Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Lost Tomb
by Douglas Preston, David Grann
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years?
From the jungles of Honduras to macabre archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Douglas Preston’s explorations have taken him across the globe. The Lost Tomb brings together a compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
The Cannibal Queen
by Stephen Coonts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling icon of the techno-aviation thriller takes to the skies in this memoir of a great American adventure in an open-cockpit biplane.
It was a bird’s-eye view of America—and the trip of a lifetime for author Stephen Coonts and his fourteen-year-old son. But even for Coonts, who had clocked 1,600 hours as a naval aviator and was the recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross commendation, this was a first. He’d be flying closer to the earth than he ever had before. His big yellow wood-and-canvas bird was the Cannibal Queen, a Stearman open-cockpit biplane built in 1942. Destined for the scrap yard, it was rescued and restored for what Coonts would call his “Stearman summer.”
Resurrection Walk
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false.
Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own.
The Sun Wolf and Starhawk Series Books 1–3
by Barbara Hambly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Ladies of Mandrigyn
Witches of Wenshar
The Dark Hand of Magic
“I haven’t read this series in twenty years, and I’m so glad that they are as good as I remember. Intelligent characters, dire circumstances, and great writing.” by Amazon Customer
Hoax
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The shooting death of a rap mogul is the first link in a sinister chain ensnaring New York District Attorney Butch Karp. With his wife and daughter on a New Mexico retreat, Karp is left to fend for his teenaged sons and himself. Descending into the hip-hop underworld to prosecute a killer, Karp comes head-to-head wih Andrew Kane, a powerful would-be mayor whose corrupt web of influence leads Karp to unveil a shocking church sex-abuse scandal. In a world where secrets can be buried for an often-deadly price, Karp discovers there is no safe haven.
Chesapeake
by James A. Michener, Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America…
The Pirate’s Physician
by Amy Maroney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Pirate’s Physician is a captivating novella that brings the world of Amy Maroney’s award-winning Sea and Stone Chronicles to thrilling life.
When her world shatters, she dares to trust a pirate. Will she survive what comes next?
The Pirate’s Physician is the story of Giuliana Rinaldi, a student at Salerno’s famed medical school, whose lifelong dream of becoming a physician crumbles when her uncle and mentor dies suddenly.
Faced with an unwanted marriage to a ruthless merchant, Giuliana enlists the help of a Basque pirate and flees the only home she’s ever known for the dangers of the open sea.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Meditation on Murder
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
More comfortable in woolen suits than short-sleeved shirts, he’s struggling to adapt to his new home. But this paradise is about to get deadly.
When self-appointed guru Aslan Kennedy gets murdered in his spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers, it’s down to DI Poole to find the killer…
She’s My Sister Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #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…
Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself…
Firmament: Reversal Zone
by J. Grace Pennington
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nothing is as it should be.
After weeks of boredom, Andi is excited when the Surveyor is called upon to rescue a freighter that mysteriously vanished in uncharted space. Excitement quickly turns to unease when the ship encounters an unknown phenomenon—a cloud that appears not to exist. But with the freighter’s crew in danger, the Surveyor has no choice but to venture into unknown territory.
As soon as they enter the cloud, its unstable effects wreak havoc on the ship.
Her Dying Secret
by Lisa Regan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It was supposed to be a routine road accident recovery, but the moment Detective Josie Quinn sees the passenger—pale and painfully thin, a sharp tool lodged in her stomach—it’s clear she was the victim of something far more sinister, and likely dead before the crash. Watching the driver taken away in an ambulance, questions spin through Josie’s mind. Where were these two women going? Was the driver trying to save a life, or hide a body? And—most heartbreaking of all—is there a child in danger, crying out for help with no reply?
Broken Ground
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Karen Pirie is dealing not only with this cold case but with a domestic violence case, and as as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is…
Luck Of The Draw
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
River Hopkins has always relied on his wits and a deck of cards to survive in a world that’s never given him a break. But when an unexpected inheritance lands him a plot of land in the oil-rich town of Shepherd’s Flats, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Buford Baker, a ruthless land baron who controls the town with an iron fist.
Buford wants River’s land, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to get it—including reclaiming Tess Hawthorne, the woman who dared to leave him.
The Night We Lost Him
by Laura Dave
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In this riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me, estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal…
Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self- made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar – notably a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast from which he fell to his death.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
In Farm’s Way
by Amanda Flower
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When the biggest catch at the annual Ice Fishing Derby is the body of brewmaster Wallace, Shiloh must reel in the killer before her farm goes belly-up.
Shiloh Bellamy still expects the last few Winter months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer’s association. Well, she could if the owner, Wallace, wasn’t found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby…
The Deadly Sins Novels Volume Two
by Lawrence Sanders
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lawrence Sanders’s first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward Delaney. Sanders would follow up with three more Deadly Sins novels—each one a New York Times bestseller—proving himself again and again to be “a master” (The New Yorker). This collection also includes Sanders’s first novel, completed at age fifty, The Anderson Tapes, which introduced Edward Delaney and won an Edgar Award, and was made into a film starring Sean Connery.
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel
by The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn’t escape when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.
Long Haul
by Frank Figliuzzi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“A true-crime masterpiece.” – Don Winslow
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.
In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,”
Visions in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Detective Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting soulsin this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
On one of the city’s hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park—and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck is a single red ribbon. Her hands are posed, as if in prayer. But it is the eyes—removed with the precision of a surgeon—that have Dallas most alarmed.
The Beckoning Lady
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered – and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.
Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . .
Tough Trail Home
by Marie W. Watts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Tough Trail Home is a delightful read about a family coming to terms with each other and their new lives.” –Pamela Stockwell, author of A Boundless Place
The Dunwhitty family is flying high until their carefully choreographed life falls apart during the 2008 Great Recession. Lisa’s firm goes belly-up while Michael’s shuts down after selling faulty heart valves. Desperate, Lisa insists they regroup by seeking refuge in rural Central Texas on land she inherits from a distant relative she barely knows.
It’s not the ranch Lisa remembers, but a ramshackle money pit. Michael and their teenage son, Andrew, despise the place. Only their young daughter, Jessica, is happy…
The Valhalla Exchange
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1945, as the Allies closed in on war-ravaged Berlin, Hitler’s personal secretary, Martin Bormann, made his escape. Since that fateful day, Bormann’s story has been shrouded in mystery.
Thirty-one years later, a journalist has begun to finally piece together Bormann’s cunning getaway. His electrifying investigation exposes the unwitting role of five Allied POWs in Bormann’s escape plot as the Nazi regime crumbled. Now, with help from a surviving POW, this journalist follows history’s twists and turns to a final, shocking conclusion.
We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
Closet of Dreams
by Mark Ukra, Tara Mesalik MacMahon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“A timeless tale reminiscent of a day when love could heal all wounds and hope abounded” — Kim Beyer-Johnson, Writer for Disney and Hallmark
Meet Child. A nine-year-old boy who has dreams so big, he has a whole Closet of Dreams in his home. But Child’s fears are really big, too. With his class bully Eddie throwing curve balls his way at every chance, Child must figure out how to navigate unexpected twists and turns. Just when all hope seems to be lost, Child discovers the secret powers in his Closet of Dreams. These new powers — along with his friends Ele the elephant, Sister Sue the hippo, Clarence the bear, and Hilda the dachshund — might just be what Child needs to face his fears.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murder Collection
by P. D. James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the best are collected here.
Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author’s sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex–not to say the most damning–aspects of human nature. In “The Twelve Clues of Christmas,” James’s iconic Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is, in his own words, “pure Agatha Christie.” In “A Very Commonplace Murder,” a respectable clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime.
The Bourne Deception
by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bourne is thrust into a race to prevent a new world war–but it may already be too late, from New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader.
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.
One Man’s Promise
by Laura Domino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a safe haven, but still learning about love. One Man’s Promise continues Sharla’s story from book one. Read One Man’s Haven first!
Afraid for her life, Sharla flees San Francisco and hopes the rest of her family is still safe. Her life isn’t over after all, but she’s still unsettled. Staying under the radar and out of her enemy’s grasp means she must learn a new way of life away from the city. Is Sharla starting over in the right place? Hiding isn’t paradise when her enemy catches up with her. How will Sharla escape a second time?
The Broken Wings
by Kahlil Gibran
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kahlil Gibran’s poetry novel Broken Wings was initially published in 1912 in New York by the publishing company of the periodical Meraat-ul-Gharb. It’s a tragic love story set in Beirut at the turn of the century. Selma Karamy, a young woman, is betrothed to the nephew of a renowned religious figure. This woman falls in love with the protagonist (a young man who Gibran may have based after himself). They begin meeting in secret, but are discovered, and Selma is banned from leaving her home, shattering their dreams and hearts.
The China Governess
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew.
In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations.
Just One Evil Act
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim.
Just when Azhar is beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss, he gets more shocking news: Hadiyyah has been kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation…
Farewell to Dreams
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun’s heart in her hand.
“Find the girl,” the nun commands – although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling directly into Angela’s brain. “Save the girl.”
Aided by a police detective fallen from grace, Angela searches the midnight catacombs beneath the city, facing down a ruthless gang leader and stumbling onto a serial killer’s lair. Her desperate quest to save the girl leads her to the one thing she least expected to find: a last chance for love.
Crestview Academy Complete Series
by Katerina Raven
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The more I uncover, the more danger I’m in.
I’m no longer safe anywhere.
Starting at Crestview Academy was supposed to be a brand-new start. A chance to grow new relationships, learn who I am and where I came from, and have a chance to do things I never could have dreamed of.
Instead, it’s a living hell.
Aquamarine & Indigo: Two Novels
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $5.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Two luminous stories of friendship, magic, and the sea — bound together in one beautiful volume — by bestselling author Alice Hoffman.
In Aquamarine, twelve-year-old best friends Hailey and Claire are enjoying their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There, among the seaweed and jellyfish that a summer storm washed in from the ocean, is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart — a mermaid named Aquamarine…
In Indigo, thirteen-year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew seven inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plies Martha’s lonely father with food and opinions about how thirteen-year-old girls should behave….