Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Witch In Disguise
by Karen McSpade
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Welcome to Crystal Beach, an enchanting town with a dangerous magical secret.
When psychic witch Sidney Grace discovers a crime wave in Crystal Beach, she’s determined to use her magic to unveil the culprit. But her plans take a dramatic turn when her witchy grandmother enrolls her into a school for magic.
“What? Enrolled me? Into a school for witches? But I’m too old to be in school!” Her telepathic cat, Mojo, agrees…until he finds himself in his own predicament, leaving Sidney to navigate her newfound powers and solve a perilous mystery, one that leads to murder.
Storm Surge
by Logan Ryles
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A city ruled by gangs. A helpless child. Only one man can save her.
As a massive hurricane rolls toward the Louisiana coast, Army veteran Mason Sharpe is sheltering in Mobile, Alabama. There he meets Jessica and her gifted ten-year-old daughter, Autumn, who are fleeing a different kind of storm – an abusive husband and father with violent tendencies.
When Autumn disappears just as the hurricane is about to make landfall, Jessica is certain that Autumn’s deadbeat dad Randy has taken her. She turns to Mason for help.
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The Final Judgment
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling novel by one of today’s great authors of legal thrillers, Richard North Patterson’s The Final Judgment.
A young man has been murdered. His girlfriend, twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen, is found at the scene of the crime. She claims she is innocent—even though she’s dripping in blood, the murder weapon covered with her fingerprints. Enter attorney Caroline Masters, Brett’s estranged aunt. She’s been summoned back to her affluent New England hometown to help Brett out of this mess…and revisit the troubled family she left behind.
Caroline learned a long time ago that the ties that bind can also be broken. Now that she’s back home, she can’t help but doubt her family’s motives—and Brett’s innocence.
Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $0.59 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Embark on another enthralling escapade alongside Lord Peter Wimsey in “Clouds of Witness,” the second installment of Dorothy L. Sayers’ iconic mystery series.
Once more, the aristocratic detective finds himself immersed in a baffling case, this time involving the Duke of Denver, his own brother, who stands accused of murder. Lord Peter Wimsey’s keen intellect and unwavering determination drive him to unravel the complexities of family secrets and political entanglements. As he navigates through the labyrinth of “clouds of witness,” Sayers weaves a tapestry of suspense, wit, and timeless charm.
Christmas Presents
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline’s, who have been missing for nearly a decade. It’s an investigation that has obsessed her father Sheriff James Martin right up until his stroke took his faculties.
Good Friday
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the race to stop a deadly attack just pray she’s not too late . . . March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. When detective constable Jane Tennison survives a deadly explosion at Covent Garden tube station, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness and put under 24-hour police protection. As work continues round the clock to unmask the terrorists, the Metropolitan police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Amid tight security, hundreds of detectives and their wives and girlfriends will be at St Ermin’s Hotel in central London.
Strike Force
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moving from the Pentagon to the Middle East, filled with intrigue, adventure, and danger, this is the latest adrenaline-pumped military thriller from the New York Times bestselling master
When a military coup in Iran leads to a crackdown on religious jihadists, it seems as if a new era is dawning in the Middle East, especially when the new leader, General Buzhazi, seeks to normalize relations with both America and Israel. But the Iranians are not really interested in peace . . .
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Anodyne Necklace
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion.
But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #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.
The Pot Thief Who Studied the Woman at Otowi Crossing
by J. Michael Orenduff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hubert Schuze is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and he has a fairly lucrative side gig digging up ancient relics and selling them. He also seems to have a talent for finding killers. When Hubie discovers a body outside his pottery shop, it appears the victim was stabbed in the back with something resembling a screwdriver. But the story gets a lot more mysterious when a video turns up showing the man collapsing with no one else nearby. Furthermore, a slip of paper is found in his pocket, with Hubie’s name and address on it, suggesting there may be a connection between the two men—though Hubie has no idea what it could be.
Moving Target
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this “engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) suspense novel from New York Times–bestselling author J.A. Jance, journalist-turned-investigator Ali Reynolds unearths a cold case that puts her in danger from a deadly arsonist.
Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender and talented hacker in his own right, is set on fire one night and severely burned while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds’s fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obliged to get to the bottom of what happened. With Ali off in England to help Leland Brooks at a reunion with his long-estranged family, B. turns to someone else to help out—Ali’s good friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm.
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pharmaceutical mishap draws the rabbi into a murder investigation in this New York Times bestseller: “An endearing character . . . a devious plot” (San Diego Union-Tribune).
New Age thinking has come to Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. The recently elected president of Rabbi David Small’s synagogue is intent on using temple money to build a meditation retreat. The congregation is practicing yoga, buying crystals, and reciting chants. When a troubled young man returns to the town after spending time in a controversial Hasidic cult, the rabbi expects him to be another New Ager. But things take a grisly turn away from new-fangled mantras of peace and love when something terribly old fashioned happens: murder.
Exile
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
David Wolfe’s life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he’s a successful San Francisco lawyer, he’s about to get married, and he’s being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif—the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school—he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana herself is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: Will he, a Jew, represent Hana—who may well be guilty—or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget?
Nine Perfect Strangers
by Liane Moriarty
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.
Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back, a broken heart, and an exquisitely painful paper cut. She’s immediately intrigued by her fellow guests. Most of them don’t look to be in need of a health resort at all…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Kissing the Demons
by Kate Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders in the nineteenth century, and also related to the disappearances of two teenage girls. When a student living in the house is found to be brutally murdered, Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is left wondering whether her death has anything to do with the house’s grim history.
As other similar deaths come to light, Joe fears a ruthless killer may be on the prowl – a killer who deprives each victim of one of their five senses…
The Cold Moon
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer’s calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims’ last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius.
Fall from Pride
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A New York Times–bestselling “master of suspense, keeps readers guessing about crime and love . . . [in] this thrilling tale” in the Home Valley Amish series (Booklist, starred review).
Budding artist Sarah Kauffman has turned a few of her community’s barns into works of art, painting intricate murals on their sides to represent a piece of the Amish traditions she loved. But she’s unwittingly invited a menace into the town, as one by one, each barn is set ablaze and destroyed . . .
After the Fire
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat
Before she found fame as a bestselling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel.
Madeleine and Jane
by Emily Fox Gordon
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Madeleine and Jane, both in their early twenties, arrive separately in Manhattan in January 1968.
Jane is an aspiring writer seeking adventure, Madeleine, a fragile young woman fleeing an erotic nightmare. They meet by chance and throw in as roommates, first in an East Village tenement and later, through a stroke of dubious luck, in the luxurious uptown apartment of a mysteriously absent woman. Together and apart, Madeleine and Jane encounter the terrors and excitements—muggings, drugs, sexual freedom and experimentation—that burgeoned in the New York of that era. As the two develop a wary friendship, a self-appointed therapist—one of those Nietzschean characters who sprang up like mushrooms in the soil of the sixties—becomes entangled in their lives and, ultimately, divides them.
The Noise
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
In this cinematic thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, two sisters must fight for their survival after a natural disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse . . .
Grim
by Frank Wheeler
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When Jaxon Grim left home at the age of ten after killing a man, he never thought he’d be back. Fifteen years later, his past has come back to haunt him.
Known to most folks as the Gunman of Sombrales, Jaxon has spent his entire life trying to make up for the mistakes he made. But his newest adversaries are the most dangerous yet.
Li Wei, the Chinese saboteur, who is prepared his quest for vengeance. Victor Bloodstone, the railroad tycoon who is the object of Li’s vendetta. His greed has cost countless lives, but now it’s his own life that hangs in the balance.
If There is Nothing Left – Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
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Then they each received a letter that had the potential to change their lives…
Visit Amanda’s charming hometown for an inspirational saga filled with family and hope that will rivet you with heart-wrenching moments of drama and joy, the discovery of inner strength that’s sometimes difficult to find, family and lasting friendships, an unexpected romance, laughter, love…and sometimes heartbreaking tears…and the magic of promise.
If you enjoy clean romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, You & Me & Us is the series collection for you.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Midnight Shadow
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s not the first time she’s fled for her life. When an armed assailant breaks into her home, geneticist Tari Salah is forced to run from an unknown enemy. The murder of two friends and the bombing of her lab strip her of all her allies. When she’s framed for the crimes and branded a terrorist, she can’t even go to the police for help.
He thought it would be an easy case… he couldn’t be more wrong. Special Agent Dalton Fowler is thrilled when the director of a covert law enforcement agency handpicks him for a sensitive case. Locating and protecting a wrongly accused geneticist should be simple. When he’s shot his second day on the case, he quickly realizes that nothing about the case will be straightforward. Failure won’t just tank his career – it’ll end his life.
Their enemies won’t relent...
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(The Shadows Mysteries)
The Mercedes Coffin
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Billionaire Genoa Greeves believes the LAPD should finally solve the fifteen-year-old execution-style murder of her favorite teacher, Bennett Little—especially now that Hollywood music producer Primo Ekerling has been slain in an eerily similar manner: shot and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz.
Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a cold case simply because a rich woman says, “Jump!”…
Murderous and Desperate 2 Boxed Sets
by Daniel Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Murderous Mind: Five relentless years. Not a single kill. Included in this boxed set:
Hunter
Obsession
Consumed
A Desperate Man: You can’t cage evil. You have to kill it. Included in this boxed set:
A Desperate Man
A Desperate Nation
A Desperate World
Street of the Five Moons
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich’s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It’s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she’s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life — or her heart…
Reckoning
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths.
Dark Side of the Moon
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth with two hundred pounds of rock—as well as something far more dangerous than they could have imagined. For decades, the military concealed the crew’s mysterious discovery. But now a NASA contractor has leaked the intel to conspiring foreign powers, putting in their hands the most powerful weapon of mass destruction yet created.
While FBI profiler Karen Vail and OPSIG Team Black colleague Alexandra Rusakov try to root out the NASA mole and break up the spy ring, covert operatives Hector DeSantos and Aaron Uziel prepare for a mission beyond anything they’ve ever attempted—a spaceflight to the moon itself—to avert a war that could not only disrupt the global balance of power, but also end in catastrophic annihilation…
I Am the Only Running Footman
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Scotland Yard detective investigates an elusive pair of murders in this “intriguing, appealing” entry in the New York Times–bestselling series (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie believes the two murders are connected. And thus, detective Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings.