Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas.
Just days before Estancia’s annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions.
The victim wasn’t just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail. As Fenway digs deeper, she uncovers tensions simmering between rival farmers, a string of online grudges, and a past the victim was desperate to keep buried.
Hollow Point
by Russ Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The world is on fire. Only one man can extinguish the flames.
Snakeriver – a shadowy private company that handles missions the U.S. government can’t touch. Former Navy SEAL Travis Delta is Snakeriver’s top gun.
When the CIA discover that Russia and Iran may be plotting to seize control of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Travis is tasked with stopping them – by whatever means necessary.
The intel is chilling: first, Iran will obliterate Israel with Russian nuclear weapons. Then, while the Middle East burns, Russia’s ruthless president will seize Europe and resurrect his empire.
Rage
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Yutzy, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. What twisted individual murdered him in such a sadistic way?
The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found, stuffed into a barrel and dumped in a ravine. The deceased is 21-year-old Aaron Shetler, Samuel Yutzy’s best friend. What could these two young Amish men have been involved in that led to such violent ends?
Pretty Little Lies
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s hoping she’s paranoid. She’s terrified she’s not.
When Amelia relocated to Cambridge for love, she never imagined her new life would become a nightmare.
After uprooting her beauty therapy business to be with her fiancé Noah, Amelia receives the first message—anonymous, threatening, impossible to ignore.
As more sinister messages follow, Amelia’s new life begins to fall apart. It seems someone is watching her every move and now her clients are abandoning her for no reason she can see. It’s as if she’s done something wrong, but what?
Looking for Light in All the Dark Places
Complete Collection Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Liz had a seriously compelling reason to leave the southern state that had always been her home.
Danger surrounded her. Escape seemed impossible. Yet, hope came from the last person she expected. She knew his name…everyone did. But she knew nothing about the man he really was. Or if he had any chance at saving her.
Sam had a bad feeling about all the things that could go wrong.
The plan was a good one. But only if it worked. He had the perfect cover story. He’d be the one asking all the questions. Looking for answers was the story of his life and everyone knew it…expected it.
This time though…unless they got really lucky, the stories could turn out a lot differently than expected.
The Others
by Evette Davis
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True Blood meets Supernatural in the kickoff of this urban paranormal fantasy series from an acclaimed author. Readers enter a dystopian San Francisco filled with empaths and vampires embroiled in political unrest—and Book 1 is just the beginning.
Much as she wishes otherwise, superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd was born a powerful empath. It’s a legacy she walked away from long ago—but when she wakes up one morning to find Elsa, a tenacious time-walker, standing in her kitchen, she realizes she can no longer ignore her gifts. She is quickly plunged into the hidden world of powerful “Others” and drafted to work for the Council, a shadowy organization that summons the fog to San Francisco to obscure their involvement in human affairs.
Thunders over Idle Land
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Jason Guan, an assistant director dedicated to environmental conservation in pandemic-stricken Hong Kong, is worried about job-related pressures and petty quarrels threatening his marriage to Debra. Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China. While Jason grapples with corruption and lax regulations in wetland preservation, he is thrust into dangerous waters.
In 1834, systemic corruption cripples China and ruins lives. Two weeks before Wang Jun is to marry his beloved fiancée, he is thrown into a maximum-security prison on a remote island without a trial. His only ally? A kung fu master and medical doctor imprisoned because of a riddle linked to the buried treasure of the pirate chief, Cheng Po-Tsai.
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson), Rachel Willson-Broyles
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WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) • WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF DENMARK’S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Season
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Last month Kate Garrett was a Police Detective. Now she’s a Pet P.I.?
Kate recently inherited half her father’s private investigation company and a partner who is as irritating as he is attractive. Kate has been avoiding Jake Carmedy for years, but now her life might depend on him.
Kate and Jake are on the hunt for a serial cat killer who has mysterious connections to her father’s last police case. Kate’s father had been forced to retire when he was shot investigating a domestic disturbance. Is the shooter back for revenge? And is Kate or Jake next?
A Divided Loyalty
by Charles Todd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is assigned one of the most baffling investigations of his career: an unsolved murder case with an unidentified victim and a cold trail with few clues to follow
A woman has been murdered at the foot of a megalith shaped like a great shrouded figure. Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, one of the Yard’s best men, is sent to investigate the site in Avebury, a village set inside a prehistoric stone circle not far from Stonehenge. In spite of his efforts, Leslie is not able to identify her, much less discover how she got to Avebury—or why she died there. Her killer has simply left no trace.
Legends are Made Boxed Set 2
by Patrick Michael
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What do you do after your greatest victory? Or your greatest defeat?
Those questions plague Sofia and the nascent dragonlord Kemuri.
One was integral to a success she never could have imagined. The other suffered a humbling blow, demonstrating he never saw things as clearly as he believed.
Continue the story of Sofia and her friends by picking up the next three books in the Legends are Made series!
The Last Odyssey
by James Rollins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.
For eons, the city of Troy – whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad – was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer’s twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles – The Iliad and The Odyssey—could also be true and awaiting discovery?
NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A masterwork of horror.” – Time
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be.
Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland.
Lord of the Silent
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more close calls and stunning escapes than an Indiana Jones movie.
Reviewers are simply agog over Lord of the Silent, calling it, “Wonderfully entertaining”
Air Battle Force
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Driven from Afghanistan, the parasitic forces of the deposed Taliban regime have decided to feed on a new host – an isolated, oil-rich Central Asian neighbor that’s ripe for the conquering.
The battle for control of the world’s largest oil deposits has begun, with unsteady alliances forming and opposing forces set to collide. And now a handful of American commandos half a world away, aided by McLan-ahan’s unproven robotic warplanes, will have to triumph against overwhelming numbers in a war that nobody – including “friendly” forces at home – wants them to win.
Code Blue
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $8.54 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The newest action-packed, ripped-from-the-headlines adventure in The Sisterhood from #1 bestselling author Fern Michaels.
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
Theresa Gallagher has never met her Aunt Dottie, though she remembers her mother’s stories about the wild sister who left home at seventeen. When a letter arrives from one of Dottie’s neighbors, telling Theresa that her aunt is now incapacitated and in a nursing home, Theresa decides to fly out to Arizona to see her.
Ginger Never Cried
by Dennis Higgins
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Dancer, Travis Blaszkiewicz (AKA SWAY) had two passions in his life: his childhood friend and dance partner, Katy, and dancing with the legendary Ginger Rogers. The problem was that Ginger Rogers died before Sway was even born. However, strong passions can lead to amazing things, and Sway finds himself face-to-face with the object of his dreams, Ginger Rogers, in front of the old RKO Picture Studio actor’s entrance. Sway and Ginger quickly become close friends as he gets a job as a stagehand for one of her and Fred Astaire’s pictures.
The Acorn Stories
by Duane Simolke
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The sky never stops falling in Acorn, Texas.
Visit Acorn, Texas, for the German festival, a high school football game, homemade apple pie from the Turner Street Café, and the cool shade of a hundred-year-old oak tree. Meet dedicated teachers, shrewd business owners, smitten lovers, and concerned neighbors. See how lives become intertwined in moments of humor or tragedy.
From romantic comedy to razor-sharp satire to moments of quiet reflection, these tales explore the humor, drama, secrets, and scandals of small towns.
The Acorn Stories first appeared as an eBook in 1998. It now appears in paperback and hardcover as well.