Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Notorious Nutcracker Case
by Nancy Pennick
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s time for the first Christmas market at The Pearl Hotel, but when the festivities take a sinister turn, bestselling author and amateur sleuth, Serena Tate, must help find the assailant before they strike again.
When Serena Tate’s twin daughters propose a unique holiday venture to Nina Takeda, the owner of The Pearl Hotel, Serena is reluctant to give her approval. Her friends, Mia and Lily, support the girls’ plan, so Serena changes her opinion, and The Merry and Bright Christmas Market is underway…
Prime Suspects
by Stephen Penner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-society dinner. Served with a side of murder. When successful real estate entrepreneur Alexandra Pruitt is poisoned at her own retirement dinner, there are many suspects to choose from. Too many.
Alexandra’s long-term boyfriend and the five women Alexandra mentored over the years all have reasons to want her dead. The police quickly pick the most obvious, one of Alexandra’s mentees, Meredith Beauchamp…
Within These Haunted Walls
by Kit Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Some doors should never be opened…
The Harper family thought they’d found a fresh start when they moved to a quiet house deep in the Appalachian woods. But the house has a dark past, and its secrets are far from buried. Strange sounds, eerie whispers, and unexplainable events soon shatter their hopes for peace.
As the Harpers struggle to hold onto their sanity, they realize they’ve been drawn into the grasp of something—or someone—that won’t let them go. A presence lingers, its purpose clear: to pull them deeper into the darkness.
Under Her Skin
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She invited a stranger into her home. Now he won’t leave. When her teenage son gets into trouble with some very dangerous people, Natasha knows they need to flee the city. But where can they go?
Out of the blue, she receives an inheritance that seems the answer to her prayers. A distant relative has left her a house, deep in the countryside.
It needs a lot of work, but to Natasha it feels heaven-sent – the perfect place to keep her son safe and soothe her crushing anxiety…
The Author’s Guide to Murder
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.
There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour…
Every Breath You Take
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller.
“If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.”
In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim’s request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush – a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor..
The Footprints of God
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Trinity. The government’s top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension—and a nightmare beyond humanity’s worst fears. At the heart of a maelstrom of limitless science and ruthless ambition, Dr. David Tennant,
Project Trinity’s ethicist, harbors a lethal secret: he knows who murdered a fellow scientist. Fleeing for his life alongside psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, the only hope for survival lies in revealing the shocking connection between Trinity’s apocalyptic power and David’s tortured mind. Mankind’s future hangs in the balance—and the price of failure is extinction.
Bellevue
by Robin Cook
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
From the bestselling author and “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine.
Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he’s always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murders
by Laurinda Wallace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Gracie Andersen’s friend, Marci is opening The Mistletoe Bed-and-Breakfast after months of restoring the crumbling Victorian estate outside of the Western New York village. The grim history has captured the interest of the travel world and local residents. The house begins to reveal its macabre past on the cusp of the B & B’s opening, enmeshing Gracie and her husband, Marc into investigating crimes both past and present. Does evil still lurk under the Mistletoe?
Beneath the Skin
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don’t seem to think so. Now, with no clear suspect and amid the growing threat of violence, the victims become the accused as authorities dig into their backgrounds for clues as to why they might have attracted the unrelenting attention of a killer…
Mr. Shivers
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Discover Robert Jackson Bennett’s stunning debut, “set during the Great Depression and reading like a collaboration between Stephen King and John Steinbeck” (Publishers Weekly — starred review).
In the ruins of the Dust Bowl, thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only: Revenge.
Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly’s daughter.
The Lost City of Z
by David Grann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado…
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
by Stephen Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth
For decades, H. P. Lovecraft’s masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today’s most prominent and well-respected horror authors—the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes. Included is Lovecraft’s own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
All Through The Night
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.
All of Alvirah’s deductive powers and Willy’s world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears…
Never Never
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning…they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.
But the more they learn about the couple they used to be…the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.