Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Bohemian Connection
by Susan Dunlap
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When the nation’s political elite descends on a small Northern California town, murder follows—and only Vejay Haskell can get to the bottom of the shocking crime
Each year the Bohemian Club—a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger—gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworker’s missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain…
Sins of the Father
by Sharon M. White, Scare Street, Kathryn St. John-Shin
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A tormented past. An infernal legacy. The fires of hell await a new master…
Once the chief exorcist for the Vatican, Blake Rossi spent years of his life battling the minions of hell. But when his latest demonic target reveals a dark secret from his past, Blake finds his entire life turned upside down. He is shocked to learn that a demon was responsible for the death of his mother.
Determined to journey to hell and slay the creature responsible, Blake reluctantly enlists the help of an escaped demon. But first, Blake must help his partner Gregor overcome the debilitating injuries he has suffered… injuries Blake himself feels responsible for.
Ella: A Joe DeMarco Novella
by Mike Lawson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this brand-new digitally exclusive novella from Edgar Award finalist Mike Lawson, beloved Washington D.C. troubleshooter Joe DeMarco finds himself face to face with Ella Fields, a cunning, ruthless woman he thought he’d locked up behind bars for good.
Ella Fields was supposed to serve 14 long years, but thanks to a combination of good behavior on her part and prison over-crowding, she was now free after just five years. Well, not quite free, thanks to parole…
The Devil I Know
by Jackie Barrett
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In November 1974, 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo was convicted of murdering his entire family. Decades later, he was haunted by a terrifying demon from his past. But no one wanted to listen. Except one woman.
For years, as the legend of the Amityville Horror murders were retold in print and film, DeFeo withdrew, growing more bitter as his twisted celebrity status increased. Then he received a note from Brooklyn psychic Jackie Barrett, saying she had been made aware of his presence by an unknown…
You Are Fatally Invited
by Ande Pliego
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“Deliciously twisted . . . perfect for thriller fans hungry for a fresh spin on a locked-room murder mystery.” – Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child
When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del Angél to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chance—particularly since she has an axe to grind with one of the invitees. The guest list? Six thriller authors, all masters of deceit, misdirection, and mayhem.
Confess the crimes, survive the tropes.
Still Waters: An Anthology
by Heather Graham, Karen Harper
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New York Times bestselling authors Heather Graham and Karen Harper team up with two fan-favorite stories that prove still waters run deep
The Island by Heather Graham : When a body washes ashore, she may need more help than she bargained for. Because investigating is a dangerous game, and someone wants to stop Beth from playing…
Below the Surface by Karen Harper: Bound to Cole by the harrowing experience, she seeks his help as she struggles to understand what happened to her sisterand what her twin, whom she thought she knew so well, might be hiding…
Shattered Silence: An Anthology
by Marta Perry
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A woman on the run seeks sanctuary in a peaceful Pennsylvania Dutch community—and finds a protector in the most unlikely of men…
One moment Rachel Hartline is secure in her career and community. The next, she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time—watching her ex-husband commit a crime that puts her in unfathomable danger. Fear and hurt send her home to an Amish farm and the family she’s always trusted. But a private investigator is close behind—and he may be a threat to her in more ways than one…
A Season In Saigon
by Dorothy Love
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Saigon. An idealistic young journalist determined to restore her tattered reputation. A compassionate Southern doctor seeking his own kind of redemption. From veteran author Dorothy Love comes a story about love, honor, and friendship forged and tested in the chaos of a jungle war far from home.
When an honest mistake shreds her professional reputation, fashion writer Tallis Reed leaves New York for Saigon, determined to salvage her career and to make a difference by reporting the war’s hidden stories. But in a wary city teeming with refugees and orphans, soldiers and spies, truth is elusive and danger is an ever-present shadow…
Rancher Wolves Collection
by Serena Meadows
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If you love reading about wolf-shifters that are strong enough to save their mates from trouble, then you’ve come to the right place. These men will get themselves into trouble, get fake married, even get their mates pregnant. But can they fight off all danger to finally find love?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder
by Gay Marris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
London, 1968. A suburban London street. But this is no ordinary road.
In number 17 live a bitter daughter and her mother, trapped with each other. Or are they?
The twin brothers at number 3 think they’re nothing like each other, but they may be proved wrong. Lesley disappeared from number 49 years ago. Then her body is found, and with it more secrets.
Atbara Avenue is a street where, all too often, murder feels like the solution.
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
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Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
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In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Night Home
by Rose Titus
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When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town who knew the professor almost a century ago, and learns that everything he wrote in the notes he kept is true. And then she finds herself stalked by a vampire hunter.
The Sword Brothers
by Peter Darman
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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.
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The Cradle Will Fall
by Mary Higgins Clark
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A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman’s body into the trunk of a car…or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare?
At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that the famous doctor’s work “curing” infertile women was more than controversial—that it was deceitful, depraved, and often deadly…
MYSTERY Nightmare Journey: Across Time
by Crystal Mary Lindsey
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Will This Young Woman Meet Success or Will She Be Destroyed by Her own Making? Eyes Meet and Hearts Ignite.
Star Tripodi, a headstrong, and a sensationally beautiful young woman has her mind full of intoxicating future dreams. This WILD female believes herself beyond reproof from any authority, and that includes GOD. Gorgeously attractive Doctor Blain Conway, a neurosurgeon, and new to town, becomes ENCHANTED with Star when he first sets eyes on her. His DESIRE is captured. Abruptly all comes crashing down on Star one fateful day when at the wrong place she gets struck by a speeding car. Taken to hospital and placed in INTENSIVE CARE on life support, it will be Doctor Conway who takes charge of her critical care. In her delirium, Star is attacked by DEMONS before careering back through time to early colonial Virginia of 1754…
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
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Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
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When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
April Fool Dead
by Carolyn Hart
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Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool’s prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic — if rarely tranquil — South Carolina island of Broward’s Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward’s Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it’s up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail of the vicious trickster — or a secret slayer’s next lethal “joke” may very well be on her!
Beyond Mercenary Complete Series Boxed Set
by M Guida, Michael Anderle
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We thought we knew the drill – stake ’em, salt ’em, save the day. That was until we met our newest nightmare: vampires, or so we thought, leaving nothing but skeletons in their wake. These creatures, they’re playing by rules we’ve never seen, and we’re in way over our heads.
Grab this complete series boxed set and dive into a chilling new tale, where supernatural hunters Sawyer and Damon Grant face a sinister force that defies everything they know.
The Palm Beach Murder
by Marion Collins
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It was the perfect marriage between a Florida millionaire and an Atlanta socialite—until a hitman came between them. From the author of Without a Trace.
For thirty-three-year-old millionaire James Sullivan, sweeping Lita McClinton off her feet was easy. But when the reckless social climber and adulterer turned marriage in their Palm Beach mansion into a luxurious hell, the beautiful Georgia debutante wanted out—and half of her husband’s fortune to take with her.
Then in 1987, a hitman unloaded three bullets into Lita’s head…
Kachina Doll Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
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When she goes to pay her bill at a bed and breakfast she’s stayed at for 3 days, Jordan finds the owner murdered and becomes the chief suspect, because she was the only guest the previous night. The suspicion only gets worse when the woman’s strange will leaves the property to her, a total stranger.
Jordan prides herself in being tough, but having fled the cool, piney woods of Georgia for the hostile Arizona desert to escape her jealous ex-husband, Jordan finds herself in alien surroundings that tax her to the max. Eerily surrounded by a legion of Native American kachina dolls, and both two-legged and four-legged strangers, she is thrust into a mystery that doesn’t end with the first murder.
Split Second
by Catherine Coulter
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A serial killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to an infamous and now long-dead monster. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on.
At the same time, Agent Carlyle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn’t simply walk away from his family twenty-two years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy’s grandmother…
This Scorched Earth
by William Gear
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An amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from devastation to rebirth following the American Civil War, from New York Times bestselling author William Gear.
The Hancocks of Arkansas were true American pioneers: tough, enterprising, eager to make their own destinies.
Then came the Civil War, the deadly, murderous conflict that sundered the bonds between brothers, destroyed most of a generation, and cast the Hancocks to the winds…
A Stranger Is Watching
by Mary Higgins Clark
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Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson—yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson’s death will not stop the pain and anger of Nina’s husband, Steve. Thompson’s death will not still the fears of Nina’s six-year-old son, Neil, witness to his mother’s brutal slaying. Not even the love and friendship of Sharon Martin, a journalist who is slowly becoming a part of their world, will ever erase their bitter memories…
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci
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Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she’d hoped for as she’s confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Comes First
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
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When an old widow is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North work to prove a trio of aunts innocent of the crime
Jerry and Pamela North have tangled with countless murderers, blackmailers, and thieves, but nothing could prepare them for a weekend with Pamela’s aunts. Thelma, Lucinda, and Pennina sweep into town like hurricanes, and take no notice of the destruction they cause. No amount of martinis can soothe Pamela and Jerry’s rattled nerves, and when the martinis stop working, the Norths are in trouble…
The St. Zita Society
by Ruth Rendell
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*Includes an excerpt of Rendell’s final novel, Dark Corners *
Life on Hexam Place appears orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens. But beneath this tranquil veneer, this quintessentially London world of servants and their masters is set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord’s wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrat, the Still family’s lazy au pair, assists Mrs. Still in keeping secret her illicit affair with a television actor—in exchange for pocket cash…
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
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A Journey to Shangri-La
The story follows Hugh Conway, a British diplomat, who, along with a group of travelers, is stranded in the mystical paradise of Shangri-La after a plane crash. As Conway learns more about this secluded utopia and its enigmatic leader, he is faced with profound questions about life, purpose, and the nature of happiness. Is Shangri-La a sanctuary or a seductive illusion?
Unfinished Business
by J.A. Jance
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In this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the “grand master of the genre” (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene—a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home.
Mateo Vega, a one-time employee of Ali Reynold’s husband, B. Simpson, has spent the last sixteen years of his life behind bars. According to the courts, he murdered his girlfriend. But Mateo knows that her real killer is still on the loose, and the first thing he’s going to do when he gets a taste of freedom is track him down.
Love and Music
by Patricia Ryan
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What would you give up to follow your dream?
Leonora has set her sights on a career on the international stage. In pursuit of her dream, she arrives in the romantic city of Munich to study with renowned voice teacher Maestro Roberto Mazzone. Encouraged by the Maestro’s vision of her as a future Madam Butterfly, she begins to follow the path he lays out for her. And then she meets handsome tenor Walter Saville, and falls in love. With conflicting loyalties to the Maestro and Walter, Leonora struggles to stay true to her dream. When Walter forces her to choose between them, she faces a heart-breaking decision…
Squall
by Sean Costello
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Bush pilot Tom Stokes is about to face the worst day of his life. On a clear winter morning, he sets out to do some repairs on a remote hunt camp, leaving his five-year-old son and very pregnant wife snug in their beds.
On the return trip, a squall forces him into an emergency landing and he winds up—quite literally—in the lap of petty criminal Dale Knight. Dale, now a fugitive from the law—and worse, from a merciless drug lord who just happens to be his brother—draws Tom into a web of mayhem and treachery that puts not only his life at risk, but the lives of his wife, son . . . and unborn child.
The Early Works of Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie
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Discover the origins of the world’s best-loved crime writer in The Early Works of Agatha Christie, a compelling collection that showcases the novels that ignited a literary revolution.
These early novels reveal Agatha Christie’s mastery of misdirection, her deep understanding of human nature, and the ingenuity that would come to define modern detective fiction. A must-read for new fans and longtime admirers alike.
Far Away Home
by Susan Denning
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In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn.
No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, solicitous Tim, good-natured, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran. Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses…
Never Flinch
by Stephen King
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From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.