Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Meet Your Baker
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…
After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder…
Candle In The Wind
by Kim Baccellia
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you discovered everything you’ve been taught is a lie? For most of her life, seventeen-year-old Espie Hernandez’s world revolved around the Branch of Thomas, a cult-like haven in what’s left of a war-ravaged America.
Their ruler, Reverent Father, keeps them safe from the Others, those outside the compound who wish to harm them. Espie questions what she’s been taught and finds herself banished from the compound. She’s thrust into the harsh world beyond their walls with the mission to prove the Others actually have a plot against them. When tensions escalate, Espie must figure out who to trust before everything she loves is torn apart.
The Stand
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge – Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them – and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.
“J” is for Judgment
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Five years ago, when Jaffe’s thirty-five-foot Fuji ketch was found drifting off the Baja coast, it seemed a sure thing he’d gone overboard. The note he left behind admitted he was flat broke, his business bankrupt, his real estate gambit nothing but a huge Ponzi scheme about to collapse, with criminal indictment certain to follow. When the authorities soon after descended on his banks and his books, there was nothing left: Jaffe had stripped the lot.
The Fred Carver Mysteries Volume Two
by John Lutz
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The second set of crime thrillers starring a tough Florida PI from the New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female and “one of the masters” (Ridley Pearson).
New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author John Lutz has been hailed as “a major talent” by John Lescroart, and he “just keeps getting better and better” (Tony Hillerman). “Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster” (Jeffery Deaver) in his thrillers and “knows how to make you shiver” (Harlan Coben).
The Hero
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever.
From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows…
Next to Last Stand
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.
The Whispering Room
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun – just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.
In the wake of her husband’s inexplicable suicide – and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals – Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment.
Mile High Miracle
by J. S. Kingsley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
All I wanted for Christmas was a flight home to my Grandma’s cookies. Instead, I got unwrapped by a silver fox billionaire at 30,000 feet.
The flight was a disaster until Marcel Dubois saved me. Older. Sophisticated. Richer than sin.
He offered his private suite. I gave him my virginity.
The rule was simple: One night. No names. No strings.
But the holidays are full of surprises. When I walk into my new job to save my grandmother’s town, I freeze.
The ruthless developer bulldozing our library? It’s him. The Grinch stealing our Christmas? Him.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bleeding Tarts
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Val’s new pies are foolproof–but not bulletproof.
Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies, hoping to boost business for her struggling Pie Town shop and become a regular supplier for the Bar X.
But no sooner does she arrive in town than a stray bullet explodes the cherry pie in her hands. And the delicious dessert is not the only victim. Val finds the Bar X bartender shot dead in an alley…
The Ones Who Got Away
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Thirteen stories of monsters, murder, and mayhem from a master of horror, the New York Times–bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher.
Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you’ve seen before, but with outcomes you’ll never see coming.
In “Father, Son, Holy Rabbit,” a dad and his child are lost in a snowstorm and learn what the true cost of survival is. A snake-oil salesman makes his way across Arizona territory, peddling his wares to unsuspecting customers—and leaving ghost towns in his wake—in “Lonegan’s Luck.” While in “Raphael,” four twelve-year-old outcasts, seemingly invisible to everyone around them, make up a “scare” club, pushing themselves further and further into the unthinkable.
The Terry Henry Walton Saga
by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle, Justin Sloan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They say that behind every great man is a great woman…but what if that woman is a Werewolf?
Join Terry Henry Walton as he helps drag humanity back into civilization after the World’s Worst Day Ever with the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles. Continue the story as Terry Henry, Char, and their people head to space in The Bad Company!
Get 19 books encompassing two complete series and more than 4600 pages of action and adventure-filled urban fantasy and science fiction with this digital boxed set
Left to Die
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
NOTHING’S MORE TERRIFYING . . . One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can’t yet see the beauty in his work—but soon, very soon, they will . . .
THAN BEING LEFT ALONE . . . In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer’s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come . . .
TO DIE . . .
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding,” Poirot is asked to attend a Christmas celebration in order to apprehend a jewel-thief who has taken advantage of an unwary eastern prince. Full of English holiday tradition and plenty of intrigue, this holiday tale first appeared in the December 12, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
Wolf Pack
by C. J. Box
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf—only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down–in the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he’s come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife—and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe’s own daughter, Lucy…
The Whisper of His Irons
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
At twelve years old, Flint McCrae buried his mother with his own hands after raiders tore through their Missouri homestead. From that day, he swore he’d never show mercy again. Seven years later, he has his father’s guns and a list of names. The men who killed her are nearly gone, one bullet at a time.
To most, Flint is already a legend. A shadow on horseback who rides the wind from Kansas to the frontier towns beyond. To Edda May, daughter of a boardinghouse keeper, he’s a quiet young man hollowed by grief.
The Life of Chuck
by Stephen King
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Originally featured in the acclaimed story collection If It Bleeds, this unforgettable, mind-bending tale unfolds in reverse, taking readers through the extraordinary life of Charles “Chuck” Krantz.
In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end.