Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead Days of Summer
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn’t like her p.i. husband Max to abruptly disappear—and homicide is definitely not his style. But when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a brutally slain, once-beautiful young woman nearby and the murder weapon stashed in the trunk, Annie’s worst fears seem justified.
The police have Max all but tried and convicted—except for Chief Billy Cameron, whose unshakable belief in his friend’s innocence prompts his removal from the case.
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
She stole his world. He’s got twenty-four hours to get it back.
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love—one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months…
Moon Music
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
With Moon Music, New York Times bestseller Faye Kellerman leaves Los Angeles and heads to stranger territories: “Sin City” Las Vegas, Nevada. Taking a brief hiatus from her mystery series featuring LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus, Kellerman delivers a masterful stand-alone crime novel that crackles with suspense and tantalizes with a touch of the paranormal. The horribly savaged body of a once-beautiful Vegas showgirl is discovered in the desert not far from the world-famous Strip, plunging Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe into the heart of a bizarre, full moon-soaked mystery that could cost him everything he holds dear in life, including his sanity.
Spearthrower
by D. BRAISTED
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Kim has always had food and shelter; she grew up in a comfortable world. But she is wild. After graduating from high school, she enters The Branch and becomes a highly trained astronaut. Kim accepts a classified mission and is launched deep. However, she is not just the test pilot, she is also the test. And then there is Kala. She grew up in the open grass plain with a spear in hand, but she is not wild. Her adventure will violently choose her.
Secrets to the Grave
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A second violent crime shocks the small town of Oak Knoll in this “chilling” (USA Today) thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag.
California, 1986—A 911 call from a small child sends the idyllic town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Then a brutal crime scene is discovered: the body of Marissa Fordham with her young daughter, Haley, injured but alive.
Sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez faces a puzzle with nothing but pieces that won’t fit. To assist with his witness, Haley, he calls teacher-turned-child advocate Anne Leone, who’s already the star witness in a sensational murder trial…
Two Flights Up
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A boarder comes to live with three women and finds them frighteningly strange
From the outside, it seems like the three women of the Bayne house are frozen in time. There is Mrs. Bayne, an aging widow obsessed with propriety; her sister, Margaret, a spinster whose desperate loneliness is eating her from the inside out; and young Holly, a beautiful creature with a vibrancy that fades a little each day. Her only hope is Furness Brooks, a playboy with an idea that he might like to marry Holly, but each day that he doesn’t propose, she becomes more frightened that she will die an old maid.
Void Black Shadow
by Corey J. White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The space saga by the Aurealis Award winner continues: “A great character . . . Readers will root for her and have fun following along on her adventures.” —Booklist
Mars Xi is a living weapon, a genetically manipulated psychic supersoldier with a body count in the thousands, and all she wanted was to be left alone. People who get involved with her get hurt, whether by MEPHISTO, by her psychic backlash, or by her acid tongue. It’s not smart to get involved with Mars, but that doesn’t stop some people from trying…
Elevating Your Life
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Journey of Riches – Elevating Your Life:
Stories to Empower Your Soul
Life can be like a confusing maze, full of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, just like in famous Hollywood stories. But what can you do when real setbacks and tough times threaten to obscure your identity and the very heart of your existence, making you forget what matters most?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Company
by Virginia Swift
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming’s annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It’s a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town.
Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and for Sally and Hawk, murder is anything but academic. Like the victim, Sally’s done her time in the glare of the late-night neon lights, and she knows how thin the line can be between honky-tonk angels and lost souls…
The Grey Beginning
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Devastated by her husband’s death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace – and discovers something sinister instead. Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro – accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini – Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she has stumbled upon a murderous plot that could cost Kathy her life—for it was meant to stay hidden . . . forever.
Starvation Heights
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves…
The Look of Love
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Piper’s back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous – where nip and tuck and murder are offered in equal measures. Clark really hits her stride with The Look of Love, providing a winning recipe for delectable mystery that combines chills, twists, humor and often very romantic suspense in the bestselling vein of Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Faye Kellerman, Elizabeth Lowell, and Jayne Ann Krentz. She even includes scrumptious pastry recipes and fabulous cake design tips.
Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a New York Times bestseller, “galloping entertainment” about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks of vacation. So when his boss asks for his help assisting millionaire Dave Teller locate a missing priceless breeding stallion he accepts, against his better judgement.
East of Evil
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A colossal fortune. A secret reaper. A young woman whose drive for justice makes her the target of dangerous people…
Nefi Jenkins dreams of becoming an FBI agent. After exposing her parents’ heartless killer, the Harvard grad focuses on getting into a stellar criminal justice master’s degree program. But her career goals take a back seat when she inherits a ten-million-dollar trust from her late parents…with a hefty chunk gone.
Can Nefi restore her parent’s wealth before her investigation turns fatal?
Darkness Under the Sun
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween—or for any haunted night—and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt…
Daniel Hudson
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When outlaw Jeb Thornton and his gang ride into town, leaving destruction in their wake and killing Daniel Hudson’s friend, Sheriff Timothy Norton, everything changed. Fueled by grief, Daniel sets out to confront Thornton and his gang.
Along the way Daniel meets Alice Waterson, a fiery woman on a mission of her own. As it turns out, Thornton has killed her husband and she has been hunting him down ever since.
As Daniel and Alice dig into Thornton’s past, they discover a tale of tragedy and revenge…
Sixty Blades of Grass
by Elizabeth Millane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bond between a Dutch teenager and her father is tested as the Resistance wages its secret war on the Nazis: “Darkly lyrical . . . An action filled plot.” —Mary Glickman, author of By the Rivers of Babylon
During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports.
But Rika’s covert activities aren’t the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth.
The Clan of Hogan Falls Boxed Set
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Prepare yourself for these eight stories about female wolf shifters whose lives have been in danger since birth. Abandoned by their clans, they all grew up together and now run a successful bed and breakfast.
But it isn’t until they meet their fated mates that everything becomes turbulent again. The enemies have returned, and the women have much more to lose than just their lives. They now also have their hearts on the line.