Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Break No Bone
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs comes a book set in Charleston, South Carolina, the center of a lucrative, clandestine, sophisticated trade in body parts—the kind that leaves the donor dead.
Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, Tempe is stuck teaching a lackluster archaeology field school in the ruins of a Native American burial ground on the Charleston shore. But when Tempe stumbles upon a fresh skeleton among the ancient bones, her old friend Emma Rousseau, the local coroner, persuades her to stay on and help with the investigation. When Emma reveals a disturbing secret, it becomes more important than ever for Tempe to help her friend close the case.
Blue Moon over Madagascar
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lilith Devlin’s comfortable routines shatter when a faery lures her into unknown territory.
Faery Florinda appears like magic in Pittsburgh bookstore manager Lilith’s garden one night with a proposition. Will Lilith write a novel explaining faery ways? But she soon learns there’s even more at stake.
She’s thrilled by the trip to Ireland to learn from Old World fae. But will her cat and best friend Cleo ever forgive her for abandoning her to sleep in a tent in Madagascar with a man she barely knows on some wild faery mission? After twenty years of living without romantic love, can she handle the heat?
The Final Twist
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths.
Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company’s sadistic enforcers, as he speeds from one gritty neighborhood in the City by the Bay to another. Suddenly, the job takes on a frightening urgency: Only by finding the courier bag can he expose the company and stop the murder of an entire family—slated to die in forty-eight hours.
The Starving Saints
by Caitlin Starling
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.
Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration…
THE ORIGINAL When the Mob Ran Vegas
by Steve Fischer, Sandra Wendel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“My Uncle Al would have loved this book.” – Deirdre Capone
Vegas like you’ve never seen, tales you’ve never heard – until now. Sizzling, behind-the-headlines stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made ’50s and ’60s Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert. Those were the days…
Those were the days, all chronicled in 21 unforgettable stories and vintage photos told as only Las Vegas historian Steve Fischer can tell, about those days when the Mob ran Vegas.
The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.
The Poorly Made and Other Things
by Sam Rebelein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
There’s something wrong in Renfield County.
It’s in the water, the soil, the wood. But worst of all, it’s in the minds of the residents, slowly driving them mad. When Lawrence Renfield massacred his family and drew The Giant in his farmhouse with their blood, no one imagined the repercussions. At the very least, the bloodstained wood should have been set aflame, not chopped down and repurposed as furniture, décor, and heirlooms across the county. But that’s exactly what happened. Now regular people—like you and me—are sitting on… eating with… admiring… the cursed wood and reaping the consequences.
Whistle
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Evil has a one track mind….
Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.
But Annie’s year is about to get worse.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
by Misha Popp
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven.
Parking her Pies Before Guys mobile bakery van outside the local diner, Daisy is informed by Frank, the crusty diner owner, that someone’s been prowling around the van—and not just to inhale the delectable aroma. Already on thin icing with Frank, she finds a letter on her door, threatening to reveal her unsavory secret sideline of pie a la murder.
If I Fall Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Heart-pounding suspense meets tender romance in this 5-book collection by USA Today Bestselling and Amazon All-Star Author Jennifer Youngblood.
A Twist of Fame: When a thrill-seeker falls for a woman with a complicated past, love becomes the most dangerous game of all.
The Stormy Warrior: A spunky personal chef. A brooding ex-Navy SEAL. An unexpected love that will rock them to the core.
One Southern Cowboy: A near fatal accident with a familiar face might be the very thing to give this cowboy a fresh take on love and loyalty.
Love on the Rocks: Artist and playboy Liam Barclay must fight to protect the woman he loves, while trying to convince her that his heart is true.
Protecting the Diva: She broke his heart. Now he’s the only one who can save her.
Without Fail
by Lee Child
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
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Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher.
Ultraviolet
by Yvonne Navarro
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Set in a futuristic urban metropolis, this sci-fi action-adventure tells the story of a sub-culture of humans who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, strength and intelligence.
“I saw the movie some time ago and then bought the dvd. But I know sometimes movies don’t always include what is written in the books, so I wanted to see if I could find the book. This one I think is derived directly from the movie, so it contains everything I saw in the movie. It’s still a great read, though. I loved the movie, and so I love this book. But it would be very interesting to find the original, if one exists.” by Amazon Customer
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock – her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.
Best Laid Plans
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Best Laid Plans of an architect and a structural engineer go awry when a disagreement over blueprints becomes a foundation for love in this Loving Jack novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Cody Johnson knows his building designs are solid. Abra Wilson believes she can’t possibly construct anything so fancifully imagined. Collaborating on this new resort leads to many heated debates—as well as unexpected rises in passion. But even as Cody and Abra put in overtime professionally and personally, someone determined to sabotage the project puts their lives in danger.
Whisper of Warning
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Will he help prove her innocence…or lead a killer to her door?
Courtney Glass has been in trouble all her life, but nothing tops being an up-close witness to a brutal murder. Until she’s accused of the crime. Every scrap of evidence points to her guilt, and only Courtney knows what really happened. Now she must prove that she’s not a murderer…but is one of the killer’s intended victims. As police investigators hammer her for answers, Courtney knows she has two choices: run, or trust the brooding, sexy detective who’s made it clear she’s his prime suspect.
A Colleen Coble Suspense Collection
by Colleen Coble
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Alaska Twilight,
Fire Dancer,
Abomination,
Anathema
“These four books are wonderful. To get four for one is a pretty great deal. The characters are real and the storyline is always exciting. Keeps you turning the pages until you are finished. You can’t go wrong with colleen coble!” by Amazon Customer
The Long Hunt
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Four years ago, Sheriff Woody Helms walked away from everything… his badge, his home, and the people who once counted on him. One mistake had cost him more than he could bear, and he swore never to wear the badge again.
Leila McRae lost her family to the same ruthless outlaw Woody failed to stop. She’s spent years chasing him, only to come up short. Now Tye Bullock, the man behind it all, is tightening his grip on the Arizona Territory. And Leila knows Woody is the only man with the skill, and the nerve, to bring him down.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death by Deception
by Tracy Gardner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Join the Shepherd sisters in solving a mystery…before it’s too late! This artful cozy mystery is perfect for fans of Krista Davis and Joanne Fluke.
Savanna Shepherd is a former art authenticator―someone who can tell a forgery from the real thing. She’s got a talent for spotting secrets hiding in plain sight.
After being fired and dumped in the same terrible day, Savanna moves back to her idyllic hometown on the banks of Lake Michigan. At least she’s close to her sisters again, and she’s enjoying her new job as a grade school art teacher.
Heat of Hydration
by Dwight Morgan Jr.
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A skyscraper primed to ignite. A killer with a code name. A race to stop a disaster that could rewrite the balance of world power.
When Interpol investigator Colton Gray begins tracking a string of bizarre murders across Europe, the trail leads to something far more explosive—a new United Nations headquarters with a deadly secret built into its foundation. Hidden within its walls is a catastrophic weapon, timed to detonate on opening day and wipe out the leaders of the world’s largest economies.
Behind the plot is a phantom operative known only as Pakistan—a man driven by revenge, armed with genius-level engineering skills, and backed by a shadow network willing to do anything to see the plan succeed.
Shadow Fall
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Special Agent Tara Rushing arrives at a grisly Texas murder scene and quickly realizes she’s dealing with a meticulous predator who leaves almost no trace. Determined to stop the killer, Tara turns to the renowned forensic specialists at the Delphi Center for help.
The local sheriff is convinced he already has his man—ex-Marine and security expert Liam Wolfe. When Tara arrives at Liam’s high-security Texas compound, she’s prepared for resistance but not for her powerful attraction to him. As danger closes in, she reluctantly relies on Liam’s skills and resources to track the killer, even as her instincts warn her to keep her guard up.
Money for Old Bones
by Joe Talon
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A witch is burnt alive. A priest cuts his throat. A soldier is hung from a tree. A terrible debt must be paid.
Lorne’s personal demons need to be tamed if he’s ever going to have a normal life. When he is offered the job of security guard at an old rectory in the Lyn Valley, he takes it. The house he’s guarding has other ideas. It’s already occupied.
As the rain falls, the waters rise and old graves move. It’s time for the witch to demand her reparations from the villagers who inherited her curse. Lorne, Ella, Willow, and Heather must find a way to balance the scales before more lives are lost.
The Sword Brothers
by Peter Darman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jerusalem may have fallen to the Saracens but in the Baltic Bishop Albert of Riga has created the crusader state of Livonia to bring the word of God to the indigenous pagans. The battle to convert the natives is savage and unrelenting and into this holy war is thrust Conrad Wolff, a young native of the city of Lübeck whose family has suffered a terrible injustice.
Forced to leave his homeland to seek sanctuary in Livonia, Conrad’s fate is soon entwined with that of the Sword Brothers, the order of warrior monks that fights to defend and expand Christendom in the Baltic. But as Conrad begins his training to become a member of the brethren, the enemies of the Bishop of Riga gather and soon Livonia is surrounded and battling for its very existence.
SHADOWFIRES
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rachel’s request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric’s body disappeared from the morgue – and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.
Taking Root
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After her assault one year ago, Brooklyn Wilde left her husband and her nursing career to return to her family circle in Candlewood Falls and heal her broken soul. A stranger arriving at her door in the middle of the night turns her world upside down, because he isn’t any stranger. He’s the man who went to prison for killing her uncle.
Caleb Ransom accepted his life sentence to wander from town to town without a family or a home. Even though he was wrongly accused of murder and released, suspicion hangs over him like a bank of rain clouds. Only Brooklyn sees the man he truly is, and he falls hard for her.
The Secret of Secrets
by Dan Brown
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The world’s most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Remains
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The discovery of a missing woman’s bones force Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway mystery from USA Today bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern—the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily’s Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the weekend before she disappeared—Ruth’s friend Cathbad.
The Black & Blue Butterfly Tattoo
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Psychiatrist Braydon Ferrell may be well equipped in treating patients with mental disorders and addictions, but that doesn’t grant him immunity from the follies of human weakness.
When an ill-advised sexual liaison with an unstable associate leads to lies and harassment, threatening to unravel his marriage, family and practice, Dr. Ferrell makes a cowardly decision to hide the affair from his ailing wife.
Unfortunately, affairs are messy and rarely remain hidden. When his former lover is found murdered, Dr. Ferrell becomes the target of a police investigation, has his life threatened by a stranger, and starts to believe that his wife may already know more than she is saying.
Solitude Creek
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of “fire” are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it’s the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire.
Kathryn Dance–a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert–discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people’s own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned.
Empty Earth
by Rick McManus
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Empty Earth is a breathtaking post-apocalyptic romance where two survivors discover that even after the end, something powerful endures—love that defies destruction, hope that refuses to die, and the unshakable human spirit that finds light in the deepest darkness of a dystopian world.
This inspiring science fiction follows Eva and Adam’s epic journey across a ravaged America, from frozen wastelands to scorching deserts, as they navigate the ruins of civilization in the aftermath of a global catastrophe. A powerful testament to human connection in the worst of times, this survival romance seamlessly blends heart-pounding adventure with tender moments of love blossoming amidst destruction.
Beyond Reach
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams is accused of a vicious murder. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver learns that his young detective has been arrested. And Jeffrey’s wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, is thrust into the center of a bizarre and murderous case.
For Lena has fled to the place where she grew up, careening back through the shadows of her past. Now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies that has trapped her—as this powerful novel races toward its shattering climax and a final, unforgettable twist.
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.
A Death in Cornwall
by Daniel Silva
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside.
One Helluva Bad Time
by Chuck Dixon
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.6 ad
You don’t punch a cocktail waitress around Dwayne Roenbach, not even if you are his wealthy mogul boss.
Unfortunately, said boss got him blacklisted for actions that Dwayne knew were entirely appropriate of a retired US Army Ranger.
Now, a phone call from a mysterious benefactor wants Dwayne to pull together a team to help rescue scientists who are lost.
With the kind of money he’s being offered he only asks a couple of questions to make sure the job is legit.
The Veiled One
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.2 ad
When Chief Inspector Wexford enters the parking garage, the woman is already dead, slumped between two cars, concealed under a velvet shroud. The inspector doesn’t even notice her as he drives away. Only later, when he sees on the news that an old woman was garroted in the shopping mall garage, does he realize how close he was to discovering the body. In a case that starts with a hidden corpse, the truth will be dangerously elusive.
Before Wexford can sink his teeth into the elderly woman’s murder, he is nearly killed himself—by a politically motivated car bombing targeting his daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, the intrepid Mike Burden, who must solve both mysteries before the shopping mall killer strikes again.
She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.3 ad
Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture.
Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother.
How dangerous could it be?
An Echo of Children
by Ramsey Campbell
Kindle 6.99 Rating: Brand new Release ad
A slow burn, chilling horror in a gorgeous edition. Ramsey Campbell always delivers…
Coral and Allan Clarendon have just moved to the seaside town of Barnwall with their young son Dean. If an uncommon number of children have died unnaturally in Barnwall throughout history, surely Dean must be safe with his parents. Could their house be a source of peril? Allan and Coral seem to think so, since they call for an exorcism. Allan’s father Thom believes his wife is wrong to think the ceremony has left Dean in worse danger. But if she’s alone in seeing the terrors that are gathering around him, how desperate will her solution have to be?