Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Explosive Eighteen
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York Times
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos, not to mention the FBI, are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying…
Around Curiosity’s Edge
by J.P. Hostetler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A hidden world waits, a dark society schemes, and a ship sails to protect that which cannot be lost.
Salem Swan knows none of this as he arrives in Easterly. He knows only that he misses his recently deceased mother, that his new guardian, his uncle Ulysses is unique, and that the boat which will now be his home is unlike anything he has ever seen.
Fearful of this new reality, Salem starts to ask questions that uncover the truth about his distant uncle, his long-gone father, and the true nature of the ship…
Seven Girls Gone
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For three years, women have been disappearing—and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau’s investigation stalls at every turn.
With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI’s Mobile Response Team. While LAPD detective Kara Quinn works undercover to dig into the women’s murders and team leader Matt Costa officially investigates the in-custody death of a witness, Beau might finally have a chance at solving the case.
Hiss & Tell
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown.”—The New York Times Book Review
Christmas is coming and Harry’s to-do list is a mile long. The days are filled with delivering holiday baskets to neighbors in need, chopping down the perfect tree with her best friend, Susan Tucker, and hunting for that elusive special gift for her beloved husband, Pharamond “Fair” Harristeen. Harry also decides to try her hand at dog showing, enrolling her handsome Irish Wolfhound puppy Pirate in classes to prepare for a future exhibition. Through it all, holiday cheer—and plenty of treats for Pirate—keep spirits high.
“D” is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who’d done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he’d stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident–death by drowning. Kinsey wasn’t so sure.
Pulled into the detritus of a dead man’s life, Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies…
A Rip Through Time
by Kelley Armstrong
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness.
MAY 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half day off, only to be discovered that night strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one hundred and fifty years before Mallory is strangled in the same spot.
Vanish
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.
Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
The Love of Impossible Sums
by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A celebration of life and its many contradictions, The Love of Impossible Sums is a contemporary London tale of interlocking love stories, sexual indiscretions and dysfunctional friendships. It explores the themes of love, loss, and the different ways people live their lives.
Oliver has lost his wife Eden to illness. Still grieving three years later, unable or unwilling to imagine a future without her, he finds himself stuck in a joyless existence. But everything appears to change when on a bright December morning a stranger asks him for a light and then invites him to “They Them”, a poetry reading event by “a poet like no other”. The stranger is Alex, or They, and a ventriloquist’s dummy is Them, representing her dead husband Sam in a performance they had planned to do together. ‘Life is love and death,’ They Them declare on stage.
What to Do When Someone Dies
by Nicci French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ellie Falkner’s world has been destroyed. Her husband, Greg, died in a car crash—and he wasn’t alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone, a woman Ellie’s never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her. Maybe it’s the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was—and prove Greg wasn’t having an affair. And soon she is chillingly certain their deaths were no accident.
Are Ellie’s accusations of murder her way of avoiding the truth about her marriage? Or does an even more sinister discovery await her?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, Mayhem and 4 of a Kind
by Duffy Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When rotten-to-the-core Payton Wilder winds up dead in Savannah, Nola Cottonwood’s two aunts are suspects in the murder. Can Nola find the real killer, and how will the others help them get away with it.
“I love Duffy Brown, and was especially wild about the Cycle Path series. This series looks to be great fun, too! Fun characters, humor, interesting plot that moves right along, and a twist at the end. Now I have to get the next book! Soon!” by Amazon Customer
The Night Before
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A southern woman is tormented by murders she herself might be committing in this psychological thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
In the dark shadows of a sultry southern town, a serial killer strikes. It’s an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before—because every victim is an offering to a hunger that can never be sated. When Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes up covered in blood, she has no memory of the night before. Only later does she learn that her estranged husband was brutally murdered…like so many others she has known.
Cultured
by D. P. Lyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jake Longly, ex-pro baseball player turned restauranteur, is back where he belongs: relaxing on the beach in front of his restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama. His peace is interrupted, however, when he receives a call from his private investigator father – April Wilkerson has gone missing from Lindemann Farms, the rustic, yet posh, resort built by self-help and financial guru Jonathon Lindemann.
Lindemann, founder of The Lindemann Method (TLM), recruits wealthy people to join his program, charging a hefty entry fee but in return promising huge financial gains and self-enlightenment. Jake’s celebrity status makes him the best person for the case.
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
by Glenn Taylor
Kindle $0.10 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleases women, and masters the rifle – a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal wars. A teenaged union sniper, Trenchmouth is exiled to the back-woods of Appalachia’s foothills, where he spends his years running from the past.
This Gulf of Time and Stars
by Julie E. Czerneda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Space opera meets hard science fiction in this trilogy featuring “fully-fledged alien races, intriguing plotlines, beautifully drawn worlds, and . . . believable inter-species romance” (Ursula Pflug, The Alphabet Stones).
To save their world, the most powerful of the Om’ray left their homes. They left behind all memory of their past. Calling themselves the Clan, they settled among Humanity, hiding in plain sight, using their ability to slip past normal space to travel where they wished, using their ability to control minds to ensure their place and security.
Sharp Evidence
by Julie Miller
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
History is repeating itself… With deadly consequences.
Discovering a bloody knife from two unsolved murders reunites theater professor Reese Atkinson with criminalist Jackson Dobbs. And the murder victims? Jackson’s own parents. But the shy orphaned boy from her childhood is now an army veteran and fierce protector…of the evidence and of Reese. But just who is weaving a deadly web that not only threatens their reunion…but their lives?
The Beast You Are: Stories
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
“Melancholy and funny as well as dark and complex, this novel will be the dark hit of the summer. Unique in terms of style and format, The Pallbearers Club occupies a peculiar place between a thriller, a horror novel, and a narrative that will make you question everything.” – Boston Globe
The Reckoning
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the close-knit community of Faith’s Landing, Seamus O’Malley and his half-brother, Finnegan, are outcasts, bound by blood and a promise to protect each other.
The town has always hated their fiery red hair and Irish ancestry, but their prejudice is nothing compared to the dark forces threatening them.
When the ruthless Coyote Creek Gang seizes control of Faith’s Landing, no one is safe.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
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A Brew to a Kill
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amateur sleuth and brewer Sloan Krause returns in A Brew to a Kill, a new cozy mystery novella from author Ellie Alexander. Includes recipes!
It’s the opening weekend of the spring farmers market in the charming Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington, where the hills are alive with the sound of…murder. Sloan Krause and Garrett Strong are eager to showcase their latest offering – canned hoppy Northwest ales. They’re even more enthusiastic when Josh, a young travel influencer known for scaling peaks and downing pints, offers to feature Nitro’s new cans at the top of the latest mountain he’s set to climb. Josh’s A Brew to a View has millions of followers and should mean great exposure for Nitro.
Crusader’s Cross
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past – images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader’s Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux’s life he has tried to forget.
Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston beach. She was pretty and Jimmie fell for her hard – not knowing she was a prostitute on infamous Post Office Street, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was abducted and never seen again.
She’s My Sister Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
This collection includes books 1 to 10 of She’s My Sister in the Cincinnati City Lights mystery series.
In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety yet Grace knew danger surrounded them…when the pain allowed her to think clearly. But she knew she needed him to stay alive because someone wanted her dead…like her sister.
Ethan Hendricks wasn’t thrilled that his private investigator brother was involved in his current murder investigation. He’d had a bad feeling about it from the moment he walked through the crime scene. The second time through wasn’t any better.
Pastime
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker’s electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction–a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.
This time, it’s more than a routine search for a missing person–Spenser must search his own soul…
The Kurtherian Gambit Starter Pack
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Unleash the power of choice and change humanity’s destiny. Discover the best-selling Kurtherian Gambit Universe with the first book in six series in this urban fantasy meets science fiction universe.
Death Becomes Her
Alpha Class
Evacuation
Justice is Calling
Reprisal
Diplomatic Recruit
Check Point
by Maor Kohn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Israeli and Palestinian women are murdered. Two enemy entities are looking for answers. All paths converge at one place – The Checkpoint.
When two women are found dead and buried in a field in the West Bank, Special Investigator Yael Lavie knows she is sitting on a political powder keg about to explode. Still reeling from the traumatizing death of her husband, Yael knows the dangers of blurring the line between terror and murder. But when one of the victims turns out to be a missing woman from the Gaza Strip, Yael is forced to cooperate with her most unexpected ally yet: Palestinian detective Ibrahim Azberga.
The OPSIG Team Black Series Books 1–3
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From a USA Today–bestselling author: Three “wild page-turning” thriller novels of covert operations around the globe (NPR on The Hunted).
The Hunted,
Hard Target,
The Lost Codex
Under a Veiled Moon
by Karen Odden
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the tradition of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, a fatal disaster on the Thames and a roiling political conflict set the stage for Karen Odden’s second Inspector Corravan historical mystery.
September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat the Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who believe violence is the path to restoring Irish Home Rule.
Rosemary’s Baby
by Ira Levin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One of the best-selling books of all time, Rosemary’s Baby is a foundational work of suspense and psychological horror which remains as powerful and chilling as the day it was written. Hailed by Truman Capote as a “darkly brilliant tale” and adapted with near-total fidelity into the monumental film starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby ushered in the era of contemporary horror as we know it, opening the floodgates to later works such as The Exorcist and The Omen. Levin ingeniously fused gothic literary tradition with modern-day New York, creating an enduring classic which the New York Times placed on its recent list of “The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years.”
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking
by Raquel V. Reyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school’s Fall Festival the day before.
Miriam’s luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women’s Club annual gala. But this year, it’s not canapes and waltzes. Miriam and her girlfriends-squad opt for fun and flavor…
The Overnight Guest
by Heather Gudenkauf
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace.
As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted by secrets of her own. Then she discovers a small child in the snow just outside…
The Great and Secret Show
by Clive Barker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Art, the greatest power known to humankind, is the focus of struggle between the evil spirit, Jaff, and a force for light, Fletcher. Jaffe hopes to tap into The Art’s power while Fletcher wants to prevent it from being tainted. The conflict between the two men spills into the real world in a decades-long feud, distorting reality and affecting the entire human race.
Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.
The Scorned Wife
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Damon is handsome, charming, intelligent. But he does have one little flaw…
Amelia was deeply in love with her husband, Sam. Until she discovered he was having an affair with her younger sister, Cara.
Ever since, Amelia has had to sit by at family events while her sister and ex-husband flaunt their passionate relationship.
Tired of being seen as a loser, Amelia hires stunningly handsome actor, Damon Chase, to stand in as her boyfriend. A plan that works better than she ever hoped as pathologically competitive Cara throws herself at Damon, causing an acrimonious breakup with Sam.
The Thumb Mark of St. Peter
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple’s home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . .
Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man—until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he ate? Or the arsenic Mabel had recently purchased? While the village gossips were ready to declare Mabel guilty, Miss Marple was determined to clear her niece’s name and set everything straight . . .
Stolen by the Billionaire
by Blair Babylon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Blair Babylon comes a new edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense thriller between an Iowa farm girl and the ex-Navy SEAL billionaire who kidnaps her.
I am an American Navy SEAL, and I will not be blackmailed by a goddamn Russian mafia boss.
Years ago, I parlayed a loan into a billion-dollar crypto fortune. The head of the White Russian Syndicate is demanding I pay it back in illegal military-grade weapons, but I won’t. I will not be responsible for adding to the misery of innocents.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing!
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending.
Anathema
by Nick Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bryan and Ellie Stockton hope they left behind their demons when they move to their idyllic new home in southern West Virginia. Above all, they want a fresh start for their young son, Derrick, who witnessed the tumultuous first years of their marriage – years that were rife with substance abuse, rage, and resentment. Their bright hope for the future is darkened when a child disappears from their neighborhood. The couple becomes suspicious of a reclusive resident with a degenerative brain disorder.