Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder with Chocolate Tea
by Karen Rose Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer. She’s supervising a special tea event to help commemorate the 100-year-anniversary of her town’s historic covered bridge. But the main event is her upcoming wedding to her beloved fiancé Jonas. Somehow Willow Creek’s busiest brewer of specialty teas and amateur sleuth still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist’s crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved.
Find You in the Dark
by Mark Gillespie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Laura Hansen is a woman haunted by the past.
Five years ago, a fateful encounter with a stranger turned Laura’s dream life into a nightmare. Humiliated and shunned, she cut ties with family and friends, disappearing north to the Scottish Highlands.
Now, Laura lives a reclusive life on the road. A loner, avoiding the eyes of strangers. She never stays in one place too long, fearful that someone will recognise her.
You Betrayed Me
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“The constant twists will keep the readers hooked. This is a nonstop thrill ride.” Publishers Weekly
The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth, and the scandals that surround them. Murder, greed, deadly ambition . . . some people will do anything to get, and keep, the Cahills’ kind of money. Not that James Cahill wants any of it. He’s tried to make his own way, less interested in a future inheritance than in his construction company—and in enjoying the many women taken in by the easy charms of a handsome, soon-to-be-rich bad boy.
Bad People
by Jeremy Bates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A collection of four critically acclaimed short novels.
“Each story of this book, the next more disturbing yet enticing than the previous, takes a dive into little known facts around the world and it makes you sit back and seriously think about what people are really capable of. The mere fact that one of the novels is literally a peek into the next 100 years just makes my hair stand on end. I loved reading every bit of the book, but am also weary with anticipation now…” by Amazon Customer
Implicating Claudia
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Haunted by death and hunted by a killer.
Marine reservist Claudia McIntyre is on the wrong end of a murder investigation. Seeking refuge in an isolated farmhouse, she discovers that the killer has unfinished business with her. With the help of Dawson Montgomery, a former neighbor turned love interest, Claudia fights to survive and protect those she loves.
This captivating romantic suspense/thriller is perfect for fans of Christian fiction. With strong Christian themes, it’s a story of faith, redemption, and courage in the face of danger.
The Lightness of Water
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion Award
2022 Winner – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
2022 Gold Medal – Best Fantasy Romance – Global Book Awards
Solace is beautiful, strong-willed, and called the water witch by her neighbors. She divines for water in the arid hills of her home – a dangerous pastime across the border, where the king controls access to all the water.
Rhees is brooding, bitter, and hiding a deadly secret. But he’s determined to find a way to help the thirsty people of his land—even if it means kidnapping the last living water diviner.
The First Harm: A Medical Thriller
by Steven Piskula
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A first-year medical student determined to do everything right . . . discovers something very wrong. Now somebody wants her dead.
Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cornish Wedding Murder
by Fiona Leitch
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer.
But there’s nothing quite like having your first job back at home be catering an ex-boyfriend’s wedding to remind you of just how small your village is. And when the bride vanishes, Jodie is drawn into the investigation, realising that life in the countryside might not be as quaint as she remembers.
Empire of the Vampire
by Jay Kristoff
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.
Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.
Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen.
If I Go Missing
by Leslie Wolfe
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
If you’re reading this, I’ve gone missing. I close the binder I’ve been writing in, and walk into the living room. As I stare out of the window at your house next door, I think about all the things I stand to lose if someone comes for me. My handsome, loving husband, who has no idea what I’ve done. My family, who have supported me no matter what. This beautiful home near the ocean, where I thought I would be safe.
Everyone says that I’m paranoid, but I just think I’m prepared. My secrets have placed me in terrible danger.
Hang the Moon
by Jeannette Walls
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out.
The Witch and the Revolution
by Daniel Sugar
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As the Tsar’s subjects turn against him, Lilly Parris races to save Anastasia Romanov and her brother Alexis – the heir to the Russian throne.
The Witch and the Revolution is a fast-paced, brand-new take on the Russian Revolution.
“Another fast paced well researched chapter in the life of Lilly Paris…very descriptive picture life in the time of the Romanovs A great read!!” by Amazon Customer
In The Dead of Night
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Siblings are supposed to love each other. Bethany just wants hers dead.
Chevy, Lorna, and Bethany Sinclair were born to an outlaw life. Children of the infamous “Bourbon Sinclair,” people never saw them as anything but boot scum.
But while Lorna and Chevy learned from their father’s mistakes and turned their lives around, Bethany followed in his bootsteps. And now, ten years after his death, she’s more dangerous than he ever was.
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system — and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Gifts, Glamping, & Glocks
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, a small town in the Daniel Boone National Forest and Happy Trails Campground, where the annual Christmas activities are in full swing. But behind the twinkling lights and festive cheer lies a sinister secret.
The Religious Body
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan prays he will find a nun’s murderer in this British crime novel by a Diamond Dagger winner: “A most ingenious writer” (The New York Times).
The day begins like any other for Sister Mary St. Gertrude. When her alarm sounds at 5 a.m., Sister Mary begins rousting her convent sisters from their beds, starting with the Reverend Mother. Down the Order she goes with a knock and a warm blessing. But when the young nun reaches Sister Anne’s door, there is no answer. She assumes that Sister Anne got up early, and continues on her way.
S is for Silence
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
California private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to solve a decades-old cold case in this “undeniably entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton.
Cases don’t get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the now adult Daisy she’ll try her best to locate Violet, dead or alive. All signs point to a runaway wife—the clothes that disappeared; the secret stash of money Violet bragged about; the brazen flirtations she indulged in with local men, including some married ones.
The John Corey Collection
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An omnibus of three Nelson DeMille novels featuring John Corey, a brilliant NYPD detective who becomes an FBI terrorist hunter.
Plum Island
The Lion’s Game
Night Fall
Warrior
by Simon Scarrow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The epic story of Caratacus: a barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against mighty Rome . . .
AD 18, Britannia. The Roman Empire rules much of the known world. Beyond the northern frontier lies Britannia, where ceaseless feuding amongst the Celts leaves the island vulnerable to Rome’s ambitions.
Caratacus, son of a powerful king, has no premonition of destiny when he is dispatched to train with the Druids. A brutal regime transforms the young prince into a warrior with unparalleled military skills – and the strategic cunning essential to outwit a stronger enemy.
The Red Road
by Denise Mina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions.
Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she’s known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown’s trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells.
Young Gun
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Austin Burke, age 16, does not have an easy life, yet he chooses not to let that bring him down. He has big ambitions. Someday, he is going to become a lawman.
Sheriff Dalton keeps treating him like a kid, but Austin doesn’t care. He wants to prove everybody wrong.
One day, an outlaw by the name of Lyra Holden rides into town looking for the sheriff. She has some unfinished business – to get back at the sheriff for locking up a man she has been hunting down for a long time. Nobody has the right to touch her prey. It is her job.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Highlands
by Debbie Young
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sophie and Hector are heading to the Highlands.
For Sophie it’s a trip home and for Hector it’s time to meet Sophie’s parents… Though their trip has village tongues wagging about a stop at Scotland’s notorious elopement spot, Gretna Green.
No matter what, it’ll make a nice break from the murder and mayhem that has been plaguing their beautiful Cotswolds village. But Sophie and Hector are barely across the border on the way to Inverness before a sinister encounter leaves them shaken.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.
Cold Dead Night
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The FBI betrayed her. Now they need her. Private Investigator Kenna Banbury lost everything two years ago at the hands of a serial killer. From the ashes of that encounter, she’s built a life she believes in, searching for the lost and forgotten all over the western US. Bringing her own brand of justice.
When a series of murders drags her into an FBI investigation, Kenna finds herself back in the place where it all went wrong.
The Navy Justice Collection
by Don Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don Brown’s Navy Justice series now available in one volume!
Treason
Hostage
Defiance
“Don Brown writes fast paced suspense that keeps me up at night. Insightful, thoughtful and respectful of our military, the author also wakens the reader to what is happening in the real world today.” by Amazon Customer
The Last to Disappear
by Jo Spain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A luxury resort. Three missing women. One body.
When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister’s body has been pulled from an icy lake in Northern Lapland, he assumes his irresponsible sister accidentally drowned. He travels to the wealthy winter resort where Vicky worked as a tour-guide and meets Agatha Koskinen, the detective in charge. Agatha is a no-nonsense single mother of three who already thinks there’s more to Vicky’s case than meets the eye.
Three Sisters in Black
by Norman Zierold
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.
But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey’s death was no suicide. And Ocey’s own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.
Deadly Game
by Michael Caine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations – but he’s great at catching criminals.
And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid.