Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
McDivit mystery crime thriller adventure
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A wildly suspenseful, action-packed Buck McDivit mystery crime thriller adventure
Down on your luck doesn’t always mean down and out
When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women – or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.
The Bone Code
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved cold case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence.
Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t register how their murders and the deadly outbreak may be related…
The Method
by Matthew Quirk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A silent war. An unlikely spy. She’s done playing by their rules.
Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless—on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro.
She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life: trying to keep her acting career alive so she can take care of her younger sister.
What Doesn’t Kill You
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong, Catherine Ling was schooled in the art of survival by the mysterious Hu Chang, a master assassin and poisoner. Now recruited by the CIA, Catherine finds herself caught between worlds when her mentor develops a formula that is extremely fatal, virtually untraceable—and highly coveted.
On the hunt for this prize are a rogue operative, a band of criminals, and a man so evil he kills without remorse. Catherine will do anything to protect those she loves: Hu Chang and her son Luke. But she will have to use every deadly weapon, every double cross, every lethal lesson she ever learned—to prove that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger . . .
First Wave
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Homeland Security Agent Dakota Pierce knows how to survive the cold. She knows how to hunt predators. What she doesn’t know is why whispers of a new “weapon” are moving through the Washington backcountry—or why people connected to the chatter keep disappearing.
When a surveillance run leads to a dead nineteen-year-old girl dumped in an apple orchard, Dakota’s investigation collides with Josh Weber, a former soldier turned DEA agent searching for the same missing young woman. And neither of them expects to find a body.
The Night of the Crash
by Jessica Irena Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
All she knows is her mother has been brutally murdered and her brother is the prime suspect.
As Steppy begins to piece together events in the run-up to the accident, she discovers her brother’s connection to another ongoing case, that of a missing girl last seen with him on Halloween.
Steppy knows better than anyone that the truth often hides in the darkest of corners, but as she races to untangle the web of secrets and lies, will it ultimately prove too close to home?
Seduced by Madness
by Carol Pogash
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A true crime account and analysis of a California housewife’s murder of her husband and the revealing trial that followed.
In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.
Letters with Love
by Erma M. Ullrey
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 48 #ad
An encrypted message shatters Lila James’ forbidden marriage, but a twist of fate reveals the only love that can heal her.
Lila James wants the world to see her, not her skin color. She marries Army Air Corps flyboy Joe Lane, believing his promise that together they can change the world. An encrypted message shatters her marriage. Crushed, pregnant, and alone, Lila retreats home to Boise carrying wounds she never asked for. There, she discovers her wartime pen pal’s identity. The only love meant to heal her was never lost but simply waiting for acceptance.
You’ll Be Sorry
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Chilling, gripping.” – Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True
For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to be love at first sight. Raquel, a renowned interior designer, and Theo, a brash financial wizard met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, unbearably aware of the distance between them, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lexie Starr Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set (Books 4 to 6)
by Jeanne Glidewell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Join newlywed library assistant and amateur sleuth Lexie Starr on her continuing encounters with mystery, mayhem, and murder.
Join newlywed library assistant and amateur sleuth Lexie Starr on her continuing encounters with mystery, mayhem, and murder.
With This Ring
Just Ducky
Spirit of the Season
Cozy Camping
Marriage and Mayhem
Innocent Blood
by P.D. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid.
When she begins searching for her biological parents, The terrifying truth about her origins and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into buried family secrets must be on guard when long-hidden horrors begin to stir.
Insidius
by Matt Runals
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As the fire-wielding Ember legions scorch their way across Novum Albion, the mountain stronghold of Lapidius stands alone, its ancient order of Stoneseekers dwindling, its defenses failing. Young cadet Joey Voboril, thrust into a deadly mission alongside the fierce and enigmatic Maisie, must brave cursed forests, monstrous beasts, and a crumbling alliance to reach the last safe city. But survival is only the beginning.
The Stoneseekers are on the brink of collapse, their ancient school teetering on the edge of annihilation. Joey and Maisie carry more than supplies and orders: they carry the future of Lapidius, and perhaps all of Novum Albion itself. Carrying a sealed letter that could change everything, Joey holds the key to a war no one believes can be won.
The Politician
by Tim Sullivan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
DS George Cross loves puzzles – he’s good at them – and he immediately spots one when he begins investigating the death of former mayor Peggy Frampton. To most, the crime scene looks like a burglary that went horribly wrong. But George can see what others can’t: This was murder.
After her political career ended, Peggy became a controversial blogger whose forthright opinions attracted a battalion of online trolls. And then there’s her family: an unfaithful husband and a gambling-addicted son. With yet more enemies in her past, the potential suspects are unending.
The Excommunicated Witch Savant Complete Series
by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A blood oath. A lifetime of training. One moment of refusal that changes everything.
When Josephine Locket walks away from her grandmother’s coven vow, she loses her protection, her community, and her inheritance — except for one mysterious property that powerful covens want erased. Digging into why, Jo uncovers a brutal truth: her mother’s death and her aunt’s disappearance were no accidents.
Now the same enemy is coming for her.
Armed with illusion magic, a cat familiar, and plans to build a haven for outcast witches, Jo is done staying quiet.
America’s Dumbest Criminals
by Daniel Butler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant.
Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together.
The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize number The accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400 bail entirely in quarters The streaking robber who thought clothes would make him more identifiable The convenience store thief who got away with just a hotdog, only to end up in the parking lot choking on the wiener
Detour On An Elephant
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What was it like to travel on tour with a circus in the late seventies? Detour On An Elephant is the memoir of a ballet dancer, Barbara File Marangon, who traded her pointe shoes to ride an elephant with the Greatest Show On Earth for a year. Taking a detour from the world of ballet to the circus, she recounts her experiences performing in hundreds of shows, in twenty-four cities coast to coast, with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit Show in 1978.
Named Ringling’s China Doll by a New York newspaper, she compares dancing at the Metropolitan Opera House to dancing at Madison Square Garden. Among her adventures she describes how Kevin, the lion that rode a motorcycle with his trainer, tried to break into the shower room while she showered.
The Beautiful Mystery
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as “the beautiful mystery.”
The Unknown: A Novel
by Riley Sager
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again.
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.