When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years…but it’s all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she’s been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers. Her journey takes her from the safe suburban world she knows to a seedy town she’s never heard of, where a terrible truth from her past lies hidden—a truth she can’t quite remember yet can’t completely forget. $1.99 on Kindle.
The Prettiest One: A Thriller
Don’t Try to Find Me
When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her—launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl.
Don’t try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley’s hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would never run away.
As the days pass and it sinks in that the impossible has occurred, Rachel and her husband Paul are informed that the police have “limited resources.” If they want their fourteen-year-old daughter back, they will have to find her themselves. Desperation becomes determination when Paul turns to Facebook and Twitter, and launches FindMarley.com.
But Marley isn’t the only one with secrets.
Is Marley out there somewhere, watching it all happen, or is the truth something far worse? $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: Who Murdered Garson Talmadge
Matt Kile, ex-cop and ex-con, current smart-aleck, and a neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge has built himself a comfortable career writing mysteries. Garson Talmadge sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, then moved out of France, came to America and married Clarice, a woman half his age. When Clarice is arrested for murdering her husband, Matt becomes the investigator for her defense attorney, and quickly learns there is a line of suspects stretching from the U.S. into Europe and the Middle East.
Not long after getting involved in the case Matt learns that Garson Talmadge’s weapons deals meant the FBI had an interest as well as the French Prefecture of Police. While Matt is simply trying to establish that Clarice is innocent, the FBI is trying to learn how Hussein got some of his weaponry, and powerful members of the French government and armaments industry wants to keep Matt from following the trail far enough to expose them. Free on Kindle.
Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: vol 1-3
“I’m a fan of Scandinavian crime and this was an enjoyable set of stories. Rebekka Franck is a journalist separated from her PTSD husband, living with her father and daughter in a small regional town. In each of the novels she investigates serial murders that have taken place ultimately placing herself in danger. Add a little sexual tension between herself and her photographer and a difficult relationship with her daughter and to the mix and you end up with a readable series.” — Customer review. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Double Mayhem (A Seekers Mystery)
Doris, a reclusive engineer, goes on a blind date, kills a syndicate hit man, acquires a psychic child, and gets recruited by the NSA for a single, simple mission. What could possibly go wrong? She is not a super spy, she is not a trained assassin, she is someone real and much more dangerous – a smart woman pushed into a corner. Some days you just shouldn’t leave the house. A highly rated adult mystery with romance, humor, and explosive action. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Good Neighbor
From a phenomenal new voice in suspense fiction comes a book that will forever change the way you look at the people closest to you…
Shadow Cove, Washington, is the kind of town everyone dreams about—quaint streets, lush forests, good neighbors. That’s what Sarah thinks as she settles into life with her new husband, Dr. Johnny McDonald. But all too soon she discovers an undercurrent of deception. And one October evening when Johnny is away, sudden tragedy destroys Sarah’s happiness.
Dazed and stricken with grief, she and Johnny begin to rebuild their shattered lives. As she picks up the pieces of her broken home, Sarah discovers a shocking secret that forces her to doubt everything she thought was true—about her neighbors, her friends, and even her marriage. With each stunning revelation, Sarah must ask herself, Can we ever really know the ones we love? $1.99 On Kindle.
Free: Closure: Jack Randall #1
When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself appointed to track down and stop the shooter. Not by his superiors, but by the killer himself.
As more bodies fall the shooter takes his message to the press, earning the support of the public with his choice of targets and confounding the FBI at every turn. From the desert of Nevada to the urban jungle of New York City, Jack and his team follow the trail of bodies and haunting messages left behind by the killer. With the pressure to find him mounting on Jack, the assassin’s crimes grow bolder, and his message more sinister and closer to home.
It becomes clear to Jack that in order to find the shooter, he may have to look inside his own past, and become the man he was years ago. Free On Kindle.
The Chihuahua Affair: A Dog Lady Mystery
Where the Wild Roses Grow
With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river. No one ever found her body, and as the years passed, her real name could not be remembered, so she was called The Wild Rose.
The Wild Rose is an old Irish tale of a man courting a woman and killing her while they are out together. It’s what inspired the song by Nick Cave and now also a killer in Enniskerry, Ireland.
Emma Frost is supposed to be on a relaxing and romantic vacation in Ireland with her boyfriend, when they find the dead body of a woman in the river, just like in the old tale. The small town of Enniskerry, where Emma and Morten are staying, is shocked by this murder, mostly by the secrets it threatens to expose. When another woman is found in the river with a rose between her teeth, it becomes suddenly very serious for Emma. Before long, she is plunged into a frantic chase for this killer, while she and Morten attempt to solve the mysterious riddles of the town’s disturbing past in this pulse-racing novel by Willow Rose. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Winterkill
A beautiful reporter and a charming rancher are caught in a web of mayhem, murder. . .and lust.
Reporter Sawyer Cahill returns home to Cheyenne, Wyoming to report for the local television station. But leaving behind the coverage of
San Antonio’s gangland murders only lands her in the middle of a wave of ritualistic animal mutilations. Harassed and threatened, Sawyer plunges into her investigation.
Former attorney turned rancher, Jake Spooner is torn between his desire for Sawyer and his need to keep her safe. Jake’s mission is to bring the killer down before he strikes again.
Emma Frost Mystery Series (Vol. 1-3)
Crazy deal! Get three chilling page-turners from a bestselling author for ONLY 99 CENTS! The box set includes the first three installments in Willow Rose’s popular bestselling mystery series about the author Emma Frost and her friends and family on Fanoe Island in Denmark. Includes ITSY BITSY SPIDER, MISS POLLY HAD A DOLLY and RUN RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Tide
Desert Heat
Navajo Witchery. Human Treachery.
Social worker Jordan Bia finds a child who escaped her captors and a life in the sex trade, but four other girls from her small Mexican village were not so lucky. Smugglers hide their human cargo in the hoodoos of a remote canyon on the reservation—a place the Navajo shun, fearful of the witches who practice their black rituals and feast on the dark energy of evil. Mysterious rites, omens of death, and bodies litter the canyon.
When she meets Navajo police officer Sam Tohee, sparks fly fueled by the danger of hunting men who buy and sell little girls. Techno savvy Jordan plots to trap the smugglers and free the rest of the children, but unless she and Sam can find the power to defeat the witches she may not live long enough to save the girls. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Welcome to the Gulch… funny things happen in the middle of nowhere.
Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre’s Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For a town built upon isolation and secrecy, the doors were about to be blown off their hinges.
“Due North” is the first book in Melanie Jackson’s bestselling Butterscotch Jones Mystery Series. Free on Kindle.
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TAHOE BLUE FIRE is about a series of brutal murders at Lake Tahoe that may be connected to a priceless artifact from the Italian Renaissance. The prime suspect is former pro football player Adam Simms who is suffering Traumatic Brain Injury from his days on the gridiron. Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna can’t tell if Simms is being framed or if he is a diabolical killer who is faking brain injury. The closer Detective McKenna gets to the killer, the more the killer wants him dead… Free on Kindle.
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Night of the Coyote
Two people murdered.
Two suspects lynched for the murders.
To some in Lockwood, this passes for justice . . . but not Ethan Ramsey.
A high-stakes murder mystery on the American frontier.
In 1875, two young Sioux are lynched in Lockwood, Wyoming by a makeshift posse for a crime they may or may not have committed. Ethan Ramsey knows he must act quickly to prevent a bloody retaliation from their Sioux tribe. Can he gain the trust of both the Sioux and the townspeople of Lockwood to allow enough time to unravel the mystery of the crime and ensure justice is fairly served?
In Night of the Coyote, the worlds of the old and new collide, and the clock is ticking for Ethan to prevent a further descent into violence. $0.99 on Kindle.
City of Echoes (Detective Matt Jones Book 1)
On Detective Matt Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the grisliness of the killing, Jones and his hot-tempered partner, Denny Cabrera, jump headfirst into the investigation. But as Jones uncovers evidence that links the crime to a brutal, ritualized murder that occurred eighteen months prior, he begins to suspect that there’s more going on beneath the surface. When Jones discovers shocking, deep-seated corruption; a high-level cover-up; and his own personal ties to the rising body count, he’s no longer sure he can trust anyone, even himself. $1.99 on Kindle, today only!
Seven, eight … Gonna stay up late
She thought she could keep it a secret.
Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it – without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs, she thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills. But when she opened her eyes and found herself in the man’s basement, she knew she wasn’t safe anymore.
She was trapped.
‘Seven, Eight … Gonna stay up late’ is the fourth novel in Willow Rose’s Best selling series about the Danish journalist Rebekka Franck. $0.99 on Kindle.
Picture Perfect
Michaels serves up a heart-pounding romantic thriller in which what starts out as an adventure turns into an ordeal. Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan is looking forward to taking her young hemophiliac nephew, Davey, camping while his parents fly to Florida. The family has been under FBI protection because Davey’s father is testifying for the prosecution in a case involving a murdered student and a drug syndicate. Lorrie is glad to spend time alone with the boy because her sister seems more mothering of her professor husband than her son, and Davey is glad to be with Aunt Lorrie because she lets him be himself rather than try to conform to his mother’s rigid standards. But their idyll is brief: Davey disappears. Lorrie calls the police and FBI agent Stuart Sanders, and she and Stuart unite in their search for the missing boy, who needs his daily injections. As fast paced and exciting as always, Michaels’ work offers more thrills than romance this time around. $2.99 on Kindle.
Face of Betrayal (Mystery)
While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well as their uncanny ability to crack cases from their three unique positions of power.
Together, they must find the one face of betrayal amidst a crowd of growing suspects—including a US Senator—before they become the next victims. $1.99 on Kindle (Today only)