Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Glazed Suspicion
by Allison Pearl
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After escaping a life marred by crime, Nicole Appleton flees to small town Saint Claire and starts a business of her own. She still craves forgiveness and maybe a family, but could anyone love her once they discover she sugar-coated her past?
When sheriff’s deputy, Josh Bennet, arrives on the scene of a break-in at the local doughnut shop, he finds evidence incriminating his not-so-secret-crush. Is the fair beauty being framed or is she the mastermind trafficking drugs through his hometown? When things turn deadly, Josh must discover who the real villain is before it’s too late.
Finding Lucy
by Iris Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mother’s love is the most dangerous weapon.
One ordinary Tuesday, a van door slides shut and sixteen-year-old Lucy is gone, vanished into a trafficking network that moves girls like cargo and leaves no trace behind. The police investigate. The case goes cold. Everyone waits for Catherine to grieve and move on.
Instead, she walks straight into that network from the inside. For ten years she rises through it, living among the men who buy and sell girls, earning the trust she intends to destroy, one wrong word away from a bullet at any moment. She tells herself it’s the only way to find Lucy. She’s no longer sure what it’s turning her into.
Crimson Star Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A dying actress on a remote beach. A mysterious stranger with ancient secrets. A ritual that should never have worked — and a connection that changes everything.
Regan Vale fled Hollywood looking for anonymity, not salvation, but Gabriel Virelli’s act of mercy binds them together in ways neither can undo or explain.
Now her old life is hunting her down, his shadowed world is pulling her deeper, and the truth about what ties them together may be more dangerous than anything she left behind.
The Weekend Retreat
by Tara Laskowski
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It’s a tradition they’ve followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight.
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Outer Banks librarian Lucy is working on an art show at the library when paintings–and people–start to go missing, in this 11th Lighthouse Library mystery from national bestselling author Eva Gates.
When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.
Magic by Any Other Name
by Alison Levy
Kindle BARGAIN Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ivy Nichols O’Reilly has grown up in a wealthy family full of magic, fantasy creatures, and emotional abuse—but when her narcissistic mother arranges an unwanted marriage for her, the young witch reaches her breaking point. She drops out of college, changes her name to Georgette, and flees across the country with her best friend, a Wood Nymph named Mei-Xing.
Georgette is determined to build a new identity and a new life. But her journey leads her to cross paths with a number of magical characters—a Werehyena searching for his kidnapped wife; a Vampire who runs a unique magical business; a curandero, a shamanistic practitioner of traditional medicine; and a Valkyrie who, along with her raven partner, wants to make a risky deal—who make it clear to her that the past is not so easily left behind. In order to grow into her new identity…
The Berlin Murders
by Fiona Veitch Smith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
September, 1930. Fearless detective Miss Clara Vale is bound for Berlin, but this trip is all about la mode – not murder. Clara is set to walk the runway at Berlin Fashion Week, as a favour to her designer friend Juju, with her assistant Bella in tow.
Elections loom in Germany, and among Juju’s Jewish friends, the Spieglers, all the talk is of the National Socialists. But trouble brews closer to home, when a shocking murder at their clothing factory points the finger at the couple’s brilliant young son…
Fiend
by Alma Katsu
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They’re blessed.
At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family—Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets…
A Dark Path
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When two young boys don’t return home from an innocent afternoon of fishing, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must track them down before the first winter storm of the season bears down on Painters Mill in THE PACT.
In DISAPPEARED, Kate races against the clock to find a two-year-old who has vanished during a violent thunderstorm. Was the little boy swept away in the rising creek waters? Or is his disappearance even more sinister?