Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Allure of Elegance
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Luxury, lies, and danger in the unexpected places…
In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern mystery series weaves together atypical tales set in the idyllic Amish country of Paradise, PA.
Two years ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise. Now, she works as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster and is pulled into a web of lies and luxury when a bold theft targets expensive designer items. Despite her training, she struggles with self-doubt and is swayed by the allure of the opulent world.
The Witching Hours
by Heather Graham
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A haunting murder and kidnapping on the outskirts of Salem, Massachusetts, sends two people with unique talents hunting for answers from both the past and present in internationally bestselling author Heather Graham’s electrifying new Krewe of Hunters spin off for fans of Stephen King, Jayne Ann Krentz, Riley Sager, and Simone St. James.
Skye McMahon sees things. Good and bad, the past unreels in her mind’s eye like a movie. Such is Skye’s uncanny life. That’s why she’s been summoned by Special Supervisory paranormal investigators Jackson and Angela Crowe, to help solve a mystifying murder and kidnapping on the outskirts of historic Salem.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
Think The Sopranos meet the Coen Brothers. Fargo with Godfather-style mob-speak. A dark, character-driven dramedy where loyalty is deadly, family is everything, and sometimes the only way out is through a hive of angry bees.
All the Dangerous Things
by Stacy Willingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things.
One year ago, Isabelle Drake’s life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her—literally.
Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn’t slept in a year.
The Last Survivors
by Robert J Walker
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The locks just failed. Every cell. Every gate. Every door between civilization and 2,000 of the most violent criminals in the country. George Cannon, former Marine and correctional officer, knows exactly what happens next.
He’s got minutes to get out and a mountain homestead waiting if he can make it.
But first, he has to survive the prison.
An Act of Kindness
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London’s East End. But their latest case could have devastating consequences.
A new client, Nasreen, has sought Hakim’s help. Recently moved to a new house, and with a baby on the way, this should be an exciting time- but Nasreen has made friends in the community that she cannot tell her husband, Abdullah, about. And when a murder takes place close to their home, Nasreen suspects that Abdullah also has something to hide.
City of Death
by Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS – the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII.
After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to volunteer as a humanitarian on the front lines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Iraqi Army and his fellow volunteers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets – all to retrieve wounded civilians.
The Season of the Hyaena
by Paul Doherty
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mysterious stranger appears in the Nile Delta – has the Emperor Akhaten returned to Egypt?
Capturing Ancient Egypt in all its beauty and brutality, Paul Doherty’s powerful novel, The Season of the Hyaena, brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the hyaena world, in which the ally standing beside you at one moment may turn the next. Perfect for fans of Christian Jacqs and Wilbur Smith.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Retirement Plan
by Sue Hincenbergs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
THEY’D KILL TO BE WIDOWS.
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut suspense novel that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
After thirty years of friendship, Pam dreams of her perfect retirement with Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene, and their husbands—until their husbands pool their funds for an investment that goes terribly wrong. Suddenly, in this witty domestic thriller, their golden years are looking as dreary as their marriages.
Every Spy a Traitor
by Alex Gerlis
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Trust no one. Suspect everyone.
It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.
As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie’, and there’s a frantic search to find them. What they don’t know is that he is not the only traitor.
The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever…
Mysteries of Dragon’s Island
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A hidden island. A powerful magic. Eight fated loves that can’t be denied.
On Heart of the Ocean, destiny doesn’t wait. Dragon shifters are drawn to the one woman meant for them—whether they’re ready or not. From second chances and secret children to dangerous missions and forbidden attraction, each story is a battle between control and the pull of a bond that won’t be ignored.
Fate doesn’t ask permission.
And on this island, love isn’t a choice — it’s inevitable.
A Deadly Shade of Gold
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes McGee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive.
Deception. Betrayal. Heartbreak. When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised. But when he shows up three years later lying in a pool of his own blood, people start to ask questions. And his old friend Travis McGee is left to find answers.
Broken
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death…
The Hanging Girl
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose.
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later, he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant Rose more furious than usual….
W. E. B. Griffin Direct Action
by Jack Stewart
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charley Castillo, the original Presidential Agent is in Virginia Beach to visit his son when two gunmen appear. Charley is able to thwart a deadly mass shooting, but he is hit and badly injured.
Meanwhile Pick McCoy is at the Naval Academy catching up with some old friends. When the news of the attack reaches him, he senses that this is no random event. While Charley clings to life, Pick searches for the men responsible and in the process uncovers a deadly plot that threatens to strike deep at the heart of American democracy.
Girls in the City – Samantha
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An OB resident who’s afraid to love, and a Detroit cop with nothing on his mind but loving her; what will it take to bring them together?
After graduating from medical school, single parent Samantha Karas and her daughter, Adelaide leave Chicago for a longed-for residency in Detroit where she’ll be close to her family again. With one goal in mind aside from her daughter, her focus is to finish the rigorous obstetrics residency, with no notions of ever getting involved again.
But then she meets Detroit cop Mike Khan, and after one glorious night, realizes her heart has room for love.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
2 Bodies for the Price of 1
by Stephanie Bond
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who’s made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex-fiancé back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn’t get any more complicated. And then…
Her best friend jumps on the body-moving bandwagon. Her fugitive parents phone home. Her identity is stolen by a look-alike. Her look-alike is found, well…dead.
A Quiet Little Town
by Dorothy Love
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A beloved sheriff. A determined newspaperwoman. A crime that frays the fabric of their quiet little town.
A survivor of a brutal WW2 POW camp, and a widower still grieving his loss, Sheriff Hutch Joyner returned from the war with a Purple Heart, a promise to keep, and a bone-deep commitment to the pursuit of justice.
When the body of wealthy businessman Sonny Guthrie is found in an abandoned quarry, Hutch, with his faithful golden retriever Friday by his side, opens an investigation that soon is complicated by the murder of the man many in town considered the chief suspect.
Harvest
by Tess Gerritsen
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For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit.
But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match.
Ghost of a Chance
by Eric Wilder
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When private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake?
Book ‘Em, Eddie
by Laurie Cass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When cat-astrophe strikes, Minnie and her trusty rescue cat, Eddie, will have to read between the lines to solve a murder in the newest Bookmobile Cat Mysteries.
The Chilson library bookmobile has a new stop on its route: Honey Hollow Adult Foster Care. When Minnie learns that Honey Hollow is just down the road from an enclave of gorgeous Victorian homes, she decides she has to take a look, especially after she learns about identical houses that stood side by side, and were owned by twin siblings. But when Minnie and Eddie and the bookmobile take their scenic detour, Eddie uncharacteristically escapes from the bookmobile – and finds a woman in the woods, horribly wounded with an arrow.
Benson First Responders Series: Books 1-3
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Allegiance – Book 1: EMT Freya Olson, targeted by her family’s past, loses her faith but keeps on saving lives despite the rising danger…
Blackout – Book 2: After an injury forces her to leave the CIA, Ember Hendryx hunts for her missing sister with the help of Vanguard. EMT Trey Banning wants back on the ambulance…
Collateral – Book 3: CEO Clare Juarez tackles armed robberies and a hostage crisis as the boss of Vanguard, and refuses to quit on a promise to protect a fallen friend’s daughter…
Marble Hall Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery, a clever whodunnit from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland, stars of the New York Times bestsellers Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.
Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England.
Crime Scene
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Natural causes or foul play? That’s the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren’t part of his beat—not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye.
Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze and a bad heart. But his daughter Tatiana insists that her father has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert’s life.
Curtain Call for the Billionaire
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Contemporary Theatre Story that is a quietly powerful romance about trust, restraint, and choosing love without losing yourself.
Maeve has built her career on discipline, restraint, and absolute control. In the theatre world, she’s learned that silence can be safer than explanation—and precision matters more than applause.
Rowan is no stranger to power or pressure. As a billionaire with deep ties to the arts, he understands influence—and the damage it can do when misused…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Bullet That Missed
by Richard Osman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“The quartet of aging amateur sleuths…remain wonderful company.” – The New York Times Book Review
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case – their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
Of Fate & Ruin
by Rowan Tixie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The storm isn’t coming. She is.
She was born with wings, but no magic. Emerald is the princess of a powerful kingdom who has spent her entire life caged within castle walls. Always hidden. Always watched. Always silenced. Feeling a mysterious pull to the outside world, one day she leaves. That single act of defiance awakens something ancient inside her.
He is a creature carved from war and ruin. Kyros is an exile marked by violence, haunted by blood and betrayal he cannot outrun—until her voice cuts through the dark. The world sees a powerless princess. He hears something else. Familiar. Impossible. And unmistakably his.
The Texas Murders
by James Patterson, Andrew Bourelle
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer.
When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case.
Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police.
The investigation leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take deadly aim with every shot in their arsenals.
Nothing Ever Happens Here
by Seraphina Nova Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Nothing ever happens in small towns…
When Shelby Dawson survives a harrowing attack that should have left her dead, she tries to move past it—for herself, and for her family. Fifteen months later, with the help of her best friend, Mackenzie, she finally feels safe again in the snowy Minnesota town she calls home. But when an anonymous note appears on her windshield bearing the same threats her attacker made, Shelby realizes that her nightmare has only just begun.
A Promise to Protect
by Suzanne Brockmann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Taylor’s Temptation by New York Times–bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann: When it came to protecting the innocent, Navy SEAL Bobby Taylor was your man. But when his best friend asked him to keep an eye on his little sister, Bobby wanted to take a pass…
Gut Instinct by USA Today–bestselling author Barb Han: FBI agent Luke Campbell has never been more determined to catch the serial killer who’s eluded him for two years. Because this time the monster is after Julie, the ex he walked out on when he returned from Iraq…
The Prometheus Deception
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An ex-master spy turned professor must take down the shadowy group who made him in this espionage thriller by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Nicholas Bryson spent years as a deep cover operative for the American secret intelligence group, the Directorate. After a critical undercover mission went horribly wrong, Bryson was retired to a new identity. Years later, his closely held cover is cracked, and Bryson learns that the Directorate was not what it claimed—that he was a pawn in a complex scheme against his own country’s interests.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
by Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa
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When Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father at the age of thirty-nine, he never imagined his quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself.
Written with award–winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identifies his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history.
Tell Me: The Prelude
by Tina Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
You know the type of man who’s filthy rich, and has everything he desires?
That’s me, billionaire hedge fund manager, Khenji Halifax. On the outside, I’m the picture of success. Internally, I’m numb – a forty-year old virgin with a dark past that haunts me daily. I’ve punished myself to a life of loneliness because there’s no way a woman can or should handle what I have to offer.
So, I ignore all them. All of them. Until her… I first saw her at a business function–a beautiful younger woman in a striking red dress. From the moment our paths crossed, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.