Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Walks the Plank
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling has planned a murder mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward’s Rock, South Carolina. Everything is going swimmingly—until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max’s courageous rescue attempt, make-believe murder turns into real-life death.
As the body count rises over the next few days, Annie begins to suspect that all the victims were murdered most foully, and that they are all connected in some unknown way. But the killer she seeks is more ingeniously efficient than most—having packed an intricate time bomb with an explosive mix of arson, assault, kidnapping, robbery . . . and homicide, naturally.
The Burning Wire
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.
When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street.
In the Garden Behind the Moon
by Alexandra A. Chan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter, Chan finds her logical approach to life utterly fails her in the face of this profound grief. Unable to find a way forward, she must either burn to ash or forge herself anew.
Slowly, painfully, wondrously, Chan discovers that her father and ancestors have left threads of renewal in the artifacts and stories of their lives. Through a long-lost interview conducted by Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, a basket of war letters written from the Burmese jungle, a box of photographs, her world travels, and a deepening relationship to her own art, the archaeologist and lifelong rationalist makes her greatest discovery to date: the healing power of enchantment…
Deep as the Marrow
by F. Paul Wilson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling author of The Select “combines medical and political intrigue into one explosive, warp-speed thriller” (Douglas Preston).
To end the war on drugs, the president of the United States decides to legalize narcotics—and tax them heavily. Some think he’s crazy. Others want him dead.
The president’s personal physician, John Van Duyne, took an oath to do no harm, but after a Colombian drug lord kidnaps his six-year-old daughter, he’s forced to do the unthinkable to save her: poison the president.
The Girl Who Sees Angels
by Jeffrey McClain Jones
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lights in the darkness, shadows in daylight, she has seen them all her life, and feared them. Can she break free now? Does she really want to?
Sophie Ramos has always thought she was cursed and maybe crazy. Even her mother doubted her when she was a child. Priests and psychiatrists doubted her too. But psychics tried to recruit Sophie to enrich and empower themselves.
Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, keeping her secret from everyone except her mother and a few close friends. But a threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake…
Off Season
by Philip R. Craig
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s nothing like Martha’s Vineyard on crisp autumn days, after the season has ended.
The “off-islanders” are finally gone and ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson is free to relax. But the natives are getting seriously restless this fall, with animal rights activists squaring off against deer slayers and environmentalists butting heads with land developers. Things have reached a boiling point, and it’s not long before verbal arrows become real ones. When a most unlikely victim is caught in lethal crossfire, Jackson can’t just sit idly by.
Runaway Dragon Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
Each book in this sexy-as-sin series can each be read as standalones, and has no cliffhangers, but are best read in order.
Sweets for the Beast
by L.M. Maretti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Catherine thought she had it all figured out. Single and loving it, with her feisty feline companion Samson by her side. But when a mundane errand to borrow sugar turns into an encounter with her mysterious, hunky neighbor living in the rundown house next door, Catherine’s world is turned upside down. Suddenly, she finds herself face to face with a towering seven-foot monster sporting horns and rock-hard abs. Can she resist his charms and keep her heart intact? Satisfy your cravings for romance, humor, and steam with “Sweets for the Beast,” a quirky tale of love at first sight.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Baker and a Body Bag
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A charming seaside town, a sassy amateur sleuth, and a dead body.
Cakes crumble into chaos when bakery owner Annie Bishop and Sheriff Jake Hail’s romantic sunset cruise turns into a chilling discovery.
Annie is doubly thrilled with her goddaughter Nicki’s arrival back in Bishop’s Landing, and her son Ethan’s surprise visit. But delight quickly turns to distress, when Ethan has an altercation with the high school football coach, trying to protect Nicki.
When Annie and Jake accidentally discover the coach’s body, Ethan quickly becomes a suspect in the murder.
The Spy from Palestine
by Steve Haberman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s 1947 in British-controlled Palestine. Award-winning foreign correspondent, Charly Lawrence, and her lover, ex-Churchill bodyguard and spy, Jonas Shaw, arrive in the violent Promised Land. Their mission from her editor: track down a survivor of an infamous WWII German slaughter and write her heroic story. This exclusive will hopefully rescue Charly’s struggling newspaper. Little do they realize they have landed in a heap of danger.
The Buried
by Lisa Childs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Somewhere inside Halcyon Hall, the elite spa with an infamous past on a remote Maine island, are the answers state trooper Mae Montgomery desperately needs to solve a murder investigation. To find them, she’s checking into the exclusive retreat under an assumed name—that of her late sister, a former model. But at least one person isn’t fooled.
Fitness trainer Bode James grew up on Bane Island and took it upon himself to transform the former psychiatric hospital into a wellness resort. But a killer still lurks here. Bode already lost the mother of his child. And though he believes Mae is there under false pretenses, he also fears that without her help, more people will die.
The Truth With Lies
by Stephanie Hurt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Leah Carson led a simple life. But all of that changed when her friend Dana, whom she hadn’t seen for five years, knocked on her door in the middle of the night. Five days later Dana turns up dead, Leah’s house is ransacked, and things begin turning up about Dana’s last five years that don’t add up. Just as Leah is wrapping her head around everything, Dana’s death is labeled a homicide and Leah is the prime suspect.
Jake Truitt steps in to investigate the break-in at Leah’s house and the missing friend, Dana. The more he finds out about Dana, the crazier this story gets. Then when the DA puts a bullseye on Leah, Jake makes it his mission to clear her name. But the battle is only just beginning…
Broken Ground
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Karen Pirie is dealing not only with this cold case but with a domestic violence case, and as as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is.
An engrossing, twisty thriller, Broken Ground is an outstanding entry in this Diamond Dagger-winning author’s “superior series” (The New York Times Book Review).
A Time for Patriots
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling thriller-master Dale Brown delivers a story for our times. A Time for Patriots is one of his most explosive novels to date—a frightening, all-too-possible look into the near future, when the nation’s economic collapse turns thousands of Americans against their own government. In the midst of chaos, Patrick McLanahan—hero of Executive Intent, Rogue Forces, and many other previous adventures—must enlist the aid of his son and his fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can. In A Time for Patriots, Dale Brown brings the battle home!
The Mind of a Murderer
by Michael Wood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A DARK PAST Dr Olivia Winter is a forensic psychologist whose job is to understand the minds of serial killers. There’s only one monster she can’t understand, her father.
A NEW IDENTITY Notorious and brutal, he held a reign of terror until he was caught. His nine-year-old daughter was supposed to be his last victim, but she survived.
A SERIAL KILLER WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING…
The Guardian
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Surry Weathers spent his youth stirring up trouble and running with a bad crowd. After a decade behind bars for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself a free man.
But freedom is nothing without his ex-wife, Rosa.
When she resurfaces, it’s like a beacon in the darkness. But their happy reunion is cut short when she tells him her reason for coming.