Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Kickbacks, Kayaks, and Kidnapping
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where NOTHING is normal.
Deep in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest, Mae West has spent the last few years bringing the rundown Happy Trails Campground and the small southern and cozy town of Normal, Kentucky back to a thriving economic community.
Mae’s efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. Not only is Happy Trails Campground in the running to be named Campground Hospitality of the Daniel Boone National Park, but she landed the coveted Paddle Fest kayak competition that secures the winner a spot on the Olympic team.
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.
The Last Close Call
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A talented genetic analyst and a detective who’s haunted by an elusive cold case team up in the new standalone romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she’s shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents.
Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals—with the notable exception of the West Campus Rapist, a meticulous offender in Texas who has never been identified.
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Buckle up! The ride’s about to get bumpy.
When a claw rips through Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue’s teepee at midnight, he quickly realizes it isn’t an ordinary beast but a rougarou, a Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Island, the ancestral home of the Atakapa Indians. Cajun witch Paula Mouton and her friend Odette, who lives in a tent on the beach with her dog Mud Puppy, vow to confront the ghosts in the nearby lighthouse. Their actions soon lead them to the Majestic, a Prohibition-era hotel and casino—a noir setting where they face a vampire, demons, and an avenging angel. The paranormal island is about to become even more haunted. Buckle up and enjoy the thrills, fantasy, and mystery. The ride’s fun and a little racy, but it’s about to get bumpy.
Fly Away
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Return to the world of FIREFLY LANE—now a Netflix series—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah.
Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don’t they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . .
Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate–to be there for Kate’s children–but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people.
Breaking Point
by John Rhodes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
1940, World War II. The Nazis have crushed Europe, and Hitler launches a massive aerial assault with the Luftwaffe against the heavily outnumbered British RAF. The fate of civilization teeters in the balance.
Johnnie Shaux, a Spitfire fighter pilot, must summon up the fortitude to fly into a battle where death is all but inevitable, and continue to do so until the inevitable occurs…
Eleanor Rand, a brilliant Fighter Command mathematician, studies the control room map constantly tracking the ebbs and flows of the conflict, and sees the glimmerings of a radical breakthrough…
Skulduggery
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“You’re the bone lady, aren’t you?”
San Francisco, 1980s: Anthropologist Ellen Christie’s date plans quickly change after a knock at her door. A frantic stranger named Jimmy says he has evidence of the ancient remains of the famed “Peking Man.” It’s a little hard to believe since the bones went missing in China in 1941, but if the bones are real, they belong in her museum. Ellen decides to throw caution to the wind and accompany Jimmy to inspect the remains.
Arriving at Jimmy’s Chinatown apartment, they meet Jimmy’s handsome brother, Dan, but thugs show up a moment later, forcing Jimmy to flee with the bones.
Unexpectedly Ivy
by Sebastiana Devine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There is no such thing as an Ivy League formula.
A quick, witty read told in bite-size chapteritas you can finish in one sitting. An extended bathroom break did it for some.
This book reveals how an ordinary family raised a child who was offered admission to Harvard on their own terms.
Through these pithy, reflective chapters, Sebastiana Devine shares what truly matters: confidence to resist turning a child’s life into a performance staged for applause.
For parents wondering whether they should turn into Dr. Frankenstein and stitch together the perfect child, this story offers perspective: a surgery-free, humorous path forward. No body parts required.
Last One Out
by Jane Harper
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town.
Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned, with just a handful of residents clinging onto what remains.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Site Unseen
by Dana Cameron
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An archeologist in coastal Maine makes a chilling discovery in this cozy mystery series debut—now a Hallmark feature film!
Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is an expert at finding things that have been lost for centuries. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she recently unearthed a major archeological discovery in coastal Maine: a seventeenth-century settlement that predates Jamestown. But a dead body found at the site has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of investigation.
Monsters and the Heroines Who Slay Them Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Monsters. The world is full of them and these women hunt them down and eliminate them!
Halsey Ambrosius is the best elemental monster-hunter in her Clan militia. Good thing too. Monsters aren’t behaving like they should and there’s been a plague of them
Ellis Burton has been prowling Los Angelos at night looking for answers but instead, she’s become the guardian of the dwellers of LA who have to travel the streets at night.
Pick up this collection to go monster hunting today. You get 2 series, 16 books, and more than 3,500 pages of urban fantasy, monster-hunting adventure!
Seize the Night
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.
Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy restore the vampire to its rightful place as a monster to be feared. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, Seize the Night gathers all-new, blood-curdling tales from Charlaine Harris, John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), Scott Smith, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kelley Armstrong, Brian Keene, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, David Wellington, and more.
The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Sea Swept: A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn travels the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight.
Rising Tides: Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his father’s passion for the Maryland shore. And now with his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But amidst his achievements lie the most important challenges of his life.
My Only Sister Complete Series Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dangerous or not, Logan Hendricks plans on being a lot more involved in his newly-formed detective agency’s current investigation. A violent and brazen crime has already been committed and he wants to be part of finding out who’s responsible. It’s not as if he’s an amateur and doesn’t know what he’s doing.
As always, his grandsons have a different view of how things are supposed to work. They want him to sit back and manage everything that needs to be done to identify the individual responsible for the violent attack on the Ingramm Research Center in Alaska…
Criss Cross
by James Patterson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this electrifying thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller, when a mysterious serial killer known as “M” launches a deranged “investigation”, Alex Cross and his partner must unearth long-forgotten secrets to survive—or risk getting buried themselves.
The inspiration for #1 hit streaming show, Cross. In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed “M” rests on the corpse. “You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.” Was an innocent man just put to death?
Tommy and the Bumper Invasion
by Charles Youther
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tommy Barnes is a bright, inquisitive eleven year-old boy. He has been left with his weird aunt while his somewhat indifferent parents travel in Europe. He soon finds that things are weirder than he ever imagined.
Tommy discovers that his aunt and two other elderly ladies are the last surviving members of an ancient order that has been protecting the earth from invasion by evil creatures from a parallel world, monsters that feed on life itself.
Once dependent on magic, the order, now known as the Society for the Prevention of Alien Invasions, has adopted modern science and technology as the weapons for their on-going war.
Runaway
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She disappeared without a word. Now the man she left behind wants answers—and a second chance. Laura ran from Andy Friessen for a reason.
She left without a word, determined never to go back to the man who broke her heart. But when divorce papers finally force Andy to face the truth, he realizes too late that losing Laura may be the biggest mistake of his life.
Now Laura is fighting to protect the life she’s built far from Andy’s powerful family and the pain of the past. But Andy isn’t ready to let her go. Not without a fight. Not when too much remains unsaid between them.
Belonging to the World
by Barry Hoffner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Readers’ Choice Book Awards Bronze Winner, Adult Nonfiction
Some journeys we choose. Others choose us.
In the aftermath of tragedy, Barry Hoffner wanted to feel the pulse of the world again. The whole world.
When Barry Hoffner lost his wife and travel partner, Jackie, in a sudden tragedy, his grief was a black hole that consumed everything. But amid the quiet wreckage of loss, something unexpected stirred: the call to move, to reconnect, and to live fully again.
What began as a reluctant return to the road became an audacious mission to visit all 193 countries on Earth—not to escape his pain, but to transform it…
A Perfect Grave
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rookie crime reporter Jason Wade, a troubled loner from the wrong side of the tracks, pursues the story of a murdered Seattle nun. The case leads him to a hermit nun who founded a mysterious religious order; and ultimately to the dark secret that has tormented his ex-cop father for decades. It culminates in a life and death struggle against the clock. W
ith time running out, Jason and his father battle the odds to confront a terrible truth. Rick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over L.A. with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He’s also reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait’s border with Iraq. His books have been published in nearly 30 countries, including an illegal translation produced in Iran.
Shadow Jack
by Diane Capri
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Make some coffee. You’ll read all night.” Lee Child
Two missions. One chance.
A stranger arrives with a shocking message for FBI Special Agent Kim Otto: Reacher wants you.
Two criminal empires are tearing each other apart over sophisticated weapons diverted to killers, mercenaries, and rogue governments. Caught in the crossfire are Reacher’s friends, military veterans and their families with nowhere to turn.