Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder off Route 82
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A missing girl. Her boyfriend,gone without a trace. Can a tenacious undergrad find them both before the case becomes a homicide?
Eve Sawyer is ready to wave goodbye to summer. Fresh off helping solve a puzzling beach crime, the inquisitive college student can’t wait for fall classes to start. But her newfound fame has attracted an anxious mom’s cry for help to track down a classmate who never returned home. Eve soon learns that the girl’s boyfriend is also missing…
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Witch of the Federation Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real. But it comes at a price.
Stephanie Morgana, a young woman with a rare gift, yearns for a life beyond the crumbling walls of her poverty-stricken city. She dreams of harnessing her magic, of soaring through virtual skies, and leaving her mark on a world that undervalues her.
But when she’s offered a chance to train in a virtual reality world, Stephanie uncovers a hidden talent, a power that could change the course of history…
The Assassination Option
by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
James Cronley thought he had done well—he didn’t know he’d done this well.
His first successful mission for the about-to-be-official new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not. On the plus side, he’s now a captain; promoted to Chief, DCI, Europe; and in charge of a top secret spy operation. On the minus side, a lot of people would like to know about that operation, including not only the Soviets, but his own Pentagon, and even a seething J. Edgar Hoover…
Every Silent Thing
by Alan Brenham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Shy and deaf, twenty-three-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money. Knowing he is determined to find and kill her, Claire must do whatever she can to keep her heart beating.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it…
Ghost Camera
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there’s something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her.
Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.
Desperate, Jenine shares her secret with her best friend, Bree. Together they realize the camera captures unsettling impressions of the dead…
Three Barbara Vine Mysteries
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner, “unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).
This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that “no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence” (Stephen King).
A Dark-Adapted Eye
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
The Brimstone Wedding
Carcass Trade
by Noreen Ayres
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ayres writes hard-hitting crime fiction that’s vivid, graphic, and visceral. Smokey Brandon, former striptease artist and cop, now works as a civilian employee of the Orange County, California, crime lab. She’s a hard-living, tough-talking gal with an attitudebut she’s damn good at her job and practically fearless when it comes to confronting danger. Smokey’s latest assignment is to discover the identity of a woman’s body found burned beyond recognition in a rural canyon. At first fearing the victim is her brother Nathan’s ex-wife, Smokey soon becomes convinced that going undercover is her only hope to solve the case. Disguising herself as a motorcycle groupie, she’s soon pulled into a dangerous world where violence is an everyday occurrence and where her own life is threatened by a brutal and mysterious killer.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Ivy
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Faith Fairchild is asked to cater a very small, very private college reunion on an isolated New England island—an event that could be her dream job. But when she discovers the true reason for the get-together, not even the spectacular ocean views can keep it from turning into a nightmare. Thirty years ago, bestselling suspense writer Barbara Bailey Bishop lost her twin sister in a tower fall deemed a suicide. But Barbara is convinced that Hélène did not die by her own hand, and she’s trapped Hélène’s former classmates—her prime suspects—at her home with no phone lines, no cell reception, and no means of escape…
Aura of Night
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
True evil never dies. It only waits in the dark.
All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail—a reminder that the nightmare isn’t over just yet.
FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running out of time. He knows in his gut there’s more to the recent Embracer killings, and he needs Megan’s help…
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep.
Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home, Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step forces her towards something more terrifying than she ever…
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
by Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo, James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel – perfect for fans of One Italian Summer.
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.
Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag.
Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.
“Dr. Liz,” Laurie’s mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases.
Elevator Pitch
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach—a heart-pounding tale in which a series of disasters paralyzes New York City with fear.
It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non-stop, to the top. Once there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets…
The Complete Aliens Omnibus
by Titan Books
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Earth Hive,
Nightmare Asylum,
The Female War
“I don’t want to give anything away in this review but this would have been an excellent direction that I wished the films would have went in. The first book was based on aliens Outbreak the comic which was fantastic. The character were original hicks and Nut from the second aliens film. Think if this as a what if we didn’t get that 3rd aliens film and instead we got this. I recommend a read” by Amazon Customer
Requiem
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Book #3 REQUIEM: On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seated ahead of her. The next day, Wanda fails to show up for a coffee date she’s made with her friend.
Ray Wyatt investigates the story while clinging to his last thread of hope that his son, Danny, is not dead.
“Rick Mofina’s books are edge-of-your seat thrilling. Page turners that don’t let up.” – Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The Waiting
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.
Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.