Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Six Feet Deep Dish
by Mindy Quigley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Delilah O’Leary can’t wait to open her new gourmet deep-dish pizzeria in Geneva Bay, Wisconsin—a charming resort town with a long history as a mobsters’ hideaway, millionaires’ playground, and vacation mecca. Engaged to a hunk with a hefty trust fund, Delilah is poised to begin a life that’s just about as delicious as one of her cheesy creations.
Just before opening night, though, Delilah’s plans for pizza perfection hit the skids when her fiancé dumps her and leaves her with a very large memento from their relationship—Butterball, their spoiled, plus-sized tabby cat.
Ninth Templar: Guardian of the Grail
by Don Holbrook
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For two thousand years, the Vatican has protected a secret powerful enough to shatter Christianity itself.
When an ancient relic protected by the Knights Templar resurfaces, it ignites a global conspiracy that forces a long-buried truth back into the light—one so dangerous the Church was willing to erase bloodlines, suppress history, and kill and eradicate the Templars to protect it. They buried all evidence in their secret archives library.
Hidden within forbidden the Vatican secret archives and deliberately erased medieval records lies evidence of a lost gospel and a lineage deemed too threatening to the Vatican dogma to survive. As historians, scholars, and covert operatives race across sacred ruins, ancient monasteries, and forgotten strongholds, each discovery exposes fragments of a past carefully rewritten to preserve power over faith, belief, and humanity itself
Evil in the Family
by Michael Wood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A FAMILY SLAIN When Detective Inspector Foley is called out to a crime scene, nothing could have prepared him for the level of brutality inflicted on the victims. And with terrifying similarities to another recent murder case, he fears there might be a serial killer running loose in London.
A PATTERN OF MURDER ith no suspects and no DNA at the crime scenes, Foley enlists the help of Forensic Psychologist Dr Olivia Winter to catch the killer before they strike again.
Secrets of the Shield
by Brian Kelsall
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the remote wilderness of the Canadian Shield, eleven-year-old Sam lives a peaceful, quiet life—until Wing arrives.
Sam’s intrigued by the Indigenous girl who has come to stay with his family for the summer. She’s quiet and seemingly good at everything. But after a chilling run-in with a reclusive neighbor, Sam and Wing uncover a shared secret from their past—the truth about the tragedy that took Wing’s parents nine years ago and altered Sam’s life irrevocably—and a danger far greater than either could imagine.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. ifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Boy Swallows Universe
by Trent Dalton
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the man he will be.
Eli Bell’s life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli’s life is Slim—a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes—who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother.
The Nature of the Beast
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny.
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.
But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.
The Rebels
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three royal brothers. One shattered kingdom. And a war fueled by dark magic.
After the murder of King Jethron, the kingdom stands on the brink of civil war. Princes Jekon and Revon fight for the throne—but the true heir may be the one they least expect.
Prince Terven, the king’s third son, lives in exile. Hated by his father and his brothers, he has no army and no allies, apart from a handful of disgraced knights and the nyvan princess, Iiriniss. Bound to Terven by a shared history and driven by vengeance for her murdered parents, Iiriniss seeks justice and to reconquer her own kingdom.
The Skeleton Makes a Friend
by Leigh Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.
Sid reveals that he and Jen are part of a regular online gaming group that formed locally, and one of their members has gone missing. Sid admits that he might have bragged about his investigative prowess, enough so that Jen wants him to find their missing player.
Untaken Three
by C.O. Wyler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
After the Rapture occurs, what happens over the next three months?
Seventeen-year-old Jack Hackett lives on a rural ranch in Idaho, spending every free moment hacking computer programs. When he accesses Numen’s artificial intelligence implant system, he watches their participants deal with the new world of ever-present surveillance. But will he be able to help when enough is enough?
Killing Eve
by Luke Jennings
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Eve and Villanelle plan for a high-stakes showdown in this sophisticated follow-up to the spy thriller that inspired the hit TV series Killing Eve. “If you want us to remain silent — if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation — you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything. . .” We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. But they aren’t finished yet. In this sequel to Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle, former M16 operativeEve reveals a new side to her strengths, while coming ever closer to a confrontation with Villanelle, the evasive and skilled assassin.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Eclairs and Extortion
by C. A. Phipps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marriage, menace… and murder!
The day Maddie Flynn’s mother shows up unannounced in Maple Falls, a body is discovered in the town park. Maddie doesn’t believe in coincidences—and when a mysterious stranger is seen lurking around, her suspicions only deepen.
As if a murder investigation weren’t enough, Gran’s 70th birthday party is fast approaching. Planning a celebration, keeping the peace between three fiery generations of Flynn women, and trying to unmask a killer is more than any baker should have on her plate.
The Collapse Code
by Joey Wells
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels.
With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.
Night and Day
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Full of danger, intrigue and heart, Iris Johansen’s New York Times bestseller, Night and Day, is a breathtaking, high-energy adventure that’s sure to keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands―and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions, Cara is taken, Eve must hunt down the very people who want to kill her in order to save the young girl.
The Damned
by Tarn Richardson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a priest is brutally murdered in the French city of Arras, Poldek Tacit—a brutally efficient Inquisitor—arrives on the scene to investigate the crime. His mission: to protect the Church from those who would seek to destroy it, no matter what the cost. As Tacit strives in vain to investigate the murder, he must also uncover the reason why other Vatican servants seek to undermine him.
Meanwhile, a beautiful and spirited woman, Sandrine Prideux, warns British Lt. Henry Frost of a mutual foe lurking beneath the killing fields—an enemy that wreaks its havoc by the light of the moon.
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
The Wife Swap
by Jack Heath
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some couples would kill for a weekend away…
It was supposed to be a fun trip. Three couples, friends since high school, arrive at a remote mountain retreat ready to unwind and catch up.
When an innocent remark of swapping partners is made, they laugh it off as a joke. But after a few glasses of wine, it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. With the lights off, it’s not really cheating when you don’t know who you’re with, right?
The Ares Decision
by Kyle Mills
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.
Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant.
A Painted House
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers—and two very dangerous men—came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Book Club to Die For
by Dorothy St. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a member of an exclusive book club is checked out, spunky librarian Trudell Becket must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder.
The Cypress Arete Society is one of the town’s oldest and most exclusive clubs. When assistant librarian Trudell Becket is invited to speak to the group about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading public, her friend Flossie invites herself along. Flossie has been on the book club’s waiting list for five years, and she’s determined to find out why she’s never received an invitation to join.
Backfire
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For what you did you deserve this.
The mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him and his partner, Lacey Sherlock, on edge, just as they’re starting an investigation into the shooting of their longtime friend Ramsey Hunt. The San Francisco judge was shot in the back during a high-profile murder trial—and now Sherlock’s and Savich’s search for the truth will take a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming…
Con blood
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In Mountain Springs, Colorado, that makes him a liability.
The gold rush has turned the territory into a playground for con men, and none are more dangerous than Willie McCain – a ‘respected’ businessman who never cheats the same way twice. McCain rigs deals, fixes outcomes, and walks free while honest men lose everything.
When a rigged horse race ends with a shopkeeper dead, Martin Gentry knows it wasn’t an accident.
It was yet another con that went too far.
Hidden
by Vannetta Chapman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s sworn to protect the people of Taos. It’s a job she can’t do alone.
DANA JACOBS is the supervisor in charge of the Department of Homeland Security in Taos. Her team is prepared to handle any threat—biological, chemical, conventional, cyber, even nuclear. BENJAMIN MARSHALL is newly assigned to Dana’s office. Straight from a six year military deployment, he is not what Dana wants or needs. Ben knows God has a reason for putting him in this place at this time—to help Dana.
When a local school is threatened, they open a case which leads them on a chase through the Enchanted Circle and Carson National Forest, pursuing a man filled with a bitterness Dana can understand. She too is running from her past and a night of tragedy and violence that marred her childhood.
Crossed Fire
by Baccellia Kim
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Stephanie Stewart is a typical sixteen-year-old girl—she loves hanging out with her friends, going to concerts, and sipping mocha lattes. Yup. Just your average teenager . . . Except for one difference—she can see and talk to the dead. In fact, Stephanie helps dead girls who who’ve been murdered or killed, cross over. Just as Stephanie is getting used to her unique “gift”, her mom stumbles into some dangerous witchcraft that backfires and triggers similar abilities in Stephanie’s best friend Cura, and nemesis Hillary.
Stephanie already has enough trouble trying to maintain a “normal” life between school and her cute boyfriend Dylan, who happens to have a supernatural talent all his own. But now she has to help her friend Cura and her “frenemy” Hillary cope with their new-found powers as well as cross over two murdered cheerleaders and battle an evil demon who wants to use Stephanie’s supernatural strengths as a free pass to The Other Side…
Perfect Poison
by M. William Phelps
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The true-crime story of a Massachusetts nurse with a dark secret, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Left Behind.
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen’s watch that others jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” No one suspected the horrifying truth: that over the course of six months, Gilbert had caused the deaths of as many as forty patients. With new insight into the sociopathic mindset of nurses who kill, and the latest details on Gilbert’s ongoing prison sentence, M. William Phelps exposes how one person’s good intentions went so chillingly, killingly wrong . . .
Deadlocked
by Charlaine Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.
Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
The Five Guilty
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Benji Hastings came to Cabel Point to disappear. A boatyard job, a quiet room, and a landlady who won’t let him use the front door. It was everything he wanted.
Until Ronin Schell came home. Fifteen years ago, five men robbed the Schell family blind and left them to die. Now their son is back to settle the score.
A list is posted at the harbor office: THE FIVE GUILTY.
The town doesn’t know what it means, until the men start dying. One debtor is found with silver coins in his mouth. Another crushed beneath falling timber. The rest are hiding behind locked doors, but locks won’t keep Schell out.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Very Lively Murder
by Katy Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One murder mystery movie. Three Dahlias. And a whole cast of suspects…
Ex child star Posy Starling is finally filming her dream role – Dahlia Lively in The Lady Detective movie. But things take a nightmare turn when a prop weapon is replaced with the real thing – with almost fatal consequences for her fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King. There’s something very wrong on the set of The Lady Detective – which means it’s time to call in Caro Hooper, so the three Dahlias can investigate.
In between filming scenes, signing autographs for locals, photoshoots on set and jetting off to France for an impromptu party, the three Dahlias do what they do best – surreptitiously sleuth. And very soon the evidence starts to point towards one particular co-star…
Grid Burn Box set
by Carter Woods
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A massive EMP plunges Los Angeles into chaos. Trapped in a penthouse, Cassy must use her military training to protect her sister and survive fires, looters, and a city collapsing into darkness.
“Great books I really enjoyed reading them. I had a hard time putting them down. Can’t wait for more from this author!” by Amazon Customer
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.
In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.
And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.
Kat’s Greek Summe
by Mima Tipper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
For fans of Jenna Evans Welch and Barbara Dee, a timely and uplifting contemporary YA story of a young girl risking all for self-truth, family, and first love over one sun-drenched Greek summer.
Ready—set—look out, world! Kat Baker is about to explode . . . onto the high school scene, that is. All she has to do? Spend July and August training with New Canaan High’s cross-country team, become a running goddess and, come fall, claim her place as the team’s star freshman runner.
When her mom shocks her with the unwelcome news that the family will spend the summer exploring their roots in the rustic Greek village of Paralia, Kat’s sure her high school popularity plan is toast…
Fearful Symmetries
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A World Fantasy Award nominee, “this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today” (BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Michael Marshall Smith, Kaaron Warren, and other masters of all things spooky and suspenseful.
In tales that crisscross the boundaries of fear and imagination—from a haunted courtyard in New Orleans to a remote Arctic research station—swamp monsters, pool-cleaning robots, and cannibalistic spirits wreak chaos and terror across the pages.
Jigsaw
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, the most beloved duo in American crime fiction, return in this electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling “master of suspense” (Los Angeles Times).
This one looked like a slam dunk: a young woman found dead at her kitchen table, DNA on cigarette butts linking quickly to an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record. Or so homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis thought. Then everything changed and a quick close turned into a mind-bending whodunit. That’s when Milo called in psychologist Alex Delaware, his best friend and a long-term consultant on “those cases.” The ones that are different…
Last Hour till Sunrise
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The fight never stopped. All DEA Special Agent Lucia DeSoto has is the job. Until a routine operation goes wrong and she’s captured by the target. The one person who can save her is a man she swore she would never see again.
Andre Martinez is only good at being a soldier. When he hears Lucia was betrayed, and the feds aren’t mounting a rescue, he goes after her personally. But it doesn’t mean they’re getting back together.
When a deadly enemy comes after them, Andre and Lucia must combine forces. The team of Chevalier Protection Services bands together to protect their own, but will it be enough to stop a deadly attack?
Triumph and Tragedy
by John Rhodes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
World War II is now in its sixth agonizing year. In Europe, the Allies are closing in on Hitler’s horrific Third Reich, but victory remains elusive. In the Pacific, US forces are locked in a grinding island-by-island struggle against Imperial Japan.
Summoned from the battlefields of Europe, veteran tactical analyst Eleanor Shaux finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the greatest secret of the war: the Manhattan Project. Agonizing decisions must be made about the dangerous new weapon that could end the war in both theaters in a single stroke. Eleanor—pulled apart by the moral ambiguities and nuances of war, worn down by the stress of living through years of incessant conflict, and shocked by personal disaster—struggles to survive.
The Brothers McKay
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A masterful new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series
When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire’s attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening, McKay’s very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer, a cosmopolitan journalist, a reclusive monk, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps the place running. Each had a motive. Each claims he’s innocent.