Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Mother’s Day Mayhem
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More is almost out of Mother’s Day cards. She has a few more in stock, but she’s set them aside because she needs Greg’s help choosing one for his mother. It’ll be Jill’s first time meeting her boyfriend’s mother, and she’s understandably nervous.
Turns out Jill isn’t the only one having feelings about mothers. Kyle, who works at the antiques store next door, needs to find the perfect card for a mother he hasn’t seen since he was five—when she went away to jail…
Mark of Evil
by Tim LaHaye, Craig Parshall
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan’s protégé Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban, have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist.
Technology is growing by leaps and bounds with BID-Tag implants, robotic police units, and drone-bots flying overhead . . . all designed to control and dominate those who resist the Antichrist’s reign of evil. As Biblical prophecy is fulfilled each new day, Ethan and the others in the Remnant struggle to eat, to procure necessary goods, and to avoid the Global Alliance—in short, to survive.
Code Red
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins?
Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago. He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help…
Nightfall and Other Stories
by Isaac Asimov
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. “Nightfall,” published when the author was only twenty-one, was arguably his breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written.
Genuine Lies
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal, celebrity secrets, and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much—and the woman she’s chosen to reveal it all. . . .
Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer’s career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood’s richest and most powerful worried.
False Accusations
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A surgeon charged with double homicide is out to clear his name in this debut thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author of the Karen Veil series.
Dr. Phillip Madison has everything: wealth, power, and an impeccable reputation. But in the pre-dawn hours of a quiet California suburb, the revered orthopedic surgeon is charged with double homicide—a cold-blooded hit-and-run that has left an innocent young couple dead. Blood evidence has brought the police to his door. An eyewitness has placed him at the crime scene . . . and Madison has no alibi. With his family torn apart, his career forever damaged, no way to prove his innocence, and facing life in prison, Madison hires an investigator to find the person who has engineered the case against him.
Dark Angel
by Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns to Nashville ready to begin his training with the elite warriors known as the Shepherds. He thinks he knows what to expect when he arrives on the sprawling, state-of-the-art facility but quickly realizes he’ll have to find his place as the rookie leader of a new team. Then he starts having visions of an imminent attack overseas, and with the clock ticking, Jed and his team are dispatched to neutralize the threat. All the while, Jed hears whispers of another threat . . . a name that raises unexplained fear and anger throughout the Shepherds organization.
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When was the last time you went on a great and daring adventure? Chock full of mystery, suspense and intrigue, The Pelican Trees will allow each reader to do just that, with each step of the buried treasure hunt carefully orchestrated by a loving grandfather (already in Heaven) trying to rescue his precious granddaughter and the rest of his family from eternal condemnation.
After reading “The Pelican Trees”, Frances H. Nolting called Patrick Higgins another Frank Peretti. Having read several of Peretti’s books, she always wondered if there were any other authors like him. Upon finishing this book, the answer to her question was a resounding yes! Read it and see for yourself…
Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells
by Bruce Hammack
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk. They grab the beautiful teen who was arguing with the man and flee to safety. Bella, the adopted daughter of the victim and a celebrity in her own right, shows no emotion over the murder. Her one passionate request: find her birth parents.
Smiley and McBlythe’s search intertwines with the murder investigation of Bella’s adopted father again and again—and uncovers a shocking secret. Like it or not, they must first identify the killer in order to discover the truth about Bella’s adoption.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sunshine State of Crime
by Steph LaVigne
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bright-eyed Sunny’s life hasn’t always been perfectly smooth sailing, but whose ever is? However, there’s not even a bad weather advisory to warn that her breezy, South Florida life is about to be upended.
When her husband disappears on a spearfishing trip to the Florida Keys, she is left with an empty bank account, a mortgage she can’t afford, and a need to make money fast. Her rose-colored glasses need a good polish if she is going to find the silver lining in her new situation…
Pearl in the Mist
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series—soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has whisked Ruby away from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou but her new riches bring more treachery than happiness in this unputdownable and darkly evocative novel.
Even a year removed from living in the bayou, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of her family’s New Orleans mansion. She rejoices in the love of the father she had never known, even as true happiness remains as elusive as swamp mist. Her stepmother sneers at her backwater upbringing, and while discovering she has a twin sister should be a cause for joy, Gisselle has greeted Ruby with nothing but a bitter heart.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #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.
Desolation Mountain
by William Kent Krueger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
To Stephen O’Connor, Hamlet’s dour observation is more than just words. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen. The crash of a private plane on Desolation Mountain in a remote part of the Iron Lake Reservation, which kills a United States senator and most of her family, confirms Stephen’s worst fears.
The Postcard Killers
by James Patterson, Liza Marklund
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Europe is stunning in the summer . . . but NYPD detective Jacob Kanon isn’t there for the beauty. He’s on a mission: to track down his daughter’s killer.
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe’s most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren’t what draw him-he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter’s killer.
Kanon’s daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim.
Hand of Evil
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he’s dragged along a deserted stretch of San Juan Road in Phoenix’s South Mountain Preserve. It’s the perfect place to drive a man to his grave—literally. Starting with a crime so gruesome even prowling coyotes keep their distance from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders.
A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
by George R. R. Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEED
These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there was Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Vanishing of Class 3B
by Jackie Kabler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What happens when your worst nightmare comes true? One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip.
But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong. The children and their teachers simply do not come back. What’s happened doesn’t seem possible. How can an entire class of children simply vanish?
Killer Smile
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With her trademark wit and style, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers yet another blockbuster thriller
With the halfhearted okay of her boss at the boutique Philly firm of Rosato & Associates, insecure young lawyer Mary DiNunzio takes on a pro bono case—which is Latin for not paying squat. What’s more, the client is dead and the case is half a century old, involving an Italian fisherman interned at a camp in Montana during World War II.
The Store
by James Patterson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Jacob and Megan Brandeis plan to expose a secretive and evil corporation, the fallout threatens to destroy them.
Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe. Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret of their own. They’re writing a book that will expose the Store-a forbidden book, a dangerous book.
Cold Pursuit
by Nancy Mehl
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ex-FBI profiler River Ryland still suffers from PTSD after a case went horribly wrong. Needing a fresh start, she moves to St. Louis to be near her ailing mother and opens a private investigation firm with her friend and former FBI partner, Tony St. Clair. They’re soon approached by a grieving mother who wants them to find out what happened to her teenaged son, who disappeared four years ago. River knows there’s almost no hope the boy is still alive, but his mother needs closure, and River and Tony need a case, no matter how cold it might be.
The Dread Nought Complete Series
by Marc Stiegler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Save the World? Or Kill Each Other? Tough Choices.
Cat burglar Cassie Parker minds her own business. But when she screws up and plays Good Samaritan she finds herself on the run with Remy, her new best friend and worst enemy.
Discover this technothriller, globetrotting series today with this complete series boxed set!
Odyssey’s End
by Matt Coyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Brain disease worsening, Rick Cahill risks everything—even his life—to provide for his fractured family’s future
San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill’s past comes back to haunt him when he’s at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents’ home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick’s violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE—and she doesn’t trust that he’ll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world.
Code of the West
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For Clint Beck, a quest to arrest Ruffen is also his chance at redemption.
Rustling is a big problem for the God-fearing folks of Perryville in 1870. Not only that, but it’s now escalated with the killing of community pillar Jonas Davidson – a farmer, husband and father of five.
The town screams for justice. As Perryville sheriff, Clint sets out to arrest the guilty parties. Almost everyone in the county knows that Clyde Ruffen and his gang are behind the heinous crime but… proving it is another story.
Beyond Juarez
by Marion Surles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A squatters’ neighborhood in Juarez, Mexico is an unlikely place to dream, and yet, Cristal dreams of becoming a teacher to help the lost and neglected. Daniel wants to chase the American dream across the border where riches abound. Itzel is swept along by her life as an unplanned pregnancy and hasty choices carry her where she hadn’t dreamed. As these young people navigate their way toward adulthood, a parking lot massacre, a workplace round-up, and a worldwide virus threaten to dash their hopes for the future.
Do these young people have the grit to make their dreams come true? Or is money the only way to escape the crippling poverty of Juarez?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Body in the Bonfire
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Caterer and small-town minister’s wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks—and Faith is determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is a seething cauldron of secrets, academic in-fighting, and unspoken rules that complicate her task…
Don’t Be Scared
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tears of Pride. A devastating fire claimed the life of Sheila Lindstrom’s father and all but destroyed their family winery. Its future depends on Wilder Investments. But Sheila can’t be sure whether Noah Wilder is the key to keeping her beloved business afloat, or the last mistake she’ll ever make.
Devil’s Gambit. Just when Tiffany Rhodes has made her horse breeding farm profitable again, tragedy hits. Foals are dying. Rumors swirl about the prize horse she lost years ago. And the stranger who shows up offering to buy her out holds devastating secrets about the past . . .
The Ninth Month
by James Patterson
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders, a mother-to-be sees the women in her social circle start to disappear—and she could be next . . .
Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She’s a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous existence until she lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis: she parties too much—and she’s pregnant. Her nurse and new best friend, Betsey, helps Emily rediscover how much she loves morning runs in the park and quiet nights at home…
Binary
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER, a classic techno thriller brimming with high-stakes action and heart-pounding suspense
In an age of political unrest, one man aims to bring the government to its knees—and there’s only one agent who can stop him.
Wealthy political radical John Wright has taken aim at the US government, believing that only he can make things right. State Department Agent John Graves has been watching Wright for months, studying him, gathering intel, trying to determine his next move before he makes it.
All the Colors of Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
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MaCoy Rosemary Russo Randolph runs a flower shop in the desert, but things aren’t coming up roses—they’re coming up murder. And because she finds two murder victims—she is a suspect.
Adding to her misery is the fact she finds herself gravitating toward the pastor of the Broom Cowboy Church. She does not believe in God. Nor does she believe in love. And she certainly espouses neither church nor “churchy” things.
During her attempt to solve the murders popping up around her and capture the killer, MaCoy is inexorably drawn closer and closer to the one person she cannot allow herself to love—Pastor Hayden Christensen.
Bloodless
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating:4.0 #ad
A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night…and into history.
A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.
The Traitor God
by Cameron Johnston
Kindle $0.99 Rating:4.3 #ad
After 10 years on the run, dodging daemons and debt, reviled magician Edrin Walker returns home to avenge the brutal murder of his friend. Lynas had uncovered a terrible secret, something that threatened to devour the entire city. He tried to warn the Arcanum, the sorcerers who rule the city.
He failed. Lynas was skinned alive and Walker felt every cut. Now, nothing will stop him from finding the murderer. Magi, mortals, daemons, and even the gods—Walker will burn them all if he has to. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s killed a god.