Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Killer Christmas
by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home.
Off Course
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SOME ROADS LEAD AWAY FROM TRUTH.
In 1989, newlyweds Jacob and Rebecca Hale drive into the Appalachian Mountains looking for adventure, quiet, and a new beginning. What they find instead is a light that doesn’t belong to this world.
What begins as awe becomes obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a decades-long search for answers hidden in silence — pulsing through the forests, calling from beyond.
Trust No One
by James Rollins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
Knowledge can be magic—until it falls into the wrong hands.
The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.
Road to Colorado
by Ashley Judge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
The alert said to stay inside. The sky was clear. Then the power died.
Mail carrier Charlotte Meyers has already lost her husband. Now the grid is down, war is spreading, and her daughter is somewhere in the chaos.
No One Gets Out Alive
by Adam Nevill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now a major motion picture on Netflix!
When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she’s just happy to find an affordable room for rent that’s large enough not to deserve her previous room’s nickname, “the cell.” The eccentric — albeit slightly overly-friendly — landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren’t great, but they’re stable. Or at least that’s what she tells herself when she impulsively hands over enough money to cover the first month’s rent and decides to give it a go.
Junkyard Dogs
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
It’s a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming 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.
An Enemy in the Village
by Martin Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vézère valley, he’s ready to investigate. Inside, he finds a suicide note and the dead body of Monique, a successful businesswoman who rented châteaus to wealthy expats. It seems like an open-and-shut case.
But Bruno can’t shake the suspicion that something sinister lurks underneath this tidy narrative. After he delivers Monique’s final messages to those most important to her, malicious gossip about Bruno begins to spread through the village. One thing leads to another, and soon Bruno faces pressure to resign from the job.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
This Changes Everything
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany—except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm in Pennsylvania. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia moments before Courtney enters the house—and makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. Rushing to support Courtney, Julia flies home the next morning.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Glazed Suspicion
by Allison Pearl
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After escaping a life marred by crime, Nicole Appleton flees to small town Saint Claire and starts a business of her own. She still craves forgiveness and maybe a family, but could anyone love her once they discover she sugar-coated her past?
When sheriff’s deputy, Josh Bennet, arrives on the scene of a break-in at the local doughnut shop, he finds evidence incriminating his not-so-secret-crush. Is the fair beauty being framed or is she the mastermind trafficking drugs through his hometown? When things turn deadly, Josh must discover who the real villain is before it’s too late.
Finding Lucy
by Iris Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mother’s love is the most dangerous weapon.
One ordinary Tuesday, a van door slides shut and sixteen-year-old Lucy is gone, vanished into a trafficking network that moves girls like cargo and leaves no trace behind. The police investigate. The case goes cold. Everyone waits for Catherine to grieve and move on.
Instead, she walks straight into that network from the inside. For ten years she rises through it, living among the men who buy and sell girls, earning the trust she intends to destroy, one wrong word away from a bullet at any moment. She tells herself it’s the only way to find Lucy. She’s no longer sure what it’s turning her into.
Crimson Star Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A dying actress on a remote beach. A mysterious stranger with ancient secrets. A ritual that should never have worked — and a connection that changes everything.
Regan Vale fled Hollywood looking for anonymity, not salvation, but Gabriel Virelli’s act of mercy binds them together in ways neither can undo or explain.
Now her old life is hunting her down, his shadowed world is pulling her deeper, and the truth about what ties them together may be more dangerous than anything she left behind.
The Weekend Retreat
by Tara Laskowski
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD
Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It’s a tradition they’ve followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight.
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Outer Banks librarian Lucy is working on an art show at the library when paintings–and people–start to go missing, in this 11th Lighthouse Library mystery from national bestselling author Eva Gates.
When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.
Magic by Any Other Name
by Alison Levy
Kindle BARGAIN Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ivy Nichols O’Reilly has grown up in a wealthy family full of magic, fantasy creatures, and emotional abuse—but when her narcissistic mother arranges an unwanted marriage for her, the young witch reaches her breaking point. She drops out of college, changes her name to Georgette, and flees across the country with her best friend, a Wood Nymph named Mei-Xing.
Georgette is determined to build a new identity and a new life. But her journey leads her to cross paths with a number of magical characters—a Werehyena searching for his kidnapped wife; a Vampire who runs a unique magical business; a curandero, a shamanistic practitioner of traditional medicine; and a Valkyrie who, along with her raven partner, wants to make a risky deal—who make it clear to her that the past is not so easily left behind. In order to grow into her new identity…
The Berlin Murders
by Fiona Veitch Smith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
September, 1930. Fearless detective Miss Clara Vale is bound for Berlin, but this trip is all about la mode – not murder. Clara is set to walk the runway at Berlin Fashion Week, as a favour to her designer friend Juju, with her assistant Bella in tow.
Elections loom in Germany, and among Juju’s Jewish friends, the Spieglers, all the talk is of the National Socialists. But trouble brews closer to home, when a shocking murder at their clothing factory points the finger at the couple’s brilliant young son…
Fiend
by Alma Katsu
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They’re blessed.
At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family—Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets…
A Dark Path
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When two young boys don’t return home from an innocent afternoon of fishing, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must track them down before the first winter storm of the season bears down on Painters Mill in THE PACT.
In DISAPPEARED, Kate races against the clock to find a two-year-old who has vanished during a violent thunderstorm. Was the little boy swept away in the rising creek waters? Or is his disappearance even more sinister?