Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Midnight Clear
by Mary Kay Andrews
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ex-Atlanta cop-turned-house-cleaning entrepreneur Callahan Garrity doesn’t know what she is getting for Christmas, but she never expects the gift that arrives at her door: her estranged, ne’er-do-well brother, Brian, and his adorable three-year-old daughter, Maura. A rebel who’s been in and out of trouble most of his life, Brian’s deep in it now since he illegally abducted Maura from under the nose of his shrewish former wife.
When the beautiful child’s mother is found murdered, the police come looking for Brian. And now, to save her brother and her holiday, Callahan — along with her irascible mom, Edna…
It’s Not Her
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A scream shatters the silence… Courtney Gray’s peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs—unharmed.
A town full of secrets… As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney’s family—and the town itself—begin to surface. Is Reese a victim… or the killer?
A truth no one saw coming…
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors
by Ann Rule
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The New York Times bestselling True Crime Files series continues with this haunting collection of the dangers lurking among those we trust the most—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me.
Doomed relationships and deadly betrayals are at the heart of this unputdownable collection of true cases from the personal files of Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews). First is one of the most tragic unsolved crimes of the last twenty years: the disappearance of Susan Powell and the murder of her two young sons. With in-depth research and clear-eyed compassion, Rule leaves no stone unturned as she searches for the truth in this shocking story.
Finders Keepers
by Brett Battles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the latest thrilling adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Stone Barrington is caught in the lethal crossfire between a dear friend and a secret enemy from his past.
After attending an Arrington properties meeting at the group’s newest location, The Vineyard Arrington on Martha’s Vineyard, Stone Barrington returns to New York City to catch up with his old friend Jack Coulter. Over lunch, Jack requests Stone’s help in settling his niece Sara into city life post-divorce. Always one to please, Stone takes Sara under his wing.
The Thirteenth Count
by Paige Annabentleah
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Every ten years, the valley bleeds. Every ten years, the smoke rises red. Until hers.
Fern Grovekeeper has spent twenty years being no one – the Keeper’s daughter, raised on funeral rites in the lowest caste of a sealed valley where blood is currency and the Blackwells own the mountain that collects it.
Then the Thirteenth Count burns her blood white.
Torn from her family and taken to Blackwell Keep, Fern is given a new name, a new wardrobe, and a tutor: Cassius Blackwell, heir to the family that has ruled the valley for generations. He’s cold, exacting, and far too observant.
Dream Girl
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Aubrey, the title character of Gerry Andersen’s most successful novel, Dream Girl, is so captivating that Gerry’s readers insist she’s real. Gerry knows she exists only in his imagination. So how can Aubrey be calling Gerry, bed-bound since a freak fall? A virtual prisoner in his penthouse, Gerry is dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse.
Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry’s life?
I Am Behind You
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A compelling, eerie new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In.
Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of sixties pop icon Peter Himmelstrand…
Kingdom Come
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mildred Budge returns in Kingdom Come, a story about setbacks and how to face them.
The fourth novel in the series, Kingdom Come, continues with the stories of Mildred, Fran, Winston, Janie, and Chase.
In this story, Mildred’s Cloverdale bungalow is crowded.
Her best friend Fran observes, “For a single woman, Mildred, your quiver is getting very full.” And it is.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Terminal Velocity
by M.P. Woodward
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Ryan Jr battles terrorists in the disputed mountains of Kashmir to save a comrade in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A string of savage murders in the United States seems unrelated until the FBI makes a shocking discovery: a decade ago, all of the murder victims were involved in a raid to eliminate the Umayyad Revolutionary Council, a vicious terror group that—were it not for John Clark and the Campus—would have perpetrated the most devastating attack against critical American infrastructure in history. Now it appears they’re back, with a next-generation leader hell-bent on revenge.
Carolina Moon
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel of redemption and suspense, as a woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her childhood friend returns to her small South Carolina hometown. . . .
Tory Bodeen grew up in a run-down house where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt—and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish. Her one escape was her neighbor Hope, who lived in the big house just a short skip away, and whose friendship allowed Tory to be something she wasn’t allowed to be at home: a child.
Then Hope was brutally murdered, and everything fell apart.
The Bourne Deception
by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission—to find out who is trying to assassinate him.
In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt—apparently by an Iranian missile—leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the situation escalates.
NYPD Red 8
by Marshall Karp
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s 11:59.
And the city that never sleeps is afraid to get out of bed.
A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store—again at 11:59.
As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear.
Bad Deeds
by David J. Gatward
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As the delicate threads of community begin to unravel, can Harry Grimm trap a malicious puppeteer before their malevolent game leads to murder?
When beloved local mechanic, Mike, causes a serious motoring accident, DCI Grimm’s instincts tell him something is very wrong. But with no trail of evidence to follow, he is left grappling in the dark for clues.
Then, in the usually tranquil Swaledale village of Muker, the local baker is poisoned, and a chilling reality unfolds: these accidents are no string of coincidences, but orchestrated acts of malice conducted by a shadowy foe.
Blessing of the Lost Girls
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes.
For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances.
Carpet People : The Invasion
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Carpet People – The Invasion is a darkly funny, fast-moving sci-fi horror adventure about an Arkansas farmhouse, a reckless teenager, his terrifyingly observant little sister, one loyal dog, and four thousand tiny alien survivors who mistake a family home for the safest battlefield in the universe.
After the generational starship Titan’s Pride crash-lands beneath an azalea bush in Logan County, its half-inch colonists discover Earth is a monstrous landscape of grass-blade forests, thunderstorm oceans, predatory insects, and giants with snack food, electrical outlets, and vacuums. With freakishly long faces, googly eyes, and rubbery cartoon expressions, they seem ridiculous at first, until pride, fear, and dangerous invention make them impossible to dismiss. Soon, the survivors push into the farmhouse walls and found Baseboard One beneath Rick’s bed.
The Witches of Cambridge
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The brand-new series from the bestselling author of Practical Magic, following two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe known as the Lilith Society.
Once upon a time, women were drowned in the river and the only witnesses were the crows in the trees. The Puritans blamed Eve for the sins of the world. That was when we began to meet in the name of Lilith, Adam’s first wife—banished for refusing to do as she was told.