Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Questionable Character
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett’s New York Times bestselling Booktown series.
It’s a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he’s overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles’s newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It’ll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work…
Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…
Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium Collection
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“I was enthralled throughout the entire Collection! Now, I should warn that some of the language (particularly regarding ethnic and religious minorities) is offensive; thankfully, the main characters only utter a few. As a member of a number of minority groups, the language threw me for a bit; I would daresay that Christie, had she been a contemporary author, would not have utilized (or, for that matter, not needed to utilize) these racial and religious epithets. I, notwithstanding, thoroughly enjoyed this collection — particularly the stories which I’d never read!” by Amazon Customer
Last But Not Leashed
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All Dr. Kate Turner wants to do is get her life in order before ringing in the new year, but with bodies turning up left and right, she’ll have to trust her own instincts—and those of her beloved animals—to stop a killer in their tracks.
As the only veterinarian at Oak Falls Animal Hospital, Dr. Kate’s life is complicated. She’s swamped with hospital patients and house calls, a long-distance relationship with law student Luke Gianetti (that is less than perfect), and a handsome, flirtatious artist who sets his sights on her as his new muse.
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
by John Steinbeck
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck’s brilliant short novels
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl’s examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.
Lady
by Thomas Tryon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after, mourning dampened neither her beauty nor her spirits. By the time the Great Depression rolls around, she is the unchallenged center of Pequot society—lovely and energetic, but subject to bouts of grim melancholy that hint at something dark beneath her surface…
Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library
by Holly Danvers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A glowing wood stove, a cozy log cabin, and shelves full of books are all Rain Wilmot needs to ride out the Wisconsin winter, now that she’s made her family’s Lofty Pines library her year-round home. But the warm-hearted librarian’s blood runs cold when local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree.
After Benson’s body is found in his ice shanty, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament’s communal “chili dump.” She later finds these same books returned to the library’s drop box, with an enigmatic note from Benson to Rain.
Napoleon’s Shadow Wife
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
First Place Winner, Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards, Goethe Category
Embark on a voyage through unconditional love, power, and betrayal!
How could an emperor like Napoleon Bonaparte be so captivated by the twenty-year-old Polish Countess Marie Walewska – a rare beauty but of minor nobility – that their affair would last through both his marriages? And if it wasn’t romance that first drew Marie to Napoleon, what was it?
At just eight years old, Marie finds her life forever changed by the death of her father, killed in battle against the Russians. This tragedy sparks a deep, lifelong patriotism in her as Poland is fragmented and divided among Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
Bean$ and Things
by Myla Twillie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Bean$ and Things: Confessions of a Livestream Host Living in a Social Media Digitopia During a Global Pandemic
In Bean$ and Things, journey into the heart of online culture during the height of the pandemic as a mompreneur finds herself immersed in a world where digital life and human nature collide in unexpected, sometimes unsettling ways. This captivating memoir pulls back the curtain on the raw, unfiltered experience of navigating social media communities at a time when the virtual world became our primary connection to others.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Truxton Whiskey
by Michael Allan Scott
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Sara and her dog, Rocko, life in her country town on Route 66 is easy-going. In the Arizona high desert, Kingman rolls along, just the way Sara likes it. She has plenty of time to pursue her artistic passion… until Rocko’s discovery changes everything.
Tangled up with a corpse, an alcoholic, and a runaway buffalo, Sara begins to wonder if there is a secret conspiracy to keep her from painting. Without her dog, Rocko, stepping in, her amateur sleuthing would leave a Native American mother to face the tribal police alone.
Cole Baxter’s Psychological Thriller Box Set II
by Cole Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
INTRODUCING 4 GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS BY COLE BAXTER. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Daniel Hurst, K L Slater.
THE HOLLOW HUSBAND – Stella has finally met her dream man. But is David too good to be true?
THE PATIENT – James thought he’d be safe in this old house. He was wrong.
I WILL FIND YOU – Maria loves her husband. She really, really doesn’t want to kill him.
THE DOPPELGANGER – All is not as it seems. And neither is Jeffrey.
“It’s an absolute page-turner that had me gripped until the very end. I couldn’t tear myself away from it!‘ – NetGalley Reviewer
Little Heaven
by Nick Cutter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A trio of mismatched mercenaries – Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman” – is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven, where a clandestine religious cult holds sway. But shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous. There are stirrings in the woods and over the treetops—and above all else, the brooding shape of a monolith known as the Black Rock casts its terrible pall. Paranoia and distrust soon grip the settlement.
Fight or Flight
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this season’s must-read for fans of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Janet Evanovich, a woman imprisoned by her painful past faces a crisis that might just set her free to claim the life she deserves.
From the comfort of her beautiful mountain-top retreat, Katherine Winston creates her bestselling young adult series, Girls with Unusual Powers. No one in the nearby small town has any idea of her true identity. To them, she’s just the reclusive woman on the mountain, and Katherine is grateful to be left alone.
The Geneva Strategy
by Jamie Freveletti
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Robert Ludlum’s bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting, ripped-from-the-headlines new novel by bestselling, award-winning thriller author Jamie Freveletti.
On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.
On the Edge
by Wallace Briggs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tom Bradley, recovering from a stroke, discovers a new, inner self who can also hear the thoughts of others in close proximity. In the park where he exercises daily, he overhears a robbery plot and reports it to the police.
The plotters are arrested and the drug gang’s profits, over two hundred thousand pounds, are impounded. The gang’s boss, K, threatens to snatch Tom’s wife, if Tom does not return the cash and Tricia is kidnapped as insurance. The villain escapes with the cash when the police botch an arrest attempt without identifying Tricia’s location. He flees to France but is arrested at the Channel Tunnel and returned into police custody, without the cash.
The Likeness
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene.
The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.
The ACT, DBT & CBT Workbook for OCD
by Ava Walters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Struggling with unwanted and intrusive thoughts, gripping compulsions, or overwhelming anxiety? If OCD is controlling your life, you’re not alone—and more importantly, you’re not powerless!
Reclaim Your Mind with the Three Most Effective OCD Therapies Today
Inside you’ll find powerful, research-backed techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you break free from the obsessive-compulsive cycle and regain control over your mind and actions.
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.