Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Very Important Teapot
by Sheppard Steve
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you’ll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.
From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can’t stumble into or any that Lucy can’t rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you’ll ever read.
Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere.
Cycles
by PM Kester
Kindle $4.99 Rating: New Release #ad
In a world on the brink of collapse, a young black woman awakens with a new face and fragmented memories, unaware of her vital role in humanity’s survival. As she unravels the truth, she discovers that she holds the key to saving both women and the world – but only if she can unlock it within 28 days. With time running out and enemies closing in, she must confront her past and her purpose before it’s too late.
Presumed Guilty
by Scott Turow
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail.
Aaron eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend, Mae, that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home. Days later, when she still hasn’t returned, suspicion falls on Aaron, and when Mae is subsequently discovered dead, Aaron is arrested and set for trial on charges of first-degree murder.
Triumph Over Adversity: Books 1-3
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Courage. Faith. Second chances. Discover powerful love stories wrapped in gripping suspense in this emotional Christian romantic suspense collection by Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lynn Shannon.
The first three novels in the Triumph Over Adversity series – Calculated Risk, Critical Error, and Necessary Peril – together for the first time in one heart-pounding set. Each book delivers small-town danger, emotional healing, and the kind of enduring faith that lights the way through darkness.
Calculated Risk
Critical Error
Necessary Peril
Nobody’s Fool
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs.
Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom…
Ricochet
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is called to Judge Cato Laird’s opulent mansion after the judge’s trophy wife, Elise, shoots a man she claims was a burglar. But Duncan suspects her story conceals far more.
Despite warnings – even from his partner – Duncan is increasingly drawn to Elise, a woman whose beauty and secrets pull him into a dangerous investigation. Elise privately shares a shocking claim about Judge Laird’s involvement in a deadly conspiracy. Only as Duncan unravels the truth does he realize it may involve his nemesis, crime lord Robert Savich.
So, You Want to Write a Novel
by Pendelton Wallace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this book on novel writing, you’ll get bestselling author Pendelton Wallace’s tips and tricks for completing your own work.
You will learn the essential elements of a well-structured novel, how to plan your novel before you start to write, and research you should conduct before beginning your novel.
Then you will read about practical techniques for developing memorable, three-dimensional characters, writing character sketches, constructing a compelling plot, and effective methods for outlining a novel.
Smuggler’s Cove
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $9.52 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In a fresh, new series for fans of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Melida Leigh, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels introduces siblings Madison and Lincoln Taylor, whose Jersey Shore inheritance plunges them into a world of mystery and mayhem . . .
Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln lived in privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor in chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city. Both have separated themselves from their family and their past—until an unexpected bequest arrives from their late uncle.
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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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…