Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cornish Wedding Murder
by Fiona Leitch
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer.
But there’s nothing quite like having your first job back at home be catering an ex-boyfriend’s wedding to remind you of just how small your village is. And when the bride vanishes, Jodie is drawn into the investigation, realising that life in the countryside might not be as quaint as she remembers.
Empire of the Vampire
by Jay Kristoff
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.
Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.
Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen.
If I Go Missing
by Leslie Wolfe
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
If you’re reading this, I’ve gone missing. I close the binder I’ve been writing in, and walk into the living room. As I stare out of the window at your house next door, I think about all the things I stand to lose if someone comes for me. My handsome, loving husband, who has no idea what I’ve done. My family, who have supported me no matter what. This beautiful home near the ocean, where I thought I would be safe.
Everyone says that I’m paranoid, but I just think I’m prepared. My secrets have placed me in terrible danger.
Hang the Moon
by Jeannette Walls
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out.
The Witch and the Revolution
by Daniel Sugar
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As the Tsar’s subjects turn against him, Lilly Parris races to save Anastasia Romanov and her brother Alexis – the heir to the Russian throne.
The Witch and the Revolution is a fast-paced, brand-new take on the Russian Revolution.
“Another fast paced well researched chapter in the life of Lilly Paris…very descriptive picture life in the time of the Romanovs A great read!!” by Amazon Customer
In The Dead of Night
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Siblings are supposed to love each other. Bethany just wants hers dead.
Chevy, Lorna, and Bethany Sinclair were born to an outlaw life. Children of the infamous “Bourbon Sinclair,” people never saw them as anything but boot scum.
But while Lorna and Chevy learned from their father’s mistakes and turned their lives around, Bethany followed in his bootsteps. And now, ten years after his death, she’s more dangerous than he ever was.
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system — and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity’s only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Gifts, Glamping, & Glocks
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, a small town in the Daniel Boone National Forest and Happy Trails Campground, where the annual Christmas activities are in full swing. But behind the twinkling lights and festive cheer lies a sinister secret.
The Religious Body
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan prays he will find a nun’s murderer in this British crime novel by a Diamond Dagger winner: “A most ingenious writer” (The New York Times).
The day begins like any other for Sister Mary St. Gertrude. When her alarm sounds at 5 a.m., Sister Mary begins rousting her convent sisters from their beds, starting with the Reverend Mother. Down the Order she goes with a knock and a warm blessing. But when the young nun reaches Sister Anne’s door, there is no answer. She assumes that Sister Anne got up early, and continues on her way.
S is for Silence
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
California private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to solve a decades-old cold case in this “undeniably entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton.
Cases don’t get much colder than that of Violet Sullivan, who disappeared from her rural California town in 1953, leaving behind an abusive husband and a seven-year-old named Daisy. But PI Kinsey Millhone has promised the now adult Daisy she’ll try her best to locate Violet, dead or alive. All signs point to a runaway wife—the clothes that disappeared; the secret stash of money Violet bragged about; the brazen flirtations she indulged in with local men, including some married ones.
The John Corey Collection
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An omnibus of three Nelson DeMille novels featuring John Corey, a brilliant NYPD detective who becomes an FBI terrorist hunter.
Plum Island
The Lion’s Game
Night Fall
Warrior
by Simon Scarrow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The epic story of Caratacus: a barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against mighty Rome . . .
AD 18, Britannia. The Roman Empire rules much of the known world. Beyond the northern frontier lies Britannia, where ceaseless feuding amongst the Celts leaves the island vulnerable to Rome’s ambitions.
Caratacus, son of a powerful king, has no premonition of destiny when he is dispatched to train with the Druids. A brutal regime transforms the young prince into a warrior with unparalleled military skills – and the strategic cunning essential to outwit a stronger enemy.
The Red Road
by Denise Mina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions.
Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she’s known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown’s trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells.
Young Gun
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Austin Burke, age 16, does not have an easy life, yet he chooses not to let that bring him down. He has big ambitions. Someday, he is going to become a lawman.
Sheriff Dalton keeps treating him like a kid, but Austin doesn’t care. He wants to prove everybody wrong.
One day, an outlaw by the name of Lyra Holden rides into town looking for the sheriff. She has some unfinished business – to get back at the sheriff for locking up a man she has been hunting down for a long time. Nobody has the right to touch her prey. It is her job.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Highlands
by Debbie Young
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sophie and Hector are heading to the Highlands.
For Sophie it’s a trip home and for Hector it’s time to meet Sophie’s parents… Though their trip has village tongues wagging about a stop at Scotland’s notorious elopement spot, Gretna Green.
No matter what, it’ll make a nice break from the murder and mayhem that has been plaguing their beautiful Cotswolds village. But Sophie and Hector are barely across the border on the way to Inverness before a sinister encounter leaves them shaken.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #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.
Cold Dead Night
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The FBI betrayed her. Now they need her. Private Investigator Kenna Banbury lost everything two years ago at the hands of a serial killer. From the ashes of that encounter, she’s built a life she believes in, searching for the lost and forgotten all over the western US. Bringing her own brand of justice.
When a series of murders drags her into an FBI investigation, Kenna finds herself back in the place where it all went wrong.
The Navy Justice Collection
by Don Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don Brown’s Navy Justice series now available in one volume!
Treason
Hostage
Defiance
“Don Brown writes fast paced suspense that keeps me up at night. Insightful, thoughtful and respectful of our military, the author also wakens the reader to what is happening in the real world today.” by Amazon Customer
The Last to Disappear
by Jo Spain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A luxury resort. Three missing women. One body.
When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister’s body has been pulled from an icy lake in Northern Lapland, he assumes his irresponsible sister accidentally drowned. He travels to the wealthy winter resort where Vicky worked as a tour-guide and meets Agatha Koskinen, the detective in charge. Agatha is a no-nonsense single mother of three who already thinks there’s more to Vicky’s case than meets the eye.
Three Sisters in Black
by Norman Zierold
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.
But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey’s death was no suicide. And Ocey’s own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.
Deadly Game
by Michael Caine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations – but he’s great at catching criminals.
And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Sharp Edges
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She put her art on the line – and her heart in his hands…
Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island – an artistic haven near Seattle – to catalog an important collection of art glass. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding the collector’s death, the museum insists that Eugenia take along Cyrus Chandler Colfax – a rough-hewn private investigator whose taste in glass runs to ice-cold bottles filled with beer.
Payback Jack
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When Smith Driskill, a 55-year-old east Texas farmer, widowed and abandoned by his children; dramatically executes child molester and murderer Rodney William Markum; he is unprepared for the ensuing media circus painting him as a hero or the political free-for-all that ensues when he chooses residence on death row over a day in court. Why is Driskill determined to die on death row, and why have so many people pledged to stop him?
The odd pairing of smitten Detective Nathan DeRidder and rising reporter Kayla Cope race to unravel the mystery behind Driskill’s deathwish, while he battles the forces pledged to stop him.
White Smoke
by John Gilstrap
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“One of the most compelling heroines to come along in years.” – Jeffery Deaver
One-time congressional representative Victoria Emerson has received a request from the deposed president of the United States—come to the bunker at Hilltop Manor, where the remnants of the U.S. government have been imprisoned. A ruthless band has seized power, leaving civilians to die of starvation and untreated injuries. The self-appointed leader, Roger Parsons, plans to punish the former rulers for thrusting the country into Hell Day, the devastating war that changed the world in just a few hours.
Kate Burkholder: Three Novellas
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $2.38 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From Linda Castillo, the New York Times bestselling author of SWORN TO SILENCE and AMONG THE WICKED, this collection of stories featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder combines three amazing novellas for the first time together at a discounted price.
Long Lost
A Hidden Secret
Seeds of Deception
Three Steps Back
by Michael Edmond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a world where chains of honor are as constraining as the shackles of slavery, a fiercely noble girl serves a man who is a bounty hunter that despises the institution that binds her to him. But when a bounty is placed on her, she must navigate a landscape of deceit and betrayal that challenges her identity and beliefs, discovering that the true price of freedom is higher than she ever imagined.
Dark Mind
by Jennifer Chase
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All of the EMILY STONE THRILLERS are Stand-Alone Books:
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A Serial Killer Plagues an Island Paradise Vigilante detective Emily Stone continues her covert pursuits to find serial killers and child abductors, all under the radar while shadowing police investigations. Emily searches for an abducted nine-year-old girl taken by ruthless and enterprising slave brokers. Following the clues from California to the garden island of Kauai, she begins to piece together the evidence and ventures deep into the jungle. It doesn’t take long before Emily is thrown into the middle of murder, mayhem, and conspiracy.
Holmes, Marple & Poe
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A BRAND NEW RELEASE
Brendan Holmes – The Brain: Identifies suspects via deduction and logic.
Margaret Marple – The Eyes: Possesses powers of observation too often underestimated.
Auguste Poe – The Muscle: Chases down every lead no matter how dangerous or dark.
The agency’s daring methodology and headline-making solves attract the attention of NYPD Detective Helene Grey. Her solo investigation into her three unknowable competitors will delight mystery fans.
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch.
Miracle at Augusta
by James Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
One year after his big golf tournament win, Travis McKinley struggles to find a place in the world of professional sports in this inspiring novel.
A year ago, unknown golfing amateur Travis McKinley shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he’s famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still, Travis can’t shake the feeling that he’s a fraud, an imposter who doesn’t deserve his success-and after a series of disappointments and personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right.