Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
House of the SpiderKing Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One city hides two worlds. Elana Bishop is about to shatter them both.
Elana thought she knew who she was—a hardworking business owner in Ashford, carrying on her late father’s legacy. Then she hits a fleeing vampire with her truck.
The shock? She’s not just human—she’s one of them.
Pulled into Haven, Elana discovers she’s the daughter of a murdered Arbiter. Now she’s entangled in deadly vampire politics and ancient conspiracies threatening Haven’s very foundation.
Under the mentorship of the enigmatic Valeria Draven, Elana must navigate a treacherous society where everyone has an agenda.
High Bluffs
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Joanna Dresden lives an idyllic life in High Bluffs, Maine, running her family inn with her husband and daughter. She’s devastated when her husband is killed in a car accident, leaving her emotionally shaken and vulnerable. The inn they have spent their lives tending no longer interests her, and some unusual occurrences are happening around town.
A relationship develops between Joanna and a younger man, much to her surprise. Rick reawakes her in a way she didn’t realize was possible, but something isn’t quite right in High Bluffs. The dark secrets surrounding her in this supposed idyllic existence have started to surface.
The Devils of D-Day
by Graham Masterton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Thirty-five years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day turned the tide of World War II against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Reich, and it’s been more than three decades since the residents of the tiny French village of Le Vey witnessed the horrific slaughter of hundreds of German soldiers by thirteen black tanks. One of the tanks remains on the outskirts of town—its hatch mysteriously sealed, trapping its controller inside—only to be discovered by American surveyor and cartographer Dan McCook.
Driven by curiosity and an inexplicable compulsion, McCook is about to do the unthinkable and release what lives within the tank upon an unsuspecting world. And once the monstrous occupant reunites with others of its demonic kind, a new world war will begin, one that threatens to wash the earth in blood and drag every man, woman, and child through the fiery gates of hell.
Fade Away
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating heroes in suspense fiction: the wisecracking, tenderhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar. In this gripping third novel in the acclaimed series, Myron must confront a past that is dead and buried—and more dangerous than ever before.
The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legos—and blood. The signs of a violent struggle…
Betrayal
by Phillip Margolin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.
Now the situation couldn’t be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family…and Kerrigan’s only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago…
Ashley Bell
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The girl who said no to death. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman—whose doctor says she has one year to live.
She replies, “We’ll see.” Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell.
But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she?
Masque of Honor
by Sharon Virts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the bestselling author of Veil of Doubt and The Grays of Truth comes a riveting tale of political intrigue, romance, and betrayal set in antebellum Virginia.
John “Jack” Mason McCarty and his second cousin Armistead Mason are proud sons of the Virginia aristocracy—and as different as two men can be. Deeply ambitious and politically minded, Armistead has his sights on Congress and demands a level of respect he may not deserve. Jack, too, longs to make a name for himself, if he can stop gambling and drinking long enough to use his considerable wit to his advantage. Jack has little patience for Armistead’s arrogance, while Armistead views Jack as a debaucherous adolescent unworthy of honor or respect—and neither is afraid to voice his opinion of the other.
Two Kinds of Truth
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Exiled from the LAPD, Harry Bosch must clear his name, uncover a ring of prescription drug abuse, and outwit a clever killer before it’s too late. Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery.
Bosch and the tiny town’s three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must risk everything and go undercover in the shadowy world of organized pill mills. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch’s days with the LAPD comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it.
Caller Unknown
by Gillian McAllister
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
There is nothing that Simone won’t do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don’t tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four volumes of short stories featuring the iconic British aristocrat and sleuth from “one of the greatest mystery story writers” (Los Angeles Times).
A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals are all most pleasant diversions. In these Golden Age whodunits, “Lord Peter can hardly be spared from the ranks of the great detectives of the printed page” (The New York Times).
Lord Peter Views the Body,
Hangman’s Holiday,
In the Teeth of the Evidence,
Striding Folly
World War Z
by Max Brooks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet…
The Camel Club Kindle
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After witnessing a shocking murder, four conspiracy theorists team up with a Secret Service agent to uncover the government corruption that threatens to cause an international terrorism crisis in this New York Times bestselling thriller.
Welcome to The Camel Club.
Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man known as “Oliver Stone,” they study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government to discover the “truth” behind the country’s actions. Their efforts bear little fruit—until the group witnesses a shocking murder … and becomes embroiled in an astounding, far-reaching conspiracy.
KILL THE MESSENGER
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A serial killer leaves a chilling note on the bodies of his victims: They should’ve kept their mouth shut. His rule is simple; whoever reports the body of his last victim becomes his next target. But when Alyssa stumbles upon the crime and refuses to report it, she becomes his obsession.
He can’t kill her, it’s against the rules… but he can’t let her go, either. Instead, he starts toying with her mind, pushing her to the edge.
In a deadly game of survival, one question remains: Who will break first? The killer or Alyssa?
The House on Serpent Lake
by Brenda Hill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
EARTHBOUND, HE WAITS FOR HER TO BE REBORN. Hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her through the house. A stirring of air whispers, “Remember . . . remember.”
Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years.
When her husband inherits his abandoned childhood home on a north woods lake, Lindsay Peterson is delighted.
Until . . .Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time; she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. After they move in, dreams of a lover from another time haunt her sleep then intrude on her days with déjà vu until the present blurs with the past. A stirring of air caresses her with whispered touch. Then the touches become real.
Out of Time
by Mario Diana
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One moment Jay was ordinary. The next, he’s assigned to an elite time traveling force. The rules are strict: take DNA samples, and leave the past exactly as you found it. But time travel was the easy part.
On his first mission to Venice, Jay encounters an object that inconveniently jumped across centuries. Events shift, and the more Jay tries to contain the breach, the more the damage spreads.
The fracture draws in an American nursing student on vacation in Italy, whose presence compromises everything Jay has been trained to avoid. As Jay follows the object across shifting timelines, he races to repair a growing paradox, desperate to undo the mistake that began it all. Jay’s companion, an intelligent AI with a cloned human brain, has to come to their rescue. But she uncovers a forbidden truth: humanity was created by a primal Maker. And the story of that creation has been deliberately buried.
The Mersey Ferry Murders
by Brian L. Porter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A new serial killer is at large in Liverpool. The victims appear to have no connection to each other, and Detective Inspector Andy Ross and the Merseyside Police Force Specialist Murder Investigation Team are brought in to investigate.
The victims are all middle-aged and the police are initially baffled, until a tenuous link suggests the victims were involved in a rape/murder trial fifteen years previously. Ross and his team of detectives soon realize that the killer has a ‘murder list’ and that unless he or she can be stopped, the city’s streets will soon be awash with the blood of the innocents.
The Searcher
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
26 Beauties
by James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the world’s #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties – young women missing in San Francisco.
SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer’s best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club’s party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.