Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Uncle John’s True Crime
by Bathroom Readers’ Institute
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects…
The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about…
Broken Harbor
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks…
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
by P. W. Singer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What Will World War III Look Like?
Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes the story even more notable is that every trend and technology in book—no matter how sci-fi it may seem—is real.
The White House Connection
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A silver-haired assassin stalks the streets of Manhattan. She’s killing her way through a list of targets: members of a secret IRA faction known as the Sons of Erin. While she’s only killed four so far, there’s more at stake than a few lives . . .
These murders can topple two governments – and destroy the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon, a former IRA terrorist-turned-mercenary, and Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House department, are recruited to stop her before all hell breaks loose. And they better hurry. There are only three names left on the assassin’s list…
Heads Will Roll
by Josh Winning
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Willow’s worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation.
After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones . . . no way to call for help…
The Vejay Haskell Mysteries
by Susan Dunlap
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlap’s Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police can’t crack
An Equal Opportunity Death,
The Bohemian Connection,
The Last Annual Slugfest
“Dunlap’s police procedurals have the authenticity of telling detail.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Watchman
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction…
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.
Eamon
by Martha Roo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Have you ever been minding your own business at work and then were stabbed, and started leaking magic?
Willow Jenkins is about to find out that was her best day that week.
Family secrets, old grimoires, dragons in Texas, taco trucks, portals through keyholes, a search for a lost love, and finding out you’re on the most wanted list of an evil empire.
That gets her to Thursday.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Camel Died at Noon
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade
This time Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be unwillingly drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years back.
They survive the rigours of the desert, the death of their camels, and the perfidy of their guides, only to find themselves taken prisoner in a lost city and civilisation.
Breed Thrillers Box Set
by Cameron Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
INTRODUCING FOUR STUNNING, ACTION-PACKED THRILLERS FEATURING BREED.
Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Jason Kasper & David Archer. There are soldiers, special forces and tier 1 operators… and then there’s Breed.
DANGER CLOSE
OPEN SEASON
TARGET DECK
CLOSE QUARTERS
Old Knives Tale
by Cordelia Rook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Minerva identifies a murder weapon as a priceless sixteenth-century artifact, she’s sure her eyes must be deceiving her. Even by Bryd Hollow standards, five hundred years seems like an absurd amount of time to hold a grudge.
The knife can’t possibly be real. Can it? Each bizarre secret she uncovers leaves Minerva more determined to get to the bottom of the blade’s origins. But the deeper she digs, the more she angers and alienates her new friends. And the police. And possibly a few unsavory criminals.
Five Days Lost
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Mylas Grey agrees to investigate a personal matter for Senator Davis Allen. The investigation needs to be quick, thorough, and discreet.
It needs to be quick . . . Because the senator is working against a deadline. But how can it be quick when it involves a long-forgotten incident?
It needs to be thorough . . . Because the senator needs answers for his upcoming press conference. But how can it be thorough when a dead woman’s diary is all Mylas has to work with?
It needs to be discreet . . . Because the senator is desperate to protect his reputation. But how can it be discreet when Mylas discovers he’s being followed?
Carrie
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother’s religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she’s kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she’s finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates’ vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
The Ex
by Alafair Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now she has the chance to save it.
Widower Jack Harris has resisted the dating scene ever since the shooting of his wife Molly by a fifteen-year-old boy three years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River changes that when he spots a woman in last night’s party dress, barefoot, enjoying a champagne picnic alone, reading his favorite novel. Everything about her reminds him of what he used to have with Molly. Eager to help Jack find love again, his best friend posts a message on a popular website after he mentions the encounter. Days later, that same beautiful stranger responds and invites Jack to meet her in person at the waterfront. That’s when Jack’s world falls apart.
Home Front
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life—children, careers, bills, chores—even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider, she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own—for everything that matters to his family.
The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B. Tyson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves “the Emmett Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Robbed a Bank
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a visiting estate jeweler is found dead, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, must do their best to find the purr-petrator in this delightful novel in the New York Times bestselling Cat Who series.
As the Highland Games approach, Jim Qwilleran and the citizens of Pickax, Michigan, prepare to celebrate their Scottish heritage with such evens as bagpipe skirling and tossing the caber. But the traditional revelry is marred by troublesome rumors when a visiting jewelery dealer, renowned for his romantic streak (and his mysterious cash-only policy), is found dead in his hotel room. His assistant is missing—and soon, the winner of the caber-tossing content disappears as well…
The List Conspiracy
by Harry Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A name on a list. A global conspiracy decades in the making. And a small-town woman who was never supposed to know the truth.
Attorney Max Quinn built her life on logic, law, and hard-won success—until a desperate man hands her a file of names and disappears. The next morning, his body is found. An apparent suicide. But Max knows better.
Someone is tying up loose ends. People on the list are dying. And when Max’s name surfaces among them, she’s thrust into a deadly game of deception, hidden power, and ruthless enemies. Spies are watching. Assassins are closing in. And lurking in the shadows is a cold-blooded killer determined to erase her before she uncovers the truth…
The Intervention Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Enjoy New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Intervention novels as an e-book collection!
Intervention
Vicious Cycle
Downfall
“The books are well written. Ms. Blackstock does her research and you feel like you are in the story along with the characters.” by Amazon Customer
Stable: Someone is Taking Them…
by Cam Torrens
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A harrowing rescue thriller with a truly magnetic hero at its core.” –BestThrillers.com
A kidnapper hiding in plain sight. A rural town with tons of suspects. From award-winning author Cam Torrens comes a gut-wrenching suspense novel based on an actual missing person case.
A 911 call sends Search & Rescue on a search for a missing girl in the Collegiate Peaks. They find a child…but not the one they seek.
Air Force pilot Tyler Zahn’s life disintegrated when he lost his son. He discarded his family, his career, and his dignity, finding solace in apathy and beer. Eight years later, armed with new confidence, he invites his estranged daughter, Daria, to visit his Rocky Mountain home. Zahn tries too hard to mend their relationship, and as the tension between father and daughter increases, forgiveness seems out of reach. Especially when his Search & Rescue work pulls him away from Daria and she finds romance at the church camp next door.
The Red Ripper
by Peter Conradi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims—and evaded capture for over a decade.
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction. Compiling exclusive interviews and trial transcripts, journalist and editor at London’s Sunday Times Peter Conradi reveals how the grandfather and former teacher carried out a horrific twelve-year killing spree right under the nose of authority.
The Columbus Affair
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world?
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile—haunted by bad decisions and a shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy…
Praying for Sleep
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Never Game and the Lincoln Rhyme novels comes a twisty psychological thriller packed into a terrifying 24 hours…
When paranoid schizophrenic killer Michael Hrubek escapes from an institution, there’s no doubt of where he’s headed: to find the woman who put him away and to finally get his revenge.
Lis Atcheson knows he’s out there—the man who killed two of her students. He’s haunted every sleepless night ever since she testified against him…
Running Scared
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author draws readers into a tension-filled story of suspense, as a woman’s secret past returns with a vengeance . . .
Kate Summers’ teenage son, Jon, has been having nightmares. Someone is chasing him, the footsteps drawing relentlessly nearer. Jon can’t see the man’s face. He only senses that danger is coming—and there’s no way to stop it.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Breaking the Dark
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This Is True) launches the Marvel Crime series of thriller books for adults with an original story starring the private detective Jessica Jones.
Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York…
17-Eddie
by Paul E. Murphy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sometimes, a cop has to improvise. Like when my partner Richie and I had to respond to a woman claiming a guy in another building was trying to control her brain.
Richie questioned her thoroughly, and found out that this guy’s death ray would only work at night and only seemed to be directed toward her bedroom window. “Not a problem,” said Richie, “I’ve seen this before. Follow me and do exactly as I say.”
He explained that if she covered the window entirely with aluminum foil, the negative ions that comprised the thought-control function of the gamma ray that this guy was directing toward her could be recalibrated, diffused, vaporized. . .
The Name Once Erased
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SECRETS HAVE A WAY OF SURFACING…
Mira believes she has her family’s dysfunction under control—until her grandmother’s funeral stirs up long-buried questions. She has always believed her father’s side of the family is more stable than her mother’s, despite his past indiscretions. But an ancestry test links him to a hidden relative he swears he doesn’t know.
Determined to uncover the truth, Mira digs deeper. But someone is desperate to bury the past, along with her family name. Mira wants the secrets, betrayals, and old wounds to end with her—even if it means risking everything she loves: her marriage, her children, and the family name she’s fighting to save.
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Money for Nothing
by Donald E. Westlake
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
One of America’s best-loved authors returns with a delightfully chilling new stand-alone in the vein of his bestsellers The Ax and The Hook.
Josh Redmont was 27 when the first check arrived, and he had absolutely no idea what it was for. Issued by “United States Agent” through an unnamed bank with an indeterminate address in D.C., someone seemed to think Josh was owed $1,000. One month later, another check arrived, and then another, and another…and Josh cashed them all. Month after month, year after year, never a peep from the IRS, never an explanation for all this seemingly found money; the checks even followed Josh from one address to another as he moved through life.
The Bridesmaid
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of A Dark-Adapted Eye: A unique psychological thriller about a gentle young man tempted to kill for love.
Philip Wardman is disgusted by murder. He cannot tolerate violent films or the local news, and when his friends discuss such things he often leaves the room. At his sister’s wedding, Philip becomes infatuated with a strange, silver-haired woman named Senta Pelham. They sleep together after the reception, and Philip finds himself falling headfirst into obsessive, all-consuming love. He wants to marry Senta and live an ordinary life—but before they can, she has a murderous idea.
Leviathan
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The thrilling conclusion to the Matthew Corbett colonial-era mystery series by the New York Times–bestselling author of The King of Shadows.
Matthew Corbett barely escaped from the beguiling and sinister island of Golgotha, where he and his companions, Hudson Greathouse and Professor Fell, had searched in vain for a fabled sorcerer’s mirror said to possess demon-summoning powers. The island instead pulled them ever deeper into its influence—with the goal of erasing their very minds…
Final Demand
by Deborah Moggach
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The beautiful, bright, and ambitious Natalie should be doing something with her life. But instead, she’s stuck in a dead-end job. And instead of improving her place in the world by her own efforts, she takes advantage of the honesty of those around her, ultimately leaving them damaged and broken. Of course, she denies responsibility, even when confronted with undeniable evidence that she is involved. So, when she sees a chance to change her life, she doesn’t hesitate to take it, even if it’s at the expense of someone else. After all, it’s only a minor crime. Nobody’s going to get hurt. But Natalie’s actions actually do have unforeseen and tragic consequences, and the ultimate question is will she be capable to meet the final demand to own up to what she has done?
100 Deadly Miles
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
U.S. Marshal Frank Kennedy is on a relentless pursuit through 100 miles of harsh, lawless land.
Each mile more dangerous than the last… In 1869, Frank’s quarry is the notorious outlaw Amos Pickett, whose brutal crime of murdering innocent men with dynamite has made him a wanted man across the West.
Frank’s mission is fraught with peril as he ventures into the treacherous No Man’s Land – a dangerous expanse between Texas and Kansas where Pickett and his gang thrive. To capture Pickett, Frank enlists the aid of Fierce Warrior, a Comanche with a personal vendetta, and Ida Bishop, a rugged frontier woman who has captured Frank’s admiration…