Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Marlow Murder Club
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One’s hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.
Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don’t believe her story. It’s an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can’t be left for dead like that.
The Poison Tree
by Alan Prendergast
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard’s seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed.
Devoted in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—initials inside reading “E” and “D”…
In Arkansas, Ella-Loo and her recently released ex-con boyfriend, Darryl, don’t ever intend to part again. So they hit the road, but then things get a little messy and they wind up killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again.
The Lost Bones
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
Deadly Hearts
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
EVERY BEAT – Mary Alford
CHAINED TO A DREAM – Julie Brown
TIME WILL TELL – Pamela Ferguson
THE INN AT CRANBERRY COVE – June Foster
SEE YOU IN 48 – Robin Densmore Fuson
HIDDEN DANGER – Gail Pallotta
VERDICT AT THE RIVER’S EDGE – Colleen Snyder
Fly, My Darling
by Lisa K. Richter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A soulful memoir of desire and a woman’s midlife quest to let go—in jazz and in life.
Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.
With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want?
Something Borrowed, Something Black
by Loren Estleman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller
Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slams his foot on the gas, sending the car into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a van, hops the curb, and crashes into a hotel, knocking Davis unconscious and breaking the neck of his would-be assassin. Davis can breathe again, but just for a moment. When the mob wants you dead, they’ll always send another killer.
Black House
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
The Temptation of Charlotte North
by Camilla Bruce
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life.
The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye.
And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all.
In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. . . .
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
THE FRENCH PARADOX
by Ellen Crosby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery’s French grandfather – until recently, a well-kept secret.
Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie’s neighbor and Jackie’s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie’s grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket’s 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She’s also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
Stay
by Jane Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It was meant to be Caitlin’s perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless.
When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she’s relieved – they seem so friendly, safe. And when they offer her a warm bed in their isolated house for the night, she’s grateful not to have to travel back alone in the dark. In any case, she’s in no rush to get home, where a grave secret is lying in wait to blow her family apart.
The Respian Man
by Mark Kadoshnikov, Sarah Kadoshnikov
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Time stops for the innocent people of Oswella, giving the Earthers amongst them all the power.
On Earth, the only thing Preston ever fought was his illness – now he battles a medieval army in an unfamiliar world. Armed with a lifetime of studying warfare, he hides behind the stolen armor of a mercenary officer in order to keep his secrets safe.
When a rogue Earther exploits the time delay, he shatters a nation’s faith, robs its treasury, and ignites a brutal war. Armies march, alliances fracture, and a dangerous shift in power throws the peaceful Isolated Isles into chaos.
Her quiet life uprooted, a tournament fighter seeks revenge for a crime she can’t remember, and the leader of a secret society searches for a missing colleague and the truths he’s discovered. Their journeys uncover a conspiracy far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.
Extinction C-14
by David Archer, Blake Banner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!
Two questions are eating Nero, the head of ODIN, the Office of the Director of Intelligence Networks: where is Dr. Billy Squire? Is he still alive?
He’s not the only one asking those question. The CIA want to know, so do the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. So does the President. And so does the Mossad.
A Killing in Amish Country
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed.
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite “bonnet” stories – romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she’d ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries – without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself “Amish Stud” and found no shortage of “English” women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church.
Glitz
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Elmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be—superior crime fiction the genre’s late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters
Mud Men
by J. A. Nunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Author J. A. Nunn returns with a sequel to his debut novel, The Stuff What Actually Is, chronicling the new adventures of young GI Mervyn Gower as he navigates his World War II posting to the Jim Crow South.
Mervyn Gower, a naive young Army draftee from an all-white immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, believes the best way to prove he’s a “real” American is in combat. Assigned to a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1942, Gower soon finds himself in hot water after a drunken brawl. Instead of being demoted or dishonorably discharged, however, he’s given a post that not enough qualified Black GIs can fill and that few white soldiers want—leader of a squad of Black recruits.
Beg for Mercy : The Collapse
by Jami Gray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The world didn’t end in fire and explosions, instead after an intensifying panic of disease, food shortages, wild weather, and floundering economies, it collapsed like slow falling dominoes, until what remained of humanity battles for survival in a harsh new reality.
After escaping a brutal betrayal that left his world of secrets soaked in blood, Math leads a handful of survivors on a mission of revenge. He’s spent years on his enemy’s trail, his focus crystal clear – until his nemesis changes the rules. When one of his own is used to bait an inevitable trap, Math must seek an alliance with Fate’s Vultures, an enigmatic crew guaranteed to screw with his long-held rule – rely on no one.
Subtraction
by K. W. Franklin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Can society survive in a world where humans live for generations?
Professor Herbert Blane’s Life-Extension Therapy (LET) has changed the world, allowing humans to live for centuries. The first recipients of LET—the so-called early generations—amassed wealth and power with no intention of ever stepping aside. Now, society is fractured. Younger generations find themselves scrambling for resources, forced into cities where skyscrapers stretch a mile into the sky, leaving streets in perpetual twilight.
As resentment deepens, the New Generations Initiative (NGI) – a covert network of disenfranchised scientists, engineers, and strategists – rises to challenge the ruling elite. Led by scientist Boris Bagan and joined by Cynthia Wu and Curtis James, two brilliant researchers from Blane’s own lab, NGI launches an underground movement that engages in daring acts of sabotage to fight for a future worth living for. But will their revolt be enough to heal a broken society? Will they be remembered as traitors . . . or the only ones brave enough to change the future?
The Crypto King’s Muse
by Francesca Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Crypto is risky. Love is riskier. But Charlotte is done playing it safe.
Charlotte Gordon-Lennox doesn’t have time to mourn her losses. Once a successful international fashion entrepreneur, she’s now buried in debt, hustling for survival in the volatile world of cryptocurrency. When a job at Riverbank—a powerful crypto platform—promises financial salvation, she grabs it. But there’s a catch.
One of Riverbank’s enigmatic cofounders is Duane Blacklock, a brilliant, secretive CEO known throughout the industry as the Crypto King and whose path once crashed with Charlotte’s in a way she’s never forgotten or forgiven.
Ironwood
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in.
Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated—by twenty-two miles of ocean—from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven.