Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Eyes
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 3.8 #ad
A mild-mannered car salesman . . . A womanizing bartender . . . A beloved minister with a devoted family. Except for the fact that each of the murder victims is male, Minnesota police can’t find a connection between the crimes. But that’s because what links them can’t be seen with the naked eye . . .
Losing everything can make a person do crazy things. No one knows that better than Connie Wilson. The shock of suddenly losing her fiancé, Alan, in a car accident, is almost too much bear…
Deadly Scandal
by Kate Parker
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Autumn 1937 – Olivia Denis is the carefree young wife of a Foreign Office dignitary when her world is shattered. Police discover her husband fatally shot near the German embassy and declare it suicide.
Olivia knows better. When she learns a German embassy clerk was murdered the same night, she is certain her husband is not the traitor others claim. However, someone in the British government is.
Using her new position as a reporter for a powerful newspaper publisher, Olivia infiltrates London’s elegant society to hunt for the killer…
Four Months in Cuba
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Titus thought it would be a simple rescue mission. He was wrong. It wasn’t simple . . .
Days after preventing a sarin gas attack on the nation’s capital, CIA operative, Titus Ray, arrives in Santiago de Cuba on a mission to rescue fellow operative, Ben Mitchell, from the hands of the Los Zetas drug cartel.
It wasn’t simple . . . After discovering Ben’s abduction was more than a simple kidnapping, Titus joins forces with an unconventional operative whose peculiar ideas threaten to destroy the mission. As the search for Ben reaches a critical stage, Titus is suddenly called back to Langley.
It wasn’t a rescue . . . When he arrives back in the States, not only does he learn his mission has changed, he also learns he has a rival for Nikki Saxon’s affections. Now, he must make a decision about their relationship. Do they have a future together, or would she be better off without him?
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
After Gia
by R.M. Demeester
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life as an escort for high-end clients and endless nights of partying was everything Gia Harris ever wanted. No rules, no money worries, and all the men she could ever want. She never wanted to settle down until she met Alex, a bodyguard for one of her clients. Who is this rough around the edge bad boy? Gia can’t wait to find out who he really is.
It’s Alexander Robert’s worst nightmare: his daughter’s illness is terminal, and he’ll do anything to pay for her treatments. That is, until tragedy strikes. Now he is ready to leave his criminal past behind, and bodyguarding was the only thing he was ever really good at.
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(After Dusk Mysteries)
How the Dead Speak
by Val McDermid
Rating: 5.0 #ad
With profiler Tony Hill behind bars and Carol Jordan no longer with the police, he’s finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail and she’s joined forces with a group of lawyers and forensics experts looking into suspected miscarriages of justice. But they’re doing it without each other; being in the same room at visiting hour is too painful to contemplate.
Meanwhile, construction is suddenly halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried at the site. Forensic examination reveals they date from between twenty and forty years ago, when the nuns were running their repressive regime. But then a different set of skeletons is discovered in a far corner—young men from as recent as ten years ago.
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(Tony Hill / Carol Jordan Mysteries)
Bad Memory
by Lisa Gray
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Quiet towns keep big secrets. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter—a convicted murderer whose execution is days away—Jessica can’t resist the offer.
Rue doesn’t remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she’s guilty. As Jessica looks for answers, she finds that local rumors point one way and evidence points another. And nobody wants to face the truth. Meanwhile, Jessica can’t shake the feeling that someone is stalking her—now more than ever, she knows she can’t trust anyone.
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(Jessica Shaw Mysteries)
Life at the Coffin Joint
by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Deadwood (late 1876) …
A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead … and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone that steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow. Their search leads them to throw in with Clementine to hunt for a common enemy. What they find chills them all to the bone and sends them on an adventure they’ll never forget.
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(Deadwood Undertaker Mysteries)
Give unto Others
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE at regular price
What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give Unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid 31st installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series.
Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti’s mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Foscarini’s son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he’s involved with.
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(Commissario Brunetti Mysteries)
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
LITTLE DID SHE KNOW
by Willow Rose
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life when her kidnapped daughter returned, but it wasn’t.
Fourteen years ago, Clarissa Smalls was born, and a few hours later, she was taken from the hospital. Kidnapped. Her mother searched desperately for her for years, but she never found her. Until now.
When Clarissa Smalls is suddenly found in the swamps of central Florida, badly bruised and confused, it causes much joy and celebration in her family, especially with her mother, who has waited fourteen years to see her baby girl again. Little did she know that this day would end up being the worst in her life. Because Clarissa doesn’t want to know about her mother, she refuses to talk to anyone and won’t tell the police what happened to her.
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(Eva Rae Thomas Mysteries)
The Virus
by Damien Lee
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The end of the world usually signals the end of life. But for convicted murderer Frank Lee, it was only the beginning. With his newfound freedom, Frank suddenly has the world at his feet. The only downside: all the damn cannibals!
Amy was working in Sunnymoor Hospital when the virus struck. Now, with her patients craving flesh, the only person she can save is herself. But as more of the townsfolk fall victim to the wave of infection, Amy’s chances of survival quickly begin to diminish.
Walking on Her Grave
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The electrifying conclusion of the romantic suspense novella series from Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot.
The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, has turned into ground zero for a turf war between the manufacturers and distributors of a lethal new drug. When a teenage witness disappears, social worker Carly Taylor must find him before he’s silenced permanently.
Rogue County investigator Seth Harding wants to keep Carly, his estranged wife, out of harm’s way, but she refuses to let his concern keep her from doing her job. When one of her young charges vanishes, Carly gets pulled even deeper into the deadly case, and Seth knows he must help her…even if it leads them right into the criminals’ crosshairs.
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(Rogue River Mysteries)
Warrior’s Ransom
by Jeff Wheeler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A loyal knight is on a quest to save a dynasty from itself in the thrilling sequel to Knight’s Ransom by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler.
After a pilgrimage to the East Kingdoms seeking a blessing from the Fountain, source of the land’s magic, Sir Ransom Barton returns home in search of two dreams: Claire de Murrow, the heiress he loves, and a patron for his warrior skills. Unexpectedly, Ransom finds himself in the favor of Devon, the notorious Elder King. Brought into the ruler’s mesnie and given two wards of his own, Ransom is devoted to his privileged new position. He’s also privy to the running of the realm and to all its courtly intrigues—notably, the machinations of the king’s three remaining sons, all engaged in a manipulative battle to become heir to the throne.
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(The First Argentines Mysteries)
The Wonder Test
by Michelle Richmond
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lina is on leave from her job in New York at the FBI in order to clean out her father’s home in Silicon Valley. As though letting go of her father isn’t hard enough, Lina has also recently lost her husband in a freak traffic accident. Still reeling, she and her teenage son Rory must make their way through this strange new town and the high school around which it all seems to revolve. Rory soon starts coming home with reports of the upcoming “Wonder Test,” a general aptitude assessment that appears increasingly inane, and Lina is shaken out of her grief by a sense that something is amiss in Greenfield.
Darkness Falls
by Robert Bryndza
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by the author of Shadow Sands.
Kate Marshall’s fledgling PI agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan Harper, are hired for their first big case. It’s a cold one. Twelve years before, journalist Joanna Duncan disappeared after exposing a political scandal. Most people have moved on. Joanna’s mother refuses to let go.
When Kate and Tristan gain access to the original case files, they revisit the same suspects and follow the same leads—but not to the same dead ends.
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(Kate Marshall Mysteries)
Shatter the Roses
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 5.0 #ad
All day benders, promiscuous nights, and endless student loans: the world seems a strange and unusual place for both Tom and Erika, but then college makes everyone feel like a fish out of water. With their own unique brand of wit, they write the world around them in their own terms. But beneath the surface is a searing, truthful look at the lives of two college students way beyond their years, but still bound by the painful memories of the past. A poignant love story as well as an intimate coming-of-age drama, Shatter the Roses examines what it means to be drawn to other people, to search desperately for understanding, and to find company even in the most unlikely of places.
GWEN SLADE, BOUNTY HUNTER
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Bounty hunter Gwen Slade always gets her man. Until she meets charming outlaw Jordie Kidd. After Jordie saves her family, she finds she can’t in good conscience turn him in, even if he is worth a thousand dollars dead or alive. Instead she sets her sights on the meanest, most-wanted gang in Kansas. Gwen always works alone until she goes after the gang then finds herself partnering with an unlikely source. This time around, not only her life, but her heart is on the line.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
by Ellen Byron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron’s howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery.
Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October–and Halloween–approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana…
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(A Cajun Country Mysteries)
Autopsy
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she’s inherited both an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.
She and her husband, Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria, where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn apart by civil and political unrest…
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(Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
Monster Nation
by David Wellington
Rating: 4.2 #ad
This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she’s half-dead. She can’t remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help—and that’s when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the streets and devouring the living. And she’s one of them. She isn’t breathing. The zombies leave her alone. Because they know she’s one of their kind. And yet she differs from the brainless ghouls around her in some crucial ways. Somehow she’s kept her intelligence intact, if not her memory. And being dead has certain compensations. She has developed strange powers.
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(The Monster Island Mysteries)
The Long Call
by Ann Cleeves
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Matthew Venn is a keeper. A stunning debut for Cleeves’ latest crimefighter.” – David Baldacci
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
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(The Two Rivers Mysteries)
Mark of Steel
by Lynn Landes
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Marina Stephenson follows her heart and fills in at her friends bar the night her singer doesn’t show up. It was a simple gift from friend to friend, but her life is soon in turmoil. Dubbed the “secret singer” by the press, Marina’s life is turned upside down when she sings to Billionaire Axl Devereaux.
Inventor, Axl Devereaux, CEO of Devereaux Knives, Inc., is ready to present his cutting-edge design to the United States military. His work has been heralded by multiple branches of the government. Security has been a problem in the past, not this time. The new design could change the future in more ways than anyone can imagine. Well, almost anyone. Someone is trying to steal the prototype but how far will they go to get what they want? Can he trust Marina?
The Circle Series 4-in-1
by Ted Dekker
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ted Dekker’s bestselling and most beloved series—together in one volume. It’s an epic tale of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.
Thomas Hunter is an unlikely hero who finds himself pulled between two worlds. In our reality, he works in a coffeehouse. In the other, he becomes a battle-scarred general leading a band of warriors known as the Circle.
Every time he falls asleep in one reality, he wakes in the other—and both worlds are facing catastrophic disaster. In one world, Thomas must race to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating a global pandemic by releasing an unstoppable virus. In the other, far into the future, a forbidden love could forever destroy the Circle’s ragtag resistance.
Savage Bloodline Collection
by Multiple Authohrs
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Darkness lurks behind their gazes. There’s something sinister about their smiles. Their name incites fear in their enemies. They are the DeLucas, and there’s one word that describes them best. SAVAGE.
The men of the DeLuca family are proof that the bigger the alpha, the harder they fall… in love.
Download this exclusive anthology featuring BRAND NEW mafia romances to find out which DeLuca will make you fall in love. But first, you must ask yourself one question: Are you ready to give your heart to a savage?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Is Binding
by Lorna Barrett
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The streets of Stoneham, New Hampsire are lined with bookstores…and paved with murder.
When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia.
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(A Booktown Mysteries)
One Fine Mess
by Mark Petersen
Rating: 3.8 #ad
It’s time to show some ovaries. All Jules Nichols wants is to off her abusive hubby. But once he’s dead, mobsters and drug dealers are popping out of the woodwork, the staties are suspicious, and her wacko sister won’t go away. There’s also that darn head in a box.
Who could’ve known it’d be so hard to commit one little murder?
Spinsters in Jeopardy
by Ngaio Marsh
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A British police detective looks into sinister doings in the South of France in a crime thriller with “more than a little excitement” (Kirkus Reviews).
Inspector Roderick Alleyn has decamped for the South of France on a family vacation—though for him, the vacation will involve some official poking around. Unfortunately, the object of his poking—the cultish denizens of a sinister and luxurious chateau—are not fond of being poked, and they have a particularly unpleasant way of getting their point across . . .
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(Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mysteries)
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A pot of gold isn’t always what you find at the end of the rainbow
Except for ghosts and other spirits of the night, lighthouse keeper Jack Wiesinski and Atakapa Indian Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue are the only two inhabitants of Oyster Bay, home of the Majestic Casino and hotel located on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana. Ghosts aren’t the only paranormal entities on Oyster Island, and its serenity is disturbed when the claw of a shapeshifter rips through the deerskin wall of Chief’s tepee.
Chief races after them when the Rougarou, a Cajun werewolf, is chased by his chihuahua Coco. Awakened by the commotion, Jack Wiesinski and his bulldog Oscar investigate. The Rougarou escapes, but Jack and Chief find a gold doubloon and a crate of priceless Dominican Rum beneath the low-water bridge connecting the island and the mainland.
The Elven Prophecy Complete Series Omnibus
by Theophilus Monroe, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There are many who don’t want to see the elven prophecy fulfilled. And they want me dead before I can do something radical. Like, oh, I don’t know… save the world?
Get the complete Elven Prophecy series – all 6 books – at a great deal for a limited time to find out how one wayward preacher deals with a past that changes the whole world’s future…
Love the Way You Lie
by Lisa Unger
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What’s drawn four damaged people back to Merle House? The answer could destroy them all in a gripping short story of the truths we bury and the lies we tell ourselves.
Matthew, Claire, Ian, and Mason haven’t set foot on the Merle family property since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago. But a powerful force from their past is still at play. This time, there’s no hiding from it.
The Glamourist
by Luanne G. Smith
Rating: 4.5 #ad
What’s drawn four damaged people back to Merle House? The answer could destroy them all in a gripping short story of the truths we bury and the lies we tell ourselves.
Matthew, Claire, Ian, and Mason haven’t set foot on the Merle family property since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago. But a powerful force from their past is still at play. This time, there’s no hiding from it.
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(The Vine Witch Mysteries)
IRRESISTIBLE BAD BOYS
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
You know you should stay away. Everything about him spells trouble. But that’s what makes him irresistible…
Find your happy-ever-after with not just one, but SIX IRRESISTIBLE BAD BOYS in these NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED STEAMY STORIES From New York Times & USA Today Bestselling, Award-Winning Authors.