Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Index to Murder
by Jo Dereske
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The search for purloined paintings leads a Washington librarian and her artist pal into danger in this charming cozy mystery.
No one could be more orderly or organized than dedicated librarian Helma Zukas. No one could be more rash and raucous than avant-garde artist Ruth Winthrop. Yet the two women are best friends and a resourceful, ingenious, crime-solving team. So when two of Ruth’s latest paintings—each depicting an ex-lover who met a very untimely and mysterious end—are stolen, the amazing amateur detectives get to work.
The Libyan Diversion
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Abu Nakba—the man responsible for lethal attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem—is finally dead. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down and destroying what’s left of the terror group Kairos.
But before Ryker can mobilize his team of CIA operatives with their new assignment, a disturbing report from Libya suggests all may not be as it seems. The U.S. bombing that should have taken out Nakba’s headquarters now appears to have been a disastrous mistake—and Ryker himself may be responsible.
Deadly Season
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Last month Kate Garrett was a Police Detective. Now she’s a Pet P.I.?
Kate recently inherited half her father’s private investigation company and a partner who is as irritating as he is attractive. Kate has been avoiding Jake Carmedy for years, but now her life might depend on him.
Kate and Jake are on the hunt for a serial cat killer who has mysterious connections to her father’s last police case. Kate’s father had been forced to retire when he was shot investigating a domestic disturbance. Is the shooter back for revenge? And is Kate or Jake next?
Terminal Freeze
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Alaska’s Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate change. But once there, Marshall and his intrepid team make an astonishing discovery: an enormous prehistoric animal encased in solid ice. Despite repeated warnings from the local village, and Marshall’s own mounting concern, the expedition sponsors want the creature cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on a live television spectacular…But then the creature disappears and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
The O’Connell Family Christmas
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Christmas is coming, and love is in the air. But so is some dark mayhem. Will the crime behind the curtain ruin a happy-ending holiday for the O’Connells?
Owen O’Connell wants only one thing: to put a ring on the finger of his long-time girlfriend, Tessa Brooks. But when her past fears become an obstacle between them, Owen may not get the new beginning and the happily ever after he truly wants.
Meanwhile, Suzanne O’Connell finds herself in a year-long slump, being the live-in girlfriend of Deputy Harold Waters. Jobless and searching for something to give her life meaning, she finds herself on the wrong side of the law when she stands up for the rights of a stranger who is targeted by the community…
The Secret
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.
All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy…
Silver in the Bone
by Alexandra Bracken
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak.”—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone
Born without a trace of magic, Tamsin Lark is no match for the sorceresses and Hollowers who populate the magical underground of Boston. But when the only parent she’s ever known disappears without so much as a goodbye, she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted relics to keep herself—and her brother, Cabell—alive…
Backwater Justice
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $8.54 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
The small Oregon town of Mountain Valley seems like the perfect place to safely raise a family, away from the dangers of the big city. Vanessa’s parents think so, until the day their fourteen-year-old daughter doesn’t come home for dinner. They call her cell. Straight to voice mail. They call her friends. Nothing.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Toy With Me
by Diane Kelly
Kindle $1.00 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Ciara relocates to a quaint North Carolina mountain town shortly before Christmas and takes a job in a classic toy shop, the last thing she expects is to end up investigating a robbery. But when someone steals the rent her attractive boss Nick owes to the landlord, the two are determined to work together to bring the culprit to justice. Can they solve the crime, or will only Santa know who’s stolen the money and ended up on his naughty list?
INTERCEPTED
by Susanna Seigler-Haymond
Kindle $.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A BROTHER’S REVENGE, A GIRL GONE MISSING, ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE FATE
Nora Milton believes her calling is to help lessen the suffering in a world filled with pain. While chasing that calling, she goes to Mexico to help finish the construction of an orphanage in Mexico and meets mission pilot Anthony Goldberg. A spark is kindled between them but it’s cut short when Nora finds herself kidnapped at gunpoint.
Desperate to save the woman his heart longs for, Anthony sets out on a search for Nora on his own. All too quickly he learns just how perilous leaving the compound can be and finds himself entrenched in the dangerous drug trade…
The Prepared
by Colton Lively
Kindle $.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Prepare and Survive.
When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains.
In the Still of the Night
by David L. Golemon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Set in the world of The Supernaturals, one of Riffle’s Ten Best Haunted House Books of All Time, In the Still of the Night, a supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author of The Event Group series David L. Golemon, will make your Halloween extra spooky this year.
Five years ago, the ghost hunting Supernaturals disbanded after being accused of faking their experiences at Summer Place. Now, the eccentric, but brilliant, team of scientists and paranormal experts are being asked to join forces once again—this time to save the President…
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive.
Borrower of the Night
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to art historian Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long-forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities…
Around Curiosity’s Edge
by J.P. Hostetler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A hidden world waits, a dark society schemes, and a ship sails to protect that which cannot be lost.
Salem Swan knows none of this as he arrives in Easterly. He knows only that he misses his recently deceased mother, that his new guardian, his uncle Ulysses is unique, and that the boat which will now be his home is unlike anything he has ever seen.
Fearful of this new reality, Salem starts to ask questions that uncover the truth about his distant uncle, his long-gone father, and the true nature of the ship. The answers lead him into a place of myth and legend, where fantastic creatures wage an ages-old war with a radical group bent on eliminating them forever.
To the Land of the Living
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the mythical world of Gilgamesh the King in this adventurous sequel: “An enthralling quest.” —The Times (London)
The warrior-king Gilgamesh—part man, part god—is not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the Afterworld, a bizarre reality in which everyone who has ever died lives again . . . only to die again and again in endless succession, Gilgamesh sets out to find his lost friend Enkidu and fight his way back to the land of the living…
DETERMINED TO BE EXTRAORDINARY
by DAWN HEIMER
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Winner of the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medal 2024
Finalist in the 2024 IAN Book of the Year Awards
Winner of The NYC Big Book Award 2024
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