Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Collection of Lies
by Connie Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman.
As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic crimes exhibit—exactly Kate’s kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress…
The Illuminati
by Larry Burkett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From before the time of Christ, there have been rumors of a secret society called The Illuminati…a vicious tribe of Druids with mystical, supernatural powers. Many saw them as demons or gods. Those who opposed them simply disappeared…or met an even worse fate.
Unknown to all but the very few, this group slowly infiltrated world organizations and financial institutions with a singular goal–to control the world’s economic system.
Danger in the Coyote Zone
by Kathryn Lane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Working undercover can smother you…
Nikki Garcia, a former fraud auditor turned international private investigator, travels to Mexico – a country where private investigators are outlawed – to find a missing child.
The parents are embroiled in a nasty custody battle, with each parent accusing the other of the girl’s disappearance. It’s an easy child-snatching case – right?
That’s what Nikki thinks until an irreverent, marijuana-smoking homeless woman provides an eye-witness account of the girl’s kidnapping. Following the witness’s account, Nikki goes undercover and infiltrates a ring of dangerous human traffickers. In the midst of despair and treachery, can she find a glimmer of hope for the children trapped by traffickers?
The Birthright Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Now I have to kill my sister.
Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha doesn’t want her mother’s throne. Her sister Judica is the merciless fighter, the ruthless politician, and the groomed heir. Chancery doesn’t mind that Judica will take over everything. Truly.
Until Judica starts dating the only guy she has ever liked. Chancery’s heartily sick of taking it on the chin. She’s ready to seize control of her own life. But before Chancery can enact her plan to free herself from the miserable life in which she’s trapped, she reacts bizarrely to an old relic, fulfilling an arcane prophecy.
Displaced – Book 1
Unforgiven – Book 2
Disillusioned – Book 3
Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
by Chris Kempshall
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“So this is how liberty dies – with thunderous applause.” – Senator Padmé Amidala
When Sheev Palpatine declared the birth of his new Empire, he expected it would stand for thousands of years. Instead, it lasted only 24. This is the story of how a tyrannical regime rose from the ashes of democracy, ruled the galaxy with an iron fist, and then collapsed into dust.
We All Love the Beautiful Girls
by Joanne Proulx
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Perfect for fans of Rick Moody, Lauren Groff, and Celeste Ng, a propulsive literary breakout about three suburban families whose lives spiral dangerously out of control after tragedy strikes.
Who suffers when the privileged fall? One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate’s comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they discover that their best friend has cheated them out of their life savings. At the same time, a few doors down, their teenaged son passes out in the snow at a party–a mistake whose consequences will shatter not just their family, but an entire community.
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen’s coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead…yet.
The Enchanted Orchard Complete Boxed Set
by Kelli Robyns, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0
Magic blooms where family secrets grow. Emma Turner’s life shattered when her parents died in a storm, forcing her to move in with her grandmother in the small coastal town of Crestwood. She expected grief and loneliness.
She never expected magic. Strange things happen in Sadie’s cottage by the orchard – a fox that seems to understand human speech, a flower brought back to life with just a whisper, and ancient runes carved into trees that pulse with hidden power…
Vincible
by Jay Jameston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4
Life is like a party balloon. You never know when it’s going to explode.
What do you do when you wake up to find a video of your drunken stupor has gone viral on Reddit? Or social media is filled with your ex-girlfriend living the party life now that she’s finally dumped you?
Jake Durham is suddenly single again, and things are going downhill fast.
Armed with nothing but a half-charged phone and questionable advice from his equally disoriented friends, Jake dives headfirst into the chaos of dating apps, HR disasters, and mornings-after that make him question every life choice.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bitterness, Betrayal & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An urgent call from Stacie Maroni’s friend, Meredith, interrupts the sleuth’s New Year’s Eve plans for a romantic evening. Instead, she and Detective Michael O’Hare rush to the country club only to find it is too late to help their friend. Not quite how they wanted to bring in the New Year. A fully booked event for the annual bash translates into an overabundance of suspects and a variety of motives.
Never one to back away from a challenge, Stacie’s sleuthing skills kick in. When a wannabe reporter blogs about the murder and implies that Stacie knows the killer’s identity, the investigation takes a dangerous turn…
Child of Prophecy
by J Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The story continues the odyssey of Gant, the hero who killed Varg with his magical sword Valorious and who must now use his strength and cunning to find and neutralize the child predicted to lead the demons of the western kingdoms to victory over all mankind. But he won’t have to do it alone. Amelia, a shape-changer, will fly to the west to do reconnaissance only to be captured and imprisoned. Pris, the emperor and blossoming wizard, worries about the evil forces and knows the child cannot be allowed to unite the demonic powers. His untested magic will be key to stopping the impending doom. Dalphnia, Gant’s wife and woodland nymph who can control the trees of the forest and is determined to see her husband come through this journey alive.
Can this unlikely group intervene in time to stop the child and the carnage that will follow? Will it mean killing the child?
Scaredy Cat
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Killing becomes a twisted team sport in this “smart, fast-paced procedural” from the award-winning author of Sleepyhead (Booklist).
It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at London’s Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King’s Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murders of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.
Nothing to Lose
by Michael Garrett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Larissa Baxter was never supposed to be here—on the run, branded a murderer, stripped of everything she once knew. The justice system failed her, and with a life sentence hanging over her innocent head, all hope seems lost . . . until Derrick Walton, a quiet stranger with kind eyes and a past of his own, steps forward with an impossible offer: escape.
In the stillness of hiding, far from the life she once led, Larissa finds something she never expected—peace, safety . . . and love. Derrick Walton is a man who asks for nothing, yet gives her everything: kindness, joy, and a love that sees past her fear. In his arms, she rediscovers her worth. In his faith, she discovers her own…
All the Colors of Darkness
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a world of terror and uncertainty, what does one small death matter?
The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. But further investigation into the sad demise of Mark Hardcastle leads to another corpse, brutally bludgeoned to death.
Suddenly the case demands the attention of Chief Inspector Alan Banks, called back from his vacation even though nothing suggests this wasn’t a crime of passion followed by remorse and self-destruction…
The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Dick, I need a war.”
Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads the world’s largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to “perception manage” his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind.
Shaw, a man with no first name and a truly unique past, has a different agenda. Reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency, he travels the globe to keep it safe and at peace.
Blood on the Boardwalk
by Sonya Bateman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murdered billionaire’s recently changed will leaves $5 million each to five unexpected people.
Including the woman he just hired to find his missing son.
Now, someone is killing the inheritors…
Widowed private investigator Marina Harmon is stunned when billionaire Thomas Mourning walks into her office, offering her a year’s salary to discreetly find his son — who no one knew was missing.
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation?
It Happened on the Lake
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family.
Now Harper’s marriage is over, her college-age daughter is estranged, and Harper just wants to sell the property and make a fresh start…