Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
DOWNFALL
by FRANK SENIA
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The amber liquid swirled inside like the storm brewing within him, chaotic, tempestuous, and relentless. Each sip felt like a tentative embrace, a momentary escape from the haunting memories that clung to him like the dense fog outside.
Everett a man trapped in a loop of regret and sorrow, a prisoner of his own mind. It all began on a night that felt like a cruel twist of fate. The memory played in agonizing detail, vivid yet muffled by the haze of time a night when the air was thick with tension, the kind you could almost cut with a knife. A voice raised in anger, a flash of violence that shattered the fragile façade of his childhood…
I’ll Be Watching You
by Andrea Kane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Taylor Halstead, psychologist and successful radio personality, is terrified that she’ll never be safe again. Coming on the heels of a series of tragic and terrible events, the e-mail sends chills racing up her spine. Her safe, secure world has already been violated by her cousin Stephanie’s boyfriend, Gordon Mallory, in her own apartment. Only the door buzzer and Stephanie’s intervening voice rescue her, but not before Gordon promises to return. Soon after, he is killed along with Stephanie in an inexplicable explosion aboard his yacht. Or is he?
Kisscut
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this chilling follow-up to Blindsighted, Sara Linton, her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and detective Lena Adams are caught in an evil web involving a young girl who commits suicide by forcing a cop to shoot her. Shouldering the political aftermath, Jeffrey struggles to understand the victim’s desperation. So does Sara, the girl’s pediatrician and now her coroner, who soon discovers that the suicide was linked to a brutal crime—one far more terrifying than anyone could have imagined. Yet neither Jeffrey nor Sara know that their colleague, Lena, may unwittingly harbor the truth as she finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers—and Lena’s future—in his hands.
Full Force
by Logan Ry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mason Sharpe isn’t running – he’s hunting.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe isn’t looking for trouble. He’s just trying to adjust to life in DC, getting by with a simple job. But when he witnesses a woman being hunted through the city streets, his instincts kick in. Mason intervenes—but too late. The woman is murdered, and the killers vanish into the night.
The police don’t have answers. The FBI won’t share what they know. And then Mason is attacked in his own home. Someone doesn’t want him talking about what he saw…
The Rift
by Robert J. Duperre, Jesse David Young
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
THE COMPLETE SERIES contains the following books: THE FALL DEAD OF WINTER DEATH SPRINGS ETERNAL THE SUMMER SON From the depths of the Yucatan Peninsula, an ancient entity awakens, casting the world into darkness. Mankind is pushed to the brink as the dead rise and the living devolve into ravenous beasts. Those fortunate to survive must band together, their simple goal being to persevere for just one more day. THE RIFT: THE COMPLETE SERIES by Robert J. Duperre is a fantastic journey through a dark, horrific world. When all hope is lost, mankind must put aside their differences to solve the mysteries set before them and ask the one question the might not want the answer to: Is the world really worth saving?
Eight Black Horses
by Ed McBain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Finding a dead body was not unusual for an autumn night in the 87th Precinct. But this young woman’s body was naked—and potentially related to the series of odd missives received at the station house. All signs point to the Deaf Man’s return, this time with a plot more diabolical than even the jaded policemen could imagine. He’s been sending them mysterious pictures of police equipment: nightsticks, helmets, black horses, and more. But what did they mean?
Detective Steve Carella would be one of the first to find out, but only after he discovered that the Deaf Man was impersonating him, which leads to more violence.
Special Angel
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the sweltering summer of 1956, Joann “Jo” Hollingsworth was just a barefoot girl with calloused hands and a heart full of dreams. Living in a tiny house packed with thirteen siblings, she never expected to meet her future in a redheaded stranger with a crooked grin and a guitar slung over his shoulder.
Bobby Lee Lowe was known around town as a cut-up—always quick with a joke and a tune. But when he showed up to help build the Hollingsworth family’s new church, he found something more than hard work and hymns. He found Jo.
From front-porch dances and letters tucked into Bibles to hand-sewn wedding dresses and long factory shifts at the H.I.S. jeans plant, Jo and Bobby’s love story is one stitched together by laughter, faith, and the quiet hope of something more.
A Season In Saigon
by Dorothy Love
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Thoroughly engrossing and atmospheric….A Season In Saigon is a winner.” Midwest Book Review
When an honest mistake shreds her professional reputation, fashion writer Tallis Reed leaves New York for Saigon, determined to salvage her career and to make a difference by reporting the war’s hidden stories. But in a wary city teeming with refugees and orphans, soldiers and spies, truth is elusive and danger is an ever-present shadow.
Saigon. An idealistic young journalist determined to restore her tattered reputation. A compassionate Southern doctor seeking his own kind of redemption. From veteran author Dorothy Love comes a story about love, honor, and friendship forged and tested in the chaos of a jungle war far from home.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
What the Cat Dragged In
by Miranda James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Librarian Charlie Harris and his faithful feline companion, Diesel, have inherited Charlie’s grandfather’s house, along with a deadly legacy: a decades-old crime scene, in this all-new mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series.
Charlie has always believed that his grandfather had sold his house to his longtime tenant, Martin Hale. So when Martin dies, Charlie is surprised to discover the house was not left to Martin but instead belongs to Charlie. As he and Diesel check out the house he remembers fondly from his childhood, he is pleasantly surprised that it is in better condition than expected. That is, until they find a literal skeleton in a closet.
Fantastic Crimes Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft.
From Anne Perry, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, comes The Scroll.
Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May mysteries, presents Reconciliation Day.
From F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times–bestselling creator of Repairman Jack, comes The Compendium of Srem.
Elizabeth George, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels, brings you The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy.
Devoted
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. And he’s not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening.
A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it’s too late.
Killer’s Payoff
by Ed McBain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s like an old-time gangster movie: a speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders. But who pulled the high-powered trigger that turned Sy Kramer from a blackmailer into a chalk outline? Was it the politician’s wife with a pornographic past? The soda-pop tycoon desperate to keep a business-busting bungle bottled up? Or was it whoever was paying Kramer a small fortune to hide what must’ve been one very big bad?
It falls to detectives Steve Carella and Cotton Hawes of the 87th Precinct to pound the pavement of the city and beat the bushes of the backwoods for the suspect with the best motive, the most blistering weapon, and the biggest set of brass ones…
No Place Like Home
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home.
At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared the child to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names.
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
by Tessa Arlen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“A worthy debut . . . With a deliciously gruesome murder and an unlikely pair of sleuths, this is a treat for fans of Downton Abbey.” – Deanna Raybourn, New York Times–bestselling author
Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband’s degenerate nephew is found murdered, it’s more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and class prejudice, is pointing towards her son as a potential suspect.
A Killing in Amish Country
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite “bonnet” stories – romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she’d ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries – without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself “Amish Stud” and found no shortage of “English” women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church.
Mysteries of Dragon’s Island Boxed Set
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $1.99 Rating:5.0 #ad
Escape to a secluded island where magic, destiny, and passion collide! Heart of the Ocean is no ordinary paradise–its mystical powers bring fated mates together, revealing long-buried secrets and forging unbreakable bonds. This box set of eight steamy paranormal romances will sweep you away as powerful dragon shifters fight for love against all odds. This complete series is filled with sizzling passion, powerful dragon shifters…
The Order of Things
by Sarah Gormley
Kindle $0.99 Rating:4.7 #ad
Sometimes nothing is more unexpected than joy.
What happens when a marketing executive leaves San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their family farm in Ohio? A Hallmark heroine would fall in love with her high school sweetheart during a snowstorm—but this is no Hallmark movie. Sarah Gormley spent most of her life trying to outrun the persistent self-loathing that plagued her from childhood, convinced that self-worth was something she had to earn by doing rather than being.
When she returned to Salt Creek Farm at age forty-five, Gormley had no idea that detaching from the success she believed defined her, untangling the complicated relationship with her mother, and continuing the hard work of therapy would lead to a wildly transformed life.