Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Sleigh
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Caterer and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild is back to solve her eighteenth deadly mystery in The Body in the Sleigh—the latest perfect puzzler in author Katherine Hall Page’s multiple Agatha Award-winning series. Set on Sanpere Island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, this atmospheric holiday whodunit is chock-full of suspense, surprises, real heart, and small miracles. And, as always, the mystery comes with recipes for delectable holiday treats from Faith Fairchild’s kitchen.
Dragon Teeth
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
A River in the Sky
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.” New York Times Book Review
Intrepid archaeologist and superior sleuth Amelia Peabody returns in A River in the Sky. In this breathtaking new adventure, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters transports the indomitable Amelia and her family, the Emersons, from their usual milieu, early twentieth-century Egypt, to an exciting—and dangerous—new locale: Palestine!
The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel
by K.T. Rose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
As Riley prepares to serve at an elite party, she can’t help but feel drawn to the infamous Gallagher Hotel. Little does she know, Chris, a kleptomaniac turned professional thief, has the same destination in mind as he tries to escape his past. As they both arrive at the luxurious hotel, they quickly realize that there is more at play than just a celebration. Each guest has a deadly secret, and when night falls, their pasts come back to haunt them. Now, Riley and Chris must fight for their lives against vengeful spirits who will stop at nothing to hold them accountable for their sins.
Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered — above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she’s got to play dead. She’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel…
Daddy’s Little Girl
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister was murdered near their home in New York’s Westchester County. It was young Ellie’s tearful testimony that put Rob Westerfield, the nineteen-year-old scion of a prominent family, in jail despite the existence of two other viable suspects. Twenty-two years later, Westerfield, who maintains his innocence, is paroled. Determined to thwart his attempts to pin the crime on another, Ellie, an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, returns home and starts writing a book that will conclusively prove Westerfield’s guilt.
West of Famous
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young woman plays the role of her life when kidnappers mistake her for a celebrity. Those who know where she is don’t value her life. Those who do, don’t know she’s missing. Who will pay for their mistake?
The third book in the Compass Crimes suspense novel series, West of Famous is set in Florida’s wilderness known as the 10,000 islands, where bootleggers delivered alcohol during Prohibition and drug runners trafficked in the 1970s and 1980s.
EON
by Earl E. Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the far future, mankind lives safe and secure behind the Chronos Ring – an automatic defense system that encircles the area of space occupied by human beings. The Ring keeps out all of humanity’s enemies – in particular, a vicious race of reptilians known as the Parsnaak.
On the outer fringe of human-occupied space is the planet Muse, an entire world dedicated and established as a colossal museum – a storehouse of antiquities and relics from the ancient histories of both men and aliens. There, Ian Lotus, a man with his own mysterious past, has chosen to live in deliberate obscurity, harboring secrets that could reshape mankind’s destiny.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Halloween Cupcake Murder Collection
by Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, Carol J. Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From Galway, Ireland, to the North Pole, to Salem, Massachusetts, a trio of Halloween mysteries that prove the spookiest season knows no borders . . . and neither does murder!
HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE MURDER by CARLENE O’CONNOR
MRS. CLAUS AND THE CANDY CORN CAPER by LIZ IRELAND
A TRIPLE LAYER HALLOWEEN MURDER by CAROL J. PERRY
Cold Hands, Cold Heart
by Madison Boyd
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.0 #ad
Homicide Detective Daniel Gray has discovered a chilling truth: Nurse Cathy, a respected caregiver at University Health of South Carolina, is secretly a ruthless serial killer. But before he can act, a devastating car crash leaves Gray trapped in his own body – conscious yet paralyzed, unable to move or speak.
In a cruel twist of fate, Nurse Cathy becomes Gray’s primary caregiver. As he lies helpless in his hospital bed, Gray is forced to listen as she whispers her darkest secrets, taunting and terrorizing him with the knowledge he cannot share. With each passing day, more patients succumb to Cathy’s twisted brand of ‘mercy’, while Gray struggles desperately to find a way to communicate with someone, anyone, who can help him.
Under the Radar
by Nonna Henry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
No one is who they appear to be. Not even the enemy.
Baltimore social worker Mo Reardon is dreaming of a margarita, a manicure, and a beach vacation. And it wouldn’t hurt to understand why the most sizzling man she ever met ghosted after her best friend’s wedding. But one phone call to the police changes everything. She’s running for her life.
Commander Mac Mackenzie is a discriminating hunk of hotness. His arms have held rifles and women from around the globe. But the one woman who locked and loaded his heart over a pool table isn’t interested anymore. That is—until their lives collide under unusual circumstances.
Empire of Wild
by Cherie Dimaline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou—a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people’s communities.
Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they’d had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan…
Elmore Leonard Classic 3-Book Collection
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard has written over forty books, including four about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the captivating hero of the hit FX series Justified. Now three of Leonard’s best novels—Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues, and Killshot—are together in one classic ebook collection.
“I did not know Elmore Leonard until I saw the series Justified. Being someone that always loved the books more than the movie/TV adaptions of said books I had to check the author out. I have not yet made it through all his novels but I am enjoying every minute spent in his imagination.” by Amazon Customer
Finding Moon
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias’s life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother’s baby daughter—a child Moon never knew existed—is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.
A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he’ll risk everything for the sake of one little girl—and discover a Moon Mathias who’s a better man than he ever thought he could be.
Slight Mourning
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this classic parlor mystery from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a dinner party that ended in murder
Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park—but only eleven survive the evening. After dinner, the host, William Fent, offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die behind the wheel in a violent accident. The autopsy shows that Fent ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse…
Trailing Star
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Star Holiday is on the run.
Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery.
Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger.
Star is the only person that sees justice has been served.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tickled to Death
by Annalisa Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It wasn’t as if she needed to be on Broadway today. She just didn’t want to die before she had the chance.
Chicago, 1927. When Katie O’Sullivan moved to Chicago from Appleton, Ohio, she expected to work hard to achieve her dream of singing professionally. She took a job as a waitress in a speakeasy where the owner occasionally let her sing with the band. And everything was looking jake…until the kidnappings started. With the support of her friends, Katie steps into a dangerous game of deception, intrigue, and trickery…
After Sundown
by Linda Howard, Linda Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones.
Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he’s kept his distance—until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs…
The Misery House
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sometimes the quietest little towns are haunted by the darkest secrets. A psychological thriller and a family you’ll never forget.
New Haven: This rural town has never seen a string of tragedies like this. A local store burns to the ground with two bodies inside. A newlywed couple goes missing, and all signs point to the abandoned house. With no answers, the townsfolk grow more and more worried.
The Woods family has lived here forever…
New Haven has secrets. And a haunted house like you’ve never seen before.
A Murderer Among Us
by Heather Graham, Juno Rushdan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Undercover in the French Quarter with only each other to trust.
A legendary rock band’s reunion is just a ruse for FBI agent Chase McCoy’s investigation. Seven years ago, Skyhawk’s lead singer died under suspicious circumstances. Chase knows Sky Ferguson is fronting the band in her father’s honor for the same reason Chase has agreed to be the drummer. They want answers. But having to pose as a couple makes them question just how far they’ll go for the truth.
The Way of the Bear
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered?
Lady Killer
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young lawyer searches for her missing rival from high school and finds more than she bargained for, in the latest high-octane thriller from New York Times bestselling author
She’s bright, witty, and dynamically attractive. So why can’t Mary DiNunzio still get a date? While her love life is frozen, her career is heating up. She’s become quite a rainmaker at her law firm, attracting new clients from her loyal South Philly fan base. But of all the friends-from-down-the-block, second cousins, and ersatz uncles who come for help, that last person she expects to see is Trish Gambini, a super-foxy hair colorist—and Mary’s high school rival.
Full Throttle: Stories
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns.”
Murder Island
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $12.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
When professor turned crime-fighter Brandt “‘Doc'”Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they’ve found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts.
But they don’t have long to enjoy their newfound peace before they are violently separated and dragged to opposite ends of the Earth.
Doc’s search for Kira takes him from the coast of Brazil to northern Europe and the jungles of the Congo, and he discovers they are entangled in a global conspiracy that is bigger he ever could have imagined.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
You Only Live Once
by Haris Orkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
James Flynn is an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill.
When the hospital is acquired by a new HMO, Flynn is a convinced that the Secret Service has been infiltrated by the enemy. He escapes to save the day and carjacks a young orderly named Sancho…
Whispers of the Dead
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
While visiting his mentor in Tennessee, a forensics expert matches wits with a killer of terrifying skill in this acclaimed crime series.
To escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensic pathologist Dr. David Hunter leaves the United Kingdom for America, returning to the Body Farm—the Tennessee research center where he once trained. David is there to find out if he’s still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. So when his former mentor asks David to accompany him to a crime scene, he agrees. But even David is unprepared for what awaits them in a remote cabin.
Murder in a Tourist Town
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this delightful prequel to the beloved Tourist Trap mystery series, lawyer Jill Gardner flees job burnout to take a vacation—and finds a brand-new life on the California coast.
Jill’s family law career is in a rut. Watching a client go back to her abusive husband, yet again—and then learning she’s been passed up for a partnership, yet again—finally prompts her to take a break. She’ll have to dip into her emergency fund. But after all those long days in her windowless office, subsisting on leftover cake from the breakroom, it’s time to smell some flowers.
Herding Bats
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Buoyed by an inspirational calendar, Dulcinea Robbins travels from shady, green Georgia to hot, semi-arid Laredo, Texas, to flee a broken romance and help an aging author with dementia write a book about her mental decline. However, she runs headlong into two antagonistic brothers, the author’s sons, who resent her presence and initially try to force her to leave.
Dulcy attempts to help older brother HJ find his long-missing father. She has no idea that the quest for truth will lead her into an encounter with the Los Zetas drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; the necessity to rescue a kidnapped neighbor; and other, even more sinister, dangers…
Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night. At first, the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. Days later, he emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.
Dance Upon the Air
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she’s finally found refuge from her abusive husband—and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago…
Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore café—and begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there is a part of herself she can never reveal to him. One careless word, one misplaced confidence, and the new life she’s so carefully created could shatter completely…
Code Name Viridian Complete Series
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a relentless pursuit of galactic conquest, humanity’s ambitions knew no bounds.
The race to Mars had ended generations ago, pushing those seeking fame to venture beyond known borders. Major corporations battled to be first in securing resources and the future, vying for ownership of a new galaxy, akin to historical westward settlers.
A single blinking red light signaled a seismic shift—a colossal deposit of zosmodious ore that eclipsed all others.
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it…
Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.
And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.