Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Three Tainted Teas
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Business is bubbling at Mia’scatering service and cooking school, Mia’s Morsels, but toil and trouble are not far behind. Mia just accepted her toughest gig yet: last-minute wedding planner for Magic Springs’ own Romeo and Juliet. Though the small town is fairly accepting of magic, two families have been locked in a vicious feud spanning generations. Unfortunately for both families, they’re about to become in-laws! Amethyst and Tok are excited to wed in a few weeks and somehow Mia must ensure the event is flawless…
Tribulation, Book 3: Martyrs
by Jamie Lee Grey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
While attempting to rescue a young orphan, Maxwell Flynn becomes separated from his brother and the rest of the small group of persecuted Christians. Grace Winslow, distraught at the loss of Max and Jonah, is forced to make a tough decision: stay with the group, or go search for the two missing members?
Since they lost their sanctuary camp in the Canadian wilderness, the group’s struggle for basic survival grows more challenging by the day. Where can they hide? How will they find safe water? When will they have their next meal?
The believers press on, determined to seek safe shelter from society’s storms…
The Last Word
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club.
Natalka and Edwin are perfect if improbable partners in a detective agency. At eighty-four, Edwin regularly claims that he’s the oldest detective in England. He is a master at surveillance, deploying his age as a cloak of invisibility. Natalka, Ukrainian-born and more than fifty years his junior, is a math whizz, who takes any cases concerning fraud or deception. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated. She loves a murder, as she’s fond of saying, and none have come the agency’s way. That is until local writer Melody Chambers dies.
TRIBES
by Mia Frances
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A dark, gritty post-apocalyptic tale of love, loathing, & survival!
Alex, her sisters, and their kids are on their way to her camp in the Adirondack Mountains for the Columbus Day weekend when the unthinkable happens. A voice on the radio warns the country is under attack! Greeted by guns and bullets when they try to seek shelter, they’re forced to hide in a cave to wait out the fallout. After two weeks in their dank hole, Alex wakes up one morning to discover her sisters gone. They’ve taken the rented minibus and returned to the city to search for their husbands, leaving Alex to care for her 7 nieces and nephews. It’s an arduous 35-mile hike through the mountains to her camp…a journey through hell! Society is devolving…
Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon Collection, Books 11 – 13
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“While Portrait of a Spy and Fallen Angel are both page turners, The English Girl bored me. The story is very slow and didn’t engage me until the team came together very late into the story. It ends very satisfactorily, however, and I was very happy about the presence of Christopher Keller. He is a wonderful character, and I hope we haven’t seen the last of him.” by Amazon Customer
Portrait of a Spy
The Fallen Angel
The English Girl
They Are the Hunters
by Faith Gardner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The family that slays together, stays together.
The Hunters appear to be the textbook definition of a perfect family leading a charmed life. When the enigmatic Olivia West befriends teenage daughter Eliza, Olivia becomes one of the family—an “honorary Hunter.”
Here’s what they don’t know about Olivia: she’s planning a murder. And whether they like it or not, every member of this family is going to become an accomplice.
Oriceran Starter Pack Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Welcome to The Revelations of Oriceran.
A magical world tied to Earth, and nothing like it.
Check out six book ones from six series in this action-packed universe and discover new favorite heroes and heroines who will keep you up late turning the page to find out how the stories end!
The Missing Witness
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“This latest installment will likely satisfy Quinn and Costa’s loyal followers and attract those curious about the interplay between public policy, law enforcement, and politics.” – Booklist
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good…
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness—a whistleblower who might be the key to everything—has disappeared.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived
Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past…
The Silent Forest
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In New Haven, everything is changing. And there’s no going back now.
It’s been weeks since Allison went missing, and everyone has given up except for Kaia. New Haven mourns their dead as she keeps looking. And now, she’s starting to find answers.
As the unsolved cases pile up, a new discovery in the forest offers hope. But it also threatens to unbury all of New Haven’s darkest secrets…
Someone in the House
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An English Gothic mansion transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat – a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together.
But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive – unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear . . . and unearthly passion.
Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
by Ann Rule
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them.
The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted…sex, money, and even their very lives…
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest…
Leverage in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD’s Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter—but what was the motive of the masked men?
Close to Home
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An atmospheric and riveting novel of suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author that uncovers the horrifying secrets buried within a ramshackle house on the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River. Will appeal to all fans of thrillers and suspense fiction.
Along the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River, the Victorian mansion where Sarah McAdams grew up is as foreboding as she remembers. The moment she and her two daughters, Jade and Gracie, pull up the isolated drive, Sarah is beset by uneasy memories—of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow’s walk, feverish and delirious.
Shallow Graves
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
John Pellam had a promising career as a Hollywood stuntman, until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he’s a divorced, hard-living location scout who travels the country in search of shooting sites, and pulling his camper into any small town brings out the locals seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. But behind an idyllic locale in upstate New York is a hotbed of violence, lust, and conspiracy, and Pellam is thrust into the heart of an unfolding drama and the search for a killer when a brutal murder has him hunting down justice on behalf of a dear friend.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Five Bells and Bladebone
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A body in a bureau sends the Scotland Yard detective on a vexing investigation in this “absorbing and stylishly crafty” mystery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I bought the desk, not the body, send it back.” But the dead body of Simon Lean presents more pressing concerns. Who, for example, would want to kill the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston?
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her – like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
X
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss…
Perhaps Sue Grafton’s darkest and most chilling novel, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this deadly sociopath. The test is whether private investigator Kinsey Millhone can prove her case against him—before she becomes his next victim.
Keeping Downwind
by Andrew Miller
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s the most notorious bounty hunter in the Federation. Her predation of pirates, criminals, and New Hollywood executives have made her the nightmare bogeyman of any who dare to target the weak and helpless. The Overone of the Fey fears her as the harbinger of mass resistance against its telepathic domination of enslaved species.
She shoots first, and rarely asks questions. She eats a kilogram of meat in a single sitting, and likes her tools oversized, overpowered, and crammed into tight packages. But none of that will help her this time. This time the job isn’t about tracking down a desperate fugitive, or playing hunter and prey with an entire crews of gun toting pirate. This time the job is a criminal investigation…
Golden in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body—and killed him.
After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team—and undergoes testing to reassure both her and her husband that she hasn’t been exposed—it’s time to look into Dr. Abner’s past and relationships. Not every victim Eve encounters is an angel, but it seems that Abner came pretty close—though he did ruffle some feathers over the years by taking stands for the weak and defenseless…
Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep…
Dragon Moon Rising
by Daniel O’Connor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After 600 years, the dragon Lessiam suddenly awakens with a human crying above him, the boy’s tears falling upon his forehead. Jos grew up a slave & just escaped after his last remaining family member was burned alive right in front of him for attempting to incite a slave riot.
As Jos and Lessiam come to know one another and investigate how Lessiam came to be enstoned for the past 600 years, they uncover the Dragon Moon Spell, which will reach its horrific climax with the destruction of all good dragons on the coming of the next full moon…
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motives and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
The Royal Nanny
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain’s royal family—a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.
April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted—and about to meet royalty…
Savage Devotion
by Ajme Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sold to the Brotherhood. Betrayed by my sister and ex, I clawed my way free, leaving a trail of gunfire and a darkness deeper than the basement cell.
Now, I wake, a captive in a gilded cage. Damian, Chicago’s most ruthless mob boss, claims me with a single word: “Mine.”
His touch offers a twisted security, but the danger hasn’t ended. Now, with a secret life blossoming within me, the real battle begins.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Rendezvous and Revenge
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the star of Siren of the Seas new hit show is murdered backstage, Felix lands the lead role and also the top spot on the list of suspects. Can Millie solve the mystery in time to clear her friend’s name?
Discover why so many fans love the “Original” Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!
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Second Nature
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues a strange man from a psychiatric ward—a beautiful, uncivilized innocent who has been raised in the wilderness and possesses no more sophistication than a child. But when she brings him home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood, the events that follow cause Robin to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart—and, ultimately, to change all of her ideas about love and humanity.
“Her richest and wisest, as well as her boldest, novel to date.” – The New York Times Book Review
Infliction Point
by Mark Hacker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Zach Axton is in a dark place. After the brutal murder of the love of his life, the haunted FBI agent is one border collie away from cashing in his chips. But he’s grudgingly pulled back into action when a prisoner in an experimental government program designed to increase brain functioning escapes in a violent and bloody confrontation.
Teaming up with his former partner and a beautiful assistant district attorney, Axton uses his specialized skills in hunting serial killers to track down the brilliant psychopath. But the secret to his success in knowing the minds of murderers could be the very thing that leads him to his own destruction…
Girl Trap
by Cynthia Hamilton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Appearances can be deceiving. And in Southern California, where the sun shines almost every day and make-believe has its own industry, it’s hard to tell what is real and what is merely illusion.
Two inquiries come to MDPI on the same day that seem like fairly straight-forward missing person cases. But it doesn’t take long to discover there’s nothing ordinary about the disappearance of two beautiful sisters from Minnesota and an estranged heiress who has never touched her eight-figure fortune…
The Obsession
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes.
Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton.
Silk Road
by Colin Falconer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bestselling historical thriller, Silk Road, paints a captivating story of courage, daring and human frailty onto the grand canvas of the medieval East.
The Holy Land, 1260: Josseran Sarrazini is a Templar Knight, trained for war. But as the Christian garrisons in the Holy Land begin to fall to the Saracen, he is sent on a mission of peace. Haunted by the things he has done, he sees it as a way to escape his past.
His task is formidable. To forge an alliance with Kublai Khan, ruler of the greatest empire in history and commander of the invincible Mongol horde. To ride the treacherous Silk Road to the edge of the known world. To cheat hunger, thirst and death. And to put his trust in a people who do not believe in his cause or his god…
One Good Time
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray is supposed to be enjoying his time off after a grueling m mission. His division head specifically told him to go home and have a good time with his family.
But then, in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party, when he receives disturbing news about an imminent threat to America’s heartland, he postpones having a good time with his family and agrees to lead a joint FBI/CIA operation to the southern border. How could he do otherwise?
He couldn’t have a good time when . . . A group of terrorists have access to a new bioweapon . . .
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A Killing of Innocents
by Deborah Crombie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London’s historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she’s been stabbed.
Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes which are on the rise. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma aids the investigation…