Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Feline Fatale
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Spring flowers may be about to bloom in Crozet, Virginia, but Harry is thinking about snow. Her dear friend Ned Tucker is in the House of Delegates, advocating for a bill to improve road clearing during bad weather, and Harry and Ned’s wife, Susan, have gone down to the statehouse to support him. Tensions are high between political parties, and no one can agree on anything for long enough to get something done.
The bill’s chief detractor is the glamorous Amanda Fields, a former newscaster turned delegate whose flair for the dramatic has earned her a formidable reputation—and made her more than a few enemies…
She Started It
by Sian Gilbert
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected…
Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends—or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected—but not entirely unwelcome—invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas.
Rebel Slave
by Richard Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Broken by war. Betrayed by a corrupt queen. Imprisoned in a frozen Hell from which no man has ever escaped before.
Charles Raptor is a soldier. Professional. Loyal. Deadly. But after eighteen years of fighting, he has one wish—to retire to a life of peace with a new wife in the country of his birth.
But war isn’t finished with Charles Raptor.
Falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit. Torn from his wife and family. Imprisoned in a mine, a thousand miles from freedom, run by a sadistic overseer, a cruel dwarf who hates all men with a passion…
Traitor In The Scottish Isles
by PAIGE EDWARDS
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release from award-winning and best-selling author PAIGE EDWARDS
An intercepted message. Missing MI6 agents. And a traitor hiding in plain sight.
Reader’s Favorite Five-Star Review: “A modern-day spy thriller set amongst the windswept and remote Scottish Isles of Uist. Fun and exciting! A fast-paced, riveting story.”
To secure her inheritance and escape a scandal not of her making, wealthy socialite Cairstie Henderson relocates to a small town in the Scottish Isles, far from the city lights and runways she once frequented.
The Carlton Smith True Crime Collection
by Carlton Smith
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people—two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father.
Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother. But when his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, law enforcement officials finally took action: The fatal pattern was impossible to ignore.
After The Flash
by Roger Hayden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Solar Flare leaves a small northeastern town in ruins, with no assistance from the government, military, or law enforcement.
In a powerless, desolate small town, Becky and Micah struggle to find essential supplies amidst looted stores and abandoned homes. With hope dwindling, they embark on a perilous journey through the wreckage, driven by a faint glimmer of survival. Each step reveals the harsh reality of their world and the relentless spirit needed to endure. This is a gripping tale of resilience and determination in the face of desolation.
The Second Opinion
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Diagnosed with Aspergers, Dr. Thea Sperelakis has always been an outsider. Despite her brilliant medical mind, she fled the institutional politics of hospitals to work with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. But her rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when her father Petros—himself a renowned doctor—is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver.
At a top-rated Boston hospital, Petros lays in a deep coma. When Thea returns home, she learns that two of her siblings are demanding that treatment be withheld…
The Writer
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.
“This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?” Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Dispatched Trilogy Boxed Set
by P. C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1958-1959
Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has been Royally Dispatched to oversee the final preparations of London’s debutantes. Learning about the mysterious death of their previous trainer sets the stage for high-stakes danger and delightful mayhem. Can the debutantes help Lady Mary uncover the truth, or will they find the killer among them?
In Royally Whacked, Mary accepts an invitation for a summer of leisure—only to find herself caught in a web of deception and murder. The debutantes must put their newly acquired sleuthing skills to the test. Will they unmask the culprit, or have they finally met their match?
Blood Trail
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the mountains of northern California, every shadow hides a killer.
Former CIA operative Kyle Payne is enjoying a motorcycle trip along the West Coast when he’s wrongly arrested for murder in the small town of Absynth, California. After being cleared, he wants to help journalist Eva Daly, sister of the murder victim, to find her brother’s killer.
Their investigation leads them to a sinister agricultural facility where they uncover an international conspiracy to destroy Europe’s food supply.
A ruthless drug kingpin provides security for the operation, and a team of elite German mercenaries eliminates anyone who gets too close to the truth.
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The Devil’s Bones
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The secrets about violent murder are investigated at . . . The Body Farm
A burned car sits on a Tennessee hilltop, a woman’s charred body in the driver’s seat. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton’s job is to discover the truth hidden in the fire-desecrated corpse. Was the woman’s death accidental . . . or was she incinerated to cover up her murder?
But his research into the effect of fl/ame on flesh and bone is about to collide with reality like a lit match meeting spilled gasoline…
Beneath the Bleeding
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and psychologist Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he can gather in order to help his ally, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, bring a killer to justice. Then an explosion rips through a soccer stadium, leaving dozens dead and many more injured, and Jordan finds herself pushed to the margins of the investigation by the intelligence services…
Light It Up
by Nick Petrie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado’s mellowest business, but Ash may find there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry’s son-in-law and the company’s operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry’s daughter and her company vulnerable.
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1. She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2. The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3. She can’t trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family’s dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents’ affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?
A Talent for Murder
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
The Crisis
by T.O. Paine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The Crisis is a breakneck thrill ride — a guaranteed action-packed international conspiracy thriller.
She wants to quit smoking. He wants to start a nuclear war. They both want the girl with the cryptic tattoo.
Stuck working at a backwater convenience store in the middle of northern Florida, Mattie longs for a cigarette. She longs for her days as a marine biologist at the Queen Aquarium down south. She longs for her best friend—Hank the Manatee. Her colleagues blamed her for his death, and now, she blames herself. She should have done something sooner…
The Other Girl
by Erica Spindler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A horrific crime. One witness – a fifteen year old girl from the wrong side of the tracks, one known for lying and her own brushes with the law. Is it any surprise no one believed her?
Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis—but that wasn’t always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She’s worked hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community…
The Jade Stone Sleuth
by Cami Checketts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A security operative navigating his first job. A charitable angel accused of murder. Can Brex discover the truth about the jade stones or will he be the next victim?
Brexten Cabella, a suave but insecure detective trying hard to prove himself, has been hired for his first big job as a security op for the elite Aiden Porter. The case is intriguing–get close to seemingly innocent Clara Gem and prove that she is responsible for the “accidental” death of her three boyfriends with no clues other than a mysterious jade stone at the site of each fatality…
First Spells
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A dark tale of witches, ghosts and magic.
Vianne’s life has never been normal. She sees ghosts and she has an affinity for magic. Now that she’s twelve, her magic is getting stronger and her life is about to get even stranger — and more dangerous. Vianne has been raised by her single mum, Andrea, and knows very little of her other relatives. What she does know is that her mother is terrified by her witch sister, Suzanne. When Vianne’s grandmother becomes seriously ill, Andrea wants to be reunited with her mother, but this is the occasion Aunt Suzanne has been waiting for. Vianne must learn about magic fast, but she has only a cat and a ghost to help her.
The Last Juror
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother rocks the town and thrusts Willie into the center of a storm.
Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie makes as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he sometimes wonders how he got there in the first place. But he can never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain…
The Bone Thief
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The latest Body Farm novel from New York Times bestseller Jefferson Bass, The Bone Thief is a must for fans of Patricia Cornwell and TV’s C.S.I. The hero of four previous thrillers—Carved in Bone, The Devil’s Bones, Flesh and Bone, and Bones of Betrayal—Dr. Bill Brockton must stop a grisly black market dealing in body parts and cadavers in this white-knuckle adventure written by the man widely considered to be the world’s foremost expert in forensic anthropology. Read The Bone Thief and discover why Kathy Reichs calls Bass, “The real deal.”
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Shondaland, She Reads, CrimeReads
Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die.
It turns out that being known as a “self-made” widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It’s even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“Light from an almost full moon bathed the flat expanse of land in a milky glow. A scraggly coyote trotted into sight, and when it stopped a few yards in front of his pickup, Lincoln wrapped his arms around the steering wheel to study the animal. Seconds after hearing the report, bullets pinged off his pickup…”
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
1979
by Val McDermid
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities.
But Allie is a woman in what is still a man’s world. Desperate to get away from the “women’s stories” the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies…
A Nearly Normal Family
by M. T. Edvardsson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume Three
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four razor-sharp thrillers in the long-running series from a New York Times–bestselling author—and “one hell of a writer” (New York Post).
Corruption of Blood,
Falsely Accused,
Irresistible Impulse,
Reckless Endangerment
Handling the Undead
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires.
Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become.
A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.