Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Buried secrets. A dead online celebrity. Just in time for Christmas.
Days before the town’s annual Christmas Parade, an up-and-coming celebrity chef is found dead in a mountain cabin. As Coroner Fenway Stevenson investigates, she uncovers the chef’s dark past, a war brewing between local farms, and a hidden identity that could blow the town apart. Can Fenway unmask the murderer before she becomes the next victim?
The House Swap
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell.
When two families organise a house swap, it seems like the perfect holiday arrangement. The Browns will exchange their London townhouse for a stunning chateau in the south of France, the perfect place to relax and rekindle their flagging marriage.
And the Lesters are looking forward to showing their son, Rafael, around their old haunts in the British capital. Sounds wonderful. Except for one thing – both families are hiding dark secrets, and secrets have a way of coming out…
The Sixth Kingdom
by pdmac
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Sixth Kingdom is the center of the known world. It is the repository of the all knowledge and secrets, and the heart of arcane wizardry. It is the College, the arbiter and enforcer of world peace. It’s also the place to learn magic, perfect deadly warrior skills, or bond with dragons.
Comprised of four Castes, the College accepts only the best and brightest of those who can afford to send their children to the hallowed halls of destiny where they are groomed to assume their future roles in each of the five kingdoms.
Mon-Ters
by Kaye Bell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the shadows of Area 51’s clandestine labs, the unthinkable has been unleashed: creatures engineered to decimate armies now roam free. Driven by a scientist’s ambition, these beasts defy the bounds of nature, but at what cost?
When ethical lines blur into oblivion, one scientist’s desperate flight for survival awakens the beasts’ taste for freedom. As they veer toward Alamo, Nevada, carving a swathe of carnage, the military scrambles to contain an error too fatal to admit.
Created to be unstoppable on the battlefield, these creatures are unbound by human constraints, sowing fear with their very existence. And yet, a child – innocent and pure – might hold the key and her bond with the “mon-ters”, as she calls them, might be the only hope for a beleaguered community…
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen-year-old Joey is in trouble. His mother can hardly feed him, which-because of his small size-is saying a lot. As war moves closer to their little town, his mother’s options for more work are a big fat zero.
Desperate, she sends him to a place where he won’t starve, Lapidius. Soon after arriving, however, Joey learns that he and the hundreds of other children aren’t just charity cases. Lapidius is a prestigious military institute that develops specialized skills for combat. But Lapidius is also a mysterious place where Joey learns that the battle for which they are being trained fot is full of magic, malevolence, and monsters.
The new students discover a nation found worthy to fight for.
Choke Hold
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They thought they knew about pain. They’re about to meet Tom Rollins, PhD.
Tom Rollins is heading cross-country when he gets a call from his old friend, Cindy Vaughan. Cindy is searching for a missing woman, Louise. She’s found CCTV of her abduction and needs Tom’s help tracking down whoever is responsible.
Tom and Cindy start to investigate and soon realise that Louise is in deep trouble. She’s been taken by a ruthless gang who plan to use her for their own grisly entertainment…
The Crossing
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller’s client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it’s a setup.
Bosch doesn’t want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he’s done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution.
After Anna
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Nobody cuts deeper than family…
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she’d lost forever, her only daughter Anna.
The Deep Transformation Self-Love Workbook for Women
by J. Finn
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Enjoy 2 FREE Bonuses With Your Purchase: The Anxiety & Stress Reduction Toolkit AND Mastering Self-Leadership Mini EBook!
Unlock Your Deepest Inner Wisdom and Self-Love, Break Free From the Grip of Self-Doubt, and Create Lasting Transformation—Without Sacrificing Your Time or Energy, Even if Everything Else Has Failed You.
Do you feel like your life is stuck on autopilot—constantly battling negative thoughts, exhausted from juggling family obligations, a demanding career, and the weight of daily stress? You’re not alone.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cereal Murders
by Diane Mott Davidson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the premier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence–or sudden death. But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner for Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the last thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian.
Who could have killed Keith Andrews, and why? Goldy’s hungry for some answers–and not just because she found the corpse…
The Bulgarian Bartender
by Daryl Kulak
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Kaylee McDouglas, a vibrant young woman from small-town Ohio, accepts the marriage proposal of Stanimir Dragov, she never imagines that her dream vacation to Bulgaria would turn into a nightmare. Stranded in a foreign land and ensnared by the ruthless Thracian Brotherhood, Kaylee’s life is at stake.
Her best friends, Tiff Knight, an exotic dancer, and Angie Hunter, a martial arts teacher and welding shop owner, refuse to abandon her. Defying all odds, they embark on a daring rescue mission to Bulgaria. With courage, tenacity, cheap beer and a profusion of cursewords, they navigate a dangerous underworld, facing betrayal and uncovering unthinkable evil…
Upon a Winter’s Night
by Karen Harper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An Amish adoptee searches for her birth parents and uncovers dangerous secrets in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author.
Though she is deeply loved by her parents, the fact that Lydia Brand is adopted has always made her different from her close-knit Amish community. But as Christmas approaches and she begins to search for answers about her biological parents, more questions surface.
Soon it seems that the deaths of two women in her small town may not be coincidences, after all. And her pursuit of the truth has left her only with hints of a dark secret—and threats from an unseen adversary…
Heartbroken
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Kate has written a novel based on a tragic love story from her family’s past. Emily is a struggling waitress whose toxic relationship with the wrong man has led her to make a horrible, life-altering decision.
Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn’t be more different, they head to the same point on the map: Heart Island. It’s an idyllic place in the middle of an Adirondack lake, and home to harsh and unyielding matriarch Birdie Burke…
Tainted
by Brooke Morgan
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Brooke Morgan makes her dazzling debut with Tainted—a novel of unrelenting suspense that immediately rockets her into the upper echelons alongside Joy Fielding, Tana French, Mary Higgins Clark, and other masters of everyday terror. Evocatively set against the seemingly placid backdrop of Cape Code, Tainted twists and turns and constantly surprises with the story of a single mother, her sensitive daughter, and the mysterious man who takes over their lives. Shocking, unexpected, and absolutely riveting, nothing in Tainted is quite what it seems.
An Obvious Fact
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming – the nearest town to America’s first national monument, Devils Tower – to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur; and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry’s ’59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt’s granddaughter) come into play…
Mythical
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sebastian Crenshaw has done it again! After accidentally damaging the town’s beloved statue, he is tasked with helping raise funds for its replacement. he soon runs afoul of Amos Rutledge, the local grump, and that’s when the real problems begin!
Along with his brother, Ethan, and friend Samantha, Sebastian is soon thrust into a world of conspiracies and magic, involving not just our world but a secret realm called Subterrestria. Their adventure will bring them into contact with a host of magical characters, including a trickster named Balvador, an intrepid little elf called Zerc Littlebottom, and a variety of mythological creatures.
The Templar Legacy
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was—and its true nature could change the modern world.
Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts—and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind…
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
by Craig DiLouie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8
Horror isn’t horror unless it’s real.
Max Maurey should be on top of the world. He’s a famous horror director. Actors love him. Hollywood needs him. He’s making money hand over fist. But it’s the 80s, and he’s directing cheap slashers for audiences who only crave more blood, not real art. Not real horror. And Max’s slimy producer refuses to fund any of his new ideas.
Sally Priest dreams of being the Final Girl. She knows she’s got what it takes to score the lead role, even if she’s only been cast in small parts so far. When Sally meets Max at his latest wrap party, she sets out to impress him and prove her scream queen prowess…
The Serial Killer’s Apprentice
by Katherine Ramsland, Tracy Ullman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3
A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice—and how a killer can be created
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll’s home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he’d be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he’d given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him.