Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Eclairs and Extortion
by C. A. Phipps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marriage, menace… and murder!
The day Maddie Flynn’s mother shows up unannounced in Maple Falls, a body is discovered in the town park. Maddie doesn’t believe in coincidences—and when a mysterious stranger is seen lurking around, her suspicions only deepen.
As if a murder investigation weren’t enough, Gran’s 70th birthday party is fast approaching. Planning a celebration, keeping the peace between three fiery generations of Flynn women, and trying to unmask a killer is more than any baker should have on her plate.
The Collapse Code
by Joey Wells
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels.
With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.
Night and Day
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Full of danger, intrigue and heart, Iris Johansen’s New York Times bestseller, Night and Day, is a breathtaking, high-energy adventure that’s sure to keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands―and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions, Cara is taken, Eve must hunt down the very people who want to kill her in order to save the young girl.
The Damned
by Tarn Richardson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a priest is brutally murdered in the French city of Arras, Poldek Tacit—a brutally efficient Inquisitor—arrives on the scene to investigate the crime. His mission: to protect the Church from those who would seek to destroy it, no matter what the cost. As Tacit strives in vain to investigate the murder, he must also uncover the reason why other Vatican servants seek to undermine him.
Meanwhile, a beautiful and spirited woman, Sandrine Prideux, warns British Lt. Henry Frost of a mutual foe lurking beneath the killing fields—an enemy that wreaks its havoc by the light of the moon.
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
The Wife Swap
by Jack Heath
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some couples would kill for a weekend away…
It was supposed to be a fun trip. Three couples, friends since high school, arrive at a remote mountain retreat ready to unwind and catch up.
When an innocent remark of swapping partners is made, they laugh it off as a joke. But after a few glasses of wine, it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. With the lights off, it’s not really cheating when you don’t know who you’re with, right?
The Ares Decision
by Kyle Mills
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.
Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant.
A Painted House
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers—and two very dangerous men—came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Book Club to Die For
by Dorothy St. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a member of an exclusive book club is checked out, spunky librarian Trudell Becket must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder.
The Cypress Arete Society is one of the town’s oldest and most exclusive clubs. When assistant librarian Trudell Becket is invited to speak to the group about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading public, her friend Flossie invites herself along. Flossie has been on the book club’s waiting list for five years, and she’s determined to find out why she’s never received an invitation to join.
Backfire
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For what you did you deserve this.
The mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him and his partner, Lacey Sherlock, on edge, just as they’re starting an investigation into the shooting of their longtime friend Ramsey Hunt. The San Francisco judge was shot in the back during a high-profile murder trial—and now Sherlock’s and Savich’s search for the truth will take a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming…
Con blood
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In Mountain Springs, Colorado, that makes him a liability.
The gold rush has turned the territory into a playground for con men, and none are more dangerous than Willie McCain – a ‘respected’ businessman who never cheats the same way twice. McCain rigs deals, fixes outcomes, and walks free while honest men lose everything.
When a rigged horse race ends with a shopkeeper dead, Martin Gentry knows it wasn’t an accident.
It was yet another con that went too far.
Hidden
by Vannetta Chapman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s sworn to protect the people of Taos. It’s a job she can’t do alone.
DANA JACOBS is the supervisor in charge of the Department of Homeland Security in Taos. Her team is prepared to handle any threat—biological, chemical, conventional, cyber, even nuclear. BENJAMIN MARSHALL is newly assigned to Dana’s office. Straight from a six year military deployment, he is not what Dana wants or needs. Ben knows God has a reason for putting him in this place at this time—to help Dana.
When a local school is threatened, they open a case which leads them on a chase through the Enchanted Circle and Carson National Forest, pursuing a man filled with a bitterness Dana can understand. She too is running from her past and a night of tragedy and violence that marred her childhood.
Crossed Fire
by Baccellia Kim
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Stephanie Stewart is a typical sixteen-year-old girl—she loves hanging out with her friends, going to concerts, and sipping mocha lattes. Yup. Just your average teenager . . . Except for one difference—she can see and talk to the dead. In fact, Stephanie helps dead girls who who’ve been murdered or killed, cross over. Just as Stephanie is getting used to her unique “gift”, her mom stumbles into some dangerous witchcraft that backfires and triggers similar abilities in Stephanie’s best friend Cura, and nemesis Hillary.
Stephanie already has enough trouble trying to maintain a “normal” life between school and her cute boyfriend Dylan, who happens to have a supernatural talent all his own. But now she has to help her friend Cura and her “frenemy” Hillary cope with their new-found powers as well as cross over two murdered cheerleaders and battle an evil demon who wants to use Stephanie’s supernatural strengths as a free pass to The Other Side…
Perfect Poison
by M. William Phelps
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The true-crime story of a Massachusetts nurse with a dark secret, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Left Behind.
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen’s watch that others jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” No one suspected the horrifying truth: that over the course of six months, Gilbert had caused the deaths of as many as forty patients. With new insight into the sociopathic mindset of nurses who kill, and the latest details on Gilbert’s ongoing prison sentence, M. William Phelps exposes how one person’s good intentions went so chillingly, killingly wrong . . .
Deadlocked
by Charlaine Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.
Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
The Five Guilty
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Benji Hastings came to Cabel Point to disappear. A boatyard job, a quiet room, and a landlady who won’t let him use the front door. It was everything he wanted.
Until Ronin Schell came home. Fifteen years ago, five men robbed the Schell family blind and left them to die. Now their son is back to settle the score.
A list is posted at the harbor office: THE FIVE GUILTY.
The town doesn’t know what it means, until the men start dying. One debtor is found with silver coins in his mouth. Another crushed beneath falling timber. The rest are hiding behind locked doors, but locks won’t keep Schell out.