Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Hands On Homicide
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Almost dying left Corky with a little something extra… The ability to see people’s deepest secrets with a single touch. Not exactly the ideal gift for a professional masseuse.
After surviving a violent attack, Corky’s life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers her new ability to uncover hidden truths just by touching someone. But in a small town already shaken by a mysterious murder, Corky finds herself questioning everything.
Is her newfound power a blessing—or a dangerous burden? Did the villain target her personally, or was she simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? Will Corky be able to control her abilities before they expose her to even more danger?
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(Massage and Murder Mysteries)
Long Time Gone
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . . .
A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney’s Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead the investigation into a half-century-old murder. An eyewitness to the crime, a middle-aged nun, has now recalled grisly, forgotten details while undergoing hypnotherapy.
It’s a case as cold as the grave, and it’s running headlong into another that’s tearing at Beau’s heart: the vicious slaying of his former partner’s ex-wife…
The First Beaufont Boxed Set
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s time for a Medieval dragonrider to fix the modern world.
Six-hundred years ago, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg and buried it. Now it’s time for that egg to finally hatch. It’s time for Gen Beaufont to be the rebel she always dreamed of. Gen, a resident of 15th-century England, finds herself stuck in modern day America – all because she was overly curious and followed strangers through a time travel gate.
Two things have always gotten Gen in trouble: her curiosity and defiance. But times have changed, quite literally. Those traits could save her life…
Implicating Claudia
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Haunted by death and hunted by a killer.
Marine reservist Claudia McIntyre is on the wrong end of a murder investigation. Seeking refuge in an isolated farmhouse, she discovers that the killer has unfinished business with her. With the help of Dawson Montgomery, a former neighbor turned love interest, Claudia fights to survive and protect those she loves.
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(Endless Mountain Series)
False Prophet
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn’t know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home – and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his pregnant young wife, Rina Lazarus, at home, Peter finds it hard to put much credence in the victim’s outrageous claims, or to become too deeply involved with her equally odd brothers and aging film star mom.
The Retreat
by Sarah Pearse
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They couldn’t wait to stay here. An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation—but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed.
But now they can’t leave. A young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn’t a guest—she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all.
And they would do anything to escape.
Fragments of Fright Complete Series
by Steve Hudgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
DO YOU LIKE SCARY STORIES? “Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!” VICTOR MILLER – Writer of Friday the 13th
All 5 volumes of the International Bestselling series Fragments of Fright bundled into one gigantic convenient collection! Over 115 Tales of Terror told in a true story style that will curdle your blood and send shivers down your spine!
“I really enjoy Steve Hudgins stories. They’re a fast easy read, but you’re easily drawn into the drama and they always strike a visceral chord. Some are terrifying, some push our desire for revenge, some are just disgusting, but my favorites usually have me laughing out loud at a surprise ending. I love how Hudgins can come up with something brand new or put a unique spin on an old classic.” by Amazon Customer
Any Body Can Heal
by Sara Davidson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this powerful and deeply personal work of nonfiction, survivor and psychotherapist Sara Davidson explores one of life’s devastating but all too pervasive realities—trauma, and its rippling aftereffects.
By her mid-thirties, Sara Davidson had fled a tsunami, fought off a knife-wielding thief and survived a horrific sexual assault by two masked gunmen who burst through her bedroom door in the middle of the night. As she was struggling to confront her own trauma, she was also helping her clients navigate theirs. At one point, she thought she had recovered. However, it was only after delving into the neuroscientific literature on trauma and discovering how her brain had protected her in her darkest hour that she found her way to true healing.
Random in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd.
Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life.
It’s the last night of her life.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Fatal Obsession
by Faith Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don’t miss Faith Martin’s fiendishly clever new novel, Murder by Candlelight, set in the 1920s and described as ‘the perfect village mystery’ by J.M. Hall
‘A brilliant book! The pairing of Ryder and Loveday is a stroke of genius.’ Clare Chase, author of the Eve Mallow and Tara Thorpe mysteries
Oxford, 1960. There’s a murderer on the loose and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case.
Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday – smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated…
The Perfect Daughter
by Iris Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A perfect daughter. A perfect monster.
When Anna and David adopt twelve-year-old Mia, it feels like their family is finally complete. She’s polite, intelligent, and eager to please—everything they’d hoped for. But when Mia’s behavior toward Anna turns cold and unsettling while remaining perfect for David, cracks begin to show.
Small accidents around the house, strange conversations, and moments that don’t add up leave Anna questioning her own sanity. As the tension builds, she realizes that bringing Mia into their home wasn’t just a mistake—it might destroy their family forever.
Lacey’s Star
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Was it an accident? Or was it murder? Private pilot Cassie Deakin lands in the middle of an unwanted adventure and reluctantly agrees to team up with Deputy Frank White to investigate the mysterious death of young Lacey Alderson.
But as Cassie and Frank peel back the layers of one mystery, they uncover deep and sinister secrets in the rural community Lacey’s family lived in. Armed with only a single, cryptic clue to the death of the child, Cassie makes a crucial discovery that lands her in the crosshairs of a murderer.
Seconds Away
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This action-packed second book in international bestseller Harlan Coben’s Mickey Bolitar young adult series follows Mickey as he continues to hunt for clues about the Abeona Shelter and the mysterious death of his father—all while trying to navigate the challenges of a new high school.
When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey and his loyal new friends—sharp-witted Ema and the adorkably charming Spoon—find themselves at the center of a terrifying mystery involving the shooting of their classmate Rachel. Now, not only does Mickey need to keep himself and his friends safe from the Butcher of Lodz, but he needs to figure out who shot Rachel—no matter what it takes.
The Mapping of Love and Death
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
August 1914. As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in California’s beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe—and duty-bound to his father’s native country, the young cartographer soon sets sail for England to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.
Blood Is Not Enough
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper exploration of their inner lives. Expanding the concept of vampirism to include the draining of a person’s will or life force, Datlow’s collection transcends the traditional “black capes and teeth marks on the neck” to reinvent an eternally fascinating subgenre of horror.
The Picture House Murders
by Fiona Veitch Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder is no occupation for a lady… or is it?
1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she threw herself into a degree in chemistry, with aspirations to become a scientist in her own right.
But the world isn’t ready for Clara. Unable to land a job in science because she’s a woman, she is stuck behind the desk at a dingy London library…
After the Lights Collection
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Luke Stephens is a carpenter from Spokane, WA, where he grew up. He has worked hard to grow his business and his family. But after an EMP strike shuts down the nation’s power grid, he must collect his scattered family from the chaos of the city before a wildfire threatens to burn the city to ash. But the EMP and the wildfire are just the tip of the iceberg.
“Very good , gets you involved early on and just keeps getting better. READ. Finished the series Nd it was really good. Sucked in right away and enjoyed all the pages.” by Amazon Customer
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
by Rex Cole
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you had one hundred years of wisdom and experience-on the day you were born?
Your attitude about life is different now than it was years ago. And it will be different years from now. Have you ever remembered a choice you made and wondered what your life would look like today had you chosen differently? Bob Carson has been given the gift, or perhaps the curse, of living his long life two ways-both from birth to death and from death to birth. “Forward Bob”-who’s aging chronologically-goes through life figuring things out through the usual ages and stages, with the successes, failures, and mistakes we all make while experiencing life. “Backward Bob,” who has the presumed advantage of approaching each day with the wisdom of a long and well-lived life, takes a different path.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Lemonberry Tea
by Darci Hannah
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 45 #ad
Lindsey’s patrons have a new outdoor patio where they can eat their treats in the glorious summer weather. But even more exciting is that the Beacon Bakeshop is going to host British celebrity chef Vivi Lemonberry—and what could be a more appropriate event than a tea party?
What Lindsey didn’t realize is that Vivi is here to put some distance between herself and her recent professional and personal scandals. Despite assurances that Vivi is as sweet as a chocolate-dipped strawberry, Lindsey is cooling rapidly toward the culinary icon . . .
As Time Goes By
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark crafts a thrilling mystery in which a news reporter develops an interest in her birth parents just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband.
Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom when she begins covering a sensational murder trial. She should be thrilled with the story of her career, but her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. When Delaney’s friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not want to reveal…
Treasure Coast
by James Foley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A stunning island with turquoise waters, billowing palm trees, and nesting sea turtles is the stuff of dreams. But the dark nights on the beaches of Florida’s Treasure Coast hide dangerous secrets that can turn those dreams into nightmares.
Miami homicide detective, Lisa Owens, doesn’t trust other cops. After the murder of her fiancé was left unsolved, she vowed to make a difference by becoming one herself. Obsessed with getting killers off the streets and bringing justice to grieving families, she buries herself in her work while staying stuck in the past…
A Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.
At a moonlit Indian ruin where “thieves of time” ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist…
Impulse
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rafaella Holland discovers that her “real” father is powerful arms dealer Dominick Giovanni, all she can think about is vengeance. Vengeance for what he did to her now comatose mother. To gather enough proof to send him to prison for the rest of his miserable life, Rafaella will have to travel to the private island compound in the Caribbean where he runs his operations.
Marcus Devlin manages the resort on Giovanni’s Island, a private playground for the wealthy and powerful. He’s very good at what he does, but Rafaella wonders if he’s really what he seems…
No Rest for the Dead
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman. Tess Gerritsen. J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. John Lescroart. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline. Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names that make up the all-star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead, a tale of vengeance, greed, and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, “as it passes from one creator’s mind to the next.”
When a ruthless curator at San Francisco’s McFall Art Museum is murdered, his wife is the primary suspect. She is tried, convicted, and executed…
The Guardians
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young Black man who was once a client of Russo’s.
Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister…
Bellevue
by Robin Cook
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 3.7
From the bestselling author and “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical advances in the history of medicine.
Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he’s always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes. As he tries to juggle these inexplicable deaths with the demands of being a first-year resident, things rapidly spiral out of control.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Postscript Murders
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie.
The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing…
The Renegades
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Three princes fighting for a crown. Three princesses fighting for their lives.
When Iiriniss rescues a severely wounded prince from an ambush, she fears that nothing good will come of it. She and her sisters know his father, King Jethron Bloodthorne, too well since he took everything from them—their family, their land, their freedom.
Iiriniss has sworn to avenge her father, but she can’t let Prince Terven die. She has a debt to repay to him. And the more time she spends with him, the more she realises that he is not like his father and his two brothers…
The Protector
by Gloria Repp
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A heart divided . . . An enemy unseen . . . A riddle of trust.
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, must defend her home in the Pine Barrens while she struggles to revive her career and salvage a long-distance romance. What is God doing? And who can she trust?
“Your characters come to life with the details you write. Story line was intriguing and kept me up reading many hours past my bedtimes. Hate that the series is over but look forward to starting another. Thank you for all your research and the time you spent writing books for me to enjoy.” by Amazon Customer
Fatal Jealousy
by Colin McEvoy, Lynn Olanoff
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Out of control
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: “I just killed everybody.”
Out of his mind
The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic “hot” virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their “crashes” into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
Die Trying
by Lee Child
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them both—from the inside out—or die trying….
The Last Bird of Paradise
by Clifford Garstang
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two women, nearly a century apart, seek to rebuild their lives when they reluctantly leave their homelands. Arriving in Singapore, they find romance in a tropical paradise, but also find they haven’t left behind the dangers that caused them to flee.
In the aftermath of 9/11 and haunted by the specter of terrorism, Aislinn Givens leaves her New York law practice and joins her husband in Southeast Asia when he takes a job there. Seeking to establish herself in a local law firm, Aislinn begins to understand the historic resentment of foreigners who have exploited the region for centuries. Learning about the turmoil of Singapore’s colonial period, she acquires several paintings done by an English artist during World War I that she believes are a warning to her…
Alone in the Woods
by Charly Cox
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The parents are dead. The girls are hiding. The killer is still inside the house.
Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone call from their teenage daughter Addis, and her best friend Emerson, quickly alerts the authorities to the killings.
But when detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad appear at the house, the unthinkable has happened. The girls are nowhere to be found… and neither is the killer…
The German Numbers Woman
by Alan Sillitoe
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.
A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one of Britain’s most renowned postwar writers. Though Howard cannot see, he is able to view the world through the radio waves, eavesdropping on global affairs and secret transmissions with his mastery of Morse code. But when Howard becomes obsessed with the voice of a female sailor and her mysterious communications with her lover, his own relationship begins to dissolve.
The Patriot Oath
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He fought for his country. Now he’s home and engaged in the deadliest of battles.
Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he’ll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family’s Montana ranch on an undercover mission. And though he’s anxious to see the high school sweetheart he abandoned a lifetime ago, the dedicated Marine’s greatest concern is tracking down a dangerous neo-Nazi cell.
Juggling unresolved feelings for the woman he left behind, a sister expecting him to avenge her brutal rape, and keeping his own covert activities secret, Josh discovers the threat to the US is bigger than anyone previously thought. And when a member of his team goes MIA and the danger creeps perilously close to home, the talented military man fears he’ll lose everything he holds dear…