Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Manuscript for Murder
by David Osterhout, Barbara Villemez
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
John Hernandez, the youngest detective on the force, catches a murder case and finds a familiar and beautiful woman at the crime scene. The victim, lying in a pool of blood on the patio in his manicured garden, is the playboy president of the local writers’ group. Not twenty minutes prior, the house is filled with a dozen people, all quirky, aspiring authors, and now, each a suspect. Becky, the woman who discovered the body, feels compelled to help find the killer and uses her considerable computer skills to aid the detective in his investigation. When clues and hard facts don’t add up, Becky must rely on her intuition.
One Perfect Lie
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He’s applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he’s ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable. But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.
Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he’s being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Raz’s father died only a few months ago, leaving her son in a vulnerable place where any new father figure might influence him for good, or evil.
Beastly Things
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Guido Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared.
The autopsy shows he had suffered from a rare, disfiguring disease. A shopkeeper tells Brunetti that the man had a kindly way with animals. Finally, the victim is identified as a much-loved veterinarian—and Brunetti’s quest to find the killer will take him on a harrowing journey . . .
The Dirty Duck
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A killer targets Shakespeare-loving tourists in the New York Times–bestselling mystery series full of “vivacity, charm, and wit” (Kirkus Reviews).
The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeare’s beloved Stratford-on-Avon, and it’s here that Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida—fresh from a performance of As You Like It—takes her last drink. Mere minutes later she is slashed ear to ear. The only clue to this baffling and brutal murder is a pair of lines from an unknown poem printed across a theater program.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen-year-old Joey is in trouble. His mother can hardly feed him, which-because of his small size-is saying a lot. As war moves closer to their little town, his mother’s options for more work are a big fat zero. Desperate, she sends him to a place where he won’t starve, Lapidius. Soon after arriving, however, Joey learns that he and the hundreds of other children aren’t just charity cases. Lapidius is a prestigious military institute that develops specialized skills for combat.
But Lapidius is also a mysterious place where Joey learns that the battle for which they are being trained for is full of magic, malevolence, and monsters. The new students discover a nation found worthy to fight for.
DIGITAL ASSASSINS II
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Danielle Spencer’s attempts to use the judicial system to uphold the rule of law by shining a light on those individuals using federal government resources to digitally assassinate her. Using fictional characters and conversations, this story exposes the alliances made by federal judges, government executives and well-funded special interest groups to protect wrong doers. These alliances were made to ensure that corrupt and unethical people remain in positions of power in America’s premier tax collection agency, ensuring that the tax code is not implemented fairly. Using concepts such sovereign immunity and national security, the government can use tactics such as privacy violations, illegal monitoring and surveillance, misuse of government records, and violation of trusted agreements with third-party institutions without fear of reprisal.
Stinger
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now, it’s the UFO that comes crashing through the clouds.
It brings with it a young alien named Daufin, a fugitive who has taken human form. She knows the terror that awaits this planet—because it’s looking for her. Stinger is an alien bounty hunter with an infinite capacity for death and a devious plan to find Daufin.
Dying for Mercy
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The recently renovated Pentimento, located in New York’s moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, is no ordinary estate. Strange secrets have been ingeniously built into its fountains, frescoes, statues, and architecture—clues to a bizarre mystery that is first brought to light when the owner commits suicide during a lavish gala.
Eliza Blake, co-anchor of the popular morning television show KEY to America, is present when the party is cut short by the host’s sudden, macabre death—and she’s the first to discover that Pentimento is a giant “puzzle house.”
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
In The Beginning, There Was a Murder
by P.C. James
Kindle BARGAIN Rating: 4.2 #ad
Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. So, when her closest workmate reveals a salacious affair with a married man, Pauline refuses to risk her career by listening to the scandal. But she’s shaken to her core when the police arrive with news of her best friend’s homicide.
Desperate for justice, Pauline’s insistent poking into the investigation only makes her the prime suspect. And now to clear her name, she must unravel a web of deadly clues entangling her in a sinister plot. Can Pauline catch the killer before they strike again?
Dark Carousel
by Joe Hill
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A balmy summer night in 1994. Four teenagers out for an evening of fun on the boardwalk take a ride on the “Wild Wheel” – an antique carousel with a shadowy past – and learn too late that decisions made in an instant can have deadly consequences. What begins as a night of innocent end-of-summer revelry, young love, and (a few too many) beers among friends soon descends into chaos, as the ancient carousel’s parade of beasts comes chillingly to life to deliver the ultimate judgment for their misdeeds.
Blowout
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A long weekend in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court justice.
Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven since she’s got the inside track–she’s the stepdaughter of the murdered justice. Despite Detective Raven’s unwillingness to have a civilian along, Callie Markham ends up riding shotgun to help look for her stepfather’s murderer.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle 4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Southern Comfort
by Fern Michaels
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Atlanta homicide detective Patrick “Tick” Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Holed up in a beach shack on Mango Key, Florida, he drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn’t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living.
After years of sacrificing her personal life in favor of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up….
The Goodbye Man
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, reward-seeker Colter Shaw infiltrates a sinister cult after learning that the only way to get somebody out…is to go in.
In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame.
The Unlocked Path
by Janis Robinson Daly
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Unlocked Path presents and embraces a “New Woman” of the early 20th century: educated, career-minded, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia, after witnessing her aunt’s suicide, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother’s wishes for her society debut, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands, battle sexism, and overcome doubts, Eliza charts a new life course. Combining science and sympathy, can she triumph to heal others and herself?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
THE COMPLETE MRS PARGETER CRIME MYSTERIES
by SIMON BRETT
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
GET THE COMPLETE BESTSELLING SERIES IN ONE BRILLIANT BOX SET. YOU GET EIGHT ENTHRALLING CRIME MYSTERIES FOR HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT.
Meet your next favourite sleuth in these wonderfully witty whodunnits. Fans of Agatha Christie, M.C. Beaton, The Thursday Murder Club and Jane Adams will be hooked from the very first page!
James Bong
by Todd Borho
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
My name is James, James Bong! Not to be shaken or stirred and not to be confused with the popular James Bond series – this is a whole new light hearted adventure. Prepare to be whisked away on a whirlwind journey with “James Bong – Agent of Anarchy,” by author Todd Borho.
This gripping tale combines the best elements of espionage, humor, and heart-pounding action for an unforgettable reading experience…
The Choice
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out—and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death…
Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature. Now she is in Talamh, trying to heal after a terrible battle and heartbreaking losses. Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen—for now.
Something in the Water
by Charlotte MacLeod
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Massachusetts horticulturalist Peter Shandy is famous for his rutabagas, but he comes to Maine with a loftier plant in mind. Specifically, he wants to size up the world-renowned lupines of Frances Rondel, a nonagenarian whose legendary flowers are even more beautiful in life than they are in myth. Shandy is bitterly jealous, but finds a major distraction in the dining room of the country inn where he’s staying. He may grow wretched lupines, but no gardener can solve a murder like Peter Shandy. The corpse belongs to the late Jasper Flodge, a local loudmouth with a toupee and a sizeable gut…
Chosen By Freya Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Terra Olson is an archeologist in the making.
When she gets an opportunity to work with one of her idols at a dig that may contain artifacts linked with Norse mythology, she jumps at the offer. What more could she ask for?
She’d expected the job to be a killer…just not in the buried-alive-and-left-to-die-alone way. How could she have seen that coming?
Mother May I
by Joshilyn Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Revenge doesn’t wait for permission.
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected that fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of.
Until the day she awakens and sees someone peering into her bedroom window—an old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes as quickly as she appears. It must be a play of the early morning light or the remnant of a waking dream, Bree tells herself, shaking off the bad feeling that overcomes her.
A Crop Farmer’s Daughter
by Ioni Goldstein, Catarina Granater
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Based on a remarkable true story.
Winter, 1969. Since she was a little girl, Catarina learned not to ask for much. Born to a family of corn farmers in rural south Brazil, she was happiest when she was surrounded by sprawling fields and burly, familial farmhands – until her family was driven out of the land they had worked diligently for years, and Catarina was sent to work for a wealthy family in São Paolo.
Only ten years old, Catarina becomes a housemaid – and the lifeline of her family. Far from everyone and everything she’d ever known, she discovers the shocking gap between her life in the country and the lives of her employers, who enjoy lavish dinners and luxuries while her family huddles for warmth in a crumbling home without running water.
The Ghost Writer
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history?
Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under mysterious circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job.
The Doll’s House
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
A widowed mother, ready to give love another chance, moves into her fiancé’s old family home with her teenage daughter. But as they try to build a future together, the past refuses to let go in this haunting short story from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger.
When Jules first meets the handsome artist Kirin, she’s still mourning her husband’s death, but a fairytale romance soon sweeps her off her feet. Now she and her daughter Scout are moving out of the city and into Kirin’s once-lonely mansion. He’s thoughtfully updated and adapted the home to match their personalities. But Scout is determined to keep her father’s memory alive by rejecting the new life her mother and Kirin have spun for her…
Stay With Me Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Not a dream or fantasy…her worst nightmare come true.
Heart-pounding Fear. Chilling Anguish. Heartbreak. Priceless Love. The Ultimate Sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes precious moments is all there is.
Between one heartbeat and the next, Susa is plunged into a devastating nightmare, wounded and broken, yet desperate hope filled her heart and soul. Nothing in her life had ever prepared her for this. Adam Manning arrives at a crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Exit Wounds
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Featuring both original in-universe stories and rarely-seen reprints, this collection of 19 masterful short stories brings together some of the genre’s greatest living authors.
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan take on a delightfully twisted killer in Val McDermid’s “Happy Holidays”. In Fiona Cummin’s “Dead Weight”, an overbearing mother resorts to desperate measures to keep control of her teenage daughter. And in Dean Koontz’s “Kittens”, a young girl learns the truth about how her pets have been dying, and devises a horrible revenge.
Costly Secrets Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It began with a call…a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it…an attempted murder…and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of.
Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad…and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets…and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly.
It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear…
The Cape Refuge Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume.
Cape Refuge
Southern Storm
River’s Edge
Breaker’s Reef
Mutation
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kid Sensation is back! The intrepid teen super with the plethora of powers returns in a new adventure.
Having saved the planet and earned a place with the world’s premier superhero team, Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is preparing to attend the prestigious Academy, where teen supers from every corner of the globe learn to master their abilities. At the same time, however, he is approached by a mysterious government organization that wants Jim to work for them – and they won’t take “No” for an answer…
Lie In Wait
by Eric Rickstad
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes another unforgettable thriller set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, featuring Detective Sonja Test
Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present.
In the remote pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town’s sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens…
Into the Fire
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Things are heating up in Arizona in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan
Margo Angelhart was recently certified as a private investigator, but she isn’t convinced that it’s her calling. All of her cases have been minor, mostly for family and haven’t paid the bills. She’s more than happy to keep bartending and figure out her post-military career later. That is, until prosecutor Andy Flannigan walks into her bar and offers her a case she can’t turn down…
Nineteen-year-old Sergio Diaz has confessed to murder—except Andy doesn’t buy it. With his own job on the line, Andy asks Margo to work the case discreetly.
The Chemistry of Death
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Seeking refuge from a tragic past, a forensic pathologist must search for a devious killer in a rural English village in this crime thriller series debut.
Three years ago, Dr. David Hunter left London for rural Norfolk to escape the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. Giving up his career in criminal forensics, he now works as a simple country doctor in the village of Manham. But when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body, David struggles to remain uninvolved. As a newcomer, David finds he must join the investigation in order to avoid suspicion.
Saratoga Woods
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it’s a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn’t suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear “whispers”—the thoughts of others—Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she has discovered. Stranded and alone, Becca is soon befriended by Derric, a Ugandan orphan adopted by a local family; Seth, a kindhearted musician and high school dropout; Debbie, a recovering alcoholic who takes her in; and Diana, with whom Becca shares a mysterious psychic connection.