Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.
Storm Warning
by Terry Bacon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s used to improvising on stage. Can this seasoned bluesman use his ear for music to solve a dark crime conspiracy?
Sonny Marshall never forgot how he failed his sister. Haunted by her trauma during a home invasion, the thirty-two-year-old martial artist swears he’ll never let another innocent suffer. So when the valiant saxophonist hears from a friend about a fresh clue in a missing kid’s cold case, he refuses to heed the warnings of his GF and family and pursues justice.
Certain he has vital information, Sonny clashes with the by-the-book detective troubled by her own inability to track down the little girl. But when the self-appointed hero runs afoul of pedophiles and corrupt bluebloods in this noir crime series, his ride-to-the-rescue may end with him playing his final notes.
Old Country
by Matt Query
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“This is classic supernatural horror, made freshly compelling with believable characters and perfect pacing, and almost impossible to put down.” – The Guardian
It’s the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden retriever, Dash, and fled the corporate rat race to live off the land in rural Idaho. Their breathtaking new home sits on more than forty acres of meadow, aspen trees, and pine forest in the Teton Valley. Even if their friends and family think it’s a strange choice for an up-and-coming pair of urban professionals, Harry and Sasha couldn’t be happier about the future they’re building, all by their lonesome.
Hellhound Academy Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She crawled out of Lady Bird Lake with no pulse, no memory, and someone else’s Sunday clothes — and that’s the least of Robin Sullivan’s problems.
Welcome to Hellhound Academy, Austin’s secret training ground for the recently resurrected, where cadets protect the living from supernatural threats or get sent back to the underworld permanently.
Robin’s branded, hunted, and increasingly certain someone murdered her — and the Academy might be covering it up. In this afterlife, second chances come with expiration dates.
Pick up this boxed set to get the complete urban fantasy series!
You Invited It In
by Sarah Jules
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sometimes, it’s best to mind your own business.
Felix Eastwood is your average guy, except for the fact that he can see the spirits of the dead. Lilith Lavelle is a fraudulent psychic, plying her trade on social media.
When Felix stumbles across an advertisement for Lilith Lavelle’s Psychic Cleansing Services, he hires her under the pretense that his family is being haunted, hoping to expose her as a scam artist. By trying to play the hero, Felix puts his family in grave danger. In the aftermath of Lilith’s visit, Felix finds himself haunted for real by something claiming to be his dead wife; something that is out for blood.
Thunderhead
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich—the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago.
Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah’s canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors…
The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing.
When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.
Take Her Under
by Pamela Crane
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A chilling page-turning psychological thriller with an unpredictable last-chapter twist, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Alice Feeney, and Lisa Jewell.
The next body on the embalming table may be hers.
Preparing bodies for burial wasn’t on Ashley’s career list until a horrifying accident left her to inherit Fallon’s Funeral Home. She spends her days applying final touches and ensuring the departed look more peaceful than they ever did in life.
Helpless
by Jessica Knoll
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A NEW YORK TIMES, OPRAH DAILY, CRIME READS, TOWN & COUNTRY, AND BOOKPAGE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK!
It’s been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding’s heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him and the intensity of their connection—a connection that took her beyond boundaries she’d only dreamed of crossing.
Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both of their lives have essentially gone to plan.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Mulberry Lane
by Lori Soard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Small town. Big secrets. One woman who refuses to mind her own business. Mildred Wiggins isn’t nosy․ She just… pays attention․
It’s been fifty years since Mildred moved to the small Indiana town of Maple Hollow․ She knows her neighbors by name‚ their habits‚ and when something isn’t right․ The man living near her on Mulberry Lane has been setting off every alarm she has․
He’s rude․ Secretive․ Always in trouble with someone. When he’s found dead at the bottom of his porch steps‚ most of the neighbors are not surprised․ The police deem it an accident․ Mildred calls it suspicious․..
Straight into Darkness
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lustmord—the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime . . . and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim’s clothes and hair—a madman’s portrait of death.
Berg’s superiors demand quick answers and a quick arrest: a vagrant, the woman’s husband, anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongering Austrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs.
Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of the siblings is more disturbed than anyone knew…
Vacationland
by Meg Mitchell Moore
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Louisa has come to her parents’ house in Maine this summer with her three kids, a barely written book that has a looming deadline, and a trunkful of resentment. Louisa is hoping the crisp breeze will blow away her irritation for her life choices and replace it with enthusiasm for both her family and her writing.
But all isn’t well in Maine. Louisa’s father, a retired judge and pillar of the community, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Louisa’s mother is alternately pretending everything is fine and not pretending at all. And one of Louisa’s children happens upon a very confusing and heartfelt letter referring to something Louisa doesn’t think her father could possibly have done.
The Christmas Guest
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Who is he? When handsome author, Nate, moves into Laura’s picturesque guesthouse in coastal Maine, it seems like a holiday fairy tale.
Her quiet, comfortable life takes a new direction as they get to know each other. He seems too good to be true, and she can hardly believe how everything falls into place for them. As their romance blossoms, Laura questions what Nate is hiding from her. Who is he talking to in the middle of the night? Why is he so secretive?
But Nate isn’t the only one hiding something.
Flashback
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chloe and Sloane Morgan were only children when their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Strangler. Now, after spending years trying to discover his identity, the sisters have suddenly vanished. Were they getting too close to the truth? The police consider their interest in the crime to be just a coincidence and have little motivation to pursue the cold case.
Armed with a box of photos, videos, police reports, and notes gathered by the sisters over the years—plus the extraordinary senses from being blind before recovering her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure—Kendra follows the sisters’ trail of clues.
You’ll Get Yours
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A gruesome murder with a strange twist.
Supermarket shelf stacker Regina Steps has been strangled, stripped to her underwear, her body found straddling one of the cannons of Derry’s city walls. And why has the killer done that with her thumb? For seasoned DI Liam McLaughlin and the ragtag officers of the Major Investigation Team, it’s a homicide they’ve never seen the likes of before.
Middle-aged Regina might have kept herself to herself, but she always had a smile for everyone she came across. Who could have wanted to do her harm? Was she just unlucky?
Dark Bride
by Jonathan Ryan
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Father Neal deciphers a voodoo message with a dire warning, he reveals he is part of the Order of the Five Sorrows—a group dedicated to fighting evil with the use of holy objects present at Christ’s crucifixion—and Aidan is destined to become a member
The supernatural unleashed . . .
Still reeling from Father Neal’s revelation, Aidan assists his friend Brian by investigating a series of unexplained events at his farm, including eerie lights in the fields at night and his daughter’s fixation with an invisible friend…
Nine Lives
by Catherine Steadman
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She’s decided to put down roots with Blue, the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with.
But little doubts about her perfect new life start to grow, and when Blue returns one night from slipping into places he shouldn’t, Frankie’s concerns solidify. Two words are roughly scratched into his collar: help me. Unsettled and unwilling to ignore the incident, Frankie roots out an old unused “cat cam” collar. What slowly begins as a voyeuristic fascination with her neighbors and the secrets they’re hiding soon turns into a perilous quest for the truth that threatens to bring untold terrors to her doorstep.