Tag: Mystery

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Somebody I Used to Know

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/06/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Somebody I Used to KnowSomebody I Used to Know by David Bell

    When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire 20 years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.

    The next morning the police arrive at Nick’s house and show him a photo of the woman from the store. She’s been found dead, murdered in a local motel, with Nick’s name and address on a piece of paper in her pocket. Convinced there’s a connection between the two women, Nick enlists the help of his college friend, Laurel Davidson, to investigate the events leading up to the night of Marissa’s death. But the young woman’s murder is only the beginning… and the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish he never doubted the lies.

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  • Wednesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Humor, Romance, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Romantic Comedy, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Suspense… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Sunset in Central Park: The perfect romantic comedy to curl up with (From Manhattan with Love) In the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it’s been right under your nose all along… 

    Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Cole. After witnessing the fallout of her parents’ divorce, she’s seen the devastation an overload of emotion can cause. The only man she feels comfortable with is her friend Matt—but that’s strictly platonic. If only she found it easier to ignore the way he makes her heart race… 

    Matt Walker has loved Frankie for years but, sensing how fragile she is beneath her feisty exterior, has always played it cool. But then he uncovers new depths to the girl he’s known forever and doesn’t want to wait a moment longer. He knows Frankie has secrets and has buried them deep, but can Matt persuade her to trust him with her heart and kiss him under the Manhattan sunset?

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    Dave Barry Turns Fifty From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a celebration of the aging process. Not just Dave’s, but that of the whole Baby Boom Generation–those millions of us who set a standard for whining self-absorption that will never be equaled, and who gave birth to such stunning accomplishments as Saturday Night Live!, the New Age movement, and call waiting. Here Dave pinpoints the glaring signs that you’ve passed the half-century mark:

    – You are suddenly unable to read anything written in letters smaller than Marlon Brando.
    – You have accepted the fact that you can’t possibly be hip. You don’t even know if "hip" is the right word for hip anymore, and you don’t care.
    – You remember nuclear-attack drills at school wherein you practiced protecting yourself by crouching under your desk, which was apparently made out of some kind of atomic-bomb-proof wood.
    – You can’t name the secretary of defense, but you can still sing the Mister Clean song.

    So pop open a can of Geritol®, kick back in that recliner, grab those reading glasses, and let the good times roll–before they roll right over you!

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    Sweeter Than Sunshine (Sweeter in the City Book 2) He’s falling in love with the girl next door…

    Mary has always looked on the bright side… until one too many setbacks leave her wondering why she sacrificed everything for a failing ice cream parlor. Hopelessly single, and still licking her wounds from her last break-up, she almost manages to believe that she doesn’t need a man when she has Sunshine Creamery, until the handsome guy next door has her second guessing herself, and her family’s business.

    Ben’s life was going exactly to plan…and he’s been picking up the pieces ever since it all blew up. Now a single dad, he’s determined not to let another woman mess with his heart again—or his daughter’s. He tells himself he’s only being neighborly by helping Mary repair some things in her shop, but the more time they spend together, the more he dares to wish for something he hasn’t even thought about in a long time: a future.

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    Anansi Boys Over 630 5-Star Reviews!

    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul.

    God is dead. Meet the kids.

    Fat Charlie Nancy’s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn’t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie’s life more interesting… and a lot more dangerous.

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    The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding.

    Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of action—rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestine—that will not only change their lives but also help create a nation and forever alter the course of world history.

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    Dark Fissures (The Rick Cahill Series) Private Investigator Rick Cahill fears the next knock on his door will be a cop holding a warrant for his arrest. For murder.

    Police Chief Moretti is convinced Rick killed a missing person. No body has been found, but the evidence that’s piling up says murder and it all points to Rick. With Moretti on his tail and the bank about to foreclose on his house, Rick takes a paying case that will stave off the bank, but pits him against Moretti and the La Jolla Police Department.

    Brianne Colton, a beautiful country singer, is convinced her estranged husband’s suicide was really murder. Each new piece of evidence convinces Rick she’s right. But he breaks his number one rule and falls for Brianne even as he begins to question her motives…

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    Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France Paris was practically perfect…

    Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn’t know anything about starting a brand-new business. But from his first visit to Paris, Craig knew he had found the city of his dreams, although one thing was still missing-the good ol’ American breakfast he loved so much.

    Pancakes in Paris is the story of Craig tackling the impossible-from raising the money to fund his dream to tracking down international suppliers for "exotic" American ingredients… and even finding love along the way. His diner, Breakfast In America, is now a renowned tourist destination, and the story of how it came to be is just as delicious and satisfying as the classic breakfast that tops its menu.

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    Chesapeake: A Novel Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age.

    In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America.

    Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom.

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    A Legacy of Revenge (Legacy Series Book 2) Alexandra Cameron and sinfully handsome billionaire Diego Navarro are passionately in love, but their bliss is threatened by a ruthless Scotsman who blames them for the death of his son — the man who murdered Alex’s husband two years earlier.

    Diego never expected to win Alex’s heart and is fiercely protective of the woman he loves.

    As the deadly game of revenge enters its final round, will they and their love survive?

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    The Big Lead: A Stella Reynolds Mystery, Book 1 (Stella Reynolds Mystery Series) Stella Reynolds is new to the job, new to the state, and new to making mistakes in front of thousands of people, but that’s exactly what she signs up for when she takes a job as a TV reporter in the mountains of Bozeman, Montana. Being on live TV in a small town has never been so funny, until Stella covers the town’s first murders in years.

    When the prime suspect’s girlfriend enlists Stella to help clear his name, she uncovers another shocking crime that could expose a handful of powerful insiders.

    Who is honest, who can’t be trusted, and who committed the murders? Stella is on a tight deadline to find out. Can she help free an innocent man, or will the real culprit get away with murder?

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    Love Handles (A Romantic Comedy) (Oakland Hills Book 1) The world of fitness apparel isn’t ready for Beverly Lewis. She hates the gym, is nice to everybody, and shops at Ross Dress for Less. When she’s not teaching preschool, she’s wearing yoga pants… to nap in. So when she inherits her estranged grandfather’s fitnesswear company in San Francisco, nobody expects her to keep it. Fite Fitness needs a heartless suit to save it from bankruptcy, not a thirty-year-old woman who cries when her students leave for kindergarten.

    Someone like Liam Johnson. A former Olympic swimmer, Liam is Fite’s executive vice president. Unlike Bev, he’s devoted his life to Fite’s success. Managing one little preschool teacher – and his attraction to her – shouldn’t be an issue. Right?

    But Bev’s tired of being underpaid and underrated, and refuses to step aside as an obedient figurehead. To everyone’s shock and horror, she moves up to San Francisco, sets up an office, and dives into the business. Nothing – not mockery, not exercise, not sabotage, not a disastrously hot night with her aggravating VP – is going to scare her away.

    As Liam realizes she’s tougher than she looks, he discovers that losing Fite might not be nearly as bad as losing her…

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  • Tuesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Romance, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical Romance, Thriller, Biographies & Memoirs… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Better Off Friends For Macallan and Levi, it was friends at first sight. Everyone says guys and girls can’t be just friends, but these two are. They hang out after school, share tons of inside jokes, their families are super close, and Levi even starts dating one of Macallan’s friends. They are platonic and happy that way.

    Eventually they realize they’re best friends — which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t keep getting in each other’s way. Guys won’t ask Macallan out because they think she’s with Levi, and Levi spends too much time joking around with Macallan, and maybe not enough time with his date. They can’t help but wonder… are they more than friends or are they better off without making it even more complicated?

    From romantic comedy superstar Elizabeth Eulberg comes a fresh, fun examination of a question for the ages: Can guys and girls ever really be just friends? Or are they always one fight away from not speaking again — and one kiss away from true love?

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    Fixin' To Die (A Kenni Lowry Mystery Book 1) “A Southern-fried mystery with a twist that’ll leave you positively breathless.” – Susan M. Boyer

    Kenni Lowry likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but she quickly discovers the ghost of her grandfather, the town’s previous sheriff, has been scaring off any would-be criminals since she was elected. When the town’s most beloved doctor is found murdered on the very same day as a jewelry store robbery, and a mysterious symbol ties the crime scenes together, Kenni must satisfy her hankerin’ for justice by nabbing the culprits.

    With the help of her poppa, a lone deputy, and an annoyingly cute, too-big-for-his-britches State Reserve officer, Kenni must solve both cases and prove to the whole town, and herself, that she’s worth her salt before time runs out.

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    Sands (Sharani Series Book 1) For nine months of the year, the sands of the Sharani Desert are safe. The genesauri—giant, flying, serpentine monsters who hunt across the desert in enormous packs—lie dormant. The smallest of their kind is able to take down a single man with ease, and the largest is able to swallow entire clans. The people of the desert have always been able to predict the creatures’ appearance, but this year, the genesauri have stopped following the rules.

    When the genesauri suddenly attack her clan, seventeen-year-old Lhaurel draws a sword in her people’s defense—a forbidden practice for women of any clan—and is sentenced to death by her own people. Chained to a rock and left to be eaten by the next wave of genesauri, Lhaurel is rescued by a mysterious, elusive clan said to curse children at a glance, work unexplainable terrors, and disappear into the sands without a trace.

    With the fate of the clans hanging in the balance, Lhaurel discovers she possesses a rare and uncontrollable power—one that will be tested as the next deadly genesauri attack looms on the horizon and the clash between clans grows more inevitable by the hour.

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    Stolen by the Laird (Conquered Bride Series Book 4) She was supposed to be his prize… But not all rewards are sweet…

    Laird Brody Keith, Marischal of Scotland, has been asked by his future king to travel with William Wallace to Dunnottar Castle, where they will seize the castle back from the English. If he completes his mission, the castle, the land and all it holds, will be his. Brody is more than eager to sink his blade into the hearts of his enemies after the brutal murder of his sister and father. But what he doesn’t count on is finding an English lass in need of his protection…

    Lady Guinevere has led a less than pleasant life in Scotland over the past year, and now she can either run for her life, or accept the proposal of a man who should be her enemy. Survival bids her to acquiesce, but that doesn’t mean she has to play nice. Except, she’s coming to adore the people whom she’s always been told she should hate, and respect the man who risked his life for her.

    Joined for a mutual purpose, Brody and Guinevere seem doomed from the start, but as time passes, and their true enemies draw closer, they’ll form an alliance that not even the devil himself can break.

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    The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes… in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.

    The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her – literally and figuratively – she is determined to finally end Hoyt’s awful influence… even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.

    But Rizzoli isn’t counting on the U.S. government’s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn’t counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta…

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    Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood The New York Times bestselling definitive biography of Natalie Wood, Natasha is the haunting story of a vulnerable and talented actress whom many of us felt we knew.

    We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes—in Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, and on and on. She has been hailed—along with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor—as one of the top three female movie stars in the history of film, making her a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. But the story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was like when the doors of the soundstages closed, has long been obscured.

    Natasha is based on years of exhaustive research into Natalie’s turbulent life and mysterious drowning. Author Suzanne Finstad conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie’s family, close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtually everyone connected with the investigation of her strange death…

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    The Promise: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.
     
    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed…
     
    Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives—and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

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    Rose Daughter Award-winning author Robin McKinley tells an enthralling story of magic, love, and redemption, based on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.

    Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant had three daughters. When his business failed, he moved his daughters to the countryside. The youngest daughter, Beauty, is fascinated by the thorny stems of a mysterious plant that overwhelms their neglected cottage. She tends the plant until it blossoms with the most beautiful flowers the sisters have ever seen—roses.

    Admiring the roses, an old woman tells Beauty, “Roses are for love.” And she speaks of a sorcerers’ battle many years ago that left a beast in an enchanted palace, and a curse concerning a family of three sisters…

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    Trouble in Mudbug (Ghost-in-Law Mystery/Romance Book 1) Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law’s death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana.

    Unfortunately, death doesn’t slow down Helena one bit.

    DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into – especially as it seems someone wants her dead. Keeping his secrets while protecting Maryse proves to be easier than fighting his attraction for the brainy beauty.

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    Anathema (Cloud Prophet Trilogy Series Book 1) From USA Today bestselling author, Megg Jensen…

    Sheltered from the outside world with no hope for escape… slave girl Reychel dreads her fifteenth birthday – when her master’s symbol is burned on the back of her bald scalp. Her best friend disappears the night before, leaving her to face the branding ceremony alone. She soon discovers nothing is as it seems when people desperate for freedom beg for Reychel’s help.

    Can Reychel learn to believe in herself?

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