Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Killer Reputation
by Cassidy Salem
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Adina can’t resist snooping when someone she knows turns up dead. Again. When a colleague at a prestigious think tank meets a violent death, Adina’s not convinced any of the obvious suspects disliked him enough to want him dead. Can the young research assistant, her quirky neighbor, and a lovable rescue pup help the police put together the pieces of the puzzle? Killer Reputation is the third mystery in the Adina Donati, Accidental Sleuth Series by Cassidy Salem. The books are standalone reads and can be read in any order.
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(Adina Donati, Accidental Sleuth)
Look Again
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground in Look Again, a thriller that’s both heart-stopping and heart-breaking, and sure to have new fans and book clubs buzzing.
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and won’t be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth.
Refining Fires
by Erin Rainwater
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A ruined nurse. A disfigured veteran. A tormented child. A kept woman. Strangers whose paths cross, bringing redemption into each other’s lives in ways none of them could have predicted. Her career in ruins, a desperate nurse answers an ad to care for a disabled veteran. Disfigured in the war, the antisocial businessman can’t get his mind off the nurse he had tossed out of his home.
A young child who never leaves the confines of her mountain home must make a treacherous journey alone to save her mother’s life. A woman kept by men all her life learns through an old love that she has been kept all along by Someone else. Three stirring episodes. One magnificent Love story. Discussion questions included for book groups.
Love You More
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
WHO DO YOU LOVE? One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter?
AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . . As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood…
Conflicted
by Indy Quillen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A devastating natural disaster upends the world Walker knows and loves.
A rescue mission gone-wrong in unfamiliar terrain, tests the limits of his expert skills.
And challenge after challenge, Walker is determined to keep everyone safe … but he’s got to survive the mission first.
When natural disaster forces Walker and Nataya to re-evaluate their future, an opportunity to visit friends in Washington State offers a respite from the daily reminders of their tragic loss. But shortly after arriving they’re asked to help find a family missing in the local wilderness. Despite their limited experience in that specific environment, the two survival experts don’t hesitate to join the search.
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Kindle $0.29 Rating: 4.3 #ad
H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest and most influential science fiction novels ever written. First published in 1898, this gripping narrative of Martian invaders landing on Earth captures the tension between humanity’s ingenuity and vulnerability in the face of otherworldly forces.
The War of the Worlds remains a cornerstone of science fiction, combining thrilling storytelling with profound social and philosophical insights. Dive into this timeless masterpiece and experience the story that continues to captivate readers more than a century after its publication.
Play Dead
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The worlds of celebrity and sports are brilliantly dissected and turned upside down in the debut thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.
Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim – and never returned.
The Best Cadet
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Saint Michael’s Military Academy is a private school that needs a miracle. It has lost an unfair lawsuit and can no longer afford to continue operating. The administration does not know how to overcome this problem. A reason for hope arrives one day in the form of a very unlikely individual.
A defiant young man is forced by his wealthy family to attend the academy. Paul Wildman needs to attend the military academy to stay in good graces with his family. The academy needs the financial help this will provide. The two forge a very unlikely relationship…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Witches and Fairies and Tacos… Oh My
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charli Quinn and her sister Brielle own House Witches Cleaning and promise to clean like magic. They may not be your everyday, run-of-the-mill witches, but they are… something.
When Charli finds the husband of one of their clients dead, the wind warns her to beware the man with eyes of green. As the sisters search for the ominous man, they find themselves in danger and rely on their real magic to outsmart the killer.
Along the way, Charli and Brielle have help from a group of fairies, and even a talking cow. And Charli falls head over broomstick for a tall, sexy deputy with dreamy blue eyes who saves her from being hijacked by a water sprite.
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(Here… Hold My Broom)
Downfall
by J. A Jance
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest.
With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal.
Two women have fallen to their deaths from a small nearby peak, referred to by Bisbee locals as Geronimo. What’s the connection between these two women? Is this a case of murder/suicide or is it a double homicide?
Blood Auction
by Joshua Harkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the law fails, Ranger delivers justice. One body at a time.
Former US Marine Frank Ranger is on the run. Accused of a murder he didn’t commit, he is laying low, working the door in a Vegas strip club.
When he steps in to protect a dancer, he stumbles on a brutal human trafficking ring operating in the dark underbelly of the neon city.
Driven by his own guilt and seeking a chance for redemption, Ranger feels duty bound to rescue a teenage girl who has been taken by the traffickers. And soon finds himself up against a powerful crime syndicate led by shadowy crime boss Sal Torno and his sadistic lieutenant, Novio Rama.
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(Bullet Proof)
Friendly Fyre
by Kia Leep
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Reborn as the Dark Lord… Born to make friends.
After living 50 years as a human scientist, being reborn as a fire-wielding harpy is a bit of a shock. Not to mention, Fyre now has the physiology one might expect from someone with two X chromosomes. However she’s much more concerned about the Role that’s appeared at the bottom of her game-like stats sheet: The Dark Lord. That’s probably fine… Right?
Stuck in a freezing cave, Fyre forms a pact with a ravenous and morally ambiguous Dungeon Core, which helps tunnel a path to civilization. Though she now has some semblance of shelter, the community she joins is barely scraping by itself. With the power of her fire—and science!—she believes she can help build a thriving metropolis…
The Old Success
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three murders spanning three English counties.
When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her?
While Macalvie stands stumped in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury, twenty miles away on Land’s End, is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook—well, nearly every case. Bronwell discloses that there was one he once missed.
Deep Harbor
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
THE COURAGE TO START OVER
Carol Ann “CJ” Jansen has felt adrift ever since she lost her beloved older brother, Kick, to a tragic boating accident. But working for powerful congressman Snapper Lewis in the exciting and often tumultuous world of politics has provided a kind of anchor in her life.Until CJ stumbles upon information that could implicate her boss in corruption. When the congressman dies of an apparent suicide, CJ digs deeper with the help of Colin, Kick’s former life partner. But as they expose one shocking secret after another, CJ begins to wonder if she’s also in jeopardy.
Little Black Lies
by Gillian Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Murder, buried secrets, and one woman’s fight for justice propel this gripping police procedural from the author of Snatched.
Det. Samantha Freeman is barely recovering from the devastating accident that killed her fiancé, Ravi, when she’s thrust into a chilling homicide case. Valerie Turner, a wife and mother of two, is found dead in her kitchen. But as Samantha peels back the layers of Val’s seemingly ordinary life, she uncovers shocking truths—a son given up for adoption, an illicit affair, blackmail, and stolen identities.
Heartwood
by Amity Gaige
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.
At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.