Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if Cinderella were a man and the prince a witch? A wicked good witch.
Strange happenings in the magic realm are turning Brielle Quinn’s life upside down. She’s been told to let things happen on their own and not to interfere. So difficult—and unfair!
On the night of her neighbor’s birthday party, Brielle’s drunk a little too much tequila. While on her way back to her home next door, a man calls to her and plants the kiss of a lifetime on her lips. Only thing is, Brielle doesn’t have the first clue about who he is. Or what he looks like. Yet she can’t get him out of her mind. Or the taste of his kiss off her lips. How is she ever going to find him?
The Lattice Scheme
by A. L. Lieske
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Azure Prescott expected Bureau life to mean routine investigations, not dream-walking conspiracies. But when a secret sleep study grants her the ability to enter the minds of others, she discovers that every dream carries danger, and every memory may be a lie.
A web of interconnected cases, including a missing agent, a vanished Italian man, illicit neurochips capable of altering identities, and the reappearance of someone long thought dead, pulls her into a labyrinth of international intrigue.
The Beast
by Robert Stallman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a loving husband and father, and a reporter for the local paper—but the beast still hunts at night. One evening in the desert, he receives a stunning revelation—he is not alone. There are others like him. And he must find a mate and prepare for something called The Leap . . .
Meanwhile in Chicago, George Beaumont is dying of cancer. His desperate search for a miracle leads him to a strange creature who offers to save his life, and to a mysterious young woman named Lilly who guides him through a peculiar alternative therapy until he is finally cured. George wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with Lilly, but she feels a call from the Other, someone waiting for her . . .
Elphie
by Gregory Maguire
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical and the Wicked films.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
A Gideon Crew Collection
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced bundle edition of the first three books in the Gideon Crew series: Gideon’s Sword, Gideon’s Corpse, and The Lost Island, by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child.
“This is another book by the authors that succeeds in holding your attention and making you want to keep reading. It doesn’t have the over extended descriptions of everything that some books have, but has enough for the development of the narrative. It moves fast enough to keep you interested, but has enough character development so you get to know them.” by Amazon Customer
Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club–an informal men’s club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America’s most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion…
Touch of Red
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the carnage is the evidence that someone escaped the scene. But where is this witness now? A thorough search of the area yields more questions than answers, and before Brooke even packs up her evidence kit, she’s made it her goal to find the witness and get them out of harm’s way.
Homicide detective Sean Byrne has seen his share of bloody crime scenes, but this one is particularly disturbing, especially because Brooke Porter is smack in the middle of it…
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A Jance
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Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Rune
by Kirsten Weiss
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In the shadowed Sierra town of Doyle, Lenore hides from a world she distrusts, seeking solace in books to escape the visions she denies. But when she finds a man’s body in Doyle Creek and her beloved aunt becomes a target of suspicion, Lenore is drawn into a web of small-town secrets and old grudges.
Pursuing a killer, she risks unraveling Doyle’s enchanted core. Can Lenore, long wary of her shamanic gifts, embrace her magic to save herself?
Red Mist: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s investigation leads her into a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale in this red-hot thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Dr. Kay Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out…
My Do-Over Year
by Dan Stancil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Larry Tolleson is confronted with a choice and not one of his making. His mother decided he was bright enough to start school a year early. Larry is entering his senior year in high school when his mother realizes that decision didn’t give him the best start in life. She agrees with his guidance counselor that he should take a do-over year to let his body and emotions catch up to his intellect.
Larry approaches his senior year full of hope. This will finally be his year. He sets his goals on becoming a better athlete, more confident with girls, and finding his path to college. Now the adults in his life are questioning his readiness and capabilities. The concept of a do-over year sounds like he’s going backwards. They say it’s his choice, and his alone, but it isn’t one he requested. They say they want him to be the best version of himself but what’s wrong with the current version?
The Violated
by Bill Pronzini
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Martin Torrey is dead. The butchered body of the registered sex offender was found in Santa Rita, California. People living in the small town suspected Torrey of committing a series of assaults, and no one will mourn his passing.
But police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz must investigate Torrey’s murder—after failing to find evidence that would have put him behind bars. At the same time, the rape survivors and their husbands grapple with their various traumas, struggling to believe the nightmare is over. The town’s mayor has already moved on, pursuing higher political ambitions. Torrey’s wife grieves her loss, while also fearing that her husband was indeed guilty.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government.
The private, quiet “Miss White” as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a “grace and favor” property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor’s war work had been, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past.
The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this “propulsive and original” award-winning thriller (Stephen King). It’s something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it’s a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn’t do as she’s told, the boy will die…
Shadows in the Pleasure Gardens
by Elaine Mary Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As a crucial witness to the “biggest scandal” early-nineteenth-century Fairmount has seen, lives hang on the balance of Chester Carter’s true and complete testimony.
Chester is an unambitious – or independent- minded – apprentice to Mr. Tate of Tate’s Banking and Loans when he witnesses a bank robbery and finds himself serving as Sheriff Hoogkirk’s justice-seeking assistant. His newfound role in law enforcement introduces him to gambling, carousing, and horse racing at the town’s pleasure gardens, and he is drawn to its excitement at the expense of his courtship and professional career. When an acquaintance from the racetrack is implicated in the robberies, Chester worries he must choose between truth and justice.
Wild Buck
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Buck Hartley swore he’d never wear a badge again – until his brother’s murder dragged him back into the fight.
A quiet rancher now, Buck walked away as a Pinkerton agent after a mission ended in tragedy. But when his brother Eli dies in a suspicious train wreck, and Eli’s 14-year-old daughter Mattie escapes with a treasure map that could get her killed, Buck straps on his Colt for one last job.
Eli’s death is not random. It is the work of James Braxton, a ruthless outlaw with a taste for buried gold and dead witnesses. As Buck investigates further, he is joined by Jane Castle, Eli’s estranged cousin and a reporter hellbent on exposing the truth.
The Portrait
by Danielle Steel
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A gifted portrait artist and a high-powered subject confront past wounds to embrace new love in this poignant novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Devon Darcy’s reputation precedes her. As a highly sought-after portrait artist, she seems to have the ability to peer into the souls of her subjects and then capture them on canvas. But the world doesn’t know about the devastating losses she has endured, first as an orphan, then as a far-too-young widow.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Patterns in the Sand
by Sally Goldenbaum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The follow-up to Death by Cashmere: next in the new mystery series set in a tight-knit seaside community.
When young fiber artist Willow Adams visits Izzy Chambers’s knitting studio, she’s immediately embraced by the Seaside knitters, and they see the monthly arts event at Canary Cove as a perfect place to showcase Willow’s work. But the idyllic summer in Sea Harbor turns somber when the body of Nick Peabody-owner of a popular gallery-is found in a community garden. Soon all Nick’s secrets begin to surface, and the residents of Sea Harbor realize they didn’t know him at all.
The Others
by Evette Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
True Blood meets Supernatural in the kickoff of this urban paranormal fantasy series from an acclaimed author. Readers enter a dystopian San Francisco filled with empaths and vampires embroiled in political unrest—and Book 1 is just the beginning.
Much as she wishes otherwise, superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd was born a powerful empath. It’s a legacy she walked away from long ago—but when she wakes up one morning to find Elsa, a tenacious time-walker, standing in her kitchen, she realizes she can no longer ignore her gifts. She is quickly plunged into the hidden world of powerful “Others” and drafted to work for the Council, a shadowy organization that summons the fog to San Francisco to obscure their involvement in human affairs.
The Devil All the Time
by Donald Ray Pollock
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law…
Tell No One/Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two Novels in One Volume
TELL NO ONE: For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken…
GONE FOR GOOD: As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein…
Sea Swept
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight.
After years of independence, Cameron has to learn to live with his brothers again, while he struggles with cooking, cleaning, and caring for a difficult boy. Old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers, but they try to put aside their differences for Seth’s sake…
The Final Sunshine
by Joseph Galloway
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Final Sunshine is an apocalyptic thriller set in a future where the sky has fallen and the sun no longer shines. A time of darkness will come upon the Earth. Nothing on Earth will grow. There will be famine on the Earth. Extreme violence will exist. Lawlessness will become the norm as governing bodies cease to exist. Everyone will be fighting for their own survival. Many will die from the violence, famine and sickness. Wild beasts will roam the Earth and seek out humans for food.
Technology will no longer exist. Transportation will no longer exist as fuel will not be available. Money will have no value as food becomes the most essential commodity. The limited available resources will only last a short period. Producing more food will be impossible without sunlight.
Playing with Fire
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Chief Inspector Alan Banks finds himself up against a diabolical arsonist in this electrifying novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
In the early hours of the morning, a man reports a fire on two old canal boats. One of the firefighters notices the use of accelerant at the scene and calls the police, but by the time Inspector Banks arrives, the fire brigade have put out the flames and only the smoldering wreckage remains. A body has been found on each barge, and all the evidence points towards a deliberate arson attack.
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women’s book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town.
Bonus features: • Reading group guide for book clubs • Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant • Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix • And more!
The Persian
by David McCloskey
Kindle $9.66 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From former CIA analyst and best-selling author David McCloskey, a novel that takes readers deep into the shadow war between Iran and Israel.
Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings.
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