Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Crime and Cherry Pits
by Amanda Flower
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shiloh Bellamy can hardly believe it—for the first time in her family farm’s seventy-year history, she has managed to score a highly-coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City, Michigan. It’s a huge win in her master plan to bring the rundown farm back to life… and the fact that her coup has sent her next-door neighbor and organic farming competitor into fits of jealousy doesn’t hurt, either. But the festive atmosphere at the farm market takes a dark turn when a man entered in the famous cherry pit-spitting competition chokes and dies right in front of Shiloh, who is standing near the sidelines as a spectator.
Secrets
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jude Deveraux brilliantly entwines passion, memory, and a touch of intrigue in this spellbinding New York Times bestseller.
At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother’s business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother’s coldness; even after meeting a man she thought she might marry, her heart still yearned for Jeff.
In a decisive moment, Cassandra calls off her pending engagement and travels to Williamsburg, Virginia, to become the nanny to the now-widowed Jeff’s young daughter…
Hawk
by James Patterson
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this dark dystopian tale, 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City – until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight and protect her home.
Where is Maximum Ride? Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared. Now she’s just a fading legend, remembered only in stories.
Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.
MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy “has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past” (The New York Times Book Review).
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth…
Twisted Tales Volume 16: Demon Stone
by Geoff North
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Heads are rolling, and they’re being tossed in drainways and ditches all over the city.
Cain Cullen should be helping his daughter and son find the serial killer stalking San Diego’s homeless, but he’s too preoccupied fighting demons of his own in another country. When one of his children becomes the next to go missing, Cain returns, and all hell breaks loose.
This is a different kind of twist to an already twisted series of short stories. Consider Demon Stone as a stepping on point to an all new series set to launch just before Halloween!
Nightshade
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He delivers street justice. She upholds the law. To protect the innocent, they’ll set aside their differences—and uncover undeniable common desires in Nightshade, a Night Tales novel of romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Colt Nightshade has no patience for the bureaucratic red tape that entangles law enforcement and sets the guilty free. Lieutenant Althea Grayson believes in the rules and procedures that help keep order over the chaos that threatens society. Together, they are a teenage girl’s only hope of survival against a ruthless criminal.
Dead Fall
by Brad Thor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.
With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.
Daddy Wolf’s Fake Marriage
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
I was trying my hardest to stay away from the sexy rancher at work… until he discovered a huge secret.
It’s almost comical to watch Mitchell care for the baby that he just found out he had. I’m a veterinarian at the same ranch he works at, and his glances haven’t escaped me. Mitchell is a tall and handsome alpha.
Asking for help isn’t in his DNA but this unique situation calls for something drastically different. Different… as in… me.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Fairmont Finds Canine: Books 1-3
by Cate Lawley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A hound with a nose for trouble and a heart for romance stirs up both in this small-town cozy mystery collection.
Fairmont loves his new lady, Zella, with all the exuberance of a once abandoned dog. A fluffy dog bed, delicious meals, and exceptional company – what more could a dog want? Everything’s grand…until he sniffs out a dead body. Zella’s new life began with the addition of an adoring spotted dog, but adopting Fairmont is only the beginning. Soon she’s got a new home, a new town, and a new name. A lovely beginning that’s spoiled only by the corpse in her otherwise perfect backyard. Join Zella, Fairmont, and all their new friends in White Sage, Texas as they solve three mysteries!
Demons Never Lose
by Ava Lock
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Fury’s back in this action-packed sequel to Demons Also Dream. Introducing Demons Never Lose, where dreams of thrilling treasure hunts and supernatural romance magically blend into a dark fantasy for adults that will leave you spellbound. Get ready for an unforgettable summer filled with spicy island adventures, supernatural battles, and romantic escapades.
Meet Joscelyn B. Wild, an empath and psychic: series inspired by the psychic visions in her dreams. Her books are famous for taking readers on a journey through Hell unlike any other—it all feels so real. What’s her secret? The demons are real! She simply spies on them and reports what she sees. Sounds easy, right? For Joss, it usually is.
But now these visions are interfering with everyday life—while she’s awake. Is Joss hallucinating? Or is a dangerous assassin really loose in the Bahamas?
What Lies Inside
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
At last, Malcolm has found the perfect woman. Now he just has to keep her.
Malcolm Todd seems like an average older man – he lives a quiet life in an ordinary bungalow on a suburban street.
But Malcolm is hungry – he’s looking for love. There was that young woman at work with the lovely hair. That didn’t work out. And the one who worked at a delicatessen. That ended quite badly.
But now someone very special has come to stay, right here in his own home. Josie is young, beautiful, spirited. And it’s clear to Malcolm that he and she have a very strong connection. A connection that could lead to a truly delicious future.
Witness in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
The opening night of the revival of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution” at New York’s New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death right on center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high-profile celebrity homicide on her hands…
People Who Eat Darkness
by Richard Lloyd Parry
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie’s disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the trust of her family and friends, won unique access to the Japanese detectives and Japan’s convoluted legal system, and delved deep into the mind of the man accused of the crime, Joji Obara, described by the judge as “unprecedented and extremely evil.”
Scratch One
by Michael Crichton
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A pulp-fiction thrill ride through a deadly case of mistaken identity
Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.
Tom Clancy Support and Defend
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dominic Caruso. Nephew of President Jack Ryan. FBI agent. And operator for the top secret U.S. intelligence agency known as The Campus. Already scarred by the death of his brother, Caruso is further devastated when he is unable to save a friend and his family from a terrorist attack. Ethan Ross was a mid-level staffer for the National Security Council. Now he’s a wanted fugitive on the run with a microdrive that contains enough information to destroy American intelligence efforts around the world. The CIA is desperate to get the drive back before it’s captured by the Russians or one of the various terrorist groups also vying for it.
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds.
Inferno
by Dan Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A diverting thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly
With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno.
Strange Loyalties
by William McIlvanney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Strange Loyalties begins with Jack Laidlaw’s despair and anger at his brother’s death in a banal road accident. But his nagging doubts about the dynamics of the incident lead to larger questions about the nature of pain and injustice and the greater meaning of his own life. He becomes convinced there is more to his brother’s death. His investigations will lead to a confrontation with his own past and a harrowing journey into the dark Glasgow underworld.
The Laidlaw books are widely considered to be among the greatest achievements of Scottish crime writing and the founding novels of what has since become known as the school of Tartan Noir that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin.
Bloodless
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night…and into history.
A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.
A case like no other…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
by Sofie Kelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen’s fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there’s something more to these kitties.
When murder interrupts Mayville’s Wild Rose Summer Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. More stunning is her realization that Owen and Hercules are truly special—perhaps even magical…
Junkyard Dogs
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Junkyard Dogs, the sixth installment in the New York Times bestselling Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit Netflix original drama series, takes us to Durant, Wyoming. It’s a volatile new economy in Durant when the owners of a multimillion-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. Meeting the notorious Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself, and when conflict erupts—and someone ends up dead—Sheriff Walt Longmire, his lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high-plains pressure cooker.
The Deeds of the Disturber
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Back in London after an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody—“rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one”—discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in the shadow of a mummy case (The Washington Post Book World).
There are murmurings about an ancient curse, but a skeptical Amelia is determined to find an all-too-human killer. Soon, she’s balancing family demands, including the troubles of her precocious son, Ramses (aka Walter), with not just one unsolved crime, but two . . .
Mendel’s Ladder
by E. S. Fein
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Outlast. Outgrow. Outlive. In the ashes of Earth, evolution is the ultimate weapon.
In 2099, Earth is unrecognizable. Ravaged by climate change, nuclear devastation, and other cataclysmic events, the planet and its people continue to undergo radical changes in order to survive. Most of humanity has allowed themselves to be transformed into Nomads, bizarre human-plant hybrids who continue their lifecycle as flesh-bearing trees connected to a vast mycelial network that forms Earth’s burgeoning consciousness. Welcome to the thrilling, action-packed, and emotionally compelling world of Mendel’s Ladder, the first book in the epic sci-fi series, The Collected Histories of Neoevolution Earth.
Down in New Orleans
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ann and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they’re good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon’s hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, “I didn’t do it.” Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order to save him, Ann will have to dive into the sordid New Orleans underworld, looking for clues in erotic clubs and seamy jazz spots. And, if that weren’t enough, she must deal with the resolute detective bent on bringing her husband to justice—the eagle-eyed lieutenant who dogs her steps and surfaces in her dreams. But despite her wavering affections, Ann has bigger concerns as she becomes embroiled in a fight not only for Jon’s freedom, but also for her life.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice…
Don’t Skip Out on Me
by Willy Vlautin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth.
Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He’s spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace can’t shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents. He decides to leave the only loving home he’s known to prove his worth by training to become a boxer.
Lord Valentine’s Castle
by Robert Silverberg
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Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.
Then Valentine begins to dream—and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bluebonnet Ballerina
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gracie Hofner returns, and chaos reigns—including a couple of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter.
As Gracie dances from problem to problem, she’s unaware the music has been orchestrated into a murderous symphony. When a different melody reaches Gracie’s ears from a guitar played by the new tenant living in her garage apartment, her tension vanishes. She listens unseen, cocooned in the shadows on her patio, and wonders who he’s longing for—and how it would feel for a man to crave her that much.
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The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Immersed in the quiet, meticulous life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon keeps his past well behind him. But now he is being called back into the game—and teamed with an agent who hides behind her own mask…as a beautiful fashion model.
Their target: a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabriel’s past. And what begins as a manhunt turns into a globe-spanning duel fueled by both political intrigue and deep personal passions…
Summer Camp Culprit
by C.K. Fyfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
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Camp Starfall is closing. But that doesn’t mean the past is going with it.
Despite her misgivings, Lindsey returns to the campground she last left as a broken-hearted teen. She’s determined to spend Camp Starfall’s farewell weekend focusing on the good memories she has of her time as a camper. But fate has other plans.
Lindsey’s teenage sweetheart Tyler shows up, stirring up feelings in her that had long lain dormant. Too bad she doesn’t have time to dwell on him. Someone is breaking into the cabins, and if she doesn’t find the culprit, more than her heart will be at stake.
Inmate 1577 and No Way Out
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the USA Today–bestselling author of The 7th Victim, books 4 and 5 in the FBI thriller series featuring “one of thrillerdom’s feistiest heroines” (Joseph Finder, New York Times–bestselling author of The Switch).
The survivor of abusive marriage, Special Agent Karen Vail has become hard and uncompromising in her work as the FBI’s lead profiler. Follow her now as she trails brutal killers across the country and then across the pond . . .
Inmate 1577: When an elderly woman is found raped and murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD inspector Lance Burden and her former task force colleague Det. Roxxann Dixon. As they chase the killer around the city, his rampage continues, leaving behind clues that lead them to Alcatraz Island, whose long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case…
Wings of Crystal
by Karen Kanouse
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Raising a baby dragon in secret is no easy task, especially with danger crowding in from every direction.
In a world where magic and danger intertwine, Zia and her magician companion, Jakari, face an impossible task: raising the only baby dragon in a thousand years—in secret. As they leave their companions to find a sanctuary for Evandar’s growth, they plunge into a labyrinth of peril.
But safety remains elusive as sinister forces interfere. Hunted by men wielding enchanted blades and believing Jakari dead, a bereft Zia is left to find a way into a system of caves where the missing prince is being held. To survive and gain entry, she strikes a desperate bargain, becoming a servant to a corrupt and evil Squire magician.
Dark Horse
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner–and the losers die trying.
In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper’s terrifying game for a ransom no one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already lost it all-not once, but twice.
Into the Fire
by Rick Mofina
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INTO THE FIRE, introduces Ray Wyatt, a veteran reporter grappling with the tragic loss of his wife and son while searching for answers in the crime stories he covers.
Hikers find a traumatized boy wandering in a remote corner of New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Retracing his steps to a cabin, they make a terrifying discovery that leads to an investigation entangling crime reporter Ray Wyatt and FBI Special Agent Jill McDade…