Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Sacred Night
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat–known in LAPD slang as “the late show”–and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin.
Ballard can’t let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has never been the kind of cop who leaves the job behind at the end of her shift–and she wants in…
Captive Memory
by Jimmy Gear
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Audrey Baker is a police officer in the mountain hamlet of Griffith Falls, Washington. Several years have passed since her sister went missing and she is still trying to nurse the painful wounds that have come with the unsolved disappearance. The tragedy inspired her to join the local police department as she seeks some sort of closure by investing her life in protecting others.
Ryan Darrow is a modestly successful novelist from Chicago. He has come to Griffith Falls for both the scenery and to gather research for his next book. He also has tragedy haunting him from the past as his wife had surrendered to cancer years before.
What seems like an accident begins to grow more suspicious when a local child, Libby Henning, goes missing…
Fear
by R.L. Stine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
13 haunting tales perfect for fans of the bestselling author, R. L. Stine, of the Goosebumps series.
Turn the pages if you dare. . . . In this collection of thirteen fabulously chilling stories from thirteen true masters of suspense, including five New York Times bestsellers and a number of Edgar Award nominees, all edited by none other than R. L. Stine, nothing is what it seems. From cannibalistic children, to an unwitting date with a vampire, to a crush on a boy who just might be a werewolf, no scary stone is left unturned. A must-have for all fans of the genre!
Exposure
by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
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Another thrilling Virals adventure from New York Times bestsellers Kathy and Brendan Reichs.
When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there’s no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are growing wilder, and becoming harder to control. Chance Claybourne is investigating the disastrous medical experiment that twisted their DNA. The bonds that unite them are weakening, threatening the future of the pack itself.
The Third Wormhole
by Michael Collins
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Time Travel to the End Times in The Third Wormhole…
Meet the “Fab Four”—world-class astrophysicists tasked with exploring three wormholes and a massive black hole discovered on Mars. These cosmic anomalies are gateways to supernatural dimensions, revealing Biblical mysteries that could herald the end times.
As the “Fab Four” navigate through these portals, they are embroiled in mass tragedy, government cover-ups, and threats of global conflict. Their discoveries challenge the very fabric of time and space, positioning them at the forefront of a potential apocalypse. The moral dilemma is profound: reveal the truth of the wormholes and risk global chaos, or keep secrets that could alter the course of humanity.
Rise of the Fury
by Clint Hollingsworth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An old hatred arises looking for long-delayed vengeance.
What do you do if someone puts a hit on you? You go on the run.
But what if the killer uses the surveillance state to track you wherever you go? You turn and fight.
A professional assassin is determined to execute bounty hunters MacKenzie Crow and Rosa Fernandez. But not just right away. After a slow torturous game of cat-and-mouse.
Deep Black
by Stephen Coonts, William H. Keith
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In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines—a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean’s floor.
While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia DeFrancesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea.
Smoking Flax
by Jennifer Hallmark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Who Is He–Really?
Almost nineteen-year-old Reed Anderson wants to belong in a world where he hasn’t always fit. Three days after graduation, he decides to ride a bus back to Louisiana and deal with the events of his thirteenth summer once and for all. Back then, he’d stood up to his abusive Pa, protecting Momma and his sister, taking control of his life. But who was the faded image of the child he saw that day? Aunt Lula predicted his life would shift and change. Something about space-time-continuum and the fourth dimension? He tucks her words into his heart. If he survives the shift, this could be his chance to start over. But the ghost child haunts his dreams. Even though six years have passed, does he want to confront the lies he’s always believed?
An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
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The unputdownable new novel from international bestseller Jeffrey Archer – Pre-order now!
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth…
A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis.
In the heart of the British establishment…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Engaged to Die
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville has fallen head over heels for Jake O’Neill, her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé. But when she announces their engagement at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased. And before the last champagne bubble pops, murder disrupts the grand celebration.
Bookstore owner Annie Darling is shocked to learn that her employee Chloe Martin is the prime suspect…
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
by Agatha Christie
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The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie.
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery…
Waterfall
by Linda K. Rodante
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A dead body, a flood, and a boy’s rescue. Can Annalisa Carabelle keep the boy safe while racing to discover a killer before it’s too late?
All Annalisa Carabelle wants is a successful summer season for the bed-and-breakfast she co-owns. She never expected the flood, the boy who needed rescuing, or the man who came from nowhere to help. The dead body? Well, the wound to the head proved it had nothing to do with do with the deluge…
Fatal Rounds
by Carrie Rubin
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Liza Larkin, a recent med-school graduate on the cusp of her pathology internship, isn’t like most people. She would rather study the human brain or pound the heavy bag at the gym than spend time with others, and as an outsider she doesn’t let societal norms confine her.
So when a stranger’s picture sends Liza’s schizophrenic mother deeper into psychosis, Liza does a reverse-image search to identify him. Upon discovering he is a trauma surgeon at a Massachusetts teaching hospital, she impulsively changes her pathology residency program of choice to his center.
The Inspector Barnaby Mysteries
by Caroline Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Death of a Hollow Man
Death in Disguise
“Wonderfully funny, with such solid, traditional underpinnings as good plotting, judiciously dropped clues, and a luminescent turn of phrase: a likely-to-be New Age classic.” – Kirkus Reviews
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
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When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.
Ashes Never Lie
by Lee Goldberg
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Worlds collide as Eve Ronin and Sharpe & Walker race to find hidden secrets in smoldering ash, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cause. It’s a perplexing mystery for dogged arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his restless new partner, Andrew Walker, an ex–US marshal who craves action.
But as they puzzle over the blazes, another home miles away burns to the ground, leaving a man’s corpse in the ashes and homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone demanding answers…
High Kingdom
by John Suter
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The five lands of the High Kingdom have lived in harmony for centuries. The kingdoms were interconnected through trade, knowledge, and religion, but the bonds of friendship have been severed. With the death of the agricultural kingdoms ruler, the leaders of the other realms seek to unify and destroy the simple people of Landenberg.
The sixteen year old king of Landenberg, Loris Trousdale, leads his people against foes on all sides. They fight for their fields and farms. They fight for each other. They fight for their very survival.
THE SUM OF OUR SORROWS
by Lisette Brodey
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In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Limited Edition Murder
by Lauren Elliott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Although enjoying her extended stay working at Second Chance Books and Bindery in West Yorkshire, Addie still feels adrift—far from home, her friends, and her own beloved bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios. The engagement party of her dear friend, Tony, at Milton Manor promises to be a joyful distraction. But there’s an ill wind blowing at the estate: When Tony presents his fiancé with a special copy of Wuthering Heights as an engagement gift, the lord of the manor insists the book was stolen from his library…
Crazy for You
by Marnie Vinge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She used to be famous. Now she just wants to survive.
Ex-pop star Victoria London is shocked when she gets an email about her old friend Nikki Stone. Nikki’s been dead for almost twenty years. And Victoria was the one who killed her.
Although Nikki’s death was a tragic accident, it has haunted Victoria ever since and was one of the reasons she turned her back on stardom. The other was an obsessed fan who stalked her and made her life a misery.
The Murder Inn
by James Patterson, Candice Fox
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you . . .
When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over The Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town and begins terrorizing Bill’s friends, he can’t just sit back and watch.
It’s not long before local criminals are turning up dead and The Inn comes under attack. With the help of The Inn’s fearless residents, Bill must do everything he can to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home.
By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
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Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him…or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee–before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.
FROM THE PAINTED TOMB
by Brenda Hill
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BECAUSE OF HIS FORBIDDEN LOVE FOR A SLAVE DESTINED TO BECOME QUEEN, AN EGYPTIAN PRINCE IS CURSED THROUGH ETERNITY
2021 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal Award
Literary Titan’s Golden Book Award
Born an exalted Egyptian prince, 3rd son of Thutmose III, Prince Rahmor stood in favor with his father–until he commits the one unpardonable sin – he falls in love with a copper-haired slave who’s destined to become queen. His love for this woman not only endangers his life, but the consequences of that love carry through the ages to a contemporary copper-haired American woman. He didn’t count on falling in love with her, nor did he know he’d have a fight to the death with a magical werewolf that follows him through time.
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
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He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count.
Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
Danger around every corner...
A Morning for Flamingos
by James Lee Burke
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A cajun cop infiltrates the mob…but is he too close?
A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke. Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.
His partner is dead — slain during a condemned prisoner’s bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
Primal Creatures
by Eric Wilder
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When you hear the howls, don’t go near the swamp
Paranormal investigator Wyatt deals with a heinous death on an island resort for actors, artists, and writers. Strange monks, Cajun werewolves, and people in a fishing village who practice voodoo populate the island. An old voodoo woman tells Wyatt, “There are creatures on this island that only walk at night.” Will Wyatt solve the murder mystery and uncover the island’s dark secret, or become a victim to the swamp’s horrid creatures?
Error in Diagnosis: A Medical Thriller
by Gary Birken
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A mysterious illness with disturbing symptoms is plaguing pregnant women. With the nation on the brink of panic, two doctors must put their past aside to find a cure. But as the stakes get personal, can they uncover a treatment before it’s too late?
Dr. Jack Wyatt is done sulking. When he’s called to help his frantic best friend, whose newly-pregnant wife has been hospitalized, it’s the distraction he needs to finally get over his divorce. But the search for a cure forces him to work with the brilliant and beautiful Dr. Madison Shaw, with whom he has a rocky past.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Garden Girls Mystery: Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
by Hope Callaghan
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“Murder She Wrote meets the Golden Girls in this clean, fun-filled mystery series!”
Garden Girls – The Golden Years is the brand new spin-off series of the Garden Girls Mystery series.
You’ll enjoy the same fun-loving characters as they solve mysteries in the cozy town of Belhaven. Each book features the Garden Girls as they enter their “golden years.”
Stolen Secrets
by Denise Diana Huddle
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Greed. Lies. Corruption. Sarah Chandler must rely on the enemy to save her brother and escape a killer. But will joining forces mean losing her heart…or her life?
Sarah Chandler is catapulted into a vortex of danger when her brother, Stone, mysteriously disappears just as an oil well blows out and threatens her ranch with wildfire…
When they discover a murder victim while investigating sabotage on the ranch, Sarah and Ethan are thrust squarely into the killer’s crosshairs. ..
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
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October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire – the fastest fighter aircraft in the world – to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
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The paperweight – a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind?
Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
Calculated in Death
by J. D. Robb
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On Manhattan’s East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better.
A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn’t seem the type to be on anyone’s hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Marta’s murder was the work of a killer who’s trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence…
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham, Jeff VanderMeer
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What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind – and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?
Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.
World of Warcraft: Jaina Proudmoore
by Christie Golden
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The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth’s disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster, the renowned sorceress Lady Jaina Proudmoore continues her long struggle to mend relations between the Horde and the Alliance. Yet of late, escalating tensions have pushed the two factions closer to open war, threatening to destroy what little stability remains in the . . .
Dark news arrives in Jaina’s beloved city, Theramore. One of the blue dragonflight’s most powerful artifacts – the Focusing Iris – has been stolen…
When You See Me
by Lisa Gardner
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FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong. What at first looks like a Gothic eeriness soon hardens into something much more sinister . . . and they discover that for all the evil Jacob committed while alive, his worst secret is still to be revealed.
Ice Princess
by Ajme Williams
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I’m chasing the most dangerous woman I’ve ever met. The real threat? She’s young enough to be my daughter. She’s a mafia princess, desperate to find her missing twin. I’m a seasoned detective, hell-bent on taking down her family. We’re locked in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And I’m not sure who’s winning. Lana D’Amato is ice-cold perfection with a heart of steel. I’m relentless in my pursuit of justice, no matter the cost. This can’t end well for either of us…