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 Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China.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.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Adventure Nobody Wanted
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An unexpected vacation, a gripping road trip, and the discovery of friends like no others.
They came from all over the country to the one place each believed offered more than where they came from. For some the trip was short and quick…but for others, it was thousands of miles that had to be traveled through mostly treacherous conditions.
Their reasons were different but their destination was the same. They were all equally determined to get there safely.
Taken But Not Forsaken Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Seven Full-Length Romantic Suspense Novels…
Powerful stories centered on kidnapping, high-stakes danger, and courageous sacrifice. Hidden identities, buried secrets, relentless enemies, and impossible choices drive heroes and heroines into life-or-death battles where every decision could mean the difference between rescue and heartbreak.
The Future
by Naomi Alderman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
Martha Einkorn never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry while spouting technological prophecy. Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What do they know about the future that Zhen doesn’t?
The Long Farewell
by Michael Innes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in his library. It was rumored Packford recently acquired a book annotated by the Bard, but the book is nowhere to be seen. What is beside him, however, is a note that—as Packford was wont to do—quotes William Shakespeare: “Farewell, a long farewell.”
Police believe Packford died from suicide, but Sir John Appleby, head of Scotland Yard and Packford’s friend, disagrees. When Appleby arrives at the scholar’s country house in Dorset, he meets an array of academics and bibliophiles who were all present the night of the murder…
Deadly Mountain Trap
by Sharon Dunn, Sarah Varland
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
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Mountain Captive by Sharon Dunn: Private investigator Jude Trainor won’t give up on finding a kidnapped little girl—even after the suspect runs him off a mountain road and sends bullets his way. But when Lacey Conrad steps in to help Jude, the criminal sets his sights on her…
Alaskan Mountain Murderby Sarah Varland: Searching for her missing aunt in remote Alaska, Cassie Hawkins and her little boy are thrust into a killer’s sights. Now their only safe harbor is Jake Stone, the man she loved and left…but never told about their son. With the mountain trails hiding deadly mysteries..
Desperation Kills
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In Desperation Kills, author John D. Ottini weaves together three standalone yet interconnected stories about the dangerous and sometimes deadly situations that people find themselves in when blinded by passion or pushed to the point of desperation.
Parting Words
Sitting by the bedside of her dying mother, Gwen is told a secret so startling that she can only hope that what she is hearing are simply the delusions of an over-medicated woman in her final hours of life. But in the weeks and months following the funeral, that hope crumbles as more pieces of evidence come to light, threatening everything Gwen holds dear. Then tragedy strikes once more.
The Long and Faraway Gone
by Lou Berney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berneys The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely compassionate crime story that explores the mysteries of memory and the impact of violence on survivorsand the lengths they will go to find the painful truth of the events that scarred their lives.
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved.
Star Wars: Master of Evil
by Adam Christopher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the wake of Emperor Palpatine’s rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a mystery. Darth Vader is a dominant yet illusive figure: the shadow cast by a malignant Imperial regime, unknowable to even its top officials. But even as his humanity gives way to myth, Vader remains haunted by the promises of the dark side, seeking the ultimate power that his master has hinted at but withheld—the power to conquer death itself.
On the volcanic world of Mustafar, Vader undertakes a dark ritual, bleeding a kyber crystal to forge his lightsaber. This act unleashes a power far greater than he anticipated, giving him a glimpse into the limitless potential of the Force.
Bloodlust
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sandra Brown delivers a new signature sexy suspense about a detective seeking justice for his murdered wife with the help of a psychotherapist … while fighting an undeniable attraction to her.
Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has since attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Malone, a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner, neutralizes so cleanly that he doesn’t leave a trace. And he performs his handiwork at the biddings of Oz, the faceless kingpin of a drug trafficking operation whose name alone evokes terror.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Librarians
by Sherry Thomas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sometimes a workplace isn’t just a workplace but a place of safety, understanding, and acceptance. And sometimes murder threatens the sanctity of that beloved refuge….
In the leafy suburbs of Austin, Texas, a small branch library welcomes the public every day of the week. But the patrons who love the helpful, unobtrusive staff and leave rave reviews on Yelp don’t always realize that their librarians are human, too.
Hazel flees halfway across the world for what she hopes will be a new beginning…
Tangled Vines
by John Glatt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh.
Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity—but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on the grounds of their thousand-acre hunting lodge. The mystery deepened only months later when Alex himself was discovered shot in the head on a local roadside.
The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die
by Jeff Abugov
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A consistently fascinating take on the idea of immortality.” — Kirkus Reviews
Millie was born of our time, and she doesn’t age. Our epic tale follows the immortal woman through her many “lifetimes”—past, present, and distant future—her struggle to keep her secret a secret; her remorse in having to leave her loved ones behind when time to move on; and her ongoing difficulties slipping into her next identity. Violence, sex, adventure and romance abound but one thing’s for sure . . . Eternal youth ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Autopsy
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she’s inherited both an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.
She and her husband, Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria, where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn apart by civil and political unrest.
Ashes and Honor
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Fire can destroy – or it can reveal what’s truly burning inside.
Captain Eli Grant has spent years burying the pain of losing his wife to a fire he couldn’t stop. When a string of suspicious blazes rocks Glory, Tennessee, he’s forced to work with Dani Rivers—a brilliant arson investigator with secrets of her own. As they chase the flames to the truth, sparks ignite between them, but can two burned hearts find love again? Or will the embers of the past consume them both?
Hanging Hill
by Mo Hayder
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a picture-perfect morning in Bath, England, a teenage girl’s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Police detective Zoe Benedict is convinced the department head should look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the brutal murder case. But no one wants to hear any far-fetched ideas from the department’s black sheep.
Meanwhile, Zoe’s sister, Sally, has started working as a housekeeper for a wealthy entrepreneur whose eccentricities are beginning to seem increasingly repugnant, and possibly dangerous. As Zoe digs into the case and Sally’s suspicions grow, all signs point to one conclusion: There’s something very wrong at the house on Hanging Hill.
The Long Blackout
by RobertJ Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thrille
At 4:16 AM, everything dies.
Planes. Power. Law. Stranded in the wilderness when an EMP wipes out the grid, Alaric knows the truth immediately. If he does not reach his family before society turns violent, they will be killed by those who do.
Unwanted Starship
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ethan Cross expected second shift at Meridian Industrial to end the way it always did—oil-stained hands, clock out, go home.
Then something impossible shows up behind the plant. It isn’t on any schedule. It isn’t on any radar. And it definitely isn’t human. Ethan makes one mistake, he gets close.
That’s when his ordinary life ends. Whatever is sitting in the dark isn’t debris or a prank—it’s a machine built for a purpose, and it didn’t arrive by accident. Ethan doesn’t know what it wants, or who it belongs to, but he knows this much: the moment he touched it, a countdown started.
Temptation
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Far from fashionable galas and high society soirees, Eden Carlbough has ventured out into the countryside, challenging herself to run a girls’ camp. Unruly, uncivilized, and unbelievable, her charges defy her at every turn—and run her up an apple tree. She’s not off the ground long before gravity comes calling and she finds herself in the arms of orchard owner Chase Elliot. As if being overrun by obnoxious children wasn’t humiliating enough, Eden now has to endure Chase’s wicked teasing. But his playful flirtations promise much more, enticing Eden to follow her instincts in a way she’s never done before.