Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Kill Clause
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.
Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job—until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.
Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options—a quest that leads him into a shadowy no-man’s-land between justice and the law . . . and into the welcoming fold of “the Commission.”
Skeleton Man
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post.
Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.
Four Days Famous
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Mylas Grey doesn’t want to be famous. Not even for a day. As a private investigator, he prefers to fly under the radar.
However, when a well-known doctor asks Mylas to investigate his father’s murder, that’s exactly what happens. Suddenly, Mylas is dodging reporters while interviewing suspects and searching for the dead man’s elusive girlfriend.
In the end, he narrows his suspects down to three people . . .
First, there’s the fired employee . . . The man had opportunity and means, but did he have enough fire in his belly?
Then, there’s the ambitious daughter . . . She had motive, opportunity, and means, but would she really kill her own father?
And finally, there’s the disgruntled client . . . He had motive and means, but did he have opportunity?
Majipoor Chronicles
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lord Valentine has claimed the title of Coronal, ruling over the gigantic planet of Majipoor. Yet he still remembers Hissune, the boy who aided him in his time of wandering, and gives him a post in the House of Records.
In a catalogue of ancient reports, Hissune discovers the Register of Souls, a repository of millions of memories of long-dead explorers, pioneers, warriors, even Coronals and Pontifexes. He begins to immerse himself into their lives—and finds himself experiencing first-hand the vast history of Majipoor . . .
Flash Flood: 30 Flash Fiction Stories
by Tom GH Adams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A house that eats people, a man who discovers a fae in his beard and a proctologist’s nightmare. Just three stories in this collection of strange, surreal or just plain bizarro tales. Flash Flood is just the sort of book to dip into and inject a brief fix of escapism into your day. Unfortunately, the place you escape to may not be the reprieve you hoped for. Tom Adams has gained a reputation for writing stories that disturb and provoke, so prepare to have expectations not only subverted but twisted, pulverised and then vomited out again just to have the contents of your stomach force fed down your gullet once more.
That’s not to say these tales are just a simplistic gore-fest, though there’s plenty here to satisfy such appetites. Flash Flood delivers a cocktail of disturbance, tornadoing its way through every level of your sensibilities.
Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.
Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever.
Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He’s a member of the Beati Paoli, a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermo, a city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapper, but his mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined.
The Wall
by Brian Penn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Escape to a world divided by a wall, where the promise of eternal life comes at a deadly cost. In the year 2099, the United States is torn apart by civil war, and Asher, a contraband smuggler, must navigate through a dangerous game of secrets to reunite with his beloved on the other side.
But when he discovers the true intentions of the powerful Lazurites, Asher is forced to join The Defiance in a rebellion that will determine the fate of both sides of The Wall. Will he risk everything, including his soulmate, to expose the corruption, or will he succumb to the allure of immortality?
Legends are Made Boxed Set
by Patrick Michael
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A fearless young woman released from service to her town. A ghost from the past with a gift for story. The legendary Dragonlord who has been sleeping for over a thousand years.
Together, they will undertake an adventure that will change everything…
Grab a copy of this boxed set to get the first three books in the Legends are Made series today!
The Oligarch’s Daughter
by Joseph Finder
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans.
Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move…
The Power of a Lollipop
by Feena May
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sitting at the intersection of inspiration and common sense, The Power of a Lollipop reveals how a simple human gesture of connection became the cornerstone to a powerful new vision of leadership.
In her twenty-eight years with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Feena May, PhD, travelled around the globe. No matter where she was posted, she always brought a bag of lollipops. May came to understand that offering a lollipop could often bring calm to even the tensest moments in the field, creating openness, trust, and connection. From these experiences the seed for the idea of the Lollipop Model was planted.
Murder, She Wrote: A Body in Boston
by Jessica Fletcher , Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $12.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Jessica Fletcher has dinner with her old pal Harry McGraw and gets pulled into a puzzling murder case.
Invited to deliver a lecture at the Boston Public Library, Jessica Fletcher excitedly makes plans to see local friends. Naturally that includes dinner at Gilhooley’s with PI Harry McGraw. Harry excitedly talks about his latest client, the CEO of Cure All Pharmaceuticals, who’s received anonymous blackmail demands and wants Harry to identify the culprit…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
4th of July
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The world’s bestselling detective series has never been more suspenseful. Trapped in deadly showdowns, courtroom trials, and dangerous secrets, the Women’s Murder Club must fight for their lives.
In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and Lindsay herself at the mercy of twelve jurors. During a break in the trial, she retreats to a picturesque town that is reeling from a string of grisly murders-crimes that bear a link to a haunting, unsolved case from her rookie years…
A Poisonous Palate
by Lucy Burdette
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The heat is turned up for Hayley Snow and her friends in the next installment of the Key West Food Critic mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Lucy Burdette.
When food critic Hayley Snow receives an intriguing email about a mysterious, decades-old disappearance, her curiosity is piqued. Writer Catherine Davitt has returned to the Keys to research a book about Hemingway’s wives, but she’s also on the hunt for the truth about her missing friend. Hayley quickly agrees to help investigate and they hit the road to see what clues they might find.
The Hidden One
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley, where the Amish culture differs dramatically from the traditions she knows…
A Cold Case in July
by Joan Hetzler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who shot Adam Cranford?
One hot Fourth of July night, crowds filled the streets of a small rural Georgia town and fireworks exploded overhead. Adam Cranford sat at his office desk waiting on a visitor. Someone stepped inside and aimed a single, accurate deadly shot at Adam’s head.
Was it his political opponent for his incumbent seat on the county commission? Was it his gentle wife who never argued until the day before he died and moved out of the house? Was it the law partner who loved the widow from afar and disapproved of Adam’s ethics? Was it one of Adam’s criminal clients who thought he knew too much? Or was it an unknown person to the small town where everyone knows everyone?
North of Sunset
by Haley Ahern
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s the year 2125, and the gritty metropolis of Los Angeles is more divided than ever.
South of Sunset, Oleander Briggs exists in a drab reality of the Seventh Industrial Revolution and the demise of social media, where his monotonous life consists of working the factory assembly line for Fleur Industries—a mysterious company that sells flowers preserved in gold. His future, like so many of his generation, is bleak, but Oleander dreams of more.
When he unexpectedly catches the attention of Mr. Fleur—Fleur Industries’ elusive owner—his luck changes as he’s offered a job to work directly with the Fleur family at their palatial estate, North of Sunset. There, he encounters eccentric characters, extravagant wealth, and youthful beauty the likes of which he has never seen. The Fleur family may be his ticket to a better life—but at what cost?
Buried Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.
Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month—and not a single islander has reported her missing…
Murder in Bloom
by Rosie Sandler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is in full bloom, but can Steph and her sidekick Mouse weed out the killer?
It’s an invitation Steph can’t refuse when she’s handpicked to compete at the prestigious National Trust property Coleton Fishacre. With the country’s top garden designers as rivals and a stunning historic estate for inspiration, it feels like a dream come true…
The Room on the Right
by MD Lawrence Mieczkowski
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
A heart-wrenching yet hopeful story of facing trauma, abuse, and PTSD-and the heroic path to healing.
To others, Dr. Lawrence Mieczkowski (Dr. Mitch) was a successful physician, caring father, and good husband-but inwardly, he was suffering from deep despair. When the 1999 Columbine shootings triggered a descent into near madness, he lost his ability to fight off the demons dragging him further into the darkness of depression and hopelessness. Something had to be done.
Finally seeking help in 2001, Dr. Mitch found a trusted psychiatrist and embarked on a yearslong journey that unlocked the deepest parts of his childhood and adult life-painful memories of abuse, neglect, and trauma. In this memoir, he recounts the struggles, fears, and successes on his path to healing with clarity and directness, proving that even in the face of overwhelming odds, it’s possible to find a path to the light.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
by Don Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.
The hot sultry night of July 22, 1991 was one the tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget. A panic stricken young man–a pair of handcuffs still dangling from his wrists–ran out of Apartment 213 and told police an incredible tale of terror.
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet.
The Red Queen
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $9.24 Rating: Brand New Re;ease #ad
A sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes, still “one of the most fascinating mystery writers today” (Houston Chronicle)
One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life – from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner had differing opinions of him. And to complicate things further, Jury has just happened upon a photo in a newspaper of a man in the United States, who is a dead ringer for Treadnor.
A Billion Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
by Mike Tranter
Kindle $9.24 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you could ask a neuroscientist anything about the brain—and get answers that make sense, feel relatable, and change how you see yourself?
** Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards
** Award Winner in Independent Publisher Book Awards
** Award Winner in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
“Excellently written, just like the first book. The conversational tone used to break down complex topics using easily relatable language makes it much more engaging & accessible than other science books. The recap sections were really handy, and the addition of QR codes linking to more detailed videos works really well for presenting things in a different way and again makes it more engaging. Highly recommended.” by Amazon Customer