Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sleepy town of Halcyon Springs, Maryland hides a terrible secret – the unsolved murder of Drew Scanlon.
Reluctant restaurant owner, Izzie Di Sante was following crimes and writing stories until she returned home to help with the family business. Unlike her sister, Chloe, Izzie’s not a foodie. She itches to write about a murder. With recent changes in the restaurant, Izzie carves out time to find her next story and an alert on the Scanlon murder gets her attention. While Chloe is spicing things up in the kitchen, Izzie’s focus is on the stalled Scanlon murder investigation…
Triple Jeopardy
by Rex Stout
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Home to Roost
Somebody at the dinner table dropped a poison pellet into the vitamin addict’s pill-box.
The Cop-Killer
The murdered cop carried the clue inside his folded newspaper.
The Squirt and the Monkey
The monkey was the only witness to the murder and all it could do was gibber.
The Devil at His Elbow
by Valerie Bauerlein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.
Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator—the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers’ association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family’s law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. The Murdaugh name ignited respect—and fear—for a hundred miles.
Other People’s Houses
by Clare Mackintosh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You want what they have, but what price would you pay?
The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one by one, and DS Leo Brady suspects the burglar is looking for something, or someone, in particular.
Over the border in Wales, DC Ffion Morgan recovers the body of an estate agent from the lake. There’s no love lost between Ffion and estate agents, but who hated this one enough to want her dead – and why?
He Who Does Not Exist
by Victoria W Thomson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
God allows the devil to temporarily make a few demons mortal.
The devil does this to improve those demons at getting souls and to select a lead soul catcher, an elite position in Hell. The demons, while on earth are mortal, meeting on a college campus, and explaining the deadly sins. Each demon is the embodiment of a deadly sin and most want to be lead soul catcher.
An angel points out the risk of making demons mortal, even for a short time; while a demon never gets the choice, a mortal can choose salvation.
Now, one of the devil’s demons, Penny, who represents the sin of Pride, may be at risk of being saved.
Starman’s Saga
by Colin Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the year 2069, humanity’s last chance for peace is the first ever interstellar mission. A multi-national crew of the most talented scientists and pilots has been chosen based on their expertise and skill. The final spot aboard the craft is assigned as a prize in a global “BerthRight” lottery, and Leif Grettison is the “everyman volunteer” who won.
However, Leif isn’t really an “everyman.” He’s a helicopter paramedic, a lab tech and a former army ranger who fought in The Troubles – a decade plus war that brought the world to the brink of apocalypse. He’s the perfect brawn to the brains aboard the ship and quickly finds himself playing the role of security and handyman as the crew begins to fragment and divide by country, just as they had during the war.
Rise to the Horizon
by Hyunah KIM
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
GOLD MEDAL WINNER — GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS 2024 (Contemporary Fiction) — HORSE LOVERS’ SENSATION!
A broken horse. A man who refuses to give up. A bond that could save them both. Can one man reach a horse consumed by fear?
After a devastating fire destroys a horse ranch, Poseidon, a once-brilliant show jumping colt, is left injured, traumatized, and dangerously aggressive. When he begins attacking anyone who approaches, the veterinarian delivers a harsh verdict: euthanasia.
Under the Summer Sun
by Roxie Holland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Poppy Stanton is a mess. Her sabbatical from work and summer was supposed to start with her and her boyfriend heading on holiday to stay with her best friend and sister-in-law, Kiki. Instead, at the start of a long holiday and healing she’d planned, Poppy finds Harry cheating with another woman.
Heading to Kiki and Luke’s house without Harry, Poppy is determined to hold her head high and have a relaxing summer. She deserves it. She needs it. She has six months before she’s due back at work, and they expect her back with her head in a better state. Poppy’s sure she can do it. Ahead of her is supposed to be gorgeous summer days at the Cornish seaside with the people she loves the most–just the medicine she needs.
Harvest the Sun
by Judith Arnold
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Abbie Jarvis couldn’t wait to escape the sleepy California farm town of her youth. But being a high-power prosecutor in New York City isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Suffering from burn-out, she takes a vacation trip back to Wheeler to visit her father and decompress. What she discovers is that her father’s hardware store is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Everyone knows everyone in Wheeler, and everyone knows T.J. Hillyard, the one-time football star whose career ended with a devastating injury. Now he’s back in Wheeler, running a bar. He and Abbie weren’t particularly close growing up; he was a celebrated jock and she was a quiet bookworm. But he knows her father, and he’s happy to help her get the hardware store back on its feet. In return, she will help him with a nuisance lawsuit against his bar.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Blind Assassin: Booker Prize Winner
by Margaret Atwood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s history. Intertwined with Iris’s account are chapters from the scandalous novel that made Laura famous, in which two illicit lovers amuse each other by spinning a tale of a blind killer on a distant planet.
Her Silence
by S. T. Ashman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From bestselling author S. T. Ashman comes a thriller about a mother who refuses to let her daughter take the fall for a crime that doesn’t make sense… even if the truth is worse than prison.
She survived the night. The truth didn’t.
Nicole gets the call at 4 a.m. Her daughter Lacey was found in the woods beside her friend’s dead husband. He was stabbed forty-four times. Lacey is barely alive. Covered in his blood. And completely mute. She hasn’t said a word since. Not to the police. Not to her husband. Not even to Nicole.
His Last Text
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A romantic anniversary dinner. A heartfelt message. Then silence.
Anna Stanten’s world shatters when she learns her boyfriend Wyatt’s corporate jet has crashed. With the company dragging its feet on the search, Anna takes matters into her own hands, assembling a team of volunteers to find the man she loves.
But as she retraces Wyatt’s last known steps, danger lurks at every turn. Her uncle, driven by an insatiable greed for a mysterious key mentioned in her grandmother’s will, seems to be pulling strings from the shadows. And who is this new “aunt” that suddenly appeared in her life?
‘Salem’s Lot
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.
With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.
The Lost Army of Cambyses
by Paul Sussman
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the international bestselling author—a “cinematic, rip-roaring adventure mystery” about Egypt’s ancient past and a race for priceless treasure (Booklist).
In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt’s desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa—only for the entire force to be overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever.
Two and a half millennia later, a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor; an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo; and a British archaeologist is found dead at an ancient necropolis of Saqqara.
Damned and Deployed: Two Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
10,000 years after a missile changed the course of Earth’s fate, humanity has expanded their reach to the stars. Humanity now lives in interesting times.
Daria’s day went from bad to worse. To get away from it all, and clear her name, Daria comes on board with the motley crew of the Atlanta. Neither she nor Captain Lombe has a clue what lies around the next bend, but fortune favors the bold, right?
Have you ever been sick of being the low man on the totem pole?A trio of mercs feel your pain. Chill, Ivan, and Kortez have been slaving away as mercenaries for years but enough is enough and they are done putting up with being an afterthought. Striking out alone is a risk, but mercenary work is not exactly in short supply…
Fractured Memories
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What she can’t remember will kill her…
As a teen, Texas Ranger Felicity Capshaw witnessed a murder. The traumatic incident—and the accompanying amnesia—has affected her entire life. She reopens the cold case, but the investigation is cut short when she’s assaulted and nearly killed.
Detective Noah Hodge is no stranger to loss. He’s buried his parents and his wife. All he wants is to raise his daughter and keep his hometown safe. When the killer targets Felicity, Noah commits to protecting her, even though each second in her presence makes him question why he’s locked away his battered heart.
The Cases Nobody Wanted
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Winner of the Silver Medal for Mystery – Detective books from the 2023 Global Book Awards
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.
The Man
by Laura Sims
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year: a singular take on the psychological suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her self-portraits.
The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she’s unprepared to hear his astonished praise. “Stunning,” he calls her photos…