Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Foundations, Funny Business & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The best of intentions shouldn’t lead to murder.
HR specialist and trauma counselor Stacie Maroni joins the board of a fledgling nonprofit dedicated to supporting victims of domestic violence—a foundation created through the trust of her late husband. The diverse board includes powerful figures from senators and town mayors to mental health advocates and survivors. But as the board convenes to chart its future, tensions rise—and someone ends up dead.
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
The Perfect Nanny
by Iris Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Be careful who you trust with your child.
After losing her husband, Sarah is doing everything she can to hold herself—and her young son Theo—together. When Elena appears, calm, capable, and eager to help, she seems like the answer to Sarah’s prayers. Theo adores her, and for the first time in months, Sarah feels like she can finally breathe.
But soon, little things start to feel… off. Lullabies Sarah has never sung filling the house. Documents moved. Unfamiliar items appearing in Theo’s room. And the way Elena looks at her son—as if he belongs to her.
Storm of Secrets
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a deadly storm ravages the quiet coastal town of Harbor Point, investigative journalist Elise Marlowe stumbles upon a chilling discovery—several bodies washed up on shore, their deaths shrouded in mystery. Determined to uncover the truth, Elise follows the trail to the town’s docks, where whispers of a human trafficking ring shake her to the core.
But she’s not the only one watching the shadows. Sam Lockwood, a reclusive fisherman with a past he won’t speak of, knows danger when he sees it. He warns Elise to walk away—but when threats close in around her, he realizes he can’t stand by and let her fight alone…
Code Red
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins? Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago.
He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help. They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
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(Rogue Warrior Thrillers)
This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty…But who is a killer?
For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.
A murderer in their midst. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain…
Murder in the Smithsonian
by Margaret Truman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a mystery replete with “nonstop action and a brilliantly evocative setting,” a noted historian is murdered at the National Museum of Art (Booklist).
Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian.
Taking the case, DC police Cpt. Mac Hanrahan begins to uncover a web of secrets, lies, and revenge surrounding the historian’s killing. From the deceased Tunney’s strong-willed fiancée, Heather McBean, to the congressmen with secrets to hide, Hanrahan finds himself unsure who to believe. Soon after, two more murders add to the intrigue.
Rise of Tyrants: Whispers of War
by Callum Brooks
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
As the embers of old wars smoulder, the world of Gigas Earth stands on the brink of chaos. Fragile alliances strain under the weight of ambition, and in the shadows, whispers of treachery and war grow louder.
In the north, Queen Karak Thørn seeks to seize the throne of Nordon from her Husband, her King. But trust within her own court is a dangerous illusion. In the east, Lord Malum Thalron prepares to welcome foreign envoys to Borlong, unaware that their arrival will shatter his dominion and expose the fault lines in his house. And in the south, beneath the scorched skies of the Drylands, an ancient prophecy stirs—one that could reshape the fate of empires…
The Waiting
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.
Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
The Marfa Blues
by John Egenes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Vera DeSota runs a cafe in Marfa, Texas in 1968. The cowboys and truckers who come in every day fantasize and hope for a chance with her, but she enjoys her solitary life and isn’t ready to settle down with anyone. Yet somehow, Vera seems to collect strays, lost and wayward people looking for second chances. A 14-year-old girl, two hippie boys, and a scared young artist manage to find their way into Vera’s life and suddenly, she’s joining them in a search for buried treasure in the badlands of the rugged desert of Southwest Texas.
2 Sisters Murder Investigations
by James Patterson, Candice Fox
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Patterson’s greatest crime-solving team since the Women’s Murder Club is the Bird Sisters.
Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.
But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer.
None Left to Tell
by Noelle West Ihli
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.
Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run.
Katrina knew the trek west would be difficult. But she had no idea she’d be walking straight into hell. The young mother of four is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect her family from the violence closing in, but the battle to survive will be more harrowing than anything she can imagine.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Fashion in Shrouds
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Albert Campion’s sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a legendary couturier and dresses Georgia Wells, the best-dressed actress in the world. Albert also has a connection to Georgia, but his is based on failure, not success. Georgia’s former fiancé disappeared nearly three years ago, and Campion has never been able to find him. Until now . . .
The victim’s remains—discovered by Campion in a deserted country house—point to suicide. But the man’s father assumes it was foul play. In a rarified world of wealth and privilege where silence and secrets can be bought, the investigation won’t be easy, especially when another death takes center stage…
Cold Case, Warm Hearts Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Seven Christian romantic suspense novels from seven bestselling writers in the industry.
Windigo Twilight by Colleen Coble
Grave Pursuits by Elle E. Kay
Inheritance of Secrets by Robin Patchen
Point of Impact by Lisa Phillips
Ranger Honor by Lynn Shannon
Cast the First Stone by Susan May Warren
Burned by Jennifer Youngblood
Hour of the Hunter
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O’odham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd—a teacher on the reservation—put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can’t ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where Diana and her young son hide . . . he will find them.
Vincible
by Jay Jameston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Life is like a party balloon. You never know when it’s going to explode.
What do you do when you wake up to find a video of your drunken stupor has gone viral on Reddit? Or social media is filled with your ex-girlfriend living the party life now that she’s finally dumped you?
Jake Durham is suddenly single again, and he feels like he’s lost in the jungle without a compass. Everything has changed since he was last in the game. Everything, that is, apart from Jake Durham.
Dating apps, one-night stands, it seems as if he’s totally out of control. But with the help of his loyal band of friends, and the sage advice of an unlikely ally, he’s beginning to find some meaning in the ruins of his life…
The Chronicles of Shadow Bourne Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There is a nest of Drows living in hidden caves just outside of Los Angeles. The dark side of LaLa Land knows them well. Young Drows come out of the shadows at nightfall, looking for trouble and it always finds them. But then there’s Ellis Burton. Half Drow, half human and searching for an identity in either world.
Her father, Connor Burton is the leader of the Drow clan and the overseer in their underground drug traffic. It’s all medicinal mushrooms. Nothing to see here.
Now her mother, that’s a different story. Mom disappeared a long time ago into the city and no one is saying anything. Sometimes, if you want answers, you have to go in search of them for yourself.
Ellis Burton has been prowling the city at night looking for answers but instead, she’s found a calling.
Thrilled to Death Volume One
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When man plays god, evil follows in these three sci-fi fantasy thrillers by the international bestselling author whose “pacing is nonstop” (Publishers Weekly, on Hunter).
Hunter
Cain
Leviathan
“One of my favorite authors and a story that leaves you wanting more and waiting for his next book. I’ve read everything James Byron Huggins has written. Longtime fan.” by Amazon Customer
Distant Shores
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country.
Then tragedy turns Elizabeth’s world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life—her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams…
She’s Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse…
A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin’s fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who… and why?
No one is safe.
Jackknife
by William W. Johnstone , J.A. Johnstone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Only one man can stop a Black Friday terrorist strike in this pulse-pounding and timely thriller from the national bestselling author of American Jihad.
America Is Under Attack. And this time, it’s not New York City or Washington.
A sleeper cell of Middle Eastern terrorists is targeting the heartland: an all-American superstore on opening day, right outside of Fort Worth, Texas. The day after Thanksgiving. As insurance, the terrorists have also hidden a suitcase nuke somewhere in the store which they plan to detonate—a strike fifty times worse than 9/11 that will paralyze America.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.
No one knows why anyone would bother stealing it: the picture is of no value–the real, priceless painting is under lock and key at the art show itself. Lucy gets an invite to the glitzy opening night for the real show, where she notices unusual tension among the show’s organizers. Then, the man scheduled to give the welcoming speech fails to arrive, and a party-goer is discovered drowned in a fish pond.
Raised by Wolves
by James Patterson, Emily Raymond
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won’t speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery that only #1 bestseller James Patterson could have written.
Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They’re sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say.
Edge of Dark Water
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
May Lynn is a pretty girl who dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. Until her dead body is dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn’s strong-willed teenage friend; her pals Terry and Jinx; and Sue Ellen’s mother set out to dig up May Lynn’s body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood. If May Lynn can’t become a star, at least her remains can be spread in the land of her dreams.
Shepherds
by J. Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Olga is a genetically altered “shepherd” born to live at sea herding factory tuna. She lives with her two shipmates aboard a submersible raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Toivo is an independent fisherman who, along with two dolphins, struggles to make a living catching what few wild tuna are left. The two of them should never have met. But, someone is killing shepherds and fate pushes Olga and Toivo to join forces just to stay alive. Together they must outwit heavily armed drug smugglers bent on killing anyone who gets in their way. The nonstop action hurtles toward a startling conclusion that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Theory of Death
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman’s beloved Decker and Lazarus series.
Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it’s been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town…
Once Upon A Dragon Wish
by Adrienne Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The only thing Elena Watkins wants is a normal life. One where she doesn’t have to move every three months or be the new student at school. She will love a friend or two as well.
But when the weird, complex, hotness on legs, Blake Leaf, enrolled a few weeks later at Falmouth High, Elena struggles to keep the walls she builds around herself from falling. The guy seems to only have eyes for her, and she doesn’t know why. Until the truth reveals that he and his father are there to take her home, to a land of magic, fairytales and dragons.
The 24th Hour
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married.
Before they can raise their glasses, there’s a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal strategy is complicated by gaps in the plaintiff’s memory—and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing testimony.
Don’t Tell
by Mary Stone, Matt Giegerich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I don’t trust anyone. Not after my dad abandoned me. Not after the toxic affair with my high school teacher. Not after the attack that nearly killed me. And definitely not after the lies I’ve told—to myself and others.
For twelve years, I’ve buried my secrets, trying to live the perfect suburban life. I’m married to a wonderful man, and I have a rewarding career at Camp Wildfire—a sanctuary for troubled teens nestled on the edge of a sprawling forest. Life looks good on the surface, but one crack and it could all fall apart.
Turns out, that crack has a name. Amanda.
The Stranger in Her House
by John Marrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he’s taking over.
Paul’s just here to help, or so he claims—sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly widow Gwen. But for Gwen’s daughter Connie, there’s just something about Paul that rings alarm bells from day one. He’s a little too kind, a little too involved…Worse still, Gwen seems to have fallen under his spell.
The last thing Connie wants is a stranger meddling in the safe routine she’s built around Gwen. She loves being the one Gwen turns to for cooking, cleaning and company…
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Reminiscent of a classic whodunit, this “pulse-quickening” (Oprah Daily) instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller follows a journalist searching for a missing woman on a cruise ship—a woman that everyone else insists doesn’t exist.
Travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: one week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the elite guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate . . .
Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother’s penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea – Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered . . . and Andrea is the prime suspect.
Judgement Day
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A sinister cult. A renegade special forces veteran. A deadly race against time.
When special forces veteran Eddie Virgo agrees to rescue a young woman, Casey Bender, from the clutches of a religious cult, he has no idea what he’s getting into. The cult leader, self-appointed prophet Doctor Daniel Nelson, has a small army of fanatical followers who will do whatever he asks. Up to and including murder.
And there are other problems.
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(Zero Hour)
Quicksand
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.
Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnie’s elusive kidnapper and return her to her mother’s arms. But is Bonnie still alive? Will the two women find her in time?
The Surrogate
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lucy will carry Sophie’s child. But she does want something in return…
Sophie should be the happiest woman in the world. A good job. A nice home. Best of all, married to Matt, the love of her life.
But there’s one thing she doesn’t have – a baby. She knows that without a child of her own to love, she will never feel complete. This emptiness at the centre of her life is driving her to the edge of madness.
Then Lucy, her best friend forever, comes back to live in their home town – and offers to have a baby for Sophie.
Justice
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead.
LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard.
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold “killer eyes” cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment.
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book in Louise Penny’s award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache.
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they’re not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own…
Thrill of the Chase
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She’s the hometown EMT with everything to lose.
He’s the wealthy outsider with nothing left to prove—except that she’s the one he can’t walk away from.
When Taz Parker, a small-town EMT in rural Wyoming, meets a stranger who stays to help her at the scene of a harrowing roadside accident, she never expects to see him again—let alone find him standing at her parents’ ranch days later. Jerry O’Rourke is a man from a different world—a powerful Denver security mogul with charm, secrets, and a past that casts a long shadow…
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(The Parker Sisters)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher…
Carved Wooden Heart
by Elizabeth Horton-Newton , Starla Hartless
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An encounter with a talented native artist, a broken heart, and a knight in shining armor are just the beginning in this passionate erotic romance. Dani Stone never expected to fall in love with carver Jesse Wolf Carver. She certainly didn’t foresee the results of her intense one night stand with the sexy hunk. From the wealth of New York City to a small southern community, follow Dani as she journeys the winding path fate has laid out for her.