Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Flirting With Death
by Patricia Grasso
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Zara Romano sees dead people. New England’s best mortician, Zara and two of her older brothers own Romano Funeral Home in Salem, Massachusetts. Zara is a mingling of two nationalities, Irish and Italian. She’s Irish on the outside, complete with red hair, blue eyes and freckles, but she’s Italian on the inside, with a temper to match. The youngest sibling of seven and the only female, Zara loves her brothers but thinks they’re too bossy.
Two of her brothers serve on the Salem Police Force, one is police chief and the other a detective…
Does Salem have a vampire in its midst or a serial killer with a fetish for fang marks? More importantly is Zara marked as the murderer’s next victim or is she merely flirting with death?
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.
It’s 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn’t ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open.
The Roanoke Girls
by Amy Engel
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.”
After her mother’s suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother’s mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse?
The Villa
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
PR executive Sophia Giambelli loves her job and has never worried about competition. For three generations, her family’s wines have been world-renowned for their quality. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family’s winery—and Sophia will be assuming a new role.
As a savvy businesswoman, Sophia knows she must be prepared for anything…but she isn’t prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They’ve been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate the merger…
Don’t Cry for Me
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Mariah Conrad has come home. Badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan and finally released stateside, she has no family to call on and nowhere to go—until Quinn Walker arrives at her bedside. Quinn . . . her brother-in-arms, ex-lover and now maybe her future.
Quinn brings Mariah to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate both physically and emotionally. While she’s incredibly grateful, Mariah is also confused and frustrated. She’s always stood on her own two feet, but now even that can literally be torture. She’s having flashbacks and blackouts, hearing helicopter noises in the night. She wants to push Quinn away—and hold him closer than ever.
King Sorrow
by Joe Hill
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“A brilliantly Faustian fable with a heart as huge as a dragon’s, and a stinging twist in its tail. I devoured it.” – Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Suite 11
Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.
Verndari Reckoning
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When a professor of literature, fleeing a dark chapter in her life, left California for NYC, she expected to be sharing her passion for classic fiction with a new group of young minds. Instead, she’s organizing student protests against Verndari atrocities, alongside the university’s enigmatic professor of philosophy.
If Shakespeare and Socrates could have met for a conversation, she’s pretty sure it would have been nothing like the ones she was having with him.
Tempers flare. Frustration builds, right along with a slow burn emotional tension to melt even the most jaded heart. A life lived in dreams. An ancient legacy is revealed. A mysterious puzzle that holds the key to their joint destiny is uncovered.
The Fondling of Details
by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“The bristling energy of Cacoyannis’s text is its forte, helping it stand out from the crowd, with its tantalizing characters an undoubted highlight… Cacoyannis writes fluid, penetrating prose that ebbs and flows with his characters’ passionate pursuits. It is at times crisp and forceful, at others soft and yielding.” Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize
36-year-old Londoner Harry is a successful but conflicted painter happily married to Max, a wealthy arts entrepreneur. For the last two years he has been meeting the mysterious Lina just for sex every Wednesday afternoon, behind Max’s back. Because he adores his husband and has no feelings for Lina, Harry imagines that the affair is meaningless and does no harm. But then everything becomes upended when he and Lina are both chosen to be jurors in the same murder trial…
IT HAD TO BE YOU
by Multiple Auhotrs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Load up your Kindle with SIX BRAND NEW, FULL-LENGTH ROMANCES- sweet, sexy & sometimes suspenseful-from New York Times, USA Today & International Bestselling, Award-Winning authors.
It just wouldn’t be right, you think to yourself when you’re attracted to someone much older or younger than you. Or maybe that person has a child, and you don’t feel like you’re ready to become a parent.
But true love really has no boundaries. The only two people that matter are you and the one you love. When you meet that special someone, sometimes you just have to take a chance.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Chimney Sweep
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Hamish Macbeth Mystery In the south of Scotland, residents get their chimneys vacuum-cleaned. But in the isolated villages in the very north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the itinerant sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager’s fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn’t believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder…
A Fleeting Shadow
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A murderous monk. An ancient riddle. A man willing to pay any price to protect the people he loves.
Nigel Baskervell has faced war, revolution, and plague—and survived. Now serving as county sheriff in 14th-century England, he’s determined to shield his family and closest friends from the horrors stalking the land. But when a monk seeking a lost relic collapses at his feet and dies in his arms, Nigel must choose: walk away unscathed or dive headlong into danger to solve a centuries-old mystery.
Trusting his newfound faith, Nigel embarks on a high-risk quest for the missing relic. As power-hungry nobles and hostile clergy close in, the sheriff fears he’s putting his loved ones in mortal danger. Can he unravel the riddle in time to recover the relic—and save those he holds dear?
Live to Telln
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He knows everything about you – including the first place you’ll hide.
On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father – and possible suspect – now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.
Safe Haven
by Peter Hargraves
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Margaret was afraid of her murderous husband. She never knew that her fate would lie with the genetically modified cougars and their human agents that occupied the land to the far north. A chance encounter with an enigmatic man gives her the confidence to take matters into her own hands and she embarks on a perilous journey she never imagined she’d take.
In the distant future human fertility is much reduced and the remaining human population makes do with early twentieth century technology. Margaret and Wolfe fall victim to her husband’s almost supernatural reach into the halls of power and are forced to flee across Europe. In a final flight across the frozen north they finally confront their pursuers.
What Came Before He Shot Her
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley’s wife, Helen, has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy.
That story begins on the other side of London in rough North Kensington, where the three, mixed-race, virtually orphaned Campbell children are bounced first from their grandmother to their aunt. The oldest, fifteen-year-old Ness, is headed for trouble as fast as her high-heeled boots will take her. That leaves the middle child, Joel, to care for the youngest, Toby. No one wants to put it into words, but something clearly isn’t right with Toby.
Ring In the Dead
by J. A Jance
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One day, at the end of Beaumont and Pickles’s shift, a stop at the Doghouse restaurant quickly turns deadly. Not feeling well, Pickles steps out into the parking lot for a breath of fresh air and stumbles into a crime in progress. Suffering from a heart attack, he is found unconscious, with a dead woman on the ground nearby and the murder weapon in his hand.
With Pickles under investigation from Internal Affairs, it’s up to the new kid on the block, J. P. Beaumont, and his friends on the force to find out the truth.
Light in Our Darkest Night
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dark Betrayal, Murder, Romance, a compelling & twisty mystery with a surprise ending…for most
Their lives had always been connected…first by friendship…and then by a chilling tragedy neither would ever forget. But they weren’t kids anymore and everything was different. Almost everything.
The night wasn’t nearly as dark as it should be. Jackson noticed the flickering lights in the windows almost immediately. But not before his sister did.
Ballistic
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After Court Gentry was betrayed by his compatriots and forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, he thought he could find refuge living in the Amazon rain forest. But his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Court makes his way to one of the only men in the world he can trust—and arrives too late. His friend is dead and buried.
Years before, Eddie Gamboa had saved Court’s life. Now, Eddie has been murdered by the notorious Mexican drug cartel he fought to take down. And Court soon finds himself drawn into a war he never wanted. But in this war, there are no sides—only survivors…
Silent Was The Man
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
After the war, Parker Cole wanted quiet and distance. The scar across his throat marked the end of his voice, and the life he once knew. But peace is short-lived on the frontier.
When outlaw leader Delah Wagner mistakes him for the traitor who betrayed her gang, she sends her riders to hunt him down. Parker doesn’t know the man she seeks, but Delah’s fury doesn’t leave room for truth.
Each mile he rides tightens the noose. Towns turn wary, strangers whisper his name, and bullets follow close behind. He’s got no friends left but the gun at his side, he’s just not sure that’s enough.
The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Gear, Grills & Guns
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where NOTHING is normal.
Mae West is bound to prove she deserves the seat she was appointed to on the National Park Committee when she brings a big car show to Normal during the slower fall month. But, when Wendell Holliday’s body is found dead in one of Happy Trails Campground bungalows and one of the rentable campers is burning to the ground, Mae along with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies once again put on their sleuthing caps to figure out who is trying to sabotage Mae and her new position on the committee.
The Lost Prepper
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
He raised her for the end of days. She ran from him to escape the madness. Now the EMP has proven him right.
No warning. No rescue. No power. No Mercy.
The EMP takes everything, and society falls apart in days. In this emotional and fast-paced post apocalyptic fiction thriller, Charlie must reconnect with the father she abandoned and the past she’s tried to forget, before it’s too late. A moving story of survival, forgiveness, and EMP resilience.
To the Eagle’s Nest
by Joseph DiMona
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.7 #ad
In this international political thriller, an agent from the US Department of Justice must rescue American hostages being held by a terrorist group.
When a group of American actors are kidnapped while filming The Secret Life of Hitler, American Justice agent George Williams steps into the fray, beginning a search for the hostages that sends him around the world. But the clock is ticking as the terrorist begin making demands that grow increasingly bizarre, making Williams all the more determined to bring down the rebel group before innocent lives are lost
Deadly Secrets
by Leeann Burke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
PHILIPPE LAFRANCE is a well known reclusive writer whose life is suddenly thrown upside down. The grandfather he never knew existed dies. Throughout his own investigation, Philippe learns that his family has kept secrets from him, deep, ugly secrets. A killer is murdering the men in his family. First his father then his grandfather have succumbed at the hands of another. This murderer is trying his utmost to keep secrets buried.
Bereft, Roxanne St-Clair is left to manage a restaurant when the only person who ever mattered to her, her foster parent and mentor, is murdered. She puts her life on hold to find his killer and bring him to justice.
Depraved Heart
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn…
The Story of Evil Boxed Set
by Tony Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
This ebook contains all five volumes in The Story of Evil, the highly-acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy saga.
During an annual jousting tournament, a mysterious villain attacks the capital with his army. Because of this disastrous event, Stephen Brightflame, an aspiring knight, embarks on a quest to save the kingdom from further destruction. He joins up with a convicted felon, an arrogant warrior, and a Halfling woman, but learns their tragic pasts are just as dark and disturbing as his own.
Find Her
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lisa Gardner’s runaway New York Times bestseller—a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren.
Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home
Who Killed These Girls?
by Beverly Lowry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls—each one shot in the head—were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.
Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment.
A Christmas Witness
by Charles Todd
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates a possible attempted murder in this seasonal mystery novella from New York Times bestseller Charles Todd.
December 1921: Being single and a new Chief, Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard gets the short straw at Christmastime and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone is trying to kill him after he claims he was struck by the hoof of a running horse whose rider never stopped to check on him.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Reunion in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas’s past in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, “surprise!” It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead.
The Fallback Boxed Set
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An EMP attack cripples the grid in seconds, leaving Bethany and Krystal trapped in Baja and hunted by cartel thugs. Hundreds of miles away, her husband Lucas begins a desperate journey on foot while their son Reuben escapes a burning city with his bandmates. With no power, no communication, and danger at every turn, each of them must fight to survive and find their way back to each other.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A perfect murder… until it isn’t.
Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Every Fear
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son Dylan to the corner store. She turns her back for only a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller, as Dylan is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs into the van, but is violently thrown to the road where she is left for dead as the vehicle vanishes without a trace.
As Maria fights for her life and her anguished young husband keeps a beside vigil, the FBI and police across metro Sea-Tac and Washington State search for Dylan.
Seattle Mirror reporter Jason Wade is under pressure to bring in a big story, and the Colson kidnapping could be it…
The Federal Agents of Magic Saga: Two Complete Series
by TR Cameron, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
FBI Agent Diana Sheen is an agent with a secret…
…she carries a badge and a troll, along with a little magic.
But her Most Wanted List is going to take a little extra effort.
Grab this saga to start the Federal Agents of Magic story with the first 8 books in this collection and continue the story with the next 8 books of Rogue Agents of Magic. More than 3,500 pages of action-filled adventure awaits you!
Prayers for The Dead
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon’s death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.
Why, for example, would the family of a man so beloved respond to his slaying with more surprise than grief? And what linked a celebrated doctor with strict fundamentalist beliefs to a gang of outlaw bikers?
Coyote Waits
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The car fire didn’t kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect’s refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.
You Had Me at Haiku
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This book contains 101 thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between. The poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The author first encountered haiku in high school. He thought they were cool back then, as he does today.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
The Widow
by John Grisham
Kindle $13.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.
Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.