Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Kill or Bee Killed
by Jennie Marts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Amanda Flower, this second Bee Keeping mystery takes Bailey Briggs to the brink as murders threaten the future of her granny’s Bee Festival.
The small town of Humble Hills, Colorado, is abuzz with excitement over the upcoming annual Bee Festival, sponsored by Bailey’s Granny Bee and the Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch. The long weekend of festivities includes a beauty pageant, beekeeping demonstrations, a local restaurant bake-off, and a 3K Bear Run where all the participants are dressed as bears. The bake-off brings in a television crew from California to film, so it’s the most drama-filled part of the weekend, especially when the famous celebrity host winds up dead…
Kentucky Blood
by Ashley Thomas Sheikh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A GRIPPING, DARK SOUTHERN GOTHIC SAGA. Award-winning fiction that pushes boundaries – WINNER of The BookFest Psychological Thriller Award and PenCraft Intrigue Award.
In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory. To unlock its secrets, they imprison victims in their garage, each kidnapping leading them closer to their coveted prize…
Dark secrets threaten to tear the family apart. Rhonda, the eldest daughter, harbors a thirst for violence that may jeopardize everything. Bill, her father, struggles to balance parenthood with the brutal demands of their Quest. Then there’s Bobby, the current prisoner, who may be more dangerous than they realize. Has the family made a mistake they can’t undo?
Birth Pangs of the End Times
by Maj Tom DMin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As America crumbles and a global dictatorship rises from the ashes, Katie discovers the real war isn’t fought with helicopters and guns.
Twenty-year-old Army helicopter pilot Katie Whitefeather is a hero, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart after saving soldiers’ lives in a severely battle-damaged medevac helicopter. But after a fellow pilot suffers a stroke, she decides not to submit to a dictatorial vaccine mandate, costing her the career she loves.
Back home in Southeast Alaska, as she struggles to find employment during a global financial collapse, she witnesses biblical prophecy unfolding–wars erupting, famines spreading, and natural disasters devastating the planet…
Broken
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him…
Stepping Stone and Love Machine
by Walter Mosley
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life’s cosmic questions. From life’s meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But how would the world really receive the answers?
Stepping Stone
Love Machine
Mostly Perilous
by Kimberley Montpetit
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An empty grave. A century of secrets revealed. Can she heal the deadly curse of her family’s sordid past before she loses the love of her life forever?
Emma Ambrose purposely stays away from her family’s Texas oil estate, throwing herself into her work as an archeologist in the tombs of Egypt. Ancient mummies are infinitely safer than the family curse that follows the Ambrose Estate heiress. A curse that dooms her to never finding love—because it means certain death for any man who falls in love with her.
At night, Ian Phelps is a man drowning in grief after losing his wife in a tragedy. By day, he’s the county coroner, tagging dead people while mourning with those who have lost loved ones…
He’s Lying About Everything
by Robin Mahle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A BRAND-NEW totally addictive psychological thriller full of twists.
My husband’s girlfriend is dead. He says he didn’t kill her. But he’s been lying about everything else.
Eight years of marriage. A beautiful home in Connecticut. A sweet, affectionate four-year-old son. Now, it’s 6 a.m., and the police are knocking at our door. They found a dead girl floating in the university pool. My husband was having an affair with her. He was the last person to see her.
He’s a liar. But is he a killer? I’d do a lot to keep our family together. But how much more can I take?
Fatal Intrusion
by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado.
Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator…
Hear No Evil
by Mary L. Hamilton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Brady’s mom drops him off at summer camp with a shocking confession, leaving him to question his self-worth.
In Hear No Evil, the first book of the Rustic Knoll Bible Camp Series, thirteen-year-old Brady is forced to confront the pain of his mother’s betrayal and abandonment and the torment of a camp bully. Buoyed by the confidence of Steven, a blind cabinmate, and Steven’s spunky friend, Claire, Brady struggles to break through his own self-doubts until a startling revelation sends him on a dangerous quest, testing the limits of his courage, his faith, and his relationships with family and friends alike.
She’s the Missing Sister Complete Series, Volume 2
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Logan’s latest case…hidden secrets, dangerous lies, and a costly family mystery. Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks greatest nightmare just also happens to be his grandfather’s newest business venture.
Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother.
How dangerous could it be?
HOTEL OBSCURE
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of The Waiting House: A Novel in Stories
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.” Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
Don’t Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.
He’s the perfect man. It’s a perfect lie.
Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Dominoes, Danzón, and Death
by Raquel V. Reyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Latina sleuth and culinary master Miriam Quiñones-Smith is cooking up a storm in the fourth installment of the Caribbean Kitchen mystery series.
It’s been three years since food anthropologist and cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith had her last brush with death. Her Spanglish culinary show, Abuela Approved, is topping the charts. Her parents are back in Miami and living with her in Coral Shores. And her kids are great. But when bones start popping up in unexpected places, Miriam’s idyllic life is threatened…
Whatever It Takes
by Alan Brenham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this gritty, pulse-pounding story of deception and loyalty, Detective Kit Hanover is forced to shed her old identity and infiltrate Las Vegas’s criminal underbelly as an exotic dancer to expose a sprawling money laundering empire. But as she becomes a pawn in a volatile turf war, the question isn’t just whether she can crack the case, but whether she can survive the fallout.
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Standing in the Shadows
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice’s murderer—but his obsession leads him down a dangerous path.
Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking…
Keeler Creek Days
by Buxton Manning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
After three years, the Keeler Creek Days festival is back (though it’s just one day and there’s no antique car show this year). A group of geezers want to win the tug-of-war, just like they did fifty years ago. Fat chance? Two women, rivals in both the kitchen and the bedroom want to wear the bake-off crown. And the new event—The Battle of the Bands—has something for everyone: legendary rock, stoned-out jazz, and angst punk.
But there’s more happening: Stu and Melinda want to run away and leave their respective spouses. Lucy needs to decide between two suitors. Norman wants to depose his mother to a retirement home. The Misunderstoods just want to get a gig somewhere. There’s adolescent love, old rivals, alcohol and gambling, a recluse ex-pro linebacker, dysfunctional porta-potties, and Cory is stuck working at the Acorn Market while everyone else is at the park. Add two out-of-town hoodlums intent on robbing every home while the town is empty, and Balzar, a belligerent Roosevelt elk…it’s a helluva party.
One Last Kiss
by Michael W. Cuneo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From adultery . . . Ex-Marine and bodyguard Chris Coleman was a family man with a secret: He wanted to leave his wife for another woman, Tara Lintz. But as head of security for the world-famous Joyce Meyer Ministries—an evangelical organization that frowns on divorce—Coleman had to make other plans.
to murder . . . On May 5, 2009, Illinois police received a call from Coleman, who claimed he was unable to contact his family. When investigators arrived at his home, they found Coleman’s wife and two sons strangled in bed. Across the walls, spray-painted in red, were various obscenities—the word punished among them.
to life—or death.
The Hymn
by Graham Masterton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A rash of sacrificial deaths in California leads an investigator into a nightmare world of occultism and Nazi terror: “A master of the genre.” —Rocky Mountain News
The shocking suicide of his beautiful fiancée has left Lloyd Denman devastated. Though outwardly happy, Celia Williams chose to set herself on fire, ending her young life in the most excruciating manner imaginable. Haunted by her death, Lloyd vows to uncover the truth behind her bizarre actions. An answer may be waiting for him in the California desert, where ashes and bone are all that remain of a busload of passengers who perished in an apparent mass suicide by fire that has the police baffled.
Vexing Voss
by Gail Koger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For Voss, a Coletti Warlord, conquering the universe is a piece of cake. After all, he’s a master of psychic seduction; no one can resist him when he sets his mind to it.
Zoey Jones is determined to find her mother’s killer. Surrendering to a fierce Coletti warrior is the last thing on her mind. When Voss tries to make Zoey his mate, she unleashes her own brand of whoop-ass to discourage his pursuit. When her clever disguises, skunk perfume, stun gun, and smoke bombs fail to stop the ruthless warlord, she’s forced to negotiate her surrender: she would mate with him if he would help her find her mother’s killer.
Death’s Half Acre
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
The Dead Play On
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Play a song for me
Musicians are being murdered in New Orleans. But Arnie Watson apparently died by his own hand. When Tyler Anderson plays the saxophone he inherited from Arnie, a soldier and musician who died soon after his return, he believes he sees visions of his friend’s lifeand death. He becomes convinced Arnie was murdered and that the instrument had something to do with whatever happened, and with whatever’s happening all over the city
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Writer
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.
Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. “This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?”
The Trigger Man
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #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.
One to Go
by Mike Pace
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What would you pay for a short re-wind?
Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he’s alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. All he must do is kill someone every two weeks – anyone – for a soul exchange. A moment later, Tom is back in his spinning car, but averts the deadly crash. He laughs about the hallucination, attributing it to bumping his head on the steering wheel when his car came to an abrupt stop…
The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead…
Win
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family’s estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors — and the items stolen from her family were never recovered.
Until now. On the Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead — not only on Patricia’s kidnapping, but also on another FBI cold case — with the suitcase and painting both pointing them toward one man…
Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman.
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life…
Unseen (with bonus novella “Busted”)
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, working undercover in Macon, Georgia, posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally.
But there’s a problem. Cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.
Eight Wishes
by Cas Caldicott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A heartfelt story of fresh starts, emotional journeys, and unforgettable friendships
Sometimes life’s greatest transformations begin when everything falls apart.
Emerson Bailey thought she had it all figured out. At forty, the CEO of a booming fashion tech company finds her carefully constructed world crumbling: a devastating heartbreak, crushing personal loss, and a corporate success that leaves her feeling emptier than ever.
Faced with an uncertain future, Emerson embarks on an audacious quest inspired by a childhood memory—to create extraordinary experiences for the people who matter most. From breathtaking escapes to deeply personal journeys, each adventure becomes a step toward healing.
Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate’s shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights…
But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Motive
by Michele PW
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Or maybe a gin and tonic.
Emily Hildebrandt has run into a bit of a rough patch. She’s lost her job, her fiance and her apartment. Still, she never expected to be desperate enough to accept an invitation to live with her eccentric Aunt Tilde in Redemption, Wisconsin.
But, beggars can’t be choosers. Even if part of the deal is she has to pretend to work at her aunt’s latest hair-brained scheme, The Redemption Detective Agency. Seriously, the woman is a retired nurse. Why does she think she’s remotely qualified to run a detective agency, especially in a creepy little town like Redemption?
While You Were Gone
by Mark Gillespie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She thinks she’s found the perfect house sitter. She’s wrong.
When Angie and Dan are offered a last-minute vacation, they jump at the chance. All they need is someone to care for their pets and home while they’re gone. When warm, reliable Martha Hunt steps in, she seems like the perfect house sitter.
But when the couple returns home early, their dream holiday turns into a chilling nightmare. The house is in chaos and they have no choice but to fire Martha on the spot. That should have ended it. Instead, it unleashes something far more sinister. Because Martha isn’t done with them yet—and what she wants is far worse than revenge.
Home Is Where the Bodies Are
by Jeneva Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm’s length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn’t been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before.
Eat What You Kill
by Ted Scofield
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Evan Stoess is a struggling young Wall Street analyst obsessed with fortune and fame. A trailer park kid who attended an exclusive prep school through a lucky twist of fate, Evan’s unusual past leaves him an alien in both worlds, an outsider who desperately wants to belong. When a small stock he discovers becomes an overnight sensation, he is poised to make millions and land the girl of his dreams, but disaster strikes and he loses everything.
Two years later a mysterious firm offers Evan a chance for redemption, and he jumps at the opportunity. His new job is to short stocks—to bet against the market…
Conclave
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Pulsates with intrigue. . . . Ambition, sex scandals, financial corruption and terrorism all rear their ugly heads. And Harris saves one whopper of a surprise for the final pages.” – USA Today
The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will gather to cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they are not immune to the human temptations of power and glory. And they are not above the tribalism and factionalism that consumes humanity. When all is said and done, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.
Deep Tide
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An undercover FBI agent and a coffee shop owner who values her independence must team up when a local barista is found dead in their coastal Texas town in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she’s deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen.
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the meaning of home.
In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past…
Threat Warning
by John Gilstrap
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A hostage rescue specialist is on the trail of a homegrown terrorist organization in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.
When a cult-like paramilitary group decides to make its deadly presence known, the first victims are random. Ordinary citizens going about their lives in Washington, D.C., are suddenly fired upon at rush hour by unseen assassins. Caught in the crossfire of one of the attacks, rescue specialist Jonathan Grave spies a gunman getting away—with a mother and her young son as hostages.