Friday Finds: Whodunnit Fun

Louisiana Longshot
By Jana DeLeon

(Miss Fortune Mystery #1)

Genre: Mystery

FREE! For a limited time at Amazon.com, so hurry and get your copy today!
(.99¢ at B&N for Nook ereaders)


It was a hell of a longshot...

CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever--in Sinful, Louisiana.

With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small, bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she's determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the leak and puts the arms dealer out of play.

Unfortunately, she hasn't even unpacked a suitcase before her newly-inherited dog digs up a human bone in her backyard. Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery, Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly-sweet old ladies whose looks completely belie their hold on the little town. To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her too many questions. If she's not careful, this investigation may blow her cover and get her killed.

Armed with her considerable skills and a group of old ladies referred to by locals as The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no choice but to solve the murder before it's too late.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Louisiana-Longshot-Miss-Fortune-Mystery-ebook/dp/B008E9VENQ
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/louisiana-longshot-jana-deleon/1111785285

Scones, Skulls & Scams 
(Book Eight in the Lexy Baker Series)

Leighann Dobbs

Genre: Cozy Mystery
.99¢ for a limited time only! 

Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great. 

... Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business! Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies. When her own bakery is broken into she knows who did it ... but what she can't figure out is why.

Could the new baker be after her great-grandmothers prize winning scone recipe, or is there another more sinister reason?

Meanwhile ...

A grizzly discovery in the sewer system sends her and her gang of iPad toting grandmas off to solve a decades old crime under the streets of brook ridge falls.

Could a seventy year old crime be related to the new bakery?

  
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HPY1F62
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scones-skulls-scams-leighann-dobbs/1117991356
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/scones-skulls-scams
iBooks/iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/scones-skulls-scams/id792727972?mt=11 
 

Friday Finds: Boxed Sets!

What's better than one ebook? How about three! Yep, two different boxed sets with three wonderful stories each and all for only .99¢. First up is friend Roxie Rivera and her smoking hot Russian protector series.

Three ridiculously sexy Russian hunks wrapped up in one volume!

*This boxed set includes the first three bestselling books in the Her Russian Protector series: IVAN, DIMITRI and YURI.*

IVAN (Her Russian Protector #1)

To find her sister, Erin will need the help of her big, scary Russian protector--but asking for help from a man like Ivan carries a steep price, one that might just include her heart.

DIMITRI (Her Russian Protector #2)

Threatened from all sides, Benny finds safety in Dimitri's strong arms--and in his bed. Her big, sexy Russian has no intention of ever letting her go--and he'll brave the fires of hell before he lets anyone harm her.

YURI (Her Russian Protector #3)

When Lena's father and cousin blunder into an international art theft operation, billionaire playboy Yuri seizes his chance to be her protector. But when past misdeeds catch up with him and threaten Lena's safety, Yuri puts her love and trust in him to the test.

He'll prove he's the man she needs--a man she can depend upon and trust--one sensual, wicked kiss at a time.

This fabulous boxed set is available for a limited time (sale ends 9/22/13), so grab your set today!

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EAZA9AC
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/2940148415367
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/books/Her-Russian-Protector-Boxed-Set/xMtAAqZ1zkePmNKN_rTGVw 

Want another amazing deal?

Do you love watching Dancing With The Stars? Did you dream of one day being a ballerina? Well, have I got the boxed set for you! My friend Amanda Brice has a special multi-author YA boxed set you don't want to miss. 

Amanda's book, Codename: Dancer is part of the Dani Spevak Mystery Series.

Aspiring ballerina Dani Spevak is thrilled when hit TV show Teen Celebrity Dance Off comes to the campus of her performing arts boarding school. She trades the barre for the ballroom and gets set to cha-cha-cha to stardom with Hollywood wonderboy Nick Galliano.

At first their partnership is awkward, because Dani is in awe of her longtime teen idol crush. But soon their chemistry is heating up the dance floor and the attraction moves into real life.

Her excitement is short-lived, because someone wants her off the show. Bombs, poisoning, arson… Will Dani’s 15 minutes of fame be over before she reaches age 15? Dani and her friends are suddenly at the center of some serious sabotage. And if she doesn’t find out who is behind it, her next pirouette could be her last.

The boxed set is only .99, but better grab it quick, because it's a limited time offer and the price will go up to $9.99 once the sale ends, so hurry now!

Available at all major ebook retailers. For more information on this special boxed set, go to:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/behindbarres

Goodreads at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18269533-behind-barres

 

Friday Finds: Abducted Heart by Jerri Drennen

Abducted Heart 

by Jerri Drennen

Casey Jackson's soon-to-be ex-husband has been kidnapped. She's not worried about the $250,000 ransom; her shipping magnate daddy has plenty of money. But, will paying the demand guarantee his safe return? With no one else to trust, she contacts the man she knows can bring him home alive.

For the past ten years, Ex-Navy SEAL, now covert Z-operative, Lynch Rendall has jumped from one bed to the next, intent on keeping his distance from women. That is, until the woman who crushed him a decade earlier calls and asks for his help—to save his less than reputable step-brother's life.

Resentments pushed aside, Lynch flies to New Orleans, only to uncover a  plot to kill Casey, and there’s no way in hell he’s going to let that happen.  Even if it means risking his heart being broken again to keep her safe.


Hot romantic suspense Abducted Heart is only 99 cents on Amazon. Grab your copy today!

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Abducted-Heart-Z-Series-ebook/dp/B00AWVT6YI

Visit Jerri on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jerri.drennen

September Suspense, Thrillers, and Mysteries on Friday Finds

This month's Friday Finds celebrates suspense thrillers and murder mysteries. Grab 'um while they're on sale and tell your friends.

First up is a steal for only .99cents, by NY Times & USA Today bestselling crime author Gregg Olsen, Shocking True Story!

Sale ends: Monday, 9/9/13

Kevin Ryan is a writer in the much-maligned genre of true crime who desperately needs a devious, over-the-top story for the subject of his next book. How else can he keep his wife Valerie’s roots dyed and keep himself from handing out taco samples at the local supermarket?

When Kevin isn’t Googling himself or spot checking his books’ stock at stores around the country or online, he’s bringing the hazards (ie, criminals and other crazies) of his job home to wife Val and twin daughters Taylor and Hayley. Kevin is on the hunt for the big one, the story that could break him out of the mid-list and onto the bestseller lists. And then there’s a knock at the door--a story finds him…

A distraught 20-year old Jett Carter shows up at the Ryan house because her mother and sister are imprisoned—perhaps if Kevin writes their story and reveals the truth, he might help exonerate them. The Carters’ tale is the perfect white-trash-attempted-murder-love-triangle that Kevin’s editor will love and his fans will devour. He begins to write “Love You to Death.” Then on a beautiful summer day, the wheels of homicide are set in motion and Kevin’s own story begins to eclipse the crime he is chronicling. When his #1 fan is murdered and another body turns up, the Ryans’ life in Port Gamble and all that Kevin holds dear is in jeopardy. Somewhere in “Love You to Death” and within the “bunch of low rent losers” he’s interviewing is the killer.

Note: This is not a YA novel, but it is prequel to the award-winning Empty Coffin Series (Envy & Betrayal).

On sale until Monday, 9/9/13 at:

Amazon.com

Barnes & Noble

My second pick for today's Friday Find is

 Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne!

FREE! until September 24, 2013

Since the day her baby sister was taken, Holly’s mind hasn’t been the same. PTSD, panic attacks, nightmares and blocked memories have plagued her ever since. And now they’ve returned.

Hard-edged Detective Vince O’Malley’s most recent case penetrated even his protective shell. Ordered to take time off to recover, he can’t let go, and on his own, follows the clues to Holly’s small upstate NY town.

His presence stirs ghosts from the past, shadows of a little girl lost, the suspicions of some tight-lipped locals with secrets to hide, and more than that inside Holly’s fragile mind and untouched heart.

Available online at the following retailers:

 

Amazon

 

Barnes and Noble

iTunes

 

Kobo 

Smashwords 

Underwater Pyramids and The Shimryn Connection

From what I understand, sometime last year two underwater "glass-like" pyramids were found in the Bermuda Triangle and identified with sonar, over 2,000 meters deep, resting on the ocean floor. This is according to a Dr. Verlag Meyer, who is supposedly an oceanographer. The pyramid is also said to be smooth and partially translucent.

Which makes the skeptic observer in me ask why such an amazing find is getting little air time on TV or from credible news sources? You'd think a true archeological find like this would be on every mainstream media outlet. Then again, the Bermuda Triangle cannot compare to the social significance of Kardashian mania or Honey Boo Boo [insert sarcasm]. Even so, you'd think it would get more than a very minor mention on MSNBC's weird news segment.

Also, with both American and French scientists supposedly conducting surveys of the Bermuda Triangle's seabed, you'd think there would be at least a few French news outlets covering the story, given that one of the greatest explorers our world has known, was Jacques Cousteau. But the story didn't surface, except on internet.

My German is about as non-existent as my Spanish, so I did some digging and Verlag is the German word for publisher, but the only legitimate reference I could find to Verlag Meyer is a German publisher of sports-related books and training manuals. The closest I could find to anything Bermuda Triangle related (both involve water, lol) on their website was a book entitled, How To Be A Surfer. http://www.m-m-sports.com/shop/en/how-to-be-a-surfer-4916.html.

Yeah, something tells me this whole glass pyramids of the Bermuda Triangle may all be fiction. See, I know a little about fiction, since I write it. Without tangible facts that can be checked and cross-checked, then verified, the "pyramid" crumbles faster than a sugar cookie hit with a hammer.

[Watch National Geographic's Bermuda Triangle documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALF-4ubvhzQ]

All we really know is something about the area has caused ships and planes to disappear, instrumentation panels to go bonkers, and freak storms to pop up with little warning. Whether these incidences are due to unusual but perfectly natural phenomena or something more akin to science fiction, is something you have to decide for yourselves.

Which of course, didn't stop me from adding my own fictional spin to the Bermuda Triangle. The back story for both my Shifting Tides series and my upcoming Tales of The Shimryn series is centered at the centuries old mystery. In Shifting Tides, merfolk and other aquatic shapeshifters go undetected by humans for the most part, living their lives both underwater and on land. Their ability to shapeshift is based on myth and magic, but also rooted in their DNA.

The Tales of The Shimryn series blends both mythology and science fiction, giving readers a plausible (fictional) explanation for the disturbances in the Bermuda Triangle, as well as the Devil's Triangle. The Shimryn are explorers and scientists who long ago set up an outpost on Earth, but lost contact with the colony several millennia ago. That colony was, of course, Atlantis. The mystery of what happened to Atlantis had captured their peoples imagination as well. It was decided by the Shimryn Stellari (science council)  that a second Shimryn team would be sent to investigate, but they too, disappeared. Between wars and politics, it was quite some time before a third team was sent, and what that team discovered was a world unlike any they'd known, over 3/4ths of the planet covered with liquid. Using the Shimryn understanding of intelligence, the only sentient beings they discovered lived under this strange substance called water, so they created their new outpost very near the site where the original had been. And yes, it was on the ocean floor of the Bermuda Triangle.

Since the Tales Of The Shimryn is a crossover series with Shifting Tides, readers can expect to see a mermaid or two swim their way into a couple of the stories, but there will be more emphasis on SFR than PNR. Book one in the series is Sparkle, which continues the prequel short story, Shimmer.