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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
by Alan Bradley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce’s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon.
“A church is a wonderful place for a wedding,” muses Flavia, “surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar.” Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional…
Houses of Stone
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is a find of inestimable value for Karen Holloway. The battered manuscript she holds in her hand – written in the nineteenth century and bearing the mysterious attribution “Ismene” – could prove a boon to the eager young English professor’s career. But Karen’s search for the author’s true identity is carrying her into the gray shadows of the past, to places fraught with danger and terror. For the deeper she delves into Ismene’s strange tale of gothic horror, the more she is haunted by the suspicion that the long-dead author was writing the truth…
The Wingman Adventures Volume Two
by Mack Maloney
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hawk Hunter is America’s best hope—in the bestselling military adventure series by “the best high-action thriller writer out there today, bar none” (Jon Land).
With nearly a quarter million copies sold, this high-octane series features Hawk Hunter, a fearless fighter pilot who saves the not-so-distant-future United States from the brink of all-out anarchy.
Thunder in the East,
The Twisted Cross,
The Final Storm,
Freedom Express
Without Pity
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing cases from that acclaimed series—and presents shocking, all-new true-crime accounts—in one riveting anthology.
In every explosive chapter of Without Pity, Ann Rule deepens her unrelenting exploration of the evil that lies behind the perfect facades of heartless killers . . . and the deadly compulsions of greed and power that shatter their outward trappings of material success.
Hot Ice
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looks and quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. It is a business proposition, pure and simple.
But the race to find the treasure, from Manhattan to Madagascar, is only part of the game. For their fierce and dangerous attraction to each other soon threatens to overwhelm them—unless their merciless and shadowy rivals kill them first.
Monsters at Midnight Collection
by Nick Clausen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
29 SCARY HORROR STORIES IN ONE SUPER COLLECTION
Spanning everything from vampires and werewolves to ghosts and wendigos, this collection of supernatural horror stories brings you the finest thrills and chills from the bestselling author of Dead Meat and Cadaver.
Don’t miss this limited-time offer. Grab your copy now and dive into the depths of the dark imagination that spawned these highly entertaining and fear-fueled adventures…
The Secret Shack
by Chris Brown
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
2020 Illumination Book Award Gold Medal for the Biography/Memoir category with his first published book, Child of Grace: A Death Row Story.
Mia finally goes to Secret Bible Society headquarters, but she and her friends scramble to escape with their stash of Bibles after a federal agent discovers their hideout. Can they outsmart big bullies and an angry agent to save the Bibles?
The Sins of the Father
by Jeffrey Archer
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From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The Sins of the Father.
Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Pyramid Murders
by Fiona Veitch Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale!
1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate sarcophagus, is finally opened and it turns out the mummy inside it is a fake, it looks like there is no rest for Clara after all…
Robert B. Parker’s Bad Influence
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in this exciting new thriller in the bestselling series.
Sunny Randall’s newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all the perks the lifestyle entails—a beautiful girlfriend, wealth, and adoring fans. But one of those fans has turned ugly, and Sunny is brought on board by Blake’s manager, Bethany, to protect him and to uncover who is out to kill him. In doing so, she investigates a glamorous world rife with lies and schemes…and ties to a dangerous criminal scene.
The Curse of Imhotep
by J. Robert Kennedy
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ALL WHO DISTURB THE TOMB OF IMHOTEP ARE DOOMED TO DIE. AND PROFESSOR JAMES ACTON HAS JUST DISCOVERED ITS LOCATION.
Djoser, Pharaoh of Egypt, has set his eyes on his next conquest. Imhotep’s youngest sister. Imhotep, respected physician and architect, trusted advisor to Djoser, is placed in an impossible position—turn a blind eye, condemning his sister’s future, or lose everything by intervening…
Alpha Colony: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The End Has Arrived
The civilization of man has fallen. A mindless alien race has swept across the colonies, consuming structures and people along the way. As humanity stands on the brink of destruction, we have one hope to preserve what’s left of our culture and very lives. The Passage.
One of the greatest scientific achievements of humanity, a gateway that will hyper-accelerate our faster than light drives so we can cover an unimaginable distance. A new home waits beyond, one far from our aggressors. But can we escape the desolation of our old empire before it’s too late?
Borrowed Angel
by Heather Graham
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It was supposed to be a great gig: a high-profile photo shoot in the Florida Everglades, with Ashley Dane modeling a set of famous emeralds. Instead, Ashley finds herself fleeing through the snake-filled swamp after witnessing a murder. Writer Eric Hawk is also on the run—he’s being hunted by a man from his past. Ashley doesn’t completely trust Eric, but she has no one else to turn to . . . and she finds him irresistible.
Unrelenting threats keep them on the move through the dangerous terrain, and although they come from different worlds, their deepening feelings for each other make them believe they might have a future together . . . if they make it out alive.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Otto Penzler
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Sherlock Holmes’s most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery
The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer’s daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen with vile intentions. The poor girl died of fright, but Baskerville’s fate was worse—a giant black hound, eyes afire and jaws dripping with blood, tore out his throat and devoured it on the spot. Since then, the specter of that terrible beast has haunted Baskerville Hall, many of whose inhabitants have met violent, mysterious, and tragic ends.
Bloody Rose
by Nicholas Eames
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A band of fabled mercenaries tour a wild fantasy landscape, battling monsters in arenas in front of thousands of adoring fans. But, a secret and dangerous gig ushers them to the frozen north, and the band is never one to waste a shot at glory. Live fast, die young.
Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.
Texas Ranger
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mitchell Rankin couldn’t stop his parents’ violent death when he was a boy.
Now the outlaws and Indians of South Texas can’t stop Mitchell Rankin.
Fifteen years after a Comanche raid upturned his young life, Mitchell joins the newly formed Frontier Battalion to help bring peace to his Texan homeland. He’s putting desperadoes on notice: someone has to pay the price for what was done to his family.