Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cup of Holiday Fear
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime and everyone is heading to Torte, the most cheerful bakery in town. There’s no place like home for the homicide…
Ashland, Oregon, looks as pretty as a postcard this holiday season. The halls are decked, stockings hung, and eyes are all aglow—mostly thanks to the buttered rum. Jules Capshaw and her staff at Torte are busier than ever. . . still, even the town’s most in-demand bakers need to take a break. So Jules invites everyone to celebrate at the local Winchester Inn’s Dickens Feast, a six-course extravaganza with Yorkshire Pudding, Christmas goose, and all the trimmings…
Austin Wyrd
by Steve Curry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Being a bouncer at a Heavy Metal/Goth bar sounds pretty exciting…unless you’re one of Odin’s Chosen Warriors hiding out from Valhalla and your past. So Magnus aka Mouse is less than thrilled when Fate drops a supernatural murder at his feet. Is there anyway he can stop the killer without tripping over his own secrets? Or will the cops, the feds, or his Valkyrie find him first? And can someone explain how his pet raven is learning to speak Norse?
Something I Keep Upstairs
by J.D. Barker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.
In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler’s life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities.
As they dig into the island’s dark past, they awaken an ancient evil that has influenced generations. What begins as an innocent summer adventure quickly descends into a nightmare.
Treachery in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law—including the ones sworn to uphold it.
Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime—an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody’s first case as primary detective—good thing she learned from the master…
Dust to Dust
by James M. Thompson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
A MEDICAL MIRACLE
The first subjects are lab rats. Injected with two experimental drugs by two different doctors, the rats begin to show signs of renewed youth, restored health, and remarkable vigor. Surprised by the results, neurologist Kat Williams and biochemist Burton Harris believe they have stumbled upon a major breakthrough in the science of aging. But there is only one way to know if their formula can truly reverse the aging process. Their next subject needs to be human . . .
A LIVING NIGHTMARE
Audrey Rose
by Frank De Felitta
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Elliot Hoover loses his wife and daughter, Audrey Rose, in a fiery car crash, his world explodes. To heal his mental anguish and claim some peace, he visits a psychic who reveals to him that his daughter has been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton, a young girl living in New York City. Desperate to reclaim anything from his daughter’s past, he searches out Ivy, only to discover that the unbelievable is shockingly true-his daughter is back. Now, in an effort to save her life, Hoover must choose between two horrifying possibilities-leaving his daughter’s soul in torment, or taking the life of the young girl in whom she now lives.
Cruel Deception
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Gregg Olsen tells the whole shocking story of this true crime in Cruel Deception.
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan’s Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister…
Disrupt Everything – and Win
by James Patterson, Patrick R.
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Disruption is the most powerful force of change in our lifetime.
Every day we are confronted with:
Sudden pivots at our workplace and in the job market
Rule-changing technology such as Artificial Intelligence
Unexpected crises and a culture of chaos
The sinking feeling that we are losing control of our lives
This book is about taking back control. It’s easy to follow and easy to turn into lifelong habits. It has been thoroughly researched and examined. Simply put, Disrupt Everything works.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Hardcore Twenty-Four
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times bestselling sensation Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-forth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey…
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie’s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun—whether that’s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen…
The Snowman
by Jo Nesbo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules … and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web…
Silent Refuge
by William Stone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
The moment the grid dies, she realizes the EMP wasn’t the threat… it was the evil waiting for it.
Her family is trapped in a city losing its soul, and Caroline must fight through lawless streets to save them, then defend their ranch from the chaos spreading outward.
Into the Leopard’s Den
by Harini Nagendra
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Amateur detective Kaveri Murthy returns with her most complex case yet: investigating a series of murders that take her from the bungalows of Bangalore to the mist-enshrouded mountains of Coorg.
Bangalore, 1922: Pregnant and confined to the house by her protective mother-in-law, Kaveri Murthy has resolved to take a break from detection. But when an elderly woman is murdered at night and dies clutching a photograph of Kaveri while asking for her help—how can she refuse? Missing the assistance of her husband Ramu, who is working in Coorg, Kaveri investigates her new case with her able assistants, milk boy Venu and housemaid Anandi. They find a trail of secrets that lead them to suspect the killer may be in Coorg.
Forget Me Not
by Leah Cupps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Riley earns a living by digging up the past. But some secrets are better left buried.
Archaeologist Riley Donovan has had it rough. Her beloved fiancé has passed away, her career is crumbling, and lately she feels like she’s losing the will to live.
But when she meets Corbin Cross, a charismatic YouTube historian, Riley finally sees a glimmer of hope. He’s charming, brilliant, and seems to understand her pain. Seizing this second chance for happiness, Riley begins to rebuild her shattered life.
But there’s a problem – nothing is as it seems.
Chrysalis
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale.
And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating.
Wedding to Die For
by Jovie Grace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Falling in love is risky. This Christmas, it might be deadly.
Three years ago, Bea Hazelwood jilted humble cowboy Griff Jameson to please her well-to-do family. Now she’s broke and applying for a job at the inn he owns.
Griff doesn’t need Bea stirring up old feelings while he’s tracking a gang of train robbers. Secrecy is key to serving as an undercover detective. But Bea’s sharp wit, secret family recipes, and signature stubborn streak make it difficult to keep his heart — or his cover story about a fake second engagement — intact. All too soon, she, her Christmas Book Club friends, and a nosy cat are sniffing out clues to his case that land them in grave danger.
Dark Blood
by James M. Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.4 #ad
AN UNDENIABLE CRAVING For two hundred years, Roger Neimann has never had to know the end that mortals face. But eternal existence comes with a price he cannot accept . . . consuming human blood. Hiding in New Orleans under an assumed identity, he desperately searches for a cure for his vampirism.
AN INSATIABLE HUNGER Stalking the streets of New Orleans, a vicious serial killer dubbed “The Ripper” leaves his victims drained of blood. For Houston physician Matthew Carter, it is an all-too-familiar pattern—one that sends him racing to find Neimann. But he is not alone in his hunt.
A RAGING THIRST
The Truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.
But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.