Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Measure of Rhyme
by Lloyd Jeffries
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Heart-pounding…truly unique…readers will not want to put it down.” – Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Elite
She’s Marked. The Countdown’s On. Rhyme Carter’s life explodes when she becomes the target of a secret society. Hunted across a world teetering on collapse, she’s got no time to breathe—killers close in, shadows strike fast, and every clue pulls her toward a deadly showdown.
Emery Merrick, hardened by the first fight, teams up to crack the riddle before it’s too late. Bullets fly, demons rise, and a hidden truth threatens to bury them both.
The Surgeon
by Karl Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Five years ago, Jonathan Stark was working as a lawyer when a massacre took place, leaving most of his coworkers dead and Jonathan in a coma for eight weeks.
Now, he’s found a job as a legal trainee at a different firm, and a relationship with an attorney named Jenny. He spends much of his time in the basement cataloguing old files—where he comes across the death certificate of a woman. The document triggers a nightmare and eventually, a sudden memory. Soon, Stark begins working closely with DCI McGuigan, who’s been hunting an elusive serial killer known as “the Surgeon.”
Vertigo 42
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: “Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her unique droll wit. Vertigo 42 is one smart mystery!” (Susan Isaacs, bestselling author of Goldberg Variations)
Richard Jury is meeting Tom Williamson at Vertigo 42, a bar on the forty-second floor of an office building in London’s financial district. Despite inconclusive evidence, Tom is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered seventeen years ago. The inspector in charge of the case was sure Tess’s death was accidental—a direct result of vertigo—but the official police inquiry is still an open verdict and Jury agrees to re-examine the case.
Q Is For Quarry
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone.
She was a “Jane Doe,” an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California’s Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff’s Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved…
Titus Ray Thrillers Books 1, 2, & 3
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From One Night in Tehran, through Two Days in Caracas, to Three Weeks in Washington, these thrillers are full of non-stop action, page-turning suspense, and touches of humor, romance, and faith. Together these novels have over 950 five-star reviews.
Book I, One Night in Tehran: When he starts searching for answers, an assassin begins his own search—for him.
Book II, Two Days in Caracas: On the hunt for an assassin, Titus Ray faces a threat he never imagined. Can he overcome the obstacles and capture Ahmed Al-Amin before it’s too late?
Book III, Three Weeks In Washington: Titus exposes a plot to attack the nation’s capital with chemical weapons.
The Red Room
by Nicci French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
At the request of London police, psychologist Kit Quinn agrees to evaluate Michael Doll, a sexual predator who slashes her face. As she recovers, Kit has horrible dreams of a red room.
Months later, Doll is arrested for murder. As Doll’s obsession with Kit escalates, Kit is gripped with a paralyzing fear that the killer isn’t Doll–but someone close to her heart.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Into the Gray Zone
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service. Both government agencies believe it’s nothing more than a minor terrorist attack, but Pike suspects that something much more sinister is at play. After another terrorist operation at the Taj Mahal, he begins to believe that outside powers are attacking India in the gray zone between peace and war, leveraging terrorist groups for nothing more than economic gain. But the separatists conducting the operations have their own agenda.
Born in Space
by Jeremy Clift
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A LONE MOTHER’S DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REUNITE WITH SEVEN CHILDREN, BORN IN A SPACE LAB
CAN TEAGAN WIN THE COSMIC CUSTODY BATTLE OF A LIFETIME?
When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Price of Dirt
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
But he never expected to be a landowner. When a long-lost uncle leaves him an inheritance in Gideon’s Bluff, Deen sees a chance to go legit, start over, maybe even rebuild the broken bond with his estranged sister, Josie. But the land comes with enemies.
Vernon Briggs, a ruthless land baron, wants what Deen now owns. And he’s not the kind of man to ask twice. As Deen digs into his uncle’s past, he uncovers a web of fraud, murder, and betrayal.
Malice By Design
by Gary Birken
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a prestigious oncology hospital, a deadly new disease threatens children already fighting for survival. But with a cure as controversial as the cause, can a dedicated doctor balance ethics and research to save lives?
Dr. Jack Wyatt is renowned for solving the unsolvable. When a colleague approaches him about a dangerous new malady affecting only Leukemia patients at a prestigious oncology hospital, the mysterious case is too intriguing to pass up. So he and the brilliant Dr. Madison Shaw, a physician who shares not only his expertise but also his secrets, embark in a race against time to save the children as cases mount…
The Eye of God
by James Rollins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past.
In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy–and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.
At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.
Silver Fox & The Western Hero
by M.H. Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cheating Death. Alex was willing to do whatever it took to beat the tumors overwhelming his body. Even if it meant being frozen alive. And if his cortex got uploaded into a digital universe filled with countless worlds to explore until a cure could be found for his cancer, all the better.
The last thing he expected was to wake up naked and alone in the bowels of an ancient ship filled with raiders carrying enough poison to kill an entire city!
Fear Thy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A thrilling new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of No Way Out, that fans of Nora Roberts and Rachel Caine won’t want to miss! One woman’s picture-perfect island sanctuary reveals itself to be filled with dangers in this exciting page-turner…
At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she’s drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right place to settle down, she’ll know. And when she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it.
INTERCEPTED
by Susanna Seigler-Haymond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A BROTHER’S REVENGE, A GIRL GONE MISSING, ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE FATE
Nora Milton believes her calling is to help lessen the suffering in a world filled with pain. While chasing that calling, she goes to Mexico to help finish the construction of an orphanage in Mexico and meets mission pilot Anthony Goldberg. A spark is kindled between them but it’s cut short when Nora finds herself kidnapped at gunpoint.
Desperate to save the woman his heart longs for, Anthony sets out on a search for Nora on his own. All too quickly he learns just how perilous leaving the compound can be and finds himself entrenched in the dangerous drug trade..
Born in Space
by Jeremy Clift
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A LONE MOTHER’S DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REUNITE WITH SEVEN CHILDREN, BORN IN A SPACE LAB
CAN TEAGAN WIN THE COSMIC CUSTODY BATTLE OF A LIFETIME?
When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition.
Vengeance of the Vanished Ones
by Lee Orlich Bertram
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“In Vengeance of the Vanished Ones, don’t miss this trip into Baja where mining interests and the need to preserve sacred rock paintings clash violently. Move over, Indiana Jones!” –Warren C. Easley, author of the Cal Claxton Mysteries
Discovering the meaning of the mysterious, ancient rock art of Baja has obsessed archaeologist Marcos Andersson for decades. While investigating the macabre death of Davis Pearce on site, Marcos suspects it’s connected to the rock art, but before he can prove it, he gets dragged into the spirit world where Davis languishes. He happens to meet psychiatrist-psychic Susan Cohen who guides Marcos to some understanding of the art as they explore more sites, pile up deaths, encounter vengeful spirits, and fall in love. It’s complicated by local schemes to profit off the mineral deposits accompanying the rock art sites and the secrets both Marcos and Susan keep from each other.
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
by Robin Furth, Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Complete Concordance is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series by Robin Furth and features a foreword by Stephen King himself.
The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King’s legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance covers books I-VII and The Wind Through the Keyhole and is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan.
Shadow of the Solstice
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.
The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official’s arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste.