Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bonded in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…
His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes…
Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition.
Take it to the Limit
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A high school reunion is supposed to be a night of laughter and nostalgia. Instead, it ends in murder.
When Nashville private investigators Ethan and Mickey Jenks return to Ethan’s hometown of Morgan’s Ridge, Kentucky, old rivalries ignite. But nostalgia turns lethal when a classmate’s wife is shot, and a dying man claims he’s next.
Nick Yearwood insists someone has planned his murder. His story sounds paranoid until Ethan uncovers a five-year-old tragedy. One tied to an intricate cover-up and a dark secret someone will kill to keep buried…
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising
by Raymond A. Villareal
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman in an Arizona border town disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, the case threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish.
Soon, the U.S. government – and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church – must come to terms with what they’re too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world.
Came a Gentle Whisper
by Rebecca A. Cathey
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An orphan, raised by her grandmother in the beautiful mountains of the Missouri Ozarks in the early 1900s, leaves the security of her idyllic secluded home and travels to Little Rock, Arkansas on a mission to help her friend, Ruby, only to find herself caught up in the seedy world of a speakeasy working as a dime-a-dance girl.
Cora Lee wrestles with her need to find a “belongin’ place,” and her desire to stay “true to her raisin'” while learning to negotiate life in a rapidly changing world at the dawn of “The Jazz Age.” After facing unthinkable losses, overwhelming challenges, and the sting of social judgement, she must decide if she can stay true to her faith and her values while resisting the lure of sin, gin, and easy money, in the glitzy, superficial world of a big-city dance hall.
Rescued Hearts
by Hope Toler Dougherty
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He sacrificed his cover to save her life. Now protecting her may cost him his heart.
Children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball never imagined rescuing a stranded kitten would land her in the hands of dangerous criminals. Beaten, bound, and held captive in an abandoned farmhouse, she believes her chances of escape have disappeared when a third man arrives.
But Brett Davis isn’t another criminal.
After three months undercover, Brett is close to exposing a dangerous trafficking operation. Rescuing Mary Wade means destroying his cover and jeopardizing the entire investigation, but leaving an innocent woman behind isn’t an option.
The History Hunters: Four Complete Novels
by K. R. Eckert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are historians. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are adventurers. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are The History Hunters. Here, for the first time, four of their most daring and exotic adventures are collected together in one volume.
The Templar Succession
The Gettysburg Cypher
The Templar Fire
The Masonic Manuscript
Shadow Play
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Shadow Play is a New York Times bestselling Eve Duncan novel from Iris Johansen.
Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands.
When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity and investment in the case puzzle her.
The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks
by John Railey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound.
This riveting narrative, built on unique access to the state investigative file and multiple interviews with insiders, searches for the truth of her unsolved murder. This island odyssey of discovery includes séances, a suicide and a supposed shallow grave. Journalist John Railey cuts through the myths and mistakes to finally arrive at the long-hidden truth of what happened to Brenda Holland that summer on Roanoke Island.
Indie Darling
by Lauren Nossett
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Nashville is a city of two faces, where the glitter often masks the grit.
Kelly Williams, a Dolly Parton–loving, sports-car-driving private investigator in Nashville, helps women. Sisters in search of lost siblings. Wives determined to uncover affairs. Daughters haunted by men lingering outside their windows. Clients trust her because she listens, she believes them, and over the years she’s honed a specialized skill set.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Clawed and Dangerous
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a series of suspiciously similar deaths begin to pop up across Crozet, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen must connect the dots with the help of her beloved cats and dogs in the latest mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown.
The leaves have fallen in Crozet, Virginia, and with a sudden downpour of cold rain, autumn gloom has settled. But Harry and her best friend, Susan, are determined to cheer up the town, and with the help of a kind local doctor, they just might succeed. Not only is Dr. Anglin kind and generous, he’s also the owner of multiple properties, and he agrees to let Harry and Susan use one of his homes to throw a spooky Halloween bash.
The Key
by Kathryn Hughes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
1956 It’s Ellen Crosby’s first day as a student nurse at Ambergate Hospital. When she meets a young woman admitted by her father, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change both their lives for ever…
2006 Sarah is drawn to the now abandoned Ambergate. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who entered Ambergate fifty years earlier.
Sheltered by the Doctor
by Danielle Grandinetti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A fake relationship might keep her safe, but will it break their hearts?
Wisconsin, 1931—Mindy Zahn can’t understand why her parents deserted the family farm, leaving her mute younger sister in her care. Until her mother’s cryptic warning to keep her sister safe becomes a life-threatening task.
Searching for that elusive something to ease his weary heart, Dr. Nick Matrone is drawn to the cheery Mindy. He would never presume to bring such a sweet woman into his beleaguered past, so friendship is all he can offer. Except, he doesn’t expect needing to save her life.
Lullabies For Suffering
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Addiction starts like a sweet lullaby sung by a trusted loved one. It washes away the pains of the day and wraps you in the warmness of the womb where nothing hurts and every dream is possible.
Yet soon enough, this warm state of bliss becomes a cold shiver, the ecstasy and dreams become nightmares, yet we can’t stop listening to the lullaby. We crave to hear the siren song as it rips us apart.
A powerful list of talent has woven tales featuring the insidious nature of addiction—damaged humans craving for highs and wholeness but finding something more tragic and horrific on the other side. You’re invited to listen to these Lullabies for Suffering.
Pretty Baby
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family’s objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.
The Scattered Word
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Before the Flood, the Word was whole.
Now the earth is handing it back — scattered, one piece at a time.
When a landslide tears open a Colorado ridge, survivalist Caleb Dale pulls a bronze box out of ground that has been sealed since before the Flood. He films it, the way he films everything. By morning the video has millions of views — and it has been seen by people who have waited a very long time for that box to surface.
Inside is writing older than writing. His uncle Michael, a scholar who has buried his grief in ancient texts, can read it. So can Michael’s blind brother Brandon, who reads it with his hands. They do not read the same thing. The Scattered Word answers the heart that holds it, and it will not be forced.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
The Surgeon’s Psychic Nurse
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She can sense danger before anyone else. He believes only in science.
When a quiet operating room nurse repeatedly saves lives through an impossible gift, the new surgeon can’t explain what he’s seeing—but he can’t ignore it either.
As friendship turns to love in a charming small town, they’ll discover that the greatest leap of faith isn’t believing in the impossible…
It’s believing in each other.
The Death Row Club
by V. A. Vazquez
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers…but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions.
When Nicola Fischer’s father is arrested for the murder of five women—including her best friend—the entire world watches it unfold on To Catch a Killer, the hit true crime TV show hosted by Greer Woods. Overnight, Nicola becomes a pariah: fired from her job, drowning in debt, and shunned by everyone she knows.