Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
THE COMPLETE MRS PARGETER CRIME MYSTERIES
by SIMON BRETT
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
GET THE COMPLETE BESTSELLING SERIES IN ONE BRILLIANT BOX SET. YOU GET EIGHT ENTHRALLING CRIME MYSTERIES FOR HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT.
Meet your next favourite sleuth in these wonderfully witty whodunnits. Fans of Agatha Christie, M.C. Beaton, The Thursday Murder Club and Jane Adams will be hooked from the very first page!
James Bong
by Todd Borho
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
My name is James, James Bong! Not to be shaken or stirred and not to be confused with the popular James Bond series – this is a whole new light hearted adventure. Prepare to be whisked away on a whirlwind journey with “James Bong – Agent of Anarchy,” by author Todd Borho.
This gripping tale combines the best elements of espionage, humor, and heart-pounding action for an unforgettable reading experience…
The Choice
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out—and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death…
Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature. Now she is in Talamh, trying to heal after a terrible battle and heartbreaking losses. Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen—for now.
Something in the Water
by Charlotte MacLeod
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Massachusetts horticulturalist Peter Shandy is famous for his rutabagas, but he comes to Maine with a loftier plant in mind. Specifically, he wants to size up the world-renowned lupines of Frances Rondel, a nonagenarian whose legendary flowers are even more beautiful in life than they are in myth. Shandy is bitterly jealous, but finds a major distraction in the dining room of the country inn where he’s staying. He may grow wretched lupines, but no gardener can solve a murder like Peter Shandy. The corpse belongs to the late Jasper Flodge, a local loudmouth with a toupee and a sizeable gut…
Chosen By Freya Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Terra Olson is an archeologist in the making.
When she gets an opportunity to work with one of her idols at a dig that may contain artifacts linked with Norse mythology, she jumps at the offer. What more could she ask for?
She’d expected the job to be a killer…just not in the buried-alive-and-left-to-die-alone way. How could she have seen that coming?
Mother May I
by Joshilyn Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Revenge doesn’t wait for permission.
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected that fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of.
Until the day she awakens and sees someone peering into her bedroom window—an old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes as quickly as she appears. It must be a play of the early morning light or the remnant of a waking dream, Bree tells herself, shaking off the bad feeling that overcomes her.
A Crop Farmer’s Daughter
by Ioni Goldstein, Catarina Granater
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Based on a remarkable true story.
Winter, 1969. Since she was a little girl, Catarina learned not to ask for much. Born to a family of corn farmers in rural south Brazil, she was happiest when she was surrounded by sprawling fields and burly, familial farmhands – until her family was driven out of the land they had worked diligently for years, and Catarina was sent to work for a wealthy family in São Paolo.
Only ten years old, Catarina becomes a housemaid – and the lifeline of her family. Far from everyone and everything she’d ever known, she discovers the shocking gap between her life in the country and the lives of her employers, who enjoy lavish dinners and luxuries while her family huddles for warmth in a crumbling home without running water.
The Ghost Writer
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history?
Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under mysterious circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job.
The Doll’s House
by Lisa Unger
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A widowed mother, ready to give love another chance, moves into her fiancé’s old family home with her teenage daughter. But as they try to build a future together, the past refuses to let go in this haunting short story from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger.
When Jules first meets the handsome artist Kirin, she’s still mourning her husband’s death, but a fairytale romance soon sweeps her off her feet. Now she and her daughter Scout are moving out of the city and into Kirin’s once-lonely mansion. He’s thoughtfully updated and adapted the home to match their personalities. But Scout is determined to keep her father’s memory alive by rejecting the new life her mother and Kirin have spun for her…
Stay With Me Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Not a dream or fantasy…her worst nightmare come true.
Heart-pounding Fear. Chilling Anguish. Heartbreak. Priceless Love. The Ultimate Sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes precious moments is all there is.
Between one heartbeat and the next, Susa is plunged into a devastating nightmare, wounded and broken, yet desperate hope filled her heart and soul. Nothing in her life had ever prepared her for this. Adam Manning arrives at a crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Exit Wounds
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Featuring both original in-universe stories and rarely-seen reprints, this collection of 19 masterful short stories brings together some of the genre’s greatest living authors.
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan take on a delightfully twisted killer in Val McDermid’s “Happy Holidays”. In Fiona Cummin’s “Dead Weight”, an overbearing mother resorts to desperate measures to keep control of her teenage daughter. And in Dean Koontz’s “Kittens”, a young girl learns the truth about how her pets have been dying, and devises a horrible revenge.
Costly Secrets Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It began with a call…a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it…an attempted murder…and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of.
Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad…and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets…and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly.
It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear…
The Cape Refuge Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume.
Cape Refuge
Southern Storm
River’s Edge
Breaker’s Reef
Mutation
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kid Sensation is back! The intrepid teen super with the plethora of powers returns in a new adventure.
Having saved the planet and earned a place with the world’s premier superhero team, Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is preparing to attend the prestigious Academy, where teen supers from every corner of the globe learn to master their abilities. At the same time, however, he is approached by a mysterious government organization that wants Jim to work for them – and they won’t take “No” for an answer…
Lie In Wait
by Eric Rickstad
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes another unforgettable thriller set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, featuring Detective Sonja Test
Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present.
In the remote pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town’s sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens…
Into the Fire
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Things are heating up in Arizona in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan
Margo Angelhart was recently certified as a private investigator, but she isn’t convinced that it’s her calling. All of her cases have been minor, mostly for family and haven’t paid the bills. She’s more than happy to keep bartending and figure out her post-military career later. That is, until prosecutor Andy Flannigan walks into her bar and offers her a case she can’t turn down…
Nineteen-year-old Sergio Diaz has confessed to murder—except Andy doesn’t buy it. With his own job on the line, Andy asks Margo to work the case discreetly.
The Chemistry of Death
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Seeking refuge from a tragic past, a forensic pathologist must search for a devious killer in a rural English village in this crime thriller series debut.
Three years ago, Dr. David Hunter left London for rural Norfolk to escape the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. Giving up his career in criminal forensics, he now works as a simple country doctor in the village of Manham. But when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body, David struggles to remain uninvolved. As a newcomer, David finds he must join the investigation in order to avoid suspicion.
Saratoga Woods
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it’s a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn’t suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear “whispers”—the thoughts of others—Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she has discovered. Stranded and alone, Becca is soon befriended by Derric, a Ugandan orphan adopted by a local family; Seth, a kindhearted musician and high school dropout; Debbie, a recovering alcoholic who takes her in; and Diana, with whom Becca shares a mysterious psychic connection.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
All Murders Final!
by Sherry Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Her Next Sale
When Sarah Winston started the virtual garage sale, it seemed like a keystroke of genius and the next logical step in her business. No more collapsing card tables and rainy-day washouts. But what began as a fun way to run garage sales during the long New England winter has become a nightmare of managing people and putting out fires. Online, she can avoid the crowds–but not the crazies.
May Be Her Last
The Cape Refuge Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume.
Cape Refuge
Southern Storm
River’s Edge
Breaker’s Reef
Dead Ground
by M. W. Craven
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused – he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp – but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim’s background check out?
End of the Road
by Stephanie Hurt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Southern girl out of her element; A castle owner with secrets to hide…
Alexa Snow, a Southern writer, gets the chance of a lifetime to do a story on a castle in Scotland. She’s never left her small town in Georgia, so this was an offer she couldn’t refuse. But once she gets to Scotland, she realizes that sometimes things are not as rosy as they seem and the article is more than just a travel piece, it’s a murder mystery…
Cooper Kincaid, the castle owner, is caught off guard by the sassy Southern American. Her delving questions regarding some deaths on the property catch him by surprise…
Floating Staircase
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Horror writer Travis Glasgow and his wife, Jodie, have bought their first house in Westlake, Maryland, just steps from Travis’s older brother’s home. Travis is buoyed by the thought of renewing his relationship with his estranged sibling and overcoming the darkness from his past. But the house has other plans for him. Travis is soon awakened by noises in the night and finds watery footprints in the basement that lead him to the nearby lake, which has a strange staircase emerging from its depths.
When Travis discovers that a former occupant of his house—a ten-year-old boy—drowned in the lake, he draws connections to his own childhood tragedy…
Pain, Pumpernickel & Profound Forgiveness
by Rosanne D’Ausilio PhD
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Have you ever experienced moments that felt truly miraculous or beyond explanation?
In this intimate journey, she unveils the tumultuous relationship with her father—a metamorphosis from the shackles of pain, hurt, and fear to the liberating embrace of compassion, generosity, and forgiveness.
This book is both raw and redemptive — Rosanne invites you into the haunting image of a young girl, clad in a yellow pinafore, white socks, and shoes, too afraid to smile. Yet, amid the shadows, there are heartwarming vignettes of Sunday morning adventures to the bakery, where watermelon-sized pumpernickel bread and the alchemy of coconut bars become the catalysts for father-daughter camaraderie.
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
Den of Iniquity
by J. A. Jance
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New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance returns with a new pulse-pounding suspense novel featuring beloved private investigator J. P. Beaumont as his investigation of a seemingly accidental death uncovers a complex web of evil.
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau’s daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year.
Inspiring Stories for Curious Kids
by Sam Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Have you ever gazed at the stars and wondered, “What’s out there?”
Or maybe you’ve marveled at a butterfly’s wings, thinking, “How does it fly?”
Perhaps you’ve dreamed big, asking, “Can I make a difference in this world?”
If you’re a curious kid who loves to ask questions and explore the world, then “Inspiring Stories for Curious Kids” is the perfect adventure for you!
This exciting book is packed with true stories of remarkable individuals who dared to be different, amazing discoveries that will blow your mind, and simple yet powerful tips to help you explore your curiosity!
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Laughing Last
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Famous novelist Elliot Traynor is temporarily living in Molena Point. He and his wife don’t have much to do with the villagers, which is fine with them since no one particularly likes Vivi. But their arrival has coincided with some peculiar happenings in the town, culminating with a botched burglary in the home of 60-something Susan Brittain. Susan is a friend to feline detectives Joe Grey and Dulcie and they aren’t going to let this crime go unpunished. With whiskers twitching they investigate the crime and soon find themselves on the scent of a killer.
The Rock Harbor Mystery Collection
by Colleen Coble
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
USA Today best-selling author Colleen Coble’s Rock Harbor series now available in one volume!
Without a Trace,
Beyond a Doubt,
Into the Deep,
Cry in the Night,
Silent Nigh
Crossing the Blue Ridge
by L. E. Denton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s the year 1774, and the American Revolution is just beginning to break out in faraway Massachusetts. Seeking adventure and an escape from an oppressive family life, Caleb Anders leaves home and heads south into the wilderness of the American frontier, west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He meets Nate Daniels along the way, and they become fast friends and business partners.
Caleb and Nate soon discover that they must choose their own destiny – should they remain in the beautiful but rugged mountainous wilderness of Virginia, protecting their friends and neighbors from the rampaging Cherokee Indians… or ride north and strike a blow for freedom with General George Washington? Will the rigors of frontier life prepare Caleb and Nate for what lies to the east, beyond the towering mountain range that looms, deep and dark, over their shoulders?
To Have and to Kill
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television anchor Eliza Blake (Dying for Mercy, It Only Takes a Moment), To Have and To Kill introduces readers to actress-turned-wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan, who discovers that the heat in the pastry kitchen can be hotter—and deadlier—that she ever imagined…and that her creative new enterprise is anything but a piece of cake. Foodies and fans of cable TV’s Amazing Wedding Cakes, as well as Faye Kellerman, Jayne Anne Krentz, and Diana Mott Davidson readers are going to eat this one up!
Life Support
by Robert Whitlow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the Christy-award-winning author of The List, The Trial, and The Sacrifice comes this twisting tale of tough decisions, mixed motives, and mysterious, healing grace.
Baxter Richardson survived a fall from a cliff while hiding in the mountains. Whether he’ll make it through the next few weeks is unclear. His survival depends on the machines that help him breathe. On the haunted, unstable wife who wants to pull the plug and hide her secrets. On the doting father who wants him alive for reasons of love and money…
The Carriage House
by Carla Neggers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fun and a little hard work. That’s all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work with the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston’s North Shore.
Then Ike disappears, and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It’s not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it’s the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett . . . and especially Dolly’s father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door…
December Park
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Piper has come to take the children away . . .
In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone sees his first dead body. The murder is linked to the Piper, the possible abductor of three other children—who haven’t been found—over the past few months.
Some people in town say the woods are haunted, but Angelo and his friends head in anyway, to search the darkness for a monster. What they find there will change who they are—and everything they once believed in . . .
Tuf Voyaging
by George R. R. Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Long before A Game of Thrones became an international phenomenon, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin had taken his loyal readers across the cosmos. Now back in print after almost ten years, Tuf Voyaging is the story of quirky and endearing Haviland Tuf, an unlikely hero just trying to do right by the galaxy, one planet at a time.
Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he’s become the proud owner of a seedship, the last remnant of Earth’s legendary Ecological Engineering Corps? Never mind; just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in human space is in good hands—hands which now have the godlike ability to control the genetic material of thousands of outlandish creatures.