Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Thief
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, have again joined forces to create a suspenseful and humorous holiday tale.
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan’s kidnapped father. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center’s famous Christmas tree…
IN STILL WATERS
by Natalie Shpet
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Years ago, in a high school in the quiet town of Austin, Minnesota, a tragic incident occurred. A classmate attacked a boy, slashing his face with a sharp object and leaving a deep scar on his cheek. Years later, a series of horrific murders shakes the peaceful community. One by one, seemingly unconnected individuals fall victim to a mysterious killer dressed in black, their face hidden beneath a hood. How does this shadowy figure manage to evade the police, leaving no trace behind? What connection do they have to a gang of arms dealers operating in the shadows? As the investigation unfolds, detectives make a chilling discovery – three of the victims attended the same high school years ago…
Under the Alaskan Ice
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The truth always surfaces.
When a small bush plane smashes through the ice at Falls Lake Lodge, it’s a chilling reminder of everything Megan Metzler has lost. Three years ago, Meg’s pilot husband died in a similar crash, a tragedy Meg and her young son, Chip, have struggled to move on from. Still, Meg does everything she can to assist when Commander Bryce Saylor arrives to investigate, even as working alongside the handsome pilot stirs up painful memories—and an attraction that catches them both off guard.
Nothing to Lose
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person’s case where danger is lurking and family secrets are exposed.
Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont’s partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson’s ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue’s teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont’s plea and Jared’s quick action saved the two boys from their father’s murderous rage.
Rogue Mancer
by 2Taverns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Today he was going to die… finally. But death is just the beginning of his problems.
Dubbed the Unnamed Rogue Mancer, this Level Zero Custodian is about to learn just how sucky NOT dying really is…
Stricken with an incurable disease, his only hope is to join the ever-evolving game of Havenspire as a NPC custodian. Cleaning the endless Spires is better than the endless darkness, right?
But then again, darkness doesn’t punch you in the face.
Long Lost
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger ratchets up the tension as sports agent Myron Bolitar gets mixed up in some international intrigue in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
With an early morning phone call, an old flame wakes Myron Bolitar from sleep. Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help. In her debt, Myron makes the trip, and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once had a daughter who died in a car accident. Now it seems as though that daughter may be alive—and tied to a sinister plot with shocking global implications….
Hot Blooded
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on Lake Ponchartrain, late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. But who would think to link the two?
As more dead bodies turn up, Samantha’s ominous caller persists, along with someone claiming to be a woman from her past—who’s been dead for years. With Detective Rick Bentz convinced that the serial killer prowling the streets is somebody close to Samantha, she doesn’t dare trust anyone.
Keep Me Close
by Clare Franci
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman is viciously attacked by an intruder in this thrilling crime novel from international bestselling author Clare Francis
Catherine Galitza is assaulted in her own home, thrown down the stairwell, and left with serious injuries. As she recovers, she works to solve the mystery of her attacker’s identity, focusing on the barrage of nuisance phone calls she has been receiving for months. Catherine begins to consider the idea of a stalker, a watcher who has become obsessed, playing a silent role in her life. Two men are curiously intent on helping her discover the truth—Simon Jardine, her husband’s business partner; and Terry Devlin, a self-made Irish hotelier whom she has known since youth—but can they be trusted?
Killing the Witches
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches–but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder From Scratch
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A charming seaside town, a murdered chaperone, and a determined young woman with a knack for uncovering secrets.
Dances are supposed to be fun, not deadly.
When a small town dance ends in murder, aspiring baker Annie Bishop discovers there’s more drama in the parking lot than on the dance floor.
The local sheriff is quick to pin the crime on the town’s ‘mean girl’, but Annie isn’t so sure. Armed with sharp wits, her best friend and her golden retriever Muffin, Annie dives into her very first mystery.
Dungeon Core TV Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The aliens didn’t conquer Earth. They negotiated exclusive streaming rights instead.
A whole new job has now captured the imagination of humanity. Dungeon explorers push into these intelligent dungeons and battle the monsters inside. Their brave challenges help generate the mana the aliens promise will advance Earth. All the while, these dungeon diving exploits are streamed and broadcast around the world and even into the galaxy via the
alien-owned Dungeon Core TV.
Join Luther Miller as he begins his dungeon diving adventures with the Dungeon Core TV Complete Series Boxed Set!
Liar’s Point
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two homicide detectives must separate the puzzling truth from a growing web of lies while investigating a murder victim’s friends and lovers in Lost Beach, Texas.
Detective Nicole Lawson is fed up with her job and nonexistent love life. Her first date in months gets cut short by an urgent call from the chief of police. A body has been discovered at Lighthouse Point, and the medical examiner finds an array of strange clues. When the death is ruled a homicide, the news quickly reverberates through Nicole’s beachside hometown…
The Quest
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A sweeping adventure that’s equal parts thriller and love story, Nelson DeMille’s newest novel takes the reader from the war torn jungles of Ethiopia to the magical city of Rome.
While the Ethiopian Civil War rages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to know the true location of Christ’s cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens – a mortar strikes the prison and he is free!
You’ll See
by Suzanne Groves
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
My fifty-six years with my father were characterized by longing. If I could only meet his standards, ephemeral though they were, I would feel I belonged. That I was safe. That I was protected from external threats.
Learning that the threats came from within-that the threats were in the form of his personality disorder and addiction-came long after I had been damaged. Make no mistake-I never lacked for food, clothing, or shelter. We took family vacations. I received a wonderful education. I enjoyed numerous achievements, academically, professionally, and personally…
Keep Me Close
by Clare Francis
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman is viciously attacked by an intruder in this thrilling crime novel from international bestselling author Clare Francis
Catherine Galitza is assaulted in her own home, thrown down the stairwell, and left with serious injuries. As she recovers, she works to solve the mystery of her attacker’s identity, focusing on the barrage of nuisance phone calls she has been receiving for months. Catherine begins to consider the idea of a stalker, a watcher who has become obsessed, playing a silent role in her life. Two men are curiously intent on helping her discover the truth—Simon Jardine, her husband’s business partner; and Terry Devlin, a self-made Irish hotelier whom she has known since youth—but can they be trusted?
Before I Say Goodbye
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home.
As the investigation into the boat’s explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam’s channel.
SQUALOR, NEW MEXICO
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Darla McKendrick is nine when she first hears her mother and her aunt Didi secretly discussing their younger sister, Rebecca, speculating about her life in squalor. From the moment Darla asks to know more about her mysterious aunt, she is offered nothing but half-truths, distortions, and evasions.
As Darla grows into her teen years, her life is oddly yet profoundly affected by this woman she has never known. She can’t help but notice that Rebecca seems to exist only in dark corners of conversations and that no one ever wants to talk about her—with Darla. Neither Darla nor her three cousins have a clue about their aunt, yet their respective parents appear to recoil in fear at the sound of her name.
See How They Hide
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
No matter how far you run, some pasts never let you go…
Two people were murdered – at the exact same time, in the same gruesome manner, bodies covered in the same red poppies…but on opposite sides of the country.
With Detective Kara Quinn investigating in Oregon and Special Agent Matt Costa in Virginia, the Mobile Response Team digs deep to uncover more about each victim. What is the link between the two, and why were they targeted?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Vinland
by Alyssa Maxwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . .
August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the contrast of the Viking warrior–inspired elements in the house and the admirable but admittedly genteel cause of bird protection. Vinland bears the name of the Vikings’ first landfall in North America, but in this room today there is most assuredly no one to fear…
Three Times A Killer
by Gerald Hansen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Three ways to die, one baffling case.
DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D’Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless indigent who spent his days hanging out on the street corner. He rarely asked for handouts but did occasionally burst into song. Nobody would kill him for that, would they?
Criminal (with bonus novella Snatched
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home…
Dirty Job
by Sabrina Hollands
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Reality TV star Jake Stillwater thrives on charm, danger, and his million-dollar smile as the host of the hit show America’s Worst Jobs. But when tough-as-nails camerawoman Tess Hardy joins his crew, she’s not impressed by his celebrity persona. Tess sees the womanizing player beneath the surface—and she’s not afraid to call him out.
Sparks fly both on and off set as Tess shakes up Jake’s all-male production team. What begins as an enemies-to-lovers clash transforms when a dangerous prank unveils the fierce, talented woman behind the lens. Jake is captivated by the fiery chemistry between them, but Tess’s trust isn’t easy to earn.
The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more…
Death of a Gingerbread Man
by Lee Hollis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a killer Christmas in more ways than one in the latest Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails mystery set in Bar Harbor, Maine.
With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails columnist and restauranteur Hayley Powell has lots to check off her last-minute to-do list. Not included is the sudden arrival of her father, who hasn’t been in the picture since she believed in Santa Claus. Dwight Jordan’s presence in Bar Harbor might just be the unwanted gift that keeps on giving—especially after he becomes the top suspect in a case of yuletide murder…
The Hunting Party
by Lucy Foley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone’s invited…everyone’s a suspect…
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands—the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.
The trip begins innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past…
To Die For
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.
Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he’s given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train.
The Moonlighters Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Terri Blackstock’s bestselling Moonlighters trilogy—now available in one volume!
Truth Stained Lies: When truth doesn’t make sense, will lies prevail?
Distortion: A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences.
Twisted Innocence: Holly Cramer’s past choices have finally caught up to her, but she never expected them to endanger her baby.
Holmes Is Missing: Patterson’s Most-Requested Sequel Ever
by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster…
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
U.S. Marshal Hunter Cole is called upon to restore peace and stop a gang from attacking a sacred site of the Apaches.
The small town of Thunder Ridge is built near an ancient Apache ruins, where whispers of hidden treasure stir excitement. A notorious gang led by Lucas Crane rides into town, seeking gold and priceless artifacts rumored to be buried by Apache ancestors.
The town’s peace crumbles when its residents start fearing the outlaws’ greed might provoke a war with the Apache tribe.
Silent Caravan
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Amos Cole has always known hardship, but after his wife’s murder, survival isn’t about himself.
It’s about his six-year-old daughter, Lulu.
Desperate for a fresh start, Amos joins a wagon train heading west, where the promise of a new life is too enticing to dismiss.
What he doesn’t expect to find on the trail is love—or death.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
This Rough Magic
by Mary Stewart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Join the original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart, as she leads you on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence . . .
Lucy Waring, a young, out-of-work actress from London, leaps at the chance to visit her sister for a summer on the island paradise of Corfu, and what’s more, a famous but reclusive actor is staying in a villa nearby.
But Lucy’s hopes for rest and romance are shattered when a body washes up on the beach and she finds herself swept up in a chilling chain of events…
Y is for Yesterday
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace.
Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison…
Stalks
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
WHEN LIZ SAID YES TO JARED, SHE’D NEVER DREAMED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT…
Liz Martel receives a romantic proposal from her affluent boyfriend, Jared Galbraith, during a picnic in rural Maine. However, their idyllic day takes a dark turn, and they find themselves lost in the woods.
Liz and Jared are rescued by two seemingly kind strangers who bring them back to their farmhouse. Unfortunately, these strangers have plans of their own for the newly engaged couple…
The Yellowstone Campaign
by Tim Piper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fall 2024 The BookFest Second Place Award for Young Adult Historical Fiction
For decades, mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River, and Jubilee Walker, to the dismay of his fiancée, Nelly Boswell, can’t resist the opportunity to see it for himself. When Jubil joins an expedition to explore the region, he and his companions brave an unforgiving wilderness to find that the truth is even stranger than the legends.
But a year later, when Jubil returns with a survey crew, he finds ruthless men exploiting the region for profit. Will Jubil’s commitment to preventing the despoilment of Yellowstone’s geographical wonders get him killed?
The Shadow Wars
by Rod Rees
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Rod Rees’s riveting dystopian saga continues with The Shadow Wars, the spellbinding sequel to The Demi-Monde: Winter.
First Daughter Norma Williams finds herself stranded in the sinister cyber-world of the not-so-distant future that’s inhabited by some of history’s most menacing villains. Betrayed by those she thought were friends, she must lead the resistance against a terrifying force if she wants to survive…
The Paradise Trilogy
by Ted Dekker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Showdown
Saint
Sinner
“Great books and at a brilliant price can’t complain loving everything about the package and the arrival time and how the other books all came together..!” by Amazon Customer
Gaman
by Kenichi Yabusaki
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
GOLD award winner 2024 from the Nonfiction Authors Association.
FINALIST, Global Book Awards
The Story of a Japanese American Prisoner in a War That Never Ended
Kenichi K. Yabusaki (Ken) was born a prisoner of war in an American concentration camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent, primarily on the West Coast, were forced into ten main concentration camps across the continental US with no due process.
The demoralizing effects of that horror in American history remained with those who survived, Ken tells how it affected the lives of his grandparents, his parents, his sister, and himself…
Dark Visions
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An electrifying thriller from the international bestselling author of The Reckoning, Cain, and Hunter. “Huggins writes like a man possessed.”—Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author
Joe Mac was a legendary homicide detective until his vision was lost in the line of duty and he was forced into retirement. Now he lives a life of darkness, his only friend being a huge Raven that Joe Mac names “Poe.”
But when Joe Mac’s grandson is murdered by an unknown killer, Joe emerges from his self-imposed solitude to resurrect the skills of the detective he once was. And, although he is blind, Joe Mac begins to hunt down his tiny grandson’s murderer…
The Stolen Queen
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes…