Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Four Aunties and a Wedding
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.
Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can’t wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name.
Dark Objects
by Simon Toyne
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist?
A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists.
The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.
The Mercury Protocols
by Terry Toler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ripped from yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s headlines.
Book Six of the Best Selling and Award-Winning Eden Stories
In a secret room somewhere on Mercury, the Eliminati controls all of the governmental and societal structure. The six evil men decide who lives and who dies in the form of protocols, issued to suppress speech, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and the elimination of every threat to their power.
The Veiled Web
by Catherine Asaro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Winner of the Homer Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
A renowned prima ballerina, Lucia del Mar is far more comfortable expressing herself through dance than with words. Shy and introverted, she spends most of her spare time on her laptop.
Still, Lucia’s job forces her out of her comfort zone, which is how she winds up at a White House reception where she meets Rashid al-Jazari, the wealthy CEO of a multinational corporation. Although attracted to him, Lucia can’t help but feel awkward and shrugs off their encounter as a one-time event.
Lethal Intentions
by Jennifer Chastain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He’s a man on the run. Undercover ATF agent Jack Spencer has been running away his entire life. His last assignment has him questioning who he really is, what he believes, and who he can trust. When his cover is compromised, and he’s injured, he must disappear in order to survive.
She wants a fresh start. After five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, ex-Army medic Maggie Coleman wants a quiet life, one without emotional trauma. The peace and serenity of the Hawai’ian Islands is just what the doctor ordered. Then Jack crashes into her life, taking her on a rollercoaster ride into the unknown.
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
by Lawrence Block
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It’s been an entire year since he’s entered anyone’s abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord’s threat to increase Bernie’s rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime — though, in all fairness, it’s a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie’s stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.
Eye of the Storm
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A kidnapping threatens the Christmas wedding of an ER doctor and a detective in this romantic suspense thriller by the bestselling author of Face to Face.
After all that they’ve been through, no one would deny that Hart and Drake deserve a happily-ever-after life together. But, on the eve of their Christmas wedding, a threat long buried returns to threaten them. Not just their happiness, not only their lives, but everything they hold dear.
Jade Legacy
by Fonda Lee
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the page-turning conclusion to the Green Bone Saga.
Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides. As the struggle over the control of jade grows ever larger and more deadly, the Kaul family, and the ancient ways of the Kekonese Green Bones, will never be the same.
Gold Fever
by Jim Clougherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Shining Black Lights The Way To A Place Where Your Dark Savior Lay…
Tasked with gathering precious metals to save their struggling settlement, the miners of Faiwell aim to enter Mt. Couture for the first time in over 100 years. Joel knows the treacherous secret of the mountain and why they should avoid it at all costs. He tries to warn the others, but his muted pleas fall on deaf ears, and they enter the mines in search of treasure and glory…
Pacific State
by Grant Price
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
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…
Runaway Dragon Mates
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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Piazza
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The twenty-first Faith Fairchild mystery takes Faith and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, to Italy, where murder and mayhem mix with pecorino, panna cotta, and prosecco.
To celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary, amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, leave placid New England behind for a week of romance and fine food in Italy. The bruschetta, the biscotti, the Chianti—Faith can’t wait! She’s also looking forward to seeing her former assistant Francesca, and take a class at her new cooking school in Florence…
Fatal Insomnia: The Complete Trilogy
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A terminally ill doctor battles crime and corruption in this medical thriller trilogy by the New York Times–bestselling author of Critical Condition.
Farewell to Dreams
A Raging Dawn
The Sleepless Stars
AN AURA OF MYSTERY
by JOY ELLIS
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The newly discovered novel from multi-million-selling author Joy Ellis. Never-before published!
Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier.
Days later, Ellie wakes up in hospital — and notices there’s something different.
Allegiance
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES. A dead man.
EMT Freya Olson has lost her faith, but not her drive to save those who need her help. When the past that her family left behind after her mother’s death shows up in Benson, Freya lands on the target list as well. But things aren’t what they seem, and Freya’s loyalty will be pushed to the limit.
A disgraced cop hiding a dangerous secret.
City Primeval
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” – Washington Post
The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master’s acclaimed crime novels. The “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma Wildman” and the dedicated city copy who’s determined to take him down.
Finders Keepers
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Flynn Noble spends most of his time caring for his younger brother Tate, whose recent injury left him with a good heart but a slow mind. Flynn doesn’t have time to chase after outlaws or look for romance. But he gets his share of both when he and Tate find a satchel of money in the woods, and a dead man alongside it.
They don’t know who’s it is or what to do with it, but Sheriff Hal Watson just might. The brothers don’t realize that by going to the sheriff, they’re putting themselves in danger.
Getting Even: Two Thrilling Novels
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author—two timeless novels of revenge in one volume, perfect for fans of Jeneva Rose, Freida McFadden, and Lucinda Berry.
“Trask McFadden is back.” Those are words that Tory has been waiting to hear, half in dread, half with longing. It’s been five years since Trask landed her father behind bars for horse swindling, using things she’d told him in confidence. Her father died there, but now Trask insists he has information that could help prove who was really responsible for the crime, not to mention his own brother’s death. Trask needs her help. But he won’t get it, not after destroying her family, her ranch, and the love they shared.
A Knife for Harry Dodd
by George Bellairs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Harry Dodd needs a ride home from the pub – but it’s not because he’s schnockered. He’s actually been stabbed. Unfortunately, no one realizes it until it’s too late. Who would want to kill such a well-liked fellow? Inspector Littlejohn is called in, and his investigation reveals a recent woeful turn in Dodd’s life, the ambitious family that cast him out, and a cesspit of jealousy, greed, and tawdry secrets. Then another body turns up, and another . . .
Century Rain
by Alastair Reynolds
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Part science fiction thriller, part interstellar adventure, and part noir crime, Century Rain is an astonishing international bestseller of “blistering powers and style” (SF Revu).
Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: a mid-20th-century version of Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.