Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Petals and a Poison
by Emmie Lyn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Does this award-winning flower garden hide a sinister secret?
After the Frog Hollow Garden Tour announces the winner of this year’s contest, all that’s left is to enjoy a delicious banquet with friends and neighbors. But the evening takes a chilling turn when my dog Dash discovers a body near the garden’s beautiful pond.
What was meant to be a night of celebration soon blossoms into a true crime scene. As we try to weed out the culprit, every clue points to my good witchy pal, Pearl, especially when her pet peacock is found nesting in a patch of poisonous plants.
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author returns to the compelling terrain of Every Secret Thing and To the Power of Three with this indelible story of crime and vengeance in which the past becomes all-too-present.
When he’s called to the scene of an accident detective Kevin Infante is drawn into a shocking and puzzling crime that still haunts the Baltimore P.D. Twenty years ago, two little girls were kidnapped from a shopping mall, igniting fear and anger throughout the city…
Special Access
by Mark A. Hewitt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“An action-packed military thriller for fans of Clancy, Thor, and Flynn, that will also appeal to lovers of political conspiracies and CIA counterterrorism missions.” –Sublime Book Review
He pledged unwavering loyalty, but destiny thrust him into the heart of betrayal. Duncan Hunter, an ex-Marine grounded by a catastrophic crash, seeks a new battleground against terrorism. The path he chooses is shrouded in secrecy—a covert CIA program tasked with eradicating Mexican poppy fields in the relentless War on Drugs.
As Hunter dives into the treacherous world of intelligence, his commitment is tested when a friend’s life hangs in the balance…
Switching Tracks
by Lena Gibson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Life in SoCal in 2195 is controlled by a corporatocracy. Elsa scavenges twenty-first-century trash, living on the edge of starvation in this ruthless world through her grit and instincts.
When she unearths a metal tube containing maps to six Doomsday seed bunkers and a silver key, she dreams of renewable sources of food and a life based on more than subsistence, but GreenCorps will stop at nothing to acquire her find. Accused of theft and beaten half to death, she escapes with a handsome train hopper. They seek the long-lost bunkers, hoping to break GreenCorps’ monopoly on food.
Hell and Back
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire . . . but you don’t remember him?
The Worm in Every Heart Collection
by Gemma Files
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, “Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn’t – these folks are already in the other side.” The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don’t know how to love. No matter where they live – Warsaw during World War II, British India, or modern-day Toronto – their realities are not our own, but ones in which we’ll willingly immerse ourselves for a terrifying moment or two . . .
Killing the Witches
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches–but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
The Lives of a Soul
by Ayelet Tsur
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An extraordinary tale of the cycle of the soul, and its unique role in shaping our many lives.
What is a soul? What does it mean to repair the soul? From where does the soul derive? Where do we come from, and where are we going? Are we vessels? Are we souls? When does the soul enter the body, and what is its role?
Told from the perspective of Emily, one of her soul’s many incarnations, The Lives of a Soul portrays the incredible journey of the soul and the cycle of its existence: remembering experiences from previous cycles, preparing for the descent to its next cycle, and beginning a new life along the Path of Light.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark and Deadly
by Sarah A. Denzil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Discover Sarah A. Denzil’s page-turning domestic thrillers and psychological fiction. From secrets to lies to murder, you’ll find an emotional rollercoaster of suspenseful drama within these pages.
BOOK ONE: THE HOUSEMAID
BOOK TWO: FIND HER
BOOK THREE: SAVING APRIL
BOOK FOUR: LITTLE ONE
BOOK FIVE: THE BROKEN ONES
BOOK SIX: YOU ARE INVITED
Death in High Provence
by George Bellairs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A British detective goes undercover in the South of France to investigate a suspicious death in this twisting mystery.
A British ministry official wants Inspector Littlejohn to look into the death of his brother and sister-in-law who were killed in an automobile accident outside a small village in southern France. Though the French police ruled it an accident, the official isn’t satisfied. Something seems wrong.
The Au Pair
by Jane Renshaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Davidsons seem like a normal family. But they do have one little secret…
American student Alice Snyder was excited to be spending the summer in Scotland, working as an au pair for the Davidson family at their remote lodge. But one month after she arrived, Alice disappeared without trace.
Now the new au pair, Melanie, has arrived – and soon notices that the Davidsons are a bit odd. There’s the strange comings and goings at night, the creepy paying guests, and sinister uncle Gray who makes her flesh crawl.
Careless Love
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
His fans include Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Tess Gerritsen, Ian Rankin, and Louise Penney. He has won acclaim and numerous international prizes and awards, including the Edgar. Now celebrated New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson, one of the greatest suspense writers of our time, demonstrates his mastery once again in this powerful mystery in which legendary detective superintendent Alan Banks is confronted with a pair of perplexing crimes.
Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team.
The Tome of Syyx
by Stavros Saristavros
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A ruthless dragon. A demon god returned. Surely, no one could be so foolish as to pick those battles.
Sanctuary, a town for half-breeds, lays as a bastion between the lands of the civilized and the untamed wilds.
Struggling to legitimize its position among the Free Cities Coalition, the town’s leadership tasks a group of young adventurers with a daring mission into the Wild Moor. Their objective: to deal with a small force of hobgoblins assaulting their neighbors.
The Cold Nowhere
by Brian Freeman
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Jonathan Stride is back, and unravelling a decade of secrets will prove to be murder…
Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife butchered her mother and a bullet killed her father.
Now, a rough-sleeping orphan, Cat arrives at the house of Detective Jonathan Stride, pleading for protection. Covered in blood and drenched in the icy waters of Lake Superior, she claims to have narrowly escaped a cold-blooded killer.
Need to Know
by Karen Cleveland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of four beautiful children. Until the moment she makes a shocking discovery that makes her question everything she believes.
She thought she knew her husband inside and out. But now she wonders if it was all a lie. How far will she go to learn the truth? And does she really . . .
. . . NEED TO KNOW?
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
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The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Pelican Cove Cozy Mystery Series
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
If you like cozy mysteries with strong heroines, yummy food, lifelong friendships and plots that keep you guessing till the end, you will love the Pelican Cove Cozy Mystery Series.
44 year old Jenny King’s suburban utopia comes crashing down when her husband dumps her for a younger model. Jenny accepts her eccentric aunt’s offer and moves to the remote island of Pelican Cove. After moping around and licking her wounds for months, she starts working at the local cafe at her aunt’s urging.
Jenny’s delicious food makes the small town famous. The rest is history.
The Girl Once Known
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
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Mira Harris is caught in a personal tug-of-war. Her mother’s disdain, her estranged father’s unexpected return, and her compulsive need for order clash with one another. When she connects with Joseph Oliver, it seems she might have found an ally who understands her. However, Joseph carries his own baggage, making Mira question whether she can truly trust anyone, including herself.
After Mira becomes the victim of a hit-and-run—an incident seemingly linked to her troubled past—she is forced to confront every relationship, lie, and act of betrayal to determine who intended to harm her. Through this process, Mira realizes she’ll never see life the same way again.
Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here!
by Ed McBain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
At midnight, one day dies as another comes to life. For the men of the 87th Precinct, they all bleed together in a never-ending cycle of crime and punishment. But every now and then, a day stands out as more unusual than the others. This is one of those days.
Carella and Hawes investigate a murder; Kling delves into a store-front church bombing; Meyer checks out a house haunted by larcenous ghosts; Willis and Genero look into a naked hippie’s four-story death fall; Delgado takes an assault case in the Puerto Rican barrio; and Kapek hunts a man and woman mugging team. But when a gunman kills a grocer and shoots Parker twice, the rules of the game quickly change.
Micro
by Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.
In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting, feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up, Nanigen MicroTechnologies, which dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii.
Survivors
by Terry Nation
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
‘Nation’s novel is based on his original cult series…and is all the better for it, being far, far more gritty and realistic’ SUNDAY SUN
A virus has wiped out 95 per cent of the world’s population in just a few weeks, leaving the remaining 5 per cent to stay alive in a world devoid of the most basic amenities – electricity, transport and medicine.
The few survivors of the human race are forced to fall back on the most primitive skills in order to live and re-establish some semblance of law and order.
Traitor’s Purse
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it.” – A.S. Byatt
Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty’s government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognize even his faithful servant or his beloved fiancée, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together—while World War II rages and the very fate of England is at stake.
A Dark and Bloody Ground
by Darcy O’Brien
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An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky – and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Italian Village
by Michael Falco
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Set in beautiful Positano, Italy, the debut of a cozy mystery series featuring a widowed B&B owner who discovers a body in one of her bedrooms before opening day! Perfect for fans of Mario Giordano and Lorenzo Carcaterra!
On the surface, Bria’s Mediterranean life radiates beauty—the kind her late husband, Carlo, dreamed about when he concocted the romantic idea to start a bed and breakfast on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. With the grand opening of Bella Bella approaching six months after Carlo’s tragic death, Bria and her eight-year-old son Marco brace for a bittersweet new beginning by the sea . . .
In the Dark
by E. Nesbit
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Edith Nesbit’s natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children’s author. But beyond her beloved children’s stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural.
Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, ‘nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread’, Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight world where the dead walked the earth.
All but forgotten for almost a hundred years until In the Dark was first published 30 years ago, this collection finally restored Nesbit’s reputation as a one of the most accomplished and entertaining ghost-story writers of the Victorian age.
Dying for Mercy
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The recently renovated Pentimento, located in New York’s moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, is no ordinary estate. Strange secrets have been ingeniously built into its fountains, frescoes, statues, and architecture—clues to a bizarre mystery that is first brought to light when the owner commits suicide during a lavish gala.
Eliza Blake, co-anchor of the popular morning television show KEY to America, is present when the party is cut short by the host’s sudden, macabre death—and she’s the first to discover that Pentimento is a giant “puzzle house.”
The Eyes Of The Accused
by Mark Tilbury
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She’s desperate to help her father. Even if it means killing again.
Fresh from the horrors of their last case, private investigators Ben and Maddie are plunged into a disturbing world of deadly secrets as they search for missing pregnant girl, Hannah Heath.
Drawn to Frank Crowley, a suspect in Hannah’s disappearance, Maddie is about to come face to face with true evil. But as she gets closer to Crowley, she will soon learn all is not what it seems. Crowley is just a small part of something much larger. Something so dreadful it defies reason.
The Sariah Chronicles Complete Series
by Peter Glenn, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Magic killed her parents. Will it kill her too?
Pick up the complete four book boxed set to find out. Resistance to Magic:
The amulet Sariah found buried in the mines looked liked her ticket out of her half-starved backwater life. The pendant was surely very valuable. The assassin who tried to steal it apparently agreed. Now all she wants is revenge. Or at least justice.
With a little help from a friendly mystic she learns about magic. Only with its help does she stand a chance to vanquish the forces that destroyed her life. She hates magic. But will her thirst for vengeance drive her into magic’s open arms?
Trauma
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Keeping secrets can be murder . . .
Angels of Mercy ER charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for three long years. But when a coworker is brutally assaulted and killed, she knows she can no longer remain silent.
Determined to unmask the murderer, Nora teams up with her friends— Lydia, an ER attending with a secret of her own; Gina, the once-cocky resident now struggling to strike a balance between her family and her job; and Amanda, a med student caught between her career and her conscience.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
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Thirteen-year-old Joey is in trouble. His mother can hardly feed him, which-because of his small size-is saying a lot. As war moves closer to their little town, his mother’s options for more work are a big fat zero.
Desperate, she sends him to a place where he won’t starve, Lapidius. Soon after arriving, however, Joey learns that he and the hundreds of other children aren’t just charity cases. Lapidius is a prestigious military institute that develops specialized skills for combat. But Lapidius is also a mysterious place where Joey learns that the battle for which they are being trained for is full of magic, malevolence, and monsters.
Second Son
by Pamela Taylor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Historical fiction lovers will enjoy this real life Game of Thrones, a tale of knightly adventure.” – Sublime Book Review
A quiet life of service is all he desires. But when peace becomes tenuous, his commitment to duty leads him to deadly danger…
14th century. Lord Alfred is content with his mundane destiny. Too far removed from the throne to ever ascend and more interested in scholarship, he still willingly accepts his kingly grandfather’s charge to execute a secret mission. But when his bid to protect the heir leaves him captive to a dangerous man, the young lordling fears he’ll see death before his family will pay any ransom.
The Bad Weather Friend
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $9.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
How strange—though it’s a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He’ll find Benny’s enemies. He’ll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.