Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Millie’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series!
Discover why so many fans love Millie’s Cruise Ship Mysteries with thousands of four and five Star Reviews on Amazon and Goodreads! If you like clean, fun-filled cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end, you’ll love Millie’s Cruise Ship Mystery Series!
BONUS: RECIPES INCLUDED!
Burden of Proof
by Stephen Penner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Some people would kill for a fresh start.
Seattle attorney Daniel Raine is going through some tough life changes; he’s getting divorced, and his law partner is leaving him to become a judge. If Raine can’t find a way to stay afloat, he’ll be practicing law out of his car.
Then, the perfect opportunity – a rich socialite called Abigail Willoughby arrives at his door, wanting to divorce her even richer husband.
Raine is thrilled to take the case but gets more than he bargained for when he is forced into an unlikely alliance with high-powered realtor Rebecca Sommers who has her own motives for wanting to get close to his rich client.
Later
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
She’s My Sister Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for…dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind.
Grace had never been more terrified…the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe…someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust with her life. It was dark…and getting darker.
The Dark Wives
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The man’s body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed up.
DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate the death, with her only clue being the disappearance of one of the home’s residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility.
The Haunting of Myvern Manor
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A haunted manor. A fractured team. A past that won’t stay buried.
After months away, Rose Radcliffe returns to England – only to find that everything has changed. The tragic death of Alicia has driven a wedge between Rebecca and Jonathan, shattering their marriage and scattering the team.
But when Rose hears whispers of a chilling presence haunting a remote estate, she sees a chance for redemption – and reunion. She convinces Rebecca and Jonathan to join her on one more investigation, alongside their trusted ally, Father Rashford.
Bloodline
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The children of murder victims are targeted by a copycat killer in this detective thriller by “the new-wave leader of crime fiction” (Lee Child).
Detective Tom Thorne specializes in solving the London Police Department’s most difficult murder cases. When he’s called into what seems like an ordinary domestic crime scene, he thinks he’s caught a break. A woman has been murdered by someone she knows. Thorne plans to question the husband, arrest him, and get back to his own deteriorating personal life. But something doesn’t fit . . .
A sliver of X-ray was found in the victim’s fist. When bits of the same X-Ray are found at other crime scenes around the city, Thorne realizes he has a grisly puzzle to solve…
A Dangerous Collaboration
by Deanna Raybourn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord Templeton-Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fiancée at a house party on a Cornish isle owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly.
But Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party: What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly’s bride vanished on their wedding day, and no trace of her has ever been found. Now those who were closest to her have gathered, each a possible suspect in her disappearance.
Confessions of a Funeral Director
by Caleb Wilde
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over.
Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own…
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.