Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bleeding Tarts
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Old West ghost towns are as American as apple pie. So what better place to sponsor a pie-eating contest than the Bar X, a fake ghost town available for exclusive private events on the edge of Silicon Valley. Valentine Harris is providing the pies, hoping to boost business for her struggling Pie Town shop and become a regular supplier for the Bar X.
But no sooner does she arrive in town than a stray bullet explodes the cherry pie in her hands. And the delicious dessert is not the only victim. Val finds the Bar X bartender shot dead in an alley.
Not My Mother
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s something wrong with mommy.
Carly has a complicated personal life. She’s been the mistress of famous artist Nelson Carter for the past five years. Now Nelson has finally left his wife Amanda, but instead of committing to Carly, he’s indulging in a series of one-night stands.
She has had enough and is about to leave him when a vicious attack on Amanda means Carly has to put her plans on hold to care for Nelson’s traumatized ten-year-old son, Jake.
Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery Starter Pack
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Are you looking for action-filled fantasy filled with mythological creatures, swords, and sorcery? This starter pack offers up the first book in six series to help you discover heroes and heroines in new fantasy worlds for you to enjoy!
Circle in the Deep
Holy Terror
The Tome of Beginnings
The Unforgiven
The Uprising
WarMage: Unexpected
The Murder Club
by Alexandra Ivy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An online crime-solving group is just the kind of adventure Bailey Evans needs. She loves her nursing career and small-town life, but her days are predictable. Her confidence bolstered by having her sheriff cousin Zac nearby, Bailey’s up for some innocent fun and intrigue… Until she starts receiving unnerving warnings: Once the game begins, there’s no backing out of The Murder Club. Then the game gets real…
First, Bailey is shut out at work after an elderly patient dies and leaves her a shocking inheritance. Then a priceless necklace from an anonymous source arrives in her mail—along with a bone-chilling threat…
The Collector
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one…
Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn’t capable of violence – against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Chalking up their intense attraction to the heat of the moment, Lila agrees to help Ash try to find out who murdered his brother and why…
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.
Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from:
Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker
The Real Deal
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Resourceful and steadfast FBI agent Quinn Star has always relied on herself—how else could she have survived the boys club of the FBI or navigated the heartbreak of a thwarted affair with her boss? Today, Quinn risks her life every day in the Secret Service as she protects the First Lady of the United States. But unfortunately, she can’t safeguard her from the ruthless advisors who are intent on hiding the President’s debilitating illness for their political gain.
Suspecting a conspiracy that places the fate of the President, his wife—and the nation—on the line, Quinn whisks the First Lady out of the capital to her South Carolina home…
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Yankee Doodle Dead
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Master mystery spinner Carolyn Hart gives us the tenth high-spirited entry in her Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning Death on Demand series.
The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie’s business—well, sort of. She’s the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie’s pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, attract hairballs. Now, Annie and Max watch their Fourth of July holiday explode not only with fun and fireworks, but with murder as well.
Trial Run
by Dick Francis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” an expert equestrian investigates death threats against a Russian jockey (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
The last place veteran horseman Randall Drew wanted to go was Moscow. But when his royal highness the prince asks a favor, one doesn’t refuse.
The Heart of the Desert
by Avi Friede
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A magical exploration of love, parenthood, and devotion following the story of a fractured family desperately trying to reconnect in the heart of the Arabian Desert.
Aviam Edelman is a man reshaped by circumstance. After years of unemployment and discontent turn him sullen and volatile, he seizes an unexpected opportunity for a fresh start: traveling the world with his wife and their autistic fourteen-year-old son.
Hoping for a future that transcends the fractures in their family, Devorah follows her husband all the way to the Amirite desert. Their son, Dor, who hasn’t spoken a word since the day he was born, is caught between his mother’s overbearing care and his distancing relationship with his insecure father.
Hurricane Bay & A Man Worth Remembering
by Heather Graham, Delores Fossen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A TEMPEST OF PASSION: Private investigator Dane Whitelaw is being framed for murder. When Dane finds a photo under his door of his dead ex-girlfriend Sheila Warren he knows he’s been set up. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer currently terrorizing the Miami area, and someone wants Dane to take the fall.
FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!: A Man Worth Remembering by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen. FBI agent Gabe Sanchez hasn’t seen Leigh O’Brien since she vanished from his life two years ago. Now Leigh is the witness in a major case, and Gabe has orders to keep her safe—but will he be able to protect his heart?
Grayson Sherbrooke’s Otherworldly Adventures
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New exclusive collection of #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter’s Sherbrooke novellas.
Welcome to Grayson Sherbrooke’s crazy wild world in England, 1841. He’s a well-known author of scary gothic adventures, and like his literary hero, Grayson has his own run-ins with curious beings both good and evil. Grayson, his son Pip, his neighbor, beautiful Miranda, her daughter, P.C., and the orphan Barnaby, will make you laugh as they leap into these otherworldly adventures. There are four novellas in Volume 1 – The Strange Visitation at Wolffe Hall– The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor– The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House– The Virgin Bride of Northcliff Hall Suspend disbelief and have a ball. – Catherine Coulter
The Stone Monkey
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The follow-up to Jeffery Deaver’s massive bestseller The Bone Collector (also a feature film starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington) The Stone Monkey is a “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) addition to the Lincoln Rhyme series.
Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as “the Ghost.”
The Violent Enemy
by Jack Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sean Rogan is waiting for freedom. Convicted of staging jailbreaks for his former compatriots, he’s just biding his time until his pardon comes through as the fighting finally begins to cease. But he doesn’t get a pardon—he gets a daring breakout when his old IRA commander, Colum O’More, arranges for his escape. Because Rogan is needed on the outside.
The organization is waning, and a large cash boost is needed to get it back in fighting form. The job is simple: Hijack a load of paper money marked for destruction and bring it home. But the IRA he knew is no more, and the boys he’s working with aren’t so much patriots as they are treacherous thugs. When the job goes sideways, he learns that loyalty and duty have been replaced by greed and betrayal—and that his friends are no longer very friendly.
Farm Family
by Jane Lee Rankin
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The story of a single mom’s pursuit of a dream to start an alpaca farm in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.
At thirty-seven, Jane Lee Rankin receives news that upends her life: she’s pregnant. Lee is a cancer survivor eighteen months in remission. Her boyfriend won’t commit, and her father is unsupportive. When she decides to raise the baby by herself, Lee feels the scornful glances and judgmental whispers of her conservative hometown.
Armed only with a dream and a toddler, Lee marches into Banner Elk, North Carolina, a place where she knows no one, to start an alpaca farm. As a novice first-generation farmer, Lee faces nature’s most potent setbacks, from disastrous weather events to attacks from predators…