Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Hopes and Slippery Slopes
by Trixie Silvertale
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A dangerous race. The peal of wedding bells. Will this psychic sleuth catch a bouquet or a bullet?
Mitzy Moon finally has a chance to spend a normal, murder-free day with family. And she’s super-excited to support her legendary snowmobile racer dad as he’s honored for his place in the record books. But instead of a celebration on the podium, she finds a corpse under the snow… #ad
Warlords & War Machines: The Complete Series
by David Beers, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
WARLORDS & WAR MACHINES: THE COMPLETE MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION EPIC
TWO LEGENDARY SAGAS. TWELVE COMPLETE NOVELS. ONE MASSIVE COLLECTION.
From humanity’s last stand against cosmic extinction to an empire’s brutal hunt for a singular warrior, this epic collection delivers over one million words of pulse-pounding military science fiction action.
His orders were clear: kill the rebels. His conscience said otherwise.
Unsigned Card Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s a hoot-and-a-half when Rik Patience—who has no patience—sets out to discover why a “hot” guy at her church refuses to sign the pastor’s birthday card and ends up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
Rik engages the over-sixties members of the Closure Club book reading and mystery-solving group—who refuse to let the grey streaks in their hair define them—in her quest to answer the question—why does her secret heartthrob refuse to sign anything? Is he in witness protection, or is he a criminal?
V2
by Robert Harris
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny on the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect…
Bunker Dogs
by Gage Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Don’t just fear what you’re hiding from, fear what you’re hiding with.
Cassie’s night of babysitting goes to hell when bombs explode in the distance, planes fly overhead at low altitudes, and alerts on her phone tell her to seek shelter. Luckily, the boy she babysits tells her his father has a bunker in the yard.
When they make their way to this underground shelter, they soon discover they aren’t alone. Something is living in the bunker, lurking in the walls, and it’s hungry.
The Majipoor Cycle Boxed Set
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first three novels in the acclaimed sci-fi fantasy series from the award-winning author: “An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction” (The New York Times Book Review).
In the first three books of the Majipoor Cycle, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg delivered a vast and vividly imagined world full of epic adventure, court intrigue, and high drama. In Lord Valentine’s Castle, an amnesiac wanderer receives dreams of his true destiny as ruler of the planet Majipoor. In Majipoor Chronicles, the planet’s bloodthirsty history is revealed through tales of rulers and thieves. And in the final novel, Valentine Pontifex, Valentine faces the threat of civil war as well as conspiracy within his court.
The Coffin Maker’s Son
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Luke Brenner had plans to spend his days with Laura by his side, building a life built on love and dreams. But all it took was one cruel moment for those dreams to shatter. Laura vanished without a trace.
The townsfolk say she ran off, troubled by ghosts of her past. But Luke knows better. When another young woman disappears and turns up barely clinging to life, Luke’s worst fears take shape. Laura didn’t leave on her own.
Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.
Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
Private Moscow
by James Patterson
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell.
But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark.In the aftermath of the murder, the victim’s wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world’s largest investigation agency. What he discovers shakes him to his core. Jack identifies another murder in Moscow…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
French Quarter Fright Night
by Ellen Byron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The third in the fabulous cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.
Welcome to the Bon Veeevil Festival of Fear! Prepare for the spookiest night of your life . . .
It’s Halloween in New Orleans, and the staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is setting up a fantastic haunted house tour for their visitors. But when flashy movie star Blaine Taggart and his entourage move into the mansion next door, gift shop proprietor Ricki James-Diaz gets a fright of her own…
A Cornish Recipe for Murder
by Fiona Leitch
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When popular TV baking contest and national institution ‘The Best of British Baking Roadshow’ rolls into town and sets up camp in the grounds of Boskern House, a historic stately home near Penstowan, former police officer Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker finds herself competing to represent Cornwall in the grand final.
But with a fellow contestant who will stop at nothing to win and a drag queen host with secrets of their own, Jodie discovers that the roadshow doesn’t just have the ingredients for the perfect showstopper cake, but also for the perfect murder…
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell.
Hero at Large
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Hero at Large is a delightful mix of laughter and romance—a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels.
Evanovich’s many fans will flock to this zany tale of a single-mom skating coach and the handsome “house husband” hunk she brings home…after breaking his arm and his toe!
Winter’s Malice
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three bodies in the span of twenty-four hours…
It’s the dead of winter, and in Weeping Rock, South Dakota – a small town crippled by racism, drugs, and violence – Sheriff’s Deputy Liam Matthews has his work cut out for him when he steps in to take over the duties of sheriff from his father, who for far too long has turned a blind eye to certain crimes for what he says is the overall good of the town.
Coming under scrutiny for hiring a Lakota to fill his position as deputy, things quickly go from bad to worse for Liam when the body of retired pro-baseball player Hector Ramirez, who had recently returned home to coach ball at his high school alma mater, is found floating in Crow’s Foot Lake. Hector’s bludgeoned corpse is no sooner on its way to the M.E.’s office in Rapid City, however, when the partially clothed body of a young girl is discovered in a clearing in the snow…
The Price You Pay
by Nick Petrie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Peter Ash must follow his closest friend, Lewis, into the criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear in this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning series.
Lewis has helped Peter Ash out of more trouble than Peter cares to remember. So he doesn’t hesitate when Lewis asks a favor in return. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must drive into the teeth of a blizzard to find him. When they discover blood in the snow and a smoldering cabin, both men know things are bad. Then they learn that someone has stolen notebooks full of incriminating secrets about Lewis’s long-ago crimes, and realize the situation is much worse than they’d thought.
When the Wind Blows
by James Patterson
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.2 #ad
While grieving her husband’s murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world’s most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson.
Frannie O’Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work, but it is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep.
Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever: an eleven-year-old girl named Max.
Deal Breaker
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.” – Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend—a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead—the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
Kindle $13.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet—a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must reach Inseon’s house at all costs, but the icy wind and squalls slow her down as night begins to fall. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house.