Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
On the Run
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her.
But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie’s idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned. And they’re hungry for blood…
Optical Delusions in Deadwood
by Ann Charles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the Award-winning Author of Nearly Departed in Deadwood!
Someone is spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker likes to chat with dead folks.
With her reputation endangered, her bank account on the verge of extinction, and her career at risk of going up in flames, Violet is desperate. When the opportunity to sell another vintage home materializes, she grabs it, even though this “haunted” house was recently the stage for a two-act, murder-suicide tragedy…
But someone—or something—in the house wants Violet stopped…dead.
The Witch Punk Files Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Witch. Musician. Amateur sleuth.
I’m Lila Darkholme, and my life at university is anything but ordinary; by day, I’m a student, but by night, I’m the lead vocalist of the all-girl rock band, ‘The Witch Punks,’ weaving enchantment with every strum of my electric guitar.
But there’s more to me than music; I’m a witch in a world where the supernatural is real, and humans are dabbling in dangerous magic.
Get the complete series boxed set to join Lila and her bandmates on their supernatural adventures!
First Impressions
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Entrepreneur Vance Banning took a residence in rural Maryland to escape business pressures—and relationships with women pursuing his bank account. To the community, he’s a moody, out-of-work carpenter with a chip on his shoulder. To next door neighbor Shane Abbott, he’s just a man who needs a little kindness in his life. Vance’s suspicions of the stunning beauty’s intense interest in him start to fade when he realizes Shane’s compassion is honest and joyful—giving his heart permission to experience true love.
What We Regret Most
by Noa Shalev
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two rivals face their fears—and each other—in this widely celebrated debut novel.
Thirty-two-year-old Avishag Fishman is happily married, up for a coveted promotion at work, and in the middle of fertility treatments with her husband. She is also a well-trained Mossad field agent, but she never thought the two contradicted each other—no matter what everyone else insists on telling her.
Gal Weiss knows he has the promotion in his pocket. After all, he’s charming, capable, and effective—a ruthless combination for any Mossad agent. In fact, the only thing standing between Weiss and his ideal life is his overly ambitious division partner, Avishag.
Death in Small Measures
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A terminal illness wasn’t fast enough.
It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found poisoned the morning after a raucous party. But the woman would have been dead in a few months anyway. Why the hurry…?
Family, friends and neighbors had crammed into the tiny back garden pub that night. Too many suspects, one clever killer. Could this be a case DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Major Investigation Team will never solve?
Small-Town Secrets
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sparks and bullets fly as couples join forces to survive, solve mysteries, and find love in small towns and ranch communities where emotions run deep, people care about each other, and the secrets can be deadly!
Book 1: Scent of Danger; Book 2: No Fake Dating for a Cowboy; Book 3: No Mistaken Identity for a Cowboy; Book 4: No Second Chance for a Cowboy ; Book 5: Color of Danger; Book 6: Touch of Danger; Book 7: Taste of Danger; Book 8: Seaside Cowboy’s Second Chance; Book 9: Show Me my Brother’s Best Friend; Book 10: Seaside Cowboy’s Christmas Wish
The Grey Wolf
by Louise Penny
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Killer’s Christmas List
by Chris Frost
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the picturesque village of Kibblesworth, DI Tom Stonem is dreaming of a quiet Christmas alone.
But in the shadow of the Angel of the North, a body lies waiting. The dead man is posed with a child’s Christmas list in his pocket, and the first mysterious item – 1. No angel – is crossed off.
When a second body is found – a woman, stabbed in the abdomen after her work Christmas do – Stonem is convinced there’s a grim connection between the crime scenes and the seemingly innocent list. 2. Red partee dress. Could this be a murderer’s twisted code?
Doll House
by John Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“All you girls were less than human. Play things in a twisted doll house.”
Olivia is taken from the sidewalk near her college and thrown into a van. Her captors, who she soon discovers are vile, sadistic monsters, abuse her immediately, both mentally and physically. Then she is taken into a house, into a locked room, where everything is cotton candy pink. The pink furniture is designed with rounded edges and corners bolted to the floor, and the seams at the bolts melted. This is where the nightmare begins. She is now a part of their collection.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband—he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . . Both require connections . . .
Lacey’s Star
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Get in, sit down, buckle up, and hang on!
Was it an accident? Or was it murder? Private pilot Cassie Deakin lands in the middle of an unwanted adventure and reluctantly agrees to team up with Deputy Frank White to investigate the mysterious death of young Lacey Alderson.
But as Cassie and Frank peel back the layers of one mystery, they uncover deep and sinister secrets in the rural community Lacey’s family lived in. Armed with only a single, cryptic clue to the death of the child, Cassie makes a crucial discovery that lands her in the crosshairs of a murderer.
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger…
Witch
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Ellen March, the secluded old house nestled in the pine woods is more than the dream home she’s long been searching for. It’s an escape, a chance to start over, to forget the pain of her failed marriage and enjoy the restful pace of small-town living. Here, too, is a golden opportunity to get to know Norman McKay, her handsome and worldly new neighbor. But after dark in Ellen’s “perfect” house, strange visions invade her restless mind: silent strangers moving through the twilight shadows, the ghostly figure of a woman and a spectral white cat.
Split Images
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard’s Split Images—a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game, a bravura example of how exemplary crime fiction is done by a writer who stands tall among the all-time mystery greats…
Summer Island
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother…
Evidence of Grace
by Teresa Slack
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murder conviction sent Sally Blake’s killer to prison. Nearly thirty years after that fateful night, a phone call from a potential eyewitness could prove the wrong person is serving time for the crime. What would drive someone to plead guilty to another man’s crime? Noel Wyatt enlists the help of a young attorney, and David Davis, the retired judge who prosecuted the case, to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
If an eyewitness exists, where has he been for the last thirty years?
Midnight in Darkness
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tragedy, indescribable courage, and heart-wrenching secrets. It was her family’s history…one that she wasn’t aware of until recently.
Shay was stunned to learn about her family’s tragic past…a history shrouded in secrets and from what she’d read so far in journals that dated back hundreds of years…there was good reason for the secrecy…fear was a huge motivator no matter the century.
She was equally surprised to hear from Patrick Johnston. He had questions about the Delasina family…questions that she wouldn’t mind knowing the answers to herself.