Monday’s Mystery eBooks
When Things Fall Apart
by Alan Brenham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Newly minted homicide detective Kit Hanover is paired with a crusty veteran who makes no bones about his feelings for Native Americans. Their prickly partnership becomes more antagonistic when her first murder case proves devastating and she is reassigned. Determined to work the case in her own time despite the emotional consequences she finds herself and her family the target of an unknown madman. She withstands the inexplicable attacks as she continues her investigation until she finds herself face to face with the murderer. Only one of them can survive.
The Last Compound
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
No power. No rules. The sirens die. The trains fall silent. Cell phones go dark.
In the stunned quiet of a powerless Manhattan, a group of prepper families know exactly what this means: go now, or don’t go at all. Years of planning have led to one shot at escape. But in this new world, there are no easy choices, and every delay raises the risk of failure. As the city collapses, alliances are tested and loyalties fracture. When survival is the only currency left, they must decide whether to protect each other…or themselves.
The Big Lie
by James Grippando
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a “faithless elector,” caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent—with each revelation more explosive than the next.
The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod, the Machiavellian incumbent, was spared from impeachment only because his political foes were certain they would oust him at the ballot box. Now, he appears to have secured a second term, thanks to a narrow victory in the Electoral College.
The Midnight Lock
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself “the Locksmith,” can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man’s lair… and discover his true mission.
All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Deadly Christmas Wreath
by Ann Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Abigail Summers, dressmaker in life, brilliant sleuth in death, is at Mayor Crimble’s Christmas disco when local politician, Edward Beaumont is murdered under the mistletoe.
With the help of psychic medium, Hayley, and her police constable husband, they realise a mysterious wreath has all the clues they need.
Another case emerges after an anonymous letter is sent to the police warning of a centuries-old curse, and Lady Florence Ethelridge asks for Hayley’s help…
Beware the Midnight Train
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
If you were offered a dream cottage in an English country village and it’s dirt cheap, would you be tempted? Ellie is, especially as she has nowhere else to go after walking out on her no-good two-timing ex. It’s a good start – the neighbours are great, bit strange perhaps. And the dishy local vicar declares himself willing to help day or night. Night? And what’s this talk about a mysterious Midnight Train? Has she done the right thing?
It’s the 1970s and Ellie attempts to make a new life for herself and ignores the village gossip about ghosts and disappearing people. The ex called her boring but from now on she’ll never be called that again and I think you’ll agree with her. Travel in style on the Midnight Train and see where it takes you.
Trojan Gold
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A picture is worth a thousand words . . . but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received in the mail gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary—which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War Two. And if she needed further proof that something here is terribly amiss, a quick look at the blood-stained envelope the photo arrived in should do the trick.
Konrath Dark Thriller Collective
by J.A. Konrath
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three complete horror novels from the master of chills, J.A. Konrath
W E B C A M
D I S T U R B
T H E N I N E
“Fast-paced…(a) cross between Carl Hiaasen and Thomas Harris.”- Publishers Weekly
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
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
“It’s a beautifully written book that’s easy to read but hard to put down.” ~ The Am-Pol-Eagle
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?
Sleeping Beauty
by Phillip Margolin
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A year after the unspeakable events, Ashley is still trying to piece together what is left of her life. But the nightmare is reawakened at the elite private school that had appeared to be a safe haven for Ashley and her mother, Terri, when a new book called Sleeping Beauty hits the national bestseller lists—a shattering true account of the crimes that ripped Ashley’s world apart.
And now Ashley must run for her life again.
Prospect Shifter Daddy Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Things are getting steamy in the small town of Prospect, Montana! Each story in this box set will light your fire as sexy single dads, with chiseled abs, not only work hard on the ranch but also pursue the one who makes their blood pump.
As passion ignites for these cowboys, danger lurks in every direction and harrowing secrets rise to the surface. The wolf shifters will do anything it takes to protect the women who claim their hearts.
Divine Evil
by Nora Roberts
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this gripping novel of small-town scandal and sizzling passion, New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts tells the story of a renowned artist who confronts a mystery from her past—and finds that her family secrets have not been laid to rest.
Famed sculptor Clare Kimball has commanded the attention of the New York art world, but troubling memories from childhood have drawn her home to Maryland, to the town where she grew up and where her father died so long ago in circumstances never really explained. Nothing much has changed in Emmitsboro—except Cameron Rafferty, the onetime high-school bad boy turned town sheriff. The only hint of Cam’s wild nature is the light in his eyes when he looks at Clare. In Cam’s strong arms Clare is seduced into falling in love—and into believing that her small-town world is safe.