Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Better Quality of Murder
by Ann Granger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer in Piccadilly. But what had she been doing in London that afternoon, and why had she been selling her brooch in the Burlington Arcade just hours before her death? As Ben begins his investigation, his wife Lizzie—with the help of their maid Bessie—looks into Allegra’s private life and uncovers more than one reason why someone might want her dead . . .
The Forever Home
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s our fresh new start. If we live to enjoy it…
I can’t contain my smile as we open the white screen door and step into our new home. Building a life with my amazing new husband Archie in this historic farmhouse is my dream come true. This is where we’ll grow old together, and where I can finally forget about my past. Or is it?
First, it’s a light left on in the attic, and music playing when no one is home. Next, a faded photograph of me on a hazy summer day long ago, delivered in an unmarked envelope. After years of running, someone has finally found me. My new home, our safe haven, has been threatened.
The question now is, what am I going to do to protect it?
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
by Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness’s forgotten final case–his years-long hunt for “The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,” a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression.
In 1934, the nation’s most legendary crime-fighter–fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history–arrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world’s fair. It was to be his coronation, as well as the city’s. Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies started turning up. The young detective, already battling the mob and crooked cops, found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace largely unknown to law enforcement: a serial murderer…
Allure of Elegance
by R. F. Whong
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Luxury, lies, and danger in the unexpected places… In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern mystery series weaves together atypical tales set in the idyllic Amish country of Paradise, PA.
Two years ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise. Now, she works as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster and is pulled into a web of lies and luxury when a bold theft targets expensive designer items. Despite her training, she struggles with self-doubt and is swayed by the allure of the opulent world.
After a tragedy strikes a friend with whom she tries to share the gospel, her intensified search traps her in a secret network involving the mysterious Baroness Hermès, who specializes in procuring Birkin bags for wealthy clients…
Life Sentences
by Laura Lippman
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Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction—from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that People magazine says, “Succeeds brilliantly.”
Avatar: The Last Airbender
by Randy Ribay
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From National Book Award finalist Randy Ribay comes a gripping new chapter—starring Avatar Roku—in the New York Times bestselling Chronicles of the Avatar series, set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra
Curse a world that would provide a friend only to snatch him away . . .
Roku never expected to be the Avatar. Even his best friend, Crown Prince Sozin of the Fire Nation, doubts the accuracy of the Fire Sages’ announcement. After all, Sozin is the strongest Firebender of their generation, while Roku struggles to grasp basic airbending principles—even after months of training under Sister Disha, his airbending master.
Dead Asleep
by Jamie Freveletti
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A former Chicago trial lawyer-turned-critically acclaimed thriller writer, Jaime Freveletti hit the ground running with her debut novel, Running from the Devil—winning a Thriller and a Barry Award and nominations for the Macavity and Crimespree Awards as well. With her fourth novel, Dead Asleep, Freveletti proves she hasn’t let up for an instant, plunging her brilliant, tough-as-nails series protagonist, biochemist Emma Caldridge, into a Caribbean island nightmare of voodoo superstition, terrorist plots, and deadly plague.
The Dead Travel Fast
by Scott Cook
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A bloody vandalism, a grisly ritual murder and a growing string of sicknesses and disappearances begins to pull back the veil on an impossible growing horror… Veronica Belle, an average young woman with aspirations of becoming a horror writer has chosen the pastoral seaside town of Potter’s neck to inspire her… and yet things just don’t seem to be going anywhere… but that’s about to change.
When Vince Drake, young, handsome, charming and successful world-famous vampire author strolls into Veronica’s life, her hopes for excitement quickly begin to spiral into a terrifying waking nightmare…
Lazytown
by Steve Sheppard
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Something funny’s going on in Lazytown…
For jobbing writer, Sam Bryant, life in the eccentric Oxfordshire village of Idleborough – known to all and sundry as Lazytown – is relaxed, despite living in the unfortunately named Slaughterhouse Cottages. The most he has to concern himself with is the annual cricket grudge match with neighbours, Stockford, organising the local Duck Race, watching Granny’s Bobbins matches and deciding which of the village’s four pubs to frequent, whilst smiling at the antics of Lazytown’s collection of weird and wonderful residents…
All of a sudden, things take a darker turn with the murder of a prominent local citizen and soon, Sam and Mallory find their own lives at risk….
One More Chance
by Reno R. Mist
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
LOVE IS A DAGGER.
After dying in a devastating car crash, Levi wakes up twelve years in the past, back at the moment he walked out on the love of his life. His marriage to Sloane is shattered by betrayal, and his family left in ruins. But now, with the knowledge of everything he’s lost, and everything that’s coming, he’s been given one impossible gift: a second chance.
This time, Levi will do anything to make things right. To prove to Sloane that he sees her now, and show her that she was always the one for him – even if he has to spend the rest of his life proving it…
The Christmas Cabin
by Laura Thomas
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The chilling truth…
When Carla James flies home for the holidays at her family’s cozy Canadian cabin, she has no idea what—or who—awaits. But after five years serving at her beloved Mexican orphanage, it’s time to work through forgiveness, face her fears, and reclaim Christmas.
Up-and-coming chef, Rhys Templeton, still regrets leaving a heartbroken Carla in the past and is desperate to confess his truth and make amends. But her own shocking revelation has the potential to either send him spiraling back to his destructive lifestyle or into Carla’s arms…
Haiku! God Bless You
by John D. Ottini
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101 further thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between, poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
He’s hopeful that you will find these haiku poems both eloquent and entertaining.
John D. Ottini is the author of a previous book of haiku, You Had Me at Haiku.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mistletoe Mayhem Collection
by Kassandra Lamb
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Christmas mayhem in Florida… Two novellas and a novelette, one from each of author Kassandra Lamb’s series, offer short “fun in the sun” reads to entertain during the busy holiday season (and year round).
An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine
A Mayfair Christmas Carol
The Twelve Heists of Christmas
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love – one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months.
Behold the Monster
by Jillian Lauren, Michael Connelly
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Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades?
As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren’s coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little’s victims only escalated.
Closer Than She Knows
by Kelly Irvin
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A serial killer bent on revenge . . . and striking too close to home.
Teagan O’Rourke has always loved murder mysteries. In her job as a court reporter, she has written official records for dozens of real-life murders. She’s slapped evidence stickers on crime scene photos. She’s listened to hours of chilling testimony. But she’s never known the smell of death. And she never thought she might be a victim. Until now.
The Night Is Alive
by Heather Graham
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It’s a city of beauty, history hauntings. And one of the most haunted places in Savannah is a tavern called The Dragonslayer, built in the 1750s. The current owner, Gus Anderson, is a descendant of the original innkeeper and his pirate brother, Blue.
Gus summons his granddaughter, Abigail, home from Virginia, where she’s studying at the FBI Academy. When she arrives, she’s devastated to find him dead. Murdered. But Abby soon learns that Gus isn’t the only one to meet a brutal and untimely end; there’ve been at least two other victims. Then Captain Blue Anderson starts making ghostly appearances, and the FBI’s paranormal investigation unit, the Krewe of Hunters, sends in Agent Malachi Gordon.
Murder at the Kennedy Center
by Margaret Truman
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“An exciting romp through the maze of Washington politics.” – The Dallas Morning News
During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party’s hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate’s son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail—and wreck his own career.
108: An Eco-Thriller
by Dheepa Maturi
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While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At the same time, she receives a message from her father, presumed dead for fifteen years, warning her of imminent danger. Coincidence? Unlikely.
Halfway around the world, agrochemical corporation ZedChem-led by billionaire Krakun Zed-tests its latest innovation, a product heralded as the solution to topsoil erosion. But the data reveals something else entirely.
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. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shinar Cane demonstrates to the world his telepathic connection to an ‘alien’ entity, promising power but leading down a dark and deceptive path.
My Years With Gillian Lane
by Daniel M. Wolpe
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Jonathan Ferguson and Gillian Lane meet as children and it’s far from love at first sight for them. But as they become friends and their families grow closer despite their political differences, they must navigate many events of the time including the fight for women’s rights, the aftermath of World War 1, The Jazz Age and The Great Depression. As Jonathan and Gillian fall in love and rebel against their par-ents by pursuing their dreams and moving to New York City, they always have each other’s support, no matter the challenges they face. But is that ultimately enough to sustain their relationship in a changing world?