Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cruel Intent
by J.A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
On a dating site, SingleatHeart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these “married singles” are flirting with more than just their vows. At the heart of this seemingly innocent service, a vengeful computer hacker is playing games with people’s lives…and deaths.
Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement. In the midst of a remodel, the last thing she expects is a murder investigation that will stop the construction on her home. But when the savagely murdered body of stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Ali’s contractor Bryan is the prime suspect…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Riptide
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth’s mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn’t letting them go–without a fight.
Rotten Tommy
by David Sodergren
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s been forty years since Becky Sharp’s mother vanished without a trace. Becky has given up all hope of finding her, until she makes a strange discovery that may hold the key to solving her mother’s disappearance.
Three unmarked videotapes, hidden in the wall of her childhood home. And as Becky watches the tapes, she finds herself drawn into a horrific mystery far greater than she could possibly have imagined.
For Becky has unwittingly summoned a long-forgotten nightmare — a creature that threatens the lives and sanity of all around her. Rotten Tommy has come to play… and nothing on Earth can sate his diabolical bloodlust.
The Sixth Kingdom
by pdmac
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Sixth Kingdom is the center of the known world. It is the repository of the all knowledge and secrets, and the heart of arcane wizardry. It is the College, the arbiter and enforcer of world peace. It’s also the place to learn magic, perfect deadly warrior skills, or bond with dragons.
Comprised of four Castes, the College accepts only the best and brightest of those who can afford to send their children to the hallowed halls of destiny where they are groomed to assume their future roles in each of the five kingdoms.
The Ultimate Urban Druid Collection
by Auburn Tempest , Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic has a price. Fiona Cumhaill is about to learn exactly how steep.
Running her family’s Irish pub in Toronto was all Fiona ever wanted, until a midnight attack left her marked with burning druid symbols. Now she sees the city’s hidden realm, where ancient spirits prowl and dark forces gather strength.
Her father buried their supernatural heritage for decades, but there’s no hiding from destiny. When a shadowy organization begins sacrificing innocents for their magic, they set their sights on Fiona’s newfound power—and they’re holding her family hostage.
Never Sleep with Strangers
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Four years ago, while vacationing at their country estate in Scotland, Jon Stuart watched his wife plummet from the balcony to a horrific death. Although cleared of any involvement, he’s endured years of public suspicion—losing friends and his good standing in the community. But this was no accident, and now he’s determined to prove it was murder.
Orchestrating a dangerous plan, Jon has gathered the prime suspects at the scene of the crime. The stage is set as past and present collide, old lovers reunite…and a killer plots another perfect crime.
Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow
by Tilly Bagshawe
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a crime spanning generations, it seems L.A. psychologist Nikki Roberts knows all too much—and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence.
A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating. A decade later, L.A. is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist Nikki Roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web. When someone makes an attempt on Nikki’s life, it’s clear she is a marked woman.
Dread Tribunal of Last Resort
by Brian Kaufman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Decker Brown is a proud young Virginian, Boston-educated, with plans to manufacture fireworks and raise a family.
He loves Paula Crane, the daughter of a Virginia flour mill owner. When the country is divided by Civil War, their loyalty to each other is put to the ultimate test. Decker believes in the Republic’s promise of liberty. Paula can’t imagine taking up arms against her friends and neighbors.
What happens when the runaway train of history shatters every hope for the future?
Tom Clancy Defense Protocol
by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
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For decades, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. An independent nation to the rest of the world, it is considered a rogue province by the PRC. Previous governments have tried to conquer the island using economic force and diplomatic pressure, but new Chinese President Li Jian Jun is done fooling around. He’s devised a secret military operation to take the island. Only one man knows how to stop Li’s mad and bloody plan for reunification and that’s Minister of Defense Qin Haiyu. Fearing for his life and the safety of his family, Qin covertly makes contact with the CIA in Beijing and signals his desire to defect to the West.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Comes to Marlow
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
BBCOne show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle author), along with Becks the vicar’s wife, and Susie the dogwalker find themselves in a head-scratching, utterly clever country house, locked-room murder mystery.
Holiday festivities are now January doldrums when Judith gets a call—Sir Peter Bailey, a prominent Marlovian is inviting notable citizens to his house the day before his wedding to celebrate.
Kitten Quest
by LJ Peace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Family friendly action and adventure with a twist of science fiction. The Golden Rule rules in this family friendly tale.
Kitten Quest is about an imaginative girl who finds adventure each summer in the special town of Cliffside. This time around, she must save a sweet kitten from the clutches of an evil bird named Buzz. You will also meet some rather creepy kittens, a very mad professor, and a strange artificial intelligence going by the name of Tinman. And that is just the start. There are monsters afoot.
On top of all that stuff, Crissy has to face a tangle of issues all twisted up within a troubled friendship. Issues like anger, envy, and arrogance. For a girl like Crissy, who loves action, the Golden Rule’s love-in-action foundation will definitely help with all of that…
Remains of Innocence
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner…
Power Play
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiancé, George McCallum, Viscount Lockenby, has died in a car accident, and mysterious rumors begin that she’s responsible begin to surface: she broke off the engagement and, heartbroken, he killed himself. Then someone tries to force her off the M-2 outside London. Again, rumors claim it was a sympathy ploy. When she returns to the United States, she’s nearly killed when a car tries to mow her down while she’s out for a run. No one believes her except FBI Special Agent Davis Sullivan.
C.O.R.P.S.E. Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What happens when the world’s deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?
Tina Harrington was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E. – until she was killed.
But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.
To survive, the android must learn how to blend in with society, acquire resources, and avoid detection – all while trying to uncover the truth about Tina’s death.
The Family Trip
by Daniel Hurst
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
How can a whole family go missing?
Everybody wants to be like the Conways – beautiful and rich with an enviable lifestyle. Rosalind and Donovan have everything most people dream of. But on a family trip to Ireland – the place where they fell in love – the secrets of their complicated past begin to unravel.
Nothing about the Conways is as it seems. Then Rosalind, Donovan and their eight-year-old son Barnaby all go missing.
Over the Edge
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn’t five years ago.
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour
by Brett Battles
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another heart-pounding Hollywood-fueled adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Notorious Nutcracker Case
by Nancy Pennick
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s time for the first Christmas market at The Pearl Hotel, but when the festivities take a sinister turn, bestselling author and amateur sleuth, Serena Tate, must help find the assailant before they strike again.
When Serena Tate’s twin daughters propose a unique holiday venture to Nina Takeda, the owner of The Pearl Hotel, Serena is reluctant to give her approval. Her friends, Mia and Lily, support the girls’ plan, so Serena changes her opinion, and The Merry and Bright Christmas Market is underway…
Prime Suspects
by Stephen Penner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-society dinner. Served with a side of murder. When successful real estate entrepreneur Alexandra Pruitt is poisoned at her own retirement dinner, there are many suspects to choose from. Too many.
Alexandra’s long-term boyfriend and the five women Alexandra mentored over the years all have reasons to want her dead. The police quickly pick the most obvious, one of Alexandra’s mentees, Meredith Beauchamp…
Within These Haunted Walls
by Kit Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some doors should never be opened…
The Harper family thought they’d found a fresh start when they moved to a quiet house deep in the Appalachian woods. But the house has a dark past, and its secrets are far from buried. Strange sounds, eerie whispers, and unexplainable events soon shatter their hopes for peace.
As the Harpers struggle to hold onto their sanity, they realize they’ve been drawn into the grasp of something—or someone—that won’t let them go. A presence lingers, its purpose clear: to pull them deeper into the darkness.
Under Her Skin
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She invited a stranger into her home. Now he won’t leave. When her teenage son gets into trouble with some very dangerous people, Natasha knows they need to flee the city. But where can they go?
Out of the blue, she receives an inheritance that seems the answer to her prayers. A distant relative has left her a house, deep in the countryside.
It needs a lot of work, but to Natasha it feels heaven-sent – the perfect place to keep her son safe and soothe her crushing anxiety…
The Author’s Guide to Murder
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour…
Every Breath You Take
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller.
“If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.”
In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim’s request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush – a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor..
The Footprints of God
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Trinity. The government’s top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity’s worst fears. At the heart of a maelstrom of limitless science and ruthless ambition, Dr. David Tennant,
Project Trinity’s ethicist, harbors a lethal secret: he knows who murdered a fellow scientist. Fleeing for his life alongside psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, the only hope for survival lies in revealing the shocking connection between Trinity’s apocalyptic power and David’s tortured mind. Mankind’s future hangs in the balance—and the price of failure is extinction.
Bellevue
by Robin Cook
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
From the bestselling author and “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine.
Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he’s always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murders
by Laurinda Wallace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Gracie Andersen’s friend, Marci is opening The Mistletoe Bed-and-Breakfast after months of restoring the crumbling Victorian estate outside of the Western New York village. The grim history has captured the interest of the travel world and local residents. The house begins to reveal its macabre past on the cusp of the B & B’s opening, enmeshing Gracie and her husband, Marc into investigating crimes both past and present. Does evil still lurk under the Mistletoe?
Beneath the Skin
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don’t seem to think so. Now, with no clear suspect and amid the growing threat of violence, the victims become the accused as authorities dig into their backgrounds for clues as to why they might have attracted the unrelenting attention of a killer…
Mr. Shivers
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Discover Robert Jackson Bennett’s stunning debut, “set during the Great Depression and reading like a collaboration between Stephen King and John Steinbeck” (Publishers Weekly — starred review).
In the ruins of the Dust Bowl, thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only: Revenge.
Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly’s daughter.
The Lost City of Z
by David Grann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado…
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
by Stephen Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth
For decades, H. P. Lovecraft’s masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today’s most prominent and well-respected horror authors—the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes. Included is Lovecraft’s own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
All Through The Night
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.
All of Alvirah’s deductive powers and Willy’s world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears…
Never Never
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning…they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.
But the more they learn about the couple they used to be…the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.