Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder From Scratch
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A charming seaside town, a murdered chaperone, and a determined young woman with a knack for uncovering secrets.
Dances are supposed to be fun, not deadly.
When a small town dance ends in murder, aspiring baker Annie Bishop discovers there’s more drama in the parking lot than on the dance floor.
The local sheriff is quick to pin the crime on the town’s ‘mean girl’, but Annie isn’t so sure. Armed with sharp wits, her best friend and her golden retriever Muffin, Annie dives into her very first mystery.
Dungeon Core TV Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The aliens didn’t conquer Earth. They negotiated exclusive streaming rights instead.
A whole new job has now captured the imagination of humanity. Dungeon explorers push into these intelligent dungeons and battle the monsters inside. Their brave challenges help generate the mana the aliens promise will advance Earth. All the while, these dungeon diving exploits are streamed and broadcast around the world and even into the galaxy via the
alien-owned Dungeon Core TV.
Join Luther Miller as he begins his dungeon diving adventures with the Dungeon Core TV Complete Series Boxed Set!
Liar’s Point
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two homicide detectives must separate the puzzling truth from a growing web of lies while investigating a murder victim’s friends and lovers in Lost Beach, Texas.
Detective Nicole Lawson is fed up with her job and nonexistent love life. Her first date in months gets cut short by an urgent call from the chief of police. A body has been discovered at Lighthouse Point, and the medical examiner finds an array of strange clues. When the death is ruled a homicide, the news quickly reverberates through Nicole’s beachside hometown…
The Quest
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A sweeping adventure that’s equal parts thriller and love story, Nelson DeMille’s newest novel takes the reader from the war torn jungles of Ethiopia to the magical city of Rome.
While the Ethiopian Civil War rages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to know the true location of Christ’s cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens – a mortar strikes the prison and he is free!
You’ll See
by Suzanne Groves
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
My fifty-six years with my father were characterized by longing. If I could only meet his standards, ephemeral though they were, I would feel I belonged. That I was safe. That I was protected from external threats.
Learning that the threats came from within-that the threats were in the form of his personality disorder and addiction-came long after I had been damaged. Make no mistake-I never lacked for food, clothing, or shelter. We took family vacations. I received a wonderful education. I enjoyed numerous achievements, academically, professionally, and personally…
Keep Me Close
by Clare Francis
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman is viciously attacked by an intruder in this thrilling crime novel from international bestselling author Clare Francis
Catherine Galitza is assaulted in her own home, thrown down the stairwell, and left with serious injuries. As she recovers, she works to solve the mystery of her attacker’s identity, focusing on the barrage of nuisance phone calls she has been receiving for months. Catherine begins to consider the idea of a stalker, a watcher who has become obsessed, playing a silent role in her life. Two men are curiously intent on helping her discover the truth—Simon Jardine, her husband’s business partner; and Terry Devlin, a self-made Irish hotelier whom she has known since youth—but can they be trusted?
Before I Say Goodbye
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home.
As the investigation into the boat’s explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam’s channel.
SQUALOR, NEW MEXICO
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Darla McKendrick is nine when she first hears her mother and her aunt Didi secretly discussing their younger sister, Rebecca, speculating about her life in squalor. From the moment Darla asks to know more about her mysterious aunt, she is offered nothing but half-truths, distortions, and evasions.
As Darla grows into her teen years, her life is oddly yet profoundly affected by this woman she has never known. She can’t help but notice that Rebecca seems to exist only in dark corners of conversations and that no one ever wants to talk about her—with Darla. Neither Darla nor her three cousins have a clue about their aunt, yet their respective parents appear to recoil in fear at the sound of her name.
See How They Hide
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
No matter how far you run, some pasts never let you go…
Two people were murdered – at the exact same time, in the same gruesome manner, bodies covered in the same red poppies…but on opposite sides of the country.
With Detective Kara Quinn investigating in Oregon and Special Agent Matt Costa in Virginia, the Mobile Response Team digs deep to uncover more about each victim. What is the link between the two, and why were they targeted?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Vinland
by Alyssa Maxwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the contrast of the Viking warrior–inspired elements in the house and the admirable but admittedly genteel cause of bird protection. Vinland bears the name of the Vikings’ first landfall in North America, but in this room today there is most assuredly no one to fear…
Three Times A Killer
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three ways to die, one baffling case.
DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D’Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless indigent who spent his days hanging out on the street corner. He rarely asked for handouts but did occasionally burst into song. Nobody would kill him for that, would they?
Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home…
Dirty Job
by Sabrina Hollands
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Reality TV star Jake Stillwater thrives on charm, danger, and his million-dollar smile as the host of the hit show America’s Worst Jobs. But when tough-as-nails camerawoman Tess Hardy joins his crew, she’s not impressed by his celebrity persona. Tess sees the womanizing player beneath the surface—and she’s not afraid to call him out.
Sparks fly both on and off set as Tess shakes up Jake’s all-male production team. What begins as an enemies-to-lovers clash transforms when a dangerous prank unveils the fierce, talented woman behind the lens. Jake is captivated by the fiery chemistry between them, but Tess’s trust isn’t easy to earn.
The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more…
Death of a Gingerbread Man
by Lee Hollis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a killer Christmas in more ways than one in the latest Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails mystery set in Bar Harbor, Maine.
With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails columnist and restauranteur Hayley Powell has lots to check off her last-minute to-do list. Not included is the sudden arrival of her father, who hasn’t been in the picture since she believed in Santa Claus. Dwight Jordan’s presence in Bar Harbor might just be the unwanted gift that keeps on giving—especially after he becomes the top suspect in a case of yuletide murder…
The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past…
To Die For
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.
Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
The Moonlighters Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Terri Blackstock’s bestselling Moonlighters trilogy—now available in one volume!
Truth Stained Lies: When truth doesn’t make sense, will lies prevail?
Distortion: A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences.
Twisted Innocence: Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.
Holmes Is Missing: Patterson’s Most-Requested Sequel Ever
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster…
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole is called upon to restore peace and stop a gang from attacking a sacred site of the Apaches.
The small town of Thunder Ridge is built near an ancient Apache ruins, where whispers of hidden treasure stir excitement. A notorious gang led by Lucas Crane rides into town, seeking gold and priceless artifacts rumored to be buried by Apache ancestors.
The town’s peace crumbles when its residents start fearing the outlaws’ greed might provoke a war with the Apache tribe.
Silent Caravan
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Amos Cole has always known hardship, but after his wife’s murder, survival isn’t about himself.
It’s about his six-year-old daughter, Lulu.
Desperate for a fresh start, Amos joins a wagon train heading west, where the promise of a new life is too enticing to dismiss.
What he doesn’t expect to find on the trail is love—or death.