Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Digging Up Death at the Castle
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An English castle, a smart resourceful young sleuth, and treasure that leads to treachery…
The tranquil halls of Frobisher castle echo with excitement when new castle employee and graduate student, Kitty McCray, helps to discover ancient artifacts during castle restorations.
When American visitors and press arrive to view the display, one of the guests is murdered. Kitty must navigate a labyrinth of clues and suspects, a skeptical police inspector and a killer lurking in the shadows.
Private Scandals
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Deanna Reynolds had it all planned: She’d start out in the newsroom of a small Chicago station, then move up to host her own talk show. When her mentor Angela Perkins leaves for New York, Deanna risks everything for the chance to replace Angela on the air.
The network’s sexiest journalist, Finn Riley, admires Deanna’s daring ambition. But soon they are caught up in the bitter backlash of Angela’s revenge—and they must unmask the hidden betrayals of Deanna’s fiercest rival by taking the biggest risk of all…
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Step into the sultry streets of New Orleans and enter a world of voodoo, mystery, and murder in this gripping crime thriller. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia faces the biggest challenge of his career: a sadistic killer who revels in the ritualistic murder of his victims. With voodoo as the only link, Tony turns to French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, to unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice.
As Tony and Mama delve deeper into the world of voodoo, they discover a shocking truth: the killer is none other than a former U.S. senator and a prominent member of New Orleans’ high society. With the clock ticking and the stakes higher than ever, Tony must navigate the treacherous waters of local politics and corruption to stop the killer before it is too late…
Truth or Dare
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the call comes, the Men of the Sisterhood drop everything to help their friends. This time it’s Cyrus, their four-legged hound dog and unofficial mascot. While member Joe Espinosa is driving along an isolated country road with Cyrus in tow, he catches a glimpse of movement in the woods bordering the road and notes Cyrus pawing desperately at the car window. As soon as he pulls over to investigate, Cyrus bolts out the door and leads Joe to three children clustered together—bedraggled, silent, and scared out of their wits. As soon as he has brought the children to safety, Espinosa arranges an urgent meeting.
Dragon Tears
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cop races against time to prevent his own death in this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Harry Lyon is a rational man, a cop who refuses to let his job harden his soul. His partner urges him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believes in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he’s forced to shoot a man—and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes utteres the haunting words that challenge Harry Lyon’s sanity…
The Story Sisters
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go.
What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks.
Bourbon and Lies
by Victoria Wilder
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall for a Foxx brother. Any woman who did, ended up dead—or so the rumor goes. Townies call it a curse. But I’ve lived it, and I won’t survive it again.
I’m not a cop anymore, but I’ve seen enough danger to know that Laney Young, the beautiful stranger who just showed up in my small town, is running from it. She’s lying about where she came from and what she’s doing here.
I don’t want her near my family or the quiet life I’ve made for myself. But my brothers have other plans. Now she’s everywhere–working at my distillery, living in our guest house, calling me ‘cowboy’ and skinny-dipping in my horse trough.
A Slow Fire Burning
by Paula Hawkins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge.
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Latina President
by Joe Rothstein
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What Happens When a Latina-American Billionairess Becomes President of the United States?
To do penance for her family’s corrupt business practices, fun-loving, charismatic, reform-minded President Isabel Aragon Tennysion sets out to break up the conglomerates striking fear in the pocketbooks of a cabal of the rich and powerful.
The cabal will stop at nothing to destroy her politically. Conspiracy. Impeachment. Murder. Assassination. It’s all here.
The Song of Theodore
by James Malone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Angels and Trolls. Völvas and Volvos. Epic Poems and Flying Pigs.
The Song of Theodore blends history and fantasy in a stand-alone sequel to the award-winning Rainbow Gardens. World War 2 has ended, but not America’s hostility toward Japanese Americans, including veterans like Captain Teddy Larson. Badly wounded in the war, Teddy brings his interned father home to Rainbow Gardens, Minnesota’s first neon-lit motel. He’s determined to overcome discrimination while rebuilding Rainbow Gardens and fending off the trolls.
Yes, trolls. The kind that turn to stone. They think Teddy’s their Redeemer. He’s a reluctant champion, so they might be guessing wrong.
Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Twice Kissed
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sisters share a bond—twins especially. For Maggie McCrae and Mary Theresa, that link once allowed them to communicate no matter how much distance separated them. But there were differences between them too.
Maggie has always been the paler, quieter version of her wild and glamorous sister. Mary Theresa, adopting the name Marquise, has become a TV star, while Maggie is building a new life in small-town Idaho after her husband’s death, and wrangling a resentful teenage daughter. But when Mary Theresa disappears, their connection reignites, and Maggie knows with certainty that her twin is in real danger.
Body of Evidence
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell’s classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls—or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence—while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.
Brett Wilson and De Leon’s Well
by John Suter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The seven cities of gold have remained hidden behind a veil of the earth’s electromagnetic field for thousands of years. Scientist Rock Wilson developed a way to detect the magnetic abnormalities that connect our world to the ancient world. On a scientific expedition, Rock Wilson disappears into the hidden ancient realm.
His eleven-year-old daughter, Brett Wilson, armed with his old field book and equipped with the mystical Cross of De Soto finds a bridge between the two connected lands. Brett enters the veiled world to find that the forces that hold it together are diminishing. The elders send Brett and her friend Natalie on a quest to find the ancient knowledge of the people, the Well of De Leon. She will need her father if she ever hopes to find the Well and set things right.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
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(The Alphabet District Mysterie)
No Safe Place
by Robin Mahle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What she discovered will be the death of her.
Detective Rebecca Ellis has some big shoes to fill. Her father was the legendary detective, Hank Ellis, now retired from the Bangor Police Department. Emerging from his shadow hasn’t been easy.
So when she’s assigned to work with new hire, Detective Euan McCallister, Ellis is determined to keep their investigation right on track…
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(A Detective Rebecca Ellis Thriller Mysterie)
Forever and Always
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When her beloved husband vanishes after a strange accident, grief-stricken Darci Monroe is left to raise their young daughter alone. But she can’t help but suspect that the reports of his death are untrue.
When the FBI enlists her intuitive talents to solve a heinous crime, she agrees—if they help to uncover the truth about her husband. It may be a tougher deal than Darci imagined: she must go head-to-head with a criminal whose mind power matches hers at every turn…
Let Her Be
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A writer’s misguided suspicions ruined his life once before. This time he plans to prove he’s right in a New York Times bestselling author’s haunting short story of what happens when seeing is not believing.
Will, an aspiring novelist, can’t stop parsing his ex-girlfriend’s popular social media accounts for clues that her ideal new rural life with the perfect man has a dark side. After all, nobody he knows has actually seen the blissful blogger in the flesh for nearly a year. When Will draws a wary friend into his “investigation,” the real question becomes who’s truly in danger.
Killed
by Thomas Enger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Crime reporter Henning Juul thought his life was over when his young son was murdered. But that was only the beginning…
Determined to find his son’s killer, Henning doggedly follows an increasingly dangerous trail, where dark hands from the past emerge to threaten everything. His ex-wife Nora is pregnant with another man’s child, his sister Trine is implicated in the fire that killed his son and, with everyone he thought he could trust seemingly hiding something, Henning has nothing to lose … except his own life.
The Quadrail Series Books 1–3
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is the Quadrail—a miracle of design that connects all twelve of the galaxy’s inhabited empires, allowing diverse alien species and cultures to exchange ideas, inspire imaginations, build bridges of understanding . . . and orchestrate the subjugation of all living things.
Night Train to Rigel: Frank Compton used to be an operative for Western Allied Intelligence. Then he blew the whistle on some shady dealings and got himself fired…
The Bladed Faith
by David Dalglish
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Cyrus was only twelve years old when his gods were slain, his country invaded, and his parents—the king and queen—beheaded in front of him. Held prisoner in the invader’s court for years, Cyrus is suddenly given a chance to escape and claim his revenge when a mysterious group of revolutionaries comes looking for a figurehead. They need a hero to strike fear into the hearts of the imperial and to inspire and unite the people. They need someone to take up the skull mask and swords and to become the legendary “Vagrant”—an unparalleled hero and assassin of otherworldly skill.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Walks the Plank
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling has planned a murder mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward’s Rock, South Carolina. Everything is going swimmingly—until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max’s courageous rescue attempt, make-believe murder turns into real-life death.
As the body count rises over the next few days, Annie begins to suspect that all the victims were murdered most foully, and that they are all connected in some unknown way. But the killer she seeks is more ingeniously efficient than most—having packed an intricate time bomb with an explosive mix of arson, assault, kidnapping, robbery . . . and homicide, naturally.
The Burning Wire
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.
When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street.
In the Garden Behind the Moon
by Alexandra A. Chan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief. Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew.
Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and ancestors have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives. Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment…
Deep as the Marrow
by F. Paul Wilson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Select “combines medical and political intrigue into one explosive, warp-speed thriller” (Douglas Preston).
To end the war on drugs, the president of the United States decides to legalize narcotics—and tax them heavily. Some think he’s crazy. Others want him dead.
The president’s personal physician, John Van Duyne, took an oath to do no harm, but after a Colombian drug lord kidnaps his six-year-old daughter, he’s forced to do the unthinkable to save her: poison the president.
The Girl Who Sees Angels
by Jeffrey McClain Jones
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lights in the darkness, shadows in daylight, she has seen them all her life, and feared them. Can she break free now? Does she really want to?
Sophie Ramos has always thought she was cursed and maybe crazy. Even her mother doubted her when she was a child. Priests and psychiatrists doubted her too. But psychics tried to recruit Sophie to enrich and empower themselves.
Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, keeping her secret from everyone except her mother and a few close friends. But a threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake…
Off Season
by Philip R. Craig
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s nothing like Martha’s Vineyard on crisp autumn days, after the season has ended.
The “off-islanders” are finally gone and ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson is free to relax. But the natives are getting seriously restless this fall, with animal rights activists squaring off against deer slayers and environmentalists butting heads with land developers. Things have reached a boiling point, and it’s not long before verbal arrows become real ones. When a most unlikely victim is caught in lethal crossfire, Jackson can’t just sit idly by.
Runaway Dragon Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
Each book in this sexy-as-sin series can each be read as standalones, and has no cliffhangers, but are best read in order.
Sweets for the Beast
by L.M. Maretti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Catherine thought she had it all figured out. Single and loving it, with her feisty feline companion Samson by her side. But when a mundane errand to borrow sugar turns into an encounter with her mysterious, hunky neighbor living in the rundown house next door, Catherine’s world is turned upside down. Suddenly, she finds herself face to face with a towering seven-foot monster sporting horns and rock-hard abs. Can she resist his charms and keep her heart intact? Satisfy your cravings for romance, humor, and steam with “Sweets for the Beast,” a quirky tale of love at first sight.