Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Sealed with a Hiss
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Spring is in full bloom, and everything is blossoming just right for Harry in Crozet, Virginia. Restorations to the long-shuttered local segregated school are nearly complete, and the school will be renamed to commemorate an important community member. To honor the former students, Harry and her friends are hard at work planning a reunion. It’s a big affair, and the crew spends their days hanging plaques at the gym, arranging food, and writing speeches.
But the fifteen acres behind the school are enticing for more than just a school reunion. One realtor soon reveals plans to buy the land and build over it—unless the crew can find a way to stop the sale.
The Girlfriend
by Michelle Frances
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s selfish. She’s conniving. She’s a liar. She’s coming to dinner. Meet THE GIRLFRIEND.
Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three-year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, handsome, and talented. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful, and smart but hasn’t led Laura’s golden life. And she wants it.
When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever…
Heather Graham Krewe of Hunters Series Volume 1
by Heather Graham
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
See whereand howthis elite group first began. Read the first four Krewe books and see why Publishers Weekly says Heather Graham “stands at the top of the romantic suspense category.”
PHANTOM EVIL
HEART OF EVIL
SACRED EVIL
THE EVIL INSIDE
A Place of Darkness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone.
It’s taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life.
Everything seems to be under control until a strange telephone message and envelope set in motion a series of events that could once again destabilize Vigo’s fragile mental equilibrium.
Will Vigo overcome this final, life-threatening challenge, or is his world about to unravel?
The Hexslinger Series
by Gemma Files
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An omnibus edition of the trilogy that’s “chock full of hellish horrors” (Mike Allen, author of Unseaming).
Saddle up for a wild ride through “boundary-busting horror-fantasy . . . [that] fully delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills” (Publishers Weekly).
A Book of Tongues
A Rope of Thorns
A Tree of Bones
The Perfect Husband
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jim Beckett was everything she’d ever dreamed of. . . . But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins.
After a lifetime of fear, Tess will do something she’s never done before. She’s going to learn to protect her daughter and fight back, with the help of a burned-out ex-marine…
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A perfect murder… until it isn’t.
Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Anatomy of an Alibi
by Ashley Elston
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Everyone at Chantilly’s Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn’t Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price.
Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life; she’s married to hotshot lawyer Ben and is the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana family. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can’t find proof because he tracks her every move.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Summer of the Dragon
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent on a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbot to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects, from alien conspiracy studies to a hunt for dragon bones?
There’s even talk of treasure buried in the nearby mountains, but D.J. isn’t going to allow loose speculation—or the considerable charms of handsome professional treasure hunter Jesse Franklin—to sidetrack her. Until Hunnicutt suffers a mysterious accident and then vanishes, leaving the weirdos gathered at his spread to eye each other with frightened suspicion.
EMP The Day the World Went Quiet
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Molly’s first day back at school.
Madison’s first time letting go.
Then the lights went out… and America died.
Now highways are graveyards. Cities burn. And a mother must cross hell itself to reach her daughter before it’s too late. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps her alive.
The Hometown Hero
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eighteen years ago his father disappeared, and Owen swore to keep that night a secret. But sometimes, secrets get revealed in the most scandalous of ways.
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a shocking O’Connell family novel that is filled with family secrets, romance and suspense when a brother’s secret is exposed, opening up old wounds and creating a scandal that could rock the community.
Dead Air
by Mary L. Hamilton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Finalist in 2024 Selah contest
2nd Place in 2024 Christian Indie Awards Mystery/Suspense
When the bullets stop, the real mystery begins… Kit Squires’ life is already unraveling. The sole provider for her family, she struggles to keep her household afloat after her husband, Jeff, lost his job at a local radio station. But a shocking on-air shooting leaves two dead and one critically injured–and Jeff is the prime suspect.
The surviving witness places him at the scene. Jeff can offer no defense because hours later, his body is discovered, an apparent suicide. How could the man Kit married–the father of her children–be capable of such cold-blooded violence?
Perfect for fans of Terri Blackstock, Colleen Coble, and Lynette Eason, Dead Air is a heart-pounding suspense novel filled with mystery, emotional depth, and an unshakeable search for truth.
Blue Heaven
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blue Heaven is the break-out novel from C. J. Box, the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series.
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives.
Retired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there’s nowhere left for William and Annie to hide…and no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins.
The Quaker
by Liam McIlvanney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades. But it is something else that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer is at large. The brutality of The Quaker’s latest murder— a young woman snatched from a nightclub, her body dumped like trash in the back of a cold-water tenement—has the city trembling with fear, and the police investigation seems to be going nowhere.
Duncan McCormick, a talented young detective from the Highlands, is brought into the investigation to identify where it’s gone wrong…
Summer Cowboy Complete Novella Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Stories about a centuries-old cowboy ranch house and the intriguing legend that goes with it…unexpected danger…heartbreaking loss…and a love that survives it all.
Penny Fountaine hadn’t looked forward to the trip west to Utah several months ago. She enjoyed living in the city and knew that starting over again on this sprawling ranch surrounded by trees and enchanting fields of gorgeous flowers would be completely different. As her mother often said…it would be an adjustment, requiring a strong will, a patient heart, and an adventurous spirit, especially since the ranch house literally sprawled in every direction possible.
Now, there was another adjustment she needed to fit into her life…
The Friend of the Family
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers…