Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
You Are Not Alone
by Leah Cupps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A remote island. A perfect storm. A cold-blooded killer.
Natalie and boyfriend Hudson have booked a romantic weekend in a luxury Airbnb on a private island in rural Montana. When they get there, it’s everything she hoped it would be – rugged, beautiful and totally secluded.
At last, they can take a break from their hectic schedules and just enjoy each other…
Hemlock
by Kiersten Modglin
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She thought she’d escaped her poisonous past…
Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her.
Now, tragedy has brought her back, and she’s determined to forget that fateful night. But in a town like Myers, with familiar faces and chilling memories lurking around every corner, moving on is easier said than done.
The Amish Wife
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 3.7 #ad
In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed.
What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli’s shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli’s subsequent cross-country journey of death—including that of his own son—have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman?
The Ring of Eagna
by Andrea Matthews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In tenth-century Ireland, a monk records the legend of a mythical treasure that can only be accessed with three ancient rings. A thousand years later, Ciarán and Aodhán Donnelly discover the manuscript and are convinced the tale refers to the relics of their fifth-century priesthood. But the tome warns of dire consequences for any who attempt to retrieve the fabled cache without the rings.
Ciarán and Aodhán expected no less of their priestly ancestors, so they’re not in the least bit deterred. After all, they already have two rings. All they need to do is locate a third, and they can recover the hidden artifacts for the museum.
Their light-hearted treasure hunt turns deadly, however, when they discover they’re not the only ones searching for the trove of sacred artifacts.
Engaged To A Serial Killer
by Steena Holmes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
I’ve had it all and lost it all. But now I’m finally getting things together. My fiancé seems like the perfect guy. He gave me a job at his landscaping business. He’s on my side. And when he proposed, I couldn’t believe what he saw in someone like me. But there are red flags.
He says we have to keep the engagement secret. And why does his ex-wife still wear the ring from their ruined marriage?
The Trigger Man
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He’s a good guy who kills bad guys for a living.
CIA operative Mark Pierce is a trained killer with a strict moral code – he only targets those who truly deserve to die. So he has no qualms about taking out Victor Vautrin, an international arms dealer supplying fanatical terrorists in West Africa who may soon trigger a brutal civil war.
But when he is tasked with other objectives – rescue kidnapped tourists, recover eleven million dollars of stolen CIA money – it quickly becomes clear to Pierce that someone doesn’t want him to succeed in his primary mission.
Look Both Ways
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Inspired by his decades-long love of cars, internationally bestselling author Linwood Barclay envisions a world in which automotive technology outpaces our wildest dreams—and our darkest nightmares—in a gripping new novel of action and suspense
These headlights are watching you…
The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents’ cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been “driving” the Arrival, a revolutionary autonomous vehicle. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go and, because the fleet is networked and aware of one another, car travel is now 100% safe. The future, it seems, has arrived.
Undone
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky—and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. But then a tortured young woman becomes a patient in her ER. . . .
In the backwoods of suburban Atlanta, where Sara’s patient was found, local police have set up their investigation. But Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective Will Trent doesn’t wait for the go-ahead from his boss—he plunges through police lines, single-handedly exposing a hidden house of horror buried beneath the earth . . . and then finds another victim.
Deep Focus
by Gloria Repp
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A scheming woman. A man she can’t fathom. A mystery that endangers her career…
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, travels to the rugged coast of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to finish her photo essay on a rare breed of Makah dogs.But disaster looms for her project, and she decides to fight back. Now she must confront the man who deceived her and unravel a threatening mystery.
Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband’s closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned—he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and prone to violent outbursts. This is the opposite of the man she knew, and not only does his behavior put their marriage at risk, but also a lucrative company merger that would be life-changing for the Crains, their business partner, and everyone associated. Laura wants Spenser to find out what has gotten into her husband, before it’s too late.
Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Isaac Asimov’s renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume.
With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire’s long-anticipated migration to Star’s End is about to begin. But the mission’s brilliant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy far deadlier–and closer–than he ever imagined. One of his own kind.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of the Party
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From an award-winning author, a “cozy whodunit in the Agatha Christie tradition” featuring a married couple invited to a private island to find a killer (Publishers Weekly).
Britt Barlow is certain her media mogul brother-in-law Jeremiah Addison’s fatal tumble a year ago was no accident–especially since she herself discovered, and disposed of, the trip wire someone had strung across the stairs. Now she’s bringing all who were in attendance that weekend back to Golden Silk–Addison’s luxurious secluded island estate–and inviting two extra guests, Annie and Max Darling, to help uncover a killer.
Four Days Famous
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Mylas Grey doesn’t want to be famous. Not even for a day.As a private investigator, he prefers to fly under the radar.
However, when a well-known doctor asks Mylas to investigate his father’s murder, that’s exactly what happens. Suddenly, Mylas is dodging reporters while interviewing suspects and searching for the dead man’s elusive girlfriend.
In the end, he narrows his suspects down to three people . . .
First, there’s the fired employee . . . The man had opportunity and means, but did he have enough fire in his belly?
Then, there’s the ambitious daughter . . . She had motive, opportunity, and means, but would she really kill her own father?
Implant
by F. Paul Wilson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need to be TV ready. Lathram appears to have it all, but something isn’t right . . .
When young Gina Panzella isn’t hustling as a house doctor at a local community hospital, she assists Dr. Lathram with surgery. She’s known him almost her entire life and respects him deeply, yet there are a few things about him she can’t quite figure out—like why so many of his patients are mysteriously dying.
Pilgrim
by Mitchell Lüthi
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Set in 12th-century Jerusalem, Pilgrim follows the treacherous journey of a German knight and his companions as they return home after seven arduous years battling for God in the Holy Land. Within this sprawling tale lies a tapestry of medieval horror, intertwining history and folklore, encompassing both a metaphysical and literal odyssey.
Inspired by a rich blend of Arabic, Christian, and pre-Islamic traditions, Pilgrim delivers a pulse-pounding story of action, adventure, and bone-chilling horror.
Lost Kin
by Steve Anderson
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Occupied Munich, 1946: Irina, a Cossack refugee, confesses to murdering a GI, but American captain Harry Kaspar doesn’t buy it. As Harry scours the devastated city for the truth, it leads him to his long-lost German brother, Max, who returned to Hitler’s Germany before the war.
Max has a questionable past, and he needs Harry for the cause that could redeem him: rescuing Irina’s stranded clan of Cossacks. Disowned by the Allies, they are now being hunted by Soviet death squads—the cold-blooded upshot of a callous postwar policy.
The Lost World
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Fast and gripping.” – The Washington Post Book World
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has survived. . . .
In This Altered Body
by Charlene Pell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor—she has never hidden them.
Thirty years ago, on a sunny afternoon, Charlene was on a private flight to Cat Island, Bahamas, when the unthinkable happened: the plane, piloted by her fiancé, experienced a mechanical problem and crashed in a fiery inferno. When Charlene awoke, she discovered that 64 percent of her body had been burned, and her fiancé had died.
In This Altered Body is the compelling story of Charlene’s physical and emotional odyssey to reclaim her life and identity after surviving a tragedy that left her facially disfigured and grieving. As Charlene begins the long, painful process of recovery, she fears she will never be loved again, because her outward beauty has been destroyed and our society, obsessed with flawless skin and superficial beauty, stigmatizes disfigurement.
Naked Came the Phoenix
by Nevada Barr, J. D. Robb, Nancy Pickard, Marcia Talley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thirteen of today’s hottest female crime novelists–one thrilling mystery: Naked Came the Phoenix
The promise of discretion and pampering-and a long-overdue reconciliation with her mother-draws Caroline Blessing, the young wife of a newly-elected Congressman, to the fancy Phoenix Spa. But after her first night in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Caroline wakes to find the rich and famous guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa’s flamboyant and ambitious owner has been murdered. As the secrets come out-and the body count rises, can Caroline keep herself from becoming the next victim?
A Second Chance at Dancing
by Michael T. Tusa Jr.
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Michael has no memory of his childhood. Deeply intellectual but emotionally choked he’s forced to wrestle with his unresolved past when he loses yet another lover in a string of failed relationships. After initially resisting he tries to piece together his history with the help of his best friend Caroline. He grapples with the stress of his career as a lawyer, the escape provided by the anonymity of the barroom, and his inability to control a growing unfocused anger. Caroline, a Christian, and Michael, an atheist, spend hours bumping heads over religious issues and meaning. Although Michael remains a non-believer, it is an act of God that finally opens his heart.