Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Oyster Bay Boogaloo
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The tides of January are rising, and on Oyster Island, the spirits always collect their debts
On a stormy Gulf island where rum-driven dreams and ancient magic collide, two hard-drinking former soldiers and a half-drowned oceanographer must choose whether to burn a singing reef that spits out bones and prophecies, or let the Horned Serpent rising beneath it swallow everyone they love before the January tides reach their peak.
Oyster Island, a forgotten speck off the Louisiana coast, has always belonged more to the Gulf than to any map. Alex Pavlovic, a former Russian army officer, is just days away from firing up the resurrected Baptiste distillery when a freak storm washes a woman ashore, along with a warning written in a mirage in the sky: Beware the tides of January that carry both good and evil. You must choose, and the wrong choice leads to a horrible death.
Take it to the Limit
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Nashville P.I.s Ethan and Mickey Jenks discover a body in the abandoned building she’s been lured to, they realize too late it was a trap—with Mickey the intended second victim.
Shaken but relentless, they track down elusive witness Markie Brenner, a frightened woman whose evasive story suggests she knows more than she’s saying. When a microSD arrives—mailed anonymously to Mickey—Markie’s account of the murder unravels.
The MicroSD images change everything.
Silence for the Dead
by Simone St. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow….”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It’s known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to share the same nightmare, one so horrific that they dare not speak of it?
I Can’t Hear You
by Vikki Kestell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
TWO SCENES, TWO WOMEN, two separate deaths, yet neither death suspicious in and of itself. What confounds Detective Richard Hawke and his partner Dov Mayer is the blood left at both scenes . . . blood that does not belong to either of the deceased.
The mystery surrounding the two deaths and the inexplicable “blood ritual” found with both bodies grows when Grace Warner, a local physician and psychiatrist specializing in hearing disorders, receives a scrawled note and brings it to the homicide detectives: I dint meen to skare her.
Was the note written by a juvenile or by an adult with a patchy education?
Old Colony
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Otis Hale signed up for one last job.
He knew the mission was one-way: a colony expedition to a world at the edge of human space, where older settlers would build a foothold the young could one day inherit.
At first, it looks like exactly what they were promised: harsh terrain, failing systems, and too much work for too few hands.
Then the world starts breaking the rules.
The Competition
by Marcia Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide.
In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don’t add up. Could it be that the students suspected of being the shooters are actually victims? And if so, does that mean that the real killers are still on the loose?
The Millionaires
by Brad Meltzer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two brothers who are desperately chasing success get more than they bargained for in this suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller of wealth, crime, and social climbing. Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene and Greene, a private bank so exclusive there’s a $2 million minimum to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented with an offer they can’t refuse: $3 million in an abandoned account that can’t be traced. It’s the perfect victimless crime. Charlie and Oliver opt to take the money, but get much more than they bargained for.
Fallout
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES.
A second chance. Destiny Reed went to Africa hoping to make a difference, but when a dangerous group kidnapped her and another woman, her life took a dark turn. Recovery has her working as the executive assistant at Vanguard under the watchful eye of the team who rescued her. She might be willing to help the company that saved her, but if she lets go, the people she has at arms’ length will discover her dark secret.
A fight for the future. Detective Jasper Hollingsworth compartmentalizes his life out of necessity. After all, his personal life could tear apart the professional world he’s built. He loves his job as a cop, but one wrong move will bring it all crashing down. While the police department hunts a deadly kingpin, Jasper grapples with his own history and his place in a world that bleeds blue.
Tornadoes: Be Informed – Be Safe
by Joe Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Are you prepared for nature’s most unpredictable and destructive storms? Tornadoes: Be Informed, Be Safe is your ultimate guide to understanding and surviving one of the most awe-inspiring forces on Earth.
This comprehensive book breaks down complex meteorological science into easy-to-grasp concepts, empowering readers with the knowledge they need to stay safe during a tornado. Whether you’re a weather enthusiast, a teacher looking for reliable resources, or simply someone wanting to protect your family, this book is packed with insights and practical advice tailored for everyone.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Look Alive Twenty-Five
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
There’s nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that’s been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it’s a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they’d better figure out what’s going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.
The Gutenberg Heist
by K. R. Eckert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Q. A. Caine is a legendary thief. All he wants is the most valuable book in the world.
Clark Ashton is a billionaire and a killer. He has the most valuable book in the world.
When Caine and his gang of pickpockets, getaway drivers, flimflam men, tech experts, and even a fortune teller, travel to Manhattan one dark night, he and Ashton will finally meet face to face. When daylight comes, one of them will have a Gutenberg Bible worth $40 Million. The other may pay for it with his life.
The Finest Edge of Twilight
by R.A. Salvatore
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
My name is not “Drizzt’s daughter.”
Breezy Do’Urden is more than just the heir of legendary heroes. For the past decade, she has dedicated herself to the study of combat, magic, and more recently, to the elusive Way of Shadow, honing her body and mind into a keen and singular weapon. But even after years of effort, her parents, Drizzt and Cattie-brie, struggle to see Breezy as more than just their little girl. Determined to prove them wrong, Breezy takes on the most intense challenge she can: to fight her way to becoming a Master of Dragons at the renowned Monastery of the Yellow Rose.
The First Counsel
by Brad Meltzer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
White House lawyer Michael Garrick has a relatively anonymous position at a very public address. That is, until he starts dating Nora Harston (secret service code name: Shadow), the sexy and dangerously irresistible daughter of the President. But the confident young attorney thinks he can handle the pressure. Until, out on a date, Nora and Michael see something they shouldn’t. To protect her, he admits to something he shouldn’t. And when a body is discovered and Michael is the suspected killer, he finds himself on the run. Now, in a world where power is an aphrodisiac and close friends carry guns and are under strict orders to risk their lives, Michael must find a way to prove his innocence.
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads.
Tough Justice 3: Burned
by Carol Ericson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Taking down the head of the Moretti crime syndicate was Special Agent Lara Grant’s biggest coup, but she paid a heavy price to make the bust. She’ll do anything to keep him—and her secrets—behind bars.
But Lara knows he’s playing the FBI like a maestro even from jail. So when her boss’s daughter is kidnapped, it’s personal… and not just for Lara.
With the team at breaking point, it’s up to Lara to keep everyone focused. Until a chilling photo is delivered to her home address. Moretti knows where she lives. And he knows what she’s hiding…
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan’s prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family’s struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura’s brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
by Michael J. Collins MD
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Michael Collins’ account of his four-year surgical residency at the famed Mayo Clinic traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident navigating chaos and feelings of inadequacy to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year.
With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between people’s perceptions of a doctor’s glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of rundown cars towed to the junk yard, long weekends moonlighting at rural hospitals, a family that grows larger every year, and a laughable income…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Never
by Ken Follett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.
Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.
Vanish
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.
Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
Failing Light Collection
by Carter Woods
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller Boxset
A solar flare wipes out power across the Arctic outpost where Jenna and her team are stationed. Cut off from the world, with the cold closing in and something stalking the perimeter, survival means more than just staying warm. It means facing what’s out there.
Wealthy Men Only
by Stella Sands
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Nanette Johnston’s personal ad made it clear: “I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me.” Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding.
Within months, the gorgeous twenty-eight-year-old moved in with the middle-aged entrepreneur. Three years later, she began seeing another man on the side, a former NFL linebacker who took a job at a nearby nightclub. Three weeks later, MacLaughin would be dead.
Thunders over Idle Land
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Jason Guan, an assistant director dedicated to environmental conservation in pandemic-stricken Hong Kong, is worried about job-related pressures and petty quarrels threatening his marriage to Debra. Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China. While Jason grapples with corruption and lax regulations in wetland preservation, he is thrust into dangerous waters.
In 1834, systemic corruption cripples China and ruins lives. Two weeks before Wang Jun is to marry his beloved fiancée, he is thrown into a maximum-security prison on a remote island without a trial. His only ally? A kung fu master and medical doctor imprisoned because of a riddle linked to the buried treasure of the pirate chief, Cheng Po-Tsai.
Kill Your Darlings
by Peter Swanson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart.
Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well…except that Wendy wants to murder her husband….
One Thorn Left
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thorn Carter was only fifteen when he rode with Rob Sutton’s outlaw gang.
By the time the blood dried, he’d had enough of killing. Now he rides fence lines outside Eden Springs, Wyoming, keeping his head low and his gun quiet.
When Rob returns with the same gang – disguised as Cheyenne warriors – to raid ranches and drive settlers and natives toward open war, Thorn is forced to face the life he thought he’d left behind.
In Eden Springs, half-Cheyenne schoolteacher Ginny Rivers refuses to believe the rumors. Fierce and principled, she protects her students from hatred and fear – even as Thorn hides the truth of his past from her.
Pendergast
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. Chambers grudgingly goes along…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Innocent Wife
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…
Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes.
Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies. Olivia learned long ago that her husband is no saint, but he’s about to discover that neither is she…
The Taker
by Alma Katsu
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price…
Working the midnight shift in a rural Maine hospital, Dr. Luke Findley expects nothing more than frostbite cases and the occasional domestic dispute—until Lanore McIlvrae enters his ER under police escort. Beautiful, enigmatic, and suspected of murder, Lanny captivates Luke instantly. As she begins to tell her story, he is drawn into a confession that stretches back more than two centuries.
Her tale begins in the early 19th century, when St. Andrew, Maine, was still a Puritan settlement.
The Chelsea Girl Murders
by Sparkle Hayter
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Reporter-turned–television executive Robin Hudson is living it up at New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel—until murder gets her down in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter’s dazzling comic mystery
After a neighbor’s electric wall-hanging short-circuits and sets Robin Hudson’s East Village apartment building on fire, the TV newswoman and her cat are forced to temporarily relocate. Their new digs are in the Chelsea Hotel, home to bohemian artists both famous and infamous. But people have a habit of dying on Robin—this time literally.
Who shot controversial bad-boy art dealer Gerald Woznik? His wife tells the world he was a great connoisseur and a real bastard. The heiress he was living with calls him a misunderstood genius…
IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories
by Panayotis Cacoyannis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“a hauntingly beautiful exploration of the human psyche” Kathryn Dare – Manhattan Book Review
Melancholy, bitingly satirical, occasionally tragic and frequently romantic, IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories brings together a kaleidoscope of flawed, searching characters, among them actors, writers, troubled artists, striving to make sense of themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world.
The fifteen stories’ protagonists are confronted with impossible dilemmas, or are forced to ask unanswerable questions: Is love the meaning of life? Is sex the meaning of love? What does it mean to be dead? Is “the truth” more important than happiness? Is there ever a single, “objective” view of reality?
World War II Veteran in the Army of Peace
by Verena Ferrant Harp
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In April 1944 Paul Cornelius Ferrant is clearly visible in the skies of France during WWII.
He mans the guns under clear Plexiglas in the dorsal turret atop an A-20 Havoc.
The airmen on his plane complete fifty-seven combat missions over France and Germany.
Paul survives the missions, but not because Plexiglas protects him. He is protected by Someone who has a plan for him.
Paul gathers lethal war memories and a Good Conduct Medal to bring back to his strawberry farm. His new Commander-in-Chief orders him away from the farm after he joins the Army of Peace…
Revenant Online Boxed Set
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Alex was born to game.
Behind the keyboard, he’s a hero—slaying hordes, conquering quests, living the adventure he can’t find in reality. In the real world? He’s the guy more likely to sport a bruise from Randy’s fist than talk to a girl. Gaming isn’t escape—it’s where he becomes who he’s meant to be.
Then Revenant Online drops.
This isn’t just another game. It’s full submersion. Alex doesn’t control an avatar—he becomes one. Will living as his avatar give Alex the courage to finally be a hero in real life? Or is Revenant Online just a more elaborate place to hide?
A Conspiracy of Faith
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q
Detective Carl Mørck and his colleagues Assad and Rose must use all of their resources to uncover the horrifying truth in this heart-pounding Nordic thriller from the #1 international bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck holds in his hands a bottle that contains old and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren’t they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive?
The Other Side of Midnight
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One of Sidney Sheldon’s most popular and bestselling titles, published in ebook format for a new generation of fans.
A gripping, glamorous novel of scorching sensuality and heart-stopping evil.
A beautiful French actress whose craving for passion and vengeance takes her from the gutters of Paris to the bedroom of a powerful billionaire; a dynamic Greek tycoon who never forgets an insult, never forgives an injury; and a handsome war hero lured from his wife by another woman…
A Day of Judgment
by Charles Todd
Kindle $18.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to England’s windswept coastline to investigate a murder in a place where, several years after the end of WWI, the memory of the war still runs strong . . .
July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave and the coast of Northumberland, just across the border from Scotland, is filled with holiday-makers bird watching and enjoying the beaches. Pilgrims also come to visit the home of Saints Cuthbert and Aiden—the founders of Christianity in England—located on the “Holy Island” of Lindisfarne, accessible by a causeway at low tide. When the murdered body of a local man washes ashore just south of Lindisfarne, the government and the Church of England are concerned about protecting both the reputation of the Church and the sacred sites that are a destination for hundreds of pilgrims at this time of year.