Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Sacred Night
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat–known in LAPD slang as “the late show”–and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can’t let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift–and she wants in…
Captive Memory
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Audrey Baker is a police officer in the mountain hamlet of Griffith Falls, Washington. Several years have passed since her sister went missing and she is still trying to nurse the painful wounds that have come with the unsolved disappearance. The tragedy inspired her to join the local police department as she seeks some sort of closure by investing her life in protecting others.
Ryan Darrow is a modestly successful novelist from Chicago. He has come to Griffith Falls for both the scenery and to gather research for his next book. He also has tragedy haunting him from the past as his wife had surrendered to cancer years before.
What seems like an accident begins to grow more suspicious when a local child, Libby Henning, goes missing…
Fear
by R.L. Stine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
13 haunting tales perfect for fans of the bestselling author, R. L. Stine, of the Goosebumps series.
Turn the pages if you dare. . . . In this collection of thirteen fabulously chilling stories from thirteen true masters of suspense, including five New York Times bestsellers and a number of Edgar Award nominees, all edited by none other than R. L. Stine, nothing is what it seems. From cannibalistic children, to an unwitting date with a vampire, to a crush on a boy who just might be a werewolf, no scary stone is left unturned. A must-have for all fans of the genre!
Exposure
by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Another thrilling Virals adventure from New York Times bestsellers Kathy and Brendan Reichs.
When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there’s no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are growing wilder, and becoming harder to control. Chance Claybourne is investigating the disastrous medical experiment that twisted their DNA. The bonds that unite them are weakening, threatening the future of the pack itself.
The Third Wormhole
by Michael Collins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Time Travel to the End Times in The Third Wormhole…
Meet the “Fab Four”—world-class astrophysicists tasked with exploring three wormholes and a massive black hole discovered on Mars. These cosmic anomalies are gateways to supernatural dimensions, revealing Biblical mysteries that could herald the end times.
As the “Fab Four” navigate through these portals, they are embroiled in mass tragedy, government cover-ups, and threats of global conflict. Their discoveries challenge the very fabric of time and space, positioning them at the forefront of a potential apocalypse. The moral dilemma is profound: reveal the truth of the wormholes and risk global chaos, or keep secrets that could alter the course of humanity.
Rise of the Fury
by Clint Hollingsworth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An old hatred arises looking for long-delayed vengeance.
What do you do if someone puts a hit on you? You go on the run.
But what if the killer uses the surveillance state to track you wherever you go? You turn and fight.
A professional assassin is determined to execute bounty hunters MacKenzie Crow and Rosa Fernandez. But not just right away. After a slow torturous game of cat-and-mouse.
Deep Black
by Stephen Coonts, William H. Keith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines—a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean’s floor.
While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia DeFrancesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea.
Smoking Flax
by Jennifer Hallmark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Who Is He–Really?
Almost nineteen-year-old Reed Anderson wants to belong in a world where he hasn’t always fit. Three days after graduation, he decides to ride a bus back to Louisiana and deal with the events of his thirteenth summer once and for all. Back then, he’d stood up to his abusive Pa, protecting Momma and his sister, taking control of his life. But who was the faded image of the child he saw that day? Aunt Lula predicted his life would shift and change. Something about space-time-continuum and the fourth dimension? He tucks her words into his heart. If he survives the shift, this could be his chance to start over. But the ghost child haunts his dreams. Even though six years have passed, does he want to confront the lies he’s always believed?
An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $19.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The unputdownable new novel from international bestseller Jeffrey Archer – Pre-order now!
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth…
A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis.
In the heart of the British establishment…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Engaged to Die
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville has fallen head over heels for Jake O’Neill, her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé. But when she announces their engagement at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased. And before the last champagne bubble pops, murder disrupts the grand celebration.
Bookstore owner Annie Darling is shocked to learn that her employee Chloe Martin is the prime suspect…
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie.
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery…
Waterfall
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A dead body, a flood, and a boy’s rescue. Can Annalisa Carabelle keep the boy safe while racing to discover a killer before it’s too late?
All Annalisa Carabelle wants is a successful summer season for the bed-and-breakfast she co-owns. She never expected the flood, the boy who needed rescuing, or the man who came from nowhere to help. The dead body? Well, the wound to the head proved it had nothing to do with do with the deluge…
Fatal Rounds
by Carrie Rubin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Liza Larkin, a recent med-school graduate on the cusp of her pathology internship, isn’t like most people. She would rather study the human brain or pound the heavy bag at the gym than spend time with others, and as an outsider she doesn’t let societal norms confine her.
So when a stranger’s picture sends Liza’s schizophrenic mother deeper into psychosis, Liza does a reverse-image search to identify him. Upon discovering he is a trauma surgeon at a Massachusetts teaching hospital, she impulsively changes her pathology residency program of choice to his center.
The Inspector Barnaby Mysteries
by Caroline Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Death of a Hollow Man
Death in Disguise
“Wonderfully funny, with such solid, traditional underpinnings as good plotting, judiciously dropped clues, and a luminescent turn of phrase: a likely-to-be New Age classic.” – Kirkus Reviews
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.
Ashes Never Lie
by Lee Goldberg
Kindle $4.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Worlds collide as Eve Ronin and Sharpe & Walker race to find hidden secrets in smoldering ash, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cause. It’s a perplexing mystery for dogged arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his restless new partner, Andrew Walker, an ex–US marshal who craves action.
But as they puzzle over the blazes, another home miles away burns to the ground, leaving a man’s corpse in the ashes and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone demanding answers…
High Kingdom
by John Suter
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The five lands of the High Kingdom have lived in harmony for centuries. The kingdoms were interconnected through trade, knowledge, and religion, but the bonds of friendship have been severed. With the death of the agricultural kingdoms ruler, the leaders of the other realms seek to unify and destroy the simple people of Landenberg.
The sixteen year old king of Landenberg, Loris Trousdale, leads his people against foes on all sides. They fight for their fields and farms. They fight for each other. They fight for their very survival.
THE SUM OF OUR SORROWS
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?