Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bitterness, Betrayal & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An urgent call from Stacie Maroni’s friend, Meredith, interrupts the sleuth’s New Year’s Eve plans for a romantic evening. Instead, she and Detective Michael O’Hare rush to the country club only to find it is too late to help their friend. Not quite how they wanted to bring in the New Year. A fully booked event for the annual bash translates into an overabundance of suspects and a variety of motives.
Never one to back away from a challenge, Stacie’s sleuthing skills kick in. When a wannabe reporter blogs about the murder and implies that Stacie knows the killer’s identity, the investigation takes a dangerous turn…
Child of Prophecy
by J Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The story continues the odyssey of Gant, the hero who killed Varg with his magical sword Valorious and who must now use his strength and cunning to find and neutralize the child predicted to lead the demons of the western kingdoms to victory over all mankind. But he won’t have to do it alone. Amelia, a shape-changer, will fly to the west to do reconnaissance only to be captured and imprisoned. Pris, the emperor and blossoming wizard, worries about the evil forces and knows the child cannot be allowed to unite the demonic powers. His untested magic will be key to stopping the impending doom. Dalphnia, Gant’s wife and woodland nymph who can control the trees of the forest and is determined to see her husband come through this journey alive.
Can this unlikely group intervene in time to stop the child and the carnage that will follow? Will it mean killing the child?
Scaredy Cat
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Killing becomes a twisted team sport in this “smart, fast-paced procedural” from the award-winning author of Sleepyhead (Booklist).
It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at London’s Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King’s Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murders of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.
Nothing to Lose
by Michael Garrett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Larissa Baxter was never supposed to be here—on the run, branded a murderer, stripped of everything she once knew. The justice system failed her, and with a life sentence hanging over her innocent head, all hope seems lost . . . until Derrick Walton, a quiet stranger with kind eyes and a past of his own, steps forward with an impossible offer: escape.
In the stillness of hiding, far from the life she once led, Larissa finds something she never expected—peace, safety . . . and love. Derrick Walton is a man who asks for nothing, yet gives her everything: kindness, joy, and a love that sees past her fear. In his arms, she rediscovers her worth. In his faith, she discovers her own…
All the Colors of Darkness
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a world of terror and uncertainty, what does one small death matter?
The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. But further investigation into the sad demise of Mark Hardcastle leads to another corpse, brutally bludgeoned to death.
Suddenly the case demands the attention of Chief Inspector Alan Banks, called back from his vacation even though nothing suggests this wasn’t a crime of passion followed by remorse and self-destruction…
The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Dick, I need a war.”
Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads the world’s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to “perception manage” his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind.
Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace.
Blood on the Boardwalk
by Sonya Bateman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murdered billionaire’s recently changed will leaves $5 million each to five unexpected people.
Including the woman he just hired to find his missing son.
Now, someone is killing the inheritors…
Widowed private investigator Marina Harmon is stunned when billionaire Thomas Mourning walks into her office, offering her a year’s salary to discreetly find his son — who no one knew was missing.
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation?
It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family.
Now Harper’s marriage is over, her college-age daughter is estranged, and Harper just wants to sell the property and make a fresh start…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Kill or Bee Killed
by Jennie Marts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flower, this second Bee Keeping mystery takes Bailey Briggs to the brink as murders threaten the future of her granny’s Bee Festival.
The small town of Humble Hills, Colorado, is abuzz with excitement over the upcoming annual Bee Festival, sponsored by Bailey’s Granny Bee and the Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch. The long weekend of festivities includes a beauty pageant, beekeeping demonstrations, a local restaurant bake-off, and a 3K Bear Run where all the participants are dressed as bears. The bake-off brings in a television crew from California to film, so it’s the most drama-filled part of the weekend, especially when the famous celebrity host winds up dead…
Kentucky Blood
by Ashley Thomas Sheikh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A GRIPPING, DARK SOUTHERN GOTHIC SAGA. Award-winning fiction that pushes boundaries – WINNER of The BookFest Psychological Thriller Award and PenCraft Intrigue Award.
In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory. To unlock its secrets, they imprison victims in their garage, each kidnapping leading them closer to their coveted prize…
Dark secrets threaten to tear the family apart. Rhonda, the eldest daughter, harbors a thirst for violence that may jeopardize everything. Bill, her father, struggles to balance parenthood with the brutal demands of their Quest. Then there’s Bobby, the current prisoner, who may be more dangerous than they realize. Has the family made a mistake they can’t undo?
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #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…
Broken
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him…
Stepping Stone and Love Machine
by Walter Mosley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions. From life’s meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But how would the world really receive the answers?
Stepping Stone
Love Machine
Mostly Perilous
by Kimberley Montpetit
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An empty grave. A century of secrets revealed. Can she heal the deadly curse of her family’s sordid past before she loses the love of her life forever?
Emma Ambrose purposely stays away from her family’s Texas oil estate, throwing herself into her work as an archeologist in the tombs of Egypt. Ancient mummies are infinitely safer than the family curse that follows the Ambrose Estate heiress. A curse that dooms her to never finding love—because it means certain death for any man who falls in love with her.
At night, Ian Phelps is a man drowning in grief after losing his wife in a tragedy. By day, he’s the county coroner, tagging dead people while mourning with those who have lost loved ones…
He’s Lying About Everything
by Robin Mahle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A BRAND-NEW totally addictive psychological thriller full of twists.
My husband’s girlfriend is dead. He says he didn’t kill her. But he’s been lying about everything else.
Eight years of marriage. A beautiful home in Connecticut. A sweet, affectionate four-year-old son. Now, it’s 6 a.m., and the police are knocking at our door. They found a dead girl floating in the university pool. My husband was having an affair with her. He was the last person to see her.
He’s a liar. But is he a killer? I’d do a lot to keep our family together. But how much more can I take?
Fatal Intrusion
by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado.
Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator…
Hear No Evil
by Mary L. Hamilton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Brady’s mom drops him off at summer camp with a shocking confession, leaving him to question his self-worth.
In Hear No Evil, the first book of the Rustic Knoll Bible Camp Series, thirteen-year-old Brady is forced to confront the pain of his mother’s betrayal and abandonment and the torment of a camp bully. Buoyed by the confidence of Steven, a blind cabinmate, and Steven’s spunky friend, Claire, Brady struggles to break through his own self-doubts until a startling revelation sends him on a dangerous quest, testing the limits of his courage, his faith, and his relationships with family and friends alike.
She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series, Volume 2
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Logan’s latest case…hidden secrets, dangerous lies, and a costly family mystery. Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture.
Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother.
How dangerous could it be?
HOTEL OBSCURE
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of The Waiting House: A Novel in Stories
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.” Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
Don’t Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.
He’s the perfect man. It’s a perfect lie.
Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…