Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
An Embarrassment of Itches
by M. K. Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s Diagnosis Murder meets All Creatures Great and Small…
As a house-call vet, Ginny Reese has seen her share of the weird and wacky. But nothing in her previous experience could have prepared her to find one of her clients facedown in her own swimming pool.
Murder victim Amanda Kelly was an extremely wealthy local artist with her share of secrets. By naming Ginny as her heir, not only did Amanda make Ginny the number one suspect, but she painted a big bull’s eye on her friend’s back as well.
Here I Stay
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this contemporary gothic novel by a New York Times bestseller, siblings renovating an old mansion discover it is home to dark secrets.
Andrea Torgesen is certain that hard work is exactly what her younger brother Jim needs to help him recover from the trauma of a serious car accident—and turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn seems to be the perfect project. But unearthly voices and eerie visions haunt Jim from almost the first instant he sets foot in the dreary old house. And his strange obsession with a long-neglected graveyard is most troubling to his concerned sibling.
The Moss Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Did Zara Montgomery kill her terminally ill husband by deliberately overdosing him on morphine? The verdict is still out on that. She flees the U.S. to Scotland where she is inexplicably drawn both to creating living works or art with moss, and to widower Holland McCree.
Then a woman is murdered. Zara is a suspect.
Zara is desperate to remove suspicion from herself—especially to herself. She and Holland embark on a hunt for a killer.
From the on-purpose accidents that Zara suffers—rocks falling off the roof of her house on top of her, getting targeted by a hit-and-run driver, and being pushed off a dock at the harbor—it would seem that Zara is innocent and the killer wants to stop her before she discovers the truth.
Forever Dark
by Blake Pierce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a murder occurs in her rural home town, brilliant FBI Agent Selena Raven is dispatched, unaware she must work alongside her ex-husband, now sheriff, as the two butt heads, face old grudges, and must partner to stop a killer before it’s too late.
When a body is discovered in the abandoned church where Selena Raven was supposed to get married, coming home feels like a warning. As more women turn up dead, Selena realizes the killer is far from finished—and working alongside the man she left behind may be the only way to stop them…
What Al Left Behind
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Did you know that history is being rewritten in your neighborhood? And it’s happening in surprising ways.
People without dementia are taking care of people who have dementia. And they are experiencing that time differently and telling those stories differently than they were initially told over twenty years ago when the subject began to grab the national consciousness.
Inside neighborhood homes traditions and long-held opinions are being questioned. Minds are being changed and lives improved because of the shift in thinking about dementia care and how to react to the diagnosis that someone you love has it.
The Mad Wife
by Meagan Church
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live.
They called it hysteria. She called it survival.
Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife. Despite the tragic memories that haunt her and the weight of exhausting expectations, she keeps her husband happy, her household running, and her gelatin salads the talk of the neighborhood. But after she gives birth to her second child, Lulu’s carefully crafted life begins to unravel.
The Night of the Proposal
by Emma Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Last night was a fairytale.
You wake up today with a ring on your finger, engaged to the man of your dreams. As you open your eyes, you feel instantly that something isn’t right. Nick, your fiancé, isn’t beside you in bed. He’s not downstairs cooking breakfast. He’s vanished without trace.
That’s when you realise, not all fairytales have happy endings.Your perfect future is built on lies – on the terrible things that Nick has done. There’s only so long he can run from his past. His secrets have finally caught up to him.
Big Little Truths: Reese’s Book Club
by Liane Moriarty
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.
The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies—Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie—their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed and the kids are in high school, navigating all of the drama that accompanies teendom (goodbye playdates, hello drugs, sex, and alcohol).
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Predicament
by William Boyd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the internationally bestselling author, a thrilling novel starring the travel writer-turned-reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, who finds himself implicated in a dangerous conspiracy with global consequences
1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader predicted to win. United Fruits, a giant American corporation responsible for a large percentage of the country’s GNP, meanwhile, is not pleased by this prospect. Neither is the CIA. Amid the uncertainty, Gabriel Dax arrives on orders from his MI6 handler Faith Green, who has tasked him with assessing the fallout from the election…
The Beach Bistro
by Meg Hartwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She came to Coral Bay to hide. She was really coming home.
After a scathing review and a viral meltdown destroy her successful city restaurant, chef Laura Blake watches twenty years of relentless work go up in smoke. With nothing left to lose, she retreats to Coral Bay, Florida—the sleepy Gulf Coast hometown she left at eighteen and swore she’d never see again.
In a weathered beach cottage filled with reminders of her late mother and the girl she used to be, Laura tries to figure out what comes next. Little by little, an idea takes shape…
The Collaborators
by Michael Idov
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?
Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father…
Dig Me a Grave
by Richard A. Harpootlian, Shaun Assael
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.
Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he pulled off his most audacious murder—killing another inmate with a military grade explosive.
Texas Security Series Books 1-3
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The complete three-book Texas Security Series: Wealth of Secrets, Depths of Deception, and Deadly Christmas Cipher
Jack McKerrick and Bryn Marsh navigate mystery, murderers, billionaires, a hurricane, lost treasure, and their growing feelings for each other in this contemporary Christian Romantic Suspense three-book series set in Texas.
When new threats and old secrets collide, Jack and Bryn will risk their lives and their hearts to find the truth.
Smoke
by Joe Ide
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he’s a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer.
His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job.
The Copper Testament
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dr. Nadira El-Hadid reads what other people miss. It has made her difficult, respected, and alone. So when an old colleague calls about a disputed reading of the Copper Scroll, she goes to Jerusalem expecting academic politics — and finds a page marked in her dead father’s handwriting.
In a storage unit in Alexandria, in twelve boxes nobody has opened in twenty years, the same five-stroke mark appears again and again across a lifetime of field notes her father never published. He had been tracking something. He never told his family what.
The Fine Art of Lying
by Alexandra Andrews
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother thrust into a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal. In the beginning, there was art.
It was Clare Bast’s love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Despite her best efforts—including a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was born—Clare secretly can’t help but feel like an imposter in Jed’s one-percent, Park-Avenue life.
Not a Word
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home.
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself…