Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lost Books and Old Bones
by Paige Shelton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lost Books and Old Bones is a delightful new mystery by Paige Shelton, featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols.
Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town. The shop is a place filled with curiosities and surprises tucked into every shelf, and it’s Delaney’s job to research the rare tomes and obscure artifacts that people come to buy and sell. When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she’s stumbled across a rare and important find indeed…
This Book Will Bury Me
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a chilling psychological thriller that explores the dark heart of digital obsession, collective grief, and what happens when murder becomes entertainment.
After losing her father, college student Jane Sharp finds solace—and purpose—in the strange intimacy of online true crime forums. Among armchair detectives and anonymous sleuths, she becomes someone new: sharp-eyed, fast-thinking, celebrated. But when the brutal deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho spark a viral frenzy, Jane and her online friends become part of the investigation…
The Cursed Wyrm Court Complete Series
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A curse of scales, a heart of fire.
Healer Nyra Vexlin is kidnapped by the king’s men and imprisoned in Varynth Hold with one impossible task: cure the crown prince, Rhezan, who has been cursed into dragon form for fifteen years.
But powerful forces conspire against them. Enemy kingdoms gather at the borders, sensing weakness. And the first ritual nearly kills him.
Will Nyra be able to reverse the curse before it’s too late?
Smoked
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Smokescreen – the wisecracking, best bud of teen super Kid Sensation – has his first solo adventure!
Unlike several of his friends, Smokescreen isn’t anything close to a household name. With a power set that most view as little more than a parlor trick, he’s nowhere near the top of the list of folks to call in an emergency. Ergo, it’s a bit of a surprise when he’s recruited by another super-powered teen, Atalanta, for a covert mission.
Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a simple operation swiftly morphs into something incredibly convoluted…and unimaginably dangerous. Although no stranger to perilous situations, Smokescreen unexpectedly ends up at the center of events with global implications – and facing a threat that even the greatest of superheroes would find daunting.
The Hike
by Lucy Clarke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
No help.
No cell coverage.
No one to hear them scream.
Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. More than that, she craves an adventure, a total reset. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. Following a trail that climbs through lush valleys, towering peaks, and past jewel-blue lakes, Liz is sure that the hike is just what they need.
They Thirst
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A vampire turns Los Angeles into a city of the dead in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Swan Song.
The Kronsteen castle, a gothic monstrosity, looms over Los Angeles. Built during Hollywood’s golden age for a long-dead screen idol with a taste for the macabre, it stands as a decaying reminder of the past. Since the owner’s murder, no living thing has ever again taken up residence. But it isn’t abandoned. Prince Conrad Vulkan, Hungarian master of the vampires, as old as the centuries, calls it home. His plan is to replace all humankind with his kind. And he’s starting with the psychotic dregs of society in the City of Angels.
The Frosted Roses
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Sorceress suffering from her past. Young couples forced apart. An arrogant Law Officer. A tyrant Mage Lord.
Beneath a secret enchanted village in 1770s France, disobedient Mages are cast away in the Glass Dungeon under a cruel regime. Among them is Mathilde, left with her family secret and a lifetime of mistakes. Sleep—and dreams of her estranged son—are the only respites from her despair.
Her clever cousin, Armand, leads a motley crew of allies known as ‘The Frosted Roses’. The gang dreams up a plot to break into the Dungeon and organize a daring coup d’état.
Pendergast
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case.
It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered…
Eight Days to Live
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mother and daughter risk becoming prey to a mysterious cult in this thriller from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane MacGuire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die.
It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called “Guilt” and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face.
The Magician Killer
by Diane Merrill-Wigginton
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Difference between a Sociopath and a Psychopath is a Very Fine Line
At the tender age of nineteen, Special Agent Samantha Stevens’s life was forever altered when she was forced to endure the unspeakable. But that was ten years ago. Now, she lives an uncomplicated life in Washington, D.C., void of any commitment or ties as she pours over unsolved cases and clears them with unparalleled accuracy.
Unfamiliar Partners Make for Strange Bedfellows…
V is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of this daring Kinsey Millhone mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.
Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store’s lingerie section, but she’s entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and later learns that the one who didn’t get away has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
Cutting Edge Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors.
Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.
The Secret Place
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.
Blue Dahlia
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night…
Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee. She isn’t intimidated by Harper House—nor by its mistress. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz Harper has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing In the Garden nursery.
Hero Redefined
by Doug Levy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
What does it mean to be a hero – in sports and in life?
Heroes aren’t just the ones who bring home medals. Hero Redefined delves into the lesser-known stories of Olympic athletes—and a couple of special Olympic venues—that challenge the conventional narrative of glory and gold. In riveting personal profiles exploring herculean feats of strength, perseverance, and sportsmanship, award-winning sports journalist Doug Levy offers a new vision of heroism. There is more than one path to greatness, and the extraordinary acts of resilience and personal sacrifice by these athletes have left an indelible mark on the spirit of the Olympic games in quiet but fundamental ways through the ages.