Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hotel Paradise
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A pre-teen sleuth inspects a decades-old mysterious drowning at a lakeside resort in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before…
GUARD HER WITH YOUR LIFE
by JOY ELLIS
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A GRIPPING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM MULTI-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS.
Detective Sam Helsdown waits anxiously at the airport. He’s excited and more than a little nervous to be picking up his daughter. It’s the first time he’s seen ten-year-old Zoe in two years.
Flight BA631 from Athens lands and soon people begin trickling through Arrivals. A blonde-haired girl races towards him and throws herself into his arms crying, ‘Daddy!’.
The Always Realms
by Charles Earl Harrel
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jesse Walt and his colleagues just returned to heaven. Their outreach to defeat evil and unite the divided realms of Eskaonus succeeded, but a new situation has arisen. Soon after their arrival, Uzziel, a high-ranking cherub, tells them about another world facing jeopardy.
Camayah is an advanced civilization where technology has become the official religion, which is overseen by a corrupt and mysterious leader. Other belief systems are forbidden. The followers of such prohibited factions are imprisoned, their sympathizers, reprogrammed. Pursuit of pleasure has become the mainstay for the populace. Even worse, deception runs rampant and individuals with sickness are terminated.
Cry of the Wolf
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Now that he’s finally solved one of the biggest mysteries in Sobolton’s history, John Tench is about to find out that his troubles are only just beginning. While Lisa Sondnes fights for her life in a hospital room, dark forces are starting to emerge from the forest with only one thing in mind.
Revenge. Michael might be out of the picture for now, but his brother believes that their people have been too forgiving for too long. Convinced that the people of Sobolton have ignored the agreement that was struck many years earlier, the wolves are determined to avoid repeating the mistakes made by their father. And if that means drawing blood, then so be it.
Frost Line
by Linda Howard, Linda Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lenna is Strength, a manifestation of the Tarot card, and powerful beyond reckoning. But when she’s pulled into the human realm and tasked with protecting a young boy, everything is thrown into chaos. Lenna’s not supposed to be here, interacting with mortals. She’s definitely not supposed to be drawn to the sexy mercenary sent to retrieve her by any means necessary . . .
As a Hunter for magical beings, Caine’s duty is simple: return this compelling, impossibly attractive woman and secure the long lost Tarot deck that made travel between worlds possible. Instead he’s drawn into Lenna’s dangerous rescue mission and blindsided by his growing feelings.
House of the Rising Sun
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact believed to be the mythic cup of Christ, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who places Hack’s son, Ishmael, squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize.
On the journey from revolutionary Mexico in 1918 to the saloons of San Antonio during the Hole in the Wall Gang’s reign, we meet three extraordinary women: the Danish immigrant who is Ishmael’s mother and Hackberry’s one true love; a brothel madam descended from the Crusader knight who brought the Shroud of Turin back from the Holy Land; and a onetime lover of the Sundance Kid, whose wiles rival those of Lady Macbeth…
Pacific State
by Grant Price
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A clever blend of realistically presented future concepts, rebellious characters and heart-racing action. If you enjoy fast-paced sci fi with fascinating technology details, this book is for you.” –Los Angeles Book Review
On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma.
Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city’s more unscrupulous business moguls and she needs someone to handle the ones and zeroes.
Pacific State
by Grant Price
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
111,000 people were crammed inside Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch the Michigan Wolverines play the Ohio State Buckeyes. It was a heated college football rivalry that had spanned more than a century.
No one inside the stadium was prepared for what would soon unfold. As the football was kicked into the snow-filled sky to start the game, long-foretold Bible prophecy came to pass right before their very eyes, causing many to suddenly vanish into thin air. Players disappeared! Coaches disappeared! Members of the media disappeared! Members of both marching bands disappeared! Cheerleaders disappeared, along with many fans in the stands…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Connections, Conflict & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cybercrime, friendships, and murder. Stacie Maroni’s walk in the park led to dangerous discoveries.
When the cybersecurity expert who checked out Stacie’s computer turns up dead, Stacie and her good friend and IT whiz, Trina, find themselves entangled in the ensuing murder investigation. Who killed Sam and why? Was the motive personal or was Sam silenced because he discovered potentially illegal activity as part of a client’s routine security audit?
Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.
Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever.
Their Last Secret
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven.
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart.
Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter suspects that Emma is hiding something…
Kurtherian Age of Expansion Starter Pack
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Experience exciting sci-fi sagas with six book ones from six series in the Kurtherian Gambit Universe – Age of Expansion.
Awakened: How Molly has survived military life this long, we’ll never know. When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape.
What’s more, her new “companion” has a spunky attitude which only complicates matters further. And her biggest problem?
But I Trusted You
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage, the calculating sociopaths in this true crime collection targeted those closest to them – unwitting victims whose last disbelieving words could well have been “but I trusted you . . .”
Headlining this page-turning anthology is the case of middle-school counselor Chuck Leonard, found shot to death outside his Washington State home on an icy February morning. A complicated mix of family man and wild man, Chuck played hard and loved many . . . but who crossed the line by murdering him in cold blood? And why?
The Next Always
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there’s another project he’s got his eye on: the girl he’s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen.
After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster soon settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town’s bookstore…
The Surrogate Thief
by Archer Mayor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken in its politics, it dominates the state’s southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindustrial New England mill town. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it better than Joe Gunther. Over the years he has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful in his fight for the town’s future, Gunther hasn’t always come out on top… Thirty years earlier store owner Klaus Ober-feldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery became first degree murder.