Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Bistro at Holiday Bay
by Kathi Daley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s summertime in Holiday Bay, and between the outdoor dining option provided by the new rooftop bar and eatery, and the summer concert series held on the roof every Thursday night, the Bistro is busier than they’ve ever been.
Beck has an interesting case involving a woman whose mother disappeared when she was a child, Amy is entered into the annual clam chowder cookoff, Dawson has an important decision to make, Nikki has a new guy in her life, and Kennedy is struggling with empty nest syndrome while Addy is visiting her brother in Boston. In spite of a few challenges along the way…
Just One Bite
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Brittany has gone viral. And not in a good way.
Celebrity chef Brittany Cole has it all. Fame, success, and the perfect family. From her restored Vermont farmhouse, she’s built a wholesome brand that is trusted by millions.
But when her four-year-old has a meltdown, a video of Brittany shouting at the little girl goes viral. It’s a PR nightmare that threatens to destroy Brittany’s squeaky-clean image—and her career.
Kills Well with Others
by Deanna Raybourn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Four women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.
After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the lack of excitement is starting to chafe: a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone…literally. When they receive a summons from the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready tackle the greatest challenge of their careers.
Million Dollar Smile
by Paul F. Carlson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Every mission across the Pacific could be his last.
Newly married and newly deployed, civilian radio operator Paul Carlson flies dangerous cargo routes for the Army Air Transport Command during World War II. Storms rise without warning. Engines falter over open ocean. Enemy forces threaten the fragile lifeline between distant islands. In the vast skies of the Pacific, survival depends on discipline, courage, and a faith tested daily.
Back home, his bride Alta waits.
Their letters cross thousands of miles of ocean and uncertainty, carrying prayers, promises, and the quiet strength of a young marriage shaped by wartime separation. As the missions grow more perilous and the cost of service becomes real…
Golden Awakening
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A rugged treasure story with literary atmosphere and cinematic tension, this novel follows one man’s life-changing discovery deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the dangerous secret that comes with it. Perfect for readers who love survival, hidden fortunes, wilderness suspense, and the haunting question of what happens after you find more than you ever dreamed of. A short Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Story.
When hardworking carpenter Josh Paterson escapes into the Sierra Nevada for another grueling weekend of gold prospecting, he expects dust, disappointment, and just enough hope to keep him coming back. Instead, hidden inside a cool, forgotten cave, he stumbles onto the impossible: a massive vein of raw gold that could change his life forever.
Oyster Bay Boogaloo
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The tides of January are rising, and on Oyster Island, the spirits always collect their debts
On a stormy Gulf island where rum-driven dreams and ancient magic collide, two hard-drinking former soldiers and a half-drowned oceanographer must choose whether to burn a singing reef that spits out bones and prophecies, or let the Horned Serpent rising beneath it swallow everyone they love before the January tides reach their peak.
Oyster Island, a forgotten speck off the Louisiana coast, has always belonged more to the Gulf than to any map. Alex Pavlovic, a former Russian army officer, is just days away from firing up the resurrected Baptiste distillery when a freak storm washes a woman ashore, along with a warning written in a mirage in the sky: Beware the tides of January that carry both good and evil. You must choose, and the wrong choice leads to a horrible death.
Lethal Instinct
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
He came looking for a paycheck. He found a war.
Bob came to Naples, Florida, looking for honest work. Three months in, he’s still looking—until he saves a car dealer from a mugging and lands a gig shuttling vehicles to a nearby town.
A car he’s sent to collect is stolen. Bob recovers it from a local chop shop… and finds a dead teenager in the trunk.
The dead boy’s eighteen-year-old sister, Hailey, wants justice for her brother. Bob figures it’s not his fight and plans to skip town—until some bad guys grab him and torture him to find out what he knows. That makes it personal.
COPS in SPACE
by Gail Koger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Once upon a time, I was a “normal” teenager. Now I’m a galactic cop with a deadly predator as my boss. I get to deal with flesh eating monsters, alien babies, hunky warlords, space battles and not so bright bad guys. Plus, the fate of the universe rests in our hands. What could possibly go wrong?
“Another awesome read. The story moves fast and it is so well written. It also makes me laugh a lot. I love the Coletti series.” by Amazon Customer
Storm Tide
by Paul Doiron
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year in Storm Tide, the harrowing new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron.
When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch tries to pull Malloy’s burning body from the fire but is too late. Malloy was suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son. Now it looks like someone else has delivered a verdict.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
DEAD IN THE MORNING
by Margaret Yorke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A sprawling country mansion. A tense family gathering. Someone under this roof won’t live to see morning . . .
When Dr Patrick Grant visits the quiet Hampshire village of Winterswick, he expects nothing more than a weekend of genteel conversation, good food and the odd glass of fine wine. But at Pantons, the Ludlow family’s imposing country house, tensions simmer beneath the polite smiles. Gerald Ludlow is back from his travels, with a stunning new American bride on his arm. And not everyone is delighted by the match — not least Gerald’s waspish mother.
Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this gripping thriller from #1 bestselling author Sandra Brown, a daring pilot races against time to deliver an important package—and keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Rye Mallett is a fearless pilot with a reputation and a deadline to uphold. When he’s asked to deliver a mysterious black box to Dr. Lambert, he doesn’t ask questions.
After a sabotage attempt on his plane, he’s greeted by the mysterious Dr. Brynn O’Neal. Rye finds himself irresistibly drawn by the intrigue surrounding his cargo … and the alluring Brynn…
Mobbed
by Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, plan to spend the weekend at the Jersey Shore with her parents. But the weekend gets off to an early start when Regan receives a phone call from her mother Nora asking if she’d hop on a train right away.
Hayley Patton is a successful New York City event planner who suspected that her beau, Scott, was cheating and hired her former high school classmate Regan to follow him…
Sting of the Drone
by Richard A. Clarke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Prepare for your hand to take hold of the joy stick, your heart to lodge firmly in your throat. Tom Clancy takes to the air. Put this book on your radar.” —Ridley Pearson, New York Times–bestselling author
In Washington, D.C., the Kill Committee gathers in the White House’s Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel, and intelligence officers follow through on the committee’s orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death…
Dead Sleep
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
They are called “The Sleeping Women.” A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing…
The face on one of the nudes is her own—or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a search for the anonymous artist—an obsessed killer who seems to know more about Jordan and her family than she is prepared to face…
Die of Shame
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A brutal murder casts suspicion on a London therapy group in this thriller from the author of The Bones Beneath: “One of my favorite new writers” (Harlan Coben).
Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about shame. Among them are a grieving surgeon, a betrayed housewife, a taunting gay model, a barely recovered heroin addict. All they have in common is a history of pain and compulsions—until they’re linked by the brutal murder of one of their members. Det. Inspector Nicola Tanner is drawn into this intimate circle to find the killer. Unfortunately, not a single one of them is willing to share.
Beloved Origins
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
THE WARRIOR. Fierce and independent, Michira has inherited her Irish mother’s bold personality and fiery beauty and her Eurasian father’s innate skill in battle – all sources of great strength for her, but of bitter resentment for an unexpected nemesis.
THE LEGACY. For centuries, the proud and powerful Aisuru Senshi, Beloved of God, have possessed a unique gift – the ability to control mind and body in feats of mental and physical strength and agility the likes of which mere men can only dream.
THE MARQUIS.
A Great Reckoning
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But must.
Hemlock Bay
by Martin Edwards
Kindle $7.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The new seaside resort of Hemlock Bay offers something for everyone. For families, it’s the ideal summertime playground for kids and parents alike. For artists, the seascapes are peerless. For swindlers and blackmailers, it’s the perfect place to craft a new identity. And for murderers? That’s what Rachel Savernake, the enigmatic heiress and brilliant amateur sleuth, is about to discover.
When crime-beat journalist Jacob Flint receives a visit from a fortune teller who insists he’s had a vision of a murder soon to occur in Hemlock Bay, Jacob consults with Rachel to get her take on the man’s outlandish claim…