Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Portofino
by T A Williams
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In the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series…It’s murder in paradise!
A much-needed holiday…
Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him. He’s hoping a much-needed trip to beautiful Portofino will give him the break he needs and quality time with girlfriend Anna.
A gathering of celebrities…
The Mighty Johns
by David Baldacci
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, the most legendary player on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown.
Instead of tossing the ball to the referee after his near-mythical athletic feat or celebrating with the nearly 25,000 spectators in the stands, Ruggles continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led deep underneath the field to the Mighty Johns’ locker room – and was never seen again.
Captive of Fear
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lindsey Hunter, who experienced incidents of extreme terror during childhood, resolves to no longer be held captive by fear. Yet when she arrives in Scotland with her husband of one week, that resolution seems impossible to attain.
Marc’s house is more of a castle, haunted by memories of his first wife; the family dog is a rambunctious Great Dane that terrifies Lindsey; and the housekeeper is dour and disapproving. Marc’s business partner, Neville, resents her. Marc’s brother, Jules, seems to be a vague man who scrambles to keep up with his wife Casi’s strange flights of fancy. Lindsay’s only friend and ally in this forbidding land is Amy, Casi’s best friend.
The Bounty
by Frank Wheeler
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A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Rayne Sutherland never set out to be a father. He was a bounty hunter, not a caretaker. But when he found a scared, orphaned boy hiding in the shadows, he couldn’t just walk away – even if the kid was the son of a notorious killer.
Rayne did his best to raise Jeb right, teaching him to be everything his father wasn’t – sharp, strong, and honorable. But somewhere along the trail, things went wrong. Ginny, the schoolteacher, insists it wasn’t Rayne’s fault, but doubt gnaws at him.
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.
Stalking the Angel
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable—something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.
Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks—and what he didn’t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did…
A Lush and Seething Hell
by John Hornor Jacobs
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Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.
Malachite
by Jesse Storm
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Meanwhile, Jack Keller, once a respected rancher, descends into the vengeful Black Jack Keller. Fuelled by years of mistreatment by Malachite’s residents, he unleashes havoc upon the town, leaving destruction in his wake. Ashton’s uncle, the only family he has left, becomes another casualty of Keller’s rampage.
Determined to avenge his loved ones, Ashton embarks on a perilous journey to bring Keller to justice. Along the way, he encounters May, a spirited saloon girl whose courage and compassion provide a glimmer of hope in the darkest of times.
Santa’s Secret
by Fern Michaels
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Christmas is filled with beloved and long-kept traditions, but sometimes, there’s nothing better than creating brand-new ones. That’s why Francesca and her high school friends Amy, Rachael, and Nina are traveling to Italy to spend the holidays with Frankie’s boyfriend, Giovanni, and his family.
Giovanni and his brother, Marco, run a small Italian restaurant in Manhattan, where cherished family recipes delight tourists and locals alike. But there’s one recipe that eludes the brothers. Their mama refuses to divulge the special ingredient in her coveted panettone, claiming it is “Santa’s secret.”
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
by Rick Riordan
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Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats.
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deception, Denial & Murder
by Christa Nardi
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A fun night out with friends is derailed by the discovery of a body.
A domineering co-worker, a flirtatious neighbor, and a dead body make for many questions and awkward situations. As HR Specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie Maroni is used to dealing with difficult situations. Initially, she’s glad she’s not involved. only then her close friends are cast as potential suspects, At the same time, her boss makes changes in the work place that prove challenging…
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Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans.
As fate would have it, Stephanie’s mentor and occasional employer, Ranger, needs her to go undercover at the Bogart factory to find out who’s putting their employees on ice and sabotaging the business…
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC.
by A.G. Russo
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The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York. Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men.
Mercy
by Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A doctor uncovers a series of suspicious deaths that may be someone’s twisted idea of mercy in this “superior thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling author’s (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die—until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. When he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack, an autopsy reveals an unusual heart defect, one only seen in individuals under extreme stress. It appears that Sam was literally scared to death.
Nameless
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Danger swirls in the mists of the Puget Sound. People are disappearing, the most recent being a young child. Nothing links the victims, except the kidnapper. FBI Special Agent Dakarai Lakes suspects the victim count will only increase… unless he and his team can stop the criminal.
His team’s newest agent might be their greatest weapon. Special Agent Kevyn Taylor has a reputation as a mind reader. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she’s spent years honing her skills to read and predict human behavior with a high degree of accuracy. She might be the secret weapon they need to get inside the kidnapper’s head – if her rule-bending, renegade tactics don’t drive Dak crazy first.
Then the first body is found.
Aloha from Hell
by Richard Kadrey
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Supernatural fantasy’s greatest anti-hero goes back to hell! In Aloha from Hell, the ruthless avenger, a.k.a. Stark, finds himself trapped in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell. Perfect for fans of Jim Butcher, Warren Ellis, Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and Simon R. Green.
Once again all is not right in L.A. Lucifer is back in Heaven, God is on vacation, and an insane killer mounts a war against both Heaven and Hell.
Stark’s got to head back down to his old stomping grounds in Hell to rescue his long lost love, stop an insane serial killer, prevent both Good and Evil from completely destroying each other, and stop the demonic Kissi from ruining the party for everyone.
The Late Show
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It’s a frustrating job for a once up-and-coming detective, but it’s no accident. She’s been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn’t want to part with. First, a prostitute is brutally beaten and left for dead in a parking lot. All signs point to a crime of premeditation, not passion, by someone with big evil on his mind. Then she sees a young waitress breathe her last after being caught up in a nightclub shooting.
The Forest of Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
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A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth, and the power of love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow…
When Stars Align
by Dennis Higgins
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One December day in 1986, fifteen-year-old Mark Evans found an old electric Christmas star in a box of ornaments in his Chicago basement. When he plugged it in at Midnight on December 25th, not only did it illuminate the room in faceted color splendor, but he found himself in the same room with a fifteen-year-old girl named, Maggie Townsend whose tree was topped with the same star. However, the year was 1936—exactly fifty years in the past.
Over the years Mark would plug in his star whenever possible and on Christmas at Midnight, his and Maggie’s stars would align to bring him back to her…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Sacred Night
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat–known in LAPD slang as “the late show”–and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can’t let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift–and she wants in…
Captive Memory
by Jimmy Gear
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Audrey Baker is a police officer in the mountain hamlet of Griffith Falls, Washington. Several years have passed since her sister went missing and she is still trying to nurse the painful wounds that have come with the unsolved disappearance. The tragedy inspired her to join the local police department as she seeks some sort of closure by investing her life in protecting others.
Ryan Darrow is a modestly successful novelist from Chicago. He has come to Griffith Falls for both the scenery and to gather research for his next book. He also has tragedy haunting him from the past as his wife had surrendered to cancer years before.
What seems like an accident begins to grow more suspicious when a local child, Libby Henning, goes missing…
Fear
by R.L. Stine
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13 haunting tales perfect for fans of the bestselling author, R. L. Stine, of the Goosebumps series.
Turn the pages if you dare. . . . In this collection of thirteen fabulously chilling stories from thirteen true masters of suspense, including five New York Times bestsellers and a number of Edgar Award nominees, all edited by none other than R. L. Stine, nothing is what it seems. From cannibalistic children, to an unwitting date with a vampire, to a crush on a boy who just might be a werewolf, no scary stone is left unturned. A must-have for all fans of the genre!
Exposure
by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
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Another thrilling Virals adventure from New York Times bestsellers Kathy and Brendan Reichs.
When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there’s no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are growing wilder, and becoming harder to control. Chance Claybourne is investigating the disastrous medical experiment that twisted their DNA. The bonds that unite them are weakening, threatening the future of the pack itself.
The Third Wormhole
by Michael Collins
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Time Travel to the End Times in The Third Wormhole…
Meet the “Fab Four”—world-class astrophysicists tasked with exploring three wormholes and a massive black hole discovered on Mars. These cosmic anomalies are gateways to supernatural dimensions, revealing Biblical mysteries that could herald the end times.
As the “Fab Four” navigate through these portals, they are embroiled in mass tragedy, government cover-ups, and threats of global conflict. Their discoveries challenge the very fabric of time and space, positioning them at the forefront of a potential apocalypse. The moral dilemma is profound: reveal the truth of the wormholes and risk global chaos, or keep secrets that could alter the course of humanity.
Rise of the Fury
by Clint Hollingsworth
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An old hatred arises looking for long-delayed vengeance.
What do you do if someone puts a hit on you? You go on the run.
But what if the killer uses the surveillance state to track you wherever you go? You turn and fight.
A professional assassin is determined to execute bounty hunters MacKenzie Crow and Rosa Fernandez. But not just right away. After a slow torturous game of cat-and-mouse.
Deep Black
by Stephen Coonts, William H. Keith
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In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines—a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean’s floor.
While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia DeFrancesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea.
Smoking Flax
by Jennifer Hallmark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Who Is He–Really?
Almost nineteen-year-old Reed Anderson wants to belong in a world where he hasn’t always fit. Three days after graduation, he decides to ride a bus back to Louisiana and deal with the events of his thirteenth summer once and for all. Back then, he’d stood up to his abusive Pa, protecting Momma and his sister, taking control of his life. But who was the faded image of the child he saw that day? Aunt Lula predicted his life would shift and change. Something about space-time-continuum and the fourth dimension? He tucks her words into his heart. If he survives the shift, this could be his chance to start over. But the ghost child haunts his dreams. Even though six years have passed, does he want to confront the lies he’s always believed?
An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
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The unputdownable new novel from international bestseller Jeffrey Archer – Pre-order now!
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth…
A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis.
In the heart of the British establishment…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Engaged to Die
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville has fallen head over heels for Jake O’Neill, her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé. But when she announces their engagement at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased. And before the last champagne bubble pops, murder disrupts the grand celebration.
Bookstore owner Annie Darling is shocked to learn that her employee Chloe Martin is the prime suspect…
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
by Agatha Christie
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The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie.
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery…
Waterfall
by Linda K. Rodante
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A dead body, a flood, and a boy’s rescue. Can Annalisa Carabelle keep the boy safe while racing to discover a killer before it’s too late?
All Annalisa Carabelle wants is a successful summer season for the bed-and-breakfast she co-owns. She never expected the flood, the boy who needed rescuing, or the man who came from nowhere to help. The dead body? Well, the wound to the head proved it had nothing to do with do with the deluge…
Fatal Rounds
by Carrie Rubin
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Liza Larkin, a recent med-school graduate on the cusp of her pathology internship, isn’t like most people. She would rather study the human brain or pound the heavy bag at the gym than spend time with others, and as an outsider she doesn’t let societal norms confine her.
So when a stranger’s picture sends Liza’s schizophrenic mother deeper into psychosis, Liza does a reverse-image search to identify him. Upon discovering he is a trauma surgeon at a Massachusetts teaching hospital, she impulsively changes her pathology residency program of choice to his center.
The Inspector Barnaby Mysteries
by Caroline Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Death of a Hollow Man
Death in Disguise
“Wonderfully funny, with such solid, traditional underpinnings as good plotting, judiciously dropped clues, and a luminescent turn of phrase: a likely-to-be New Age classic.” – Kirkus Reviews
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
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When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.
Ashes Never Lie
by Lee Goldberg
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Worlds collide as Eve Ronin and Sharpe & Walker race to find hidden secrets in smoldering ash, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cause. It’s a perplexing mystery for dogged arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his restless new partner, Andrew Walker, an ex–US marshal who craves action.
But as they puzzle over the blazes, another home miles away burns to the ground, leaving a man’s corpse in the ashes and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone demanding answers…
High Kingdom
by John Suter
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The five lands of the High Kingdom have lived in harmony for centuries. The kingdoms were interconnected through trade, knowledge, and religion, but the bonds of friendship have been severed. With the death of the agricultural kingdoms ruler, the leaders of the other realms seek to unify and destroy the simple people of Landenberg.
The sixteen year old king of Landenberg, Loris Trousdale, leads his people against foes on all sides. They fight for their fields and farms. They fight for each other. They fight for their very survival.
THE SUM OF OUR SORROWS
by Lisette Brodey
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In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?