Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Sugar Plum Poisoned
by Jenn McKinlay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest lounge every night.
After overhearing Shelby in a heated argument with her manager, Mel is concerned, but she and the crew decide to make the best of their time working with the star. Just as the bakers fall into the rhythm of the job, Shelby’s manager is found dead, clutching a bit of fabric from a Santa suit and a cupcake…
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.3 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system? Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
The 13-Minute Murder
by James Patterson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
113 Minutes: Molly Rourke’s son has been murdered — and she knows who’s responsible. Now she’s taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother’s love.
13-Minute Murder: Michael Ryan can kill anybody in just minutes — from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served him well, and he has a grand plan: to get out alive and spend his earnings with his beloved wife, Maria.
An anonymous client offers Ryan a rich payout to assassinate a target in Harvard Yard. It’s exactly the last big job he needs to complete his plan…
The Mozart Conspiracy
by Scott Mariani
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When former operative Ben Hope is enlisted by his first love, the beautiful singer Leigh Llewellyn, to investigate her brother’s death, their search leads to the blood-soaked puzzle dating back to the eighteenth century: the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The famous composer was a noted Freemason. Was he killed by a shadowy splinter group of the organization?
The official report states that Leigh’s brother Oliver died in a tragic accident, but the day he died, he sent Leigh all the files concerning his unfinished book on Mozart…
December Park
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Piper has come to take the children away . . .
In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone sees his first dead body. The murder is linked to the Piper, the possible abductor of three other children – who haven’t been found – over the past few months.
Some people in town say the woods are haunted, but Angelo and his friends head in anyway, to search the darkness for a monster. What they find there will change who they are – and everything they once believed in…
Jack Reacher: One Shot
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter–a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right–and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.
The Christmas Train
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A journalist on a cross-country Christmas train scales the rugged terrain of his own heart in this New York Times bestselling holiday tale that inspired the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie!
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people’s essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
The Lewis Trilogy
by Peter May
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The isle of Lewis is a land of strange beauty, harsh living and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. Detective Inspector Fin Macleod returns from Edinburgh to the island of his childhood to investigate a series of brutal killings. As old memories resurface and old friends reappear, Fin realizes that returning to the past will lead him into danger.
The Blackhouse
The Lewis Man
The Chessmen
The Art of Betrayal
by Connie Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In Connie Berry’s third Kate Hamilton mystery, American antique dealer Kate Hamilton’s spring is cut short when a body turns up at the May Fair pageant.
Spring is a magical time in England–bluebells massing along the woodland paths, primrose and wild thyme dotting the meadows. Antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is spending the month of May in the Suffolk village of Long Barston, enjoying precious time with Detective Inspector Tom Mallory. While attending the May Fair, the annual pageant based on a well-known Anglo-Saxon folktale, a body turns up in the middle of the festivities.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Brunch With Death
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Fall has painted Ashland, Oregon, with a brush of jewel tones. Everyone’s favorite artistic director, Lance, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is in a sparkling mood. Things are winding down at the theater, and he’s already planning a spectacular lineup for next season. There’s only one problem–cash. Lance’s lavish productions don’t come cheap. So when the dreaded Richard Lord, owner of the Merry Windsor Hotel, approaches Lance about partnering for an upcoming brunch show, Lance can’t turn him down.
A Firm Place to Stand
by Lori Altebaumer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
She blames herself for the suicide of a teenage boy. Now Maribel Montgomery is either being stalked or losing her mind.
A job at a camp in the rustic and often rugged landscape of West Texas offers Maribel Montgomery a chance to escape both, especially if she makes sure no one knows she’s there. But when the body of a woman washes up in the river on her first morning, her hope of a safe place to start over is swept away.
Circumstances force her into the acquaintance of Conner Pierce—a man with secrets of his own…
Camino Winds
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The master of the legal thriller sweeps you away to paradise for a little sun, sand, mystery, and mayhem. With Camino Winds, America’s favorite storyteller offers the perfect escape. Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen – even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime…
Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm.
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A groundbreaking project. A chance to cure the criminal mind. A vivid hope that spirals into a nightmare of human frailty and murder.
Rand Aroyan thrives on ambition. A rising star in academic circles, the thirty-five-year-old philosophy professor has already earned work as a medical ethics consultant for research into revolutionary gene therapy. And he anticipates further accolades as a study kicks off to turn a narcissistic no-good into a healthy member of society… until the subject turns violent and escapes…
By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to today’s readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more.
Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep…
The Girls Who Disappeared
by Claire Douglas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls.
A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . .
In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night.
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it. It is based on actual events depicted exactly as they happened while travelling the heartbreaking and harrowing road through this horrific illness. Its purpose is to give guidance and insight to others caring for loved ones with this terrible affliction, whether it is in providing helpful information, feelings of support or simply words of encouragement. Most importantly, the hope is that it will make the road for others an easier one to travel. May the many tears in this journey be the fortitude that helps others deal with the adversity from this overwhelming disease.
Miracle at St. Andrews
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews—the birthplace of golf—on a search for greatness.
If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top.
Though nobody has ever identified a single secret—no universally accepted truth—to the sport, every real player searches for one. Travis McKinley is one such seeker.