Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, She Wrote
by Jessica Fletcher , Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home.
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…*
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell.
Make No Bones About It
by Ann Charles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Present Day … Dr. Angélica García has returned to the site of her mother’s death much to the displeasure of Quint Parker, the visiting photojournalist out to win her heart. While Angélica struggles to unearth the secrets behind the Maya site’s dark past, Quint battles to keep the gutsy “Boss Lady” from sharing her mother’s fate.
Will the two manage to unravel the disturbing truth hiding amongst the dig site’s bones before history repeats itself?
“Make No Bones About It delivers page-turning adventure, mystery, and romance! I couldn’t put the book down as I raced to the action-packed conclusion. A must read!” ~Joleen James, Award-winning Author of the Hometown Alaska Men Series
An Extravagant Death
by Charles Finch
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch’s bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.
London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox’s detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case.
The Patriot Threat
by Steve Berry
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.
Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret..
Mistake in Time
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For 21st century career girl Liberty Taffet, the idea of making a catastrophic mistake is unthinkable. To get away from two-timing heartbreaker Dr Nicolo Nylander, she sets off to visit Regency England. She knows the secret, she’s done her research – what could possibly go wrong?
Landing in London’s Swinging Sixties pursued by two unknown men and unable to remember who she is wasn’t in the plan. Yet what fun to see madcap fashions and even a piano being played in the middle of Carnaby Street. Then more problems arise and staying in this wonderful life of fun and colour becomes increasingly impossible.
The Ghost Orchid
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention’s a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past . . . and who can still find you.
A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor named Meagin March. A married neighbor.
Dogged Pursuit
by David Rosenfelt
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New release #ad
In Dogged Pursuit, David Rosenfelt takes readers back to the start of this beloved series as Andy Carpenter begins his career as a defense attorney in Paterson, New Jersey.
Andy Carpenter has spent the three years since graduating law school working as a prosecutor in Paterson. But having seen how the system never looks out for the little guy, he leaves to start his own practice as a defense attorney. His office might be a little bit of a dump, but he’s excited to make a change.
King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New release #ad
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. ..
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at an Irish Wedding
by Ellie Brannigan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bridal wear designer-turned-entrepreneur Rayne McGrath remains in the Irish countryside ready for some wedding mayhem in this charming and colorful cozy, perfect for fans of Carlene O’Connor and Sheila Connolly.
Rayne McGrath’s efforts to save the rundown family castle she inherited were an epic failure after she accidentally set fire to the tower and tanked the budget. Is the castle haunted, or is she just unlucky? Meanwhile, her cousin, Ciara Smith, is anxiously booking their joint calendar with special events in the hopes of bringing the property around before they lose everything…
Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp research and storytelling skills on the most powerful intelligence organization on earth–the National Security Agency (NSA)–in this thrilling novel, Digital Fortress.
When the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage…not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
Hellbound Hearts
by MultipleA uthors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Clive Barker’s iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world — the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites — in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart. Featured here is the graphic work “Wordsworth,” from bestselling author Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, who unlock an explicit way to violate innocence — one torturous puzzle at a time….
Hitched
by Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Regan Reilly and Jack “no relation” Reilly—head of the NYPD Major Case Squad—are getting married! Arriving at a bridal salon to pick up her dream gown, Regan discovers the designers bound and gagged. Four dresses (hers included!) are missing; a fifth is in shreds on the floor. With just a week before her wedding, Regan takes the case, meeting an unusual mix of brides and grooms-to-be, or not-to-be. Meanwhile, Jack is determined to crack a perplexing series of rainy-day bank robberies before his upcoming nuptials.
The Birthright Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Now I have to kill my sister.
Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha doesn’t want her mother’s throne. Her sister Judica is the merciless fighter, the ruthless politician, and the groomed heir. Chancery doesn’t mind that Judica will take over everything. Truly.
Until Judica starts dating the only guy she has ever liked. Chancery’s heartily sick of taking it on the chin. She’s ready to seize control of her own life. But before Chancery can enact her plan to free herself from the miserable life in which she’s trapped, she reacts bizarrely to an old relic, fulfilling an arcane prophecy.
River’s End
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror—but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Now, assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the police detective who found her cowering in her closet so many years before, she may have her chance. Noah wants to reconstruct the night that has become an infamous part of Hollywood history. He also wants to help Olivia and heal the longing in her lonely heart. But once the door to her past is opened, there’s no telling what’s waiting on the other side. For somewhere, not too far away, the monster walks again…
Heartbeats and Handshakes
by Dr. Kipp Van Camp
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Because every heartbeat has a story. And every handshake is a chance to show compassion. In Heartbeats and Handshakes, Dr. Kipp Van Camp invites readers behind the curtain of modern medicine to witness the human stories that rarely make the charts.
From the rigors of medical school to the emotional weight of patient care, Dr. Van Camp shares his personal path to becoming a licensed physician. Through long nights, clinical rotations, and the deeply human moments that shaped him, this is as much a story of becoming as it is of healing.
A Haunting in the Arctic
by C. J. Cooke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them…
Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbidding, remote coast of Iceland. It’s scheduled to be destroyed, but explorer Dominique feels an inexplicable pull to document its last days, even though those who have ventured onto the wreck before her have met uncanny ends.
Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Vulture, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, AV Club, AARP
Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Sign of Four Spirits
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a psychic fair arrives in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, wants nothing to do with it. But somehow, at the urging of Donald Morris, an enthusiastic Sherlockian, she finds herself talked into attending a séance, along with baker and best friend Jayne Wilson, store assistant, Ashleigh, and former pop star Bunny Leigh.
But to her surprise, Gemma finds herself banned from the séance and shown the door. Curious, she listens in from outside the room. The medium informs a disappointed Donald that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will not be able to make it tonight.
Rising Storm
by Edie James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Homecomings can be deadly.
When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations…none of them good. What he doesn’t expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret.
After her husband’s sudden death, Alyssa Archer scrimped and saved to purchase the abandoned farmhouse on the prettiest hill in McKenzie Cove, but someone wants her off the land. If she won’t leave, she’ll die.
Crater Stumble
by John Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Caley, a small-town sheriff, found the job much like any other small-town law enforcement officer. Crater Stumble is primarily a peaceful farming village. The town is unlike any other in one regard. It sits on an alien planet. When her hometown found itself in the middle of an alien war, she had to organize and arm a community of farmers with alien weapons. What was once a serene community will become a battlefield for the residents of Crater Stumble.
Hear No Evil
by James Grippando
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career — a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack’s life forever.
A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she’s about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that the woman isn’t telling him the entire truth, Jack turns her down. Then she drops a bombshell: She claims she’s the adoptive mother of Jack’s biological son — a child he’s never met. Either Jack must represent her or he’ll never see the boy.
American Predator
by Maureen Callahan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as “a force of pure evil,” Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried “kill kits”–cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools–in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, Keyes would fly to a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles in order to use his kits. He would break into a stranger’s house, abduct his victims in broad daylight, and kill and dispose of them in mere hours. And then he would return home to Alaska, resuming life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.
The Stuff What Actually Is
by J. A. Nunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s 1942. Mervyn Gower, a college dropout and wannabe boxer, works as a locker boy at the Beverly Hills YMCA but trains under “Mugsy” Levine—part-time boxing mentor and full-time local gangster—at an LA gym closer to home. Despite Gower’s desire to fit in, he is forced to compete as “The Welsh Kid” and sees being drafted as his chance to prove himself a “real American.”
Assigned to a segregated Army base in the South, Gower finds a very different America from the one portrayed in the movies. It’s punctuated with “Colored Only” signs, civilians forced into internment camps, and better treatment of German POWs than of Black US soldiers…
Committed
by Rebekah Dodson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After losing his job and nearly losing himself, Gabe Jensen ends up in court-ordered therapy with zero intention of talking. Then he meets Emily Gutierrez, a guarded woman with shadows of her own, and everything shifts. She sees straight through him like no one ever has.
Emily has spent years outrunning her demons. She doesn’t trust easily. But something about Gabe pulls her in. Against her better judgment, she lets him get close, hoping he might help her find herself again…
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 Death Mask
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer.
World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve’s services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Royal Blood
by Rhys Bowen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
London, 1932. With her hateful brother Binky in town, Georgie has been desperately seeking an escape. So when an invitation from the Queen of England arrives asking her to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania—legendary home of vampires—she’s delighted to accept. But when the bride starts acting a little batty and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned, something must be done lest the couple’s vows become “till undeath do they part…”
Shelter Beyond the Wires Boxed Set
by Clay Wise
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
Lawless towns, deadly gangs, and no safe haven—will Kat make it home?
When a solar flare cripples the world’s power, trucker Kat is stranded miles from her daughter, with no food, no shelter, and no safety in sight. Small towns have turned lawless, and Kat must fight through brutal obstacles to reach her little girl. Every step brings her closer to danger—but also closer to the one person she refuses to leave behind. As chaos reigns, will a mother’s determination be enough to overcome a world gone dark?
Murder in the Family
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home.
Luke Ryder’s murder has never been solved. Guy Howard’s mother and two half-sisters were in the house at the time of the murder—but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged.
But some murder cases are simply too big to forget…
The Love of My Life
by Rosie Walsh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie.
And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real…
Shipwrecked: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Seth Levy thought civilian life would be the easy part. He was wrong.
When a freak accident strands the retired Marine on a brutal alien prison planet, he discovers a galactic conspiracy, a corrupt empire, and an underground rebellion fighting for survival. Forced to navigate a universe of hostile empires, zealot warlords, and bioengineered monstrosities.
Seth is thrust into a conflict that could determine the fate of entire civilizations…
On Her Watch
by Melinda Leigh
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground.
With the help of investigator Matt Flynn, Bree works the case. They go to interview Jana, the best friend of one of the victims. But when they arrive at her apartment, it’s been ransacked and set on fire. And Jana is missing.
The Remaining
by D. J. Molles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
This is the fifth, never-before-published, novel in the action-packed series following Special Forces Captain Lee Harden and a group of survivors struggling to survive while rebuilding an America devastated by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into a ravenous horde.
Through an overwhelming storm of pain and adversity Captain Lee Harden has fought and survived. But his mission continues.
Dragon Fever
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
These five hot steamy stories feature powerful dragons, who were exiled by their clan because they were reckless and wild and how they break all rules to meet and protect their mates.
NATALIE and JUDE will be the first ones you’ll meet…
I used to be a brother, son, protector. Now, I’m a shadow. Exiled from my clan of dragon-shifters, I drift among the humans without purpose or belonging. My inner dragon snaps and snarls as it struggles to adapt, but like me, it has no choice—this is our life now…
The President’s Shadow
by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston, and his alter ego, The Shadow, has possessed an array of mental and physical powers: scientific skills, shape-shifting ability, and mind control.
When a series of deadly natural disasters strike the planet, immediately set out to identify who’s responsible…
A disgruntled graduate student? The power-hungry president of the Americas? Or could it be Shiwan Khan, the Shadow’s fiercest enemy?