Monday’s Mystery eBooks
No Parm No Foul
by Linda Reilly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Balsam Dell, Vermont—where the air is crisp, the cheese is melty, and murder is always on the menu.
Carly Hale is finally settling into her cozy new life in Balsam Dell. Her grilled cheese café is the town’s tastiest little secret, and the Halloween food competition has the whole village wrapped in flannel, pumpkins, and just a touch of mischief. But when a culinary rivalry turns fatal, Carly finds herself at the center of a small-town mystery—one with secrets as layered as her signature melts.
The O’Connells Books 1 – 3
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The O’Connells of Livingston, Montana, are not your typical family. Follow them on their journey to the dark and dangerous side of love in a series of romantic thrillers you won’t want to miss. Raised by a single mother after their father’s mysterious disappearance eighteen years ago, the six grown siblings live in a small town with all kinds of hidden secrets, lies, and deception.
The Neighbor
The Third Call
The Secret Husband
The Kind Worth Saving
by Peter Swanson
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In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy.
One False Move
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s smart, beautiful, and she doesn’t need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life—big time. Now Myron’s next move may be his last. . .
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he’s about to find out if he’s man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty years before, Brenda’s mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women’s pro basketball world, her father disappears too.
The Prophecy
by Karen MacLeod-Wilkie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The priest is gone. The prophecy begins.
Every ten years, a priest crosses the portal from the Fairy Realm to Earth. This year, the chosen priest did not return. A debate about an ancient prophecy is reignited; those named within it are sought out. Brigid is a talented healer in the town of Muirstead. At twenty-eight, she is weary of what her life has become. Her best friend, Treena, a member of the Protector’s Force, has also felt a longing for something more. Together with Azran’s priest, Evander, they are drawn into the prophecy and into another world.
FaceOff
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and “a thriller reader’s ultimate fantasy” (Booklist), this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!
In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pair their series characters in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW).
The Hollow Kind
by Andy Davidson
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Andy Davidson’s epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil.
When Nellie Gardner learns that she has inherited a turpentine estate from her long-lost grandfather, she throws everything she can think of in her pickup and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.
August Redfern’s “estate” is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie sees it as the perfect refuge—a safe place to hide from her violent husband and the chance for a fresh start…
The Naked Eye
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks he’s dead?
Kendra Michaels was instrumental in bringing serial killer Eric Colby to justice. And yet, despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The problem is that she can’t prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation-developed to an amazing capacity during the twenty years she spent blind and now in constant demand by law enforcement agencies-have gotten her nowhere.
Echoes of Austin
by Garrick Blake
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Lawrence Miller hunts ghosts. Not professionally, because the pay is awful. When asked to investigate a famously-haunted hotel room in Austin, Texas, he jumps at the chance. As he explores the history of the hotel, his encounters in the room become increasingly violent. Can he resolve the trauma trapping the ghosts in Room 318 before they kill again?
The Mystery of the Missing Scrapbook
by Leanne Lucas
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Addie and Nick are very glad their elderly neighbor, Miss T, has hired Amy Takahashi as her live-in companion. But when they hear a rumor that Amy’s father was a spy in World War II….well, who wouldn’t be curious?
Mysterious paintings and a faded scrapbook motivate Nick, Addie, and their friend Brian to uncover a fifty-year old secret.
But after the scrapbook is stolen, is there any way to solve the mystery? Their quest to find the scrapbook leads them on a heart-stopping chase. Maybe they’re in over their heads this time…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Ramsay and Bracken’s Cozy Mystery Boxed Set
by P. C. James
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His retirement years aren’t so peaceful when he’s constantly crossing paths with culprits, crimes, and killers…
Boxed Set: Over 1,700 pages of dogged investigations, unforgettable humor, and tingling suspense.
England, 1960s. Former Inspector Tom Ramsay doesn’t know how to quit. Agitated after a job injury cost him his career, the reticent middle-aged man begrudgingly turns to exploring the countryside with his new canine companion. But despite his decision to enjoy the quiet life, he cannot resist the urge to help a kidnapped young woman in grave jeopardy.
Continuing to chase slippery wrongdoers and aid desperate victims, Ramsay and his border collie sniff out complications and clues only they can solve. Yet though his decades of experience should put him one step ahead of his enemies, this ex-cop’s love for solving puzzles keeps landing him in deadly danger.
With secrets aplenty, can he nab every scoundrel before they hound him to death?
The Therapy Room
by OMJ Ryan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Shelly shared her secrets with the wrong person.
New mother Shelly should be enjoying the happiest time of her life. She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby boy, Alfie.
But Alfie’s arrival has triggered something deep inside Shelly and now she finds herself at the mercy of crippling OCD and violent intrusive thoughts that terrify her. Desperate for help, she joins a therapy group led by renowned psychologist Dr Andrea Galanis.
It doesn’t work. Instead of helping, somehow therapy seems to be bringing her very worst fears to life.
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
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From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murder
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.
Under My Skin
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What if the nightmares are actually memories?
It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan’s Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn’t recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack?
The Chronicle Gate: Ethereal
by N Lang
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A kid discovers adventure and magic on a new planet!
What if you ended up on a planet. . .and had no idea how you got there?
The Elouse are creatures who live on the planet Ethereal. When they find a human child lost and alone, they take him in and care for him. Sinya, the human child, struggles to remember anything about how he got to Ethereal. As Jasper, the Elousen father, searches for answers, Sinya’s new mother Ellen and her daughters Taylinn and Avigale help him adjust to life on their planet.
Taylinn’s dad is going on a secret mission aboard a space ship. Taylinn overhears that the mission is really “to save his family from him?”
First Thrills: Short Stories
by Lee Child, Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.
No matter what type of thriller you read, you’ll find something here that will entertain you . . . and perhaps a new writer you’ll cherish for years to come.
Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire
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The long-anticipated sequel to the beloved and hugely successful novel Wicked.
When a Witch dies – not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess – too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world.
Ten years after the publication of Wicked, bestselling novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch.
The Good Assassin
by Paul Vidich
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From the author of The Poet’s Game, a “masterful” (Michael Harvey, New York Times bestselling author) follow-up to An Honorable Man explores foreign powers competing to influence the outcome of the Cuban Revolution.
Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958, during the last months of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s reign, to look into the activities of Toby Graham—an in-country CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebels fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Specifically, Mueller’s old friend Graham may be putting weapons into the hands of Castro’s forces, in bold defiance of the United States arms embargo on the island.
A Matter of Pedigree
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $9.41 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The author of the popular Lucy Stone mysteries returns with this brand-new series about two newly wealthy Rhode Island empty-nesters.
Carole Capobianco has always counted her blessings, but it’s even more fun now that she and her husband Frank are finally making serious money, thanks to Frank’s newly patented Bye-Bye Toilet. With the kids finally on their own, Carole and Frank are empty-nesters, which will give her uninterrupted time to add to her impressive shoe collection—and lavish care on Poopsie, her beloved, very spoiled Brittany spaniel. The cherry on top is a hefty bid on a luxury co-op in a prestige building . . .
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Aunt Eve’s Last Bite
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Arnold Penny gathers his family at The Gran Vista Hotel to inform them of an offer to purchase the popular tourist destination, Granny Belle’s Apple Orchard. He intends to accept the bid and distribute the proceeds among them but chaos ensues. One family member returns after forty years of being presumed dead and doesn’t find a warm welcome home. Another family member dies in a manner reminiscent of an old family curse. Was it a freak accident or was she murdered?
Dead Beat
by Jim Butcher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business and Chicago is his beat, as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, the Special Investigations Department of the Chicago PD knows better.
Karrin Murphy is the head of S. I. and Harry’s good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no choice…
Guilt
by Jonathan Kellerman
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In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.
But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation—all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity.
Idaho Fall
by D.J. Maughan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An entrepreneur with a startup valued at one billion falls from a balcony on the eve of the company going public. Was it an accident? Or was she pushed?
Rita Burch is a rising star. The founder of a huge clothing brand, she is on the brink of financial nirvana. Her company is set to go public with an astronomical valuation when her body is found broken and unconscious, a victim of an apparent accident. Comatose, and fighting for her life, determined to wake, she learns she can leave her body…
The Stolen Letter
by Paige Shelton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Delaney Nichols is confident she’s doing what she loves—case in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, she’s eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying to the ground.
Delaney’s hapless victim’s name is Mary, and the two women can’t help but notice that they bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. According to Mary, they both also look like the long-beheaded Mary Queen of Scots.
Unnatural Death
by Patricia Cornwell
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From a New York Times bestselling author, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the most terrifying murder case she’s ever come across.
In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.
The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year.
Santa’s Holiday Spectacular
by Fern Michaels
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In an adventure-filled holiday treat from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, Frankie, Amy, Rachael and Nina—aka Santa’s Crew—reunite to put a stop to some real-life Grinches, with a little help from their new friends in the Sisterhood . . .
Christmas is so much more than tinsel, lights, and mistletoe. For onetime high school pals Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina, being together for the holidays has become a cherished tradition, whether they’re taking a trip or staying close to home.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if Cinderella were a man and the prince a witch? A wicked good witch.
Strange happenings in the magic realm are turning Brielle Quinn’s life upside down. She’s been told to let things happen on their own and not to interfere. So difficult—and unfair!
On the night of her neighbor’s birthday party, Brielle’s drunk a little too much tequila. While on her way back to her home next door, a man calls to her and plants the kiss of a lifetime on her lips. Only thing is, Brielle doesn’t have the first clue about who he is. Or what he looks like. Yet she can’t get him out of her mind. Or the taste of his kiss off her lips. How is she ever going to find him?
The Lattice Scheme
by A. L. Lieske
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Azure Prescott expected Bureau life to mean routine investigations, not dream-walking conspiracies. But when a secret sleep study grants her the ability to enter the minds of others, she discovers that every dream carries danger, and every memory may be a lie.
A web of interconnected cases, including a missing agent, a vanished Italian man, illicit neurochips capable of altering identities, and the reappearance of someone long thought dead, pulls her into a labyrinth of international intrigue.
The Beast
by Robert Stallman
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The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a loving husband and father, and a reporter for the local paper—but the beast still hunts at night. One evening in the desert, he receives a stunning revelation—he is not alone. There are others like him. And he must find a mate and prepare for something called The Leap . . .
Meanwhile in Chicago, George Beaumont is dying of cancer. His desperate search for a miracle leads him to a strange creature who offers to save his life, and to a mysterious young woman named Lilly who guides him through a peculiar alternative therapy until he is finally cured. George wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with Lilly, but she feels a call from the Other, someone waiting for her . . .
Elphie
by Gregory Maguire
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What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical and the Wicked films.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
A Gideon Crew Collection
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced bundle edition of the first three books in the Gideon Crew series: Gideon’s Sword, Gideon’s Corpse, and The Lost Island, by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child.
“This is another book by the authors that succeeds in holding your attention and making you want to keep reading. It doesn’t have the over extended descriptions of everything that some books have, but has enough for the development of the narrative. It moves fast enough to keep you interested, but has enough character development so you get to know them.” by Amazon Customer
Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
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Welcome to the Custer Hill Club–an informal men’s club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America’s most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion…
Touch of Red
by Laura Griffin
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When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the carnage is the evidence that someone escaped the scene. But where is this witness now? A thorough search of the area yields more questions than answers, and before Brooke even packs up her evidence kit, she’s made it her goal to find the witness and get them out of harm’s way.
Homicide detective Sean Byrne has seen his share of bloody crime scenes, but this one is particularly disturbing, especially because Brooke Porter is smack in the middle of it…
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A Jance
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Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.