear to have no connection to each other, and Detective Inspector Andy Ross and the Merseyside Police Force Specialist Murder Investigation Team are brought in to investigate.
The victims are all middle-aged and the police are initially baffled, until a tenuous link suggests the victims were involved in a rape/murder trial fifteen years previously. Ross and his team of detectives soon realize that the killer has a ‘murder list’ and that unless he or she can be stopped, the city’s streets will soon be awash with the blood of the innocents.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
26 Beauties
by James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the world’s #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties – young women missing in San Francisco.
SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer’s best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club’s party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.