Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Connections, Conflict & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cybercrime, friendships, and murder. Stacie Maroni’s walk in the park led to dangerous discoveries.
When the cybersecurity expert who checked out Stacie’s computer turns up dead, Stacie and her good friend and IT whiz, Trina, find themselves entangled in the ensuing murder investigation. Who killed Sam and why? Was the motive personal or was Sam silenced because he discovered potentially illegal activity as part of a client’s routine security audit?
Loyalty
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.
Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever.
Their Last Secret
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven.
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart.
Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter suspects that Emma is hiding something…
Kurtherian Age of Expansion Starter Pack
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Experience exciting sci-fi sagas with six book ones from six series in the Kurtherian Gambit Universe – Age of Expansion.
Awakened: How Molly has survived military life this long, we’ll never know. When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape.
What’s more, her new “companion” has a spunky attitude which only complicates matters further. And her biggest problem?
But I Trusted You
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage, the calculating sociopaths in this true crime collection targeted those closest to them – unwitting victims whose last disbelieving words could well have been “but I trusted you . . .”
Headlining this page-turning anthology is the case of middle-school counselor Chuck Leonard, found shot to death outside his Washington State home on an icy February morning. A complicated mix of family man and wild man, Chuck played hard and loved many . . . but who crossed the line by murdering him in cold blood? And why?
The Next Always
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The historic hotel in BoonsBoro, Maryland, has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it’s getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett has little time for a social life. But there’s another project he’s got his eye on: the girl he’s been waiting to kiss since he was sixteen.
After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster soon settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town’s bookstore…
The Surrogate Thief
by Archer Mayor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plainspoken in its politics, it dominates the state’s southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindustrial New England mill town. And yet there is darkness here, too, and nobody knows it better than Joe Gunther. Over the years he has battled drug pushers and corporate swindlers, grappled with environmental conspirators, and foiled gangs and home invaders. But while usually successful in his fight for the town’s future, Gunther hasn’t always come out on top… Thirty years earlier store owner Klaus Ober-feldt was robbed and beaten senseless. When Klaus died six months later, a case of assault and battery became first degree murder.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Think Murder
by Cassidy Salem
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Good friends, wine and conversation… Great fun – until somebody turns up dead.
Adina Donati came to Washington D.C. to find excitement, not a dead body. When a friend is murdered, Adina is drawn into the middle of the police investigation. Tensions rise as the suspect list expands to include Adina, her friends, and colleagues at the prestigious think tank where she works. But every cloud has a silver lining. Between the nice detective, the hot new volunteer at the dog rescue center, and the newly available preppy ex-boyfriend, Adina’s dating dry spell appears near its end. That is, if she doesn’t become the next victim.
Check out:
(Adina Donati, Accidental Sleuth)
Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
by Susan Elia MacNeal
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Stirring . . . Susan Elia MacNeal’s page-turning prose is as entertaining as ever – I was riveted from beginning to end.” – Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network
June 1940. France has fallen to the Nazis, and Britain may be next—but to many Americans, the war is something happening “over there.” Veronica Grace has just graduated from college; she and her mother, Violet, are looking for a fresh start in sunny Los Angeles. After a blunder cost her a prestigious career opportunity in New York, Veronica is relieved to take a typing job in L.A.—only to realize that she’s working for one of the area’s most vicious propagandists.
Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush return to Siren Song, an isolated island off the wild Oregon Coast. Some people call it The Colony. Others whisper it’s a cult. For a group of women with extraordinary gifts, it’s both home and refuge. Until evil returns to burn it all down…
Now in paperback for fans of Allison Brennan, Alex North, Iris Johansen, and JT Ellison.
The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge’s phone number and the words “Next of Kin.” Ravinia insists she doesn’t recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn’t believe her. He can tell that she’s one of them – the Siren Song women.
2024 Before Democracy
by Tyler True
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Anthropologist Theodore Hansen discovers a magical plant in the Amazon rainforest that has the potential to both heal and destroy society. He steals a cutting from the indigenous guardians of the plant and clones enough of it to sell to the world, becoming one of the richest humans alive.
After witnessing the corruption and greed from the most powerful governments and pharmaceutical companies on earth, he decides to use his vast fortune to start a political revolution that truly gives the power to the people…despite the danger to himself and his family.
The Love of Impossible Sums
by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“THE LOVE OF IMPOSSIBLE SUMS is a beautifully cerebral and emotive story exploring the intricacies of loss, manipulation, and betrayal. Panayotis Cacoyannis’ writing is positively exquisite as he unravels the tangled web of deceit and guilt surrounding Ollie. Character-driven and occasionally surreal, this book is sophisticated, searching, and utterly of the moment.” IndieReader Discovery Awards
“Cacoyannis has a unique, pensive, and mournful literary style to be savored” Publishers Weekly’s The BookLife Prize
Oliver has lost his wife Eden to illness. Still grieving three years later, unable or unwilling to imagine a future without her, he finds himself stuck in a joyless existence. But everything appears to change when on a bright December morning a stranger asks him for a light and then invites him to “They Them”, a poetry reading event by “a poet like no other”.
Star Wars Stormtroopers
by Ryder Windham, Adam Bray
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Explore new worlds in this riveting sci-fi novel
Just in time for the next blockbuster, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this unique and beautifully designed compendium with removable features traces one of the franchise’s most iconic characters—the stormtrooper—from initial development through all nine Star Wars movies to their many iterations in TV, comics, videogames, novels, and pop-culture.
Filled with photographs, illustrations, story boards, and other artwork, this lavish officially licensed book comes complete with removable features, including posters, stickers, replica memorabilia and more, making it an essential keepsake for every Star Wars fan, as well as military, design, and film aficionados.
Tomorrow War
by J. L. Bourne
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
On an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that unleashes a weapon with the power to destroy the moral fabric of humanity. As the crisis unfolds, hyperinflation cripples the US economy. Families struggle to find food, water, and electricity. Post-war armored military vehicles patrol the streets as martial law is imposed.
The US government appears to offer salvation, but there is a sinister catch…
The Lies We Believe
by T.K. Chapin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A daughter, a cult, a secret.
When Ron Fields heard the news his only daughter Emily had joined the new age cult Lighthouse, he was devastated. Ron decides to keep quiet on his feelings about his daughter’s choice, a decision which changes his life forever…
The lies we tell are often thought to be innocent…
…but the lies we believe can sometimes be deadly.
Godkiller
by Hannah Kaner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Enter a land of gods and monsters, soldiers and mercenaries, secrets and wishes—the explosive #1 internationally bestselling fantasy debut in a new trilogy for fans of The Witcher and Gideon the Ninth
Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows.
As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with a god problem.