Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
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Too Late To Run Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Never trust a stranger with your heart… An irresistible collection of heart-pounding romantic suspense that will keep you turning pages until well into the night.
False Identity
False Trust
Burned
Promise Me Love
The Reckless Warrior
Chasing Whispers
Poirot Investigates &
Murder in the Mews Bundle
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“It’s interesting to read Agatha Christie – just a fledgling author – in the initial collection. These short detective stories are fine early efforts, if somewhat derivative of Doyle. The second collection of stories finds Christie at full power.” by Amazon Customer
The Dark Heart of Florence
by Tasha Alexander
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From acclaimed author Tasha Alexander transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin must solve a murder with clues leading back to the time of the Medici.
In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence—burglaries that might have international ramifications. He and Emily travel to Tuscany where, soon after their arrival, a stranger is thrown to his death from the roof onto the marble palazzo floor.
The Last Place
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan investigates five cold case murders, she doesn’t expect the investigation to become personal…
Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O’Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess’s present career and intimately connected with the murder of Tess’s former boyfriend.
Apart from the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence, nothing else seems to connect them…
Hell Is Empty
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Walt Longmire faces an icy hell in this New York Times bestseller from the author of Land of Wolves
Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian rumored to be one of the country’s most dangerous sociopaths, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. Walt is asked to transport Shade through a blizzard to the site, but what begins as a typical criminal transport turns personal when the veteran lawman learns that he knows the dead boy’s family. Guided only by Indian mysticism and a battered paperback of Dante’s Inferno, Walt braves the icy hell of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, cheating death to ensure that justice–both civil and spiritual–is served.
In the Shadow of Greed
by Nancy C. Weeks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She protects the cyber world. He defends his fellow man. What neither expected . . . someone would kill to ensure they both fail.
Cyber security analyst Sarah Tu’s ordered life has crumbled in hours. While she turned the outside world off to prevent dangerous malware from spreading, her sister was brutally attacked and left in a coma. They both should’ve been on a beach drinking margaritas. Guilt will forever haunt her, and she’ll find the monster who left Hanna to die. But how does she protect her heart from the detective who has taken an unusual interest in her life? She can’t stop thinking about him.
Children of the Night
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel.” –Stephen King
An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons. Children of the Night will take you to a place that no one knows – yet all of us fear.
In a desolate orphanage in post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion—and flourishes rather than dies. For immunologist Kate Neuman, the infant’s immune system may hold the key to cure cancer and AIDS.
Con Artist on the Coast
by K.L. Montgomery
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Does this brand of beauty come at a price?
There’s a new visitor to Bryce Beach, and she’s captured the hearts–and wallets–of all the ladies in town. Miranda Mason is so glamorous, so fashionable, so chic–no wonder her handmade skin care and wellness products are selling like hotcakes. Mmmm. Hotcakes.
Sunshine begins to suspect there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to Miranda. Her friends think she’s just jealous, but when a dead body is found near the boardwalk, Sunshine fears Ms. Mason is worse than a con artist–she might even be a murderer…
Pain, Pumpernickel & Profound Forgiveness
by Rosanne D’Ausilio PhD
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Have you ever experienced moments that felt truly miraculous or beyond explanation?
In this intimate journey, she unveils the tumultuous relationship with her father—a metamorphosis from the shackles of pain, hurt, and fear to the liberating embrace of compassion, generosity, and forgiveness.
This book is both raw and redemptive — Rosanne invites you into the haunting image of a young girl, clad in a yellow pinafore, white socks, and shoes, too afraid to smile. Yet, amid the shadows, there are heartwarming vignettes of Sunday morning adventures to the bakery, where watermelon-sized pumpernickel bread and the alchemy of coconut bars become the catalysts for father-daughter camaraderie.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
At Wits’ End: A Doyle Cozy Mystery
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A laugh-out-loud mystery that’s out of this world… Men in Black. Conspiracy-crazed old ladies. Can a clueless innkeeper catch a killer … and stick to her carefully crafted schedule?
When control-freak Susan Witsend inherits her grandmother’s UFO-themed B&B, she’s ready to put her organizational skills to the test. She knows she can make the B&B work, even if there is a faux-UFO in the roof. After all, what’s not to love about a Victorian nestled in the high Sierra foothills?
The Echo Man
by Sam Holland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detectives Cara Elliott and Noah Deakin are on the case of a series of seemingly unconnected murders, each different in method, but each shocking and brutal. As the body count increases, they can’t ignore the details that echo famous cases of the past—Manson, Kemper, Dahmer, and more. As Elliott and Deakin get closer to unmasking the killer, the murders are moving closer to home.
Meanwhile, Jessica Ambrose is on the run. She’s been implicated as the arsonist who killed her neglectful husband and injured her young daughter…
A Place of Darkness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone.
It’s taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life.
Everything seems to be under control until a strange telephone message and envelope set in motion a series of events that could once again destabilize Vigo’s fragile mental equilibrium. Will Vigo overcome this final, life-threatening challenge, or is his world about to unravel?
An Aria for the Vampire Complete Series
by Philippa Norcross, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cora has found herself in a pickle. Namely, she’s dying.
No one can change the hand that fate deals, yet Cora is offered a choice when she reaches the limits of what medicine can do to keep her alive.
Will she defy fate and agree to an attempt to transform her into a vampire?
Grab this complete series boxed set to find out!
Girls’ Night Out
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, Twinkle Winkleman is as hard as nails; she has to be with a name like hers. Twinkle learned everything there is to know about cars from her time in her daddy’s garage in Anchorage, and when her father dies, she gains ownership of the shop and Maude, her dad’s prized 1973 International Harvester Travelall.
Life has not been kind to Twinkle: she grew up without her mother, her daddy’s gone, her ex-husband betrayed her, and her son Tad was killed after a trip to Seattle to handle some “unfinished business.” Right now, the only things Twinkle truly cares for are her garage, Maude, and Cindy—her daughter-in-law and Tad’s widow.
Double Jeopardy
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Target – Coulter “keeps readers guessing” (Booklist) as a little girl is pursued by men who prove as relentless as their motives are baffling. And FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must unravel the clues.
The Edge – In this “fast-paced thriller” (People), an FBI agent’s sister disappears after an attempted suicide. When Savich and Sherlock join the search, they discover a startling connection to a puzzling murder – and put their lives on the line to uncover the truth.
Haunted River
by J. T. Bishop
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Don’t Deny the Dead
A woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead – her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died.
Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where the body was found. Anxious to sell it, Daniels invites his partner, Detective Aaron Remalla to help him clean it out and enjoy some time off from their high-pressure job. But their getaway is interrupted when a second woman’s body is found on the river, clad in a white nightgown, and they are unwittingly thrown them into an investigation they would prefer to avoid.
Never
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.
Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Saving Tuna Street
by Nancy Nau Sullivan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Blanche “Bang” Murninghan is a part-time journalist with writer’s block and a penchant for walking the beach on her beloved Santa Maria Island. When land-grabbing tycoons arrive from Chicago and threaten to buy up Tuna Street, including her beachfront cottage, her seemingly idyllic life begins to unravel. Blanche finds herself in a tailspin, flabbergasted that so many things can go so wrong, so fast. When her dear friend is found murdered in the parking lot of the marina, Blanche begins digging into his death…
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia andis unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
Unmasking the Shadow Man
by Debbie Herbert
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Officer Liam Andrews knows when a woman’s in danger. From the moment he encounters Harper Catlett, he’s wants her under his protection. Something mysterious is going on in the house where Harper’s sister died years ago and now that Harper is conducting some amateur detective work, she’s suddenly facing threats from an unseen enemy. What Harper doesn’t know is that Liam is already working undercover on her hometown’s unsolved murders. And the more Harper probes the small southern town’s sordid secrets, the greater the risk to both of them. Will they be able to solve these long-buried crimes before they wind up dead?
Plot/Counterplot
by William Bernhardt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
He writes gunfights and ticking time bombs. But when he’s kidnapped and forced to plan a real-world crime, every plot twist will be explosive…
Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakness was failure, the bestselling suspense author grabs a measure of peace in his gorgeous girlfriend’s arms. But he sees fiction come horrifyingly to life when masked fanatics break in demanding he put his brilliant mind to work and help them steal a secret military super-weapon.
The Innocent Man
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Close to Death
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.
Triple Threat
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour — comes three powerful short stories.
In “Fast,” Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell–with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance.
In “Game,” a housekeeper looks for her murdered employer’s missing body-and uncovers a shocking truth that hits too close to home.
In “Paradice,” a car brake failure leaves John Pellam stranded in a remote Colorado mountain town, where he suddenly finds himself accused of murder.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Mess with Gracie
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ghosts never lie. The mysterious Mr. Ott is trying to intimidate Gracie Hofner into being his internal spy at The Bastion Group. She’s learned a lot about him through several sources, even using information provided by the pair of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter. But it isn’t enough. Mr. Ott is an expert in hiding his true identity.
Gracie isn’t as worried for herself as she is for her family, her friends, and her new tenant, Milo Porter. Her feelings for him have grown, but she can’t show them. Mr. Ott’s threats involve those she loves, and one friend has already been killed…
Run, Rose, Run
by James Patterson, Dolly Parton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From America’s most beloved superstar and #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise -and on the run – and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.
Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her. And destroy her.
Point Blank
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
His name is Mason Sharpe. Victims take heart—bad guys take cover.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe’s world is turned upside down when his beloved fiancée is killed in a random shooting. Struggling to cope with his grief, Sharpe instinctively heads for the North Carolina town where he and his bride had planned to honeymoon.
Alone on a beach, contemplating a future which now seems bleak and empty, he stares into the abyss. But then…
Every Breath You Take
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Has her husband really left her? Or is someone playing a deadly game?
When Eva’s husband Samuel doesn’t come home from a boys’ night out, she thinks he’s sleeping off his hangover at a friend’s house. So she waits. And waits…
Eventually, he sends her a text – he’s met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated. How could he do this? How could he do it to their children? She’d thought her marriage was rock solid.
She tries to go on with her life as best she can. But then things take a truly bizarre turn…
The Host
by Stephenie Meyer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New Bonus Chapter and Reading Group Guide, including Stephenie Meyer’s Annotated Playlist for the book with linking to and back from text.
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given Melanie’s body, didn’t expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind…
A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.
The Fifth Witness
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.
Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too — and he’s certain he’s on the right trail…
The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian — leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies.
Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.
Dixie City Jam
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A sunken Nazi U-boat drags a Louisiana deputy into lethal danger in this hard-boiled mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.
It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast – a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office has known of its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving – but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.