Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Armchair Detectives
by Matt Dunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Meet Martin Maxwell: octogenarian, dog lover and amateur sleuth.
For most residents at Twilight Lodge, a picture-perfect retirement home by the sea, their days are filled with jigsaws, endless cups of tea and afternoon karaoke. But when Martin discovers that three residents have died in less than two weeks, all with clean bills of health, he suspects foul play. Trouble is, no-one believes him.
Martin knows he needs expert help and who better than fellow ‘Lodger’ Albie – Martin’s arch-nemesis back when they worked for a secret government organization. With the life of his puzzle-loving sweetheart Barbara under threat, Albie reluctantly agrees to join forces.
Lights out America
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller Boxset
After a mysterious blackout shatters society, Samantha and her dog Dean journey through looted cities and treacherous wilds. Haunted by her parents’ deaths and unable to save a wounded survivor, she finds an unlikely ally in Gabriel. As danger closes in, a hidden bunker may be their last chance at hope.
Bodyguard
by William C. Dietz
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a future where androids do most of the work, one man manages to find a job—but it may cost him his life . . .
Max Maxon is an ex-marine who makes his living with a gun. Sasha Casad is a rich teenager trying to catch the next spaceship home. Max’s job is to get her there alive. Somebody’s trying to stop them–somebody with plenty of money and firepower. That doesn’t bother Max. A contract is a contract. Against all odds, he’s going to fulfill this one. And then he’s going to make somebody pay!
From Potter’s Field
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim.
Unraveling Oliver
by Liz Nugent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Top-notch grip lit…incredibly brilliant.” – Marian Keyes, New York Times bestselling author
In this astonishing debut novel, a man’s shocking act of savagery stuns a local community—and the revelations that follow will keep you gripped until the very last page.
Oliver Ryan has the perfect life. Elegant and seductive, he wants for nothing, sharing a lovely home with his steadfast wife, Alice, who illustrates the award-winning children’s books that have brought him wealth and fame. Until one evening, after eating the dinner Alice has carefully prepared, Oliver savagely assaults her and leaves her for dead.
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
Kindle $0.45 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author’s all Solo Writings as an adult. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft’s trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes.
This Edition has over 60 Stories; Included in this volume are, ‘The Tomb’; ‘The Case of Charles Dexter Ward’, ‘Old Bugs’; ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, ‘The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath’, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, ‘The Temple’, ‘The Haunter of The Dark’, ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’, ‘The Color Out of Space’, ‘The Dunwich Horror’, and many more hair-raising tales.
Taming the Wind
by Joe R. Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
What if the power to command the storm was no longer natures alone?
Dr. Jack Engle, a brilliant scientist, respected professor, and bestselling textbook author, has done the unthinkable: he has engineered the first artificial tornado. Designed to revolutionize clean energy, his creation could change the world—or destroy it.
But Engle isn’t just a scientist. He’s also a family man who finds balance in Sunday jam sessions with his children and grandchildren, performing in the family band that keeps him grounded. His world of music, teaching, and family dinners is suddenly shattered when his discovery ignites a corporate firestorm…
Superhero Summer Camp
by Asaf Gitler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Help kids discover their inner superhero in an empowering and mindful environment!
Danny is used to being shy and nervous, but today, everything feels especially stressful because he’s starting the Superhero Summer Camp. Good thing he has friends like Naomi, Eithan, and Maya to help him find his Inner Dragon Breath, become Super Flexible, or transform his world with Magic Glasses for every need. In the end, Danny might discover that he had a superhero inside him all along.
With thoughtful, empowering lessons for children and adults, Danny’s relatable story will not only delight young readers from age 6 to 12
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
After the Pulse
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An EMP strike shatters the nation.
Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets.
Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead.
Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.
Faint Trace
by M. P. Cooley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In her former life as an FBI agent in Oakland, California, June Lyons didn’t flinch at tough assignments investigating gangs. But this hot and weary summer, she finds herself on the sidelines of the action, fruitlessly searching through a boiling hot storage facility for evidence of a counterfeiter.
When June’s lead on the forger becomes a dead end, and her personal life threatens to overwhelm, she’s ready to surrender to the sweltering heat—fighting back when she finds out that the stakes are much higher than she realized.
The Space Between Worlds
by Micaiah Johnson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power…
Choke
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is not a spectator sport.
Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion—first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West’s Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman—the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man—and soon he is in way over his head.
Enter Tommy Sculley, a retired New York homicide detective who has just joined the Key West force, and his young green partner, Daryl Haynes, who turns out to be smarter than he looks…
Matters of Choice
by Noah Gordon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the New York Times–bestselling author’s historical medical trilogy.
Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails.
Dead of Night
by Lisa Gray
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A crime writer. A cold case. Will she survive to tell the story?
Since the sudden and tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block.
But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she’s here to cash in on the house’s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can’t help asking more questions…