Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

From “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?

“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered.

Unnatural History
Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now! The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying novel of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong.

The Dark Remains
William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

In this prequel to the hit series, Glasgow’s gritty detective probes the murder of a gangland lawyer as tensions rise in the city’s underworld. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong kind of people.

When his body is found in an alley behind a pub that is known to be under the protective wing of a local crime boss, the fragile equilibrium that has been keeping Glasgow relatively safe for months is shattered. Besides a distraught family and any number of powerful friends, Carter has left behind his fair share of enemies.

Slow Dawn
Ralph Hecht
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad

A coastal gothic nightmare for fans of dangerous magic, seductive monsters, cursed bloodlines, haunted libraries, secret societies, threshold law, supernatural justice, dark desire, witchy atmosphere, and beautiful terror.

Maria Hellstrom does not become safe when she awakens, she becomes seen, wanted, hunted, tested, and crowned by a house that remembers every sin. Read it for the fog. Stay for the hunger. Fear the door that opens back. Maria Hellstrom thought silence was the thing she feared most.

Tonight and Always
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

A story of misplaced expectations and unexpected passion from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians.

Upon arriving at Jordan’s impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan’s forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan’s shy and serious orphaned niece represses her curiosity. Jordan himself is an expert at hiding his emotions behind an aristocratic facade.

A Season of Secrets
Fern Michaels
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In search of long-lost family and a little holiday magic, a young woman and her adopted mother go on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London for Christmas in this humorous, heartwarming standalone novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.

Signing up for an ancestry report starts as a fun diversion for Ashley Chandler, but the results throw her life into upheaval. Ashley is not biologically related to the people she’s always assumed were her parents. Finally, the truth emerges—Ashley was adopted, and her real birth family is in England.

Depths of Deception
Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother. Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.

Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.

Children of Demise
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad

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The West Valley neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, has descended into chaos due to a gang called the Children of Demise (COD) led by Typhon, a brilliant but dangerous leader rumored to be the frontman for The Victor, a mythical figure who controls all crime in the city.

Pastor Don Whitaker leads Lincoln Street Baptist Church, located in the center of this urban war zone. With his congregation leaving in droves, Don and the church board find their hold on the church property and their community deteriorating. When Reginald Hall, a criminal defense lawyer, city councilman, and mayoral-hopeful, fails in his attempts to buy the church grounds through his real estate group, he makes clear he will stop at nothing to achieve his ambition.

Mistake in Time
by Anna Faversham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

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For 21st century career girl Liberty Taffet, the idea of making a catastrophic mistake is unthinkable. To get away from two-timing heartbreaker Dr Nicolo Nylander, she sets off to visit Regency England. She knows the secret, she’s done her research – what could possibly go wrong?

Landing in London’s Swinging Sixties pursued by two unknown men and unable to remember who she is wasn’t in the plan. Yet what fun to see madcap fashions and even a piano being played in the middle of Carnaby Street. Then more problems arise and staying in this wonderful life of fun and colour becomes increasingly impossible.

A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.

Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients.

Judgment in Death (In Death, Book 11)
J. D. Robb
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory, New York Detective Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminal hell in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. In an uptown strip joint, a cop is found bludgeoned to death.

The weapon’s a baseball bat. The motive’s a mystery. It’s a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private club that’s more than a hot spot. Purgatory’s a last chance for atonement where everyone is judged.

The Puppet Show
M. W. Craven
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District’s prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of.

Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant, but socially awkward, civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw, the mismatched pair uncover a trail that only he is meant to see. The elusive killer has a plan and for some reason Poe is part of it.

The Spirit of a Rising Sun (The Last Chain Book 1)
K. R. Galindez
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad

Rebellion is always right. Oyza was raised to obey. Now she yearns to revolt. Condemned to a lifetime in the damp dungeons beneath the castle, she survives on smuggled texts from the Ungoverned, rebels whispered to live without kings. Then Yars arrives.

A charming but reckless thief, Yars wants little to do with Oyza’s dreams of revolution. But when a sudden attack throws the castle into chaos, they escape together. Now free, Oyza is determined to find the rebellion hidden deep in the untamed swamps of her ruined homeland.

Eleventh Hour (An FBI Thriller Book 7)
Catherine Coulter
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

When FBI agent Dane Carver’s twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation.

Then Nicola “Nick” Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she’s trying to hide from her own monsters – who are drawing closer and closer. The chase goes from San Francisco to the Premiere Studios in Los Angeles and its new television hit, a show all about murder.

Keep on Asking
Jeffrey McClain Jones
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

His brother’s tragic accident drives him to his knees. As he begs for restoration, he is lifted beyond hope and imagination to where miracles are real. His brother in a coma, ten-year-old Josiah Winslow faces the hardest weeks of his life. Little Matty may not survive.

If he does survive, he may have serious brain damage. Praying. That’s what his family is doing, what their church is doing. As Josiah struggles to imagine the power of those prayers, a celestial visitor takes him on a miraculous ride into the realm where petitions rise toward heaven and enemies fight to oppose them.

Hoping on Change
Danae Little
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

She came to Hope Lake for a fresh start. He fell for her. Now he’ll have to protect her from a man who wants her for himself. Megan Murray moves to Hope Lake to be near her best friend, but unsettling letters follow her into the new life she’s trying to build.

Then a broken-down car leaves her stranded on a dark mountain road, and the injured cowboy who comes to her rescue is the last man she expects to want.