Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Smile Beach Murder
by Alicia Bessette
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Callie is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died.
In fact, the anniversary of her mother’s infamous death is approaching. Years ago, Teri Padget tumbled from the top of the lighthouse. As islanders are once again gossiping about the tragedy, devastating news strikes: the lighthouse has claimed another victim. Eva Meeks, of Meeks Hardware.
Silent Strike
by Melinda Colt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Detectives Aidan Connor and Jenna Darcy never had compassion for vigilantes—until now.
A politician’s murder is always big news, but Detective Aidan Connor isn’t sure if landing the high-profile case is a blessing or a curse. The late senator was not as well-liked as everyone claims. As the investigation advances, the problem isn’t that Aidan has no suspects—he has too many.
Pressured to close the case quickly, Aidan partners with Detective Jenna Darcy, the finest cybercrime expert from the Irish Garda. As they dig into the politician’s life, the secrets they uncover go from dirty to shockingly disturbing. Aidan and Jenna start to wonder if the killer is the true villain…
Grave Secrets
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two Disappearances, One Deadly Connection.
In Philadelphia, Gavin’s sister Cate goes missing, and her disappearance is linked to an enigmatic sorority invite. Gavin’s search for clues takes him to Ricketts Glen State Park, where Park Ranger Samantha is investigating her own family tragedy—the unsolved disappearance of her uncle. As they piece together a complex puzzle, they unearth connections that lead them to a shadowy society operating in the area. Together, along with Gavin’s brother Grayson, they find themselves entangled in a web of deceit and danger.
Every Second
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a quiet night in their tranquil suburban home, the Fulton family awakens to a nightmare. Four armed men force bank manager Dan Fulton to steal a quarter million dollars from his branch – strapping remote-detonation bombs on him, his wife, Lori, and their young son.
The FBI moves swiftly with a major investigation while Kate Page, a reporter with a newswire service, digs deep into the story. In the wake of the Fulton family’s abduction, questions emerge, including one of the most troubling: is the case linked to Lori Fulton’s tragic past?
Lethal Pursuit
by Jennifer Chastain
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Heather Jensen is just trying to survive after her husband’s death. Widowed with two young children, Heather struggles to make ends meet. But when she receives a storage unit key for a locker in Hawaii, things go from desperate to dangerous. With nowhere to turn, she enlists the help of her brother’s former best friend, Mark Hawkins.
FBI Special Agent Mark Hawkins is on the trail of counterfeiters, and he’s traced the laundered money to Heather. In his gut, he knows that his former best friend, Heather’s brother, is responsible, but everything points to Heather and her deceased husband.
Soldiers of Fame and Fortune Full Series Omnibus
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
FOOLS DIE IN THE ZOO. THEY DIE FAST AND HORRIBLY. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle
Read the entire series in the bestselling Soldiers of Fame and Fortune series at a discounted bundle price!
Nobody’s Fool. Decades ago, an alien ship fired a missile at Earth as they passed by, and we caught it. That was when humanity truly opened Pandora’s box. .One more trip into danger, or something beyond danger?
T is for Trespass
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Kinsey Millhone’s elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, may have been the original inspiration for the term “Grumpy Gus.” A miser and a hoarder, Gus is so crotchety that after he takes a bad fall, his only living relative is anxious to find someone to take care of him and get back home as soon as she can.
To help, Kinsey runs a check on the applicant, Solana Rojas. Social security, driver’s license, nursing certification: It all checks out. And it sounds like she did a good job for her former employers. So Kinsey gives her the thumbs-up, figuring Gus will be the ideal assignment for this diligent, experienced caregiver.
Ashley Bell
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.
The girl who said no to death. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, “We’ll see.” Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she?
Practice to Deceive
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
With more than 50 million copies of her books in print—from her chilling personal account of knowing Ted Bundy to sixteen collections in her #1 bestselling Crime Files series—Ann Rule is a legendary true crime writer. Here, in Practice to Deceive, Rule unravels a shattering case of Christmastime murder off the coast of Washington State—presented with the clarity, authority, and emotional depth that Rule’s readers expect.
Nestled in Puget Sound, Whidbey Island is a gem of the Pacific Northwest. Accessible only by ferry, it is known for its artistic communities and stunning natural beauty…
Wilder
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Wilder Slade spent the war hoping he would die. But … fate had other plans, thrusting him into a battle he could never have foreseen. Three women are missing. One of them is his own niece.
It’s been five long years since Wilder saw his brother, but you don’t turn your back on family. When he shows up, the truth is worse than he’d imagined…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Moonlight Becomes You
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar.
Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala’s stunning Victorian home…and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala’s death was not random but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind…
To Have and to Hold, to Love and to Kill
by Amy S. Cutler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A terrible accident. Two deaths. A soul who refuses to move on.
In her past life, after causing the death of a little boy, Nikki was so devastated that her soul mate promised to murder her in their next life, to make her pay for what she had done. With no knowledge of this, Nikki lives for years as an addict, down on her luck, until she is rescued by Ken, who helps her with all aspects of her recovery. With the help of a few new friends and a cat named Destiny, Nikki turns her life around. What she doesn’t know is that someone out there is destined to kill her, and he is watching, his passion for killing her growing stronger each day.
The Dead Sea Cipher
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity, a rare opportunity to visit biblical places shrouded in mystery. But in a Jerusalem hotel room a world away from everything she knows, Dinah van der Lyn hears angry voices through the wall, followed by a crash and a brief cry in English…for help! The brutal shattering of an evening’s stillness becomes a prelude to terror. Without warning, Dinah has been unwittingly pulled into something unholy transpiring in a sacred city, and she must find answers hidden in the shadows.
An Alpha’s Mate
by Bree Westland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Her protection is his solemn duty… But at what cost?
Blake Beckett was coasting along just fine. Solo. Until a portal accident during a routine mission to Earth left him stranded with no memory. Where he meets… His mate?
Blake gave up on love after his first mate died, leaving him a barren wasteland on the inside. But as his memory returns, the reason for his trip, his sacred duty to his dragon clan, comes rushing back. To deliver the newest human offering, to his Alpha and brother…
Last Shots
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say. In this desolate reality—a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways—Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower.
The Lady in My Life
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The hit song from Thriller that we know and love takes on a brand-new connotation in this original short story from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world …
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don Bruns.
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
by Dorothy Gilman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? Right now we desperately need passports and identity papers. The arrests grow insane.
At the very hour this message was en route to the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax was waiting for her night-blooming cereus to do its thing.
She hardly got to see it, however, because Mr. Carstairs was already on his way to recruit that gallant lady for another daring mission.
Fallen Dragon
by Bree Westland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Avery Beckett couldn’t have fallen any further, even if he’d dug his own grave.
Well, maybe technically he could have. Ousted from the family mansion, stripped of his status. Cast out in utter disgrace. That about covers it. His ruin almost complete.
Years of trauma surge to the forefront, leaving Avery no choice but to deal with the terrifying gift he’s been cursed with but had buried deep. The clan needs his unique brand of talents. Trouble is he’s no good for anyone else, least of all himself in his current state.
The Delahass Legacy Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Home for the Delahass family is Nolbeloir House…the home that Jeremy Delahass built for his family in the heart of America…now, years later, his family still calls it home…the Delahass Legacy still lives on…and the search for justice continues.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder of an Amish Bridegroom
by Patricia Johns
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The quiet Amish lifestyle isn’t all that it seems in this debut cozy mystery series, for fans of Amanda Flower and Wanda E. Brunstetter.
Petunia Yoder is Blueberry, Pennsylvania’s youngest old maid, at twenty-two years of age, and completely unmarriageable. But she’s determined to celebrate her friends’ weddings with joy and a full heart. Unfortunately, Petunia’s best friend, Eden Beiler, is playing a dangerous game with a man who is ruining her reputation.
Double Homicide
by Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For the first time ever, bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellermen team up to deliver the launch book in a thrilling new series of short crime novels. This book–printed as a reversible volume with two different covers–contains two stories featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities.
It’s a reader’s dream come true: a new series co-written by the royal couple of crime fiction—Jonathan and Faye Kellerman! Each book contains two novels jointly written by the duo, featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities. “In the Land of the Giants” has Boston homicide detectives Michael MacCain and Doris Sylvestor investigating the suspicious death of a college basketball star…
The Man in Black
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Supernatural Graphic Novel.
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain—and the world of the Dark Tower…presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say.
A Beautiful Place to Die
by Philip R. Craig
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
First in the series that’s “a breath of fresh air with a touch of murder most foul” – now a movie series on Hallmark Channel starring Jesse Metcalfe (Denver Rocky Mountain News).
Ex-cop J. W. Jackson searches for answers after a mysterious and deadly boat explosion on Martha’s Vineyard.
During his career as a Boston cop, Jeff “J. W.” Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha’s Vineyard to spend his days fishing for blues. But when a local’s boat mysteriously explodes off the coast, killing an amiable young drifter, Jackson finds himself reluctantly drawn back into the investigative trade.
The Cattle Kid
by William Black
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After his parents freeze to death, seventeen-year-old Garret Brassfield takes responsibility for his surviving kin and their herd of starving cattle.
It’s the Big Die Up – the worst winter in anybody’s memory.
With the little help he has left, Garret fights to spare his loved ones from a lonely, frigid death on the open range and learns the ways of ranching so they may survive.
The Master of Blacktower
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Damaris Gordon shuddered at the thought of working for the cruel and bitter Master of Blacktower – but her father’s death left her no choice. Suddenly her fate – her life itself – was in the black silk-gloved hands of Gavin Hamilton, a man scarred and tortured by an unspoken past, whose mocking laughter echoes through his ancient Scottish estate. Damaris has heard the whispers that accuse Gavin Hamilton of his wife’s death and his young daughter’s crippling injury. But the pain and sadness barely hidden behind his blazing dark stare touch Damaris deeply—and a courageous heart is luring her to the estate’s topmost tower in search of his dangerous secrets.
The Unwelcomed Child
by V. C. Andrews
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A teenage girl must uncover the truth of her birth to find the familial love she craves in this psychological thriller from a New York Times bestseller.
Elle Edwards grew up believing that because of her mother’s sinful ways she was born without a soul; that’s why she was abandoned and left in the care of Grandmother Myra and Grandfather Prescott, who try to ensure her evil will not infect them—by raising her in a virtual prison. Because her days are occupied with homeschooling, strict religious studies, and vigorous housekeeping in their upstate New York home, Elle knows practically nothing of the outside world, even as she emerges as a young woman with impressive artistic talent.
The Witch of Maracoor
by Gregory Maguire
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day series
Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz. While the Grimmerie, which she had cast into the sea, retains its arcane power over her, the lover she left behind in Oz proves no less haunting. Once bewitched, twice bewitching, Rain Ko must consider how to achieve a life less suffused with grief than the one she is enduring.
The 2 Keys To Permanent Weight Loss
by Ken Flett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
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Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Apple Caramel Mayhem
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
City Developer Murdered at Historic Castle
Anna’s Cafe is flourishing. But the town of Dolphin Bay is in uproar as a city developer proposes new construction on the scenic Coastal Walk.
Locals flock to the town meeting to protest. Hours later, the man is dead, stabbed to death in a room full of people. The police face a big challenge since everyone present had a motive to kill…
A Stranger’s Protection
by T.C. Wilson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
PARADISE IS NEVER WHAT IT SEEMS
Amber Scott’s invitation to enjoy an expense-free vacation in the Caribbean seems too good to be true. Sunshine and crystal blue waters await Amber and her sisters, all courtesy of Evan Holcomb. Two weeks of blissful splendor to relax.
Vitamin Sea, Holcomb’s luxurious estate, provides the perfect backdrop for flirtation and excitement. That is, before mysterious signals from the island’s peninsula catch their attention on the night of arrival…
Hunting Time
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In New York Times bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver’s riveting thriller, reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems.
Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he’s an expert at tracking missing persons—even those who don’t wish to be found—Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection…
The Zealot
by Simon Scarrow
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The thrilling adventures of two Roman centurions continue as they’re called to stop a threat rising in the Empire’s eastern provinces.
Trouble is brewing on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. The troops are in a deplorable state, while the corrupt behavior of their senior officers threatens to undermine the army’s control of the region. To restore competence of the men defending a vital fort, two experienced centurions are dispatched to Judea. On their arrival Cato and Macro discover that Bannus, a local tribesman, is fomenting rebellion among the followers of Jehoshua, who was crucified in Jerusalem some seventeen years earlier.
Triangle of Hope
by Michael Meyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. A tender story of love. Three strangers, each harboring a dark secret, become united by chance in a small Irish village, where the wonderful power of the human spirit comes alive. Together they take a courageous stand that will forever change their world and that around them.
Clint Westerly was a success until a fateful choice he makes tears his world all apart. Tanya Wilshire is broke but hell-bent on committing to her mother’s final deathbed request. 84-year-old Seamus Harrington needs to right an ancient wrong before times runs out.
If you believe that love and romance can happen in unusual circumstances, then this book is for you.
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Runaway Riddle
by P.C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Series Special for Hey Diddle Diddle, the Runaway Riddle along with the release of Ramsay and the Smuggling Ring
He was forced to hang up his badge. Now, a kidnapping has raced into his retirement.
England, 1960’s. Former inspector Tom Ramsay is taking advantage of having to step down. Invalided after getting shot in the line of duty, the plain-speaking man adopts a border collie and gets down to the serious business of hiking the scenic countryside of his ancestry. But after hearing over the radio about a missing local, the fifty-five-year-old ex-cop is shocked when a pleasant walk brings him face-to-face with the victim fleeing her captors.
Ramses the Damned
by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life.
Drawing Conclusions
by Donna Leon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Late one night, Guido Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate.
But he can’t shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman’s son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge of the old age home where she volunteered do little to satisfy Brunetti’s nagging curiosity. And with the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, he intends to get to the truth.