Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
by Bruce Rolfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter…
The Dark Side of the Island
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A former WWII intelligence agent searches for redemption in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
It’s been nearly twenty years since Hugh Lomax set foot on the Greek island of Kyros. During World War II, British Intelligence sent him there on a mission to take out a high-tech German radar station. Aided by the local resistance, he succeeded—but was also captured and spent the rest of the war imprisoned.
Now, he’s returned. But he is far from welcome…
Of Sorrows and Silence
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The exciting conclusion to the Audrey Baker suspense series! Audrey receives a mysterious text from a stranger that says he might know what happened to her sister. Could Caitlyn really still be alive?
Audrey Baker has never given up on her missing sister, even though she was abducted five years ago. When she receives a text from a stranger stating that he might know what happened to Caitlyn, Audrey can’t help but feel hopeful. She will follow any trail, however unlikely, that might lead her back to her sister, even if that means confronting the greatest threat she has ever faced.
Crash & Burn
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Private Investigator Tessa Leoni comes up against a case where even the victim cannot be trusted in this propuslive thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author–with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren.
Nicole Frank shouldn’t have survived the car accident, much less the crawl up the steep ravine. One thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help—she must save Vero. If the girl even exists.
Arriving at the scene, Sergeant Wyatt Foster joins the desperate hunt for a missing child, only to learn that Nicky suffers from a rare brain injury that causes delusions. According to her husband, there is no child. Never has been. And yet Nicky remains adamant. She must save Vero.
Pieces of Me
by Shaun Allan
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Poetry is not just words. It’s emotion given form. A place where grief, hope, love, and uncertainty intertwine. In this collection, we explore the depths of mortality, loss, and mental health, weaving personal experiences into universal reflections.
Each poem speaks to the struggles we carry, the quiet moments of solace, and the truths we wrestle with, offering recognition to those who have felt the same weight.
These words do not seek to provide answers but to remind readers that they are not alone. If you have ever searched for meaning in sorrow or comfort in shared experience, this book stands as an open hand, reaching out.
Flesh and Blood
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing…
Dominion
by C.J. Sansom
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Britain, 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against Germany’s war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people suffer increasingly authoritarian rule, with British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill’s Resistance soldiers on. And there are whispers of a secret that could forever alter the balance of global power. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.
Searing Fire
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
At thirteen, Ari already knows that life is difficult. But things become even more difficult when she must leave her village and travel to the city of the king to find her only surviving relative.
Wes is a young soldier, but also a mage who understands very little of magic. In a kingdom where everybody distrusts mages, Wes knows that he must keep his power secret and never attract attention, even when the king sends him on a dangerous mission.
A Thing Immortal
by Barry K Gregory
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When gods bleed on the frontier, a girl’s secret becomes humanity’s last hope.
Ana watches her mother’s murder and barely survives the outlaws who kidnap her and take her away. Now trapped by mystical wards in a mountain man’s shack, she’s lost both her freedom and her hope.
Her salvation arrives in the form of a pale old gunfighter with eyes the color of wildflowers and his companion, a black wolf the size of a shire horse. The old gunfighter offers Ana escape from her nightmare, but she has learned that trusting a stranger comes with deadly risks.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Digital Assassins III
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Before the cyberterrorism, before the digital assassination, before Danielle Spencer – there was Ruth.
In this powerful prequel to the Digital Assassins series, Danielle Spencer takes readers deep into the roots of corruption at the Financial Revenue Service (FRS) through the unfiltered voice of Ruth, a long-serving insider who witnessed it all.
Digital Assassins III: Improper, Reprehensible, Scandals exposes the hidden history of an agency built on cronyism, systemic abuse, and impunity…
Rainbow’s End
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When three women die of “natural causes” in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection – or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Shake the Devil Off
by Ethan Brown
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Zackery Bowen was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. After years of military service he returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their hard-partying endurance during and after Hurricane Katrina had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans.
But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel. A note in his pocket directed the police to the body of Addie Hall. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city’s history. How had this popular, handsome father of two done such a thing?
The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard
by Michael Callahan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
In 1959, Hollywood ingenue Mercy Welles seems to have the world at her feet. Far removed from her Nebraska roots, she has crafted herself into a glamorous Oscar-nominated actress engaged to an up-and-coming director…
Until she shockingly vanishes without a trace, just as her career is taking off…
Cone
by Amy Cross
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She put the cone on as a joke. Now she can’t take it off.
Polly Parker has a rash. And when she turns up at a party with friends, one of them – who happens to be a veterinarian – offers a simple solution: a plastic cone that will stop her scratching herself.
As soon as she puts the cone on, however, Polly finds herself drawn into an increasingly dangerous world. Having made a bet, she’s determined to keep the cone on for an entire week, but she has already attracted the attention of a mysterious man who has been looking for someone like her for a very long time. And he’s not prepared to wait.
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket…
the moment we met was a lie
by Kari Wiethop
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The colorful staff of a hedonistic club attends to the unconventional and sometimes humorous needs of their members while navigating their own friendships, rivalries and romances in this contemporary series.
Since Trip is on his way to rehab, Black temporarily takes on both Becky and Babe, the collective’s two new recruits. Their journeys start off similarly but branch off when Becky is taken under Quinn’s wing and trained for her job. Once Becky is somewhat settled in, Black enlightens her on unexplored areas of the household and his personal preferences, cumulating in a shocking explanation of his training method.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
Kindle $0.29 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story – which includes sixteen pages of photos – with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to be “free and frank and unembarrassed” in the recounting of his life and his experiences.
Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.