Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Latina President
by Joe Rothstein
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What Happens When a Latina-American Billionairess Becomes President of the United States?
To do penance for her family’s corrupt business practices, fun-loving, charismatic, reform-minded President Isabel Aragon Tennysion sets out to break up the conglomerates striking fear in the pocketbooks of a cabal of the rich and powerful.
The cabal will stop at nothing to destroy her politically. Conspiracy. Impeachment. Murder. Assassination. It’s all here.
The Song of Theodore
by James Malone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Angels and Trolls. Völvas and Volvos. Epic Poems and Flying Pigs.
The Song of Theodore blends history and fantasy in a stand-alone sequel to the award-winning Rainbow Gardens. World War 2 has ended, but not America’s hostility toward Japanese Americans, including veterans like Captain Teddy Larson. Badly wounded in the war, Teddy brings his interned father home to Rainbow Gardens, Minnesota’s first neon-lit motel. He’s determined to overcome discrimination while rebuilding Rainbow Gardens and fending off the trolls.
Yes, trolls. The kind that turn to stone. They think Teddy’s their Redeemer. He’s a reluctant champion, so they might be guessing wrong.
Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Twice Kissed
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sisters share a bond—twins especially. For Maggie McCrae and Mary Theresa, that link once allowed them to communicate no matter how much distance separated them. But there were differences between them too.
Maggie has always been the paler, quieter version of her wild and glamorous sister. Mary Theresa, adopting the name Marquise, has become a TV star, while Maggie is building a new life in small-town Idaho after her husband’s death, and wrangling a resentful teenage daughter. But when Mary Theresa disappears, their connection reignites, and Maggie knows with certainty that her twin is in real danger.
Body of Evidence
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell’s classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls—or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence—while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.
Brett Wilson and De Leon’s Well
by John Suter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The seven cities of gold have remained hidden behind a veil of the earth’s electromagnetic field for thousands of years. Scientist Rock Wilson developed a way to detect the magnetic abnormalities that connect our world to the ancient world. On a scientific expedition, Rock Wilson disappears into the hidden ancient realm.
His eleven-year-old daughter, Brett Wilson, armed with his old field book and equipped with the mystical Cross of De Soto finds a bridge between the two connected lands. Brett enters the veiled world to find that the forces that hold it together are diminishing. The elders send Brett and her friend Natalie on a quest to find the ancient knowledge of the people, the Well of De Leon. She will need her father if she ever hopes to find the Well and set things right.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
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(The Alphabet District Mysterie)
No Safe Place
by Robin Mahle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What she discovered will be the death of her.
Detective Rebecca Ellis has some big shoes to fill. Her father was the legendary detective, Hank Ellis, now retired from the Bangor Police Department. Emerging from his shadow hasn’t been easy.
So when she’s assigned to work with new hire, Detective Euan McCallister, Ellis is determined to keep their investigation right on track…
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(A Detective Rebecca Ellis Thriller Mysterie)
Forever and Always
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When her beloved husband vanishes after a strange accident, grief-stricken Darci Monroe is left to raise their young daughter alone. But she can’t help but suspect that the reports of his death are untrue.
When the FBI enlists her intuitive talents to solve a heinous crime, she agrees—if they help to uncover the truth about her husband. It may be a tougher deal than Darci imagined: she must go head-to-head with a criminal whose mind power matches hers at every turn…
Let Her Be
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A writer’s misguided suspicions ruined his life once before. This time he plans to prove he’s right in a New York Times bestselling author’s haunting short story of what happens when seeing is not believing.
Will, an aspiring novelist, can’t stop parsing his ex-girlfriend’s popular social media accounts for clues that her ideal new rural life with the perfect man has a dark side. After all, nobody he knows has actually seen the blissful blogger in the flesh for nearly a year. When Will draws a wary friend into his “investigation,” the real question becomes who’s truly in danger.
Killed
by Thomas Enger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Crime reporter Henning Juul thought his life was over when his young son was murdered. But that was only the beginning…
Determined to find his son’s killer, Henning doggedly follows an increasingly dangerous trail, where dark hands from the past emerge to threaten everything. His ex-wife Nora is pregnant with another man’s child, his sister Trine is implicated in the fire that killed his son and, with everyone he thought he could trust seemingly hiding something, Henning has nothing to lose … except his own life.
The Quadrail Series Books 1–3
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is the Quadrail—a miracle of design that connects all twelve of the galaxy’s inhabited empires, allowing diverse alien species and cultures to exchange ideas, inspire imaginations, build bridges of understanding . . . and orchestrate the subjugation of all living things.
Night Train to Rigel: Frank Compton used to be an operative for Western Allied Intelligence. Then he blew the whistle on some shady dealings and got himself fired…
The Bladed Faith
by David Dalglish
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Cyrus was only twelve years old when his gods were slain, his country invaded, and his parents—the king and queen—beheaded in front of him. Held prisoner in the invader’s court for years, Cyrus is suddenly given a chance to escape and claim his revenge when a mysterious group of revolutionaries comes looking for a figurehead. They need a hero to strike fear into the hearts of the imperial and to inspire and unite the people. They need someone to take up the skull mask and swords and to become the legendary “Vagrant”—an unparalleled hero and assassin of otherworldly skill.