Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas
by Natasha Bache
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All Olivia wanted was one last miserable Christmas with her husband’s awful family before moving to Australia. She didn’t expect a murder. Now the snow has cut them off and she’s stuck in a stately country house, with her increasingly deranged relatives and the rising suspicion that someone is picking them off one by one.
As the bodies pile up and the festive façade starts to crack, Olivia must survive the season, or, at the very least, get through lunch without anyone else choking on a sprout.
Legacy of Dragons
by Kevin Mclaughlin, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dragons used to rule the world; those days are over. But humans, mages, and dragons have just begun learning to co-exist without conflict.
Kylara Diamantine is a young dragon with a lot to learn. When her mother goes missing, Kylara is sent to a school to learn about magic and draconic powers alongside dragons and mages. She will need to master her dragon powers to save herself and find her missing mother. Will she be prepared for what’s to come?
What do a dragon and a dwarf have in common? Sometimes, all you need is one thing to bind you together. And when that one thing is fighting to survive…
Alone, Galen Stormwing and Vala don’t stand a chance. Together, they might be able to save each other!
The Invited
by Jennifer McMahon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don’t simply move into a haunted house–they build one….
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago…
The Nowhere Man
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Includes 7 free chapters of HELLBENT, the latest in the international bestselling Orphan X series.
Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can —He will do anything to save them.
Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man.
Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man.
The Boyfriend
by Michelle Frances
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
He loves you not.
Amy is fiercely independent, with a high-powered career, a flat of her own and tight-knit friendships. But as she approaches her thirtieth birthday, she can’t help but rue the one thing she doesn’t have – a relationship.
When Amy comes around following a serious fall, she doesn’t remember anything from the last six months. Not even the upcoming skiing holiday at her aunt’s luxurious chalet in Val d’Isère with her mum and best friends to celebrate her birthday. And she certainly doesn’t remember being swept off her feet by the handsome Dr Jack Stewart . . .
Life Hikes
by Renée Brown Harmon MD
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A powerful and hopeful essay collection exploring grief, courage, and the healing power of nature.
In October 2018, Dr. Renée Brown Harmon lost her husband, Harvey, to younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease when he was only fifty-eight years old. After Harvey’s passing and nearly a decade of caring for him, Harmon found solace in hiking, nature, and travel—discovering that even when she felt frozen in her grief, her feet would keep her moving.
With Life Hikes, a memoir in three parts, Harmon shares her journey of self-discovery in the wake of loss with authenticity, candor, and grace. From an encounter with gigantic Galápagos tortoises to the 19,000-foot summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to the mythology-steeped Greek island of Ithaca, she explores the parts of herself and the edges of her grief that will ultimately bring her through it.
Peril at Christmas
by Virginia Vaughan, Liz Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A dangerous season
Mistletoe Reunion Threat by Virginia Vaughan: Someone wants Mississippi prosecutor Ashlynn Morris dead…and they’ve taken her son to get to her. The only person she can turn to is his father, a man who doesn’t even know about their child…
Christmas Captive by Liz Johnson: On his cousin’s Christmas wedding cruise, navy SEAL Jordan Somerton anticipated the typical best man duties. But when the luxury liner is infiltrated by men determined to kidnap the flower girl, he’s plunged into an unexpected mission…
NYPD Red 8
by Marshall Karp
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
It’s 11:59.
And the city that never sleeps is afraid to get out of bed.
A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store—again at 11:59.
As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Christmas Murder in Merrywell
by Jane Bettany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cosy, festive murder mystery to curl up with in front of the fire, for fans of Clare Chase and Katie Gayle.
In the charming village of Merrywell, an exciting new Christmas Market is bringing festive cheer and bustling crowds. But as the stallholders celebrate in the village bookshop at the end of a successful first day, someone rushes in to announce that a body has been found.
Once again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Violet Brewster is on hand to offer the police her astute – if perhaps unwelcome – opinion on the crime…
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event.
Creep
by Jennifer Hillier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A popular psychology professor in Seattle, Sheila works hard to keep her secrets hidden. On the surface, she’s an expert in human behavior and a well-liked educator, but nobody knows she’s a recovering sex addict in therapy—not even the love of her life, Morris. And she needs it to stay that way, or she could lose everything.
But Ethan Wolfe is impossible to resist. The graduate student is brilliant, charming, and seductive as hell. He’s also Sheila’s teaching assistant, and thirteen years her junior…
True Evil
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard’s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse’s bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about.
Instant Replays of the Exodus
by Christopher Gazeent
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
FOUR MISFITS. Red, a rebel and aspiring writer who’s probably too smart for his own good. Bones, who is bipolar and trying to find a place for himself in the world. Jim, a charismatic, loveable dork. And Ox, a hardcore introvert who loves music more than anything. Back in the day, they were the best of friends. Now, a decade later, Ox has lost his battle with depression, Jim has disappeared, and Bones wants nothing to do with Red.
Then there’s Kev, a young gay man who happens to be a goth and a furry, and Rich, a slacker with autism. Will wrongs ever be righted? Can they?
The London Bookshop Affair
by Louise Fein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war.
London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony…
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
Broken Love
by Linda Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Physically mistreated by her spouse, Jennifer Tadlock changes her appearance, runs, and is hiding out in a home for abused women when she’s hired by Sheri Jenkins, owner of Serenity Cove, a bed-and-breakfast inn.
As Jennifer begins to relax in an apartment provided by Sheri and her husband Bradley, she longs to get her own identity back, but an ominous phone call from her estranged husband results in a setback of profound fear and insecurity.
Paul Mixon, a young, handsome landscaping contractor, who lost the love of his life to cancer two years before, is also employed by the inn. He’s made it through crippling grief at last and begins to think of dating, marrying, and raising a family when Jennifer catches his eye.
The Christmas Guest
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who is he?
When handsome author, Nate, moves into Laura’s picturesque guesthouse in coastal Maine, it seems like a holiday fairy tale.
Her quiet, comfortable life takes a new direction as they get to know each other. He seems too good to be true, and she can hardly believe how everything falls into place for them. As their romance blossoms, Laura questions what Nate is hiding from her. Who is he talking to in the middle of the night? Why is he so secretive?