Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Address
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility – no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else…and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children.
One hundred years later, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities: Fresh out of rehab, the former interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless…
Take Down
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Three targets. Four days. Zero margin for error.
Kansas City. When a kind-hearted mechanic is attacked by mob enforcers, Kyle Payne steps in—inadvertently killing the son-in-law of crime boss Avi Russo.
Captured and fitted with a neural kill-chip that can be activated remotely, Payne is forced to become Russo’s personal assassin. He has four days to eliminate key members of a rival crime organization. If he fails, he dies.
As Payne navigates the lethal underworld of Kansas City, he realizes he’s stumbled into a tangled web of treachery and intrigue. A mysterious bounty hunter is circling. The Russian Bratva smells blood. And Russo’s own daughter is desperate to escape her father’s empire.
The Black Wolf
by Louise Penny
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.
Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf.
But their relief is short-lived. In a sickening turn of events, Gamache has realized that plot, as horrific as it was, was just the beginning. Perhaps even a deliberate misdirection…
Starve
by AJ Merlin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All it took was one time.
One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.
Something is wrong here.
It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.
He Is Mine
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Three words. One lie. A deadly mistake.
Crystal Tannenbaum moved to LA hoping to become a movie star. And she has finally landed a job in show business—but only as a nanny for film producer Daniel Mosswood and his wife, Rose.
At first Daniel and Rose seem like the perfect couple, but it soon becomes clear they are anything but. Life in their sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion is a powder keg of tension and mistrust.
When Daniel turns his attention to Crystal—the gifts, the promises, the whispered plans for their future together—she lets herself believe she’s finally found a way to have the lifestyle she’s always craved. The house. The money. The children she’s grown to love.
Close My Eyes
by Sophie McKenzie
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Gone Girl meets Before I Go to Sleep” when a grieving mother learns that her daughter may still be alive in this “riveting psychological thriller” (Bookreporter).
When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped . . . and never fully started again. Mothers with strollers still make her flinch; her love of writing has turned into a half-hearted teaching career; and she and her husband, Art, have slipped into the kind of rut that seems inescapable.
But then a stranger shows up on their doorstep, telling Gen the very thing she’s always wanted to hear: that her daughter Beth was not stillborn, but was taken away as a healthy infant and is still out there . . . somewhere.
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her.
But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motives and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
Behind a Locked Door
by Sarah A. Denzil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She opened the wrong door. Now her life will never be the same.
When Lucy Foster visits her old friend, she doesn’t expect to hear a baby crying behind a locked cellar door. But what she finds shatters everything she thought she knew: a terrified teenage girl and a newborn, hidden away like a secret shame.
As Lucy’s quiet life spirals into a media frenzy, and as the town turns against her, one thing becomes clear—someone is watching. And they want Lucy to stop helping the girl in the cellar.
Because the truth is darker than anyone imagines. And unlocking it may cost Lucy everything.
Dragon’s Reckless Journalist
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
He was sworn to protect a secret.
She was never meant to see it.
Ryan Bellamy is a dragon shifter bound by clan law, duty, and an engagement he never wanted. His future is already decided—until a freezing night on a mountain road puts a human woman in his path.
Paula never expected her car to die in the middle of nowhere. She never expected to witness something impossible in the sky. Ryan saves her, warns her to forget what she saw, and sends her away.
But fate isn’t finished…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The King’s Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble…big trouble.
As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments.
Now You See It . . .
by Richard Matheson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The prolific master of suspense and horror delivers a knock-out tale the likes of which have not been seen since Henry Clouzot’s devilish thriller Diabolique.
Some years ago, the Great Delacorte, a famed stage magician, came down with a stroke that left him in a vegetative state, able to move only his eyes. The entire action of the novel is witnessed through these eyes as Delacorte sits in the Magic Room of his country estate, a room custom-tailored to display stage illusions. Delacorte’s son, Max, has taken his name and place as an illusionist in every effort to replace his father.
Black Pearl Freelancers Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a galaxy where the line between right and wrong blurs, one woman seeks justice.
Fiery and determined, Madison Justice navigates the depths of space, searching for her father and a place to call home.
Will Madison find her father? Or will the universe conspire against her goals? Grab this complete trilogy to find out!
The Hideaway
by Meryl Sawyer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After spending the night at a retreat dedicated to sensual pleasures, a woman finds herself at the center of a murder investigation in this edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller from New York Times–bestselling author Meryl Sawyer
The wolf at the door of Claire Holt’s Taos art gallery is Lobo, a dangerous hybrid of German shepherd and timber wolf belonging to Zach Coulter, the town’s one-time bad boy. Now, instead of running from the law, he is the law. But the homicide-cop-turned-local-sheriff isn’t there to rekindle an old flame…
Wickedly It Begins
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One fateful night will change their lives forever. Seeley was born a hunter. God’s warrior. Endowed with inexplicable gifts, she slays creatures and demons that threaten humans. Alongside her guardian angel, Ezekiel, she faces unimaginable trials and tribulations.
Jack Chase is an orphan. Kicked from foster home to foster home, he lands with a couple who worships Satan. He has to succumb to their diabolical rituals, and soon learns he has extraordinary talents.
Asa Trebane, the leader of the Black Order of the Cult, locates Jack, a teenager he’s heard much about. He takes Jack under his wing and into his home.
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Books 1-5
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Explore the brilliant and captivating mysteries of Lord Peter Wimsey, one of literature’s most iconic detectives, in this collection of Dorothy L. Sayers’ first five novels. With wit, intellect, and a flair for solving crimes, Wimsey navigates through high society and dark secrets in these classic tales.
Whose Body?;
Clouds of Witness;
Unnatural Death;
Lord Peter Views the Body;
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Temple
by Matthew Reilly
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A blockbuster thriller from bestselling author Matthew Reilly.
Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to decipher the clues to its location, it’s the ultimate symbol of the apocalypse…
Carved from a rare stone not found on Earth, the idol possesses elements more destructive than any nuclear bomb–a virtual planet killer. In the wrong hands it could mean the end of mankind. And whoever possesses the idol, possesses the unfathomable–and cataclysmic–power of the gods…
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A San Francisco gumshoe searches for a treasure to die for in this classic hardboiled crime novel, one of Time’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time.
A seasoned private eye like Sam Spade is no stranger to the potential risks that come with each case, but even he is caught off guard when his latest investigation leads to two murders. With the cops eager to pin the crimes on him, Spade needs to find the real killer, but first he must track down a mysterious statuette of a black bird. A few people might know where it is. There’s a perfumed grifter, a smooth-talking fat man, and a deceptive beauty. They seem willing to do anything to get their hands on the little treasure. One of them might even be desperate enough to kill . . .