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.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Girl and None of This Is True comes a “riveting” (PopSugar) and “acutely observed family drama” (People) that delves into the lingering aftermath of a young girl’s disappearance.
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. Beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers, and half of a teenaged golden couple. Ellie was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone.
Say When
by N. Gemini Sasson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A second chance at life — and love.
Sooner isn’t the perfect dog, but she’s finally found the perfect home with owner Brandy Anders — until one tragic day when life goes from hopeful to hopeless.
Grayson Darling has never believed in fate; he’s just down on his luck for now. Recently divorced, downsized, and soon to be without a home, his move to Faderville is supposed to be temporary. All he has to do is sell his uncle’s farm, then he can return to success and civilization in New York City. The farm he inherited, however, comes with unforeseen responsibilities…
Carved in Bone
by Jefferson Bass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he’s being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment’s unique chemistry. But Brockton’s investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who won’t forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brockton’s own guilt—and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary.
Bethlehem Road
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt thinks the motive might have been personal . . . or political. When a second Member of Parliament is murdered in the same way, politics appear to be the reason. Soon the suspect list includes anarchists and suffragettes. Public outrage mounts and fear grips London and Parliament after a third lamppost murder. Deep in his end of the investigation, Pitt must rely on his wife, Charlotte, and Great-aunt Vespasia to explore the drawing rooms of the upper class for clues to the mystery.
The Hard Way
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.
Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.
Devil’s Corner
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest…
Only If You’re Lucky
by Stacy Willingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can’t say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.
Blood Debt
by Ian Loome
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Former black ops assassin Bob Singleton is on the road and on the run, an open CIA contract on his head. He rolls into New Orleans to visit a dead comrade’s mother and finds himself neck-deep in a neighborhood battle.
A biker gang is blockbusting – scaring people from their homes so they’ll be forced to sell them cheap. A casino boss needs the land, and he doesn’t care who his thugs hurt to get it.
Bob isn’t going to stand by while innocent people are victimized. He brings his lethal skills to bear and soon the bikers realize they have a real fight on their hands.
Blood Moon
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
In this sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them.
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself.