Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Death in the Dice
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Remi McIntyre is ready to make a sweet, fresh start—and this time, it’s all about donuts.
Opening a donut-and-gaming shop with her bestie Hazel Glaze, Remi’s life is already jam-packed. But when a murder is discovered right outside their brand-new shop, things quickly take a twist. With her family’s safety, the town’s peace, and the grand opening all on the line, Remi has no choice but to glaze over the clues and uncover the truth. Can Remi crack the case before it crumbles her dreams?
Find out in Death in the Dice—where the stakes are high, and the donuts are to die for!
Recipes included.
Close to the Bone
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager’s skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island.
Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case—and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past. The remains suggest eerie similarities between this victim, and Cate and Tessa’s friend Samantha, who disappeared when she was fourteen.
The Secret Keeper
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a town where whispers are currency, Carrie Moonshadow is the last secret anyone wants to admit. And yet, almost everyone has appeared at her back door.
Carrie Moonshadow is the witch of Frognot County, hidden away in her ivy-covered house, tending her garden, mixing her potions, and keeping her distance. The townsfolk may glance at her sideways in public, but when misfortune strikes, they come knocking at her door, desperate for the magic they refuse to acknowledge.
When a young woman falls prey to a mysterious illness no doctor can explain, Carrie is reluctantly drawn into a dark puzzle—one laced with curses, old betrayals, and the kind of magic that leaves scars…
Bethany’s Sin
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A family moves to a small town dominated by a murderous cult Despite its eerie name, Bethany’s Sin is a pleasant place. After a life of grim poverty, this new community seems like heaven to Evan Reid and his family. With its quaint shops, manicured lawns, and fresh summer smell, the town charms the Vietnam veteran, his wife, and their daughter like nowhere else they have ever been. But beneath that cheerful façade lurks something deadly. As soon as they enter their new house, Evan is consumed by fear. He can’t place its source, but there is something about the town’s mayor, Kathryn Drago, which makes him uneasy…
A Killer in the Family
by Gytha Lodge
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman uploads her DNA online, searching for her father—but the man who contacts her is Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens. From the acclaimed author of Little Sister, this endlessly twisty crime novel asks: What might a family do to protect or expose a serial killer in its midst?
When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the forest, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer.
Now, as they find the second, they know for sure…
Here One Moment
by Liane Moriarty
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did?
Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her job, but today is her twenty-eighth birthday and she’d rather not be placating a plane full of passengers unhappy about a long delay. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C desperate not to miss his daughter’s musical. A harried mother frantically tries to keep her toddler and baby quiet. Honeymooners still in their wedding finery dream of their new lives, while a chatty emergency room nurse dreams of retirement.
One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she agrees to try out with him.
A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla finds herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize…
Killing Season
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.
The more you know, the more there is to fear…
Four years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her—until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river’s edge.
Hungry
by B. E. Baker
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Brand New Release from B. E. Baker
“A mesmerizing work, literarily impressive and historically exacting.” – Kirkus
In 1847, the Donner party resorted to eating human flesh to survive entrapment at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They became infamous almost instantly, with hundreds of books, stories, and interviews exploring their misery. None of them tell the extraordinary story from the first-person point of view of the female survivors. Until now.
Three women yearned to make better lives in California…
By the time these women and the rest of the party reached the Sierra Nevada mountains after taking an unproven “shortcut,” they were already two months late. They had lost people, oxen, mules, and livestock they couldn’t survive without. Then the snow began to fall.
Sim One
by Tom Ahern
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Simone sent me an email. The subject line: “Just read.”
Most of us spend our whole lives searching for the one. Some of us are lucky enough to find them, even for a moment. And some—like Simone and Tom—were lucky enough to find love, purchase a second home abroad, create a successful business, and build a life together for nearly four decades. But what happens after the love story?
Told through a series of notes and emails, Tom shares his raw, humorous, and heartfelt declarations on what it’s like living, loving, and losing theone, Sim One, to a disease that no one talks about: cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at the Hunting Lodge
by Laura Stewart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Scottish village is turned upside-down by a Gaelic pagan festival, an archaeological dig, and a murder, in this absorbing new cozy mystery.
Amelia Adams, proprietor of Stone Manor, is hosting four archaeologists at her luxurious hotel as they excavate a ruined abbey. Meanwhile, the village is preparing for a festival that heralds the start of summer—an event that’s brought Moira, a tarot reader and practicing white witch, back to her hometown…
Stray Souls
by Kate Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she’s a shaman, it’s not a moment too soon: London’s soul is lost. Using her newfound oneness with the City, she sets about saving London from inevitable demise, but the problem is she has no clue where to start. Meanwhile, a mysterious gate has opened, and there are creatures loose that won’t wait for her to catch up before they go out hunting. Now Sharon and her motley crew of magical misfits must find a way to save the world…
Spells & Wishes Complete Series Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if all those fairy tales you learned as a child were true, with a twist? Turns out, the land of Ever After also has a dark underbelly of evil that’s always trying to break out.
We would need a hero with a little firepower.
This fairy godmother carries a Glock 42 as an added accessory with her wand. It also packs a punch. Her job is to cover part of the realm of Ever After and keep it safe. But something’s gone wrong.
Get this complete series boxed set to join Charlotte on her search for answers in Cincinnati!
One Step Too Far
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Timothy O’Day knew the woods. Yet when he disappeared on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip with his best friends in the world, he didn’t leave a trace. What he did leave behind were two heartbroken parents, a crew of guilt-ridden groomsmen, and a pile of clues that don’t add up.
Frankie Elkin doesn’t know the woods, but she knows how to find people. So when she reads that Timothy’s father is organizing one last search, she heads to Wyoming. Despite the rescue team’s reluctance, she joins them…
Nightwatching
by Tracy Sierra
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.
She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.
The Consequences of Fear
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer.
Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must maintain extreme caution…
Jian
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ninja comes the first “authentic and engrossing” thriller in the series featuring Jake Maroc (Los Angeles Times).
Jake Maroc, a top agent for the secret US government agency known as the Quarry, is a martial arts expert on a quest for vengeance. Nichiren, Jake’s deadliest adversary, is a cold-blooded assassin with a deadly secret. And Shi Zilin is a Communist minister, a cunning survivor of turmoil.
But only one can be the Jian: the ultimate master of strength and wisdom…
Caught with a Stolen Diamond
by Sandra Sookoo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jewels and treasures hold no worth when held against the lives of loved ones.
Though thrilled to adventure again, the Countess of Archewyne worries their unexpected trip to India will delay her first official mission as a new king’s agent. But when Emmaline is told she and her husband will trade a priceless diamond for the kidnapped daughter of a marquess, she’s willing to make the sacrifice. Too bad no one knows exactly where the sought-after jewel is…