Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Masquerade Murder at the Castle
by Avery Kent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
An English Castle, a smart young sleuth, and a dazzling masquerade ball that leads to murder…
Chaos descends on peaceful Frobisher Castle when it hosts a glamorous masked ball for American billionaire tycoon, Warren Willington.
As the glittering evening unfolds, castle employee, Kitty McCray finds herself swept into a dance with a mysterious masked partner. Just as a romantic moment develops, despicable Warren Willington is found murdered, and her dance partner disappears into the night.
The Vigilante
by Jacqui Morrison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It isn’t safe for men who work in the porn business in the city of Toronto. When porn producer Sal Turbit is found dead in his apartment, no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Detective Lynette Wilton. Lynette has been a homicide detective for only three months, and has yet to earn her stripes.
Murder is murder no matter who the victim is—and Lynette is out to catch a killer.
Could the killer be Wanda Chambers, a mentally ill woman who hates the “scumbags” who prey on the vulnerable? Wanda’s beloved sister, Cathy, was one such woman. Cathy became a porn actress and then took her own life when her sleazy manager/boyfriend, Gil Lee, wouldn’t let her go.
Playing Dead
by Monique Faison Ross, Gary M. Krebs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This domestic abuse survivor’s memoir shares an “engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story” of a bad marriage that ended in attempted murder (Lundy Bancroft, author of The Joyous Recovery).
Monique Faison, the daughter of San Diego Charger’s football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris had always been shaky, but his verbal abuse only increased—and then gave way to physical attacks. Eventually, Monique took their children and left. That was when the stalking and serious threats began.
A Willing Murder
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequences…
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she’s found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she admired as a child. It’s much too big for her alone, but she’d die before letting anyone in town know that.
The Silent Tower
by Barbara Hambly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a world where wizards are relegated to ghettos, it is no surprise to see one murdered in the street. But for Stonne Caris, a young warrior monk who sees the killing and gives chase to the culprit, there is nothing ordinary about seeing a murderer disappear into a black, inky portal. The Archmage sends him in search of Antryg Windrose—a half-mad mage who understands the nature of these passages between dimensions.
On the other side of the Void is Joanna, a programmer as mild as Caris is deadly. She has spent her life in cubicles, staring into computer terminals, as far from heroism as she can get.
Letter From The Dead
by Jack Gatland
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Victoria Davies was murdered in 2001, all evidence pointed to her husband Michael. But twenty years later a letter has appeared, written by Victoria before her death; a letter never received, and revealing new suspects; Labour MPs Shaun Donnal, Andrew MacIntyre and Charles Baker.
But two decades on, life has changed for these men. Donnal is now a paranoid alcoholic living on the streets of London, ‘Andy Mac’ is a popular YouTube Evangelist, and Charles Baker is the current Conservative Home Secretary, and bookie’s choice for next Prime Minister in the upcoming Leadership Election.
Gone South
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two decades after he finished serving his country in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Dan Lambert still pays the price. As he hustles for construction work in the heat of a brutal Louisiana summer, Dan tries to ignore the pounding in his head—a constant reminder of the Agent Orange–caused leukemia which will soon end his life. And now the bank wants to repossess his truck. His attempt to reason with the loan officer does not get him far. Dan loses himself in rage, and for a moment is back in the jungle again…
The Reluctant Sheriff
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Kip Gossett thrived as sheriff, but after the death of his deputy, his world crumbled. Guilt-ridden, he retreated to the mountains, abandoning the badge and the life he’d known. Solitude seemed his only escape … Until a desperate plea from his ex-wife, Laura, forces him back into action.
Laura’s daughter and a local rancher’s daughter have been kidnapped, and though Laura has remarried, Kip agrees to help, hoping to right the wrongs of his past. But Kip never expected Mallory Bryce, the rancher’s fiery and headstrong eldest daughter, to join the hunt.
When Stars Align
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.25 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One December day in 1986, fifteen-year-old Mark Evans found an old electric Christmas star in a box of ornaments in his Chicago basement. When he plugged it in at Midnight on December 25th, not only did it illuminate the room in faceted color splendor, but he found himself in the same room with a fifteen-year-old girl named, Maggie Townsend whose tree was topped with the same star. However, the year was 1936—exactly fifty years in the past.
Over the years Mark would plug in his star whenever possible and on Christmas at Midnight, his and Maggie’s stars would align to bring him back to her. The romance they formed was a desperate love that would change their lives forever, well into adulthood.
Clive Cussler Desolation Code
by Graham Brown
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler.
When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA’s findings, forcing a high-speed chase—someone really didn’t want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why?
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
The Informant
by Thomas Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Thomas Perry’s Edgar Award–winning debut The Butcher’s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed.
Many years later, the Butcher’s Boy finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they won’t stop coming and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, receives a surprise late-night visit from the Butcher’s Boy.
Night Storm
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man’s got force–in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988.
The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn’t at all what she seems. She dresses like “Eugene” and wants to build her own sailing ships without male interference. Alec, a man of great insight, knows exactly what lies beneath those britches. He gets Genny’s goat more times than she can count…
Sailing For Grace
by Joseph Bauer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Wilton and Grace Goodbow’ s long marriage was frequently marked by political disagreement— she was the progressive activist, he the conservative, successful businessman. But their love was deep and bonded by a common passion for the sea aboard their ocean sailing yacht, The Sails of Grace. About to die, Grace elicits her husband’ s promise to set aside his political beliefs and take on her last cause: the reunification of Central American parents separated from their children at the El Paso border.
Will risks his own freedom to keep his word.Sometimes the letter of the law and the right thing to do meet head-on. Sailing for Grace is a suspenseful exploration of the intersection of law, morality, and personal choice.
Whatever Mother Says . . .
by Wensley Clarkson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this true crime exposé, a single mother is accused of torturing and murdering her own daughters—and involving their siblings in the coverup.
Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, sixteen-year-old Terry, told police another story: one in which Theresa—no longer the petite brunette she once was—became insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against them…
“E” is for Evidence
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn’t pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn’t about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the bank and, assaulted by canned carols, waited on hold for an officer to clear up the snafu.
Disturbing the Dead
by Kelley Armstrong
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else’s body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she’s not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends—and feelings—in this century.
So, understanding the Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn’t that surprised when she and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir Alastair Christie…
Shadow Hill
by Thomas Kies
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
How far would someone go to protect corporate profits?
Just days before Morris Cutter, a retired powerful oil executive, is scheduled to give a pseudo-scientific report to Congress that will delay crucial action on climate change for decades, he and his wife are found shot to death in their Greenwich, Connecticut, home. The police call it murder-suicide. The couple’s son refuses to accept the official conclusion and hires Geneva Chase, crime reporter turned private detective, to prove otherwise.
Genie soon learns that there are suspects everywhere, including within the deceased’s immediate family. Morris Cutter’s own daughter hadn’t spoken with him in years, and his nephew is a climate activist with a radical organization….
To Die For
by David Baldacci
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Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
But as Devine gets to know Betsy, questions begin to arise around the death of her parents. Devine digs for answers, and what he finds points to a conspiracy bigger than he could’ve ever imagined.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Wake
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild is at her Penobscot Bay, Maine cottage preparing for a summer wedding, when she stumbles across . . . another body in this 25th entry in the beloved mystery series.
For the first time in years, Faith Fairchild has time for herself. Her husband Tom is spending days on the other side of the island using a friend’s enhanced WiFi for a project; their son, Ben, after his first year in college, is studying abroad for the summer; and their daughter Amy is working at the old Laughing Gulls Lodge, now a revamped conference center…
Prom Mom
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as “Prom Mom”—the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance—as long as she stays away from Joe, now a successful commercial real estate developer, married to a plastic surgeon, Meredith, to whom he is devoted.
EMP: Survival Boxset
by Vincent Valentean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When New York goes dark, only one man stands between his family and the chaos.
When an EMP attack cripples New York City, the lights go out and chaos erupts. Food runs out, riots consume the streets, and the city descends into a brutal struggle for survival. But Tony Nunziatta isn’t like everyone else—he’s prepared, and he’ll do whatever it takes to protect his son. After his wife is gunned down in the violence, Tony’s plans to escape are put on hold, and a deadly resolve takes over. With nothing but his skills and his fury, he wages a one-man war for justice in a city on the edge.
My Canvas Bag
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mark is a young man born into a bad situation. His parents drink too much, and his family often forgets him. He works hard to hide the harsh reality of his home life from those around him. Mark does this to avoid feeling shame. He escapes the chaos of his family by spending time in nearby woods. Mark keeps a canvas bag hidden close to his house. It contains blankets, a flashlight, cans of food, a transistor radio, things to read, and more. It has everything he needs to escape from his family’s dysfunction for a while. Mark truly enjoys the peace and solitude he finds in the woods.
He constantly struggles with the judgments of others when it comes to his family. It hurts Mark when people share their negative opinions about he and his family. He is often avoided by other kids and usually not included in things.
The Copper Scroll
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1956, a scroll was uncovered that shocked the world. The world is about to be shocked again.
On June 1, 1956, the New York Times broke a story that captured the imagination of the world. Another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, unlike any before it, describing unimaginable treasures worth untold billions buried in the hills east of Jerusalem and under the Holy City itself.
In the years that followed, some scholars came to believe the Copper Scroll could be history’s greatest treasure map, one that could lead to the discovery of the Second Temple treasures and the building of the Third Jewish Temple.
61 Hours
by Lee Child
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman he’ll risk his life to save.
Breaker’s Reef
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric writer’s books–Cade is drawn into a web of trickery and deceit. Evidence turns up in Cade’s own truck, and suddenly he becomes the number-one suspect. Cade tries to clear his name, but when eighteen-year-old Sadie Caruso disappears, tensions mount to a fever pitch.
Can Cade find the real killer before Sadie winds up dead? Is the novelist a demented killer, or a hapless victim? And what does Sadie’s own mother have to do with the crimes?
SHADOWFIRES
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rachel’s request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric’s body disappeared from the morgue—and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Theo Baxter’s Psychological Thriller Box Set
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“How would I describe this box set hours of mind twisting suspense and bone chilling murders. I had read two of these books previously, but enjoyed the reread plus the other two also I’d most definitely recommend these books. ( It’s Your Turn Now) This book will blow one’s mind there was parts in this story that had me feeling like climbing the walls with nervousness. Be warned this author will be throwing curve balls left and right that will side track you from what’s real up to the end and I liked the fact I couldn’t guess what was coming next. (The Scorned Wife) You know that sensation you get while watching a scary movie and you know something bad is about to happen so you cover your face and yet you peak through your fingers well reading this story gave me that exact feeling and man oh man was it fantastic.” by Amazon Customer
Tombland
by C.J. Sansom
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
LONGLISTED FOR THE SIR WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos.
The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward’s regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector’s prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation and economic collapse. Rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.
Keeper
by Johana Gustawsson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An abduction in London and the discovery of a body on the west coast of Sweden lead criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells back to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, as they hunt a serial killer. Book two in the explosive, award-winning Roy & Castells series.
Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror.
London 2015: Actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: A woman’s body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.
The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger takes readers on an electrifying ride in this thriller that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia—where one mistake can change your life forever.
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight—and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia’s cell phone to shatter Matt’s life a second time…
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
Black Fall
by Andrew Mayne
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Black Fall, the third book in the ITW Award-nominated mystery series, magician-turned-FBI agent Jessica Blackwood investigates a series of seemingly unrelated, but equally bizarre and sinister, crimes that lead her to the Colorado desert and a town that has, simply, disappeared.
With two big cases under her belt, FBI Agent Jessica Blackwood is learning to embrace her unconventional past as the rising star in a family dynasty of illusionists. Her talent and experience endow her with a unique understanding of the power and potential of deception, and a gift for knowing when things are not always as they appear to be…
Of One Mind
by JB Maerten
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The life—or death—of a teen with a traumatic brain injury could be determined by a controversial experimental procedure that may unlock a previously undiscovered level of consciousness.
Kyle Nichols, a teenage baseball player with major-league potential, lies in a hospital bed after suffering a traumatic brain injury with a devastating twist—he is fully conscious and expected to survive but is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate. Kristen, Kyle’s mother, has no way to know his wishes, so she is forced into an unspeakable choice: transfer Kyle to a long-term care facility where he could linger for decades, mute and helpless, or provide him with a gentle death by ending his life support.
ADELENE ~ The Violinist
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Adelene Almanza, an accomplished violinist and Spanish teacher, has only one Christmas wish—to buy an old decrepit schoolhouse and create a teen and literacy center in her small hometown of Bluestone Bluff, New York. When she tries to attend the sale of the building, she is injured and must rely on her old boyfriend and owner of a construction company, Clay Ciaffonni, to help purchase the building and help with the renovations. But money is tight, and a demolition and salvage company is pressuring her to give up and sell. Despite an act of vandalism, mounting costs, and a stray puppy, the couple pushes forward to restore the structure to its natural beauty…