Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Baubles to Die ForA Shell Isle Mystery
by Tonya Penrose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mystery, Women Sleuths, Crime, Investigation, Murder, Cozy, Puzzles
Gifted sleuth Page Wright’s inner world is anything but ordinary, yet her outer world craves a revamp from her mountain bookshop’s continuing demands. A summer escape to her beloved cottage on Shell Isle with cousin Betsy Ross always promised fun and relaxation…until this latest holiday. Two constants exist that Page can’t escape: Betsy’s spicy culinary fiascos she’s obliged to chase with endless antacids, and the special guidance she receives from ‘inklings’ when her sleuthing gifts are needed.
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Echoes in the Fog
by B.R. Wade, Nancy M Wade
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The fog rolls in thick off the northern California coast, swallowing streets and hiding things that don’t want to be seen. Footsteps echo in the fog as a stalker pursues her. Is he for real or only in her nightmares? Molly Reiner, now Linda Boyer, came to Sebastopol to disappear. With a new name and a quiet job at the town library, she’s determined to leave her violent past behind. But when a stranger begins watching her from a distance, and anonymous texts reveal someone knows exactly where she is, Linda realizes her past hasn’t let go.
Then a young patrolman is gunned down outside the home where she’s been staying. Police Sergeant John McQuade is sworn to protect his town, even as the case becomes personal. With the help of Woody, a relentless private investigator who suspects a dangerous leak inside law enforcement, John uncovers a web of old testimony, criminal ties, and unfinished revenge.
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
by Eric Nylund
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The New York Times bestseller—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!
The twenty-sixth century: Once considered clandestine, the Spartan-II program has now gone public. Tales of armored super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultra-secret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as “Section Three” devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. It will need hundreds of willing soldiers, though—and one more Spartan—to get the job done.
Blood Red Snow
by Günter K. Koschorrek
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A German soldier recounts his experience serving along the deathly cold Eastern Front, fighting the Russian army in World War II.
Gnter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
House of Ghosts
by Matt Drabble
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Lucy Sheppard hadn’t been back to the small town of Woodforge Valley in a long time, but it still didn’t seem long enough since she’d set foot inside the black hole of terror that had once been her childhood home.
The family run care home had closed its doors some time ago and her mother had spent her final months fading away inside the manor house walls. The large building and sprawling grounds have seen better days, a once proud beacon on the local map now lies in tatters as it begins to die and crumble…
Anna
by Terry Toler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jamie Austen joins forces with homicide detective Cliff Ford to solve a murder in Chicago.
A gripping page-turner from International #1 International Best-Selling Author, Terry Toler.
When Cliff meets a mysterious woman in a coffee shop, he feels a spark. A few hours later, he’s summoned to the morgue and is shocked to find the body of a woman, a Jane Doe, who looks exactly like Anna!
Are they the same person? Is it possible? Will he risk everything for a woman he barely knows?
Up Country
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before.
Brenner reluctantly accepts out of curiosity and loyalty … and maybe a touch of boredom. He won’t be bored for long. Back in Vietnam, Brenner meets expatriate Susan Weber, a woman as exotic, sensual, and dangerous as the nation of her voluntary exile.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go
by Joy Alicia
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Writer’s Digest Humor winner. Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable Mention winner, Readers’ Favorite Finalist winner. Amazon’s #1 in “Humor” month after month.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds-barred collection of essays that turns life’s messiest moments into empowering, relatable, and wildly entertaining stories.
Written by stand-up comic Joy Alicia, this raw guide of 19 standalone essays is a bold invitation to laugh through the hookups, heartbreak, ghosting, toxic friendships, and all the awkward first dates in between.
Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45
She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him—hard. It happens sometimes, a powerful connection with a perfect stranger takes you by surprise. Could it be love?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hot Six
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.
Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He’s at the scene, he’s with the victim, and he’s the number-one suspect. Ranger is former special forces turned soldier of fortune. He has a blue-chip stock portfolio and no known address. He moves in mysterious circles. He’s Stephanie’s mentor–the man who taught her everything she knows about fugitive apprehension. And he’s more than her friend.
Out of Jurisdiction
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two time zones. Same body count.
DI Liam McLaughlin thought he’d left murder behind in Derry. The body found in a field under a full moon was bad enough—savaged, staged, and whispered about as something not quite human. But when McLaughlin travels to Egypt for a long-overdue holiday with his teenage daughter, death isn’t finished with him yet.
On a Nile cruise crowded with international tourists, he crosses paths with a group of mature students from Derry. When their charismatic lecturer, Dr. Maggie McCracken, is found dead during a nighttime visit to an ancient temple, McLaughlin is suddenly hunting a killer on foreign soil—alone.
The Fallen
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town—and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New York Times bestseller.
Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes—obscure bible verses, odd symbols—have the police stumped.
Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene.
Fantastic Revelations Vol. 1
by Grant Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
These five tales explore the resilience of the innocent when confronted with unbridled wickedness in its various forms.
The Last Weeping Willow
Battle of the Marne
Gonzalez House Murders
Kos-Soo-Kah’s Lost Arrow
Check’s Mate
Death’s Door
by Michael Slade
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Canadian Mountie Robert DeClercq and his Special X team are facing down a stolen mummy with a trail of corpses in its wake. The question is: Is this the work of one killer? Or is it some sort of diabolical conspiracy? DeClercq’s investigation leads him to a local porn king who specializes in snuff videos and a fresh trail of mutilated female bodies being dumped around the Gulf Islands. But just when DeClercq narrows in on the criminality behind these abominable murders, an old enemy returns. Not only is Mephisto determined to destroy DeClercq once and for all, but this megalomaniac won’t stop until he puts all of humanity at the brink of Death’s Door…
White Fire
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly arsonist. In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue grizzly bear. Corrie Swanson has arranged to examine the miners’ remains. When she makes a shocking discovery, town leaders try to stop her from exposing their community’s dark and bloody past.
Just as Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to rescue his protege, the town comes under siege by a murderous arsonist who-with brutal precision-begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside…
Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
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Untouchable
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Special Agent Constant Marlowe, a quiet college town hides a nest of malice and revenge in this twisty novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.
Special Agent Constant Marlowe is passing through the charming college town of Prescott, Illinois, when a chance encounter with a terrified student stops her in her tracks. Kathleen Delaine thought she was doing the right thing when she demanded an inquiry into traumatic brain injuries among the university’s football team. But after a manosphere shock jock picks up the story on his radio show and makes it personal, the online uproar bleeds into the real world…
The Pact
by Lisa Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They all share a secret. But only one knows the truth. Who will be the first to break?
Tess enters the prestigious and exclusive Ravensthorpe Writing College with dreams of literary greatness, but soon discovers that ambition comes at a cost.
Drawn into a tight-knit group with fellow writers Ethan, Theo, and Jaz, Tess’s world is upended when their charismatic tutor is found dead. Believing someone in their circle is responsible, Tess flees the elite literary world and abandons the future she once craved.
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One USCG Commander + One Veteran Navy SEAL = Fireworks from Stem to Stern
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.