Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dune to Death
by Mary Daheim
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Just when she thought her honeymoon couldn’t get worse, a newlywed finds someone newly dead. Fourth in the series from the author of Holy Terrors.
Bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle and her policeman beau Joe Flynn have finally gotten hitched—and they’re off on a sunny honeymoon to beautiful Buccaneer Beach. But an unfortunate confrontation with a dune buggy run amok puts hubby Joe in hospital traction—leaving his beleaguered blushing bride stranded in paradise with a bad case of ennui by the sea. Luckily irrepressible cousin Renie has selflessly agreed to keep Judith company…
Scorched Earth
by George Galdorisi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
General Bob Underwood is en route to Syria when a rocket-propelled grenade strikes the side of his Humvee and the heavily armored convoy comes under attack. His bodyguard is brutally murdered, and Underwood himself is kidnapped. Hours later, the president and top officials watch in horror from the Oval Office as the general is viciously beheaded by an ISIS leader—broadcast live on the Al Jazeera television network.
The world is stunned by the bloody scene, but even more so that this supposedly loose-knit terrorist organization was able to orchestrate a lethal attack on the world’s most powerful military…
TARGETED
by Susanna Haymond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Just when it seems life can’t get any darker, his past comes back to haunt him.
FBI Agent Connor Fields and DEA Agent Elaine Jackson team up and are working on a case that started as a suspicious death. During their investigation, they discover that the perpetrator they’re after is a convicted felon who is out for revenge and is going after his arresting agent, Grant Rourke. It’s a race against time as the perpetrator is leaving a trail of victims in his wake.
Injured in the line of duty, DEA Agent Grant Rourke is forced to take medical leave. While struggling to accept the possibility that he may never hear again, he enrolls in New Beginnings Deaf Community Services…
The Sheva Chronicles Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A witch assassin. An FBI agent. A dangerous conspiracy unravels.
Valerie Kuriken, a skilled witch assassin known as a SHVA, has always worked alone. When a routine mission brings her face-to-face with FBI agent Benjamin Carter, their paths become intertwined.
Pick up this 6-book boxed set today to join their adventures!
Death on the Rhine
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A luxury cruise. Hidden family secrets. A body on board…
A birthday trip to Bonn sees amateur detective Atalanta Ashford drawn into the scandalous will of a wealthy grandmother during a scenic cruise down along the Rhine.
But growing tensions lead to a sudden and shocking death. Facing suspicion all around, Atalanta must unravel a deadly web of family secrets as treacherous as the river they voyage on, to find the killer.
Look out for the other Miss Ashford mysteries and get your passports ready as you travel with her to some of the most sought-after destinations on the continent… Each title can be read as standalone and in any order…
The Day the Rabbi Resigned
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rabbi Small has left the synagogue, but he’s not done with sleuthing, in this “engaging” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author (New York Newsday).
After three decades of dealing with temple politics and getting involved with more than a handful of murder investigations, Rabbi David Small is ready to retire from his synagogue in the cozy Boston suburb of Barnard’s Crossing. For years, his secret desire has been to permanently take up teaching, but when he finally leaves the synagogue to pursue that dream, life at a university proves more dangerous than he thought…
The Oligarch’s Daughter
by Joseph Finder
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans.
Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move…
A Family Name
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Lucky Bones hunts outlaws for a living. Virginia Brooks is hunting one man for revenge. When their paths cross on the trail of Mad Jack Harlan, justice ride side by side, and neither comes easy.
Ten years ago, Jack burned Virginia’s family ranch to the ground. She’s been looking for him ever since.
Lucky’s just after the two-thousand dollar price on Jack’s head. But as the bodies pile up, the lines between bounty and righteousness start to blur.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas.
Just days before Estancia’s annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions.
The victim wasn’t just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail. As Fenway digs deeper, she uncovers tensions simmering between rival farmers, a string of online grudges, and a past the victim was desperate to keep buried…
Maniac in the Shadows
by Steve Hudgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
BARRICADE EVERY WINDOW. BOLT EVERY DOOR. A MANIAC LURKS IN THE SHADOWS.
John Bromley, a cunning killer whose madness fuels his every move, has escaped the walls of a sinister insane asylum, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. Driven by a twisted mind that blends chilling intellect with unhinged brutality, he kills without pattern—only when it serves his dark purpose.
Dr. Franklin Grimm, the asylum’s ruthless director, will stop at nothing to keep the breakout a secret, desperate to protect his career at any cost…
The Witch’s Lost Love
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Did Stephanie Gray suffer great tragedy in a past life and could it be coming back to haunt her?
STEPHANIE PREFERS HER SIMPLE LIFE of waiting tables at a diner and living with her silly cat. Then she joins a Wiccan group of healer women to live in harmony with the earth, and her world begins to tilt and whirl when a circle member disappears into thin air.
THIS IS NO MAGIC TRICK and foul play is strongly suspected. Soon Stephanie’s life spirals into chaos and she’s facing more questions than answers: Who is or was the missing Flo, the witch that nobody liked? Could Stephanie have some strange connection with her disappearance? And can facing the past bring back the missing pieces of Stephanie’s present-day life?
Infamy
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The “rock-solid” (Kirkus Reviews) prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, return to solve the suspicious murder of a US colonel and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government in this novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum.
Intrigue, murder, corruption, and dramatic courtroom battles combine to make Infamy another must-read in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s “tightly-written” (Booklist) legal thrillers. When a former Army veteran suddenly murders a colonel in New York, he claims that he had to do it because he was being used in mind control experiments. Surprisingly, a top Wall Street criminal defense lawyer, one with ties to the White House, decides to defend the killer, arguing that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress from his tours in Afghanistan and that it’s his patriotic duty to assist him…
The Secrets of Ashmore Castle
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered . . .
When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family, must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family…
Interlude at Duane’s
by F. Paul Wilson, James Patterson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson places his urban mercenary, Repairman Jack, in an almost impossible situation. Repairman Jack just wants to be left alone, but that’s difficult to do when a robber is poking a .357 revolver in your face at the local drugstore. Things only get worse when three more stoned gunmen join the fray and threaten a crowd of customers. Not a big fan of heroics, Jack rises to the occasion. But being the hero is hard when you like to avoid closed-circuit cameras and the only weapons at your disposal come from the shopping aisles…
Chase
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Never steal from the poor and never shoot a man in the back.
Horse thief Chase McGraw lives by these rules, but they don’t stop the noose from tightening around his neck after he’s caught stealing purebred horses from cattle baron Edwin Kensington. His only way out? A devil’s bargain: recover a stolen herd from ruthless outlaw Brenner Pike, or swing at dawn.
Chase is forced to partner with Takoda, a quiet Indian with secrets of his own for helping. Their shaky alliance is further tested by the arrival of Eliza Hart, a frontier doctor with her own vendetta against Pike…
Enemy at the Gates
by William J. Craig
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat.The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Art
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Things are looking up for Kate Garrett. She’s moving into the apartment she inherited, along with half her father’s detective agency. Her new business partner, Jake Carmedy, trusts her enough to ask for help. And she has a new case of her own.
This case involves ransomware, not exactly in Kate’s wheelhouse. However, Professor Smyth is sure that he is being personally targeted by one of his colleagues or students. Finding the person is as important to him as undoing the damage to his system. Someone has been filling his server and cloud storage with subscriptions to racist, sexist and pornographic e-zines. The latter includes one creator that thinks revenge killing is video art, and it’s up to Kate to expose the murderer before he strikes again.
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition – Short Story Genre (Florida Writers Association)
Our journey through life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. The road is filled with unexpected twists and turns and sometimes things are not as they seem. In The Twisted Road Ahead, John D. Ottini leads us on an excursion through eight suspenseful tales, each filled with joy, heartache, mystery, intrigue and a pinch of humor.
When tragedy strikes, Blake Thomas is left with a broken heart and a guilty conscience. Rather than searching within his heart for the forgiveness he needs, he decides that sometimes it’s easier to just “Blame it on the Weather.”
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate…
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York.
Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men…
The Cabin Trilogy
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Cabin Trilogy tells the story of a ‘final girl’ who never managed to leave her past behind. Originally published in three parts over the course of ten years, the trilogy is finally collected together now in this shocking omnibus edition.
When she travels to Norway for a holiday with her friends, Anna Matthews has no idea that she’s about to be plunged into a nightmare. Once she arrives at a remote cabin in the forest, however, she starts to notice that some of her supposed friends are acting strangely. There’s a camera set up in the basement, aimed at a rickety old wooden chair, but what exactly are they planning to record?
Hell and Back
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls?
Search the Dark
by Marta Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sometimes the past is best left buried
Meredith King longs for escape. Life in Deer Run is stifling, the Amish town too small for a modern woman staying just to care for her ailing mother. When a friend enlists her help in clearing the name of an Amish boy whose decades-old death is still shrouded in mystery, she welcomes the distraction. But when a ghost from her own past reappears, there is suddenly a lot more at stake.
Lie Lie Truth
by James Caine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My father was a serial killer – or so I thought.
My dad, Dennis Kempmen, had his quirks but was respected in our small town. That was until children began disappearing and he became the main suspect.
I started to believe what others were saying: My father was a killer. Then it happens again. A little girl disappears in a similar way the others were taken. Everything I thought I knew is revealed to be a lie.
The Aperture Effect
by Kathryn Ford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Couples often ask, “Can people really change?” A better question is, “How do people change?” In The Aperture Effect, psychiatrist and couples therapist Dr. Kathryn Ford doesn’t just tell you how—she gives you simple tools that will immediately begin to transform your conversations and your relationship.With the radically simple approach of Aperture Awareness, Dr. Ford integrates mindfulness, psychology, and neuroscience to help couples shift their dynamics when in distress, turning their difficulties into lasting connection.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
An international bestselling author crafts a gothic “thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—twisty, transportive, and haunting, this is suspense with a passport.
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Summer Lane
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Garden Girls have planned the perfect baby shower for Andrea and her husband, Brian. The decorations are in place, the delicious dishes lovingly prepared by the friends and nearly half the town of Belhaven has been invited to join in the joyous occasion, but there’s trouble on the horizon.
As if dealing with the unexpected wrench in their perfectly laid party plans isn’t enough, Liz, Gloria’s sister, has arrived for the summer, and invited the friends to stop by for a tour of her swanky new summer digs…
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(Garden Girls Cozy Mysteries)
Burning Distance
by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet—set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling
When ten-year-old Elizabeth West’s father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family.
At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan—but when Adil’s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated…
Blessing of the Lost Girls
by J. A Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. He chooses those he believes are the most vulnerable, wandering alone and distracted, before he strikes. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes—or their identities—behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement’s history of ignoring their disappearances…
Push Not the River
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Looking for historical fiction that will transport you to another time and place? This first book in an IPPI Gold Medal Winning Series will enthrall you.
Suddenly alone in the world, Anna falls in love with Jan, a patriot ready to put his life on the line for Poland’s democratic Constitution. Cousin Zofia also sets her sights on Jan even as she refuses to submit to her parents’ choice of an arranged marriage, and she will go to any lengths to avoid it, no matter whom it may hurt. All the while, political and military events are moving towards a national cataclysm.
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(The Poland Trilogy)
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI–and known criminals–about her deceased mother. Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security—and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
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(Texas Security Mysteries)
Crimespree Magazine #11 and 12
by CJ Box, Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The 11th and 12th issues of Crimespree Magazine (Mar/Apr 2006 and May/Jun 2006) are presented together as a single eBook. The cover feature of Issue 11 featured T. Jefferson Parker interviewed by CJ Box while Val McDermid was interviewed by Ruth Jordan for the cover feature of Issue 12.
Highlights of Issue 11 include: JA Konrath’s funny “Cozies or Hardboiled”, a conversation between Sharon Fiffer and John Connolly, Anthony Neil Smith tells you “Why You Shouldn’t Buy His Novel” and Reed Farrel Coleman interviewed Michel Martinez. Additionally, Ken Bruen describes his enjoyment of The Rockford Files, Michael Lister starts a new column and Michael A. Black interviews Henry Kisor.
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet.
Turbo Twenty-Three
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.” – The New York Times
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Fortunately for bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just stupid enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body—frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans…
Other People’s Stories
by Katharine Tonti
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this collection of 16 short stories, everyday moments become the canvas for life’s profound truths.
Each tale unveils the beauty and complexity of ordinary individuals as they navigate love and loss, and discover the mysteries hidden within the moments of their extraordinary lives.