Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Tied Up With a Bow
by Sheila Connolly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pub owner Maura Donovan is still learning the local customs of the Irish village she now calls home, and with the holidays approaching she’s unsure how much, or how little, to decorate. She’s also puzzled by the small construction project going on across the street, which is shrouded in secrecy and has the whole of West Cork guessing what it might be. But most troubling of all is the secretive young boy who shows up at the pub’s door, hinting that he and his mother had to leave Dublin–in a hurry.
A Fatal Profit
by Howard Dart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a medical research scientist develops an innovative technique to treat diabetes, his colleague is murdered and he is framed for the crime.
His daughter convinces a high tech private detective to help, not knowing he is an ex-CIA black ops agent hiding from his own demons.
Family Sins
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Felled by a cowardly shot to the back, Stanton Youngblood has just enough time before he dies to leave a single clue to his killer’s identity: the word Wayne, scrawled in his own blood.
That word means everything to his widow. Leigh Youngblood was once Leigh Wayne, but she left her wealthy family behind thirty years ago when she fell in love with Stanton, a betrayal the Waynes have never forgiven. Now she publicly vows to discover which of her siblings thinks money and power are enough to cover up a murder.
Kinder
by Martin Kearns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“They say children are our future—but what if that future is damned?”
From the shadowy realms first glimpsed in Beneath the Veil, Martin Kearns returns with a chilling collection of stories that explore the darkest echoes of youth. In Kinder, innocence is an illusion, and the monsters don’t always live under the bed—sometimes, they’re the ones tucking you in.
A high school girl follows invisible tendrils cast by a soul-hunting demon. A centaur delivers brutal justice to a father who’s failed his child. A man’s buried memories awaken—and they remember him in return. Each story peels back the fragile skin of adolescence to reveal something ancient, hungry, and unrelentingly cruel…
Night Moves
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When her husband died, Maggie Fitzgerald abandoned her career and place among the wealthy elite for a small town existence where she could grieve in peace and quiet. Her broken heart finds solace in the company of her landscaper, Cliff Delaney. But Cliff has a temperamental side, and when human bones are found on Maggie’s property, he becomes the police’s number one suspect. Obsessed with learning if the man she’s grown to love is capable of murder, Maggie puts her own life in a killer’s crosshairs…
The Switch
by Lily Samson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister. . .
Young couple Elena and Adam are housesitting in a posh corner of London and are instantly seduced by their new upscale surroundings. Here, Elena meets her neighbor, the enigmatic artist Sophia, and soon becomes obsessed with her beauty, her easy poise, and her husband, Finn. Sophia is everything Elena isn’t—glamorous, alluring, successful—and Finn exerts a mysterious pull on Elena that she can’t seem to shake.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
My Life Among the Serial Killers
by Helen Morrison, Harold Goldberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them.
Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world’s leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in rooms with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers’ psyches in ways no profiler ever has before.
The Truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
On Spine of Death
by Tamara Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bestselling author Tess Harrow and her teenage daughter Gertrude have decided to make Winthrop their home. Their cabin is fixed up and now they’re turning to the family hardware store that Tess inherited from her late grandfather into the town’s first independent bookstore.
But when renovations unearth bones from a cold case and send them toppling—literally—onto Tess’s head, the work comes to a grinding halt. With the whole town convinced that her grandfather was a serial killer, Tess has to call in a fellow horror author for reinforcements…
The San Francisco Connection
by Kelly Allegretti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kelsey is launching her new career as a detective at her father’s agency in their hometown of San Francisco. Her first case? Find a missing family friend. It sounds simpleuntil it isn’t. As Kelsey digs deeper, she’s pulled into a tangled investigation laced with romance, danger, and corruption. Suddenly, the line between personal and professional begins to blur.
Is she truly ready for this life? This case won’t just test Kelsey’s resolve. It’ll push her father’s limits too.
The Flower Once Wilted
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Lotus Oliver learned early that survival meant pretending. Lie when you’re scared. Smile when you’re cornered. Trust no one. Never let your guard down. Because wanting something only ever meant one thing: losing it.
Then she met Joseph “Jo” Oliver. He didn’t just see her. He unraveled her, layer by layer, until there was nothing left to hide. And somehow, she gave him everything: her fire, her fight, her heart. A marriage. A family. But the voice inside her never went quiet. It kept whispering that she wasn’t safe. That it could all slip away.
And maybe, just maybe, it was right. The question is: will Lotus be able to stop it?
Man Overboard
by J.A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cybersecurity expert Roger McGeary finally has his life back on track after years of struggling with depression. But when he falls from the balcony of his suite on an all-expenses-paid cruise, the police quickly dismiss it as an accident. Unsatisfied, Roger’s tough-as-nails aunt, Julia Miller, is determined to find answers and closure. By contacting Roger’s childhood friend Stuart Ramey to help her solve the mystery of his fate, Julia unwittingly sets up a collision course with a serial killer.
Stuart, his sidekick Cami Lee, and journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Ali Reynolds put the full resources of cutting edge online security firm High Noon Enterprises into learning the truth about Roger’s death…
The Fulcrum
by Michael Decter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this sweeping climate thriller, an economist and a public servant join forces—and hearts—to navigate a dangerous international conflict and imminent environmental disaster.
Matthew Rice needs a reset. After serving on a traumatizing jury panel, he’s had his fill of high-stress situations. Determined to start fresh, he moves to Cambridge to get his PhD in climate science at Harvard and reconnect with his long-distance lover, Mary Louise, a brilliant scientist herself. But a chance encounter with Kay, a young diner waitress on the run from the Irish Republican Army, derails both of their plans.
The Pram
by Joe Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a nightmarish short story about fatherhood dreams by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.
Dodge
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Nothing can stop an avenging vigilante from channeling her rage—or pursuing her prey. Not the relentless cops in her rearview. Not the cunning and elusive sociopath she’s closing in on.
A robbery goes awry. A female deputy is tortured and murdered. The killer, hiding in plain sight, has officials in rural Wisconsin under his thumb—except for Special Agent Constant Marlowe, on an unsanctioned mission to avenge her friend’s death. Constant isn’t letting a notorious sadist like Paul Offenbach get away. Traps are set. A cat-and-mouse game begins. Both hunter and hunted are ready to play.
Still See You Everywhere
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Missing persons expert and nomadic loner Frankie Elkin travels the country searching for the lost ones the rest of the world has forgotten. Her specialty, cold cases that typically end in tragedy. But this one could be different. Kaylee Pierson, “The Beautiful Butcher,” confessed from the start to enticing 18 men home before slitting their throats.
As the clock winds down to her death, Pierson has finally received a lead on her baby sister, abducted years ago. Kaylee’s dying wish: to know Leilani is safe and sound…
Wolves of Gypsum Creek Box Set
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The tiny town of Gypsum Creek is home to a high number of brooding, sexy-as-sin men that disappear with each full moon. The heroes in this boxset of steamy, standalone stories will get your heart racing…and tongue wagging. But you’d better watch out. The howling has started, and no lady is safe when the wolves of Gypsum Creek go on the hunt.
Lose yourself in the Appalachian Mountains with these powerful protectors, and the courageous women that claim their love.
Robert B. Parker’s Buzz Kill
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Boston PI Sunny Randall is back to investigate the disappearance of a hard-partying energy drink mogul, in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker’s bestselling series.
After a near-death experience, Sunny Randall is ready to lighten her load as a PI, that is until she is called upon by billionaire media magnate Bill Welch to investigate the disappearance of his son, Dylan, the cofounder of the Gonzo Energy Drink company. Lazy, unscrupulous and a notorious partier, Dylan isn’t exactly reliable. But Dylan’s mother, Lydia, insists this time is different. She knows him. He’s her son. And she believes he’s in serious danger.
