Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death in Diamonds
by SJ Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two murders in Chelsea plague amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth book in the charming series, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.
1957, England. Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in postwar Europe, trying to repair friendships with foreign governments. Advised by her father’s old courtiers, the Queen suspects that they may not have her best interests at heart. One of them is trying to sabotage her public appearances: that much she is sure of.
When two bodies turn up in Chelsea, the Queen finds herself unwillingly used as the alibi for somebody very close to her…
Body Be Gone
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It should have been easy. Kill him. Hide the Body. But after Valentine kills boyfriend Boyd Wright, Annalie and Valley can’t get rid of the body. It’s a murder that just won’t go away.
Rollicking comedy continues as the besties face one snag after another in their attempt to get rid of the body including a hurricane, the search for a missing person, unwanted guests and a disgruntled police chief.
Annalie begins to wonder for the first time in her life if God is real and if He is against them because of what they’ve done. They begin a life of looking over their shoulders, yet Annalie discovers that the greatest danger of all is not from the law enforcement officers watching them…it’s from love.
THE BLACK SUIT
by Andrew V. Kudin
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The Black Suit — a historical crime novel inspired by true events in late Soviet Ukraine. A gripping tale of power, betrayal, and forbidden love, it pulls readers deep into the shadows where criminal empires rose as the Soviet world collapsed.
What would you sacrifice for absolute power? Your deepest values? Those you love most? Perhaps even your own soul?
As the USSR unravels, chaos engulfs Ukraine and violent syndicates fill the vacuum. A quiet, introspective young man from a respected intellectual family is pulled into a world darker than his worst fears. Rising fast to lead one of Ukraine’s most feared gangs, he discovers a brutal truth: power always demands its price.
The Surgeon’s Wife
by Kieran Crowley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling true crime account of the NYC doctor who killed his wife in cold blood and nearly got away with murder.
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.
Gail’s parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter…
The Book of Seila
by Wilda Hughes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Book of Seila is a dystopian thriller about sisters caught between a police state and biblical law.
Ruby Lambert is in hiding after escaping a brutal police redemption camp. For five years, she’s been wanted for murder, heresy, and abomination.
When her sister’s husband is killed, her sister becomes a suspect in his death. To save her, Ruby comes out of hiding to help her flee the southern Covenant States.
On their way north, the women are ambushed and separated. Thus begins the clash with a twisted and cloying web of true believers and informers in the small town of Wendell.
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection
by H. P. Lovecraft
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This beautiful slipcased collection set brings together H.P. Lovecraft’s most celebrated works, divided into six clothbound volumes. Said to be inspired by his own nightmares, Lovecraft’s writing astounds and terrifies in equal measure. His fiction marry gothic horror with cosmic fantasy, from his early macabre stories to his tales of the dreamlands, and of course, his famous Cthulhu novellas, and have influenced authors from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman.
Ripple
by Jim Cosgrove
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For 9 years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet.
Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, Frank McGonigle was missing. His family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they’d treated him, Frank’s 8 siblings slowly came to understand that—like Jerry Garcia sang—he’s gone and nothin’s gonna bring him back.
Finally, Frank McGonigle was found—and identified as “the boy in the woods.”
Island Shadows
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tayla Faraday’s tragic past still haunts her nightmares. But when she discovers her only living relative—her dear uncle, Leland—is in danger, she curbs her fear and rushes to a remote island in the Caribbean to warn him. He’s kept a secret from her. And the truth stings. But maybe that’s unfair.
Because she has her own secrets.
Former CIA operative, Jason Bridger, works for the private security company, WhiteRock. Jason arrives on Isadora Island to track down a fellow agent, hoping the agent’s lack of communication is simply due to poor cell service in the tropical paradise. His mission is complicated when he meets the intriguing Tayla Faraday and learns she’s searching for her uncle on the same island.
The Picasso Heist
by James Patterson, Howard Roughan
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A $100 million painting. A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.
Everyone wants to possess it. Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A glamorous twenty-two-year-old art thief.
Only one person knows how to take it. She’s the rival none of the power players see coming.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Yarn-Over Murder
by Ann Yost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A year after her marriage break-up and return to Michigan’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula, Hatti Lehtinen has settled into a peaceful life within the Finnish community as shopkeeper at Bait and Stitch, a hybrid fishing-and-yarn store.
When Hatti’s beloved dad, Pops, breaks his leg in a snowmobiling accident, the mayor tags Hatti to fill Pop’s role as the town police chief, and entire police force. Assured the job entails little more than prying quarters from frozen parking meters, Hatti steps up…
Splashdown
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lynn Stapleton likes designer handbags and high-end clothing, so how did Sharee Jergenson talk her into visiting a homeless site, much less starting a friendship with one of its residents?
Then a hurricane hits Florida, and Lynn finds herself involved in the homeless woman’s
murder. Detective Rich Richards thinks Lynn’s connection with the woman is suspicious, but Lynn doesn’t care what the blue-eyed detective thinks. She’s not leaving this investigation until the murderer is found.
A Drop in a Tin Cup
by Gabriel Barrett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What happens when doing the right thing feels so wrong?
Matty had it all. A well-paying job, a girl who loved him, even a few friends. There wasn’t anything he couldn’t tackle. But then, something changed. As Matty grapples with the reality of his world, he is thrust into a spiraling chain of events, testing his persistence, his relationships, and his spirit in a war against himself.
As aspects of his double life begin to interact with one another, Matty realizes doing the right thing isn’t as easy as it seems. With the clock continuing to tick and the truth threatening his very existence, Matty must continue forth, confronting his deepest fears and insecurities.
The One
by T. A. Caldwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Marcus knows Emily isn’t perfect. Yet.
Emily is young and naive. Fresh out of college, she dreams of true love while struggling to get a foothold in New York City. Marcus is wealthy, handsome, a charming British born billionaire who has everything – except the perfect wife.
When they meet, Marcus is immediately drawn to this vulnerable young woman. He sweeps Emily off her feet with romantic dinners and a picnic on his yacht. Head over heels, she agrees to a weekend getaway on his private Caribbean Island.
It’s perfect – golden beaches, crystal clear water, a staff to take care of every need. Emily thinks she’s landed in paradise. There’s just one problem – Marcus has no intention of ever letting her leave.
Finding Love in Pine Valley
by Judy Ann Davis
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Award-winning author Judy Ann Davis weaves another heartwarming and compelling romantic mystery of two disenchanted people searching for a stolen vintage trinket box and love again.
Lena Starron knew that leaving her two-timing ex-husband and her job in New York as a writer would be a challenge. Starting over always is. But she never thought she’d return to her old hometown in Pennsylvania where two new jobs awaited her, only to discover she had no place to live.
Wyatt Taylor of Taylor Tree Farm hired Lena to organize and open a new café while she also worked writing publicity for Pine Valley’s 200th Anniversary Celebration…
Public Secrets
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it’s the past that is about to catch up with her.
For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale—until the tragic night that changed her family forever. But what Emma thinks she knows about that terrible night and the man she’s about to marry is only half the truth.
The Handyman Method
by Nick Cutter, Andrew F. Sullivan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror.
When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house. The trials of home improvement, destructive insecurities, and haunted house horror all collide in this thrilling story perfect for fans of Nick Cutter’s bestsellers The Troop and The Deep.
The President’s Shadow
by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston, and his alter ego, The Shadow, has possessed an array of mental and physical powers: scientific skills, shape-shifting ability, and mind control.
When a series of deadly natural disasters strike the planet, immediately set out to identify who’s responsible…
A disgruntled graduate student? The power-hungry president of the Americas? Or could it be Shiwan Khan, the Shadow’s fiercest enemy?
After Anna
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Riveting and disquieting, After Anna is a groundbreaking domestic thriller, as well as a novel of emotional justice and legal intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline keeps readers on their toes until the final shocking page.
Nobody cuts deeper than family…
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she’d lost forever, her only daughter Anna.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunted House Ghost
by James J. Cudney
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s Halloween, and excitement is brewing in Braxton.
While others carve jack-o’-lanterns, go on haunted hayrides, and race through the spooky corn maze at the Fall Festival, Kellan is moving into a mysterious old house. When a ruthless ghost promises retribution, our fearless professor turns to the eccentric town historian and an eerie psychic to investigate.
Meanwhile, construction workers discover a skeleton after breaking ground on the new Memorial Library wing. While Kellan and April dance around the chemistry sparking between them, a suspicious accident occurs at the Fall Festival.
The Sound of Sirens
by David Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The ancient city of Chester, Friday night, and the weekend starts here. High summer, skimpy fashions, short skirts, tight jeans. It’s a sultry night, and the town’s relaxed.
It’s 11pm and the pubs are closing. The band has just finished playing; packing their instruments away, but the night is young.
A young man enters the still crowded bar. Walks up to the small stage. Pulls out a handgun and empties four shots into the lead singer. One, two, three, four.
He waves the gun at the stunned and shocked crowd. Yelling, hollering and screaming, they part like the Red Sea, and he walks through the valley of death and out into the night, laughing as he goes…
Badlands
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale of “hair-raising fun” (Kirkus) in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.
Silencing Eve
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Silencing Eve is a New York Times bestselling Eve Duncan novel from beloved thriller author Iris Johansen.
When it comes to Eve Duncan, never say never …
Is she dead or alive? That is the question on everybody’s lips. Eve appears to have been killed—that’s what everyone attending her funeral thinks, at least. But not even some of her top-brass colleagues know for sure whether her death is a hoax—a way to ensnare her brutal captor, Jim Doane, once or for all.
The Enemy
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
A Book of Horrors
by Stephen Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world’s best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist
Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fantasy Award, the Horror Critics’ Guild Award and the British Fantasy Award, but for a decade or more there has been no non-themed anthology of original horror fiction published in the mainstream. Now that horror has returned to the bookshelves, it is time for a regular anthology of brand-new fiction by the best and brightest in the field, both the Big Names and the most talented newcomers
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Sidetracked
by Richard T. Cahill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The author of Hauptmann’s Ladder recounts the true crime story of a gruesome murder in a New York town and a police investigation gone awry.
As the sun rises over the quiet city of Kingston, New York on July 12, 1988, a local transient discovers the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled and beaten to death, with the letters “KKK” carved into her thighs.
While her heartbroken family mourns, and the police work around the clock to uncover the truth, the investigation is complicated by the entrance of the Reverend Al Sharpton who insists that a racist killer is responsible. As investigators struggle to find evidence, Sharpton and his supporters denounce the entire area as a “Klan den” and make public pronouncements that a “racist cult” is operating throughout the area.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dying For Magic
by Sarah Noffke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ella Bloom can see magic no one else can, and it’s leading her straight to a killer…
When Ella accepts a mysterious job in the picturesque town of Gloamington, all she wants is six months away from the noise of the city and a quiet place to call home. Instead, she finds herself assistant to Malcolm Fawkes, a renowned paranormal detective with no memory of hiring her—or much of anything else.
When magic that only Ella can see leads her to a murder, she discovers Gloamington isn’t the quaint small town it appears to be. Five years ago, it was a magical haven until something went terribly wrong. Now the town’s dormant wellspring—the Gloaming—is stirring again, awakening with Ella’s arrival.
Shock Wave
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The fifth Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford
A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests are ignored, until a bomb goes off at the megastore’s Michigan headquarters—the first of a series of explosions.
The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage and utmost fear. They do. Virgil Flowers has been enlisted to find out who’s behind the dangerous acts, but the answer he uncovers may be the biggest shock of all.
The Devil’s Song
by Lauren Stahl
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just “the judge’s daughter.”
As Kate delves into it, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer, who seems to know intimate details about a tragic childhood event from Kate’s past—an event she’d long been trying to forget. Paranoia sets in, the night terrors return, and Kate has a strong sense that she’s the killer’s next victim…
The Enlightenment Project
by Lynn Hightower
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower.
Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who’s a very good girl.
But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon – and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived.
Nightwalker
by Heather Graham
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Classic paranormal romantic suspense from the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she’s collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the table.
Hired to investigate the murder, private detective Dillon Wolf finds himself fascinated by the gorgeous redhead who’d been trapped beneath the victim—and by the single word the dying man had whispered in her ear. Indigo.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
What Cannot Be Said
by C. S. Harris
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A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this rivetingnew historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.
July 1815: The Prince Regent’s grandiose plans to celebrate Napoléon’s recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in a chilling imitation of the stone effigies once found atop medieval tombs. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help with the investigation. For as Devlin discovers, Lovejoy’s own wife and daughter were also murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in the same bizarre postures.
Letters From The Saddle
by Michael Wegner
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In the raw, untamed heart of post Civil War Arkansas, Dewey Slocum is a young man with simple dreams: working the family farm and marrying the Jager girl he’s been eyeing for years. But when his father is brutally beaten and robbed by a gang of thieves, Dewey’s hot-headed brother Darryl takes off after the culprits, threatening to turn a bad situation into something worse.
Worried for her sons’ safety, Dewey’s mother sends him after Darryl to bring him back home. But Dewey’s search for his brother leads him into a much bigger adventure than he ever expected. Along the way, Dewey meets Phyllis, a determined and resourceful woman of mixed African and Cherokee descent, who is on a mission to find her mother—sold away before the end of the war.
AUTUMN HEAT
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There’s a chill in the air, and as summer comes to an end, falling leaves of red, orange and gold flutter from the trees.
Why not curl up in a chair near a warm cozy fire with your Kindle to take in a little Autumn Heat? These eight author favorites from New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning authors will be sure to warm you up during the brisk fall season.
