Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Framed in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb.
Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist’s career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work.
Apartment 239
by Elford Alley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Sixth Sense with equal parts creepiness and charm – Elford Alley has the stuff to make you smile while you squirm in this ghost-infested, serial-killing whirlwind set around one very unlucky young man’s overcrowded apartment.” — Daniel Barnett, author of Nightmareland Chronicles
“Apartment 239 is Alley’s best work yet. This compelling genre-mash-up is a page-turner of the cinematic sort – a splendid mixture of lovable and despicable characters, horrific and heartfelt scenes, and humorous and witty dialogue. Highly recommended!” — Jeremy Hepler, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Sunray Alice.
The Oriceran Rich and Famous Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A witch running Hollywood’s only magical talent agency. A billionaire wolf shifter hunting criminals through the rain-soaked streets of Seattle. Neither one signed up to be a hero. The monsters didn’t care.
The Agent Operative Complete Series
The Diary of a Dark Monster Complete Series
Hush Little Babies
by Don Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The true crime story of the Texas mother who murdered her two young sons in 1996.
Not since the Susan Smith case have two murders so shocked the nation . . . Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood’s most wonderful mom, who, one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood.
Darlie claimed an intruder had come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with the same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant sons slept upstairs.
The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Welcome to Eris: a remote Scottish island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago in a baffling cold case.
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
Bones Never Lie
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Kathy Reichs’s upcoming novel Two Nights.
The evidence is irrefutable: In sixteen New York Times bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself “a genius at building suspense” (New York Daily News). In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine who’s brilliant to the bone. “Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden,” says The New York Times Book Review. In the acclaimed author’s thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wits against the most monstrous adversary she has ever encountered.
Finding Angus
by L.K. Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond…
Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.
Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s.
Hannah Bloom
by Jacquie Herz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Hannah Bloom dreams of the day she’ll have chased away all those doubts and worries that plague her and be free to call herself a poet. In her everyday life, she works in the business she and her husband, Jake, founded together. While their two young daughters are away at summer camp for the first time, Hannah expects to have time for her poetry. But life has other ideas.
Every day, she finds gut-wrenching letters sitting in their mailbox from their homesick, unhappy children. Then, as she comes to grips with the sudden news of her unexpected pregnancy, she learns her mother’s contemplating a move to Switzerland—a move back to a Europe their whole family fled to escape the Holocaust.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Open Your Eyes
by Liv Constantine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Psychological thriller lovers are in for a darkly delicious treat.”—Carola Lovering, author of Tell Me Lies
Annabelle Reynolds has everything she’s ever wanted. A devoted husband, two wonderful daughters, and a career she loves. She couldn’t be happier. So why is she suddenly plagued by disturbing dreams of a future where she hates her husband and her daughters’ lives are at risk? At first, she chalks the dreams up to an overactive imagination. But when details from her dreams, details she couldn’t possibly have predicted, begin to materialize, she realizes these aren’t just dreams but rather premonitions of a terrifying future. They all point to a singular choice, an unknown moment that holds Annabelle’s life in the balance.
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder.
Unnatural Causes
by Dr Richard Shepherd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, the Princess Diana inquiry, and 9/11.
He has faced serial killers, natural disaster, ‘perfect murders’ and freak accidents. His evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.
Yet all this has come at a huge personal cost.
An Undercover Bridesmaid Romance Collection
by Kimberley Montpetit
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chloe Romano has dreamed of becoming an FBI agent her entire life. Nothing—not grueling training, impossible standards, or zero sleep—is going to stop her. Not even the devastatingly handsome stranger she shared one unforgettable night of electric chemistry with… who vanished without a trace. Until Quantico…
The FBI Bride: A forbidden FBI romance, a wedding that never happens, and the tragedy that changes them forever.
The Undercover Bridesmaid: She had three rules: Never date her boss. Never trust the man who broke her heart. And never let Liam Esposito back into her life. Chloe Romano broke them all.
Trouble at the Brownstone
by Robert Goldsborough
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Nero Award–Winning Author
Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero Wolfe’s West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone. But as loyal assistant to the legendary private detective, Archie will put his animosity aside when the surly orchid-keeper stumbles through the front door beaten within an inch of his life.
While the gardener lies in a coma, Nero sends Archie to poke around his apartment near the river. The place is neatly kept, if not quite as elegant as the brownstone, but across the street on Tenth Avenue Archie quickly discovers the longshoremen’s watering hole in whose back room Horstmann has been playing a lot of bridge lately.
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Atlanta magazine, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Village Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, and Anansi Boys fame calls Joe Hill’s story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, “relentless, gripping, powerful.” Open this Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
Total Blackout
by Alexandria Clarke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When the grid dies, the mountains decide who lives.
After the EMP, the mountains belong to the prepared. Georgie reaches her father’s cabin too late. Survivalists are in control. He disappeared. And uncovering what happened may cost her the only shelter left in a dying world.
Bend, Don’t Break
by Matt A. West
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The future of work isn’t waiting for you to catch up.
AI is reshaping jobs. Teams are being reinvented overnight, and entire industries are shifting faster than most of us can catch our breath. The new competitive edge isn’t expertise-it’s adaptability.
But real adaptability isn’t just about staying positive or being flexible. It’s about building a system that helps you evolve without losing what matters most. In Bend, Don’t Break, Matt A. West introduces the Adaptability System-a practical, research-backed framework for navigating change with purpose.
Served Him Right
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A woman’s brunch with friends quickly turns dark in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger
Ana Blacksmith has gathered her closest friends and sister Vera for a brunch to celebrate her recent breakup from her boyfriend Paul. But when shocking news about Paul arrives, all eyes are on Ana, the angry ex with a bad reputation. Suspicions only intensify when Ana’s best friend falls deathly ill after the brunch.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Protector Sweethearts Books 1-3
by Jan Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A thief, a hero, and a spy in one boxed set collection.
Book 1: Once a Thief (Stolen World War II Artifacts): A private investigator looking for her missing mother. A reformed art thief getting a new lease on life. Twelve bejeweled eggs with secrets of their own.
Book 2: Once a Hero (Lost Amber Room): A suspended FBI special agent tracking down a terrorist. A treasure hunter searching for the lost Amber Room. An old enemy harboring family secrets.
Book 3: Once a Spy (Blackbeard’s Lost Treasures: An adventurous billionaire on a mission. A former CIA agent finding her bearings.
Treasures lost to time.
Dangerous Paradise
by K.J. Gillenwater
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A luxury cruise. A remote island. A deadly conspiracy.
Recovering from a devastating climbing accident, Skylar Harris boards a Caribbean cruise hoping for rest—not a fight for her life. But when a violent prison break turns the idyllic stop at Saint Marielle into a war zone, she finds herself stranded with a group of survivors, including Noah Reed, a former tech CEO caught in a nightmare.
While armed fugitives sweep the island, Skylar and Noah must navigate the jungle to stay alive—battling both the brutal terrain and a growing sense that the attack may not be random. As the island descends into chaos, a darker truth emerges: stolen artifacts, buried loyalties, and a betrayal no one saw coming…
Trigger City
by Sean Chercover
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A lonely woman was murdered by her disturbed coworker. The police have investigated. The case is closed. But facts are not truth.
A routine investigation of an open-and-shut case is just what PI Ray Dudgeon needs to recover from the physical and emotional consequences of confronting the Chicago Outfit—until “routine” spirals out of control. The victim was no quiet, unassuming, unlucky single woman; she lived a double life in the shadowy realm of covert intelligence . . . and she died for the truth…
Iwo, 26 Charlie
by P. T. Deutermann
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima was the focus of an epic land and sea battle that produced one of the most iconic images of World War II: US Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, an active volcano where American and Japanese soldiers, desperate to secure the island’s airfields, fought hand to hand and always to the death. In this gripping novel, award-winning author and retired commodore P. T. Deutermann follows a young Navy gunnery officer stationed on the battleship Nevada from the beginning of the battle to its decisive end.
Close Your Eyes
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killers
The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michael’s astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she cares little for investigative work but can’t deny her unique skill, or the results she’s been able to facilitate. Kendra learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her. Like a secret weapon, she is in high demand.
Sullivan’s Woman
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times bestselling “word artist” (Los Angeles Daily News), paints a passionate portrait of how pursuing a single moment of beauty may become a lifetime of love in Sullivan’s Woman.
Despite possessing a look envied and desired by everyone she meets, Cassidy St. John’s modeling career has stalled. So when famous painter Colin Sullivan wants her as the model for what he believes will be his visionary masterpiece, she knows this isn’t just a job but a chance to be immortalized. And as Colin strives to capture Cassidy’s allure, both artist and subject realize their growing attraction for one another cannot be contained on a canvas.
I Know What You Are
by Taylor Edison, Jane Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.
Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of the time.
That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector…
Judge Stone
by James Patterson, Viola Davis
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
All rise… for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It’s there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it’s open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Address
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility – no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else…and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children.
One hundred years later, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities: Fresh out of rehab, the former interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless…
Take Down
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Three targets. Four days. Zero margin for error.
Kansas City. When a kind-hearted mechanic is attacked by mob enforcers, Kyle Payne steps in—inadvertently killing the son-in-law of crime boss Avi Russo.
Captured and fitted with a neural kill-chip that can be activated remotely, Payne is forced to become Russo’s personal assassin. He has four days to eliminate key members of a rival crime organization. If he fails, he dies.
As Payne navigates the lethal underworld of Kansas City, he realizes he’s stumbled into a tangled web of treachery and intrigue. A mysterious bounty hunter is circling. The Russian Bratva smells blood. And Russo’s own daughter is desperate to escape her father’s empire.
The Black Wolf
by Louise Penny
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.
Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind it. A man they called the Black Wolf.
But their relief is short-lived. In a sickening turn of events, Gamache has realized that plot, as horrific as it was, was just the beginning. Perhaps even a deliberate misdirection…
Starve
by AJ Merlin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All it took was one time.
One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.
Something is wrong here.
It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.
He Is Mine
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Three words. One lie. A deadly mistake.
Crystal Tannenbaum moved to LA hoping to become a movie star. And she has finally landed a job in show business—but only as a nanny for film producer Daniel Mosswood and his wife, Rose.
At first Daniel and Rose seem like the perfect couple, but it soon becomes clear they are anything but. Life in their sprawling Hollywood Hills mansion is a powder keg of tension and mistrust.
When Daniel turns his attention to Crystal—the gifts, the promises, the whispered plans for their future together—she lets herself believe she’s finally found a way to have the lifestyle she’s always craved. The house. The money. The children she’s grown to love.
Close My Eyes
by Sophie McKenzie
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Gone Girl meets Before I Go to Sleep” when a grieving mother learns that her daughter may still be alive in this “riveting psychological thriller” (Bookreporter).
When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped . . . and never fully started again. Mothers with strollers still make her flinch; her love of writing has turned into a half-hearted teaching career; and she and her husband, Art, have slipped into the kind of rut that seems inescapable.
But then a stranger shows up on their doorstep, telling Gen the very thing she’s always wanted to hear: that her daughter Beth was not stillborn, but was taken away as a healthy infant and is still out there . . . somewhere.
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her.
But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motives and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
Behind a Locked Door
by Sarah A. Denzil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She opened the wrong door. Now her life will never be the same.
When Lucy Foster visits her old friend, she doesn’t expect to hear a baby crying behind a locked cellar door. But what she finds shatters everything she thought she knew: a terrified teenage girl and a newborn, hidden away like a secret shame.
As Lucy’s quiet life spirals into a media frenzy, and as the town turns against her, one thing becomes clear—someone is watching. And they want Lucy to stop helping the girl in the cellar.
Because the truth is darker than anyone imagines. And unlocking it may cost Lucy everything.
Dragon’s Reckless Journalist
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
He was sworn to protect a secret.
She was never meant to see it.
Ryan Bellamy is a dragon shifter bound by clan law, duty, and an engagement he never wanted. His future is already decided—until a freezing night on a mountain road puts a human woman in his path.
Paula never expected her car to die in the middle of nowhere. She never expected to witness something impossible in the sky. Ryan saves her, warns her to forget what she saw, and sends her away.
But fate isn’t finished…