Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Knells and Wedding Bells
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Librarian Lucy’s wedding is nearly perfect—aside from a missing guest and the strangled body she finds. Now, she must vow to find the killer in this 10th Lighthouse Library mystery.
Lucy and Connor planned for the perfect Outer Banks wedding—and that’s exactly what they got. Aside from typical rumblings of familial tensions, the late spring weather allowed for a beautiful day, the food was delicious, and everyone had a good time, until one of the guests goes missing.
The Revenge Paradox
by Regina Buttner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Deception, family drama, and more secrets than I could count permeate the pages of this gritty portrait of an untapped slice of Americana.” –Dan McDowell, award-winning author of When She Comes Knocking
Revenge has a way of backfiring sometimes.
College dropout-turned-Amazon reseller Rudy Hodgens vows revenge when his parents evict him for refusing to get a real job and generally being a slacker. If it weren’t for his friend Fudgie offering him a place to crash, he’d be on the street. Good thing he stole his stepfather’s gun before he moved out…
Look Alive Twenty-Five
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that’s been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it’s a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they’d better figure out what’s going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.
An Alpha’s Mate
by Bree Westland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Her protection is his solemn duty… But at what cost?
Blake Beckett was coasting along just fine. Solo. Until a portal accident during a routine mission to Earth left him stranded with no memory. Where he meets… His mate?
Blake gave up on love after his first mate died, leaving him a barren wasteland on the inside. But as his memory returns, the reason for his trip, his sacred duty to his dragon clan, comes rushing back. To deliver the newest human offering, to his Alpha and brother…
Dale Brown’s Dreamland: Razor’s Edge
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hidden in the Nevada desert is Dreamland—a top-secret research center developing experimental artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. It is also home to Whiplash—a covert team of special forces trained to deploy the high-tech weapons in extreme situations.
Whiplash’s latest mission begins when a series of American planes are shot down over Iraq in mysterious circumstances. There is no way that conventional weapons could have executed the deadly efficient strikes. Can the Iraqis have developed a laser capable of causing such mayhem?
The Wall
by Brian Penn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“PENN WRITES DYSTOPIA, WAR, AND LOVE WITH EQUAL SKILL AND HEART. HE HAS JUST GAINED A NEW FAN!” – Amazon Review
In the year 2099, a fractured United States plunges into civil war as a revolutionary technology promises eternal life. An impenetrable wall divides the prosperous populace from those in a land of despair.
Contraband smuggler Asher seeks escape to reunite with his beloved but uncovers a dark secret-the corrupt Lazurites offer immortality at a grave cost to his people on the other side.
Lady Vanishes
by Carol Lea Benjamin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Lady, the beloved therapy dog of the Harbor View residential home goes missing, private investigator Rachel Alexander and her dog Dash slip in easily as the new service dog and trainer, though figuring out who murdered Harbor View’s owner is not so simple. Dash brings order and calm to Harbor View’s residents, but Rachel is deeply disturbed when her client and chief source of clues is badly injured in an “accident.” Suddenly the stakes are even higher—for Rachel, Dash, and the ensemble of eccentric residents they have come to care for . . .
Fallen Dragon
by Bree Westland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Avery Beckett couldn’t have fallen any further, even if he’d dug his own grave.
Well, maybe technically he could have. Ousted from the family mansion, stripped of his status. Cast out in utter disgrace. That about covers it. His ruin almost complete.
Years of trauma surge to the forefront, leaving Avery no choice but to deal with the terrifying gift he’s been cursed with but had buried deep. The clan needs his unique brand of talents. Trouble is he’s no good for anyone else, least of all himself in his current state.
Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The strongest lies aren’t the ones we tell others—they’re the ones we tell ourselves. I thought I’d found my fairy tale ending when Andrew Chadwick saved my life during a hotel fire and gave me a whirlwind love story I didn’t think existed. But trusting him made me vulnerable, and believing in the impossible made me an easy target.
Six months later, we’re celebrating our dream wedding at an exclusive island resort, where every luxury imaginable is at our fingertips. It should be perfect. It should be paradise. But it’s not.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Wine and Dead, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Wine tasting, murder and more.
A murder and a toxic substance in a vineyard would spell doom for the manager of any winery. When that manager is a woman, a rarity in the wine industry, people are quick to place the blame on her shoulders. Sheridan’s husband, Brett, and his partner are already on the case. When it ends up the winery manager is the daughter of Sheridan’s boss, the amateur sleuth, is quick to jump in. In her search for clues, Sheridan and her friends explore the offerings at several nearby vineyards, where they discover more than great wine.
Countdown to Mecca
by Michael Savage
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A plane bound for Amman, Jordan goes down in the Caspian Sea. The crash yields no survivors—save the Russian mercenary who hijacked the flight—and a cask containing an agent of unprecedented destructive potential is missing from the wreckage. A carefully plotted terrorist attack has been put into motion, and the resulting chaos might be enough to push America toward another costly war.
The one man who might be able to stop the attack is Jack Hatfield, a freelance reporter who has never shied away from controversy. After making a politically incorrect statement about Islamic extremists, he has been discredited as a journalist and left to pick up the pieces of his career…
Bloody Genius
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right?
Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he’s dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy.
Genesis
by Robin Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was–or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive.
The Oceans Between Us
by Gill Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A woman is found wandering injured in London after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who she is. Only that she has lost something very precious.
As the little boy waits in the orphanage, he hopes his mother will return. But then he finds himself on board a ship bound for Australia, the promise of a golden life ahead, and wonders: how will she find him in a land across the oceans?
The Last Ride
by Nick Louth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What happened to the missing victim? On a midsummer’s night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash.
It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Jade, a friend of the joyriders, hasn’t been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.
Inborn
by Thomas Enger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What turns a boy into a killer?
When the high school in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim becomes a murder scene, the finger is soon pointed at seventeen-year-old Even. As the investigation closes in, social media is ablaze with accusations, rumours and even threats, and Even finds himself the subject of an online trial as well as being in the dock … for murder?
Even pores over his memories of the months leading up to the crime, and it becomes clear that more than one villager was acting suspiciously … and secrets are simmering beneath the calm surface of this close-knit community.
Rise of the Grandmaster Complete Series
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some people just knew how to go out in style.
Tim had never been one of those guys. Tim was always a planner. The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.
That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to playThe Etheric Coast.
At his graduation ceremony. After watching the company’s employee recruitment video, Big Richie’s words had a whole new meaning.
Hidden Thrones: An End-Time Thriller
by Russ Scalzo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jack Bennett can sense evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons. Jack’s unique ability makes him the FBI’s newest hire, serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. The alluring, dark, and dangerous powers of ancient Babylon have infiltrated world governments at the highest level. Intoxicated by this dark force, the Western world is spiraling out of control on a collision course with judgment on the plains of Armageddon.
Hidden Sins
by Edie James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Former Black Ops SEAL Bridger North has no life. Three years after being forced out of the military, his tight-knit black ops team scattered, he’s a man adrift.
Until an old teammate begs a favor.
Bridger agrees to help his friend Jason stop a blackmailer from ruining a small town’s pastor, but when Bridger arrives in Redemption Creek, Jason has disappeared, leaving his stunning sister in a world of danger…
Battle Mountain
by C.J. Box
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance.
When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany.