Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Family Style
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pete treats Carlita and her family to a special surprise when he invites them to join him on board The Flying Gunner for the Merry Bay Christmas boat parade. There is dinner and dancing, and even Santa is on hand for the children.
Carlita’s oldest son brings his wife and new baby, along with Brittney’s bodyguards, courtesy of her father, who happens to be a NY mob boss. The festive event takes a sudden turn when someone goes missing. Foul play is suspected with Mercedes and Pirate Pete shooting to the top of a long list of suspects.
The Sixth Day
by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The mystery: shocking.
When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials blame their deaths on natural causes. However, when a small drone is spotted at the scene of the most recent death, it quickly becomes clear to FBI agents Nicholas and Michaela that there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye.
The key: indecipherable.
The Were Witch Complete Series
by Renée Jaggér
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
If Were tradition forced you to marry at twenty-five, would you do it?
Bailey Nordin is feeling the stress of pack obligations arriving too soon in her life. She prefers working on cars to going on a date.
A good fight is just a morning’s workout, and Bailey’s sarcastic wit has killed any chance of a love life. Her future isn’t looking bright. Roland is on the run from three powerful witches who want him for…what he can provide. Trying to hide from the witches, he ends up in the middle of a town so small, it’s hard to find it on a map.
A Gambling Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three.
Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood…
Enraged
by J.A. Konrath
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SOME THINGS SHOULD STAY EXTINCT…
The world is full of predators. Most kill for food. Some kill for sport.
It begins with a gathering of friends celebrating a joyous occasion, the party crashed by an old enemy. It ends in a remote lodge in the Alaskan wilderness, where death lurks everywhere.
Invisible Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood, two elderly women are bludgeoned to death. They are apparent victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have been stolen. But when Lucas Davenport looks deeper, he fears that the victims weren’t so random, and the items stolen were far from invaluable.
As a pattern emerges it leads Lucas to…certainly not where he expected. Which is too bad, because the killers are expecting him. And that’s only the first surprise…
Warm and Dead
by Mike Krentz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He flourishes in the heart of a hectic ER but threatened loss of family becomes his greatest fear. Can an intrepid doctor protect his own from a twisted mind?
Dr. Zack Winston’s self-confidence wobbles on shaky ground. Slated to see his daughters over Christmas for the first time in five years, the skilled emergency physician worries his relationship issues will prevent them from bonding. His determination to focus on his personal life sinks fast when he questions a pediatrician colleague’s alleged suicide attempt by drowning.
Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Kindle $14.99.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there?
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls,
Dashing Through the Snow
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now, in one ebook boxed set, a collection of suspenseful and humorous holiday stories by Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark.
Deck the Halls
The Christmas Thief
Dashing Through the Snow
Snow Globe Secrets
by Laura Thomas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shootings. Snow globes. Secrets. When successful realtor, Alexis James, witnesses a shooting outside the bookstore in her hometown of Hollybrook, she soon realizes the perpetrator has unfinished business, and now she is caught in the crossfire.
Tom Harrington is a British, best-selling author who needs to honor a promise and find some answers in this Canadian winter wonderland—but trouble follows him across the ocean.
As Alexis is swept up in a festive whirlwind of danger and love, Tom attempts to break through her ice queen persona. But when chilling walls close in, they both have to decide: can they share their truth, rekindle their faith, and risk their lives if they have any hope for a Happily Ever After?
Nightmare Country
by Marlys Millhiser
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love
Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well.
Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER… Sally Hepworth’s novel Darling Girls has it all.
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life…
When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk returning to prison. It’s 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do’s and a much longer list of don’ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don’t go to bars, certainly don’t drink alcohol, do get a job — and don’t ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer’s years serving in the war or his time in jail…
Earthly Remains
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner’s endurance will truly be tested.
During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, he accompanies his wife to a villa on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna…
The Passenger in 5B
by Norm Hulcher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A gripping story with a terrific ending … from the author of Visitors to Victorville
Richard once lived for the rush — extortion, racketeering, and drug smuggling – and for the gambling addiction that plunged him into money laundering and a criminal conviction.
Now, after eight years in the darkness, he’s a changed man: a restored Christ follower who, with God’s grace and the compassionate support of fellow believers, has rebuilt his life on repentance and faith.
But just when his restoration and the victory over his demons are seemingly complete, his evil past revisits him, confronting him with hard evidence of his most sinister act of all…
Robert B. Parker’s Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series.
Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest – and loudest — podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vic’s riding high…until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Comedy of Heirs
by Rett MacPherson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Comedy of Heirs is a creative and delightful entry in Rett MacPherson’s popular Torie O’Shea mystery series
Amidst planning for Christmas and the annual family reunion, Torie O’Shea barely has time to indulge in her hobby, genealogical research. But preparing for the reunion–and the influx of relatives–piques her curiosity about her own family tree. When Torie discovers that her own great-grandfather was murdered, and that her great-uncle was the main suspect, she never dreams that the past history she thought was long-buried could resurface in the present in such a deadly way.
Hole in One
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Chief Inspector (D.C.I.) C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he’s endured the pressures of his demanding, unreasonable boss and the company of Constable Crosby, Sloan’s all too constant but not very helpful sidekick. He’s also solved a series of complex murders in Aird’s long-running series long praised for it’s literate wit, style and charm. In her first new novel in almost two years, Hole in One, a death occurs on the links, a death that is nearly impossible and is, quite improbably, is murder. But improbable is a Calleshire specialty and as far as D. C. I. Sloan is concerned, impossible is merely par for the course.
Designated Daughters
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigate they cross paths with an unlikely set of suspects: Rachel’s longtime minister; her neighbor, the respected local doctor; the friendly single father who often sought her advice; and perhaps the most puzzling party of all, the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers that Rachel’s own daughter belongs to.
When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel’s bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn’t passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems like half of Colleton County…
The Medici Return
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series, in which Cotton must solve a five hundred year-old mystery—now in development as a streaming series.
Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ—a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries—now worth in the trillions of dollars. But collecting that debt centers around what happened to the famed Medici of Florence—a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago.
Love and Other Lies
by Ben McPherson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cal and Elsa have the perfect relationship; they’re still deeply in love after fifteen years of marriage, they have three incredible children, and most importantly, they never lie to each other. But when their oldest daughter disappears in a summer camp shooting outside Oslo, Norway, Cal and Elsa’s lives are changed forever.
Cal believes his family is strong enough to weather this blow and hold out hope for Licia’s return, but as they all deal with the tragedy in different ways, doubts begin to creep in…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
by Robert Dugoni
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A master manipulator accused of murder. An attorney sworn to defend her. Keera Duggan returns in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
When Jenna Bernstein, disgraced wunderkind CEO of a controversial biotech company, is accused of murdering her former partner and lover, she turns to Seattle attorney Keera Duggan to defend her. Keera is more than a master chess player who brings her intuitive moves into court—she’s Jenna’s childhood friend. But considering their history, Keera knows that where Jenna goes, trouble follows.
Etsy for Beginners
by Alyssa Garner, Garrett Garner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Profit from your passion, right from the start!
Here’s the scenario that all new shop owners dread: You set up your Etsy shop and then … crickets. No sales, no customers, and no money. Don’t let this happen to you!
With this book, you can open up shop and start earning your first $1,000 within 30 to 60 days, even as a total beginner. You’ll learn our exact step-by-step framework that has helped countless newbies start out strong and go on to run six-figure Etsy empires!
The Haunting of Sorrow’s Leap
by Chris Sorensen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they’re ghosting her…
With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.
Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-death survivor, a paranormal tech bro, and a woman who may or may not be possessed) to investigate the mystery lurking inside his crumbling Hudson Valley estate.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Marked Fur Murder
by Dixie Lyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The victim is the sister of Deirdre’s boyfriend, Ben. The cause of death appears to be a plugged-in hair dryer that fell in the water. Ben, however, insists that a few volts couldn’t have killed Ann. Like him, she’s a descendent of the Cowichan tribe who, according to legend, has a way with lightning. One of the guests must have marked her for murder! But when the suspects include a Russian pet psychic, a schizophrenic writer, and a random rock star, it’s more than puzzling to Whiskey, Tango, and Foxtrot. It’s electrifying…from author Dixie Lyle.
Crossing Day
by William A. Glass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It’s been one hundred and sixty years since the Confederacy won its independence at the Battle of Altamaha Crossing. Slaves of African descent still perform most of the work in the South. This seems normal to Ryan Walters and his friends who attend high school in Huntsville, Alabama. Like teens everywhere, they enjoy sharing videos, playing sports, and hanging out with friends.
Jaybird’s Drive-In is a favorite gathering place for the teenagers. There, they befriend Mish, a slave girl who works as a server. When the drive-in’s owner sells Mish to a dirty old man, Ryan and his friends awaken to the injustice around them. Despite the danger, they decide to help Mish escape. Will they succeed?
Murder Between the Lines
by Radha Vatsal
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Intrepid journalist Kitty Weeks returns in the second book in this acclaimed WW1-era historical mystery series to investigate the death of a boarding school student.
When Kitty’s latest assignment for the New York Sentinel Ladies’ Page takes her to Westfield Hall, she expects to find an orderly establishment teaching French and dancing—but there’s more going on at the school than initially meets the eye.
Tragedy strikes when a student named Elspeth is found frozen to death in Central Park. The doctor’s proclaim that the girl’s sleepwalking was the cause, but Kitty isn’t so sure.
Secrets of the Starlit Sea
by Santa Montefiore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
ONE FATEFUL NIGHT.
ONE FINAL PROMISE…
The moment psychic detective Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York’s Gilded Age, she senses instantly that a dark spirit is wreaking havoc within its elegant walls.
Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the secrets of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she’s shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history.
Dancing in the Dark
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on “girls who cry wolf” for the season premiere of Hourglass, television’s highly rated news magazine. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days had been disbelieved by the authorities. No sooner does Diane finish taping the interview, though, than a second victim disappears. The small community, already in the grip of a record heat wave, is now wracked by fear and terror—no one knows who could be next…
He’s Found Me
by Alesha Dykema
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
My ex-husband has found me. He says if I don’t come back to him he’ll kill everyone I love.
I thought I was safe.
I escaped from him seven years ago. Since then, I’ve built a new life, a new identity — far away from the man who knew me better than anyone. The man I once loved. The man I had to run from.
It starts with a red box on my doorstep. Like the ones he used to give me on my birthday.
He’s found me.
Once Bitten, Twice Dead
by Amanda M. Lee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ten years ago, teenagers Shauna and Eli Eaton disappeared. They were never found. That’s about to change.
On her way home from Hemlock Cove, Stormy Morgan finds two teenagers in the middle of the road. They can’t possibly be the same teenagers, though. Can they? Turns out they are, but they haven’t aged a day.
Nobody understands how the teenagers are back. The teenagers don’t know where they’ve been. To them, no time has passed. The last thing they remember is that they were supposed to have summer visitation with their father. What happened after that, though?
Red Eyes
by Luka T. Jacobs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Some monsters are born in darkness. Others are made by it.
In the forests near Upper Klamath Lake, a young Sasquatch witnesses the violent loss of his family. What follows shapes him into something else, something feared. Over the years, he becomes a legend whispered about by locals, a towering creature with red eyes and a growing obsession with a blonde-haired girl he once saw near the edge of the woods.
That girl was Nicole Beretti.