Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Shadow of the Solstice
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.
The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official’s arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste. Is it coincidence that a cult with a propensity for violence arrives at a private camp group outside Shiprock the same week to celebrate the summer solstice?
Bone Dry
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Carver Harding grew up watching his father save lives with one hand and ruin them with the other. Once a respected frontier doctor, he was disgraced by opium and met a violent end. Carver swore he’d never follow in his footsteps.
Six year later, he’s just a ranch hand. That’s how he wants it. No responsibility. No mistakes that can’t be taken back.
Then the creek dries up, and people start getting sick. It doesn’t take long to uncover the problem. The town’s wealthiest man is also its greediest. Gareth Sutton is building an illegal dam upstream, choking off the water and daring anyone to stop him.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own. But a price must be paid for the Landons to continue their powerful hold on the town, and Addison’s unborn child is the fee.
Stars of Mithra Complete Collection
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three best friends, three priceless gems…one ruthless killer. Don’t miss the complete Stars of Mithra trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts!
HIDDEN STAR
CAPTIVE STAR
SECRET STAR
Spook
by Mary Roach
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?” In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
Hurricane Hawkins
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
He was meant to hang at noon. Then a lone rider came with a letter – and a chance at redemption.
Once a notorious outlaw, Hurricane Hawkins was ready to meet his end. But the gallows release him on one condition: hunt down and annihilate the Deadly Eight, a fearsome gang terrorizing the frontier, or swing for his crimes. He lived a life of crime. Now is his chance to be forgiven and start over.
Sheriff Avery and U.S. Marshal Virgil offer him freedom in exchange for… the impossible. Become their secret agent, destroy the gang, and earn forgiveness – or die trying.
UNSTUCK
by Britannica Silkslate
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
UNSTUCK is for people who know what they want, yet still hesitate, overthink, procrastinate, or pull back when progress is finally within reach.
You may understand your patterns. You may have read the books, tried the advice, and promised yourself you would “do better next time.” And yet the same cycle keeps repeating. Not because you lack discipline or ambition, but because your mind is defaulting to old protective responses that no longer fit the life you are trying to build.
If you have ever asked yourself why you keep getting in your own way, this book offers a clear, compassionate explanation. You are not broken. Your brain is doing what it learned to do under pressure, fear, and uncertainty.
Tourist
by Timothy Strong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Leaving a mental hospital for the second time, Jake returns to his hometown of Lake Placid amidst the frenzy leading up to the 1980 Winter Olympics.
His best friend Barney fell to his death while building condos to house the tourists attending the games. Conscious of the privilege and wealth surrounding the international competitions, Jake is confronted by the stigma that surrounds mental illness, compounded by the stigma of poverty…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Cheddar Luck Next Time
by Beth Cato
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A cozy cheese-scented mystery with delightful characters, a dash of murder and tons of intrigue, perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and The Maid.
Bird Nichols moves to a quiet, quirky Californian town in hopes of a fresh start. With an autismdriven special interest in cheese, all she wants to do is grow her gourmet cheese board business and live out the rest of her life in peace, a plan that is suddenly upended when she stumbles across a body not too far from her new home…
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
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She stole his world. He’s got twenty-four hours to get it back.
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love—one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country…
Surrender the Dead
by John Burley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy comes a chilling psychological thriller about a family and community divided by tragedy, and the dark secrets that will set their town aflame.
When Erin Reece left Wolf Point fifteen years ago after graduating high school, she’d planned to never set foot in her childhood hometown again. But an urgent phone call from her father’s doctor leaves Erin with no choice but to return to a place filled with painful memories and wounds that never closed. Two decades ago, people in Wolf Point started disappearing without a trace—including Erin’s mother—and no explanation was ever found.
Oriceran Tales of Retribution and Pixies
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
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Victoria Brie’s life was coming together. She has everything that matters… until an elf brought her world crashing down.
Z Thornbrook and her eccentric pixie cousins caused a little bit too much trouble on Earth. Now they’re facing the music: joing a new program for magical Army soliders, or return to Oriceran and stay there. The Army may never be the same.
Get two complete series—12 books and more than 2500 pages—with this Oriceran Collection!
Chasing the Night
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A forensic sculptor faces her own grief when working a kidnapping case in this thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can’t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her—and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie.
The Peabrain Adventures Complete Series
by Martha Roo, Martha Carr
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Magic is real. Austin is weird. And Maggie Parker just found out the world is a malfunctioning star-ship running out of time.
Maggie Parker always thought the strangest thing in her garage was the old toolbox she inherited. That was before the puzzle box inside it started humming, the grackles began talking back, and a gnome named Bernie marched in with a wrench and an attitude.
Turns out, Earth isn’t a planet. It’s a damaged ship. And Maggie—armed with a stubborn streak, a sarcastic sense of humor, and the legendary Magic Compass—is the only one who can keep it from falling apart.
The Waters of Eternal Youth
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The twenty-fifth mystery in the New York Times–bestselling series “is cause for celebration. . . . Leon brilliantly exposes the corrupt world of Venice” (Bay Area Reporter).
At a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness asks Brunetti if he will investigate the fifteen-year-old attempted drowning of her granddaughter, which left the girl irreparably brain damaged. Brunetti’s not sure what to do, but out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked older woman—who happens to be his mother-in-law’s best friend—he agrees.
Private Rome
by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
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This thrilling addition to the bestselling Private series transports readers inside the halls of the Vatican itself when a priest is murdered—and the new lead agent at Private is the number one suspect. Jack Morgan, ex-Marine helicopter pilot and CIA agent, is in Italy to open the latest outpost of his international private investigation firm. Its wealthy client base demands maximum force and maximum discretion. But when a priest is murdered at the firm’s opening party, Morgan and Matteo Ricci—a decorated former Rome police inspector, now Morgan’s newly appointed deputy—come under intense scrutiny.