Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Feliz Navidead
by Ann Myers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Holly, jolly, and downright deadly—the third Santa Fe Café mystery unwraps surprises both naughty and nice . . . It’s the most picturesque time of theyear in Santa Fe, and Chef Rita Lafitte of Tres Amigas Café hopes the twinkling lights and tasty holiday treats will charm her visiting mom. Rita is also planning fun activities, such as watching her teenage daughter, Celia, perform in an outdoor Christmas play.
What she doesn’t plan for is murder.
Livid
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this thrilling installment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests.
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects?
In Danger of Judgment
by David Rabin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a covert operation during the Vietnam War ends in tragedy, one of its members resolves to kill the man who betrayed it to the enemy. Now, fifteen years later, he’ll finally get his chance.
Chicago, 1987. Home of mediocre baseball teams, gangs that rule the streets, and a Mexican drug cartel that supplies the city with heroin. Chicago Police Detective Marcelle DeSantis and her partner, Bernie Bernardelli, are working a series of heroin-related murders, and their job just got more complicated. The man who sabotaged the Vietnam operation, Robert Thornton, is now the chief enforcer for a Southeast Asian heroin cartel, and after fifteen years overseas he’s arrived in Chicago to eliminate the reigning cartel and seize control of the city’s heroin trade.
The Fight of Their Lives
by Andy Kutler
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September 1939. To fuel his hate-filled quest for global supremacy and an eternal Third Reich, German dictator Adolf Hitler orders a blitzkrieg attack against Poland, a gateway into the East where prized lands and economic resources await. A sea of tanks and troops storm across the border, prompting Polish allies Britain and France to declare war on Nazi Germany. The conflict soon widens, consuming the European continent and beyond. In late 1941, Japanese forces strike American naval forces at Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into a blistering Pacific brawl. For the second time in the twentieth century, the world is at war, and the consequences will prove devastating, pushing humankind to the brink of utter catastrophe.
Salvation in Death
by J.D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas.
Seconds after partaking of wine during a Catholic funeral mass, Father Miguel Flores is dead on the altar. Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained enough potassium cyanide to kill a rhino. And though the East Harlem neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband Roarke, it’s the holiness flying around St. Christobal’s that makes her uneasy.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But is it? She’s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she’s beginning to miss London.
And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.
Blaze
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the day he was orphaned until he ended up in the silver mines at White Pine, Nevada, Blaze Mowbray has only known the merciless frontier.
Thanks to the protection of his adoptive mother, lawlessness and degeneracy have always been just out of reach. Now Blaze has no choice – at sixteen, he’s leapt into the fire of an outlaw’s world.
When the silver is gone, money becomes scarce and company big shots like William Montgomery hire outlaws like Jed Scanlon to maintain the bloodstained bones of his business empire and recoup his mounting debts.
Killing Moon
by Jo Nesbo, Seán Kinsella
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“One of today’s most interesting thriller writers.” —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack Reacher series
THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.
The Mirror
by Nora Roberts
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror.
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Cat Show
by Marian Babson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
British public relations firm Perkins & Tate are used to dealing with show business—but this time, the celebrities are cats. The company’s been hired to publicize a major event for cat fanciers, but even if the felines in attendance are dignified, elegant, and well trained, the same doesn’t always hold true for the humans . . .
After a valuable cat statue disappears—and the exhibit’s much-disliked organizer is found dead in a cage with two Sumatran tigers—Douglas Perkins and Gerry Tate must sniff out a two-legged beast.
Comfort & Joy
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kristin Hannah is beloved by readers around the world for her unique blend of powerful emotion and exquisite storytelling. In Comfort & Joy, she offers a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness.
Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the woods of the Olympic rainforest, Joy makes a bold decision to leave her ordinary life behind—to just walk away—and thus begins an adventure unlike any she could have imagined…
Lone Wolf Squadron Complete Series
by Jamie Davis, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Lone Wolf Pilot, a Debt of Honor, and Pirates on the Federation Frontier
Fighter pilot Beau Ward was always willing to bend the rules to get the job done. His “independent” attitude got him bounced around the Federation Fleet for years—until he took it too far.
A long-standing debt has been called in, and he’s the one who must pay it back.
Beau’s actions land him a last chance command in the frontier system of Tardex with the order to assist an old friend and shipmate whose family has been torn apart by pirates…
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
by Otto Penzler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled • The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain.
This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant.
Low Pressure
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy’s fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day’s most devastating moments.
Now, eighteen years later, Bellamy has written a sensational bestselling novel based on Susan’s murder, published under a pseudonym to protect her family from unwanted publicity. But when an opportunistic tabloid reporter discovers that the book is based on fact, Bellamy’s identity is exposed along with the family scandal . . . and she becomes the target of a vengeful assailant.
Fear on the Phantom Special
by Edward Marston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the passengers pour out on to the station platform. There are almost sixty of them in all, laughing and jostling…
Southern Man
by Greg Iles
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The hugely anticipated new Penn Cage novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie.
Last Marshal Standing
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
US Marshal Sawyer Callahan was once the best lawman in Montana—or so he thought, until the day his deputy died in the line of duty. Now, he’s haunted by doubt and ready to turn in his badge.
But then Clara walks back into his life—the girl he let slip away years ago, and the governor’s daughter, no less. She’s got a dangerous proposition: find and capture the infamous Reaper Malone, a ruthless bounty hunter infamous for crossing the line, and haul him in for her father.
Now or Never
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The latest Stephanie Plum novel from #1New York Times bestseller and “the most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times) Janet Evanovich.
She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.
While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There’s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Killer Sweet Tooth
by Gayle Trent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Cake decorator Daphne Martin finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation—and an Elvis impersonator convention—with a bullseye on her back. Dead as a…dentist?
They say sugar is bad for your teeth, but can it actually kill you? The Brea Ridge police seem to think so when they find cake decorator Daphne Martin wielding an oversized plastic toothbrush over a dentist’s dead body. Daphne moved back to her small Virginia hometown just months ago to open her Daphne’s Delectable Cakes business and already she’s been mixed up in murder. Now she’s got to prove her sweet innocence again.
Special Agent Finnegan
by Mimi Barbour
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Love for his father makes a man weak – what’ll happen when he gives his heart to a woman? When Special Agent Finnegan O’Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O’Reilly has suffered enough and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Then his boss forces one more case on him – to take place in their own pub. Acting as the target to expose serial, suicide killers rampaging through New York City, Finn must play the part of a wife-beater, a cheating husband, and an all-time jerk. No problem, until he meets his make-believe wife…
The Black Loch
by Peter May
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY’S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.
A MURDER The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh – the Black Loch – on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
A SECRET
A RECKONING
Blood Test
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is called in to evaluate a young cancer patient who then disappears, he must search for answers in this thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Alex Delaware series.
Dr. Alexander Delaware, a child psychologist in Los Angeles, is called in to evaluate the case of a leukemia patient whose parents want to discontinue chemotherapy. When the boy disappears from the hospital and his parents are found dead, the only leads are the boy’s sensual older sister and a holistic-meditative cult called The Touch. Delaware’s search for the child takes him to a small town near the Mexican border where he finally unearths the dark secrets kept by the boy’s family and the townspeople. He also uncovers drugs and group sex in the commune and survives a few harrowing attempts on his life.
Broken Albatross
by J Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A page-turning suspense thriller that will keep you reading. The third book in the exciting Galiwee Visions Series.
Tommy Galiwee has visions. He doesn’t like them or the responsibility that goes with them. Now he has another vision, this time a senator and his family are in danger. Maybe the FBI will believe him this time. What Tommy doesn’t know is that this time his vision will put him in danger.
Whiteout
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.
As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteout rockets Follett into a class by himself.
Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
by T. C. Morrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Pap” and “Pup” Peters, those intrepid tort lawyers whose zany exploits have delighted readers of Tort$ “R” Us, Please Pass The Tort$ and Send In The Tort Lawyer$, return with yet another round of legal shenanigans guaranteed to make you laugh until you weep. Their latest antics take them into the brave new world of artificial intelligence: a massive lawsuit against two Super Pacs who poured money into the campaign of a New York Congressman whose entire persona was generated by an AI program; and a lawsuit on behalf of sultry actresses and models, including the unforgettable Lydia Lowlace, whose voices have been appropriated for a series of female chatbots who provide comfort, and lots of sexual innuendo, to lonely men…
Tooth and Claw
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $12.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the tradition of Wait for Signs and The Highwayman, Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want.
Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Listing To Die For
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Just when I thought juggling diaper duty with dazzling real estate deals was my biggest challenge, life throws me a curveball. The biggest listing of my career lands on my desk, and I can practically hear the cha-ching of the largest commission in my career. I’m talking the kind that gets my six month old daughter four years at an out-of-state college, when she’s 18, of course. When she’s ready, of course.
But when I arrive to meet the homeowner, I find the house empty, and the door locked. I decide to explore the estate, but instead of finding a breathtaking garden, I find Janice—my biggest competitor for the listing—lifeless among the roses.
She’s My Sister Complete Series Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for…dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind.
In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety yet Grace knew danger surrounded them…when the pain allowed her to think clearly. But she knew she needed him to stay alive because someone wanted her dead…like her sister.
Ethan Hendricks wasn’t thrilled that his private investigator brother was involved in his current murder investigation. He’d had a bad feeling about it from the moment he walked through the crime scene. The second time through wasn’t any better…
The Lost Coast
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The riveting new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write “brilliant, page-turning fiction” (Stephen King)
Cut loose from his former life at the coroner’s office, Clay Edison has set up shop as a private investigator. It’s steady, safe work. Until it isn’t.
The trouble begins when a young man, tasked with managing his grandmother’s estate, hires Clay to examine some minor financial discrepancies. What starts off as a case of simple fraud rapidly explodes into a web of deception, an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims.
ALL THAT WAS TAKEN
by Lisette Brodey
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All That Was Taken is a contemporary fiction novel that delves deeply into love, loss, and healing but comes with a suspenseful twist.
For eight years, John Hennessey has lived in near-solitude on Catalina Island. He keeps his world small, for every precious thing in his life has been taken from him. But when his peaceful existence is threatened, he buys a cottage farther up the California coast in the sleepy town of Teal Beach.
There he meets Sunny Harrison, owner of the Teal Beach Sundial Inn where he stays until his cottage is ready for move in.
Bitter Truth
by CJ Lyons
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A former FBI agent must save her husband from a killer in the Idaho mountains in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.
As an FBI Special Agent, Lucy Guardino faced horrors of all kinds. But now she must face turning forty. Her birthday features black balloons, gag gifts, and a visit to her surgeon who isn’t happy with the way her leg has healed. Then she finds a missed message from an old friend, a sheriff in a remote region of Idaho’s Bitterroot mountains, who needs her help.
Lucy calls back only to learn he’s missing, presumed dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder?
Vision In White
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wedding photographer Mackensie “Mac” Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be’s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars.
A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac’s type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends—and business partners—to see her way to her own happy ending.
Last to Die
by Tess Gerritsen
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For the second time in his short life, fourteen-year-old Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Orphaned once more when his foster family is murdered, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn vital skills of survival. But even behind locked gates, Jane fears that Evensong’s benefactors aren’t the only ones watching. And when she learns of two other students whose pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy’s, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind. Joining forces with medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane races to stop an obsessed killer’s twisted quest—before an unspeakable secret dooms the children’s fate.
Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
Empty Graves
by Jonathan Maberry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry is a master of the zombie tale. Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead is emotionally charged and disturbing. These stories range across the genres of horror, science fiction, and biological thriller without ever straying from the fascinating humanity at the core.
Together in a single action-packed collection, these sixteen gritty tales of the living dead span Maberr’s career, including an exclusive never-before-published short story.
Stories: All-New Tales
by Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An astonishing collection of all-new tales by some of the most acclaimed writers at work today. Edited by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline) and award-winning author Al Sarrantonio, Stories presents never before published short works from a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary literature—breathtaking inventions from the likes of Lawrence Block, Roddy Doyle, Joanne Harris, Joe Hill, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O’Nan, Chuck Palahniuk, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jodi Picoult, Peter Straub…and, of course, the inimitable Neil Gaiman himself.
“The joy of fiction is the joy of the imagination. . . .”
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: “And then what happened?” The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
You Had Me at Haiku
by John D. Ottini
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This book contains 101 thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between. The poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The author first encountered haiku in high school. He thought they were cool back then, as he does today.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
He’s hopeful that you will find these haiku poems both eloquent and entertaining.