Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Silent Forest
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In New Haven, everything is changing. And there’s no going back now.
It’s been weeks since Allison went missing, and everyone has given up except for Kaia. New Haven mourns their dead as she keeps looking. And now, she’s starting to find answers.
As the unsolved cases pile up, a new discovery in the forest offers hope. But it also threatens to unbury all of New Haven’s darkest secrets…
The Outsider Series
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Immerse yourself in the heartwarming and passionate world of The Outsider Series with this captivating collection of western romances. Follow the rugged and irresistible Friessen men as they navigate the twists and turns of life, love, and family in the face of challenges both heartwarming and heart-wrenching.
Join the Friessen family as they discover the power of love, the strength of family bonds, and the resilience needed to endure the trials of life. “The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection” is a journey of passion, courage, and unwavering commitment—an epic saga that will capture your heart from beginning to end.
Beyond Limits
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
FBI agent Elizabeth LeBlanc is still caught in the aftermath of her last big case when she runs into the one man from her past who is sure to rock her equilibrium even more. Navy SEAL Derek Vaughn is back home from a harrowing rescue mission in which he found evidence of a secret terror cell on US soil. Elizabeth knows he’ll do anything to unravel the plot—including seducing her for information. And despite the risks involved, she’s tempted to let him. Together with the forensics experts at the Delphi Center, Derek and Elizabeth are closing in on the truth, but it may not be fast enough to avert a devastating attack . . .
Five Steps Beyond
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray took five steps. But not just any steps. They were five steps beyond his expectations, five steps beyond his experience, five steps beyond his past.
He took five steps beyond his expectations . . . When Titus is summoned to the White House, he expects to be offered a Top Secret assignment. What he doesn’t expect is where that assignment will take him, and how he’ll survive if he accepts it.
He took five steps beyond his experience . . . Even though Titus has been through a lot in his twenty-year career with the Agency, he’s never had to learn about uranium enrichment, he’s never had his appearance altered, he’s never had to be a marriage counselor.
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(Titus Ray Mysteries)
The Hollow Place
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Book #2 THE HOLLOW PLACE: While driving to Canada with her boyfriend to start a new life, Samantha Moore, a college student from New York City, vanishes from a lonely, low-rent motel in Vermont.
Ray Wyatt, a veteran reporter grappling with the tragic loss of his wife and son, is assigned to delve into the mystery enveloping the young woman’s disappearance.
“Rick Mofina’s books are edge-of-your seat thrilling. Page turners that don’t let up.” – Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author
You Don’t Want To Know
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NOTHING IS MORE DANGEROUS…THAN THE TRUTH.
In Ava’s dreams, her son, Noah, looks just the way she remembers him: a sweet two-year-old in rolled-up jeans and a red sweatshirt. When Ava wakes, the agonizing truth hits her all over again. Noah went missing two years ago, and has never been found. Almost everyone, including Ava’s semi-estranged husband, assumes the boy drowned after falling off the dock near their Church Island home.
Halo: Shadow of Intent
by Joseph Staten
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After decades of grim combat against the humans and then the traitorous Covenant Prophets, the Sangheili warrior Rtas ‘Vadum – the Half-Jaw – has earned a long rest. But not all of the Prophets perished in their holy city, High Charity, and now one of their fearsome Prelates has sworn his vengeance. This powerful threat has set a cataclysmic plan in motion – a plan to lure the Half-Jaw into a trap that will herald the utter destruction of the entire Sangheili race…
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(Halo: Point of Light)
Deadly Secrets
by Leeann Burke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
PHILIPPE LAFRANCE is a well known reclusive writer whose life is suddenly thrown upside down. The grandfather he never knew existed dies. Throughout his own investigation, Philippe learns that his family has kept secrets from him, deep, ugly secrets. A killer is murdering the men in his family. First his father then his grandfather have succumbed at the hands of another. This murderer is trying his utmost to keep secrets buried.
Bereft, Roxanne St-Clair is left to manage a restaurant when the only person who ever mattered to her, her foster parent and mentor, is murdered. She puts her life on hold to find his killer and bring him to justice.
20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .
Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .
John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Joy Redefined
by Teresa Slack
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A missing friend. A killer next door. Joy Kessler must go from mouse to mountain lion to uncover the truth and save her friend…and herself.
The meek may inherit the earth, but they sure get pushed around a lot in the meantime. At least in Joy Kessler’s case.
When the Lord was handing out backbones, Joy was on the phone with the insurance company appealing a claim that was, of course, ultimately denied. After thirty-nine-years of trying to muster the nerve to stand up for herself, she’s pretty much accepted that going after what she wants isn’t worth the trouble…
The Fly on the Wall
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend’s corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide . . . and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
His Last Lie
by Erik Therme
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Everyone has secrets …
When Ryan’s dying father gives him a sealed shoebox with instructions to open once he’s passed, Ryan can only speculate on what’s inside. The last thing he expects is for his father to take his own life, or for the shoebox to contain ten thousand dollars cash.
But the money isn’t for Ryan; it’s for someone named Jamie Norton. When Ryan learns Jamie is an old friend of the family with a shady past, he looks to his mother for answers.
But he isn’t the only one looking…
The Coldness of Objects
by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
London 2030. When a postman knocks on his door, the news he delivers will cause 70-year-old Anthony Pablo Rubens to reflect on all the sorrows and joys of the past, while he begins to prepare for the surprises of the future.
The past still revolves around the moment in the summer of 1984 when young Anthony, while navigating London’s gay scene, first realized he had fallen in love.
The present is a Kafkaesque nightmare worse than Orwell’s 1984, “a hideous world where people don’t need to be watched by Big Brother.” It’s a world that Anthony has mostly shut his eyes to, but which suddenly he is forced to confront…
The Shining
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
Blindman’s Bluff
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s way in the wake of a horrific home invasion and brutal multiple murder. Author Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live on the New York Times bestseller list, proves once again that “no one working in the crime genre is better” (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, surprising shocker.
Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It’s 1949, and young Oliver Shaw has just been demobilized out of the British army. After two lonely years of battling little more than paperwork and boredom, he’s ready to start living. But first he has to figure out just what that means.
So begins the uniquely comic adventure of a boy who yearns to be a man—in every way possible. While trying to find success as a writer, Oliver gamely tries to teach in a broken-down slum school during the day, and at night desperately tries to learn as much as possible about wine, women, and . . . more women—with results that will forever change him for both the better and the slightly worse.
The Plum Blooms in Winter
by Linda Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
China, 1942. Desperate and fleeing a brutal enemy, U.S. airman Dave Delham loses all hope he’ll live to see home again. If he manages to survive this mission–somehow–he swears he’ll answer God’s call on his life.
Japan, 1948. In a world where honor means everything, what would you risk to salvage yours? The war has reduced Miyako Matsuura to a street-hardened prostitute, forced to sell herself out–body and soul–to survive. But when the pilot whose bomb stole her little brother’s life returns to Japan, she sees her one chance to salvage everything. That quest drives her like the point of a dagger.