Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
No Roast for the Weary
by Cleo Coyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the Village Blend opens a Writer’s Block Lounge, a cold case crime turns up the heat on Clare and her crew in this gripping new entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.
As much as master roaster Clare Cosi adores coffee, the landmark shop she manages won’t survive if she doesn’t sell enough of it. So when the Village Blend’s customer traffic grinds to a halt, she turns to her staff for creative ideas, and the Writer’s Block Lounge is born.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others – even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages…
Wordsworth in Bogotá
by Scott E. Sundby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Father–son relationships are rarely easy and certainly not when the son’s first love is Shakespeare and the father is the kingpin of a drug empire. Esteban Velasquez, however, manages to forge a frosty détente with his father—he studies literature abroad while his father grooms his older brother as the heir.
Now, though, the empire faces imminent collapse, and the old go-tos of bribery and making key competitors “disappear” are no longer working. It falls to Esteban to use his literary talents to save the family’s fortune. Devising an ingenious plan, he wagers the last of his family’s fortune to stage an international poetry conference—Wordsworth in Bogotá—in an effort to outwit the DEA. But in doing so, he must make choices that will forever change the lives of friends and family.
The Overnight CEO
by Ladeira Poonian
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life can change in an instant. What you make from that change is up to you.
When Ladeira Poonian’s husband—the founder of a successful tech company in the 90s—suddenly dies, she’s thrust into the life of a CEO overnight. Left to raise a teenaged son and keep their family’s legacy above water, she had a choice: succumb to gender bias and hand over the reins of the company or take her seat at the table with all the grit and tenacity she had.
The Overnight CEO chronicles Ladeira’s unexpected journey from wife to widow, trauma nurse to CEO. From not knowing how to turn on a computer to rescuing the company from predatory investors—hers is a story of overcoming life’s challenges, harnessing resilience, and stepping up to the plate in the face of naysayers.
The Trespasser
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In bestselling author Tana French’s newest “tour de force” (The New York Times), being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point.
Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There’s nothing unusual about her—except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.
The Scarred Woman
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder.
In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery.
Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“I found it mesmerizing front to back.” – Michael Connelly
Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
Sunshine
by Robin McKinley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Although it had been mostly deserted since the Voodoo Wars, there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, head baker at her family’s busy and popular café in downtown New Arcadia, needed a place to get away from all the noise and confusion – of the clientele and her family. Just for a few hours. Just to be able to hear herself think.
She knew about the Others, of course. Everyone did. And several of her family’s best regular customers were from SOF – Special Other Forces – which had been created to deal with the threat and the danger of the Others.
Wild Witch
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ginger fled her hometown three years ago with her high school sweetheart. Now, she returns to face the betrayal she left behind and to make amends with that former boyfriend she ultimately abandoned. But things change slowly in a small town, and she has to decide whether to face the rumors that still echo around her or leave it all behind once again.
Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
An unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben. Gone Before Goodbye is the story of a woman trapped in a deadly conspiracy—where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan … until it wasn’t.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death in Diamonds
by SJ Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth book in the charming series, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.
1957, England. Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in postwar Europe, trying to repair friendships with foreign governments. Advised by her father’s old courtiers, the Queen suspects that they may not have her best interests at heart. One of them is trying to sabotage her public appearances: that much she is sure of.
When two bodies turn up in Chelsea, the Queen finds herself unwillingly used as the alibi for somebody very close to her…
Body Be Gone
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It should have been easy. Kill him. Hide the Body. But after Valentine kills boyfriend Boyd Wright, Annalie and Valley can’t get rid of the body. It’s a murder that just won’t go away.
Rollicking comedy continues as the besties face one snag after another in their attempt to get rid of the body including a hurricane, the search for a missing person, unwanted guests and a disgruntled police chief.
Annalie begins to wonder for the first time in her life if God is real and if He is against them because of what they’ve done. They begin a life of looking over their shoulders, yet Annalie discovers that the greatest danger of all is not from the law enforcement officers watching them…it’s from love.
THE BLACK SUIT
by Andrew V. Kudin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Black Suit — a historical crime novel inspired by true events in late Soviet Ukraine. A gripping tale of power, betrayal, and forbidden love, it pulls readers deep into the shadows where criminal empires rose as the Soviet world collapsed.
What would you sacrifice for absolute power? Your deepest values? Those you love most? Perhaps even your own soul?
As the USSR unravels, chaos engulfs Ukraine and violent syndicates fill the vacuum. A quiet, introspective young man from a respected intellectual family is pulled into a world darker than his worst fears. Rising fast to lead one of Ukraine’s most feared gangs, he discovers a brutal truth: power always demands its price.
The Surgeon’s Wife
by Kieran Crowley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling true crime account of the NYC doctor who killed his wife in cold blood and nearly got away with murder.
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.
Gail’s parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter…
The Book of Seila
by Wilda Hughes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Book of Seila is a dystopian thriller about sisters caught between a police state and biblical law.
Ruby Lambert is in hiding after escaping a brutal police redemption camp. For five years, she’s been wanted for murder, heresy, and abomination.
When her sister’s husband is killed, her sister becomes a suspect in his death. To save her, Ruby comes out of hiding to help her flee the southern Covenant States.
On their way north, the women are ambushed and separated. Thus begins the clash with a twisted and cloying web of true believers and informers in the small town of Wendell.
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection
by H. P. Lovecraft
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.8 #ad
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This beautiful slipcased collection set brings together H.P. Lovecraft’s most celebrated works, divided into six clothbound volumes. Said to be inspired by his own nightmares, Lovecraft’s writing astounds and terrifies in equal measure. His fiction marry gothic horror with cosmic fantasy, from his early macabre stories to his tales of the dreamlands, and of course, his famous Cthulhu novellas, and have influenced authors from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman.
Ripple
by Jim Cosgrove
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For 9 years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet.
Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle was missing. His family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they’d treated him, Frank’s 8 siblings slowly came to understand that—like Jerry Garcia sang—he’s gone and nothin’s gonna bring him back.
Finally, Frank McGonigle was found—and identified as “the boy in the woods.”
Island Shadows
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tayla Faraday’s tragic past still haunts her nightmares. But when she discovers her only living relative—her dear uncle, Leland—is in danger, she curbs her fear and rushes to a remote island in the Caribbean to warn him. He’s kept a secret from her. And the truth stings. But maybe that’s unfair.
Because she has her own secrets.
Former CIA operative, Jason Bridger, works for the private security company, WhiteRock. Jason arrives on Isadora Island to track down a fellow agent, hoping the agent’s lack of communication is simply due to poor cell service in the tropical paradise. His mission is complicated when he meets the intriguing Tayla Faraday and learns she’s searching for her uncle on the same island.
The Picasso Heist
by James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A $100 million painting. A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.
Everyone wants to possess it. Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.
Only one person knows how to take it. She’s the rival none of the power players see coming.