Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Pawsitively Cursed
by Melissa Erin Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The only thing more twisted than a cursed witch is her family tree.
For the past fourteen years, Edgehill’s resident secret witch, Amber Blackwood, has been haunted by her parents’ deaths. The whole town knows about the tragedy, but the details remain a mystery even to Amber. From her tiny studio apartment above her shop, The Quirky Whisker, Amber can see her partially rebuilt old house out on the edge of town. Although she now has a good life—delighting children with her magically infused toys, concocting healing tinctures for Edgehill’s residents, doting on her cats, Tom and Alley, and sitting on the committee for the town’s annual Here and Meow Festival—she feels stuck in the past.
Dead Drop
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bob thought he was done with killing. He was wrong.
Ex-CIA assassin Bob Singleton is in Memphis when his past catches up with him – a former Russian operative, Alexi, recognizes Bob from the old days. Now a gangster, Alexi needs an elite killer to take out a rival and he knows he won’t find better than Bob.
Alexi kidnaps a friend of Bob’s and makes him an offer he can’t refuse – you’ll see your friend again if you kill my enemy, Victor. Bob has no choice but to play for time and accept the job.
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(A Rogue Warrior Mysteries)
Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells
by Bruce Hammack
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells?
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.
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(Smiley and McBlythe Mysteries)
Make Me
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.
Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be?
The Orphan Chronicles
by Nita DeBorde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In a secret research facility 200 feet below the ocean’s surface, an extraordinary experiment is taking place…
Ananya Patel is one of twelve orphans who have been raised at The Institute—a secret, underwater research facility funded and operated by billionaire philanthropist Gregory Cornelius.
While at The Institute, Ananya and the other orphans have been given regular doses of a formula that exponentially enhances a person’s natural skills and abilities. Cornelius’s vision is for the ability-enhanced orphans to be educated and trained at the Institute so they can one day “exert a virtuous and constructive influence on the world around them.”
The Pine Barrens Stratagem
by Ken Harris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Investigator Steve Rockfish needs cash, like yesterday. The bad news is that yesterday, a global pandemic raged, and Maryland was headed toward a lockdown that would ultimately lead to cheating spouses no longer “working late,” and hence a lack of new clients.
Rockfish’s luck changes when a Hollywood producer reaches out, but the job is two states away and involves digging up information on a child trafficking ring from the 1940s. What he uncovers will be used to support the launch of a true crime docuseries. He grabs a mask, hand sanitizer and heads for South Jersey.
The Pine Barrens Stratagem
by Ken Harris
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One man details his unusual friendship with the Genesee River Killer and examines what separates everyday people from serial killers.
What happens when one of the evilest men in the history of America meets a man he trusts to share his darkest secrets with? How does it affect someone already on the edge of society when he is taken under the wing of a serial killer? Partly told through the letters of Arthur Shawcross, The Shawcross Letters is the tale of one of America’s most notorious serial killers and his relationship with his would-be biographer, John Paul Fay.
Half Past Midnight
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate suffers a fate worse than death
A grieving couple hires paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn’t dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the answer and soon learns death isn’t always a person’s worst fate. Will Wyatt solve the sticky mystery or fall victim to the seemingly supernatural killer and suffer a fate worse than death?
Half Past Midnight is Book 10 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans. Visit the Big Easy tonight. You might decide to stay awhile.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shocking… Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
Exciting… The only available clues—limited as they are—were stored in a bank safe-deposit box somewhere in the Sunshine State. Shelby is given 90 days to locate the bank, decipher all clues and find her buried inheritance. If she doesn’t find it within the 90-day time frame, she’ll be forced to forfeit it altogether. Riveting…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Coyote Run
by Amanda Lewis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The good detective would rather not waste his time and connections traipsing through the monotonous petty crimes sure to follow – especially when Amanda’s only required payment is lunch money and permission to use the details of said cases to fill her novels.
Ben is still reluctant to help when Amanda enlists them to solve the decades-old cold case of Crazy Susan. Their client, Mr. Gray, is looking for the lost love who got away all those years ago. Gray wants clarity or closure on the past, and to know if Susan is doing well and whether or not he can help her in any way…
Judgment of Beasts
by Edward J. Leahy
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“Author Ed Leahy introduces a deep, strong dose of how fragmented humanity can be, whether seeking justice, witnessing crime, or enjoying the simple perverted joy of ruining people’s lives.” – C. Hope Clark, The Edisto Island Mysteries
While Detective Kim Brady is in Bermuda recovering from depression, an aid of the mayor’s arrives with a summons to return to New York to investigate the assassination of Sabrina Dunn, a long-time critic and political opponent of the mayor’s. Although the mayor pledges his full support, Kim can’t ignore the mayor’s potential motive. But she soon learns of others with a potential motive, including Sabrina’s estranged father and a group of investors pushing a major redevelopment project that Sabrina opposed.
A Thing Immortal
by Barry K Gregory
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When an unspeakable ancient evil returns, an orphan girl’s secret may be the world’s only hope.
After witnessing the murder of her mother and enduring captivity by outlaws, a young girl finds herself the slave of a brutal mountain man. Trapped by magical wards carved into the trees surrounding a trapper’s shack, the girl almost gives up hope.
The arrival of a ghostly gunfighter, as pale as the moon, changes her fate. An old man with long, stringy hair and a penchant for quoting Shakespeare, he promises her escape and freedom, but only if she trusts him with the only thing she has left… her name.
The Officer of Dachau
by Dorit Journo
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She made a courageous choice in times of unparalleled turmoil. Could her family survive its consequences?
New York, 1963. Ever since he was a young boy, struggling to survive among the rubble of bombarded Berlin, Manny Heimann knew he wanted to be a doctor. Having barely managed to escape the terrible fate of Mischling German children, Manny is adamant about dedicating his life to helping all those in need…
Berlin, 1929. Twenty-year-old nurse Ilse Heine spends most of her time dutifully tending to the sick and injured people of the city when she meets the striking Johan Kirche. At first, Ilse is captivated. But as their courtship ensues, Johan’s words become harsher, and Ilse begins to see something change behind his once beautiful blue eyes…
Trust No One
by Keri Beevis
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A woman haunted by her past and a killer who won’t let her forget. A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it’s time to pay…’
When I first found the note, I assumed it was a prank. But then I am lured to a house where I witness a gruesome murder, and I realise the threat is real. But who is tormenting me though, and why?
Noah Keen, my boyfriend, is determined to get to the bottom of things, and soon other familiar faces appear from my past. Ones who are connected to a tragic accident that happened when we were teenagers. They too have received similar notes.
Piece of My Heart
by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée’s nephew—just days before her wedding.
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach, triggering a search party. Witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him in the afternoon…
Down Under
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disappearance of a bride-to-be – the latest in a series of bizarre abductions – in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries
Rose Anne Carew is to be married tomorrow. During a last-minute discussion of floral wreathes, a stranger calls, refusing to leave a message for the bride. A few hours later, at half-past six, Rose Anne leaves the vicarage to visit her former nurse’s sick child. It’s the last anyone sees of her…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Change in Destiny
by Janet K. Shawgo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charlie Edwards once-perfect life is shattered when she discovers her husband’s infidelity and plan to kill her for an inheritance. Feeling helpless and in danger, Charlie turns to her mirror-image twin, Dani. They use their specialized skill sets to assure his plan does not succeed.
FBI agent Brian Deeds is assigned to investigate Charlies’ husband for bank fraud. When the possibility of his ex-fiancés’ involvement arises in the case, will his feelings override his duty?
Undone
by Karin Slaughter
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In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky – and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. But then a tortured young woman becomes a patient in her ER. . . .
In the backwoods of suburban Atlanta, where Sara’s patient was found, local police have set up their investigation. But Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective Will Trent doesn’t wait for the go-ahead from his boss—he plunges through police lines, single-handedly exposing a hidden house of horror buried beneath the earth . . . and then finds another victim.
Seconds to Midnight
by Philip Donlay
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Donovan Nash’s good deed leads to terror with horrifying repercussions
While on a routine Eco-Watch flight above northern Canada to study one of the most powerful solar flares in history, Donovan Nash and Michael Ross narrowly miss colliding with another aircraft?a Boeing 737 that’s not supposed to be there. With the mysterious 737 trailing smoke, Donovan and Michael watch as the stricken aircraft makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake.
Protection Inc. Series
by Kimberly Rose Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Read the entire Protection Inc. Series in one volume. The series starts off with a bang in Direct Threat where we meet the Protection Inc. team. A group of former law enforcement individuals turned bodyguards.
Direct Threat: One little girl. Two bodyguards. Only one chance to guard their hearts.
Imminent Threat: When one bad decision changes the course of her life, Jenna must seek protection from a surprising source.
Certain Threat: Katrina White’s garage explodes and she fears someone is out to get her.
Dark Threat: Reporter Trinity Lockhart pursues a story but then unwittingly becomes the story.
Personal Threat: Bodyguard Sally Wilson has become the target. Can she save her own life as well as her daughter’s?
Birth of Heavy Metal Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
You thought you understood the Zoo? I’m here to tell you it’s so much more than anyone ever thought! The life expectancy of visitors to The Zoo isn’t very high. If you survive, you might just be set for life.
Dive into the ZOO today with the complete 10-book boxed set!
How do you shoot a gun, and just HOW MUCH is that plant worth? The government needs the best of the best military and scientific minds working out how to pull the secrets from the ZOO, while keeping the deadly fauna and flora in check.
Borrowed Time
by Jack Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A collection of seven time-bending sci-fi stories by the author of the New York Times–bestselling Lost Fleet series – with new author’s notes for each story.
In four interlinked short stories, a pair of Temporal Interventionists try to solve some of history’s greatest mysteries – from the origin of the Spanish Flu to an unexplained explosion in the world’s least-inhabited region in 1908. Why were ironclad warships being developed by both the South and the North at the exact same time during the American Civil War? And why don’t we know who fired the ‘shot heard ’round the world,’ the lone gunshot that started the American Revolution?
Seduced by Madness
by Carol Pogash
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A true crime account and analysis of a California housewife’s murder of her husband and the revealing trial that followed.
Seduced by Madness is the remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead as a Door Knocker
by Diane Kelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
WILL THIS KILLER DEAL LEAD TO A DEAD END?
Meet Whitney Whitaker. A hopeless romantic when it comes to real estate, she knows what it takes to find—and flip—the home of one’s dreams. A fixer-upper is like catnip to Whitney: she can’t resist the challenge of turning an eyesore into a priceless work of art. So when one of her clients decides to liquidate a crumbling property, Whitney seizes the opportunity to purchase it for a song. But soon a curious incident of the cat in the night-time leads to a change in tune. . .
Ill Intent: A Medical Thriller
by Geoffrey M. Cooper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
2022 National Indie Excellence Award
A terminally ill scientist leaves a letter to be delivered to his niece upon his death. A letter revealing a forty-year-old secret so damning that she’s killed to keep it from seeing the light of day. As Brad Parker, director of the Maine Translational Research Institute, and his partner, FBI agent Karen Richmond, investigate, the death toll mounts. And their own lives and careers are threatened.
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
She stole his world. He’s got twenty-four hours to get it back.
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love—one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months.
The Right Path
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On a dream vacation in Greece, Morgan James is enjoying the beautiful island paradise of sun, surf, and sand. That dream becomes a nightmare when she emerges from the ocean after a midnight, moonlit swim to find herself face-to-face with a man wielding a knife. Warning her to say nothing to no one about his presence, he vanishes.
Morgan sees him the very next day, visiting the home of her hosts. Greek tycoon Nicholas Gregoras appears to be on a mysterious mission and he needs Morgan to trust him. Undeniably attracted to and intrigued by Nicholas, she gives into his request only to find herself targeted by some very dangerous people.
The Uninvited
by Jonathan Daniel
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On a lush tropical island, the guests of a private resort celebrate with reckless abandon. But something unwelcome has found its way in. Something incomprehensible and evil. Something ravenous. The screaming begins as the horror tears its way through the guests. The ones who survive the initial slaughter find themselves hunted, chased across the island by something insatiable and unrelenting. There is no place to hide. And they’re coming…
Random in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
In this crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd.
Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life. It’s the last night of her life...
Tricky Twenty-Two
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute.
Stephanie Plum might not be the world’s greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she’s being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeperof the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college—and it’s not just Zeta fraternity pranks.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
by Alan Dean Foster
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With his two companions—Simna ibn Sind the swordsman and the massive black cat Ahlitah—at his side, Etjole Ehomba continues his honor-driven quest to find the Visioness of Laconda. Imprisoned in the fortress of an evil necromancer, she is both her captor’s obsession and his torment.
Seeking to cross the blighted Semordria Ocean, Etjole and his sidekicks find no one willing to risk its legendary monsters—until they meet a collector of rare animals. He points them to the northern realm of Hamacassar, and then drugs them in order to steal Ahlitah.
Necessary Peril
by Lynn Shannon
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His scars are hidden. Kyle Stewart always envisioned marriage and children in his future, but being deployed changed him in every possible way. All he wants now is to take care of his aging parents and live a quiet life of bachelorhood. Then a woman from Kyle’s past blasts back into his life with hired hitmen on her tail.
She’s not who she claims to be. Sierra Lyons isn’t her real name. She’s not originally from Texas, her birthday isn’t in April, and her family has been on the run since she was seven. Trusting the police isn’t an option, but when armed men attempt to kidnap her infant nephew, there’s no denying she’s been found.
Some risks are worth taking…