Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Under the Cocoon Moon
by Kathleen Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dead body in the woods. A rare sapphire is missing. The connection changes her life forever. Advice columnist Olivia Penn is looking forward to spending the holidays with her friends and family in her cozy hometown of Apple Station, Virginia. The Christmas spirit has sparked a new romance, and everything seems merry and bright, until she’s mistaken for a dead woman.
When a stranger makes a wild accusation involving the parents of the man she’s falling for, Olivia finds herself in a no-win situation. As evidence mounts, a mysterious murder near his father’s cabin attracts the attention of the FBI.
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother. But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
Black Out
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her.
These are demons she can’t fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future…and her daughter.
I Know What I Saw
by Kathryn Croft
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Ria moves with her husband to Silverleaf Heights, she hopes to recover from the incident that nearly took her life. Everything seems perfect – the houses are beautiful, the neighbours welcoming and the locked gate keeps the danger out. Or does it?
Late one night, Ria sees a woman being attacked. When she raises the alarm, there’s no evidence. No crime. No victim. But Ria knows what she saw – and she won’t let it go. Then an anonymous text appears on her phone, a video of another woman being murdered. Looking closer, Ria realises the woman is her.
Uncovered
by Rich J.B. Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A CLASS RING. A HUMAN BONE. A CASE THAT WOULDN’T STAY CLOSED. When construction crews rebuilding the Harborview waterfront uncover a gold class ring beside human remains, Detective Sarah Sloane recognizes the initials inside. N.H. Nathan Hollis disappeared eleven years ago. At the time, his death was ruled an accidental drowning.
Sarah signed the report. Now Nathan’s remains have surfaced, raising troubling questions about what really happened that night. As Sarah reopens the investigation, she must uncover the truth about Nathan’s disappearance while confronting questions about her own life that she has buried beneath a job she loves.
Missing
by Erin Kinsley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never returns. Her daughters – loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta – are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.
Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten. And there’s one obsession he won’t let go: a tragic death twenty years before. Can Lily and Marietta uncover what happened to their mother? Will Fox solve a mystery that has haunted him for decades? As their stories unexpectedly collide, long-buried secrets will change their lives in unimaginable ways.
Murder by the Book
by M. R. G. Davies
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Nothing is deadlier than angry readers… especially when you murder one of their own. When the manager of The Quaint Bookshop is found slumped between the shelves, the four members of the shop’s reading group decide to put into action all the skills they’ve picked up from their favourite fictional detectives.
If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it’s a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case…
He Feeds Dinosaurs
by Daniel Dow and Kristan Dow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Elijah Dow did not breathe on his own for the first seven minutes of his life. His father stood watching the team try to keep him alive until he finally made a sound. Before his parents left the hospital, the doctors warned them that autism was possible.
They warned them the day he was born — about a boy who would grow up to run toward strangers with his arms open. Elijah is nine. He draws chalk maps up and down his street, runs to meet every passing golf cart, and takes archery classes on Saturday.
The Heights
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every need, with a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, where self-made owner-developer Allan Franklyn himself has claimed the penthouse duplex. His neighbors include some of “Money London’s” biggest personalities: a wealthy art dealer, a young heartthrob pop star, a foreign heiress, a gangster’s wife.
The residents are used to service, deference, and privacy, all on their terms. But when nighttime concierge Dwayne Hogarth is found dead in the lobby, none of that is in their control anymore, and everyone’s under the unwelcome scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks

Voodoo River
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Elvis Cole finds himself deep in the bayou of Louisiana searching for the estranged parents of a television star — but something deadly is looking for him. L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before.
Cole’s assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there’s something much darker going on.
Have Courage
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A wintry collection of Longmire stories by the beloved author of the New York Times bestselling series Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates a series of eccentric small-town crises in fifteen holiday-inspired stories. An old dog mysteriously escapes the animal shelter night after night.
A deputy deploys an unexpected diversion during a hostage standoff. The baby Jesus vanishes from a nativity scene. And Walt faces one of his most challenging assignments yet: caring for a 150-year-old sourdough starter, while apprehending a seven-year-old suspect with the diction of a 1930s gumshoe.
The Treasure Hunters Club
by Tom Ryan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary lost pirate treasure, but locals know there’s more than just gold buried in the sand. As the paths of three strangers converge in Maple Bay, the truth is about to be blown wide open.
But not before the bodies start to pile up. Peter Barnett is rapidly approaching 40 with little to show for it when a mysterious letter invites him to Maple Bay and the mansion his estranged family has called home for generations.
The Curse of Penryth Hall
by Jess Armstrong
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She’s always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her.
When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the one place she swore she’d never return. A more sensible soul would have delivered the package and left without rehashing old wounds.
Second Glance
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Sometimes I wonder….Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?” An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground.
When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again.
The Storm Sister
by Lucinda Riley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The spellbinding novel unfolds amid the icy splendor of Norway in The Storm Sister, the second book in Lucinda Riley’s epic saga that follows the bestselling The Seven Sisters—drawing inspiration from the enduring mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation.
Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage.
A Medium Fate
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
I see ghosts, but I do my best to ignore them. When Eddie Cayce turned home to New Orleans from her carefully built Seattle life, it’s not just for her grandmother’s funeral. She’s home to stay.
More to the point, now that she’s broken it off with the almost fiancé and quit her corporate junior designer position over one too many trainings on how to run a copier, she has no reason to return. With the money she’ll receive in her inheritance, she can finally open the antique store she’s always dreamed of – that as long as her ability to see ghosts stays dormant.
The Ambler Warning
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In Robert Ludlum’s The Ambler Warning, an agent breaks out of a top-security institution where the government has kept him drugged for years only to discover that he’s not the person he thinks he is.
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.
Smoke and Mirrors
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto’s star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were found in the woods alongside a trail of candy—a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of “Hansel and Gretel.”
Edgar has plenty of leads. Annie, a dark child, wrote gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her final script?
Dead by Midnight
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Solving puzzles comes naturally to Annie Darling, cheerful owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore on the lovely sea island of Broward’s Rock. Annie is aided and abetted by her admiring husband, Max, who runs an unusual business that offers help to people in trouble.
A recent death appears to be suicide, but Annie suspects murder. To solve the case, she unravels the mystery of a towel hidden at midnight in a gazebo, the lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a teenager’s blue shirt, and the secret of a lovers’ tryst.



















