Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Clause of Death
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce. Things are changing in the booktown, and some merchants would say not for the better. They grumble that too many non-book-related stores are moving into the village, taking up the most visible storefronts on Main Street, diluting the “Booktown” moniker. Of course, the members with other businesses, like the latest, The Bee’s Knees, are fine with other businesses moving in. No matter what side of the argument they’re on, all the business owners agree on one thing: Tricia and Angelica are to blame…
Kringle Classified Ops Complete Series Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A jolly guardian. A sinister collective. Christmas hangs in the balance.
Meet Kris Kringle. Behind the cheerful facade lies a skilled warrior with a mission: to protect the joy and spirit of Christmas from those who seek to destroy it.
Grab this complete series boxed set and join Kris Kringle as he defends Christmas from Christmas haters!
Chaos
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Even before Scarpetta’s headquarters has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta’s FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol.
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Taken
by Dan Lawton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nine-year-old Chloe Janis is missing.
Abby, her mom, is now faced with an impossible decision—revealing seventeen-year-old secrets she’s kept hidden, or losing her daughter forever.
Everything unravels after Abby receives a cryptic message from a man from her past, someone she’d tried to erase from her memory. But now, he’s back. And he’s done the unthinkable…
Love Lies Bleeding
by Jess McConkey
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.6 #ad
the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and TheLovely Bones by Alice Sebold comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (aka award-winning author Shirley Damsgaard) enthralls with her ingenious blending of family drama and gripping mystery. Suspenseful and absolutely chilling, Love Lies Bleeding grabs hold of the reader from page one, as a young woman whose golden life is shattered by unexpected violence is sent to a small, secluded lake town in Northern Minnesota to recover—and soon suspects the town’s eccentric residents are hiding more than one truly frightening secret.
EMP The Quiet Hideaway
by William Stone
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one believed her. When an EMP cripples the nation, Meghan is one of the few prepared to survive.
When the EMP hits, Captain Meghan Prescott loses everything except the skills her grandfather taught her. With the city descending into chaos, she sets out alone toward a distant prepper homestead, where her daughter might still be safe. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, a mother’s love is the hope that keeps her alive.
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm
by Richard Estep, Robert Graves
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm provides detailed insights from the original criminal investigation as well as the perspectives of the man who survived Herb’s attempt on his life. This chilling book also features actual supernatural evidence – from EVPs and psychic confirmations to first-hand accounts of the disembodied hands and voices that regularly manifest on the estate.
Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least eleven men, has a grim past and an unsettling present.
Considering Kate
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kate Stanislaski Kimball is done with glamour and fame; she has come home to make a fresh start. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful—dilapidated—building she’s bought for her new dance school is Brody O’Connell, the frustrating and surprisingly fascinating contractor she’s hired for the renovation. As a single father, Brody is determined to resist Kate’s effortless allure. But how long can a man hold out against his own heart?
Fellowship of the Frazzled Moms
by Stephanie Paige King
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad9
Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but what if it only takes a cul-de-sac? After fifteen years of raising her own kids, Dana is now lending a hand to her neighbor, a new mom of triplets, who is drowning in diapers and self-doubt. Dana’s is a charmed— albeit loud and chaotic—life until she discovers her disoriented father on a peculiar neighborhood caper, and her husband is nowhere to be found when she needs his help. Now she must get to the bottom of her dad’s mental decline and solve the mystery of her husband’s sudden preoccupation with his career.
As if Josie weren’t already frazzled by caring for three infants, a family engagement spearheaded by her controlling mother sends her into a tailspin. She and Dana join forces across their cul-de-sac to build a community of moms in the same boat, desperate for support and sisterhood. Before long, one mom’s simple act of crossing the street sparks change for an entire west Texas community.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Innocent Wife
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A chilling, emotionally charged domestic thriller with a jaw-dropping twist. The Innocent Wife is perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Girl on the Train.
In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…
Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes…
Echoes of the neXt
by KaCee Bunn-Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In a fractured future where memory is currency and signal is sacred, the world shudders beneath the ghost-code of its own forgotten past.
Ten years after she vanished, Gloria Carter—now called Glow—reawakens into a world rewritten by recursion. She carries something no one else does: a pure shard of Pandora’s original signal, untainted and impossibly alive. Hunted by the Crimson Grid and haunted by versions of herself that never lived, Glow must navigate a collapsing reality where every choice echoes through time like a loaded question…
Kingdom of the Blind
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman…
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Lullaby Town
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Hollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.
His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third-biggest filmmaker in America. It’s the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep—until it turns out to be a nightmare…
Through the Wall
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family.
Martin Brand always had a dark sense of humor. Surrounded by relatives he despised, he looked forward to the day when, dead and buried, he would no longer have to concern himself with them. As a last joke, he willed his entire fortune to a poor relation, and went to his grave a smiling man.
After years of toil caring for her layabout sister, Marion Brand is shocked to learn her unknown uncle has left her his estate.
Portrait in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces a serial killer who offers his victims eternal youth by taking their life…
After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn’t a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered.
V2: A novel of World War II
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny on the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
The Arrangement
by Robyn Harding
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not go online and find a sugar daddy—a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do it, Nat learns. All that’s required is to look pretty and hang on his every word. Sexual favors are optional.
Though more than thirty years her senior, Gabe, a handsome corporate finance attorney, seems like the perfect candidate, and within a month, they are madly in love. At least, Nat is…Gabe already has a family, whom he has no intention of leaving.
Ciao, Amore, Ciao
by Sandro Martini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An enthralling dual-timeline WWII family mystery, based on the heartbreaking true story of the massacre in a small town in Italy in July of 1945, from award-winning, bestselling novelist Sandro Martini.
“A gripping saga that roots excruciating betrayals in a nation’s tragic history.” – Kirkus Reviews
In the winter of 1942, an Italian army of young men vanishes in the icefields of the Eastern Front. In the summer of 1945, a massacre in Schio, northeastern Italy, where families grieve the dead, makes international headlines.
In present-day Veneto, an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret…
Rowena and the Viking Warlord
by Melodie Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
He was her enemy and her lover…
As Cedric fights battles down south, Rowena unwittingly rides into an enemy war camp and is taken prisoner by her old friend Lars, who is not what he seems.
Yet Rowena is not helpless. After all, she is a hereditary half-witch with a whole lot of magic in her. Too bad she doesn’t know how to use it. Escaping from the camp, she continues to botch up spell after spell. Soon Kendra joins her on the trek back to Huel, along with the latest magical mistake, a flame-burping dragon called Cinders.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Mardi Gras Murder
by Ellen Byron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Southern charm meets the dark mystery of the bayou as a hundred-year flood, a malicious murder, and a most unusual Mardi Gras converge at the Crozat Plantation B&B
It’s Mardi Gras season on the bayou, which means parades, pageantry, and gumbo galore. But when a flood upends life in the tiny town of Pelican, Louisiana—and deposits a body of a stranger behind the Crozat Plantation B&B—the celebration takes a decidedly dark turn. The citizens of Pelican are ready to, “Laissez les bon temps rouler”—but there’s beaucoup bad blood on hand this Mardi Gras.
The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck
by Tarquin Hall
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Detective, learns he’s won the long-coveted International Detective of the Year award, it’s supposed to be a secret. But within hours, it seems all of Delhi knows – and his indomitable Mummy-ji announces she’ll be coming with him to the ceremony in London, never mind that she’s not been invited.
To add to his woes, a senior government bureaucrat gives him an undercover mission he can’t refuse. Puri is tasked with tracking down India’s most-wanted fugitive: a billionaire pharmaceutical fraudster codenamed Bombay Duck, who’s rumoured to be hiding in the British capital.
Lie Lie Truth
by James Caine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My father was a serial killer—or so I thought.
My dad, Dennis Kempmen, had his quirks but was respected in our small town. That was until children began disappearing and he became the main suspect. I started to believe what others were saying: My father was a killer.
Then it happens again. A little girl disappears in a similar way the others were taken. Everything I thought I knew is revealed to be a lie…
The Murder Machine
by Heather Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent.
This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner’s lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn’t leave any fingerprints?
Origin
by Dan Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon’s first students.
But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced to flee…
Cold Cases
by Cheyna Roth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Examine the evidence in this volume of notorious true crimes that remain unsolved, from mystifying heists to shocking murders and more.
Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world’s most famous cold cases. Written for true crime junkies and armchair detectives, this book delves into the investigations of JonBenét Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more. Each chapter examines the facts, while also illuminating the many theories surrounding these baffling cases…
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Winter’s Cross
by Willow Mara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Elle Mitchell, from one of the premier witch families, is looking forward to her thirtieth birthday, when she will finally receive her witch powers.
Before her birthday arrives, though, she inherits Winter’s Cross Manor and village, along with enough money to bring the village back to a thriving community. That’s easier said than done, however, when the village consists of one old lady and a few dilapidated buildings.
That’s not the only surprise in store for Elle.
A Relative Murder
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Even the closest families have secrets hidden away.
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations.
The Vengeance of Love
by LoriO
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A survivor driven by vengeance. A noble aching for freedom. When their worlds collide, love might be the most dangerous path of all.
Mina is the last of her kind, the sole survivor of Velho, a city once blessed by the God and reduced to ruin. For years, she’s hunted the man responsible for her people’s slaughter, guided by vengeance and the divine path she believes she must follow.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Escape
by Brian Freeman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Releas #ad
The death of a lover plunges Bourne into a maelstrom of violence and deceit in this latest installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He’s happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Love in a Nutshell
by Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory…
The First Patient
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #adv
From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine. . . .
Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe’s Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request..
The Witch And The Volcano
by Daniel Sugar
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Daniel Sugar has written for a number of celebrities, and several TV shows, including “The Tonight Show”. He is the author of “The Lives of Lilly Parris” time travel series.
As the eruption of Vesuvius nears, Lilly Parris tries to save a famous Roman admiral.
“The Witch and the Volcano” is a fast-paced, brand-new take on the last days of Pompeii.
Naked Came the Phoenix Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“An all-star lineup of 13 women mystery authors has produced one madcap, murderous tale” in this serial novel by Nevada Barr, JD Robb, and others (Publishers Weekly).
The promise of discretion and pampering—and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother—draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa’s flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered. As the secrets come out, and the body count rises, can Caroline keep herself from becoming the next victim?
Undone
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky—and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. But then a tortured young woman becomes a patient in her ER. . . .
In the backwoods of suburban Atlanta, where Sara’s patient was found, local police have set up their investigation. But Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective Will Trent doesn’t wait for the go-ahead from his boss—he plunges through police lines, single-handedly exposing a hidden house of horror buried beneath the earth . . . and then finds another victim.
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.
Jack
by R.P. Howley, Daniel Willcocks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A town steeped in tradition. A festival built on hope. A legend that refuses to die. Charli Clarke never wanted to visit Brackenholt, a secluded town in the middle of nowhere. She never wanted to spend a weekend picking pumpkins. She never wanted to leave the city behind.
But her fiancé and twin brother had other ideas. They promised her countryside charm, crisp air, and a weekend of peace. What they got was something else entirely. The town is too quiet. The villagers whisper the legend of ‘Jack.’ And as Halloween approaches, Brackenholt’s strange harvest ritual take a terrifying turn.
The Lost City of the Monkey God
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization — culminating in a stunning medical mystery.
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.
Napoleon’s Shadow Wife
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
First Place Winner, Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards, Goethe Category
Embark on a voyage through unconditional love, power, and betrayal!
How could an emperor like Napoleon Bonaparte be so captivated by the twenty-year-old Polish Countess Marie Walewska – admittedly a rare beauty but of minor nobility – that their affair would last through both his marriages? And if it wasn’t romance that first drew Marie to Napoleon, what was it?
Force of Nature
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it – like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it – by targeting Nate’s friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett, and Pickett’s entire family. The only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn’t sure about his straight-arrow friend. And all their lives could depend on it.
An Alpha’s Mate
by Bree Westland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #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…