Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Index to Murder
by Jo Dereske
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The search for purloined paintings leads a Washington librarian and her artist pal into danger in this charming cozy mystery.
No one could be more orderly or organized than dedicated librarian Helma Zukas. No one could be more rash and raucous than avant-garde artist Ruth Winthrop. Yet the two women are best friends and a resourceful, ingenious, crime-solving team. So when two of Ruth’s latest paintings—each depicting an ex-lover who met a very untimely and mysterious end—are stolen, the amazing amateur detectives get to work.
The Libyan Diversion
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Abu Nakba—the man responsible for lethal attacks in Washington, D.C., London, and Jerusalem—is finally dead. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down and destroying what’s left of the terror group Kairos.
But before Ryker can mobilize his team of CIA operatives with their new assignment, a disturbing report from Libya suggests all may not be as it seems. The U.S. bombing that should have taken out Nakba’s headquarters now appears to have been a disastrous mistake—and Ryker himself may be responsible.
Deadly Season
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Last month Kate Garrett was a Police Detective. Now she’s a Pet P.I.?
Kate recently inherited half her father’s private investigation company and a partner who is as irritating as he is attractive. Kate has been avoiding Jake Carmedy for years, but now her life might depend on him.
Kate and Jake are on the hunt for a serial cat killer who has mysterious connections to her father’s last police case. Kate’s father had been forced to retire when he was shot investigating a domestic disturbance. Is the shooter back for revenge? And is Kate or Jake next?
Terminal Freeze
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Alaska’s Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate change. But once there, Marshall and his intrepid team make an astonishing discovery: an enormous prehistoric animal encased in solid ice. Despite repeated warnings from the local village, and Marshall’s own mounting concern, the expedition sponsors want the creature cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on a live television spectacular…But then the creature disappears and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
The O’Connell Family Christmas
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Christmas is coming, and love is in the air. But so is some dark mayhem. Will the crime behind the curtain ruin a happy-ending holiday for the O’Connells?
Owen O’Connell wants only one thing: to put a ring on the finger of his long-time girlfriend, Tessa Brooks. But when her past fears become an obstacle between them, Owen may not get the new beginning and the happily ever after he truly wants.
Meanwhile, Suzanne O’Connell finds herself in a year-long slump, being the live-in girlfriend of Deputy Harold Waters. Jobless and searching for something to give her life meaning, she finds herself on the wrong side of the law when she stands up for the rights of a stranger who is targeted by the community…
The Secret
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.
All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy…
Silver in the Bone
by Alexandra Bracken
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak.”—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone
Born without a trace of magic, Tamsin Lark is no match for the sorceresses and Hollowers who populate the magical underground of Boston. But when the only parent she’s ever known disappears without so much as a goodbye, she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted relics to keep herself—and her brother, Cabell—alive…
Backwater Justice
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $8.54 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
The small Oregon town of Mountain Valley seems like the perfect place to safely raise a family, away from the dangers of the big city. Vanessa’s parents think so, until the day their fourteen-year-old daughter doesn’t come home for dinner. They call her cell. Straight to voice mail. They call her friends. Nothing.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Toy With Me
by Diane Kelly
Kindle $1.00 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Ciara relocates to a quaint North Carolina mountain town shortly before Christmas and takes a job in a classic toy shop, the last thing she expects is to end up investigating a robbery. But when someone steals the rent her attractive boss Nick owes to the landlord, the two are determined to work together to bring the culprit to justice. Can they solve the crime, or will only Santa know who’s stolen the money and ended up on his naughty list?
INTERCEPTED
by Susanna Seigler-Haymond
Kindle $.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A BROTHER’S REVENGE, A GIRL GONE MISSING, ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE FATE
Nora Milton believes her calling is to help lessen the suffering in a world filled with pain. While chasing that calling, she goes to Mexico to help finish the construction of an orphanage in Mexico and meets mission pilot Anthony Goldberg. A spark is kindled between them but it’s cut short when Nora finds herself kidnapped at gunpoint.
Desperate to save the woman his heart longs for, Anthony sets out on a search for Nora on his own. All too quickly he learns just how perilous leaving the compound can be and finds himself entrenched in the dangerous drug trade…
The Prepared
by Colton Lively
Kindle $.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Prepare and Survive.
When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains.
In the Still of the Night
by David L. Golemon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Set in the world of The Supernaturals, one of Riffle’s Ten Best Haunted House Books of All Time, In the Still of the Night, a supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author of The Event Group series David L. Golemon, will make your Halloween extra spooky this year.
Five years ago, the ghost hunting Supernaturals disbanded after being accused of faking their experiences at Summer Place. Now, the eccentric, but brilliant, team of scientists and paranormal experts are being asked to join forces once again—this time to save the President…
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive.
Borrower of the Night
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to art historian Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long-forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities…
Around Curiosity’s Edge
by J.P. Hostetler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A hidden world waits, a dark society schemes, and a ship sails to protect that which cannot be lost.
Salem Swan knows none of this as he arrives in Easterly. He knows only that he misses his recently deceased mother, that his new guardian, his uncle Ulysses is unique, and that the boat which will now be his home is unlike anything he has ever seen.
Fearful of this new reality, Salem starts to ask questions that uncover the truth about his distant uncle, his long-gone father, and the true nature of the ship. The answers lead him into a place of myth and legend, where fantastic creatures wage an ages-old war with a radical group bent on eliminating them forever.
To the Land of the Living
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the mythical world of Gilgamesh the King in this adventurous sequel: “An enthralling quest.” —The Times (London)
The warrior-king Gilgamesh—part man, part god—is not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the Afterworld, a bizarre reality in which everyone who has ever died lives again . . . only to die again and again in endless succession, Gilgamesh sets out to find his lost friend Enkidu and fight his way back to the land of the living…
DETERMINED TO BE EXTRAORDINARY
by DAWN HEIMER
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
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Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Divine Christmas
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s Christmas time in the cozy town of Divine. All is merry and bright…until someone is murdered. Where do you start looking for a killer, when half the town is a suspect?
The Christmas season has finally arrived in the cozy town of Divine, and Jo is determined to create wonderful, warm memories for the residents of Second Chance farm.
After someone steals the Christmas gifts purchased for the area’s underprivileged children, Pastor Murphy is forced to ask the area business owners for donations.
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Ripe
by James Hider
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
2023 San Francisco Book Festival WINNER – Science Fiction
Scottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains-a suave, enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2,000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial ‘farmers’ waiting on Earth for an alien harvest-is a delusional schizophrenic. But when vast ships suddenly appear over Moscow and vacuum up 50,000 people in a matter of hours, she realizes she must track down the elusive Rains. In her search, she stumbles upon a group who are already trying to track down the farmers. This band of renegades is led by Cassius C. Trenton, a former NSA analyst who has been on the run since he broke the code on a mystery transmission beamed into space from Earth years ago, and which bore a single, chilling message: Ripe.
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Harry Bosch is California’s newest private investigator. He doesn’t advertise, he doesn’t have an office, and he’s picky about who he works for, but it doesn’t matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves.
Soon one of Southern California’s biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great love. But soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared. Did she have the baby? And if so, what happened to it?
The Border
by Don Winslow
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force
What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on?
The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul…
Land of the Living
by Nicci French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Kidnapped, gagged, and held in an airless shed by some unknown assailant, Abbie Devereaux has somehow managed to survive her ordeal and escape.
“Here is another of the Nicki French pyschological thrillers that’s impossible to put down. Their skill is once again demonstrated in their ability to draw out the development of the story to its conclusion and in so doing to draw in the reader. I won’t give away any of the plot – just to say that this reader had a compulsion to get into the story and guide the central character through safely! Good on you Nicki French for a really good read.” by Amazon Customer
Aunt Dimity’s Christmas
by Nancy Atherton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mystery unwinds in the idyllic English countryside shortly before Christmas
Lori can hardly wait for Christmas this year: lean times are over, the cottage Aunt Dimity willed her is more beautiful than ever, her nine-month-old twins, Will and Rob, are thriving, and she and husband Bill have never been happier. Determined to make this Christmas the best ever, Lori embarks on a round of shopping, holly-cutting, angel-cookie making, and more. When fat snow flakes begin drifting down outside of the window, Lori feels all her holiday wishes are about to come true. But the next day, beneath the lilac bushes now covered by freshly fallen snow, Lori makes a disturbing discovery: the body of a mysterious stranger–a tramp–barely alive.
Pieces of Her
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . . ?
Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she’s spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she’s never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she’s never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don’t we?
Lies He Told Me
by James Patterson
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law.
When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he’s celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet.
An Officer and a Spy
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus’s guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military—indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.
Horror Movie
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.
In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.
The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
by Benjamin Stevenson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong.
So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection.
The American Agent
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice—Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler’s Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon’s death.
Unknown Caller
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger comes the haunting short story of how one woman’s heroic vocation hides the secret guilt she’s tried to bury.
Charlie Kroft’s job at the crisis center means she’s often seen as a hero: she’s helped countless people climb out of the deepest pits of personal despair. But when one phone call thrusts Charlie into the spotlight, she must contend with the hidden pain that drives her…and with the mysterious stranger who knows the truth.
SAVING SNOW DRAGON
by Ann Feifel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Another epic tale unfolds in this fast-paced sequel to ACE the BLACK STALLION. Freedom for Ace and his band of wild horses is about to change.
SNOW DRAGON, a prized white horse, escapes into the inhospitable mountains of Wyoming, where she faces one peril after another. Snow Dragon and Ace square off against a corrupt ranch-hand who causes Snow Dragon to wind up in mortal danger. Can SNOW DRAGON be rescued before succumbing to a horrendous fate? In a dramatic series of events linked to one another, the epic story of Julia, Ace, and Ebony continues…
The New Girl
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather ballet slippers were glossy and bright. She was proper, the new girl, modest. But there was something else about her …
At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful raven-haired girl who arrives each morning in a motorcade fit for a head of state…
Blue Plague: The Fall
by Thomas A. Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Infected are violent and unstoppable, but they can think. They can heal from most wounds. And worst of all—they can reproduce.
Bruce, Debbie, Mike and Nancy have been preparing for the worst for years. There’s nothing to do but bug out—and they know exactly where to go. But on the arduous journey to reach the sanctuary of their farm, they confront thousands of The Infected. Along the way they make some invaluable new friends, and together, the emboldened troop kicks the hell out of the Infected—and the equally dangerous marauders who are willing to murder anyone in their way.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
The Forest of Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth, and the power of love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortuneteller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow.