Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid’s Secret
by Nita Prose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner—a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciting, her wedding to Juan Manuel.
When Molly brings in some old trinkets to be appraised on the show, one item is revealed to be a rare and coveted artifact worth millions. Molly becomes a rags-to-riches sensation, and a media frenzy swirls as she prepares to sell her priceless treasure. Then, on auction day, the treasure suddenly vanishes. and Molly and her friends find themselves at the center of the boldest art heist in recent memory.
Homeschool and Homicide Collection
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three gripping Christian mysteries. One unforgettable heroine. Hours of page-turning suspense.
Discover a Heartfelt Mystery Series Filled with Faith and Suspense!
If you cherish strong, compassionate women, gripping twists, and a journey of faith, then the Honey Pot Christian mystery series is perfect for you!
Missing on Main Street
Lethal in Lavender
Farmers Market Fatality
The River Girls
by Melinda Woodhall
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As another girl’s body washes up on the banks of the Willow River, Eden Winthrop’s young niece is taken…
A heart-stopping, emotional thriller you won’t want to put down!
Traumatized by her sister’s brutal murder, Eden Winthrop is drawn into the search for a sadistic killer who is preying on her small-town’s most vulnerable women. The hunt becomes personal when Eden’s niece is abducted just as the body of yet another victim is discovered in a local river. Can Eden find the strength to face her deepest fears and save the ones she loves the most?
The Cuban Affair
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daniel Graham MacCormick—Mac for short—seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don’t tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac’s finances are more than a little shaky.
One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups…
The Sentinel
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.
But there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.
A Fatal Lie
by Charles Todd
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body, he isn’t a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard for help.
When Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent from London to find answers, he is given few clues—a faded military tattoo on the victim’s arm and an unusual label in the collar of his shirt…
Compulsion
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer’s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.
Dead First
by Johnny Compton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she’s more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith’s assistant driving an iron rod straight through the back of his skull. Scratch that—the last thing she expects to see is Braith’s resurrection afterward.
Braith can’t die, it turns out, but he has no explanation for his immortality, and very few intact memories of his past. Which is why he wants to pay Shyla millions to investigate him, and bring his long-buried history to light.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The new cozy crime novel from the bestselling author of The Marlow Murder Club, now a major TV series on PBS Masterpiece!
Two dead celebrities. One village full of secrets.
Someone is killing celebrities in Marlow. First, it’s a famous soccer player. Then, a bestselling thriller writer. When two shocking deaths rock their quiet riverside town, Judith, Suzie, and Becks—the unstoppable Marlow Murder Club—must untangle a dangerous web of blackmail and scandal to catch a killer.
A Fool For Love & Money
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Love and Money are two important ingredients in a man’s recipe for happiness. Unfortunately, those same two ingredients under the wrong circumstances can be a man’s recipe for disaster.
Unlucky at love, unemployed and drowning in debt, Thomas Murphy is a man in need of salvation.
When an unexpected gift arrives from an unknown source, Tom is confused, yet elated about his new-found fortune. His luck continues when he runs into an old flame he hasn’t seen in years and sparks begin to fly. Strange how a man’s fate can change when he least expects it – one moment he’s miserable and struggling to make ends meet, and the next he’s back on his feet and looking forward to a bright future… or so Tom thinks.
Curious Minds
by Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight.
What starts off as an inquiry about missing bank funds in the Knight account leads to inquiries about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country…
By the Rivers of Babylon
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries — and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.
Suddenly they’re forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos — while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission.
Starship Cat Boxed Set
by LJ Dix
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fame is a problem when you’re the galaxy’s most legendary cat — and everyone wants one of your kittens.
Princess earned her place aboard the cargo ship Amiira Yasmine by saving a space station, but celebrity comes with would-be cat-nappers, impossible demands, and a crew stretched dangerously thin.
When the captain is injured and a mysterious cargo of live lab specimens lands in the hold, Princess’s hunting instincts become everyone’s biggest liability — or their only hope.
Frankenstein
by Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more—and less—than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’ t merely a homicidal maniac—but his deranged maker.
How To Be a Good Wife
by Emma Chapman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman is a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows
Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife—as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector’s aloof mother on their wedding day.
Hit and Run
by Andy Maslen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
They killed her man. Now she wants revenge …
HIT AND RUN, by Kindle Storyteller Award nominee, and best-selling crime author, Andy Maslen, drags you heart and soul into DI Stella Cole’s brutal world of conspiracy, revenge and cold-blooded murder…
Stella, Richard and baby Lola. A perfect family. Stella’s a high-flying cop and Richard’s legal work aims to expose corruption in high places. But powerful people want Richard dead, and they don’t care who gets in the way. In a calculated act of violence, the family is torn apart and Stella is plunged into a nightmare of grief, barely surviving on alcohol and pills.