Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Between the Plums
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Together at last! From America’s favorite #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes Between the Plums, a very special edition containing not one, but three Between-the-Numbers books:
Visions of Sugar Plums,
Plum Lovin’
Plum Lucky
Bored to Death in the Baltics
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you’ll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.
From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can’t stumble into or any that Lucy can’t rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you’ll ever read.
When a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny June morning, he is lucky to escape with his life, certainly luckier than the man he is following. But finding himself a few hours later in the bilges of a ship heading for the eastern Baltic is less fortunate as that is not how he’d planned to spend his weekend.
Who is the man assassinated by the bomb?
Depth of Winter
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
Walt journeys into the northern Mexican desert alone to save his daughter Cady, who has been kidnapped by the cartel
Welcome to Walt Longmire’s worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this one is looking to be harsh in a way to which he is wholly unaccustomed. He has found himself in the remotest parts of the northern Mexican desert, a lawless place where no horse or car can travel, where no one speaks his language or trusts an outsider, far from his friends and his home turf back in Wyoming. But desperate times call for desperate measures…
The Match
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A shocking genetic match exposes a family’s darkest secret in this gripping thriller from the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close.
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.
Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.
The Hero Prophecy Complete Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ten years ago an inexplicable energy wave warped Earth forever…
Monsters and bandits infest the Sonoran Desert and challenge Trev Leon at every turn. No one can guarantee his survival but him. Trev can’t even be sure who’s on his side and who wants him dead.
Grab this complete series boxed set and join Trev Leon and his friends as they participate in the prestigious monster-hunting Sonoran Baja Hunter-Tourist Rally and find out who comes out on top!
Court TV Presents
by Harriet Ryan
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A true crime account of the mysterious death of a foreign exchange and the South Korean and U.S investigators attempts to find the murderer.
Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death. Investigators zeroed in on soldiers, turning out barracks and trolling seedy bars for the GIs who partied with Jamie in the hours leading up to her death. But every lead produced only new mysteries. There were unbreakable alibis, a roommate who claimed she had slept through the crime, and lab tests that hinted at a secret lover…
Every Last Fear
by Alex Finlay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears.
After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain—and they won’t tell Matt why.
Made A Monster
by Rob Nelson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Adrian and Kendra are a match made in Hell.
Adrian’s dark past left him with a twisted imagination that takes him deep into the forest where he does unspeakable things.
Kendra is new to town. She has a dark secret of her own and an unhealthy obsession with a boy she hasn’t even met yet.
Until Adrian met Kendra, he had his deviant urges under control. When she comes to him for help, his capacity for violence goes beyond anything either of them could have imagined.
First Degree
by David Rosenfelt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A defense attorney and his beloved Golden Retriever work solve a murder and clear a his girlfriend’s name in this entertaining cozy mystery. No one can separate defense attorney Andy Carpenter from his golden retriever, Tara, who stands loyally beside him through every investigation, no matter how dangerous or puzzling-and he is about to be confronted with one of his most difficult cases yet. When a cop’s body is found burned and decapitated, the last thing Andy expects is for a stranger to waltz into his office and confess to the crime. For the wisecracking millionaire attorney suffering from “lawyer’s block,” the case looks like a no-brainer, that is until the cops pick up another suspect…
Crush and Velocity
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
This thriller duology featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail “sizzles with nonstop action” (Publishers Weekly).
Researched meticulously with over three dozen experts in multiple disciplines and with government access that required clearance from a congressional subcommittee, Crush and Velocity take you behind closed doors into a world most people do not know exists.
Both Crush and Velocity were optioned by Hollywood, and Velocity was named one of the “Top 5 Best Books of the Year” by Library Journal.
Judgment Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly turn to his grieving widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she might do with the money. Margaret, distraught over the death of her family, struggles to move forward, and can’t imagine how or why anyone would target her husband.
Sharp Force
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER
NOT EVEN SCARPETTA…
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
No Parm No Foul
by Linda Reilly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Balsam Dell, Vermont—where the air is crisp, the cheese is melty, and murder is always on the menu.
Carly Hale is finally settling into her cozy new life in Balsam Dell. Her grilled cheese café is the town’s tastiest little secret, and the Halloween food competition has the whole village wrapped in flannel, pumpkins, and just a touch of mischief. But when a culinary rivalry turns fatal, Carly finds herself at the center of a small-town mystery—one with secrets as layered as her signature melts.
The O’Connells Books 1 – 3
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The O’Connells of Livingston, Montana, are not your typical family. Follow them on their journey to the dark and dangerous side of love in a series of romantic thrillers you won’t want to miss. Raised by a single mother after their father’s mysterious disappearance eighteen years ago, the six grown siblings live in a small town with all kinds of hidden secrets, lies, and deception.
The Neighbor
The Third Call
The Secret Husband
The Kind Worth Saving
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy.
One False Move
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s smart, beautiful, and she doesn’t need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life—big time. Now Myron’s next move may be his last. . .
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he’s about to find out if he’s man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.
Twenty years before, Brenda’s mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women’s pro basketball world, her father disappears too.
The Prophecy
by Karen MacLeod-Wilkie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The priest is gone. The prophecy begins.
Every ten years, a priest crosses the portal from the Fairy Realm to Earth. This year, the chosen priest did not return. A debate about an ancient prophecy is reignited; those named within it are sought out. Brigid is a talented healer in the town of Muirstead. At twenty-eight, she is weary of what her life has become. Her best friend, Treena, a member of the Protector’s Force, has also felt a longing for something more. Together with Azran’s priest, Evander, they are drawn into the prophecy and into another world.
FaceOff
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and “a thriller reader’s ultimate fantasy” (Booklist), this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!
In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pair their series characters in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW).
The Hollow Kind
by Andy Davidson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Andy Davidson’s epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil.
When Nellie Gardner learns that she has inherited a turpentine estate from her long-lost grandfather, she throws everything she can think of in her pickup and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.
August Redfern’s “estate” is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie sees it as the perfect refuge—a safe place to hide from her violent husband and the chance for a fresh start…
The Naked Eye
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks he’s dead?
Kendra Michaels was instrumental in bringing serial killer Eric Colby to justice. And yet, despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The problem is that she can’t prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation-developed to an amazing capacity during the twenty years she spent blind and now in constant demand by law enforcement agencies-have gotten her nowhere.
Echoes of Austin
by Garrick Blake
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lawrence Miller hunts ghosts. Not professionally, because the pay is awful. When asked to investigate a famously-haunted hotel room in Austin, Texas, he jumps at the chance. As he explores the history of the hotel, his encounters in the room become increasingly violent. Can he resolve the trauma trapping the ghosts in Room 318 before they kill again?
The Mystery of the Missing Scrapbook
by Leanne Lucas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Addie and Nick are very glad their elderly neighbor, Miss T, has hired Amy Takahashi as her live-in companion. But when they hear a rumor that Amy’s father was a spy in World War II….well, who wouldn’t be curious?
Mysterious paintings and a faded scrapbook motivate Nick, Addie, and their friend Brian to uncover a fifty-year old secret.
But after the scrapbook is stolen, is there any way to solve the mystery? Their quest to find the scrapbook leads them on a heart-stopping chase. Maybe they’re in over their heads this time…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Ramsay and Bracken’s Cozy Mystery Boxed Set
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
His retirement years aren’t so peaceful when he’s constantly crossing paths with culprits, crimes, and killers…
Boxed Set: Over 1,700 pages of dogged investigations, unforgettable humor, and tingling suspense.
England, 1960s. Former Inspector Tom Ramsay doesn’t know how to quit. Agitated after a job injury cost him his career, the reticent middle-aged man begrudgingly turns to exploring the countryside with his new canine companion. But despite his decision to enjoy the quiet life, he cannot resist the urge to help a kidnapped young woman in grave jeopardy.
Continuing to chase slippery wrongdoers and aid desperate victims, Ramsay and his border collie sniff out complications and clues only they can solve. Yet though his decades of experience should put him one step ahead of his enemies, this ex-cop’s love for solving puzzles keeps landing him in deadly danger.
With secrets aplenty, can he nab every scoundrel before they hound him to death?
The Therapy Room
by OMJ Ryan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Shelly shared her secrets with the wrong person.
New mother Shelly should be enjoying the happiest time of her life. She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby boy, Alfie.
But Alfie’s arrival has triggered something deep inside Shelly and now she finds herself at the mercy of crippling OCD and violent intrusive thoughts that terrify her. Desperate for help, she joins a therapy group led by renowned psychologist Dr Andrea Galanis.
It doesn’t work. Instead of helping, somehow therapy seems to be bringing her very worst fears to life.
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murder
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high, lonely place—a corpse with a mouth full of sand—abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer.
Under My Skin
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What if the nightmares are actually memories?
It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan’s Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn’t recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack?
The Chronicle Gate: Ethereal
by N Lang
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A kid discovers adventure and magic on a new planet!
What if you ended up on a planet. . .and had no idea how you got there?
The Elouse are creatures who live on the planet Ethereal. When they find a human child lost and alone, they take him in and care for him. Sinya, the human child, struggles to remember anything about how he got to Ethereal. As Jasper, the Elousen father, searches for answers, Sinya’s new mother Ellen and her daughters Taylinn and Avigale help him adjust to life on their planet.
Taylinn’s dad is going on a secret mission aboard a space ship. Taylinn overhears that the mission is really “to save his family from him?”
First Thrills: Short Stories
by Lee Child, Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.
No matter what type of thriller you read, you’ll find something here that will entertain you . . . and perhaps a new writer you’ll cherish for years to come.
Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The long-anticipated sequel to the beloved and hugely successful novel Wicked.
When a Witch dies – not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess – too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world.
Ten years after the publication of Wicked, bestselling novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch.
The Good Assassin
by Paul Vidich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of The Poet’s Game, a “masterful” (Michael Harvey, New York Times bestselling author) follow-up to An Honorable Man explores foreign powers competing to influence the outcome of the Cuban Revolution.
Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958, during the last months of dictator Fulgencio Batista’s reign, to look into the activities of Toby Graham—an in-country CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebels fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Specifically, Mueller’s old friend Graham may be putting weapons into the hands of Castro’s forces, in bold defiance of the United States arms embargo on the island.
A Matter of Pedigree
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $9.41 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The author of the popular Lucy Stone mysteries returns with this brand-new series about two newly wealthy Rhode Island empty-nesters.
Carole Capobianco has always counted her blessings, but it’s even more fun now that she and her husband Frank are finally making serious money, thanks to Frank’s newly patented Bye-Bye Toilet. With the kids finally on their own, Carole and Frank are empty-nesters, which will give her uninterrupted time to add to her impressive shoe collection—and lavish care on Poopsie, her beloved, very spoiled Brittany spaniel. The cherry on top is a hefty bid on a luxury co-op in a prestige building . . .
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Aunt Eve’s Last Bite
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Arnold Penny gathers his family at The Gran Vista Hotel to inform them of an offer to purchase the popular tourist destination, Granny Belle’s Apple Orchard. He intends to accept the bid and distribute the proceeds among them but chaos ensues. One family member returns after forty years of being presumed dead and doesn’t find a warm welcome home. Another family member dies in a manner reminiscent of an old family curse. Was it a freak accident or was she murdered?
Dead Beat
by Jim Butcher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business and Chicago is his beat, as he tries to bring law and order to a world of wizards and monsters that exists alongside everyday life. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, the Special Investigations Department of the Chicago PD knows better.
Karrin Murphy is the head of S. I. and Harry’s good friend. So when a killer vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry does her bidding, he has no choice…
Guilt
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.
But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation—all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity.
Idaho Fall
by D.J. Maughan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An entrepreneur with a startup valued at one billion falls from a balcony on the eve of the company going public. Was it an accident? Or was she pushed?
Rita Burch is a rising star. The founder of a huge clothing brand, she is on the brink of financial nirvana. Her company is set to go public with an astronomical valuation when her body is found broken and unconscious, a victim of an apparent accident. Comatose, and fighting for her life, determined to wake, she learns she can leave her body…
The Stolen Letter
by Paige Shelton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Delaney Nichols is confident she’s doing what she loves—case in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, she’s eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus and hurries toward the shop she and another woman collide, sending a stack of books the woman is carrying to the ground.
Delaney’s hapless victim’s name is Mary, and the two women can’t help but notice that they bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. According to Mary, they both also look like the long-beheaded Mary Queen of Scots.
Unnatural Death
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a New York Times bestselling author, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the most terrifying murder case she’s ever come across.
In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.
The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year.
Santa’s Holiday Spectacular
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $9.52 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In an adventure-filled holiday treat from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, Frankie, Amy, Rachael and Nina—aka Santa’s Crew—reunite to put a stop to some real-life Grinches, with a little help from their new friends in the Sisterhood . . .
Christmas is so much more than tinsel, lights, and mistletoe. For onetime high school pals Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina, being together for the holidays has become a cherished tradition, whether they’re taking a trip or staying close to home.