Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Smokin’ Seventeen
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clearis that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who’s just returned to town.
Five Hours
by E.K. Mercer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
At 12:42 p.m. on a Tuesday, 9.23% of the human race vanished — and the planet started healing.
Maren Weekes is a data journalist who sees the world in spreadsheets. When the blackout takes her fourteen-year-old son Jonah, all she finds is his backpack and a notebook full of maps to countries that don’t exist — the last line of ink trailing into nothing, mid-stroke. She will burn down every institution on Earth to understand why.
In a church in Bend, Oregon, Pastor Levi Soto wakes on the cold marble floor and discovers his wife Carmen is gone. Her tea is still warm. Her reading glasses sit folded on the desk. When his terrified congregation begs him to explain what happened, he does what any desperate man would do: he lies. He calls it the Sacred Sacrifice. He calls the missing holy. And the lie works so well it terrifies him.
DRAWN APART
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Avalon Martelli and Stephanie Lambert meet at the start of their junior year at Mystekal High, they form an instant connection. Stephanie is from South Jersey and Avalon from North Jersey, and they both feel out of place in the Southern California desert.
Aside from having a home state in common, they each possess a talent for art and the heartbreak of a broken family. Avalon has the gift of sight, where the future is sometimes revealed in her paintings, while Stephanie’s drawings are all about forever love. As Stephanie, a self-described poetry geek and hopeless romantic, talks about past lives and eternal happiness, Avalon denies she’s in love with her best guy friend, River Dalworth, who is attending art school in Los Angeles…
An Audience with the King
by Kat Caldwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She sees what others hide—envy, shame, evil. But even a gift like that couldn’t save her family.
Now, with a heart full of sorrow and a soul clinging to a promise of purpose, Nelia embarks on a final journey to the king’s court.
If he cannot explain why she was given this power, she may surrender to the despair that stalks her like a shadow.
A haunting historical tale about grief, purpose, and a woman’s last chance to believe in something bigger than her pain.
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.
Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family…
The Jaded Warrior
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In a place built on secrets, trust is the deadliest risk of all. She doesn’t do rules. He lives by them.
From the moment sassy Alabama travel writer Nikki Sterling meets retired Navy SEAL Luke Ellis, sparks fly hot and fast. Nikki knew getting involved with a complicated man would come with challenges, but his controlling nature is suffocating.
Luke is disciplined … a man who’s fought his way back from addiction. Control isn’t just who he is—it’s how he keeps going.
Nikki has never stayed around long enough to answer to anyone. After walking away from a prince—and a future that felt more like a gilded cage than a dream—she’s not about to trade her freedom for someone else’s expectations.
Visions of Sugar Plums
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy—and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life.
The question is, what does he want with her? Can he help her find a little old toy maker who has skipped out on his bail right before Christmas? Can he survive the Plum family holiday dinner?
Sting
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something sparks. Shaw is a man who gives off a dangerous vibe that makes other men stand back and women take notice. No one feels this more strongly than Jordie, a woman who doesn’t belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is … and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.
As Shaw takes aim, Jordie is certain her time has come. Instead, Shaw has other plans. He abducts Jordie, hoping to get his hands on the $30 million her brother has stolen…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Flight
by Julie Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns bright and he’s not above using his staff to track Claire’s every move.
What he doesn’t know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish. A plan that takes her to the airport, poised to run from it all. But a chance meeting in the airport bar brings her together with a woman whose circumstances seem equally dire. Together they make a last-minute decision.
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again
At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline’s wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman’s perspective. The Sunday column debuted in 2007 and on the day it started, Lisa wrote, “I write novels, so I usually have 100,000 words to tell a story. In a column there’s only 700 words. I can barely say hello in 700 words. I’m Italian.” The column gained momentum and popularity. Word of mouth spread, and readers demanded a collection.
Sworn Secret
by Amanda Jennings
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A young woman grieving the loss of her sister discovers secrets that indicate her death may not have been an accident in this domestic thriller.
When Lizzie Thorne’s charismatic older sister Anna is killed in a tragic fall from the roof of her school, everyone is devastated. A year later, grief still has its icy grip on the Thorne family.
Mrs. Thorne has retreated from her life and is desperate to find someone to blame for her daughter’s death.
Red Metal
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West. A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man.
The Russian bear has awakened. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. It’s all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies.
Watch Them Fall
by Marion Todd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
DI Clare Mackay will be pushed to her limits as the bodies begin to pile up…
A body is hauled out of St Andrews harbour. The cause of death – a blow to the back of the head.
DI Clare Mackay and her team are immediately suspicious. This was no accident. Local Dennis Gibb was murdered.
Meanwhile a string of burglaries across town divide Clare’s attention and she is drawn into a world of property developers, holiday lets and protestors determined to put a stop to the new building works.
Kill the Messenger
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
With this new thriller, The New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere: Don’t turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From the gritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves of prestige and power to the ruthless glamour of Hollywood, a killer stalks his prey. A killer so merciless no one in his way is safe—not even the innocent.
At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But en route to delivering a package for one of L.A.’s sleaziest defense attorneys, he’s nearly run down by a car, chased through back alleys, and shot at…
The Story Sisters
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go.
What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others?
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Working as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster, Tina, along with her quirky friend Amelia Pak, finds a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large.
After a beloved friend passes, a similar doll is discovered in his hospital room. Law enforcement finds no evidence of foul play. Then a prominent local is found dead with a faceless doll at the body’s side, and the case becomes complicated when the spouse files an insurance claim, drawing Tina into the investigation.