Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas.
Just days before Estancia’s annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions.
The victim wasn’t just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail. As Fenway digs deeper, she uncovers tensions simmering between rival farmers, a string of online grudges, and a past the victim was desperate to keep buried…
Maniac in the Shadows
by Steve Hudgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
BARRICADE EVERY WINDOW. BOLT EVERY DOOR. A MANIAC LURKS IN THE SHADOWS.
John Bromley, a cunning killer whose madness fuels his every move, has escaped the walls of a sinister insane asylum, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. Driven by a twisted mind that blends chilling intellect with unhinged brutality, he kills without pattern—only when it serves his dark purpose.
Dr. Franklin Grimm, the asylum’s ruthless director, will stop at nothing to keep the breakout a secret, desperate to protect his career at any cost…
The Witch’s Lost Love
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Did Stephanie Gray suffer great tragedy in a past life and could it be coming back to haunt her?
STEPHANIE PREFERS HER SIMPLE LIFE of waiting tables at a diner and living with her silly cat. Then she joins a Wiccan group of healer women to live in harmony with the earth, and her world begins to tilt and whirl when a circle member disappears into thin air.
THIS IS NO MAGIC TRICK and foul play is strongly suspected. Soon Stephanie’s life spirals into chaos and she’s facing more questions than answers: Who is or was the missing Flo, the witch that nobody liked? Could Stephanie have some strange connection with her disappearance? And can facing the past bring back the missing pieces of Stephanie’s present-day life?
Infamy
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The “rock-solid” (Kirkus Reviews) prosecutor Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene Ciampi, return to solve the suspicious murder of a US colonel and battle corruption at the highest levels of the United States government in this novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum.
Intrigue, murder, corruption, and dramatic courtroom battles combine to make Infamy another must-read in Robert K. Tanenbaum’s “tightly-written” (Booklist) legal thrillers. When a former Army veteran suddenly murders a colonel in New York, he claims that he had to do it because he was being used in mind control experiments. Surprisingly, a top Wall Street criminal defense lawyer, one with ties to the White House, decides to defend the killer, arguing that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress from his tours in Afghanistan and that it’s his patriotic duty to assist him…
The Secrets of Ashmore Castle
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered . . .
When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family, must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family…
Interlude at Duane’s
by F. Paul Wilson, James Patterson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson places his urban mercenary, Repairman Jack, in an almost impossible situation. Repairman Jack just wants to be left alone, but that’s difficult to do when a robber is poking a .357 revolver in your face at the local drugstore. Things only get worse when three more stoned gunmen join the fray and threaten a crowd of customers. Not a big fan of heroics, Jack rises to the occasion. But being the hero is hard when you like to avoid closed-circuit cameras and the only weapons at your disposal come from the shopping aisles…
Chase
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Never steal from the poor and never shoot a man in the back.
Horse thief Chase McGraw lives by these rules, but they don’t stop the noose from tightening around his neck after he’s caught stealing purebred horses from cattle baron Edwin Kensington. His only way out? A devil’s bargain: recover a stolen herd from ruthless outlaw Brenner Pike, or swing at dawn.
Chase is forced to partner with Takoda, a quiet Indian with secrets of his own for helping. Their shaky alliance is further tested by the arrival of Eliza Hart, a frontier doctor with her own vendetta against Pike…
Enemy at the Gates
by William J. Craig
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich.
On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and press on to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. The Germans were supremely confident; in three years, they had not suffered a single defeat.The Luftwaffe had already bombed the city into ruins. German soldiers hoped to complete their mission and be home in time for Christmas.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Art
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Things are looking up for Kate Garrett. She’s moving into the apartment she inherited, along with half her father’s detective agency. Her new business partner, Jake Carmedy, trusts her enough to ask for help. And she has a new case of her own.
This case involves ransomware, not exactly in Kate’s wheelhouse. However, Professor Smyth is sure that he is being personally targeted by one of his colleagues or students. Finding the person is as important to him as undoing the damage to his system. Someone has been filling his server and cloud storage with subscriptions to racist, sexist and pornographic e-zines. The latter includes one creator that thinks revenge killing is video art, and it’s up to Kate to expose the murderer before he strikes again.
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition – Short Story Genre (Florida Writers Association)
Our journey through life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. The road is filled with unexpected twists and turns and sometimes things are not as they seem. In The Twisted Road Ahead, John D. Ottini leads us on an excursion through eight suspenseful tales, each filled with joy, heartache, mystery, intrigue and a pinch of humor.
When tragedy strikes, Blake Thomas is left with a broken heart and a guilty conscience. Rather than searching within his heart for the forgiveness he needs, he decides that sometimes it’s easier to just “Blame it on the Weather.”
Darkness, Take My Hand
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen the darkness that lives in the hearts of the unfortunate…
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York.
Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men…
The Cabin Trilogy
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Cabin Trilogy tells the story of a ‘final girl’ who never managed to leave her past behind. Originally published in three parts over the course of ten years, the trilogy is finally collected together now in this shocking omnibus edition.
When she travels to Norway for a holiday with her friends, Anna Matthews has no idea that she’s about to be plunged into a nightmare. Once she arrives at a remote cabin in the forest, however, she starts to notice that some of her supposed friends are acting strangely. There’s a camera set up in the basement, aimed at a rickety old wooden chair, but what exactly are they planning to record?
Hell and Back
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls?
Search the Dark
by Marta Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sometimes the past is best left buried
Meredith King longs for escape. Life in Deer Run is stifling, the Amish town too small for a modern woman staying just to care for her ailing mother. When a friend enlists her help in clearing the name of an Amish boy whose decades-old death is still shrouded in mystery, she welcomes the distraction. But when a ghost from her own past reappears, there is suddenly a lot more at stake.
Lie Lie Truth
by James Caine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
My father was a serial killer – or so I thought.
My dad, Dennis Kempmen, had his quirks but was respected in our small town. That was until children began disappearing and he became the main suspect.
I started to believe what others were saying: My father was a killer. Then it happens again. A little girl disappears in a similar way the others were taken. Everything I thought I knew is revealed to be a lie.
The Aperture Effect
by Kathryn Ford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Couples often ask, “Can people really change?” A better question is, “How do people change?” In The Aperture Effect, psychiatrist and couples therapist Dr. Kathryn Ford doesn’t just tell you how—she gives you simple tools that will immediately begin to transform your conversations and your relationship.With the radically simple approach of Aperture Awareness, Dr. Ford integrates mindfulness, psychology, and neuroscience to help couples shift their dynamics when in distress, turning their difficulties into lasting connection.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
An international bestselling author crafts a gothic “thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—twisty, transportive, and haunting, this is suspense with a passport.
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.