Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ghost and Mrs. Mewer
by Krista Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wagtail, Virginia, the top pet-friendly getaway in the United States, is gearing up for a howling good Halloween—until a spooky murder shakes the town to its core..
Holly Miller doesn’t believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The TV series in development, Apparition Apprehenders, has descended on Wagtail’s annual Halloween festivities to investigate supernatural local legends, and Holly has her hands full showing the ghost hunters a scary-fun time…
The Band
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Because of Johnny, I went with the band. Because of Kate, I stayed. They played anywhere, all through Appalachia. They were the best show for miles around. But even I didn’t expect Oakville to be the end.
Oakville, WV. It was supposed to be a quiet place: to catch our breaths, to fall in love. It was a chance to know each other completely. As long as Johnny didn’t find out.
It would also be the last show they ever played…
Judgment Call
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
With Judgment Call, Jance achieves a new high in crime fiction, as Brady wrestles with her conflicting roles of law officer and mother when her daughter discovers the murdered body of the local high school principal, and the ensuing investigation reveals secrets no parent wants to hear. At once a breathtaking recreation of the rugged landscape of the American Southwest, a moving story of a mother’s concerns for her endangered child, and thrilling masterwork of brutal crime and expert detection, Judgment Call is prime J.A. Jance, a treat for anyone who loves a good cop story wrapped around a superior family drama.
A Taste For Lies
by LC Whitehouse
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Beauty and the Beast meets Netflix’s Bridgerton in this seductive fantasy romance! The best lies are mostly true.
Alora knows the Guild’s Ten Rules of Spy Craft and Thieving better than anyone. But none of them prepare her for being caught by the terrifying yet undeniably alluring beast prince.
She can’t believe it when instead of devouring her whole, he recruits her for an impossible heist.
The mark? His father, the king.
Omega Cometh
by J. Michael Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Omega Cometh: A Riveting Sci-Fi Thriller by J. Michael Smith
What would you do if Earth’s annihilation was just a decade away?
In Omega Cometh, J. Michael Smith delivers an electrifying tale of survival and intrigue. As the world’s three Superpowers fight over dwindling resources, a washed-up, old-school astronomer discovers the unthinkable: a massive asteroid, set in motion billions of years ago, is racing toward Earth at 22,000 mph.
Global espionage, deep-seated distrust, and political power plays erupt, threatening to derail humanity’s last hope. With time running out, can the fractured nations unite to stop the inevitable, or will their conflicts seal Earth’s doom?
Forever Home
by Graham Norton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel thatcasts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation.
Where do secrets live?
Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging—and sparks a flurry of speculation. What does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned him and his children all those years ago? Carol and Declan know their relationship is the talk of the town, but the gossip only serves to bring the couple closer.
One Last Breath
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rory Abernathy’s wedding to Liam Bastian was supposed to be the event of the season. Instead, it was a bloodbath. Rory fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain targets, she’s made a new life far from Liam and the wealthy, powerful Bastians.
But even in remote Point Roberts, Washington, Rory can’t hide from the past. Liam tracks her down, stunned to learn they have a child. Did someone in Rory’s family try to kill him for his portion of the Bastian estate?
The Haunting of Grayve Cottage
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Standing alone and isolated on the North York Moors, Grayve Cottage might just be the most foreboding place the Pearsons have visited yet. Nobody else lives anywhere near this particular cottage, and the wild landscape seems almost designed to keep all life away.
As they begin their investigations, the Pearsons immediately start to pick up hints of the paranormal. A dark presence haunts the cottage, seeking revenge for a tragedy that occurred many years earlier. Everyone has a theory about this tragedy, but for Rebecca the nightmare might just be personal. Is history about to punish her for a terrible mistake?
Before She Knew Him
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door
From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder . . .
Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death in Small Measures
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A terminal illness wasn’t quick enough. It was one drink too many for 72-year-old Evelyn Guilfoyle, found poisoned the morning after a raucous party. But the woman would have been dead in a few months anyway. Why the hurry…?
Family, friends and neighbors had crammed into the tiny back garden pub that night. Too many suspects, one clever killer. Could this be a case DI Liam McLaughlin and his ragtag team from the Major Investigation Team will never solve?
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(The Derry Murder Mysteries)
Tell No Lies
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community-organizer wife and do the work he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he’s about to start a private practice. But just before his last day on the job, Daniel finds an envelope in his department mailbox—one intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Inside it is an unsigned piece of paper, a note that says only “admit what you’ve done or you will bleed for it.” along with a midnight deadline…which has passed. And the person to whom the envelope was addressed was found brutally murdered…
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Holly
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down.
Seduction in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb comes a tantalizing novel in the futuristic In Death series, as Detective Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction…
Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars…
The Midnight Caller
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Ten years ago, a string of disappearances shook the small town of Harbor Point. The crimes were never solved. Now, a chilling midnight caller is haunting the town’s residents, whispering secrets from the past and leaving a trail of fear in his wake.
Detective Celeste Harrington has built her career on faith, justice, and an unshakable resolve. When eerie phone calls link to unsolved crimes from a decade ago, she refuses to let fear cloud her judgment. But as the midnight calls grow more sinister, she knows she’s running out of time…
MK’s Detective Club
by James Patterson, Keir Graff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s detective club ever. That’s ever.
Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbors behind every apartment door—has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen … until her neighbors start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself…
This page-turning new mystery series is packed with chills, thrills, laughs, and unforgettable characters and will leave kids eager to join the best club around.
Talking God
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, Talking God is the ninth novel featuring beloved characters Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Office Jim Chee
Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors…
The Devil’s Scars
by Marysol James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six years ago, Zoe Parish fled Denver, declaring to never again have anything to do with motorcycle club guys. A horrifying, horrific experience in a bar back room showed her that they’re lower than scum, and Zoe swore to never trust one of those animals to get close to her again. But that was before she became responsible for a baby girl, and before her oldest friend, Wolf Connor, President of The Road Devils MC, begged for her help. Wolf promised her that his club was ‘out of the life’, and that she’d be completely safe… and so Zoe has returned to Denver to work with one of the Road Devils’ businesses. She’s wary, angry, defensive, untrusting, suspicious…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Fallen Man
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper’s bullet.
Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case . . . until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home.
Beware the Midnight Train
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
If you were offered a dream cottage in an English country village and it was dirt cheap, would you go ahead without viewing it? Perhaps you would if you had walked out on a no-good two-timing whatsit and had nowhere else to go. Even the neighbours are great, bit strange perhaps. And the dishy local vicar declares himself willing to help day or night. Night? And what’s this talk about a mysterious Midnight Train…are you sure you’re doing the right thing?
It’s the 1970s and Ellie attempts to make a new life for herself ignoring the gossip about ghosts and disappearing people. Boring? She’ll never be called that again and I think you’ll agree with her…
The Girl Once Known
by R.M. Demeester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
After a violent hit-and-run shatters Mira Harris’s life, she finds herself at a crossroads.
Before the accident, Mira, haunted by a childhood shaped by dysfunction and the recent return of her estranged father, has always sought order to cope. Her relationship with Joseph Oliver, a young man with a troubled past, provided a semblance of balance. But now, with her trust broken and her body battered, to find out who wanted to harm her, she must peel back layers of lies, confronting not just the driver’s identity but the very fabric of her childhood.
As the truth inches closer, Mira and those closest to her face a reality more daunting than her injuries. Is uncovering the truth worth the risk and the personal cost not only to Mira but also to those closest to her?
Blue Labyrinth
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a longtime enemy shows up dead on Pendergast’s doorstep, the murder investigation leads him into his own dark past as a vengeful killer waits in the shadows.
It begins with murder. One of Pendergast’s most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.
The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California’s Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family’s sinister past.
The Joe Hill Collection
by Joe Hill
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heart-Shaped Box,
20th Century Ghosts,
Horns,
NOS4A2
Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror. Read on if you dare to see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
In Too Deep
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is never static. Just when you think you finally have everything under control, that illusion is shattered…and the life you once knew has spun off in unimaginable directions.
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized.
Name Your Price
by Joe R Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Name Your Price” said the Hollywood Lawyer to Professor Eagleman when he called back for the second time to entice him to come to Universal Studios for a trial. Joe Eagleman, tells in this autobiography about this unique experience as well as many other captivating aspects of his journey from a kid on the farm to a professor in demand in Hollywood.
Doctor Eagleman’s early education was in a one-room rural grade school. His invention of an artificial tornado that extended from the ceiling of his laboratory at the University of Kansas resulted in local interest as well as international filming from a news crew from Japan. It later became the subject of a lawsuit between Universal Studios in Hollywood and the Volvo Company.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Bingo Bashed
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Meg Butler sets sail on the Grand Voyager on a luxury world cruise, eager to visit 30 countries before she’s 30. But she hasn’t planned on running into murder!
The ship is hosting a Bingo tournament for the length of the cruise. Several passengers are competing for the grand prize which is rumored to be in six figures. Meg runs into a friendly older man who boasts of being a skilled player. He has developed a fool proof strategy that is guaranteed to win him big money. Meg is warmed by his affectionate manner toward her and feels he is the father figure she has always yearned for…
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(Meg Butler Cruise Cozy Mysteries)
I Remember You
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Her memories are gone. Her husband knows why. Two years ago, Aria West woke up in hospital with a severe head injury and no recollection of her previous life.
Now, she’s a successful sculptor, living in a remote cabin in upstate New York with her husband, Austin. Despite everything that’s happened, she’s living a good life. A peaceful life.
Except for the recurring nightmares – terrifying fragments of the trauma that led to her memory loss. Fragments that do not match Austin’s account of that fateful day.
The Clan of Hogan Falls Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Prepare yourself for these eight stories about female wolf shifters whose lives have been in danger since birth. Abandoned by their clans, they all grew up together and now run a successful bed and breakfast. But it isn’t until they meet their fated mates that everything becomes turbulent again. The enemies have returned, and the women have much more to lose than just their lives. They now also have their hearts on the line…
Danger Close
by Cameron Curtis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
They were powerful and ruthless, but they made one mistake. His name is Breed.
Ex-Delta Force sniper Breed has spent most of his life at war and now he’s trying to make some time for peace. But when a veteran from his old unit is murdered in El Paso, Breed feels duty-bound to bring the killer to justice. A feeling that only grows stronger when his friend’s widow and son are also murdered.
As he uses all his specialist skills to uncover the truth, Breed finds himself working with some unlikely allies – a devious CIA operative, and a determined Latina reporter. Together, they uncover a conspiracy to launch a massive attack on US soil.
East of Evil
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A colossal fortune. A secret reaper. A young woman whose drive for justice makes her the target of dangerous people…
Nefi Jenkins dreams of becoming an FBI agent. After exposing her parents’ heartless killer, the Harvard grad focuses on getting into a stellar criminal justice master’s degree program. But her career goals take a back seat when she inherits a ten-million-dollar trust from her late parents…with a hefty chunk gone.
Can Nefi restore her parent’s wealth before her investigation turns fatal?
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(Compass Crimes Mysteries)
Cop Town
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force tasked with bringing a madman to justice.
Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city’s police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She’s determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way—wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But for a beautiful young woman, life will be anything but easy in the macho world of the Atlanta PD, where even the female cops have little mercy for rookies. It’s also the worst day possible to start given that a beloved cop has been gunned down, his brothers in blue are out for blood, and the city is on the edge of war…
The Queen of Poisons
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The police bring Judith, Suzie, and Becks in to investigate the murder as civilian advisors right from the start, so they have free rein to interview suspects and follow the evidence to their heart’s content… which is perfect because Judith has no time for rules and standard procedure. But this case has the Marlow Murder Club stumped. Who would want to kill the affable mayor of Marlow? How did they even get the poison into his coffee? And is anyone else in danger? The Marlow Murder Club is about to face their most difficult case yet…
Dead Silence
by S.A. Barnes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction!
Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn’t yet ended.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?
What Is My Legacy
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
To heal a world in crisis, we must rethink “legacy”—and commit to something bigger than ourselves.
From the time he was born, Martin Luther King III has carried the weight of his father’s legacy—and his dream of a Beloved Community built on justice, love and equal rights for all. Today, in a world burdened by histories of violence, oppression, racism, poverty, fear and disconnectedness, that dream seems more remote than ever.
In answer to these challenges, Martin has teamed up with his wife and fellow activist, Arndrea Waters King, and legacy architects Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger to find a new way forward…