Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Company
by Deany Ray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Witness protection was supposed to make Piper Harris a boring civilian. Well . . . that didn’t quite work out.
When Ryker—the hot could-be-something-more PI—gets shot outside a flower shop right before their first date, Piper knows someone’s going to pay. Big time! And it won’t be with senior citizen discounts.
With Ryker unconscious in the hospital, fighting for his life, the investigation drags Piper, Gran, and their trouble-magnet neighbor Edie into the seedy underbelly of Bitter End…
Ninth Templar
by Don Holbrook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Ninth Templar- Guardian of the Grail
The Knights Templar died protecting a prophecy the Church could never allow. What if Christ left a message revealing humanity’s true destiny?
A Novel by Don Allen Holbrook
What if the Knights Templar were tortured and executed not for wealth… but for what they discovered beneath the Temple of Solomon?
What if the Holy Grail was never a chalice…
…but a living bloodline?
Righteous Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.”
So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure.
The Paper Palace
by Miranda Cowley Heller
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.
“This house, this place, knows all my secrets.”
It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside.
The Law is a Lady
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts zooms-in on love when a Hollywood auteur is starstruck by a woman in uniform who’s just gone to the top of his most wanted list in The Law is a Lady.
Friendly, New Mexico is the perfect setting for director Phillip Kincaid to film his latest blockbuster. But the small town hospitality he expected turns downright hostile when he finds himself behind bars for speeding—arrested by the sexiest police officer to ever slap a pair of handcuffs on him. Now, Phillip wants nothing more than to show Sheriff Victoria “Tory” Ashton how an outlaw can bring pleasurable disorder to her life.
Trial by Ambush
by Marcia Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this dramatic true account about the power of sensationalized crime, one woman’s case is exposed for its sexism, flagrant disregard for the truth, and, ultimately, the dangers posed by an unbridled prosecution.
Unwanted and neglected from birth, Barbara Graham had to overcome the odds just to survive. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse—offering her too many options of all the wrong kind. Her innate sensitivity left her vulnerable to the harsh realities of the street, where she was left to fend for herself before she reached double digits. Her record of petty crimes spoke to a life that constantly teetered on the brink of disaster.
The Second Traitor
by Alex Gerlis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The countdown to invasion begins…
It’s September 1940, and British intelligence is on high alert: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. The German navy is assembling a vast fleet in Rotterdam to ferry men and materiel across the Channel.
Meanwhile, a sinister organisation called The Group a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators is at work within the UK trying to pave the way for the Wehrmacht.
The Dragon Captured Books 1-3
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Elizabeth has always been a fighter. But when the dragons come, she’s forced to make a deal with the dragon shifter prince: Her life in exchange for the lives of her siblings. Except not everything is as it seems, and there’s more to Axel than she knows… “A well-developed enemy-to-lovers fantasy” (Kirkus Reviews).
Now you can buy the first three books in this complete dragon series in one convenient and money-saving boxset. It includes the following titles.
“This series hooked me from the very beginning and I couldn’t put it down. I loved the character development, the lore, and the twists and turns along the way. Five star read!” by Amazon Costomer
Mildred Budge in Cloverdale
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of Lovejoy and Blessed comes a series about church ladies of the South. After reading this first novel in the series, fans of Southern fiction write, “I want to live next door to Mildred Budge.”
A retired school teacher, Mildred Budge just wants to live a quiet life in her hometown of Cloverdale. But retirement does not mean she can say no to a friend–not a friend in trouble. Mildred Budge knows how. A disciplined woman, Mildred can breathe the word “no” to a second cup of ice cream. Can resist drinking too much champagne. But when it comes right down to a friend needing a favor, she may say no first, but if someone really needs her—really needs her! —she always said yes.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Blood
by Dana Stabenow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow’s next novel, Bad Blood, finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder
One hundred years of bad blood between the Alaskan villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne’er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin’s prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim.
Being Nancy
by Michele Olson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Nancy Drew convention on Mackinac Island. A stolen treasure. A mystery that suddenly becomes real.
When fans gather to celebrate the legendary sleuth Nancy Drew on beautiful Mackinac Island, they expect games, costumes, and a little nostalgic fun.
What they don’t expect is a real mystery.
When a valuable treasure disappears during the convention, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur…
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home…
Agents of Secrets and Lies
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Four heroes, four quests, one mission: save the Summer Realm
The Summer Realm is in mortal danger. Huge flying beasts have found a portal into their world and are devouring entire villages of people. And Ulysses Rasselas, Minister of Secrets and Lies, has been tasked with pulling together his agents to save it.
It’s an impossible mission, and all he’s got to work with is a thick-headed guard, a cocky thief, a reclusive mage, and a complete unknown – a witch the Guild of Mages called in from another world. But time is running out, so he deploys his team of parrots to all four corners of the realm with instruction to obtain ingredients for a unique spell the mages insist will work.
Live Flesh
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A terrifying psychological thriller that dives deep into the mind of a sexual predator.
In a remote corner of London, a woman is walking her dog when a man grabs her from behind. She screams, and her attacker flees, escaping into a nearby house, where he finds another victim. Victor Jenner has a compulsion he does not understand—to grab women, to hurt them—and he also has a gun. When it goes off, grievously wounding a police officer, it marks the beginning of a long stretch in jail for Victor.
The Paladin
by David Ignatius
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge.… David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff.” —Lee Child
In this latest novel from the “dean of international intrigue” (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick, and indiscriminate, the group steals secrets from everywhere and anyone, and exploits them in ways the CIA can neither understand nor stop.
Amish Blast Investigation
by Debby Giusti
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A deadly explosion. A dangerous search for the truth.
After an explosion rocks Becca Klein’s bakery and kills one of her customers, she teams up with the victim’s son to find justice. Though estranged from his father, Englischer Luke Snyder is compelled to help the Amish woman uncover why his father died. But ruthless killers believe Luke’s father gave Becca something they want, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it. Can Luke keep Becca safe until they discover the truth?
Evil in High Places
by Rory Clements
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
HOW DO YOU CATCH A KILLER WHO BELIEVES THEY’RE ABOVE JUSITCE?
Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.
A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.
Conjuring the Hurricane
by Sarah Hanson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Sarah Hanson realized she had to leave her abusive relationship, she didn’t have a plan. She had fear, instinct, and a body that had learned how to survive.
Conjuring the Hurricane is a survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that’s killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. Told in fragments that mirror the way trauma lives in the body, the book traces the nonlinear work of reclaiming identity, trust, and agency after abuse.