Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Notorious Nineteen
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track him down. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . .
The Black Widow
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller—one that finds the legendary Gabriel Allon grappling with an ISIS mastermind.
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation “since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond” (Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again…
The Final Kill
by Doron Meiri
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Every good thing must come to an end. And no bad deed will go unpunished.
When the fierce war between two major criminal organizations spirals out of control, innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire as crime families begin to settle their scores. Desperate to put an end to the violence, the police prove helpless against the brutality of the criminal underbelly.
Luckily for them, they are not alone. Guy, Daniel, and Omer are thick as thieves, the result of years of running covert military operations together – at least until a disastrous mission sees them thrust back into civilian life. They each go their separate ways until tragedy and loyalty reunite them for one final operation – and one final kill.
The Burning
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.
Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father…
Past Tense
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour.
At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians had been on their way to New York City to sell a treasure. Now they’re stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. The owners seem almost too friendly. It’s a strange place, but it’s all there is…
The Beast
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Peter Decker’s latest case with the LAPD is the most bizarre of his storied career. When the elderly, eccentric billionaire Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet Bengal tiger must have turned against him. But as Decker and his colleagues, Detectives Marge Dunn and Scott Oliver, dig into the victim’s life, they discover that Penny had all kinds of exotic and kinky tastes. It soon becomes clear that the beast that killed the peculiar inventor is all too human.
Following a trail of clues that leads from a wildlife sanctuary in the San Bernardino Mountains to the wild nightlife of Las Vegas, the LAPD detectives are left juggling too many suspects and too few answers…
The Midnight Feast
by Lucy Foley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin…
It’s the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets…
The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Now an adult, he still doesn’t know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing.
No one seems to take Naomi Pine’s disappearance seriously, not even her father—with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde—with whom she shares a tragic connection—to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Six Stunning Sirens
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the latest in the enchanting series by New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon, Mia Malone is looking forward to catering the Miss Magic Springs Harvest Pageant, part of the local coven’s big autumn celebration—until death puts a chill in the air . . .
In a triumph for Mia’s catering business and cooking school, Mia’s Morsels is chosen to host a fall festival event in their Idaho mountain town—which means managing a bunch of stage moms and their social-media obsessed daughters as they get ready for the big beauty contest. There’s a lot riding on the results of the Harvest Moon Festival—it’s where the winning family receives an inside track to coven power…
Thrown Away
by Sheldon D. Newton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When you are left all alone, and cannot seem to fit in anywhere, what do you do? This is the state Ben found himself in. What did he do? Was it right? Was it wrong? And more importantly, if he did go wrong, was there any way back?
This is a touching story that will put you in suspense, make you think, and thrill you as well. Get your copy now!
“I love this book and enjoyed reading it. To see how love still won over all the bad and evil gives hope when you think there isnt any. Mr. Newton this is my second book reading from you and can’t wait to read more of your amazing work!!!!!!” by Amazon Customer
New Orleans Dangerous
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there.
When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by codes, old French ciphers and a web of deceit…
Smokin’ Seventeen
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“The most popular mystery writer alive.” – The New York Times
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clearis that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who’s just..
Falling Down
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in the Tian Shan mountains. The men are accustomed to danger. Now they’re growing accustomed to fear.
Team leader Liev and his band of survivors are stranded in the bitter winds with little hope of rescue—or outlasting the wolves that have scented blood. In the distance is the apparent sanctuary of an abandoned stone fortress. That an ancient bulwark even exists on this forsaken summit is beyond comprehension. So is what lies on the other side of its walls.
Death in White Pyjamas & Death Knows No Calendar
by John Bude
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
Two mysteries of the kind John Bude does best, with well-drawn and authentic period settings and a satisfying whodunit structure, following the traditional rules and style of the Golden Age of the genre.
Death in White Pyjamas: At the country home of Sam Richardson, a group of actors have gathered along with their somewhat sinister producer Basil Barnes, and a playwright whose star is rising in the drama scene. With competitive tension in the air between the three actresses, Clara, Angela and Deirdre, the spell is broken when Deirdre is found murdered in the grounds wearing, for some unknown reason, white pyjamas.
Boris Chronicles: Books 1-4
by Paul C. Middleton, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Russian Mercenary known as Boris has always been a conundrum for governments the world over. His visage never changes, his capabilities never understood.
You’ll love saving money on The Boris Chronicles boxed set because it includes the entire series at a great price.
The Russian government gets word he has been killed on a mercenary mission in America, allowing agents to come in and attack the villages Boris has been protecting. Using a fanatical military sub-group in the Russian military, the atrocities start.
The only problem? Boris isn’t dead, and now he has help.
Deliver Them From Evil
by Amanda DuBois
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In book two of the Camille Delaney Mystery series, a mother turns to Camille for help investigating a top Seattle doctor after tragedy strikes the delivery room.
Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is cash-strapped and struggling to balance the demands of her new solo legal practice with raising her three daughters. But when an emergency C-section goes wrong and a baby dies in the delivery room, the mother, Helene Anderson, shows up at Camille’s office asking for help. Facing the challenge of a legal system where child-loss verdicts are limited by the dollar value placed on a child’s life, Camille considers a quick settlement for the family. But Helene insists: her child’s life had value, and Camille needs to prove it in court.
Skinwalkers
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t Miss the AMC television series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, coming this summer!
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, Skinwalkers is the seventh novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee—a riveting tale of sorcery, secrets, and murder.
Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach.
The Dragon’s Brave Nanny
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Keith never expected to become a single dad overnight.
When his ex leaves their infant son on his doorstep, he’s thrown into chaos. Desperate for help, he hires Stella, a professional nanny hiding from a dangerous past.
As they head to the Heart of the Ocean resort, sparks fly between the struggling father and his new nanny. But when Jordan starts showing signs of his dragon shifter heritage, and Stella’s past catches up to her, Keith is forced to reveal his own secret. With danger closing in, they’ll have to trust each other to survive and protect the family they’re building.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Silence in Court
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Carey Silence first arrived at No. 13 Maitland Square, she was orphaned and penniless. Being taken in by her cousin, the very rich and domineering Honoria Maquisten, seemed the answer to her prayers. But what Carey encounters is hardly the safe haven she imagined. Mystery and scandal hang over the household like a shroud. And what is she to make of Jefferson Stewart, her handsome, self-appointed protector? Then Honoria shows Carey a magnificent diamond-and-ruby necklace that she promises will one day belong to her. The next day Honoria announces she’s going to draw up a new will. But before she can put pen to paper, she dies from a fatal dose of sleeping pills. The police descend and Carey is arrested for murder.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“Light from an almost full moon bathed the flat expanse of land in a milky glow. A scraggly coyote trotted into sight, and when it stopped a few yards in front of his pickup, Lincoln wrapped his arms around the steering wheel to study the animal. Seconds after hearing the report, bullets pinged off his pickup…”
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management – a veiled criticism of the bride’s prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil…
Motor Mouth
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She writes “high speed comic mayhem” (Detroit Free Press); she’s “a blast of fresh air” (Washington Post), “side-splittingly funny” (Publishers Weekly) and “a winner” (Glamour). In other words, she’s Janet Evanovich. And she’s back with another blockbuster thriller.
Alexandra Barnaby, mechanic extraordinaire. Sam Hooker, a sexy race car driver who can rev any woman’s engine. Barnaby’s wacky brother, Wild Bill, who’s always in trouble. The outrageous Cuban cigar-rolling women, sure to provide comic relief…
Imperatora
by Mia Zbikowski
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Three women are violently torn from their worlds and thrust into the unforgiving desert kingdom of Al’idris.
Strangers on the same desolate road, they quickly realize their only hope of survival – and finding their way home – is each other.
Ell, a young forester, is haunted by an injury that won’t heal and whispers she can’t ignore. Hellion, a priestess, has lost her god’s voice, leaving her to face the clash between her faith and the kingdom’s worship of the Lady of Life and Death. And Desde, a refined enchantress, must reckon with a harsh truth: every spell she casts drains her life away.
Moment of Truth
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When attorney Jack Newlin discovers his wife dead in their home, he’s convinced he knows who killed her—and is equally determined to hide the truth. He decides to frame himself for murder, and to seal his fate he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary DiNunzio from the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato & Associates. But hiring Mary may turn out to be his biggest mistake. She doubts Jack’s confession, and her ethics and instincts tell her she can’t defend a man who wants to convict himself…
The Dark Wind
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The fifth novel in Tony Hillerman’s iconic Leaphorn and Chee mystery series
The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears…
Echo Road
by Kendra Elliot, Melinda Leigh
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm.
In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low. When she finds a link between the disappearance and a double homicide three thousand miles away, Mercy takes the next plane out—and lands right in the middle of Bree’s double homicide investigation.
Wicked Tongue
by C. L. Schneider
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discovering the wicked thing inside him was only the beginning.
A typical night of partying leaves Daniel Blair with far more than a hangover. His myriad of strange symptoms defies explanation, as does the blood on his pillow. And something is very wrong with his tongue.
Afraid he contracted a terrible unknown illness, Daniel seeks help. But his frantic search for answers takes a horrifying turn. Struck by violent impulses, and compelled by a cryptic voice in his head, he commits unspeakable acts. He struggles to fight back, but something is growing inside him, changing him, breaking his mind.
Open Secrets
by Carlton Stowers
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On a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne’s husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas – and her lover, Larry Aylor- immediately fell under suspicion. Until a surprise informant identified the mastermind behind the murder as Aylor’s own wife, Joy – a woman so driven by jealousy and greed that she put out a contract on both Rozanne and later her own husband…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Badlands
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard dreams of getting out of Grimstad and leading a better life. Even though Kyle has been written off as a “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine. One day, while delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Suddenly he’s in possession of a lot of money—and packets of white powder—and Kyle can’t help but wonder whether his luck has changed…for better or for worse.
“Suspenseful—you can’t put it down.” – Library Journal
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping
by Alta Hensley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Why choose between naughty or nice in this steamy, suspenseful Christmas-themed stalker romance that’s perfect for dark romance readers seeking a spicy, festive read.
It’s the night before Christmas and I’m alone in the house…
Popular jewelry influencer Chloe Hallman is steeling herself to spend another holiday on her own. Instead, she finds herself drawn to two different guys… a smoldering hot fan of her secret, seductive online persona, and a sexy fireman named Jack who looks out for her in their NYC neighborhood…
Lost and Hunted
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance Hunter Creed has lived every day since his wife’s murder with a singular purpose.
To hunt down the worst criminals and make them pay.
The scar on his face serves as a constant reminder of what happens when justice fails—and why it must not fail again. When Creed takes a bounty for Abby Deighton, the wife of a powerful rancher, he expects a simple job: bring her back and collect his pay…
Northern Spy
by Flynn Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most riveting novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA
A producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the news reporter requests the public’s help in locating those responsible for the robbery, security footage reveals Tessa’s sister, Marian, pulling a black ski mask over her face.
Talking God
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors.
But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected—and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods.
Never Never
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Never stop…Never forget…Just remember.
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning…they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.
Lost for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kymber Allan might get lost in a cardboard box, but she has no problem finding trouble. After she gets fired on her second day at work for getting lost—she finds a dead body. That discovery thrusts her into a path of danger and dark secrets. From attempts on her life to thefts from her aunt’s art collection, Kymber struggles to stay one step ahead of the menace stalking her.
Finding a murder victim while being lost might be an unusual beginning for romance, but in this little Scottish village, the unusual is usual. The crook and the copper. Two men vie for her love and she must choose which one to believe…
End of Watch
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For nearly six years, in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Brady Hartsfield has been in a persistent vegetative state. A complete recovery seems unlikely for the insane perpetrator of the “Mercedes Massacre,” in which eight people were killed and many more maimed for life. But behind the vacant stare, Brady is very much awake and aware, having been pumped full of experimental drugs…scheming, biding his time as he trains himself to take full advantage of the deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room…
Field of Bones
by J. A. Jance
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This time Sheriff Joanna Brady may expect to see her maternity leave through to completion, but the world has other plans when a serial homicide case surfaces in her beloved Cochise County. Rather than staying home with her newborn and losing herself in the cold cases to be found in her father’s long unread diaries, Joanna instead finds herself overseeing a complex investigation involving multiple jurisdictions…
Open Season
by Jonathan Kellerman
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People come to Los Angeles to chase their dreams. Sometimes they find themselves cast into a nightmare. And sometimes, the most ardent dreamers turn out to be the most vicious monsters.
The body of an aspiring actress is found dumped near a hospital emergency room. She’s been drugged and murdered and the motive for the callous crime remains maddeningly out of reach. Until, a prime suspect materializes. Another Hollywood hopeful…