Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunted Hibiscus
by Laura Childs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.
It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society, and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house.
Deal Breaker
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.” – Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend – a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead—the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
The Way of the Bear
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken?
Gracie and the Trouble with Pinatas
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What you see is not always what you get. In fact, what you see may be nothing at all.
Finding a woman attacked and left for dead in her driveway hadn’t been anywhere near San Antonio law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner’s cold January plans. She immediately jumps into action and soon discovers a link to what appears to be a benign local research institution. Of course, what seems to be often isn’t, and it takes a series of explosive illusions that rock a small slice of the city before Gracie and her coworkers understand the fuller picture: a rogue relationship between the research group and a corrupt faction inside the Pentagon.
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Boy in the Well
by Douglas Lindsay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
‘A dark and satisfying mystery . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended’ James Oswald
The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old . . .
No one comes forward to identify #Boy9, and DI Ben Westphall’s only suspects are the farmers on whose land the well sits. They certainly seem as though they have something to hide. But it might not be what he thinks.
Summer Suspicions Suspense Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Summer Suspicions: Ten Christian Romantic Suspense Novels
Escape into a world of love, mystery, and faith with these ten Christian romantic suspense novels. Today’s bestselling Christian fiction authors are bringing you ten page-turning, action-packed adventures filled with unforgettable characters, adrenaline-pumping mysteries, and heartwarming romance.
Summer suspicions lurk everywhere in small towns and in the countryside, as well as in the cities and on the coast. Cowboys, protectors, former military, single moms, pastors, good friends, sheriffs, missing children, hostages, fugitives, heroes, villains, and more, all in one limited-edition boxed set collection just for the summer of 2024 only.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
by Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Written with award–winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues – including forensic evidence—that conclusively identifies his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history. Finally, all the questions that have surrounded the case for almost fifty years are answered in this riveting narrative—a singular work of true crime at its finest, as well as a sensational and powerful memoir.
Pandemic Psychology
by Dr. Varda Silberberg
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Optimism, flexibility, and self-compassion – learn how the COVID pandemic prepared us for the next global crisis, one lesson at a time.
The 2019 COVID pandemic brought with it various challenges, most of which we will continue to feel years after the last COVID-19 patient leaves their hospital bed: personal, financial, social, and economic crises that took years to overcome. But can we turn those challenges into opportunities? Can we take what we experienced during COVID and somehow turn our past failures into future successes? Can yesterday’s health crisis help us overcome the global crisis of tomorrow?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Book Lover’s Loft
by Ellery Adams
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane’s hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . .
Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing a dark secret in her family tree that threatens all she holds dear back in Storyton…
If I Can’t Have You
by G.M. Lawrence
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Freya hopes there’s one man she never sees again. Her husband.
Freya has recently escaped from her violent and abusive husband, Liam, and has moved to the city where she is fighting to build a new life for herself. But she knows in her heart that Liam won’t give up so easily, that he’ll do everything in his power to find her and bring her back…
Caught between two terrifying men, can Freya confront her past and hold onto the future she’s fought so hard to create?
Grace for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pastor Paisley Yukon fought many hard battles to win acceptance and lead Ideal’s Grace Cowboy Church as a woman, but when a possible cult moves into town—her conflicts multiply along with unsolved murders.
A widow, who lost her husband and daughter in the same horrific traffic accident, Paisley could easily fall in love with Ideal’s Sheriff Kip Restwinder. However, when she befriends and hides a missing teen, the sheriff becomes inimical toward her, a fact that is only complicated by two murders and attempts on her own life.
Family Business
by Jonathan Sims
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.
Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?
Origin Story of Monsters Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s a full moon, the Summer Solstice, and an ancient coffin has washed up on the beaches of Moher, Ireland.
Could the Mother of Monsters really have returned? It’s just not possible.
Can Halsey dig up enough evidence to prove that the elementals’ ancient foe has returned to level the monstrous playing field? Or will it be too late to prepare for what’s to come?
2024
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The year is 2024. Twenty-five years ago, Beth Cooper’s family died at Hadlow House. Now Beth’s after revenge.
Having researched the house’s history extensively, Beth thinks she knows exactly what she’s up against. She knows all about the deadly Fanny Baxter, and about the lives of all the people who’ve lived at the house over the years. She also knows all about ghosts, and about how to make them suffer.
At least, she thinks she knows.
The Knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, a double murder in front of an exclusive club takes a London detective on a wild ride.
Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand—a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper.
Like Lions
by Brian Panowich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain.
Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut, Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions, he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction.
Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain’s most notorious criminal family.