Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Damage Control
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . .
A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicide—but an autopsy later suggests something different. A deadly fire and a fatal home invasion may or may not have some connection to the terrible crash. And miles away in the desert, a savage rain has revealed something grisly and terrifying: two trash bags filled with human remains.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A perfect murder… until it isn’t. Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Now working as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster, Tina, along with her quirky friend Amelia Pak, finds a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large.
The Jailhouse Lawyer
by James Patterson, Nancy Allen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets.
Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
Pay Back The Devil
by Graham Masterton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A DEADLY CAMPAIGN An explosion in a house in inner-city Cork sends shock waves through the community. Two people are killed in the blast and, at first, their deaths are believed to be the tragic result of a gas leak – but the victims’ pasts suggest otherwise.
A HISTORY OF TERROR The target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921.
A POLICE CONSPIRACY
Dark Days Ahead
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Chaos erupts in New York City when an EMP shuts down all power, transportation, communication, and critical infrastructure. Tom Stryder and his family are caught in the middle of the attack, and Tom summons all his skills to rescue his family from the dangerous city before they’re forever trapped in New York.
“Absolutely TOP NOTCH! BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS, INTERESTING STORY LINE AND FILLED GREAT DETAILS !” by Amazon Customer
Hardly Knew Her
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye
For the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.
Red Death
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seem like natural causes—he reaches out to Karen Vail, the renowned FBI profiler, who hops on the next plane.
But even for someone as fluent in the language of murder as Vail, this case is hard to read. How were these women asphyxiated with no signs of trauma? How can she gather clues or collect evidence when the killer seems to strike during the briefest casual encounters? Is this the behavior of a male or a female perpetrator? And perhaps most terrifying of all, if the deaths appear so natural at first glance, how many victims have already been overlooked?
Leviathan
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
With the creation of an unholy beast comes the end of the world in this diabolical thriller from the international bestselling author of Crux and Hunter.
On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists.
Whispers Across a Sea
by Christina Holloway
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Whispers Across a Sea is a sweeping novel that follows three generations of the Anglo-Irish Young family in Victorian Ireland, where Irish desire for independence from Britain is building. How will the family evolve in the ever-changing social and political landscape of the country they call home?
In 1920, Ireland stands on the brink of civil war. Lucie returns to her familial home to settle the estate, where she uncovers an abundance of handwritten letters—a lifetime’s worth of cherished memories and guarded secrets between her mother and aunts—as well as her grandfather’s diary. As she reads through her findings, Lucie begins to wonder just how well she knew her relatives and the circumstances of their lives.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Diamond Cat
by Marian Babson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A pigeon in the sky with diamonds pulls an ordinary woman into a perilous mystery, in this novel by an Agatha Award–winning author.
Bettina Bilby doesn’t have much fun living with her nagging, critical mother—but at least this weekend she gets to temporarily take in her friend’s four cats. Then, after a rainstorm, one of her four-footed guests finds a dead carrier pigeon—and a fortune in diamonds—outside the house.
Without Due Process
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A spellbinding story of lies, betrayal, and multiple murder featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.
What kind of monster would break into a man’s home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The fact that the dead man was a model cop who was loved and respected by all only intensifies the horror. But the killer missed someone: a five-year-old boy who was hiding in the closet. Now word is being leaked out that the victim was “dirty.” But Seattle P.D. Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont isn’t about to let anyone drag a murdered friend’s reputation through the muck.
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
Danger around every corner.
A Private Cathedral
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle.
As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel.
The Ghostway
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
Murder at the Lakeside Library
by Holly Danvers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a body turns up near Rain Wilmot’s rustic Wisconsin cabin, she must discover the killer—before the book closes on her life.
Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family’s waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain’s corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain’s mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premises.
The Book of Isle: The Complete Series
by Nancy Springer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now in one volume, the entire epic series set in an ancient island sanctuary of gods and magic—from “the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade” (Marion Zimmer Bradley).
Anne McCaffrey has praised Nancy Springer as “someone special in the fantasy field.” Andre Norton agrees that “Ms. Springer’s work is outstanding.” Now the multiple award-winning author’s classic five-part epic fantasy is presented in a single volume. In the grand tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Book of Isle saga draws on Arthurian and Celtic legend to create a wholly original, imaginary world brimming with adventure, romance, evil, mythic quests, and vividly described locales.
The Drift
by C. J. Tudor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. After she was evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They’ll need to work together to escape—with their sanity and secrets intact.
Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She’s in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board…
Siege of Red Hollow
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Ethan Cole is a gunslinger with a reputation for justice – no matter the cost.
When his brother is murdered by Victor Slade, a ruthless outlaw building an empire in the lawless town of Red Hollow, Ethan rides in with one goal: vengeance.
But Victor Slade is no ordinary criminal. He’s a man with a vision – to keep the West wild and free from the railroad’s reach. When Ethan barely survives an ambush in Red Hollow’s blood-soaked streets, he realizes he can’t take on Victor alone…
Not without Rachel McCabe, a sharpshooter with her own score to settle.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Between the Covers
by Elaine Viets
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #a
From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living… while other people are making a killing.
Helen Hawthorne is still on the run because of her refusal to pay her worthless ex-husband alimony. But a girl’s gotta eat…and pay rent, utilities, etc. So she’s taken a cash-paying job at Fort Lauderdale’s own Page Turners bookstore. And while the job is decent enough, the owner of the store is anything but.
Day of the Dead
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Walker family survived the atrocities perpetrated by a serial killer and his crazed acolyte in both Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees. But can they escape the vengeance of a new enemy whose target is their precious daughter, Lani?
Told they’re traveling to a loving adoptive family in southern Arizona, young girls are being spirited away from an orphanage deep in Colonial Mexico. But the fate that awaits them is truly horrifying. And when death comes, it will be a blessing.
Dream of Danger
by Maggie Shayne
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A mystery reunites a reluctant partnership—and rekindles unfulfilled desires in New York Times–bestselling author Maggie Shayne’s novella Dream of Danger.
Self-help guru Rachel de Luca may have been blind for twenty years, but she’s always had an uncanny gift for seeing through people—and she distrusts her assistant’s new boyfriend at first sight. Amy isn’t interested in Rachel’s misgivings, though. She’s too eager to celebrate Thanksgiving by introducing her family to the new man in her life.
The Cowboy’s Watch
by Delores Fossen, Nicole Helm
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Experience a summer of love and danger with these two romantic suspense stories!
Under the Cowboy’s Protection by Delores Fossen: A young mother is murdered and her newborn is kidnapped. Now Sheriff Raleigh Lawton must enlist the help of the only witness: his ex-lover, Deputy Thea Morris…
Wyoming Cowboy Ranger by Nicole Helm: Jen Delaney kept her romance with Tyler Carson secret—along with her broken heart after Ty left Bent. Now the army ranger is back and convinced a madman is targeting Jen to get to him…
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…*
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell…
Sacred Sins
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts serves up a sizzling novel of explosive suspense and sensual romance as the search for a murderer ignites passion between a beautiful psychiatrist and the sexy, brooding detective determined to crack the case.
In the unbearable heat of another sultry Washington, D.C., summer, a serial killer is on the loose. Dr. Tess Court, one of the capital’s most successful psychiatrists, wants nothing to do with the case—until the police convince her to lend a hand to the lead investigator, legendary ladies’ man Detective Ben Paris.
The Loop
by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
The year’s most brutal, cinematic thrill ride is also one of its most critically acclaimed novels. Dazed and Confused meets 28 Days Later in this “wickedly entertaining,” (Kirkus Reviews) “volcano of a book” (Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds) as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong.
A Best Book of the Month for Den of Geek, Omnivoracious, Mystery & Suspense, and Tor.
A Goodreads’ 2020 Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of 2020 for The Lineup, Booked, and Unsettling Reads.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Last Victim of the Monsoon Express
by Vaseem Khan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a symbolic journey of reconciliation, the Monsoon Express is travelling between hostile neighbours India and Pakistan. The passenger list includes politicians, celebrities, former Mumbai policeman Inspector Chopra and his baby elephant ward Ganesha.
Then a senior diplomat is found murdered in his cabin. Accusations fly, tensions rise, and an international incident seems certain. But is the murder political – or personal?
The Book of Witching
by C. J. Cooke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic.
Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. When Erin wakes, she doesn’t recognize her mother. And she doesn’t answer to her name, but insists she is someone named Nyx.
Valerie Stonehold Complete Series Boxed Set
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
From the world of Para-Military Recruiter: When they pull off her wig, it’s game over.
When three local bullies pick on Iron Hills dwarf Eiravel (Val) Stonehold, she naturally defends herself.
Why is she the only one who gets thrown out of the tavern after the brawl? On her way home, two bumbling dragons in human form, Axl and Livius, accost her and hand her a letter. What can the new Eternal Queen Julie possibly want with her?
As it turns out, the queen wants her body.
Dying for Daddy
by Carlton Smith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people—two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father.
Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother…
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.
The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen-year-old Joey has always known hunger—but nothing could prepare him for what awaits beyond it.
With war creeping ever closer to their struggling town and no work left to be found, Joey’s mother makes a desperate choice: she sends him to Lapidius, a distant schoolhouse rumored to offer food, shelter, and safety. But when Joey arrives, he discovers the truth – Lapidius isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a secretive military institute training children for what is to come.
Alongside hundreds of other recruits (like battle buddy Maisie), Joey is thrust into a world where survival means mastering more than weapons. At Lapidius, war isn’t fought with weapons alone—it’s waged with ancient magic, deadly creatures, and shadowy forces that defy logic.
Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered — above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she’s got to play dead. She’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.
The Perfect Father
by John Glatt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media—but the truth would lead to a vicious and heartbreaking murder.
In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family’s safe return.
Asta’s Book
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn’t help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary—and she continues to do so until 1967.
Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child.
Before I Lose My Own Mind
by Beverly E. Thorn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
In Before I Lose My Own Mind, Thorn—a psychologist, neuroscientist, and end-of-life doula—provides an honest vision of caregiving that is tender, openhearted, and genuinely useful. Filled with resources and insights on financial planning, advance care directives, clinical trials, support groups, death with dignity, grief, recovery, and more, this book is a roadmap for all caregivers, whether they’re family or friends, spouses or children, professionals or novices.
For those coping with the grief, exhaustion, and loneliness of a challenge they never expected, help is out there. Surviving dementia caregiving is a team effort. Consider this book a part of your support crew.
The Life of Chuck
by Stephen King
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In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end.
Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explores one man’s past. We see him in middle age on a business trip in Boston as he is seduced by a busker into spinning a gorgeous sidewalk dance…