Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Wife
by Alafair Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
His Scandal – Her Secret
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother’s home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.
Harvest
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit.
But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match.
AFTER THE EXECUTION
by JAMES RAVEN
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
DISCOVER A CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ABSOLUTELY JAW-DROPPING TWIST
Lee Jordan has spent ten years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s lost everything – his wife, his dreams, his future. He finally enters the execution chamber at the famous ‘Walls’ prison in Texas. He’s strapped to a gurney and given an injection of lethal drugs in front of witnesses.
Minutes later he’s pronounced dead. BUT HE’S NOT
Missing in Conard County
by Rachel Lee
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Wyoming snowstorm races in Bringing buried secrets to the surface
A stray dog just dropped a bone at animal control officer Allan Carstairs’s feet—a human bone. K-9 cop Kelly Noveno is certain it’s connected to a recent disappearance, but with a snowstorm bearing down on Conard County, the two must hunker down in Allan’s cabin to continue the search. But their long-held feelings are rushing to the surface, making this search more complicated than ever.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.
The Best American Mystery Stories
by Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Twenty of America’s best mystery short stories from 2011, selected by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
A Tempest at Sea
by Sherry Thomas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charlotte Holmes’s life is in peril when her brilliant deductive skills are put to the test in her most dangerous investigation yet, locked aboard a ship at sea.
After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking, and she might be able to go back to a normal life.
Her search leads her aboard the RMS Provence. But on the night Charlotte makes her move to retrieve the dossier, in the midst of a terrifying storm in the Bay of Biscay, a brutal murder takes place on the ship.
Under the Influence
by Joyce Maynard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship.
Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating site. Weekend visits with her son are awkward. He’s drifting away from her, fast.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Old Friends and New, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A touch of nostalgia, good friends, and murder.
When a former colleague is implicated in his neighbor’s demise, Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, returns to Cold Creek to prove his innocence. Annoying as Max can be, she can’t imagine the quirky professor is capable of murder. Unfortunately, not everyone shares her opinion. Of course, it doesn’t help that Max threatened his neighbor in a public place soon before the man was murdered. Or that the victim’s drug shipments had a habit of turning up on Max’s doorstep. Only as Sheridan asks more questions, she again puts a target on her back
Split Image
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The body in the trunk was just the beginning.
Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable “retirement” with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca’s twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach.
And Justice There Is None
by Deborah Crombie
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And Justice There is None
Gemma James is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector–and a future now intricately entwined with Duncan Kincaid. But her new responsibilities are put to the test when she is placed in charge of a particularly brutal homicide: The lovely young wife of a wealthy antiques dealer has been found murdered on fashionable Notting Hill…
Dark Pursuit
by Brandilyn Collins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Novelist Darell Brooke lived for his title as King of Suspense – until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he wants one thing: to plot a new novel and regain his reputation. Kaitlan Sering, his twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, once lived for drugs. After she stole from Darell, he cut her off. Now she’s rebuilding her life. But in Kaitlan’s town two women have been murdered, and she is about to discover a third. She’s even more shocked to realize the culprit is her boyfriend, Craig, the police chief’s son. Desperate, Kaitlan flees to her estranged grandfather. For over forty years, Darell Brooke has lived suspense. Surely he’ll devise a plan to trap the cunning Craig. But can Darell’s muddled mind do it?
Into the Out Of
by Alan Dean Foster
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Demonic spirit-beings are stealing into our world in this fantasy adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Damned Trilogy.
Earth is being invaded by the shetani -spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
Missing Persons
by James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
Kindle $12.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection betwee the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap.
A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private – the world’s largest investigation agency – with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace.
What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives.
Cold Malice
by Toni Anderson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dedicated FBI agent has to confront the past and work with a woman whose family he destroyed twenty years ago to catch a vicious killer who threatens everything they both hold dear, in this Romantic Thriller by New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson.
“Clear your calendar before starting Cold Malice, because you won’t want to put it down!” -USA Today bestselling author Rachel Grant.
Twenty years ago, she was a cult leader’s innocent daughter and he was an undercover agent who broke her heart and destroyed her life. Now he’s back…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Windsor Knot
by SJ Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted by the shocking and untimely death of a guest in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene leads some to think the young Russian pianist strangled himself, yet a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play. When they begin to question the Household’s most loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they’re looking in the wrong place.
Lady Apprentice
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
2021 B.R.A.G. Medallion Award
2022 First Place – YA Fantasy – Incipere Awards
2022 Finalist – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
2022 Finalist – Indies Today Awards
Linden is the worst mage apprentice at her school. Her latest disaster: accidentally destroying her classroom when a small hooded fay pops up inside the fireball she’s just conjured.
Linden is sent to the headmaster’s office to be formally expelled, when she is saved by the bell—quite literally. Someone is frantically ringing the bell inside the watchtower overlooking the western frontier. Raiders are coming, in broad daylight, wearing the uniforms of the enemy army.
Medicine and Mayhem Collection
by Patricia Gussin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times and USA Today Best-selling Author. Award-Winning 4-Book Medical Thriller Collection
SHADOW OF DEATH—TWISTED JUSTICE—WEAPON OF CHOICE—AFTER THE FALL
This four-book collection follows Laura Nelson from her days as a medical student in Detroit during the 1967 riots through her assent to the position of Chief of Surgery in Tampa. Tragically, at the peak of her professional success, a fall on the ice and a devastating hand injury ends her surgical career. But Laura proves resilient and lands the top research job in a large pharmaceutical company.
Dust to Dust
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sorry. The single word was written on a mirror. In front of it hung the Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic?
Either way, it wasn’t murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner Nikki Liska think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop’s death, uncovering one motive and one suspect after another. The shadows of suspicion fall not only on the city’s elite, but into the very heart of the police department.
The Warden Series (Books 1 – 3)
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
WARDEN (BOOK 1: WENDIGO FEVER)
WARDEN (BOOK 2: LURE OF THE LAMIA)
WARDEN (BOOK 3: ATTACK OF THE ASWANG)
“Even though this is a three book bundle it is only a regular size novel. The story is fast paced and very entertaining. I’m impressed by the different types of monsters in this story. The Author must have been a dungeon master to know so many.” by Amazon Customer
Mystery Babylon
by Jamie Lee Grey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A major earthquake, followed by a mega-tsunami, might swamp Russia and China’s war on the United States.
Suspected of collaborating with the enemy, Sierra Forester needs a safe place to hunker down until she can clear her name. Austin Martin might be able to help… or he might be the source of even greater problems. If he risks his life to protect her, can either survive?
Soon after arriving at their remote Alaskan hideout, a mega-tsunami sends Sierra and Austin running for their lives. Can they escape a watery death? How will this natural disaster affect Alaska – and all of the Pacific coast?
North of Nowhere
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest standalone is an unputdownable race to the dramatic finish.
After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness. The siblings hike deep into the woods, searching desperately for safety—unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Aunt Eve’s Last Bite
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Arnold Penny gathers his family at The Gran Vista Hotel to inform them of an offer to purchase the popular tourist destination, Granny Belle’s Apple Orchard. He intends to accept the bid and distribute the proceeds among them but chaos ensues. One family member returns after forty years of being presumed dead and doesn’t find a warm welcome home. Another family member dies in a manner reminiscent of an old family curse. Was it a freak accident or was she murdered?
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Cycle of the Werewolf
by Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Terror began in January—by the light of the full moon…
The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf’s fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker’s Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure. When the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker’s Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind.
Secrets in the Dark
by Heather Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Over a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose.
Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake. Fresh off a case with potential ties to the recent rash of killings, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter are all too familiar with a slayer set to rule with a lethal fist. And they’ll stop at nothing to end his reign.
Crosswind
by Karen K. Brees
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A desperate search for a missing MI6 colleague and the microfilm he possesses leads Professor Katrin Nissen deep into the maelstrom of Nazi-controlled Berlin. Impulsive and reckless, Dieter Weiss may have pushed his luck too far and taken one chance too many. Against all odds, Katrin has just one week to find him.
Posing as a research scientist sympathetic to the Nazis, Katrin attends a conference organized by Heinrich Himmler. The conference will showcase the Nazis’ dark plans to redesign nature and will become the birthing ground of the Holocaust – a cost far greater than Katrin is willing to accept.
What Happens in Montana
by Kim McCollum
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“…a beautifully written tale of strong female relationships that draws you in from the beginning and won’t let go. Reading this book is like spending the afternoon with comforting friends. Enjoy the experience.” – Diane Dickinson, author of Final Transaction
A ghost’s antics, a harrowing moose chase, a hypnosis session, and smuggled booze lead to spilled secrets and betrayal, but do they also lead to murder?
At a hot springs retreat in Montana, whiskey-swigging Maude, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead of long-haired hippies who refuse to wear deodorant. Brooke, feisty, adventurous, and a bit reckless, proposes a reunion at the retreat with her best friends to get away from the chaos of her life with teenagers and the emotional aftermath of her postponed wedding…
Liar!
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Luna Bodman always looks forward to a new shipment of furniture at the restoration shop. Her brother, Cullen, has a knack for finding discarded pieces with an intriguing history, and Luna likes to sit with each item to see if she can feel any kind of vibrations. Usually, Cullen does his thing while Luna does hers, but the arrival of an old armoire triggers a raeaction in Luna that’s impossible to ignore.
From the moment Luna wiggles inside the armoire and closes her eyes, she feels an overpowering and disturbing sensation. Emerging, she asks for a flashlight and discovers words scraped into the wood: “Help me!”
Dead of Winter
by Anders de la Motte
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
WINTER 1987 Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life.
TODAY With her aunt’s death, Laura inherits the cabin village Hedda used to manage and is forced to return to the town she hasn’t set foot in since the tragedy. Laura’s presence stirs up repressed emotions in the small community and it isn’t long before a series of arson attacks casts suspicion on her.
Broke-Ass Women’s Club
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
David Logan is a con man with four wives he plays like a deck of cards – until a car accident deals him a dead man’s hand.
Now the women he lied to – who thought they were happily settled down with the man of their dreams – have their lives turned upside down by a knock on their doors. All but one of them are left penniless and about to lose their homes, and all of them are too shocked to grieve.
Finding out they’d been deceived was bad enough, but coming face to face with each other at the funeral home wasn’t quite what they’d expected.