Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Summer Lane
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Garden Girls have planned the perfect baby shower for Andrea and her husband, Brian. The decorations are in place, the delicious dishes lovingly prepared by the friends and nearly half the town of Belhaven has been invited to join in the joyous occasion, but there’s trouble on the horizon.
As if dealing with the unexpected wrench in their perfectly laid party plans isn’t enough, Liz, Gloria’s sister, has arrived for the summer, and invited the friends to stop by for a tour of her swanky new summer digs…
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(Garden Girls Cozy Mysteries)
Burning Distance
by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet—set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling
When ten-year-old Elizabeth West’s father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family.
At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan—but when Adil’s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated…
Blessing of the Lost Girls
by J. A Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances…
Push Not the River
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Looking for historical fiction that will transport you to another time and place? This first book in an IPPI Gold Medal Winning Series will enthrall you.
Suddenly alone in the world, Anna falls in love with Jan, a patriot ready to put his life on the line for Poland’s democratic Constitution. Cousin Zofia also sets her sights on Jan even as she refuses to submit to her parents’ choice of an arranged marriage, and she will go to any lengths to avoid it, no matter whom it may hurt. All the while, political and military events are moving towards a national cataclysm.
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(The Poland Trilogy)
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI–and known criminals–about her deceased mother. Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security—and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
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(Texas Security Mysteries)
Crimespree Magazine #11 and 12
by CJ Box, Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The 11th and 12th issues of Crimespree Magazine (Mar/Apr 2006 and May/Jun 2006) are presented together as a single eBook. The cover feature of Issue 11 featured T. Jefferson Parker interviewed by CJ Box while Val McDermid was interviewed by Ruth Jordan for the cover feature of Issue 12.
Highlights of Issue 11 include: JA Konrath’s funny “Cozies or Hardboiled”, a conversation between Sharon Fiffer and John Connolly, Anthony Neil Smith tells you “Why You Shouldn’t Buy His Novel” and Reed Farrel Coleman interviewed Michel Martinez. Additionally, Ken Bruen describes his enjoyment of The Rockford Files, Michael Lister starts a new column and Michael A. Black interviews Henry Kisor.
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet.
Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.” – The New York Times
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans…
Other People’s Stories
by Katharine Tonti
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this collection of 16 short stories, everyday moments become the canvas for life’s profound truths.
Each tale unveils the beauty and complexity of ordinary individuals as they navigate love and loss, and discover the mysteries hidden within the moments of their extraordinary lives.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Wife, Mother, Liar
by Sue Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s perfect. Too perfect…
Wife: For twenty-five years, my husband and I have been the ideal couple. I’m shy, but he’s always been the life and soul of the party, a charmer, so I didn’t worry the first time I caught him a little too close to my best friend, Wendy.
Mother: Then our darling son says he’s taking Wendy’s daughter to prom, the girl I never trusted because she’s too much like her mother. As I snap photos of them, I have a smile plastered on my face, but inside my head I’m screaming at him to stay away from her.
Liar…
Allure of Elegance
by R. F. Whong
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Luxury, lies, and danger in the unexpected places…
In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern mystery series weaves together atypical tales set in the idyllic Amish country of Paradise, PA.
Two years ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise. Now, she works as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster and is pulled into a web of lies and luxury when a bold theft targets expensive designer items. Despite her training, she struggles with self-doubt and is swayed by the allure of the opulent world.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he’d been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity’s offices.
To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn’t like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.
The Genesis Machine Box Set
by K.J. Gillenwater
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The Genesis Machine Box Set contains all three books: Inception, Decryption and Revelation
Inception: Aliens have arrived… and this isn’t the first time.
Decryption: The pods are opening – and their new visitors are all-too-human…
Revelation: The last piece of the puzzle is about to fall into place – and the truth is more terrifying than anyone imagined.
The Spinster’s Fortune
by Mary Kendall
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1929, Blanche Magruder lies alone in a home for the elderly and infirm without a penny to her name, suspected of being of unsound mind. Meanwhile, her house, a crumbling ruin in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC, is regularly ransacked by thieves looking for a fortune believed to be hidden there.
When distant niece Margaret O’Keefe is made executor of Blanche’s estate, she becomes embroiled in the treasure hunt, embracing it as a welcome escape from her own financial and marital woes. But as Margaret continues to investigate, family mysteries begin to unravel. Soon, she begins to question whether Aunt Blanche is a senile fool, and whether she really belongs in the home. But can she find out where the lies end and the truth begins?
The Rising Tide
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.”—Louise Penny
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now .
Crime Scene
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Natural causes or foul play? That’s the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren’t part of his beat—not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye.
Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze and a bad heart. But his daughter Tatiana insists that her father has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert’s life.
Rescuing the Warrior
by Roxanne Hicks
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Returning from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, Liam Blackmer takes up a quest to find his deceased sister’s child before the local trafficker does.
Back cover paragraph–When Liam Blackmer returned home from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan as a medic, his father and sister were both deceased. He hires on as a paramedic with the Woodridge Fire and Rescue Department. A motorcycle accident lands him in the hospital and then the home of his parents’ former pastor to recover.
While recovering at the pastor’s home, his path crosses with that of Claire Myers, a first-grade teacher who knew both his father and sister. Romance blossoms between the two when he volunteers to help in her classroom until he is released for work…
L.A. Requiem
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the head.
Now Karen’s powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter’s killer–because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
“G” is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
G IS FOR GAME…
When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn’t heard from in six months, it’s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl’s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.
G IS FOR GUN…
Paradise Valley
by C.J. Box
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For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. Cassie almost caught him…once.
Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff’s department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion.
A Dragon of Black Glass
by James Rollins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What will they risk to save the world?
With the apocalyptic threat of moonfall looming ever closer, Nyx and her allies must venture into the eternally sunblasted lands to search for an ancient weapon buried untold millennia ago. All the while, enemies close upon her flanks, and a greater danger lurks ahead. For beneath a desert turned to glass, hidden from the scorching heat, life thrives—both wondrous and monstrous. But a more fearsome menace lies even deeper, where an ancient army has been seeded to protect a secret from any who dare seek it out.