Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Magic Hour
by Susan Isaacs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Magic hour. That perfect time, that fleeting hour of enchanted light near dusk and dawn that is perfect for moviemaking, perfect for making love. Perfect for murder.
And into the magic hour steps Stephen Brady, wise guy, tough guy, local farm boy turned homicide cop, and a good man with a very bad life. But just as his luck is about to change, the rich, gifted, and urbane filmmaker Sy Spencer is murdered, and Brady discovers that his prime suspect is a woman he and the victim shared.
Obey The Vampire
by Samantha Cross
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
After a brutal breakup and the loss of her job, Libby Kang has no choice but to return to her hometown of Whisper Hills, crashing in her best friend Anna’s spare room with nothing but regrets and sleepless nights.
But Whisper Hills isn’t the town she remembers.
A local girl turns up dead. Then another. Both bodies mutilated, marked with wounds that look disturbingly like bite marks. The police stay silent. The town whispers of shadows lurking just beyond the light. And Libby can’t shake the chilling feeling that unseen eyes are watching her…
It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A woman returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unfolded 20 years ago—and is waiting to engulf her again. For fans of J.T. Ellison, Paula Hawkins, Karin Slaughter, and Riley Sager.
The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family.
The Railway Murders
by J. R. Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger…
When a film shoot on Wharfedale’s vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd’s idyllic visit to the countryside with his partner Deborah is well and truly stopped in its tracks. One of the film’s stars has been shot dead in a train carriage while the cameras rolled outside. But nobody else went in—or came out. Has the killer really pulled off the perfect, impossible crime?
Scouring the victim’s past for clues, Oldroyd soon unearths a string of heartbroken lovers and a mountain of unpaid debts, each adding to the growing list of suspects. But before he can determine who the culprit is, there’s the small matter of figuring out how they did it. A potential connection to a previous tragedy offers Oldroyd a much-needed lead…
Life Beyond the Grid
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one believed him. When an EMP cripples the nation, Charlie is one of the few prepared to survive.
What would you risk to save your family?
Former United States Department of Defense contractor Charlie Owens resigned from his position with the government to live a life off-grid. After building a cabin on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, the detonation of an EMP sets into motion a series of events that will test Charlie and his family in ways he never imagined.
Triple
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust. . . .
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But is it? She’s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she’s beginning to miss London.
And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.
Disrupt Everything – and Win
by James Patterson, Patrick Leddin PhD
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Disruption is the most powerful force of change in our lifetime.
Every day we are confronted with: Sudden pivots at our workplace and in the job market; Rule-changing technology such as Artificial Intelligence; Unexpected crises and a culture of chaos; The sinking feeling that we are losing control of our lives
This book is about taking back control. It’s easy to follow and easy to turn into lifelong habits. It has been thoroughly researched and examined. Simply put, Disrupt Everything works.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized.
To help her, Kate must try to solve the mystery of what happened to both her granddaughter and her daughter but to do so she must reconnect with family and friends she hasn’t seen or wanted to see in years. What Kate finds leads her to reexamine her life, her relationships, and what she truly believes. Meanwhile she finds she is not the only one seeking Glory.
Galway Girl
by Ken Bruen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. ‘
The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very different styles, but who are united their common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ring leader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover, and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past.
Just the Nicest Couple
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found.
Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her husband, Christian, the two decide that nobody can find out what happened leading up to Jake’s disappearance, especially not Nina. But Nina is out there looking for her husband, and she won’t stop until the truth is discovered.
In Her Shadow
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every room has a secret. Every secret has a price.
Rachel thought marrying Lucas Price would be the beginning of her happily ever after. Instead, moving into Crestwood, his sprawling seaside estate, feels more like stepping into a nightmare.
The shadow of his first wife, Eliza—who died in a tragic fall from the cliffs—haunts every corner of their new home. When ghostly apparitions begin appearing and mysterious messages warn Rachel to leave, she questions her own sanity.
Lucas dismisses her fears and refuses to discuss what happened to Eliza, leaving Rachel isolated and paranoid. Desperate to get to the truth, she starts to investigate Eliza’s death.
Night Shadows
by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.
A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to.
Tom Naylor Trilogy
by Trevor Negus
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tom Naylor – a good cop with a deadly skill.
Nottingham 1990. Ex-paratrooper Tom Naylor is a sniper in the Special Operations Unit, the dedicated firearms response teams of the Nottinghamshire Police.
Each book in this gripping trilogy focuses on a single case:
Two Wrongs
The Root of All Evil
The Cause
Elegy for Eddie
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series – “less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power.
Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death
Wild Witch
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: New Release #ad
Ginger fled her hometown three years ago with her high school sweetheart. Now, she returns to face the betrayal she left behind and to make amends with that former boyfriend she ultimately abandoned. But things change slowly in a small town, and she has to decide whether to face the rumors that still echo around her or leave it all behind once again.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Time Will Tell
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Cunning foxes, sensible hounds, and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series.” – The New York Times Book Review
Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, “Sister” Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler’s two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can’t help but get involved.
Promises in Death
by J.D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Amaryllis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn’t just “one of us.”
Eve starts questioning everyone while her husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on the dead woman’s life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts.
The Anchored Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if saving our world means destroying another?
Alora’s brain has always been a little strange. No matter how hard things on Earth got, and they got pretty awful, she always dreamt that she possessed amazing telekinetic powers on another world. Her brother called them her delusions of grandeur.
But when things start to go unbelievably well on Earth—hot guys asking her out and her brother landing a terrific job—everything falls apart in her dream world. As people she’s seen in her dreams begin to appear on Earth, Alora fears that the two worlds may in fact be connected.
White as Snow
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir, Quentin Bates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjaví k. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive.
As Icelandic Police detective Daní el struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Á ró ra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daní el’s former wife, and the connections don’ t stop there…
Daní el and Á ró ra’ s cases pit them both against ruthless criminals with horrifying agendas, while Á ró ra persists with her search for her missing sister, í safold, whose devastating disappearance continues to haunt her.
Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Mary DiNunzio’s ruthless nemesis Nick Machiavelli is back…with a vengeance.
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination – claiming that they were not hired because they were men – Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case.
The Only One Left
by Riley Sager
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope
Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life
“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead
End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
William Warwick and Ross Hogan will return, for one last time, in a gripping and unputdownable finale. Available to pre-order now!
London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.
But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos.
Red Tide
by M.P. Woodward
Kindle $17.25 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author behind the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan Jr. books and former U.S. Naval Intelligence officer comes a gripping and timely military thriller.
America’s Navy is stretched to the breaking point. China’s combat fleet grows. And both countries compete for access to advanced semiconductor chips produced only in Taiwan. When the Chinese strike first, casualties mount and high-tech arsenals are exhausted. It’s a war of attrition—and the Chinese are winning.
Herbal Dog Health Book
by Rowan M. Anderson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Unlock the Secrets to a Happier, Healthier Companion with The Herbal Dog Health Book by Rowan M. Anderson.
This book is for you if you want to:
🐾 Improve your dog’s health and well-being with natural solutions
🌿 Create your own herbal apothecary and toolkit for your pet
🐾 Understand the science behind canine herbal medicine
🌿 Keep a health journal for your furry friend
🐾 Develop tailored care plans for your dog’s specific needs
🌿 Understand seasonal herbal remedies for dogs
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Three Book Problem
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sherlockian bookshop manager and frequent amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle is back on the case when a poisoned dart ends in demise . . .
It’s a crisp, early October weekend, and business is slowing down as fall descends at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and adjacent Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room. Wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian David Masterson has rented Suffolk Gardens House, where he plans to entertain his friends in a traditional English country house weekend…
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered.
Antonio and Francesca are attracted to each other from the beginning, sparking a romance. But she has a dark secret: the gift of retro-cognition, an ability to see a murder through an object that had belonged to a victim. In time, Francesca confesses to Antonio that when she had first touched the tiara, she had seen how the mummy died. And as she slowly translates the fragile diary, she identifies the Chinese woman, changing the pages of history.
Along Came a Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world’s most popular storyteller. Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century. The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He’s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she’s got an outer shell that’s as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?
She refused to be The Other Woman
by Crystal Mary Lindsey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every wise woman should not miss the opportunity to read this enlightening book, while every mother should make sure to pass it on to her daughter.
Nurse Erin Thibaut, known for her unwavering dedication to her profession, never anticipated finding herself in a romantic entanglement.
However, fate had other plans when she encountered Dr. James Brennan, who pursued her relentlessly and eventually won her heart. This captivating narrative will expose the treacherous tactics and deceit some individuals employ to manipulate others. Driven by innocence, Erin becomes trapped in a web of lies, with seduction threatening to shatter her sanity.
As she unveils the truth, she discovers that the charming doctor who seduced her with romantic illusions is, in fact, already married, leaving her involuntarily relegated to the role of his secret lover.
With a Mind to Kill
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.
It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder—James Bond.
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den—but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
A Fatal Profit
by Howard Dart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a medical research scientist develops an innovative technique to treat diabetes, his colleague is murdered and he is framed for the crime.
His daughter convinces a high tech private detective to help, not knowing he is an ex-CIA black ops agent hiding from his own demons.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband – he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . .
Both require connections . . .
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest.
From that high-octane introduction to her job, Vicki vows to continue with the case, protect her informant, and find the shadowy figure behind the death of her partner…
Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE