Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Wife for Hire
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Hank Mallone knows he’s in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue’s reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look?
Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she’s too intrigued by his offer to say no…
Deuces Wild Complete Series Boxed Set
by Ell Leigh Clarke , Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Five great books – the complete set – at a boxed set price! Adventure with the rangers today!
When Nickie accidentally activates her special functions and finds herself with a stolen ship full of hostile Skaine, she has no choice but to figure out what to do with the cards she has been dealt.
A by-product of her activation, her internal computer system also finds her Aunt Tabitha’s diary in her memory banks. In these accounts, Nickie finds a long-desired link back to her favorite aunt, whose recounted stories help them both to accept the trauma they’ve survived.
The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.
She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment…
Zombie Fungus: Abel’s Apocalypse
by Bryan Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the apocalypse arrives, would you trust a guy whose entire survival strategy is based on movies and books, you know, pop culture? Well, it’s working, and that’s a question you should have asked before he built the fence!
Now, stop worrying your pearls because humanity is on the brink and Abel Andrew Willings is the guy you want on your zombie apocalypse team. Go ahead, ask him. He’ll be happy to explain why. But are these things even zombies? Because he was preparing for zombies! Coming at him with anything other than zombies might prove problematic…
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(Abel’s Apocalypse Mysteries)
Rough Justice
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Lisa Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up all night, with plots that twist and turn.” – Harlan Coben
Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere. Elliot is on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client’s innocence…
Guardian Group Security Team Boxed Set
by Bree Livingston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Guardian Group: The Complete Romantic Suspense Series
When danger strikes, love becomes the ultimate shield. Five couples. Five threats. One elite security team.
In this heart-pounding boxed set, the Guardian Group faces relentless danger, undeniable chemistry, and the challenge of protecting what matters most—their hearts.
Book 1: Tru; Book 2: Hendrix; Book 3: Jax; Book 4: Sawyer; Book 5: Walker
The Lie Maker
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
These are some of the last words Jack Givins’ father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could.
Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He’s a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So when the U.S. Marshals approach him with a lucrative opportunity, he’s in no position to turn them down. They’re recruiting writers like Jack to create false histories for people in witness protection—people like Jack’s father.
U.S. Marshals
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Deputy U.S. Marshal: How often did you draw your gun? Retiring FBI Agent: Never. You? Deputy U.S. Marshal: Seven times before lunch.
123,006 Fugitives
That’s how many wanted men and women, each with an average of four felony convictions to his or her name, the U.S. Marshals Service tracked down and arrested in 2012. Of that number, 3,962 were charged with murder, most were violent career criminals, and all were on the run from the authorities. If you are a fugitive in America, your worst nightmare is a deputy U.S. marshal on your trail: each year the Marshals Service takes more criminals off the streets than every other federal law enforcement agency—combined…
Finding the North Wind
by Scott Hammond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the third book in the Search and Rescue Dog Series, a young Native American woman, unexpectedly escapes from the Wyoming Women’s Minimum Security Prison just before being released, puzzling everyone. Lincoln County Deputy Nate Garner and his search and rescue dog Boo are quickly dispatched to track the running fugitive across the plains of Wyoming and into the Utah wilderness. Accompanying them is teenage Caleb who watches as Kwayah, called “The North Wind,” stays one step ahead of her pursuers…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Ventures, Vengeance & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A prominent child advocate’s death is only the beginning…
When a prominent doctor and outspoken advocate for child abuse victims is murdered, trauma counselor and amateur sleuth Stacie Maroni can’t help but wonder if there’s more to the tragedy than meets the eye. At the same time, whispers of financial misappropriation in programs meant to aid victims have surfaced. Both the good doctor and the suspect agencies shared interest in child welfare – could the two be connected, or is it just a coincidence?
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder.
Plan of Attack
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Disgraced and demoted to a desk job, aerial warfare expert Brigadier General Patrick McLanahan saw the nightmare coming—and only he can stop the relentless Russian war machine. But the fight for the future must take place in the blazing skies, a battlefield off-limits to the discredited former commander of Air Battle Force . . . unless McLanahan takes matters into his own hands.
Tomb of the Golden Bird
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson’s desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter “discover” the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time.
But the Emersons’ own less impressive excavations are interrupted when father and son Ramses are lured into a trap by a strange group of villains ominously demanding answers to a question neither man comprehends.
Tomb of the Golden Bird
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
What if your family was a lie? What if your name was a lie? What if your whole life was just a pack of Beautiful Lies?
If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the lie she used to call her perfect life. Instead, she’s in the wrong place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that begins with a mysterious package on her doorstep. A package that informs her that her entire world is just an illusion. Forced to question everything she knows about herself, Ridley wanders into dark territory, where everyone is hiding something.
Manhunt
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She’s now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn’t long before she finds exactly what she’s looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman’s crosshairs—especially a hunter as appealing as Alex. It’ll take skill, determination, and a little romantic persuasion for this big-game hunter to bag her prey.
Books of Horror Community Anthology Vol. 4 part 2
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Horror encapsulates the human condition perfectly. Every person – alive or dead – has been touched by it in one form or another. The tales within these pages span the gamut of horror, dipping in and out of its sub-genres, offering you a glimpse into the terrors conjured from the mind. 110 authors – both experienced and first timers – in 109 stories, answered the call when asked to bring their horrific visions, scariest thoughts, and worst nightmares to life on the page. Turn down the lights and dig into this massive tome of frightful fiction. Featuring stories by…
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right
by Walter Mosley
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELESASE #ad
Joe King Oliver’s beloved Grandma B has found a tumor, and at her age, treatment is high-risk. She’s lived life fully and without regrets, and now has only a single, dying wish: to see her long-lost son. King has been estranged from his father, Chief Odin Oliver, since he was a young boy. He swore to never speak to the man again when he was taken away in handcuffs. But now, Grandma B’s pure ask has opened King’s heart, and through his hunt, he gains a deeper understanding of his father as a complicated, righteous man—a man defined by women, a man protected by women, a man he wants to know…