Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Vinland
by Alyssa Maxwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the contrast of the Viking warrior–inspired elements in the house and the admirable but admittedly genteel cause of bird protection. Vinland bears the name of the Vikings’ first landfall in North America, but in this room today there is most assuredly no one to fear…
Three Times A Killer
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three ways to die, one baffling case.
DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D’Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless indigent who spent his days hanging out on the street corner. He rarely asked for handouts but did occasionally burst into song. Nobody would kill him for that, would they?
Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home…
Dirty Job
by Sabrina Hollands
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Reality TV star Jake Stillwater thrives on charm, danger, and his million-dollar smile as the host of the hit show America’s Worst Jobs. But when tough-as-nails camerawoman Tess Hardy joins his crew, she’s not impressed by his celebrity persona. Tess sees the womanizing player beneath the surface—and she’s not afraid to call him out.
Sparks fly both on and off set as Tess shakes up Jake’s all-male production team. What begins as an enemies-to-lovers clash transforms when a dangerous prank unveils the fierce, talented woman behind the lens. Jake is captivated by the fiery chemistry between them, but Tess’s trust isn’t easy to earn.
The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more…
Death of a Gingerbread Man
by Lee Hollis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a killer Christmas in more ways than one in the latest Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails mystery set in Bar Harbor, Maine.
With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails columnist and restauranteur Hayley Powell has lots to check off her last-minute to-do list. Not included is the sudden arrival of her father, who hasn’t been in the picture since she believed in Santa Claus. Dwight Jordan’s presence in Bar Harbor might just be the unwanted gift that keeps on giving—especially after he becomes the top suspect in a case of yuletide murder…
The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past…
To Die For
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.
Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
The Moonlighters Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Terri Blackstock’s bestselling Moonlighters trilogy—now available in one volume!
Truth Stained Lies: When truth doesn’t make sense, will lies prevail?
Distortion: A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences.
Twisted Innocence: Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.
Holmes Is Missing: Patterson’s Most-Requested Sequel Ever
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster…
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole
by Jesse Storm
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U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole is called upon to restore peace and stop a gang from attacking a sacred site of the Apaches.
The small town of Thunder Ridge is built near an ancient Apache ruins, where whispers of hidden treasure stir excitement. A notorious gang led by Lucas Crane rides into town, seeking gold and priceless artifacts rumored to be buried by Apache ancestors.
The town’s peace crumbles when its residents start fearing the outlaws’ greed might provoke a war with the Apache tribe.
Silent Caravan
by Frank Wheeler
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A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Amos Cole has always known hardship, but after his wife’s murder, survival isn’t about himself.
It’s about his six-year-old daughter, Lulu.
Desperate for a fresh start, Amos joins a wagon train heading west, where the promise of a new life is too enticing to dismiss.
What he doesn’t expect to find on the trail is love—or death.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
This Rough Magic
by Mary Stewart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Join the original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart, as she leads you on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence . . .
Lucy Waring, a young, out-of-work actress from London, leaps at the chance to visit her sister for a summer on the island paradise of Corfu, and what’s more, a famous but reclusive actor is staying in a villa nearby.
But Lucy’s hopes for rest and romance are shattered when a body washes up on the beach and she finds herself swept up in a chilling chain of events…
Y is for Yesterday
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace.
Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison…
Stalks
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
WHEN LIZ SAID YES TO JARED, SHE’D NEVER DREAMED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT…
Liz Martel receives a romantic proposal from her affluent boyfriend, Jared Galbraith, during a picnic in rural Maine. However, their idyllic day takes a dark turn, and they find themselves lost in the woods.
Liz and Jared are rescued by two seemingly kind strangers who bring them back to their farmhouse. Unfortunately, these strangers have plans of their own for the newly engaged couple…
The Yellowstone Campaign
by Tim Piper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fall 2024 The BookFest Second Place Award for Young Adult Historical Fiction
For decades, mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River, and Jubilee Walker, to the dismay of his fiancée, Nelly Boswell, can’t resist the opportunity to see it for himself. When Jubil joins an expedition to explore the region, he and his companions brave an unforgiving wilderness to find that the truth is even stranger than the legends.
But a year later, when Jubil returns with a survey crew, he finds ruthless men exploiting the region for profit. Will Jubil’s commitment to preventing the despoilment of Yellowstone’s geographical wonders get him killed?
The Shadow Wars
by Rod Rees
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Rod Rees’s riveting dystopian saga continues with The Shadow Wars, the spellbinding sequel to The Demi-Monde: Winter.
First Daughter Norma Williams finds herself stranded in the sinister cyber-world of the not-so-distant future that’s inhabited by some of history’s most menacing villains. Betrayed by those she thought were friends, she must lead the resistance against a terrifying force if she wants to survive…
The Paradise Trilogy
by Ted Dekker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Showdown
Saint
Sinner
“Great books and at a brilliant price can’t complain loving everything about the package and the arrival time and how the other books all came together..!” by Amazon Customer
Gaman
by Kenichi Yabusaki
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
GOLD award winner 2024 from the Nonfiction Authors Association.
FINALIST, Global Book Awards
The Story of a Japanese American Prisoner in a War That Never Ended
Kenichi K. Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent, primarily on the West Coast, were forced into ten main concentration camps across the continental US with no due process.
The demoralizing effects of that horror in American history remained with those who survived, Ken tells how it affected the lives of his grandparents, his parents, his sister, and himself…
Dark Visions
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An electrifying thriller from the international bestselling author of The Reckoning, Cain, and Hunter. “Huggins writes like a man possessed.”—Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author
Joe Mac was a legendary homicide detective until his vision was lost in the line of duty and he was forced into retirement. Now he lives a life of darkness, his only friend being a huge Raven that Joe Mac names “Poe.”
But when Joe Mac’s grandson is murdered by an unknown killer, Joe emerges from his self-imposed solitude to resurrect the skills of the detective he once was. And, although he is blind, Joe Mac begins to hunt down his tiny grandson’s murderer…
The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis
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From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Others
by Evette Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
True Blood meets Supernatural in the kickoff of this urban paranormal fantasy series from an acclaimed author. Readers enter a dystopian San Francisco filled with empaths and vampires embroiled in political unrest—and Book 1 is just the beginning.
Much as she wishes otherwise, superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd was born a powerful empath. It’s a legacy she walked away from long ago—but when she wakes up one morning to find Elsa, a tenacious time-walker, standing in her kitchen, she realizes she can no longer ignore her gifts. She is quickly plunged into the hidden world of powerful “Others” and drafted to work for the Council, a shadowy organization that summons the fog to San Francisco to obscure their involvement in human affairs…
Power
by Howard Fast
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Howard Fast’s thrilling story of Benjamin Holt, mineworker and hero of the modern labor movement
Benjamin R. Holt, the tough-as-nails leader of the International Miners Union, has a grand and controversial plan: to unite American coal miners in a major strike. His goal is not to advance any political cause, but simply to grab as much power as he can for the miners, and by any means necessary. Based on the life story of John L. Lewis, who for forty years served as president of the United Mine Workers of America, Power is an unforgettable portrait of one man whose courage changed the lives of countless others.
Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this New York Times bestselling novel, master of suspense Michael Crichton delivers an irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World—a classic story of treasure and betrayal.
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease—or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it.
The End of October
by Lawrence Wright
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—a riveting thriller and “all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation” (The Wall Street Journal).
At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution…
A Beautiful Couple
by Leslie Wolfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Her husband killed someone. She’s the only witness.
Amanda Davis has it all: a beautiful home, a thriving career, and a charismatic husband who is the darling of television news. But when Paul kills someone in a disturbing accident, Amanda’s perfect world shatters. Pulled into a web of manipulation, deceit, and dark secrets, she becomes his unwilling accomplice, trapped in a twisted, dangerous existence that tests the limits of love and loyalty.
As the weight of the secret bears down, Amanda begins to see a side of Paul she’s never known—cold, manipulative, and dangerously unpredictable…
The Best Cadet
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Paul Wildman is an out-of-control college student who hates bullies. Saint Michael’s Military Academy is a private military school that disciplines out-of-control college students. The academy is being bullied by an unscrupulous businessman. The out-of-control college student and private military academy are unaware they desperately need one another.
Paul Wildman is forced by his wealthy family to attend the private military academy. The private military academy is forced to accept Paul Wildman because of financial considerations…
Let the Old Dreams Die
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A classic short story collection from the writer called Sweden’s Stephen King that continues the breathtaking story begun in the internationally acclaimed classic Let the Right One In
Because of the two superb films made of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire masterpiece Let the Right One In, millions of people around the world know the story of Oskar and Eli and of their final escape from Blackeberg at the end of the novel. Now at last, in “Let the Old Dreams Die,” the title story in this absolutely stunning collection, we get a glimpse of what happened next to the pair.
Holmes Is Missing
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Tug of Attraction
by Ashlyn Chase
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Failed actress Brigit Love moved back to New Hampshire from Hollywood with one goal: to have a child. So far her only babies are furry and live at the animal shelter where she works. Brigit isn’t willing to marry to get what she wants, so doing things in “the correct order” may not be possible. Even her Wiccan spells don’t seem to be working. Until she comes up with an outrageous idea that just might do the trick.
Handsome tugboat captain Ethan Cox loves his life as a happy bachelor and his only goal is to keep things exactly the way they are. No wonder his coven friend Brigit thinks he’d be the perfect guy to plant the seed and walk away whistling, especially with an iron clad contract protecting his interests.
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #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.
Can Rand put aside his own hubris long enough to stop the rising body count?
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister…
Daniel Hurst’s Box Set
by Daniel Hurst
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INTRODUCING FOUR GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS BY DANIEL HURST.
Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Mark Edwards and K L Slater.
THE PASSENGER
THE BOYFRIEND
THE BREAK
THE NEW FRIENDS
BONE ECHO
by Debra Webb, Peggy Webb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Just when you thought the past was dead and buried…the echoes remind you that you can never outrun all your demons.
Police Chief Kurt Nichols moved to the coast of Maine to escape the tragedy of his past–his murdered wife, his bad habits. But mostly he needed to land some place safe and peaceful to raise his teenage daughter and L.A. just wasn’t that place.
But now a double homicide has him scrambling to find a heinous killer…a killer who might know Kurt and his daughter all too well.
Loss of Innocence
by Davi Patterson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane – spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha’s Vineyard – life could not be safer, nor the future more certain.
Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be.
The Things We Do for Love
by Kristin Hannah
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman…
A Clash of Kings
by George R. R. Martin
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A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside.
The Haunting of Ashburn House
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and restless ghosts still walk the halls. They say it’s the dwelling place of something cruel and sinister. But when Adrienne―desperate and in need of a place to stay―inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline… until darkness falls.
Strange messages are etched into the walls. Furniture moves when she leaves the room. There’s something here―something powerful, angry, and hell-bent on shaking things up. Worse, a grave hidden in the depths of the forest hints at a terrible, unforgivable secret.