Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
My Gal Sunday
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Henry Parker Britland IV – wealthy, worldly, and popular – is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday – as clever as she is lovely – has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team…and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined.
Powerless Acres Boxed Set
by Colton Lively
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When a sudden EMP strikes, Katy Sheets’ plane crashes in rural Tennessee, leaving her world in ruins. With her husband fatally injured and society in chaos, Katy must lead her daughter and her daughter’s friend on a desperate journey home to St. Louis. Towns are collapsing, danger lurks at every turn, and the rules of survival have changed. In a powerless world, Katy will do whatever it takes to protect her family.
The Beard Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When a stranger with a long, scraggly white beard offers to pay for veterinary surgery to fix Natalie Brewster’s rescued fox’s leg, it seems too good to be true. Is the stranger a criminal? A serial killer? Because when Gunther’s missing brother, Hendricks, is found—he is discovered next to a murder victim.
Initially, Nat is distrustful of the stranger and eschews his long, untamed beard. But Gunther Wilcox wins her over with what is hidden beneath the beard. He engages her as an amateur detective to discover who killed Hendricks’ business partner—because Hendricks is under suspicion for the murder.
Vicious Circle
by Mike Carey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A freelance exorcist helps a grieving couple find their daughter’s ghost in this supernatural thriller by the author of The Girl with All the Gifts.
Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities—”good,” of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. His friend Rafi is still possessed, the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends) still technically has a contract on him, and he’s still dirt poor…
When a Beast is all you need
by Madison Sheldon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
If you love emotional journeys and resilience, romantic suspense filled with past secrets, psychological thrills, found family, and a second-chance love worth fighting for, this story is for you
Bella: Is beauty a blessing or a curse? Like many things in life, the answer is, it depends. Once upon a time, I ran because I was ashamed of myself, of the pain I caused, of all he lost because he saved me. This time, I run to protect him. Antonio may be a beast, but he is not the Devil. The real Devil has found me…
Journey
by James A. Michener
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields. Vivid and sweeping, featuring Michener’s probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, thisis the kind of novel only he could write.
The Contractor
by Colin MacKinnon
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Rick Behringer is an outside contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He owns a small company that, in the light of day, provides communications security for government offices, including the CIA. In the shadows, though, Rick’s a spy. He runs overseas agents for the CIA and, through his firm, buys foreign military technology that the Agency wants to inspect but can’t be seen purchasing.
The divorced father of two little girls, Rick carries on a cold war with his ex, Liz, and a hot romance with his sexy girlfriend, Frannie. He still broods over the mysterious death of his father, a high-level CIA officer during the Vietnam War, who committed suicide when Rick was thirteen.
Cleave the Sparrow
by Jonathan Katz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Daring, unpredictable, and utterly consuming.” – San Francisco Book Review
“Uproariously funny and incredibly prescient.” – Hollywood Book Reviews
“Delivers a philosophical gut-punch unlike any other.” – Chicago Book Review
Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead.
Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.
If Two Are Dead
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out…
Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast.
Prospect Shifter Daddy Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Things are getting steamy in the small town of Prospect, Montana! Each story in this box set will light your fire as sexy single dads, with chiseled abs, not only work hard on the ranch but also pursue the one who makes their blood pump.
As passion ignites for these cowboys, danger lurks in every direction and harrowing secrets rise to the surface. The wolf shifters will do anything it takes to protect the women who claim their hearts.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Triumphs of Tenacity
by Yusra Mariyam
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Triumphs of Tenacity is an inspiring memoir by Yusra Mariyam, chronicling her remarkable journey from a young girl in Bangladesh to a UK graduate.
At seven, Yusra faced the daunting challenge of adapting to a new culture and language. Despite numerous setbacks, including academic failures and personal heartbreaks, she never lost sight of her dreams. Yusra’s transformation is profound. From a homemaker with no qualifications, raising six children, she emerged as a First-Class Honours graduate in International Business Management.
Mistress of Justice
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series • “Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot, Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller.”—Mystery Lovers News
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York’s preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he’s defending but his career as well…
Surrender
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s 2125 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari – the defenders.
At the turn of the 22nd century they came, with solutions for world hunger, disease, and with ground-breaking technology beyond anything mankind could ever imagine. But, they are not what they seem.
Alrissa Cole is a confident and accomplished professional by day, but by night, in that place between sleep and waking, she is unsteady and unsure–plagued by strange visitations and sights that test the strength of her beliefs. She wins a ticket to the International Academy Awards, where 3-D holograms of the world’s stars, past and present, mingle with live ones, creating an experience of a lifetime.
The Second Time Around
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that could have been ripped from today’s headlines.
When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia “Carley” DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money—including the life savings of many employees—doesn’t do much to change Carley’s already low opinion of Spencer’s wife, Lynn, who is also Carley’s stepsister and who everyone believes is involved. But when Lynn’s life is threatened, she asks Carley to help her prove that she wasn’t her husband’s accomplice…
The Algebraist
by Iain M. Banks
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.
A Firing Offense
by David Ignatius
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“A dynamic thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced.” – Ben Bradlee, Washington Post
When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting participant. When Eric’s sources tell him there is a spy inside the newsroom, he is tempted to cross a dangerous professional line and risk his career—possibly even his life—to find the truth.
Below the Surface
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Briana Devon knows her twin sister would never deliberately leave her—but when she emerges from underwater, Daria and their boat have vanished. Fighting rough waves and a fast-approaching storm, Bree doesn’t have time to question: if she wants to survive, she has to swim. Exhausted and terrified, Bree barely makes it to a tiny barrier island, where Cole De Roca, who has also taken shelter, revives her. Bound to Cole by the harrowing experience, she turns to him as she struggles to understand what happened to her sister. What was her twin, whom she thought she knew so well, hiding? What really transpired that terrible afternoon? And what secrets lie dormant . . . below the surface?
The Reader’s Companion to the World of Jane Austen
by Joe Giampaolo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
This beautifully illustrated book is a concise yet comprehensive account of Jane Austen’s life. We will take a look at her family, friends, and suitors. We will discover her favourite food, music and authors. We will explore the cuisine and fashion of the period. We will sneak into a public ball at the Assembly Rooms in Basingstoke to see Jane Austen meet the love of her life. We will help Mrs. Austen create the menu for their Christmas dinner. Lastly, we will examine Jane’s masterpieces and the literary devices she used in her novels.
JFK: Public, Private, Secret
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Kindle $17.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF AMAZON EDITORS’ BEST BOOKS OF JULY
From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story – her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.
In this definitive portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—one of America’s most consequential and enigmatic presidents – J. Randy Taraborrelli delivers a deeply researched and authoritative biography. More than the story of a presidency, this is an intimate study of a man whose public triumphs were shaped—and at times overshadowed—by the complex realities of his private life, from his legendary family to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.