Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Great Nashville Bake Off Mishap
by Greta Sinclair
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hattie Leiper never imagined her baking could earn a handshake from a famous TV judge—especially one that’s followed by his sudden collapse!
During a tented garden bake off at a Belle Meade estate, Hattie, along with her bestie and detective Bo Becket, must navigate competitive bakers, daily mishaps, and sugary secrets.
Her furbabies are less than thrilled about the whole event, making their objections known at every turn, but Hattie can’t ignore the nagging feeling that something fishy is at play. Was it a careless ingredient mix-up or something more deliberate?
Going Once, Going Twic
by Jan Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An abducted child. A desperate mother. A secretive father.
When her four-year-old son is kidnapped, a stay-at-home mother reactivates her hidden skills to mount a rescue operation. Will the kidnapping drive her to the edge?
Phoebe’s Fears. Office manager Phoebe O’Tierney’s decision to help a single mother earn some childcare income ends up putting her son in grave danger when he is abducted in broad daylight.
The search and rescue would’ve been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the human traffickers don’t realize that Phoebe has a powerful magnet in the form of connections in high places at Mendenhall Retreat where she works.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
Sharp Force
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER. NOT EVEN SCARPETTA…
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again.
The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims’ homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds.
Beyond Paydirt at Destiny’s End
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dive into a thrilling adventure of camping and gold prospecting with retired engineer Richard Hammer and his loyal companion Peggy Jacobs in the rugged Little Thunder Mountains.
What begins as a simple search for gold quickly unfolds into an exhilarating tale of suspense, heart, and the irresistible thrill of the hunt. Richard and Peggy are compelling, relatable characters whose journey from ordinary life into the wild feels both inspiring and unforgettable.
As they trade metal detectors and pans for sluice boxes and high-stakes mining, the danger rises with the stakes: claim jumpers, mountain lions, and every challenge the mountains can throw at them. Vivid detail, strong pacing, and a genuine sense of adventure keep the pages turning.
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her—like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
The Omen of Crows Nest
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
No blood. No body. No murder.
That’s what the police found after Penelope spun her bizarre tale. In a hysterical state, she said her father was butchered and eaten by a mob of birds ~ in her bedroom.
They claim she’s crazy. That she suffers from delusions. Penelope is dead set on proving them wrong.
After being institutionalized for eight months, Penelope is out and more determined than ever to find answers to her so-called hallucinations. With her father’s untimely disappearance, she’s convinced her family is hiding something sinister…
Shadows Reel
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.
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A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose-poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why?
Whistleblower
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Victor Holland came flying out of the night, he ran straight into the path of Catherine Weaver’s car. Having uncovered a terrifying secret that leads all the way to Washington, Victor is running for his life—and from the men who will go to any lengths to silence him.
Though Victor’s story sounds like the ravings of a mad-man, the haunted look in his eyes—and the bullet hole in his shoulder—tell Cathy a different story. As each hour brings pursuers ever closer, she has to wonder, is she giving her trust to a man in danger or trusting her life to a dangerous man?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Taylor Texas Box set (Books 1-3)
by Vikki Walton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Small Town Secrets. Homemade Pies. Unshakeable Faith.
Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and comes home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest and contemplate her future. And finally, she has time to pursue her love of baking pies. What she doesn’t expect is that her nursing skills will be needed when Pop is seriously injured. And her Texas backbone is strong against developers who refuse to stop in their pursuit of acquiring their land. Or that strangers can quickly become family. Set against the warm, wide Texas Hill Country, these cozy mysteries are the kind of stories that remind you: truth always finds its way home, faith is forged in struggle, and love always wins.
BOOK ONE: Death Takes A Break
BOOK TWO: Death Makes A Move
BOOK THREE: Death Stakes A Claim
The Last Flight from Moscow
by Andie Newton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the shadowy underbelly of Cold War Moscow, Mae Pierce, once a formidable OSS agent, has found herself once again thrust into a perilous mission that could spell redemption—or ruin.
Tasked with posing as a model at the American Exhibition, Mae is haunted by the ghosts of her past. Her plan had been simple: lie low, collect her paycheck and get home. Instead, she must navigate the treacherous waters of deceit, betrayal, and the ruthless Russian Mafia.
When her new partner vanishes, Mae soon realizes that the stakes are higher than she ever imagined…
The Chaos Squad Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One catastrophic mistake ended Marc Black’s mercenary career — now he’s getting one last shot to earn it back.
Recruited into the Vanguard Syndicate’s most chaotic squad, Marc finds himself leading a demolitions addict, a razor-tongued infiltrator, a gadget genius with a questionable survival rate, and a Vorath warrior who communicates mostly in controlled violence. Training simulations push them to the edge — but when their final test drops them into a live black-market operation, Marc discovers that redemption doesn’t come from a simulation. It comes from deciding whether his team is worth dying for.
Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall
by Hannah Dennison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All’s fair in love . . . and antiques wars!
Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she’s also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the estate next to Honeychurch Hall.
Unfortunately, Kate has a rival. Impossibly beautiful Cassandra Bowden-Forbes is also in town, conducting valuations at the same fairs as Kat – and she makes no secret of the fact she’s got her eye on Piers . . .
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?
After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.
The 23rd Midnight
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.
Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.
An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own.
Now Lindsay’s tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jeff Samuels never could have predicted the wild ride his life would take.
Saved from death by a mysterious man in an invisible flying car, he soon discovers his own extraordinary abilities and a secret fortune he never knew he had. But as he begins to fall in love, Jeff also finds himself in the midst of a war against supernatural forces bent on his destruction. Welcome to the Niergel Chronicles, where fantasy, science, and faith collide in a thrilling adventure unlike any other.
In this action-packed tale, Jeff Samuels is a brilliant scientist and professor who has always been curious about his unknown ancestry. But when he is awakened in the middle of the night by an unusual visitor, his entire understanding of reality is turned upside down. As he tries to come to terms with his newfound heritage, Jeff encounters a host of mysterious characters and shocking revelations. But his biggest challenge comes when he must protect the ancient Niergel and stop a ruthless Crime Syndicate and powerful evil ancestors from destroying the world.
Thick as Thieves
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it.
Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago—presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice—has never reconciled with her father’s abandonment of her and her sister. After countless personal setbacks she decides to return to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake, and finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Little does she know, two of her father’s co-conspirators—a war hero and a corrupt district attorney—are watching her every move.
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery…that only she can solve.
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangling by a Thread
by Lea Wait
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Mainely Needlepointers are about to learn that no man is an island—especially when greedy developers want his land . . .
Hermit Jesse Lockhart lives alone on King’s Island, three miles east of Haven Harbor, Maine, where he’s created a private sanctuary for the endangered Great Cormorants. But when a wealthy family wants to buy the island and Jesse’s cousin petitions for power of attorney to force him to sell, Jesse is the one who becomes endangered.
Mainely Needlepointer Dave Perry, who befriended Jesse in the VA hospital, rallies the group to his defense.
“D” is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who’d done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he’d stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident—death by drowning. Kinsey wasn’t so sure.
Pulled into the detritus of a dead man’s life, Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies. There’s the daughter who grew up with a cheating drunk for a father, and the wife who’s become a religious nut in response to an intolerable marriage…
Avenue for an Assassin
by Steve Haberman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jonas Shaw, ex New York detective, ex-Winston Churchill spy, gets a call from France at his Cotswold manor near London. An old World War II friend has a brother-in-law who is a cop in a tiny hamlet.
A routine traffic stop on a country road has turned out to be far from routine. Can Jonas fly out to investigate?
The answer will lead to one of the bloodiest events in the history of Paris that will echo for years.
Charade
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than just a new heart. With her second chance at life, Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer.
But her new world turns sinister when fatal “accidents” begin killing other heart transplant recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally—and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Ruling Families that lead them.
The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy dispatches one of its brightest young military officers to root out the unseen assailants. A recruit born of no title, but adopted into the powerful family of the Mitth and given the name Thrawn.
Never Really Left
by Wendy Jordan Saffel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
When Wendy Jordan Saffel lost her twenty-year-old son, Hugh, she discovered that grief is a well without a bottom. But even as she felt herself sinking into despair, she was offered an unexpected lifeline—one that changed her perception of the world forever.
A rational thinker, Wendy focused on the facts—the tangible and the measurable. That is, until she began experiencing profound spiritual connections with her son shortly after his passing. These initial moments of contact propelled her on a yearslong journey to understand what happens when we die, what comprises the afterlife, and how a relationship with our lost loved ones can persist in ways that are real, true, beautiful, and sacred.
The Dark Tower II
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower.
Chasing Castles
by Barbara File Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Author Barbara File Marangon begins her incredible journey of self-discovery in her grandmother’s Bronx kitchen. With a glimpse of her Irish ancestry she makes a heartfelt promise to find her ancestral castle in Ireland someday.
After the poignant finale of a Hollywood show she choreographed, an appreciative cast presents her with a ticket to Italy. She is offered a job teaching ballet in Venice, but after a painful marriage to a Venetian comes to an end, she moves to a small Italian town with a castle. For nineteen years she lives there, and teaches ballet after opening her own school.
Barbara battles loneliness, bigotry, and corruption, even standing up to the Mafia. With courage and determination she prevails and finds love again.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Smokin’ Seventeen
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clearis that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom is encouraging Stephanie to dump them both and choose a former high school football star who’s just returned to town.
Five Hours
by E.K. Mercer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
At 12:42 p.m. on a Tuesday, 9.23% of the human race vanished — and the planet started healing.
Maren Weekes is a data journalist who sees the world in spreadsheets. When the blackout takes her fourteen-year-old son Jonah, all she finds is his backpack and a notebook full of maps to countries that don’t exist — the last line of ink trailing into nothing, mid-stroke. She will burn down every institution on Earth to understand why.
In a church in Bend, Oregon, Pastor Levi Soto wakes on the cold marble floor and discovers his wife Carmen is gone. Her tea is still warm. Her reading glasses sit folded on the desk. When his terrified congregation begs him to explain what happened, he does what any desperate man would do: he lies. He calls it the Sacred Sacrifice. He calls the missing holy. And the lie works so well it terrifies him.
DRAWN APART
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Avalon Martelli and Stephanie Lambert meet at the start of their junior year at Mystekal High, they form an instant connection. Stephanie is from South Jersey and Avalon from North Jersey, and they both feel out of place in the Southern California desert.
Aside from having a home state in common, they each possess a talent for art and the heartbreak of a broken family. Avalon has the gift of sight, where the future is sometimes revealed in her paintings, while Stephanie’s drawings are all about forever love. As Stephanie, a self-described poetry geek and hopeless romantic, talks about past lives and eternal happiness, Avalon denies she’s in love with her best guy friend, River Dalworth, who is attending art school in Los Angeles…
An Audience with the King
by Kat Caldwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She sees what others hide—envy, shame, evil. But even a gift like that couldn’t save her family.
Now, with a heart full of sorrow and a soul clinging to a promise of purpose, Nelia embarks on a final journey to the king’s court.
If he cannot explain why she was given this power, she may surrender to the despair that stalks her like a shadow.
A haunting historical tale about grief, purpose, and a woman’s last chance to believe in something bigger than her pain.
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.
Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family…
The Jaded Warrior
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In a place built on secrets, trust is the deadliest risk of all. She doesn’t do rules. He lives by them.
From the moment sassy Alabama travel writer Nikki Sterling meets retired Navy SEAL Luke Ellis, sparks fly hot and fast. Nikki knew getting involved with a complicated man would come with challenges, but his controlling nature is suffocating.
Luke is disciplined … a man who’s fought his way back from addiction. Control isn’t just who he is—it’s how he keeps going.
Nikki has never stayed around long enough to answer to anyone. After walking away from a prince—and a future that felt more like a gilded cage than a dream—she’s not about to trade her freedom for someone else’s expectations.
Visions of Sugar Plums
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy—and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life.
The question is, what does he want with her? Can he help her find a little old toy maker who has skipped out on his bail right before Christmas? Can he survive the Plum family holiday dinner?
Sting
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something sparks. Shaw is a man who gives off a dangerous vibe that makes other men stand back and women take notice. No one feels this more strongly than Jordie, a woman who doesn’t belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is … and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.
As Shaw takes aim, Jordie is certain her time has come. Instead, Shaw has other plans. He abducts Jordie, hoping to get his hands on the $30 million her brother has stolen…