Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Theo Baxter’s Psychological Thriller Box Set
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“How would I describe this box set hours of mind twisting suspense and bone chilling murders. I had read two of these books previously, but enjoyed the reread plus the other two also I’d most definitely recommend these books. ( It’s Your Turn Now) This book will blow one’s mind there was parts in this story that had me feeling like climbing the walls with nervousness. Be warned this author will be throwing curve balls left and right that will side track you from what’s real up to the end and I liked the fact I couldn’t guess what was coming next. (The Scorned Wife) You know that sensation you get while watching a scary movie and you know something bad is about to happen so you cover your face and yet you peak through your fingers well reading this story gave me that exact feeling and man oh man was it fantastic.” by Amazon Customer
Tombland
by C.J. Sansom
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
LONGLISTED FOR THE SIR WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos.
The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward’s regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector’s prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation and economic collapse. Rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.
Keeper
by Johana Gustawsson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An abduction in London and the discovery of a body on the west coast of Sweden lead criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells back to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, as they hunt a serial killer. Book two in the explosive, award-winning Roy & Castells series.
Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror.
London 2015: Actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: A woman’s body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.
The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger takes readers on an electrifying ride in this thriller that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia—where one mistake can change your life forever.
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight—and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia’s cell phone to shatter Matt’s life a second time…
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
Black Fall
by Andrew Mayne
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated mystery series, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared.
With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the rising star in a family dynasty of illusionists. Her talent and experience endow her with a unique understanding of the power and potential of deception, and a gift for knowing when things are not always as they appear to be…
Of One Mind
by JB Maerten
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The life—or death—of a teen with a traumatic brain injury could be determined by a controversial experimental procedure that may unlock a previously undiscovered level of consciousness.
Kyle Nichols, a teenage baseball player with major-league potential, lies in a hospital bed after suffering a traumatic brain injury with a devastating twist—he is fully conscious and expected to survive but is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate. Kristen, Kyle’s mother, has no way to know his wishes, so she is forced into an unspeakable choice: transfer Kyle to a long-term care facility where he could linger for decades, mute and helpless, or provide him with a gentle death by ending his life support.
ADELENE ~ The Violinist
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Adelene Almanza, an accomplished violinist and Spanish teacher, has only one Christmas wish—to buy an old decrepit schoolhouse and create a teen and literacy center in her small hometown of Bluestone Bluff, New York. When she tries to attend the sale of the building, she is injured and must rely on her old boyfriend and owner of a construction company, Clay Ciaffonni, to help purchase the building and help with the renovations. But money is tight, and a demolition and salvage company is pressuring her to give up and sell. Despite an act of vandalism, mounting costs, and a stray puppy, the couple pushes forward to restore the structure to its natural beauty…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Deeds on a White Christmas
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He tries to live and let live. But when a killer drops by for Xmas, can this retired copper keep an innocent from going down for the crime?
England, 1964. Ex-police inspector Tom Ramsay worries the world has left him behind. Thinking a trip to ring in the season is just the ticket, he agrees to a shared vacation with his assistant, her parents, and his loyal dog. But soon after they arrive at the hotel, the good tidings take a deadly dive when his assistant’s mother is found crouched over a corpse holding a knife…
In the Blood
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Liar, liar, pants on fire . . .
College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that the truth seems like a distant, cloudy nightmare. But she meets her match when she begins babysitting for a volatile, manipulative eleven-year-old boy. Soon after Lana takes the job, her close friend Beck mysteriously disappears. Lana instantly begins fabricating stories – to friends, to police, to herself. Why doesn’t her account jibe with those of eye-witnesses? Lana will do anything to bury the truth about that night … and about her life. But someone else knows her secrets. And he’s dying to tell.
Claws
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“A master of intrigue, suspense, emotion, and wit. Sojka evokes laughter, despair, fear, suspense, and thrills.” – Sublime Book Review
Teeny Voix lies burritoed in her blanket, girded by Lego landmines, protected by her plushy opossum when the bedroom door creaks, and her lecherous stepfather enters . . . again, while her momma ignores. Weeks earlier, the mute girl penned a mysterious letter, unwittingly hailing a goliath who mauls then kills Teeny’s stepfather.
The bizarre death forces Teeny to use wit, fortitude, and an eclectic collection of combatants to brave life and death battles with the wicked White Van People, an organized and well-financed child trafficking operation…
American Duchess
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.”
On a cold November day in 1895, a carriage approaches St Thomas Episcopal Church on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Massive crowds surge forward, awaiting their glimpse of heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. Just 18, the beautiful bride has not only arrived late, but in tears, yet her marriage to the aloof Duke of Marlborough proceeds. Bullied into the wedding by her indomitable mother, Alva, Consuelo loves another. But a deal was made, trading some of the vast Vanderbilt wealth for a title and prestige, and Consuelo, bred to obey, realizes she must make the best of things.
The Cemetery Spot
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When April arrived at her sister’s house, she didn’t expect to find a dead man…
Auggie has stabbed her abusive husband, Roy. Afraid of the cops due to Roy’s ties with the police force, Auggie convinces April to help her get rid of the body. April agrees because she owes a debt to her sister and wants to keep her out of prison. The two sisters bury Roy in the woods, near an old cemetery.
But someone is watching. As the investigation into Roy’s disappearance looms closer to the truth, the sisters don’t know who to trust—including each other. The bond that held them together all these years threatens to break…
Lost for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kymber Allan might get lost in a cardboard box, but she has no problem finding trouble. After she gets fired on her second day at work for getting lost—she finds a dead body. That discovery thrusts her into a path of danger and dark secrets. From attempts on her life to thefts from her aunt’s art collection, Kymber struggles to stay one step ahead of the menace stalking her.
Finding a murder victim while being lost might be an unusual beginning for romance, but in this little Scottish village, the unusual is usual. The crook and the copper. Two men vie for her love and she must choose which one to believe…
Patriot’s Dream
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jan Wilde’s much-needed vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia, is anything but restful. Here in this historic restored colonial village, her sleep is invaded by strangers from two centuries in the past. They seem so close, so real—and when Jan awakens in the morning, their lives and loves and the secret they share shadow her very existence. The only way Jan can ever be free is to seek the truth . . . in her dreams.
Every Fifteen Minutes
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline’s visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts.
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country, and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient.
THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An ordinary parking lot in southern California. Christine Scavello and her six-year-old son are accosted by a strange old woman.
“I know who you are,” the woman snaps at the boy. “I know what you are.”
A scream, a threat – and then a grotesque act of violence. Suddenly Christine’s pride and joy, her only son, is targeted by a group of religious fanatics. They’ve branded him the Antichrist. They want to kill him. And they are everywhere…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Liar!
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Action, adventure and a dash of mystery combine in the latest in the Lost and Found series from acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, as a brother-and-sister team find clues to a decades-old case hidden in an old armoire . . .
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…
The Winter Killings
by Wes Markin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gruesome find. A missing colleague. A case that hits closer to home…
As winter settles over Yorkshire, DCI Emma Gardner is hoping that work will calm down for everyone. Distracted by the continued disappearance of DI Paul Riddick Emma can’t seem to get her head back in the game. But when a human skull is discovered in a local pub, Emma knows it’s time to get a grip.
With no one local reported missing, and with no body to be found, the team have their work cut and no obvious clues to follow. Who could the skull belong to and what message is the killer trying to leave them? And then the first body is found…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The Duke of Windsor Conspiracy
by David Philips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
If you think Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are the first royal couple to alienate themselves from their family, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Back in the 1930s and 1940s, the former British king, Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, not only distanced themselves from their royal household. Edward, now styled the Duke of Windsor after his abdication, actively colluded with Britain’s enemies during WWII. His treachery was so concerning to the government that he and Wallis were shipped off to the Bahamas where a reluctant Edward would become governor of the Crown colony and keep him out of harm’s way…
Beneath Dark Waters
by Karen Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Public prosecutor J.P. “Kaj” Cardozo has only lived in New Orleans for six months, and he’s already working on a high-profile celebrity sexual assault case that’s made headlines all over the country. But when his son becomes the target of a kidnapping attempt as a threat to Kaj, he is desperate to keep him safe and turns to a private investigative firm famous for their protection services.
A veteran Marine, Val Sorensen is glad to have found a new career with Broussard Investigations. Her latest assignment as the bodyguard to ten-year-old Elijah Cardozo reminds her why—Val is a kick ass guardian with a tender heart. Through her duties, Val grows fond of the boy—and his handsome father…
Anna Hoyt
by Dana Cameron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Anna Hoyt is in the enviable position of owning and running her own tavern; in 1745 Boston, Massachusetts, women had to be granted the legal right to run a business alone. The Queen’s Arms is located on the busy Boston waterfront and the thriving tavern’s location makes Anna a target for the toughs who want her to sell the place to them. The tavern is Anna’s only security, and she’s stubbornly determined not to sell, despite the threats of her abusive husband and the thug he wants to impress. There’s no one to turn to, no organized police force to protect her, and while the law may be on her side, a piece of paper won’t stand in the way of dangerous men.
Once upon a Dream
by Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts, Ruth Ryan Langan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nora Roberts’s “In Dreams,”
Jill Gregory’s “The Sorcerer’s Daughter,”
Ruth Ryan Langan’s “The Enchantment,”
Marianne Willman’s “The Bridge of Sighs,”
Flesh and Blood
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing…
Someday the Rabbi Will Leave
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Since becoming the rabbi at the synagogue in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts, David Small has seen his congregation through a fair share of unholy bickering and corruption. So when millionaire Howard Magnuson is elected president of the synagogue, the rabbi isn’t surprised that Magnuson wants to bring corporate efficiency to the temple—at the expense of religious tradition. Conflict flares when Rabbi Small refuses, on the basis of temple rules, to officiate the interfaith wedding of Magnuson’s daughter to a non-Jewish Boston politician, and the new president calls for the rabbi’s dismissal.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Midwinter Manor
by Anita Davison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Escaping the city doesn’t mean escaping the criminals…
1916, Midwinter Manor: Desperate for a Christmas weekend break from war-torn London, Hannah Merrill and her Aunt Violet take Bartleby the cat and themselves off to visit Hannah’s sister, in her beautiful country estate, deep in the English countryside.
The huge house is full of relatives, friends and merrymakers, and everyone’s excited to have a Christmas to remember…
Nemesis
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In New York, Special Agent Lacey Sherlock foils a terrorist attack at JFK airport, but stopping the grenade-carrying crazy was only the beginning. Another plot unfolds nearly simultaneously with a bomb at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Meanwhile, Savich—with the help of Agent Griffin Hammersmith—has his hands full trying to track an elusive murderer who is able to control those under his thrall. When an attempt on Savich’s life collides with Sherlock’s terrorist case, they must race against the clock, as more lives are in danger with every passing minute…
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Once again, Rabbi Small finds himself looking for solace outside the confines of the contentious world of his synagogue in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. When a member of his congregation expresses that she does not want him to officiate her wedding, Rabbi Small has had enough. He seeks escape by dabbling in academia with a part-time teaching gig at a local college. But his fantasy of a tranquil life in an ivory tower is about to come tumbling down.
A bombing at the school kills one of the rabbi’s coworkers, and Small finds himself caught between adversarial students and feuding faculty members…
Inadvertent Enterprises
by Elizabethe LaCoste
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Growing up is a LOT more complicated when you are trying to smuggle a baby dragon home.
Katarina McCaber finds herself among unexpected allies but must return to retrieve her friends, Jonathan and Shay, and perhaps just as importantly, her “things”. Returning will be the least of her challenges as she negotiates learning new skills, acquiring new adversaries, and encountering old faces. If she doesn’t succeed, she risks losing her friends in a foreign world and falling prey to malevolent enemies.
Will the wayward heroine be able to apply her new repertoire to navigate a more mature political stage and get home?
The Road to Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes: IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS – Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night; AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS – An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland.
Plus, for the first time in any Del Rey edition: HERBERT WEST; COOL AIR; THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN; AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES
Hush
by Karen Robards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she’s sure it’s no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone’s out for blood—specifically someone Jeff’s father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time. She suspects that someone is trying to send a message to Jeff’s father: Tell me where the money is, or everyone you care about will die.
Enter Finn Bradley, an FBI agent with a dangerous secret. He’s after the money too, and Riley quickly becomes his chief suspect. But when someone tries to kill her, he has no choice but to protect her until he can uncover the truth…
Skharr Deatheater Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A lone DeathEater has forsaken his clan.
Leaving behind his previous life, Skharr starts building a future next to a dangerous forest in an unknown land. He tells himself it is better than taking gold for questionable reasons.
A lone old man traveling with a donkey offers him a choice: Continue this farm life, or trade him Skharr’s just finished home and tilled land for a map.
A map that Skharr can use to live large for years… If he survives. The old peddler watches him.
Solitude Creek
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of “fire” are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it’s the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire.
Kathryn Dance–a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert–discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people’s own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned…
Kinsey and Me: Stories
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alphabet series comes a collection of stories that “combines glimpses of her series detective, Kinsey Millhone, with a revealing self-portrait” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone and created an iconic female detective. Here, in a story collection divided into two parts, Sue Grafton provides a glimpse of her own early life in the guise of the character Kit Blue, and enriches our understanding of Kinsey Millhone, one of the spunkiest, smartest, and most entertaining private investigators in all of mystery fiction.