Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
An Itch of Secrecy
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Known for his immense wealth and his impact on private healthcare services, Carson J. Keltce’s murder had ripple effects from the small town of Blanton to Baltimore and beyond. Izzie Di Sante, a restaurant owner with a passion for investigative reporting, is pulled into the investigation when her best friend calls sobbing. Nicole was living with CJ and the police have her pegged as a person of interest. The police question Nicole’s involvement, given the strained relationships CJ had with his family and the secrecy surrounding his personal life…
An Itch of Secrecy is the fifth in the Izzie Di Sante Mysteries but easily read as a stand-alone mystery. Recipe included.
End of Story
by A. J. Finn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”
So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective-fever.”
City of Toys
by Lindy S Hudis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Four beautiful women seek fame and fortune in Hollywood, the City of Toys, where actresses are like dolls, playing pretend on the big screen…
Marlo, Rhonda, Kim, and Guyla, become friends living in the same apartment complex, in the city where dreams and disasters go hand-in-hand. They come to rely on each other as they deal with sexual come-ons, crazed stalkers, jealous starlets and the constant pressure of trying to make it in showbiz. But when the pressure gets too much, will their friendship save them or will the City of Toys break them?
Tame Me
by Jenna Jacob
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As owner of a thriving skincare company, I, Sasha Evans, discover an unconventional way to relieve my stress. But finding a man masterful enough to supply the spine-bending agony I crave proves challenging. When Parker Cane presents me with a contract promising to fulfill my dark desires, I’m ready to sign, despite his strict rules.
But before I can commit, Lawson Pratt—the tall, rugged, and unbearably handsome marketing genius I hired to rebrand my line—strolls through the door. Defying Cane’s demands, I fall into bed with Lawson. When secrets unravel, I soon find myself sandwiched between both gorgeous, commanding men…
Imperfect Strangers
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Step one: The perfect murder
Sandy Kinsolving’s once-glittering life hangs by a thread; his future depends on his wife’s inheritance and whether or not she’s about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn’t give for a solution to his money and marriage problems.
If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent—and mutually advantageous—proposal.
Elen: For Camelot’s Honor
by Sarah Zettel
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Steel and sorcery collide in this epic series featuring the women of Camelot.
When treachery and violence destroy Elen’s homeland, a power begins to rise inside her. But it will take more than that untested magic to avenge her family, unite her people, and reclaim their land. Her enemy receives power from an evil source: the wicked sorceress Morgaine LeFay, who will stop at nothing to destroy King Arthur and his knights of Camelot. And she plans to use Elen to work for her own vile purpose.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
The Sentence Is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . “
These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise.
Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?
My Brother’s Keeper
by Chris Russo Blackwood, Ted Kergan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The true story of a 1984 murder and the lengths one man went to in order to achieve justice for his brother’s killing.
The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenage prostitute and her much older grifter boyfriend—to justice and find Gary Kergan’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its conclusion…
Murder in the Family
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home.
Luke Ryder’s murder has never been solved. Guy Howard’s mother and two half-sisters were in the house at the time of the murder—but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged.
But some murder cases are simply too big to forget…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Most Unusual Demis
by Katherine Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Retired librarian and bookshop owner May Morrigan lives in the affluent village of Blackheath with Fletcher, her best friend since they met decades ago, and May’s two dogs. What could be more normal? But May is not your average little old lady . . .
After an unpleasant church volunteer and an annoying local butcher meet their untimely ends, Fletcher and May team up to do some sleuthing. Soon, the elderly pair start working with a young journalist to investigate the case of a missing girl and its possible link to previous unsolved crimes…
Knife Music
by David Carnoy
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl he’d saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble.
Accused of raping the young woman, the case against Cogan appears to be airtight. Detective Hank Madden, a disabled veteran of the Menlo Park police force, has little patience or pity for men like Cogan. Now the rich, arrogant, self-described womanizer must do whatever it takes to prove that this terrible crime is not among his many sins.
Echo Road
by Kendra Elliot, Melinda Leigh
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm.
In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low. When she finds a link between the disappearance and a double homicide three thousand miles away, Mercy takes the next plane out—and lands right in the middle of Bree’s double homicide investigation…
Broken
by Jane Daly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
A sympathetic cop, his praying mother. Can they teach a broken girl to love herself?
A young woman flees an abusive boyfriend and a traumatic home life only to find herself broke and in jail. A sympathetic cop takes her to his mother’s home, where for the first time, she finds unconditional love. Can she accept what is offered or will she continue to sabotage both herself and everyone around her?
Obsession
by Stuart Woods, Brett Battles
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios’ business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman.
As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta seethes at the center, one that puts them all at risk…
The Between
by Ryan Leslie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
While landscaping his backyard, ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what’s beneath.
When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early ’80s called The Between.
Fatal Charm
by Carlton Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Randy Roth was handsome, hardworking, kind, and in top physical shape. But for all his charm and good looks, he was seemingly cursed with the ladies. His first marriage ended in divorce before the couple’s fifth anniversary; his second wife plunged to her death during a hike; and his third wife left him after less than five months.
But when Roth’s fourth wife, Cynthia, drowned in an apparent speedboating accident in Washington State’s Lake Sammamish just weeks after their first anniversary, a pattern of suspicious behavior finally caught up to him. As Roth set about collecting on a hefty insurance payout, the authorities were on to his game.
Sheriff Eli Hayes
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sheriff Eli Hayes’ life is shattered.
In the town of Silver Lake, Sheriff Eli stands as a beacon of justice. Respected by his community and cherished by his loving wife, Maria, and teenage daughter, Emily, Eli’s life shatters when a gang led by outlaw Wyatt Ripley storms through Silver Lake.
Wyatt’s rampage ends with Maria’s murder and Emily’s abduction, thrusting Eli into a desperate quest to save his daughter…
The Cave of Ruin Arsa
by Andrea Matthews
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ciarán Donnelly is ready to leave his past behind and concentrate on his new life, but his past may not be finished with him. His dreams have returned with a vengeance, and this time they’re telling him Ruadhán, the long-dead priest who entombed him fifteen hundred years before, is threatening to kidnap his unborn twins. Of course, his dream interpretation leaves a lot to be desired, especially when it comes to those he loves.
As if the dreams are not bad enough, his anxiety over them is causing stress on his new marriage, which is the last thing Caitlin needs in her current condition…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Doomful of Sugar
by Catherine Bruns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
First in the new Maple Syrup cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns.
There’s nothing sweet about murder…
Leila Khoury has always believed that everyone loved her father as much as they loved his artisanal maple syrup. But when he’s killed, and she returns to Sugar Ridge, Vermont to take over his business, she starts to realize how much of his life she’s left untapped…
A cozy mystery perfect for fans of Joanne Fluke, this edition includes 5 delicious maple recipes for mystery readers with a sweet tooth!
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(Maple Syrup Mysteries)
Unexpected Witness
by Penny Zeller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
If she can identify one person, she could bring down an entire crime network.
Nurse Mila Casey did not expect to witness a murder in the clinic’s parking lot. Nor did she imagine seeking protection from the at-large killer would land her on a secluded ranch owned by handsome, but standoffish, Roarke Brenneman.
Mila finds herself in the center of ever-growing danger as the police are unable to locate the suspect. When the protection of the ranch is compromised and Mila’s location is discovered, can she, with Roarke’s aid, stay one step ahead of a crazed murderer who intends to silence her forever?
For the Lost
by Lina Bengtsdotter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A MISSING CHILD In Karlstad, nine-month-old Beatrice is missing from her pram. Her parents are in shock and the media is in a frenzy.
A PERSONAL STRUGGLE DI Charlie Lager is struggling with her own demons when she’s called to investigate, forced to push them aside as the case intensifies.
A CLOCK RUNNING DOWN
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life.
Reacher is the ultimate loner—no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with.
Bone Box
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical evidence at the gravesite: a youthful skeleton, a skull wound and long dark strands of hair surrounding the bony frame.
Heat
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers yet another riveting story of intrigue and deception in this strangely prophetic novel about a man whose life is out of control.
Unjustly imprisoned, bereft of wife and daughter, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden is offered a daring gamble: if he can infiltrate and destroy a heavily armed religious cult, he can win his freedom. The previous two infiltrators have disappeared; the cult leaders are smart, wealthy, and completely amoral; Warden’s landlady is beautiful and sexy. Do you feel you’ve heard all this before?
Ancient Images
by Ramsey Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Tower of Fear is a lost horror film starring Karloff and Lugosi. A film historian who locates a copy dies while fleeing something that terrified him. His friend Sandy Allan vows to prove he found the film. She learns how haunted the production was and the survivors of it still are. It contains a secret about Redfield, a titled family that owns a favourite British food, Staff o’ Life. The Redfield land has uncanny guardians, and one follows Sandy home. To maintain its fertility Redfield demands a sacrifice, and a band of new age travellers is about to set up camp there…
Evil Angels
by John Bryson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother’s worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.
On a camping trip at Ayer’s Rock, the Chamberlain family’s infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive, a jury convicted Lindy Chamberlain of killing her own daughter. The public cheered.
Rescue At Dawn
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
Bounty hunter Wade Williams has been chasing ghosts since the day he lost the woman he loved a decade ago. Now, with nothing but grit and a reputation for never giving up, he’s searching for Bessie Tipton, a woman seemingly snatched from her home under the cover of night. Wade’s been hired by her husband, Milo, to bring her home safe.
But there’s something about Milo that doesn’t sit right. Turns out, Milo’s not just any husband—he’s a man with secrets as dark as the desert night.
And the biggest one? He doesn’t want Bessie back alive.
EMBRACE THE WIND
by Susan Denning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
EMBRACE THE WIND continues the story of Aislynn Maher, heroine of FAR AWAY HOME. With over 100,000 copies sold and over 3500 5 star reviews/ ratings, this sequel has ranked as a bestseller in US Historical Fiction, Western Romance, and Historical Romance American.
What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own. Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Trick or Treat on Graveyard Street
by C.K. Fyfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The only thing spooking Brooke this Halloween is the fact that she’s turning thirty. But when a ghoulish legend becomes all too real, she soon has more on her mind than getting older. As night falls on the neighborhood, a series of disappearances creates a macabre mystery, and Brooke must solve it before an evening full of treats turns into a horrible trick.
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“Great book for short story lovers and mystery lovers. The characters and plots are well developed and the endings always have a surprise. John knows how to keep your attention.” by Amazon Customer
In the Name of Honor
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran—now one of the army’s most distinguished generals—met Jack Gallagher, a fellow West Pointer later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation faces combat, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general’s son, has returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq.
Traumatized by experiences he will not reveal, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, who’s married to Brian’s commanding officer, Capt. Joe D’Abruzzo. But D’Abruzzo also seems changed by the experiences he and Brian shared in Iraq, growing secretive and remote.
HEART IN DANGER
by Kimberley Montpetit
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After escaping a horrible stalker boyfriend, Amelia Steele meets the charismatic and mysterious Holden Grayson at a highly classified meeting where she presents the secret technology she’s been working on.
Instant fireworks explode between them, but he’s a man unlike any she’s ever known, showering her with wealth and connections of unimaginable proportions—including a love she never thought possible.
However, a series of mysterious incidents terrify Amelia, and she fears for her life.The threats become much too real the night she comes home to find her apartment destroyed…
The Warrior 2 Complete Series Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Idina Moorfield and Bravo Team are back for another mission. Illegal arms are moving through the Ural
mountains.
But things with Hellion have changed a little since Idina’s team saved the world from monsters running the show for good, and someone else’s secrets are getting in the way this time. Will Emily Trigger let her past interfere with getting the job done?
A dangerous blow hurts the Hellion team more than ever, and Emily is temporarily reassigned to the Prodigal Suns. Her second chance. A newly emerging danger is being kept secret, even from Bravo Team.
Free Fall
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
High above the Adirondack Mountains, a commuter flight to New York City turns into a rolling, twisting nightmare, plunging from the sky before the crew regains control. Then, in London, a jetliner crashes into the runway, killing fifteen people.
Reporter Kate Page believes something beyond mechanical—or human—error is behind the incidents that have air investigators baffled. But the mystery deepens as teams scramble to pinpoint a link between the tragedies, and Kate receives an untraceable message from someone boasting responsibility and threatening another event.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
In Too Deep
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.
Talking About Adolescence
by Eichin Chang-Lim, Lora L. Erickson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Want to transition from childhood to adulthood successfully? Discover how to empower yourself for a bright future.
Are you looking for help navigating the ups and downs of being a teenager? Do you have a son or daughter going through growing pains? Hoping to avoid the pitfalls of emotional, psychological, and social challenges unique to young adults? As two experts in the field, multi-award-winning author Eichin Chang-Lim, OD, MS, MA and international psychologist Lora L. Erickson, PhD, LCPC, LMHC-QS, LPC have come together in a crucial collaboration. And now they’re here to share how you can take charge and live your best life.