Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Big Jack
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s search for a precious fortune leads her into untold danger in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist…someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to traveling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all—and stop the danger and death that has surrounded them for years.
TOO FAR STANDING STILL
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the author of Twice a Broken Breath and What the Years Remember
How far would you go to realize your dreams?
Tilly Henley was raised in a life of privilege. The daughter of prominent, wealthy New Yorkers, she wants for little. In her late twenties, she marries attorney Jim McNaughton, and the two of them happily plan to start a family. But, for the first time in her life, Tilly learns that being born into money doesn’t guarantee you get everything you want. Far from it. Unable to conceive, and now, after years of failed IVF treatments, her dream of motherhood is slipping away—and so is her marriage.
Dark Winter
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When an EMP strike plunges the country into chaos, off-grid homesteader May Bloom must survive a collapsing world and find her missing sister before it’s too late.
As panic spreads and systems fail, May’s quiet town becomes ground zero for a disaster no one saw coming.
The Third Gate
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Deep in a nearly impassable swamp south of the Egyptian border, an archaeological team is searching for the burial chamber of King Narmer, the fabled pharaoh. Narmer’s crown might be buried with him: the elusive “double” crown of the two Egypts. Amid the nightmarish, disorienting tangle of mud and dead vegetation, strange things begin to happen. Could an ancient curse be responsible? Jeremy Logan, history professor and master interpreter of bizarre and inexplicable enigmas, is brought onto the project to investigate. What he finds raises fresh questions … and immediate alarm.
The Chill
by Scott Carson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A supernatural force—set in motion a century ago—threatens to devastate New York City in this “terrific horror/suspense/disaster novel” that “grips from the first page” (Stephen King).
Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America’s founding, were forced from their land, but some didn’t leave…
The Chestnut Man
by Soren Sveistrup
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From Søren Sveistrup, creator of the hit television show, The Killing—a stylish and atmospheric thriller that follows the race to find a serial killer terrorizing Copenhagen.
A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.
His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene…
The Invisible Woman
by James Patterson, Susan DiLallo
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI.
Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable.
Which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower—anonymity—morphs into a fatal flaw.
Izzie Berens Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real. So are monsters. And Izzie Berens is the one who hunts them down.
Paranormal Defense Agent Izzie Berens and her partner, Rafe, are called in to investigate a series of violent attacks in Austin. Izzie soon realizes she’s no longer just tracking a rogue magical but something far worse.
Grab this complete series boxed set today and dive into a world where magic is deadly, secrets are dangerous, and Izzie Berens doesn’t back down from a fight.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Catered Cat Wedding
by Isis Crawford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Susie Katz is known as the crazy cat lady of Longely, New York, and goes out of her way to earn the title, right down to her cat T-shirts and porcelain Hello Kitties. She’s a fanatic for anything feline. Humans, not so much.
So when she decides to put up a tent on her property and hold an extravagant wedding ceremony for her two Russian blues, she makes sure to include a few two-legged guests—primarily to raise some hackles. All her favorite enemies will be there: her bird-loving neighbor, a rival cat breeder, a local animal rights activist, and the niece and nephew who stand to inherit her considerable fortune…if she doesn’t spend it all on cat tchotchkes first.
The Final Detail
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron is determined to prove Esperanza’s innocence—even if she won’t speak to him on the advice of her lawyer, who warns Myron to keep away from both the case and his client. But Myron is already too close, too involved, and has too much at stake. And the closer Myron gets to the truth, the more the evidence points to the only viable suspect besides Esperanza: Myron himself.
To Catch a Spy
by Mark ONeill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Estate approved sequel to the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge and 1955 Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock
It’s been a year since John Robie, notorious Riviera jewel thief, proved his innocence by catching a copycat burglar. And it’s been a year since John has seen Francie Stevens, the adventurous socialite who not only saw through his disguise, but helped him catch the copycat. Now Francie is returning to the Riviera for its first-ever Fashion Week as a model for a top French designer, and John plans on rekindling their romance. But there’s a problem. While helping a friend, John chases down a mysterious courier, whose ruthless associates now want John dead. To make matters worse, when Francie arrives, she has a boyfriend in tow, and tells John that she wants nothing to do with him.
No One Saw Her Go
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A summer camp in rural Pennsylvania harbors decades of deadly secrets…
When criminology student Zoey Montgomery takes a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Medley, she has one goal: to discover what happened to her aunt Heather, who vanished from the camp over thirty years earlier. But what begins as a quest for closure quickly spirals into something far more sinister…
It’s not long until Zoey notices disturbing patterns in the camp’s history. She hears rumors of more missing girls, and strange accidents occur that leave her shaken and afraid. Is she imagining the sinister whispers from the woods, or has she made a deadly mistake? What happened to Heather, and is Zoey next?
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
Danger around every corner.
The Fox
by Frederick Forsyth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The #1 New York Times-bestselling master of international intrigue takes readers into the bleeding-edge world of technological espionage in a propulsive thriller that feels chillingly real.
Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from the Prime Minister. Her news is shocking: the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked simultaneously, their seemingly impenetrable firewalls breached by an unknown enemy known only as “The Fox.” Even more surprisingly, the culprit is revealed to be a young British teenager, Luke Jennings. He has no agenda, no secrets, just a blisteringly brilliant mind. Extradition to the U.S. seems likely–until Weston has another idea: If Luke can do this to us, what can he do to our enemies?
Hang on St. Christopher
by Adrian McKinty
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to “Shortbread Land.” Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It’s an easy gig, if he can keep his head down.
But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protégé is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something’s not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why?
Far Away Home
by Susan Denning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn.
No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Catered St. Patrick’s Day
by Isis Crawford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
To most of the people of Longely, New York, St. Paddy’s Day means good food, great music, and plenty of Guinness. But when the lifeless body of Mike Sweeney floats to the top of a vat of green beer, it looks like the luck o’ the Irish has just run out. Unfortunately for the Simmons sisters, Bernie and Libby, the number one suspect is related to one of their very best catering customers, the pampered and powerful Bree Nottingham. When Bree visits A Little Taste of Heaven to beseech them to clear her nephew’s name, they just can’t say no.
Wraithbound
by HL Hopkins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A bad day shouldn’t send you crashing through dimensions into an abandoned warehouse filled with energy demons, should it?
Unless you’re the chaotic force that is Daisy Hartridge – in which case, you also pull your mum along for the ride.
In a deserted city of shifting buildings, with a team of wraith-riding rescuers who may not be all they seem. If a wraith is just a mount, why do they change colour when their rider’s emotions change? And what on Artonia is a wraithstone?
Exposed
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this New York Times bestselling novel, a battle for justice pits partner against partner…
Mary DiNunzio wants to represent her old friend Simon Pensiera, a sales rep who was wrongly fired by his company, but her partner Bennie Rosato represents the parent company. When she confronts Mary, explaining this is a conflict of interest, an epic battle of wills and legal strategy between the two ensues—ripping the law firm apart, forcing everyone to take sides and turning friend against friend.
Holy Fools
by Joanne Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet — an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sensuality.
Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is forced to seek refuge among the sisters of the abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. Reinventing herself as Soeur Auguste, Juliette makes a new life for herself and her young daughter, Fleur.
But when the kindly abbess dies, Juliette’s comfortable existence begins to unravel…
Dragon Secrets of Parkhill College Series Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
At Parkhurst College, dragons don’t follow the rules—and neither does desire.
A forbidden boss who can’t resist his employee. A spy sent to betray the man she’s falling for. A woman fighting a bond she never wanted. A cop determined to uncover the truth. When powerful dragon shifters are pushed too far, secrets ignite and enemies close in fast.
Fated mates collide with betrayal, danger, and irresistible alpha dragons who will claim what’s theirs—no matter the cost. Love isn’t safe here… and neither are their secrets.
Give Me Tomorrow
by Patrick K. O’Donnell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“What would you want if you could have any wish?” asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his interviewer. The photographer snapped his picture, which became the iconic Korean War image featured on this book’s jacket. “Give me tomorrow,” he said at last.
After nearly four months of continuous and agonizing combat on the battlefields of Korea, such a simple request seemed impossible. For many men of George Company, or “Bloody George” as they were known-one of the Forgotten War’s most decorated yet unrecognized companies-it was a wish that would not come true.
The Destiny Designer
by Lauren Perotti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Are You Ready to Be More Energized, Empowered, and Enlightened!?
Have you achieved outer success yet deeply yearn for more meaning, excitement, and full expression of all your gifts? Do you ever feel disillusioned and depleted despite your many accomplishments? Are you ready to have more success and prosperity without sacrificing your soul . . . answering the call of your spirit to live your destiny?
Author Lauren Perotti knows how to make your life a masterpiece! In this transformational book, she gives you tools to not only tap infinite sources of energy and creativity, but also design, manifest, and live a life you LOVE in alignment with your highest vision and values.
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.