Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bridal Shower Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When her daughter gets engaged in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, reporter Lucy Stone finds herself feeling like a steamed lobster while dealing with her future son-in-law’s family – and a summer bridal shower that leads to murder . . .
Lucy Stone is thrilled about her youngest daughter Zoe’s engagement to Chad, a rising minor league baseball player with dreamy eyes and plenty of Southern charm. Yet there’s no denying the whirlwind romance has turned Lucy’s life upside down in more ways than one—especially when she learns about Chad’s complicated background and close ties to Tinker’s Cove. The secrets and rumors are enough to send her investigative reporting instincts into overdrive . . .
Memory in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized young girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her.
Trudy claims she came all the way to New York just to see how Eve is doing. But Eve’s fiercely protective husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail attempt by Trudy proves his suspicion correct…
Rune of Thorns
by Kelly N Jane
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For readers who love epic fantasy with prophecy, fae magic, and political intrigue, where duty clashes with desire, and fate is never what it seems. Fans of Wheel of Time, The Queen’s Rising, and The Realm of the Elderlings will feel right at home.
Vengeance has its cost. Now, Rowena must pay.
Haunted by the weight of her loss, Rowena’s path to redemption is anything but clear. A web of deception tears Rowena from Bram’s side, forcing her to learn that trust is as fragile as the throne she lost. No one is beyond suspicion—not even the man who swore to stand by her.
Fatal Burn
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s been three years since Shannon Flannery was accused of—and absolved of—her husband’s murder. But while that legal nightmare had come to an end, the ones that jolted her from sleep, her heart racing, had not. And lately she felt inexplicably jumpy. If only she could train herself to cope with life the way she trained search and rescue dogs, teaching them to deftly navigate disaster areas, water, blazing buildings. . . . But then the crank calls start coming, and that’s just the beginning…
The Warmage Saga: Two complete series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Raven Alby is a girl with a dragon and a mission.
An old menace has returned to plague the kingdom of Lomberdoon and it’s up to Raven, her dragon and her friends to save their country.
But they have a lot of training to do, and fast, to learn how to control not only a dragon, but magic as well
Dive into this complete saga from bestselling authors Martha Carr and Michael Anderle, by getting 2 complete bestselling series—16 books—with this boxed set!
Family Royale
by Avery Blake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After losing his wife and son, Orin, due to his alcoholism, Dennis Hoke feels like he really needs a lucky break. He sees the Family Royale online gaming competition as his chance at redemption. This is the moment when he can rise to the challenge and finally become the father Orin needs.
They enter the contest together, competing to see which family can come out on top. What starts out as a great bonding experience for father and son soon derails as Dennis becomes addicted to success and his newfound stardom.
Orin begins to question just how far his father will go to win? And what’s the point in winning the game if you lose your soul?
The Cabin
by Carla Neggers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Texas Ranger Jack Galway knows his wife Susanna loves him, so when their marriage hits a rough patch, he supports her decision to take their two teenaged daughters to Boston for a break. But when a few weeks turns into several months, Jack heads to Boston to get his family back.
Packing up the girls and her grandmother, Susanna heads to her cabin in the Adirondacks, trying to escape her fears, her secrets and even the man she loves. Little does she know she’s being followed, not just by her husband but also by a murderer . . .
Parents Weekend
by Alex Finlay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brnd New Release #ad
From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.
In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up to dinner…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Man Who Could Not Shudder
by John Dickson Carr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery novel
The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen unless the butler leapt and swung on it. Was he mad? Suicidal? Or was he being pursued by something from beyond the grave?
The Perfect Spy
by Amy Martinsen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s got the best undercover crew. But will a sinister secret undo them?
Kate Ross has lost way too much in the last six months. With her mother’s death from breast cancer, an agent she handled killed on the job, and her career in jeopardy, the beleaguered CIA officer’s faith in God seems like another casualty. So she’s relieved to be offered a shot at redemption by managing an innovative team of “mom spies”… until they saddle her with a more experienced man as a babysitter.
Battling self-doubt and a loss of confidence in her espionage skills, Kate directs a smoothly successful first mission for the unit. But just as she opens up to her kind and encouraging supervisor, she suspects he’s withholding key information when the subject of their next assignment is his ex-wife. And the only solution to her predicament may be prayers she has no expectation will be answered.
Lost Man’s Lane
by Scott Carson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster.
When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox.
There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.
Buried Too Deep
by Karen Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep.
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD are on Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name.
The Tempests of Time
by Lloyd Jeffries
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Time Turns Deadly.
The world unravels in chaos, and for Emery Merrick and Rhyme Carter, the nightmare deepens when a cursed stranger hurls Emery through time’s shattered veins. Ancient wars, futures drowned in ash—every era whispers his name, as if he was destined to suffer.
A secret society lurks in the shadows, twisting history into a noose around their minds. Voices taunt from the void, splintering their grip on reality. Demonic faces leer from fractured memories, assassins strike from impossible angles, and a truth gnaws at their sanity: are they saviors, or pawns in a game they’ve already lost?
A Deniable Death
by Gerald Seymour
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world—“An extraordinary work of fiction” from the bestselling author (The Washington Post).
The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. Space the movements of your team. Use the shadows. Danny “Badger” Baxter has a talent for surveillance. He’s always followed the rules. Until now, they’ve kept him alive.
The Passengers
by John Marrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this terrifying situation, including a faded TV star, a pregnant young woman, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an undocumented immigrant, a husband and wife, and a suicidal man.
From cameras hidden in their cars, their panic is broadcast to millions of people around the world. But the public will show their true colors when they are asked, “Which of these people should we save?…And who should we kill first?”
Small Mercies
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.
One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
Closer Than You Know
by Debra Webb
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb comes the riveting return of crime analyst Vera Boyett, fighting for justice—and her life—amid her Tennessee roots.
Vera Boyett is a master at cracking a case.
After tragedy destroyed her career as deputy police chief, she felt lost. Moving back home near her sisters, she put her skills back to use as a crime analyst, and now her star is finally back on the rise. Vera’s work really begins to heat up after the local sheriff, Gray “Bent” Benton, calls to ask her for assistance with a pressing case…