This is my weekly post of Free & Discounted E-Books I have found throughout the week š.
I usually find out about these E-Books through social media, through emails I receive from Hello Books and authors newsletters.
In this weekly post, I would like to mention the books I have found and downloaded, so that others may have a chance to be introduced to new authors and the books are promoted before I get a around to reading them.
E-Books Purchased for 99p: Still 99p
The Memory Library – Kate Storey
Son of the Dead – M.A. Comley
Hello Books – Amazon:
These books were sourced through emails I received by Hello Books and were purchased for free on Amazon. There are a number of genres to choose through this email service, and I pick the ones which sound like the type of books I would like to read. Please note these were free at the time of this posting on 04.06.24 & 07.06.24 and in the UK region.
Lost Chances – J.T. Bishop
(Currently Ā£3.99 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Some Secrets are Better Left Unknown
Facing his demons, paranormal P.I. and former Texas Ranger Mason Redstone enters therapy. Adjusting to his new surroundings, heāll befriend other patients, face unexpected spirit encounters and confront his difficult past. But his new patrons will offer more than support. Theyāll reveal dark rumors about former patients whoāve died suspiciously. Curious, heāll use his investigative skills to search for the truth, but his discoveries may turn friends into enemies.
With Mason absent, his sister Mikey and partner Trick must rely on another gifted paranormal investigator to help keep their agency afloat. But his involvement could complicate more than their cases and force Mikey to make a hard decision.
Taking a case of their own, Trick and Mikey help a woman from Mikey’s past investigate the suspicious death of her sister, but their digging will expose unexpected secrets that will link Mason to a conspiracy, and a killer who will stop at nothing to protect himself…and his next victim could be Mason.
Goodreads Rating: 4.58
All the Secrets We Hide – Martina Bernard
(Currently Ā£2.99 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
After a young woman is brutally attacked, Dutch journalist Nicole Meyers launches an investigation. Soon the trail leads her to the other side of the Atlantic.
On a dangerous path that takes in the rugged wilderness of North America and the dark streets of Europe’s largest port city, Nicole Meyers canāt seem to escape the attention of an international organized criminal syndicate.
Sheās forced to call for the help of researcher Jack Branagh. But what she doesnāt know yet, is that he has retreated to a small, secluded village somewhere amid the harsh mountains in Canada for a reason.
In a world where friendship and loyalty are paramount, Jack Branagh is on a mission that will bring him face to face with the brutal truth.To keep the headstrong, stubborn, but beautiful journalist out of the hands of his enemies, will he be able to let her go?
Is Jack too late to prevent history from repeating itself?
Goodreads Rating: No Ratings Yet
Murder on the Mind – L.L. Bartlett
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Jeff Resnick hardly knew his well-heeled half-brother. But after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious mugging, he reluctantly accepts the fact that he has a long and brutal recovery to faceāand his closest of kin can provide him with the time and place to do it.
Now, Jeff is haunted by unexplained visions of a heinous crimeāa banker, stalked, killed, and eviscerated like a ten-point buck. When Matt Sumnerās murder is discovered, a still-recovering Jeff realizes this was what he had seen. Jeff must not only convince himself of his new-found psychic ability, but also his skeptical brother Richard Alpert. Since Sumner was Richardās banker, both brothers have a stake in finding out what happened. With Richardās reluctant help, Jeffās investigation leads him to Sumnerās belligerent family and hard-nosed business associates, none of whom want him snooping around.
When Jeff discovers a second victim, he knows he must relentlessly chase his quarry even if it means risking his brotherās life.
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
The Darkest Prince – Jillian Frost
Genre: Dark Romance
Synopsis from Goodreads:
I have a dark secret, one that can never see the light of dayā¦
Iām obsessed with my best friend.
What I feel for him goes beyond love.
Bastian is the only person who makes my black heart beat, but he thinks our relationship is wrong.
Heās afraid of what others will think about us.
Until we meet Alex.
Sheās the glue that holds our unconventional relationship together. The one person who can make Bastian see that what we have isnāt dirty and shameful.
Iām a hunter and go after what I want, and I wonāt stop untilā¦
They.
Are.
Mine.
Goodreads Rating: 3.65
All Signs Lead to Lucy – Julieann Dove
(Currently Ā£3.93 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Romance
Synopsis from Goodreads:
After living a life of failed, predictable relationships, Lucy Fister took the advice of the psychic who charged sixty dollars for ten minutes: start seeking men who are the absolute opposite of who she dated. It made sense, but paying for the obvious meant it might work.
Tyler Tolliver met that criteria. He was an out of work actor whoād invented the love language āhave a good time.ā They had a whirlwind relationship and after four months, he proposed, holding a bread tie for a ring, and giving the argument that the lease on his loft was expiring.
One year into her marriage with Tyler, and Lucy was tired of playing Xbox, clubbing, and watching movies before reading the book. She missed conversations deeper than picking where theyād eat, and being in bed before midnight. When her estranged best friend, Vanessa asked her and Tyler to go on a week-long trip to the Caribbean with her new fiancĆ©, Martin VanLeer, Lucy accepted the invitation.
Fate scatters people and plans like a ceiling fan scatters loose papers. On the eve of the trip, Tyler and Vanessa respectively were called to fulfill work related tasks. The new plan was for them to meet up with Lucy and Vanessaās fiancĆ© in a couple of days.
One week is all it took for Martin and Lucy to fall in love. And for Lucy to realize that psychic was wrongāshe didnāt need to find someone opposite of all the guys she dated, she needed to be warned of the millionaire engaged to her best friend. Because if they acted on this attraction, it meant destroying a marriage, a wedding, and a lifelong friendship.
Goodreads Rating: 3.47
Try Not to Die: In Ghostland – Duncan Ralston & Mark Tullius
(Currently Ā£3.99 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Horror
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Ghostland – a massive theme park where guests get an up-close look at real ghosts using super-advanced technology. You’re all having a great time until a technical glitch releases all the captured spirits, causing immediate chaos and destruction. Fight to survive, find your friends, and figure out your powers because these ghosts are confused. They’re angry. And they’re out for blood . Good luck getting out of Ghostland. Every choice you make today is a life and death decision. Not just for you but everyone you meet. MORE THAN TWO DOZEN WAYS TO DIE. JUST ONE CORRECT PATH. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE?
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
Almost Gone – Blake Pierce
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
When 23 year old Cassandra Vale accepts her first job as an au pair, she finds herself placed with a wealthy family in a rural estate outside of Paris, and all seems too good to be true. But she soon discovers that behind the gilded gates lies a dysfunctional family, a twisted marriage, troubled children, and secrets too dark to air.
Cassandra is convinced she’s finally found a fresh start when she takes a job as an au pair in the idyllic French countryside. Just beyond the Paris city limits, the Dubois manor is a grand relic of the past, the family its picture-perfect occupants. It’s the escape Cassandra needs-until she uncovers dark secrets that prove things aren’t as glamorous as they seem.
Beneath the opulence lies a dark web of malice, one Cassandra finds all too familiar, triggering dreams from her own violent and tortured past, one from which she desperately runs. And when a grisly murder tears the house apart, it threatens to take down her own fragile psyche with it.
Goodreads Rating: 3.72
Seduction – C.L. Bluestein
Genre: Political Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
In SEDUCTION, renowned author Rachel Allen, in her quest for independence and relief from her PTSD symptoms, moves to New York City. There she reunites with Theodore X. Donovan, the man who saved her life from a brutal rapist years before. Ted, wealthy philanthropist with international connections and founder of The PRAISE Foundation, harbors a dangerous personal agenda.
Because of Rachel’s and Ted’s high profile work for human rights, both are invited to serve on an eight member presidential think tank that convenes at an isolated Lake George cabin in the Adirondack Mountains of NY. It is here that Rachel recognizes the depth of Ted’s skewed sense of love and patriotism, forcing her to face her worst fears.
Meanwhile, the FBI, in pursuit of a serial killer with ties to PRAISE, needs to interview Ted who has accepted a covert deadly presidential mission with international repercussions. With many lives are at stake, a terrified Rachel must fight for her own life, love, and country
Goodreads Rating: 4.21
The Operator – Craig Martelle
Genre: Action/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A hitman with a conscienceā¦
Ian Bragg is paid to kill people. Only bad people and not many, but for a great deal of money.
Case the target. Make the hit. Move on until he meets the woman with sparkling green eyes who changes everything.
Is his newest target deserving of death? Who is Ian to decide if the politician needs to die? He is the one who has to live with the consequences, thatās who.
The contract deadline nears. Too many unknowns, too much to lose. Pull the trigger or not?
Ian makes his own rules to get himself out of a quandary where itās more than just his life on the line. For the greater good, join Ian Bragg.
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
Dawn That Brings Death – Addison Michael
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Paige Deffer is on the run and alone, leaving two men for dead at the Mynart Murder House. The only thing that matters more than her own survival is her daughterās.
To redeem her bad choices, Paige takes a job in the most unlikely place of all, the Police Service of Winnipeg. As she helps the police hunt down killers, Paige finds herself haunted by the ghosts of her past and struggles to adapt to her new life. Meanwhile, she reunites with James, a handsome friend from her childhood. She quickly wonders if she can trust someone new with her secrets. When Paige is plagued with a deranged killer who will do anything to stop her from learning his identity, she must fight not only for her life but for the life of her daughter. Will they survive another day when confronted with the Dawn That Brings Death?
Goodreads Rating: 4.34
Farmerville Episode 4: Conspiracies Nightmares and Pig Farms Oh My – Marty Martin
(Currently Ā£2.35 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
After the discovery of serial killers in episode one, an ambitious journalist threatens to expose another Farmerville secret. Conspiracies and Nightmares loom as Deputy Ron and his daughter struggle with their experiences and emotions. Is there a supernatural element at work or is it just paranoia, and what does a pig farm have to do with anything.
Goodreads Rating: 4.45
Coming Up Short – Charles Welch
(Currently Ā£3.18 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Horror/Short Stories
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A husband and wife find themselves repeating the same scene over and over as something large looms in the sky above them.
An old woman who takes care of her Alzheimerās inflicted husband is exasperated when she realizes he believes that his mother is at their front door. Her mother-in-law, who has been dead for many years. She wants to show him heās wrong, however, opening the door to prove it to him is a bad idea. Something is waiting for them, lurking in the fog beyond the safety of their home.
Two teenaged boys spend a Saturday together, but a practical joke they play gets out of hand. When they seriously injure a girl from their school, going on the run seems the only way out of trouble. When they enter a door inside a deserted department store, they find that they have moved a million miles from home with someone who has revenge on her mind.
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Social Media finds:
When scrolling through Facebook & Twitter sometimes I find out about free E-books available. Sometimes these are through Amazon other times they are through newsletter sign ups. Please note again these were available free at the time I obtained them, they may not be free now.
Fatal Choices – Anne Morgellyn
(Currently Ā£3.99 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Source: My Next Read Email Newsletter – Amazon Purchase
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Louise Moon believed she knew about death.
After years of working in a morgue, she thought nothing could shake her.
But when her close friend Buz Vubrin goes through with an assisted suicide at a Geneva clinic her world is shaken to its core.
Louise had been dreaming of a new life with her husband, Androssoff, working on a medical research project in New Zealand.
But in the wake of her friend’s death, Androssoff returns to London while Louise sets up home in Geneva, giving her space from her struggling marriage.
As Louise attempts to reconnect with Androssoff and look after her young son, her life is thrown into further turmoil when she meets Joffey ā a terminally ill session musician who is considering assisted suicide.
She wants to persuade him that life is worth living?
But is it? And as she struggles to hold her own life together, will she be able to save someone elseās?
Some choices in life, Louise is about to discover, can be fatal. And sometimes there is no way back to the life you knew.
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
Within the Fog – Charles Welch
(Currently Ā£3.18 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Source: Book Cave Email Newsletter – Amazon Purchase
Genre: Horror
Synopsis from Goodreads:
The same ancient evil that killed 115 people at Roanoke, Virginia in the late 1500ās has arrived in a small eastern Colorado town. A fog covers the small town and closes in on Tom Benton and his family. The evil that lurks within the fog feeds on humanity but has special plans for those with anger deep inside. Tom Bentonās son Bobby has seen the face of evil outside his bedroom window in the darkest hours of the night. The man who appears at his window offers a veil of redemption to those holding onto anger and rage. As the fog wraps around the Benton family home there will only be a narrow chance at survival. Can Tom Benton and his family escape the issues of their past in time to save themselves from Croatoan?
Goodreads Rating: 4.01
Kind of Book – Amazon
I have found another new notification site for free e-books, which you then purchase through Amazon. The site is Kind of Book, the link is for the UK site but they also have a site for the US and DE too which you can access from this link. Once again these were free when I purchased but they may not be now. I receive daily emails with deals, this is what I have found so far that has taken my interest:
Homecoming – Isabel Ashdown
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
They were perfect neighbours.
Now they are prime suspects.
Security, a sparkling sea view and the best kind of neighbours – The Starlings gated community has it all. The residents are like family to each other, in a place where doors are left open and children run free. But that all changes when an idyllic street party takes a dark turn, and popular resident Bill Adams is found dead at the foot of his neighbour’s stairs. Who knows what really happened to him? And what answers are harboured within the old building, a former asylum?
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Long Empty Roads – Sean Patrick Little
(Currently Ā£3.13 to buy or free on Kindle Unlimited)
Genre: Dystopia
Synopsis from Goodreads:
After a hard, cold winter, Twist is no longer willing to struggle to live in Wisconsin. The time has come for him to move south. There he will begin to rebuild life after the viral apocalypse. The world he knew is changing, however. Nature is slowly reclaiming the land. Exotic animals released from zoos roam freely. Stores of food, once fresh and plentiful, are beginning to spoil. Surviving in the South is no guarantee, but it will be warmer there. And there will be wild game to hunt and plenty of land to farm. The South represents his best chance at building a new existence. But first, he needs to search for other survivors. Even if the Flu did not kill him, loneliness just might.
Goodreads Rating: 4.47
The Lilac House – Barbara Josselsohn
Genre: Romance
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Can one summer house bring two broken hearts together?
Summer escapes to Lilac House have always been a source of comfort for Anna Harris. Though things will never be the same since her husbandās death, she knows that it is there, nestled in Lake Summers in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, that she and her children Zac and Evie can begin to build a new life.
The house is just as beautiful as Anna remembers, and caught up in the rhythm of small town life, helping her Aunt Hope run the little shop on Main Street, Anna begins to feel a sense of herself she hasnāt felt in years. Then she meets Aidan. Handsome, strong and quiet, he also knows whatās itās like to lose someone. In each other they recognise something theyāve both been missing and they feel a spark.
But Aidanās past holds a different set of complications. Heās hiding a secret about why he came to Lake Summers. And just as the Lilac House finally starts to feel like home, Anna learns something devastating about Gregās death that makes her question everythingā¦
The summer might have brought Anna and Aidan together, but can Anna finally let go of the past now she really has the chance for a new beginning?
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
The Ghost Files: Volume 4, Part 2 – Apryl Baker
Genre: YA/Horror
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Hush little children, all snug in your beds, Safe in your dreams, tucked away in your heads. But he is watching and wants to be fed. Donāt try to runā¦say a prayer instead, Because, little children, youāll soon be dead. Children all over the city of Charlotte, North Carolina are vanishing and turning up dead exactly one week after their disappearance. The city is in a panic, parents terrified to let their children out of their sights, but itās simply not enough. You canāt hide from the Devourer of Souls. Mattie has endured a lot over the last year, but now sheās faced with something even her nine lives can’t survive. As old secrets are brought to light, she must confront her destinyāand a curse that may cost her everything. Throw in a fallen angel serial killer who specializes in little kids, and Mattie may have to seek help from the one person she swore she never would. Silas. The real question is will she come out the other side the same person she was, or will Silas finally get what he wantsāher soulā¦?
Goodreads Rating: 4.53
I’ve Been Watching You – KA Richardson
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Ben Cassidy is a new crime scene investigator and is finding her feet juggling work and motherhood. Keen to better herself, she enrols on a course in Digital Forensics and meets Jacob Tulley, an ex-army veteran struggling with his past. When Detective Inspector Alistair McKay and the team are called to a suspected hit and run involving a care home worker, Ben suspects there is more to it, and uncovers a link to a series of murders that hits far too close to home. Ben and Jacob must work together when evidence of a digital footprint emerges from the killer who knows how to cover his tracks. Heās confident they canāt find him, and when he realises āthe one who got awayā is under his nose, sets out to finish the job he started.Can Ben cope with overwhelming memories, can Jacob put his past aside to help Ben and DI McKay gather the evidence needed, and can they stop the cycle of victims?
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
I hope you find something that takes your fancy š
I only download books that I like the look of the synopsis, and once I have cleared down some of the NetGalley books I am going to be adding 1 or 2 of my E-Books to my TBR each month.
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