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.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Saw Stars
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Jim Qwilleran’s sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation – with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker’s body turns up – and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon afterward—the search for intelligent life turns into a hunt for a murderer…
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
The Father’s Tree
by Crystal Jencks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The tale of the Garden of Eden is one of the most well-known and universally loved stories of all time, and Dr. Elise Harper and her team believe there’s more than a little truth to it.
To prove the science books wrong and religious lore right, they trek into the Caucasus mountain ranges, amidst a world ravaged with war and apocalyptic tragedy. But shortly into the expedition, events pivot dangerously. Nature and hidden supernatural forces interrupt their mission, and the team’s motivation transforms from finding the Tree of Life to simply maintaining life itself.
Whiskey Beach
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore – and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home.
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of – but never arrested for – the murder of his soon-to-be ex-wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though…
The Girl Who Killed Her Mom
by MCGARVEY BLACK
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I was barely fifteen when I killed my mom. No one knew . . . until now.
I’ve spent my entire life trying to make up for what happened that day. I’ve turned my life around. I have a handsome, wealthy husband; two daughters who are everything to me; a stunning Connecticut beachfront home. I’m grateful for every minute that we have together.
Today I come home to find a silver-and-blue gift-wrapped box on the porch. The note inside says: Who killed Midge Lester? Midge Lester was my mom. Someone knows.
The Savant of Chelsea
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Suzanne Jenkins!
A Manhattan surgeon travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and secrets of her youth, leading on a journey to madness. Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of child abuse.
“Jeez what a harrowing read. Molestation from an early age. A mother who doesn’t care even when Alexandria gives birth at the age of 10. Eventually the mother gives the child away on Alexandria first day back at school! As an adult having made something of get self and become a surgeon, her mother dies and while going to see about her mother’s funeral she finds her daughter who is a drug addict and prostitute with 7 children of whom she uses the oldest girl for money and molestation. Alexandria gets her daughter arrested and the court awards her custody but her daughter gets relased and she’s coming for her girls!” by Amazon Customer
The First Harm
by Steven Piskula
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.
Tanna believes her discovery is the tip of a terrifying secret that goes far deeper than a single corpse. But when her investigation leads to a brutal murder, a lethal cover-up threatens to destroy the future she once dreamed of.
The Prediction
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thea kept her visions a secret her entire life. Her father warned her other people would find her knowledge of future events abnormal, leaving Thea feeling both distant from him and others.
When Thea’s latest vision reveals someone shooting her father, her psychic ability can’t be hidden from those close to her. Searching for the potential murderer, she discovers her father has enemies from the past.
With his long-held secrets coming to light, can Thea finally have the close family relationships she’s always wanted?
Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series!
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn…
Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.
Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus—a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets, for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed.