Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Chase the Moon
by Shirley Rousseau
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Joe Grey and his partner, Dulcie, are frantic when Courtney, their pretty teen-kitten goes missing. Aided by their two- and four-legged friends, they hit the streets of Molina Point in search of their calico girl. Has Joe Grey and Dulcie’s only daughter been lured away by someone and stolen? Is she lying somewhere hurt, or worse?
Courtney has no idea that everyone is desperately looking for her. Locked in an upstairs apartment above the local antiques shop, she’s enjoying her first solo adventure…
The Gate House
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant.
Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island…
Defy The Stars
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beware of the Stars Foretelling Your Destiny. Circus grunt. Charmer. Fire wrangler
Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wraps.
Relations between interspecies caused an imbalance of power and now are strictly forbidden. Dolorans, like Sage and her sister, are being hunted and persecuted because of their intense powers, leaving them no choice but to run, escaping the genocide of their kind.
Thawed to Death
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s non-stop laughter and suspense as 60-year-old antique “picker” Zoey Thunderbird explores the local ghost house and discovers a body in a freezer. She knows it was murder – no one deliberately thaws themselves to death – but she doesn’t know that her search for truth will endanger her life. Killers don’t want to get caught.
Her quest to catch a killer introduces Zoey to strange crime motifs – everything connected with the murder has a tendency to vanish, and the apparent killer seems to have an affinity for sitting in her lap.
Path of Destruction
by Drew Karpyshyn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There Dessel’s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, a far greater destiny awaits him.
As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side, Dessel embraces his new identity: Bane. But the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught…
Pretty Girls
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them?
Infected
by Scott Sigler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science…
Winds of Change
by Jo Grafford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A woman returns to her hometown to help unite two rival high schools under one roof. It’s her dream job…with one very big hitch. The cowboy who broke her heart owns the security firm that’ll be protecting her and her students.
As the new head principal of Heart Lake High, Hope Remington oversees the task of busing students from the tornado-devastated farming communities to the uptown business district. For the first time, the students of the longtime feuding Remington and Hawling families are housed on the same campus. An immediate spike in fighting and student gang activity erupts…
A Controversial Cover
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sluething—she’s tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry.
Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children’s book author, arrives for an event at the local library. Lauren is a Stoneham native, and her new book strikes some members of the town as controversial. But when Lauren is found strangled to death after an altercation at the event, the plot twist throws Tricia right back into the middle of things.
Of Magic & Moonlight
by Kay Leyda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
For readers who love Tamora Pierce and Laura Greenwood style fairytales and fantasy books about girls finding their place in the world, comes a debut Young Adult Fantasy series set under the sea.
After their daring escape from Syrellian, Cari settles into her life in Piscea with her sisters. Each of the merfolk kingdoms face challenges as they fortify against his inevitable retribution. Kallan is determined to rescue Adamaris from Syrellian before Varan uncovers the truth – that he is the one leaking vital information to stop the Mad King.
Death of a Ghost
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
To vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London’s art season. But this release party—bringing family, friends, critics, and collectors together—devolves into scandal. A power outage leaves everyone in the dark, and when the lights come back on, a man lies dead—stabbed through the heart with bejeweled scissors.
Family friend Albert Campion is present during the deadly crime. The too obvious suspect is the artist’s granddaughter, Linda Lafcadio, who was engaged to the victim until he brought back a model from Italy and married her.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Requiem for a Mouse
by Miranda James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At last, Charlie and Helen Louise’s wedding is only a month away. They’re busy preparing for the big day, and the last thing Charlie needs is a new mystery to solve. Enter Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman who has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise’s bistro and helping Charlie in the archive. Tara isn’t exactly friendly and she has an angry outburst at the library that leaves Charlie baffled. And then she abruptly leaves a catered housewarming party Charlie’s son Sean is throwing to celebrate his new home in the middle of her work shift. Before ducking out of the party, Tara looked terrified and Charlie wonders if she’s deliberately trying to escape notice. Is she hiding from someone?
One Good Time
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray is supposed to be enjoying his time off after a grueling mission. His division head specifically told him to go home and have a good time with his family.
But then, in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party, when he receives disturbing news about an imminent threat to America’s heartland, he postpones having a good time with his family and agrees to lead a joint FBI/CIA operation to the southern border. How could he do otherwise?
He couldn’t have a good time when . . .
A group of terrorists have access to a new bioweapon . . . The CIA has specific intel about an imminent biological attack on America’s heartland to be carried out by a group of terrorists already in the country. Unfortunately, the group entered the country illegally, and their location is unknown.
A notorious terrorist leader is heading for the Texas border . . .
The Forest of Lost Souls
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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.
It’s where José Nochelobo, the love of Vida’s life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That’s the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can’t be contained for long…
The Shadowmaker
by T.J Champitto
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.5 #ad
World-renowned thief, Henry Sirola, has a secret. He’s also an FBI informant. When the Croatian mob ask him to retrieve a priceless artifact, it could be the biggest score of his career, as long as he can keep his two worlds from crashing together. But the danger only escalates when an assassin strikes close to home.
Now, hunting down a cold-blooded killer, Henry embarks on a quest for the truth that takes him from the foothills of Appalachia to the cafes and castles of Italy and the back alleys of Zürich. But as he uncovers a vast criminal conspiracy, survival will require him to confront his own troubled past…
Mark of Steel
by Lynn Landes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Marina Stephenson, a talented singer, is unwittingly thrust into a treacherous game of secrets and betrayal. When she fills in at her friend’s bar and catches the attention of billionaire inventor Axl Devereaux, her life takes an unexpected turn. Branded the “Secret Singer” by the press, Marina becomes the target of an unseen enemy.
Axl Devereaux, CEO of Devereaux Knives, Inc., is on the verge of unveiling his groundbreaking military design. With the potential to revolutionize the future, the stakes are high. However, there are those who will stop at nothing to steal his prototype. Amidst the mounting threats, Axl is torn between his desire to protect Marina and the urgent need to safeguard his invention…
This Wretched Valley
by JENNY KIEFER
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Take only pictures. Leave only bones.
This trip is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, Dylan is going to document her achievement on Instagram and finally cement her place as the next rising star in rock climbing.
Seven months later, three bodies are discovered in the trees just off the highway. All are in various states of decay: one a stark, white skeleton; the second emptied of its organs; and the third a mutilated corpse with the tongue, eyes, ears, and fingers removed. But Dylan is still missing—and no trace of her, dead or alive, has been discovered.
The Heiress
by Rachel Hawkins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past.
The Red Hunter
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Claudia Bishop’s perfect life fell apart when the aftermath of a brutal assault left her with a crumbling marriage, a newborn daughter, and a constant sense of anxiety about the world around her. Now, looking for a fresh start with a home restoration project and growing blog, Claudia takes on a crumbling old house–one that unbeknownst to her has an ugly history and may hide long buried secrets.
For Zoey Drake the defining moment of her childhood was the horrific murder of her parents. Years later, she has embraced the rage that fuels her. Training in the martial arts has made her strong and ready to face the demons from the past–and within.
Prospect Shifter Daddy Mates
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Things are getting steamy in the small town of Prospect, Montana! Each story in this box set will light your fire as sexy single dads, with chiseled abs, not only work hard on the ranch but also pursue the one who makes their blood pump.
As passion ignites for these cowboys, danger lurks in every direction and harrowing secrets rise to the surface. The wolf shifters will do anything it takes to protect the women who claim their hearts.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cinco de Mayhem
by Ann Myers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte is busy baking her green chile soufflés and chocolate flans for Cinco de Mayo. If only her friend Linda, the daughter of Rita’s octogenarian boss Flori, could get into the festive spirit. Linda’s cart, Tia Tamales, is losing business to Crepe Empire, the hottest food cart in Santa Fe. Napoleon, Crepe Empire’s owner, is a pompous, celebrity chef who wants to squeeze out the competition. But when Linda gets into a heated argument with Napoleon and his corpse is later found stabbed and pinned beneath the wheels of her tamale cart, she becomes the number one suspect.
All the Beautiful Lies
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “otherworldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years.
Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it’s suicide. Devastated, Harry returns to his father’s home in Maine. There, he and Alice will help each other pick up of the pieces of their lives and uncover what happened to his father.
Sunstroke
by Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When she’s told that Carl has died in a car accident, it’s Gloria who tries, to no avail, to track down the next of kin or a copy of Carl’s will. And it’s Gloria, heartbroken, who finally decides to journey across the border herself to retrieve his body.
But the deeper into the desert she travels, the more shocking the discoveries she makes. About Carl. About herself. And about how elusive and dangerous the truth can be.
Jack Reacher Never go back
French Edition by Lee Child
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Des déserts glacés du Dakota du Sud à son ancien bureau de la 110e unité de police de WashingtonDC, la route est longue et semée d’embûches, mais après bien des péripéties et avoir expédié au tapis deux individus qui lui conseillaient de filer s’il ne voulait pas être traduit en cour martiale, Reacher, intrigué et séduit, pousse enfi n la porte du bureau de celle dont il ne connaît pourtant que la voix, le major Susan Turner. Et là, surprise: il tombe sur un commandant Morgan qui l’informe que «le major Susan Turner n’est plus là». Et qu’il est, lui, accusé d’avoir tué un dénommé Rodriguez il y a seize ans de ça.
Pendant ce temps, un certain «Romeo» appelle un certain «Juliet» pour suivre pas à pas les faits et gestes de Reacher. Ils savent qu’il va tout faire pour retrouver Susan Turner.
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother’s apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat knotted tightly around her neck.
Over the next two years, twelve more bodies were discovered in and around Boston: all women, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled. None of the victims exhibited any signs of struggle, nothing was stolen from their homes, and there were no signs of forcible entry. The police could find no discernable motive or clues. Who was this madman? How was he entering women’s homes? And what insanity was driving him?
The Undertaker’s Daughter
by Debra Webb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Rowan DuPont and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department are hunting a serial killer. All the victims have one thing in common–they could be Rowan’s twin, except her twin sister is dead.
Rowan grew up in a funeral home, surrounded by death, so her keen insights into homicide cases seldom fall short of the mark. Though growing up as the undertaker’s daughter made her acutely aware of life and all its frailties, she is only human. Will her one mistake in this shocking case be her last one?
A Fistful of Winter
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Jonah Munroe has lost everything. His brother. His badge. His life as he knew it. But there’s one thing he refuses to lose: his niece and nephew.
Eliza Langford is running from a past that won’t let her go. Widowed and driven off her land by a ruthless debt collector, she’s crossing the Montana wilderness with her teenage son, hoping to find safety on the other side.
Tales of Tara
by Tara Shen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Riveting Memoir That Reads Like A Psychological Thriller
Tara’s life is unraveling. Divorcing her violent husband while caring for her dying mother, she’s forced to confront the horrors of her past—horrors her therapist suggests go far beyond what she remembers.
As Tara delves into repressed memories, she discovers that abuse by her grandfather was only the beginning. With the support of a caring therapist and survivor community, Tara unearths a long history of dark secrets, hidden family truths, and unimaginable betrayals.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Breaking Free
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this cozy mystery, a talking cat and his four-legged friends investigate cat trappers and murder in smalltown California.
The fur starts flying—the fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is—when a gang from L.A. comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village’s quaint shops. After all, Molena Point has been his home since he was a kitten eating scraps from the garbage behind the local delicatessen, and he doesn’t take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde who’s moved in next door to human companion Clyde could be a part of the gang—she’s been acting pretty suspicious lately.
Time Pilgrims: The Complete Trilogy
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Time Pilgrims features a blend of fantasy, action, humor, and romance.Time Pilgrim, Katya is a strong, independent young woman plagued with a condition known as temporal amnesia. She can’t remember what year she is from and is trying desperately to locate her family. Because of Katya’s time displacement and amnesia, she has not matured beyond the age of twenty-two.
She becomes a sponge in every time period she visits, soaking up the culture and instantly becoming one with the period. Beautiful Time Pilgrim, Cathy Callahan found love at the most unexpected time and place…1906 in the San Francisco Earthquakes. The trouble is she fell in love 110 years before she was born. Could her best friend Dawn, keep her from staying in the past?
Life Support
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine—until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment—and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find him, a second case occurs, revealing a terrifying fact: the virus can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Following a trail of death that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to her own home, Toby discovers the unthinkable: the epidemic didn’t just happen—someone let it loose….
The Orion Protocol
by Gary Tigerman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Project Orion. It’s a revolutionary space-based defense shield, only weeks away from deployment. Promising global protection from missile attack by rogue nations, Orion offers an “umbrella” of security to a terror-stricken world. But even the loftiest aims often conceal darker intentions. Behind closed doors, insiders maneuver to control the new superweapon with an agenda that places all mankind at risk.
When Angela Browning, an ambitious journalist, receives a mysterious computer disk from an anonymous source, she can’t believe the information it contains: photos of ancient structures on the planet Mars. But after diligent research, Angela discovers that the images originated from the Mars Observer probe, a satellite declared “lost” over a decade before.
Instruments of Night
by Thomas H. Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists’ retreat in New York’s quiet, picturesque Hudson Valley. But his purpose for being there is not a pleasant escape. He’s been tasked with something more unusual.
Long ago, when Riverwood was a private estate, a teenage girl was murdered there—a crime that remains unsolved to this day. Now the victim’s elderly mother is dying, and her final wish is to learn what happened to her daughter. For the sake of this grieving woman, Graves has been asked to craft a story that answers her questions and provides a sense of closure. But he may have to choose between truth and kindness . . .
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen finds herself judging a baking contest where the competition is really murder in this cozy culinary mystery for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Ellie Alexander, Laura Childs and Kate Carlisle.
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in Hannah’s celebrated strawberry shortcake, Lake Eden’s sweet ride to fame turns very sour indeed.
Manner of Death
by Robin Cook
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are inadvertently drawn into a dangerous vortex of a series of homicides that have been cleverly staged as suicides.
After Dr. Jack Stapleton’s near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When Laurie insists that Dr. Ryan Sullivan—an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner’s office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies—assist her on a suicide autopsy in hopes of stimulating his interest in the field, the last thing she expects is to be unwittingly drawn into a major conspiracy that puts her own life in jeopardy.
The Photographer
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Stone Tobin’s life on the frontier has never been short of hazards. But nothing can keep him from what’s important: caring for his adopted son, Clyde.
After years of supporting himself and Clyde through his talents of wet-plate photography, Stone’s sense of justice takes them off the beaten path when he and Clyde stumble upon a woman in deep trouble.
Hazel Allen. Soon after learning of her husband’s role in her parents’ untimely deaths, she was abducted by an outlaw gang.
There’s a steep reward for her return – but her powerful husband, Wesley, hopes she’s killed before she can reveal his secret life and implode his sinister ambitions.