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.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Witches and Fairies and Tacos… Oh My
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charli Quinn and her sister Brielle own House Witches Cleaning and promise to clean like magic. They may not be your everyday, run-of-the-mill witches, but they are… something.
When Charli finds the husband of one of their clients dead, the wind warns her to beware the man with eyes of green. As the sisters search for the ominous man, they find themselves in danger and rely on their real magic to outsmart the killer.
Along the way, Charli and Brielle have help from a group of fairies, and even a talking cow. And Charli falls head over broomstick for a tall, sexy deputy with dreamy blue eyes who saves her from being hijacked by a water sprite.
Don’t Answer the Phone
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
She’s the woman of his dreams. He’s the monster from her nightmares.
When Daniella rescues elderly Peggy from a mugger on a Boston street, she expects nothing in return. But then she meets Peggy’s son, Lucas—devastatingly handsome and utterly captivating. Unlike her distant husband Grant, Lucas sees her. Wants her.
Daniella can’t resist and they spend one reckless night together which she immediately regrets…
Divine Double Trouble
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Spring is right around the corner in the tiny town of Divine. Big changes are on the horizon for Jo’s residents—changes that fill Jo with a sense of pride but also an element of sadness when Leah McEllish, one of her residents, successfully completes her probation at Jo’s group home for former inmates.
God’s divine hand is in Leah’s life when a job opens up at Dave Kilwin’s farm, Jo’s next door neighbor. As if perfectly planned, Leah moves right in and is eager to learn as much as she can with a future goal of starting her own farm…
BONUS: Recipe Included!
Blood Line
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He’s quiet, ordinary looking. But if you cross him – welcome to your worst nightmare.
Tom Rollins has gone AWOL from his CIA black-ops unit and is living off-grid when he hears that the woman he loves, Alejandra, has been murdered by a person or persons unknown.
Rollins is determined to punish her killers and sets out on his own personal search and destroy mission. Applying pressure as only he knows how, he quickly discovers who was behind the killing – a vicious gang of hardened criminals.
Final Victim
by Stephen J. Cannell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A genius, hairless, seven-foot-tall psychopath, Leonard Land is many people wired into the cyber-subculture of Satanism and Death Metal. He is smart and cunning. He is quick, brutal and deadly. And he is everywhere.
A renegade US Customs agent, a brilliant and beautiful forensic psychologist, and a streetwise convict master hacker are on the trail of the maniac who is methodically slaughtering innocent women—a hunt that is leading a trio of unlikely heroes across an imperiled nation . . . and deep into the darkest corridors of cyberspace.
Under the Surface
by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Bear & Mandy Logan’s travels take them to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, they expect to settle in for a quiet winter on the barrier island. But when a mysterious man shows up harassing their elderly neighbors, Bear can’t stop himself from getting involved. His search for answers soon leads him to more shocking discoveries as he realizes the small town where he spent summers as a kid holds more secrets than he could have imagined.
Working with a rag-tag group of locals after an explosion takes out the only road back to the mainland, Bear finds himself the target of a vicious organized crime group who want the island for themselves.
Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two novels in one book, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, The Only Good Indians, and the Indian Lake trilogy.
The Babysitter Lives: When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won’t help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes…
Killer on the Road: Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an intervention disguised as a road trip…
Finding Love in Pine Valley
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Award-winning author Judy Ann Davis weaves another heartwarming and compelling romantic mystery of two disenchanted people searching for a stolen vintage trinket box and love again.
Lena Starron knew that leaving her two-timing ex-husband and her job in New York as a writer would be a challenge. Starting over always is. But she never thought she’d return to her old hometown in Pennsylvania where two new jobs awaited her, only to discover she had no place to live.
Mad Hatters and March Hares
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An all-new anthology of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories.
Since their first publication in the mid-19th century, Lewis Carroll’s Alice books—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass—have delighted generations of readers with their imaginative wordplay, social satire, mathematical puzzles, and hallucinogenic atmosphere. In Mad Hatters and March Hares, renowned anthologist Ellen Datlow asked eighteen of the most brilliant writers working today to dream up stories inspired by all the strange events and surreal characters found in Wonderland.
The CBS Murders
by Richard Hammer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer.
On a warm spring evening in 1982, thirty-seven-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the West Side parking lot where she kept her BMW. Finding the lock on the driver’s side door jammed, she went to the passenger’s side and inserted her key. A man leaned through the open window of a van parked in the next spot, pressed a silenced pistol to the back of Margaret’s head, and fired. She was dead before she hit the pavement.
Four Rabbi Small Mysteries
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A collection of four novels from the New York Times–bestselling, Edgar Award–winning mystery series starring a rabbi in a tiny New England town.
Spend a long weekend with the scholar and spiritual leader who watches over the Jewish community in 1960s Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts—and in his spare time, solves crimes.
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late,
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry,
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home,
Monday the Rabbi Took Off
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Irish Pub
by Carlene O’Connor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he’s called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack’s pub, it’s time for the garda to take matters into their own hands.
Detective Sargent Macdara Flannery would lay odds it’s a simple suicide—after all, there’s a note and the room was locked. But officer Siobhán O’Sullivan suspects foul play, as does Foley’s very pregnant widow…
Restless in the Grave
by Dana Stabenow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #a
New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time.
Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself…
The Pyramid
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Wallander’s First Case” introduces us to the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first homicide case: his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. In “The Man with the Mask”, Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve. On the brink of middle age, he is troubled by a distant wife as he unravels the poisoning of a lonely vacationer in “The Man on the Beach.” Newly separated in “The Death of the Photographer,” Wallander investigates the brutal murder—and the well-concealed secrets—of the local studio photographer. In the title story, he is a veteran detective uncovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of elderly sisters.
Audition
by Ryu Murakami
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don’t intend to produce. As the résumés pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama’s attention—Yamasaki Asami—a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. Blinded by his instant and total infatuation, Aoyama is too late in discovering that she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.
Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family…
Dual Image
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An actress yearns to become the real life love interest in a screenwriter’s heart in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s Dual Image.
In a role that propelled her to daytime television stardom, Ariel Kirkwood’s soap opera character reflects her actual playful personality. So when she gets cast as a devious bombshell in famous screenwriter Booth DeWitt’s semiautobiographical film, her dreams of a silver screen career seem assured. Impressed with Ariel’s believable portrayal, Booth can only see her as his heartless ex-wife, the basis for the character…
Rhyme, Riddle, and Romance
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s a grumpy faerie with a failing bakery and one very inept employee… too bad she can’t fire him. He’s a fastidious werewolf with a fondness for feng shui and one very sloppy boss… too bad he can’t quit.
When Sophie inherits the Rhyme ’N Riddle Bakeshop from an elderly relation, it’s a dream come true for the faerie with the magic touch for baking. Even when she discovers she must employ her auntie’s former companion, Sophie figures it’s a small price to pay… until she meets him.
Handsome-as-a-Norse-god Teddy has never seen the inside of a kitchen. The ridiculous werewolf sneezes at dust bunnies and would rather clean floors than bake cookies. What was her auntie thinking?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sassy Senior Sleuths
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Travel can be murder. Can Miss Riddell and Nona catch the villains before they become victims?
Travel forward from the Miss Riddell series to the twenty-first century with the demure Miss Pauline Riddell as she befriends a strangely lovable, fly by the seat of her pants amateur sleuth, named Gretta Galia aka Nona. The two sixty-five-year-old travel companions visit tourist traps around the United States.
Short Stories: Over the Falls Without a Barrel, Deadly Dunes, The Man in Seat 13B, California Adventure, Destined for Sandestin and A Christmas Caper
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #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…
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible cozy 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, a perfect skill for an amateur sleuth and 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…
Thawed to Death
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s non-stop laughter and suspense as 60-year-old antique “picker” Zoey Thunderbird explores the local ghost house and discovers a body in a freezer. She knows it was murder—no one deliberately thaws themselves to death—but she doesn’t know that her search for truth will endanger her life. Killers don’t want to get caught.
Her quest to catch a killer introduces Zoey to strange crime motifs—everything connected with the murder has a tendency to vanish, and the apparent killer seems to have an affinity for sitting in her lap…
Aim for the Heart
by Ridley Pearson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An Idaho sleuth hunts a missing woman after a series of bizarre accidents, in this mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
After a small plane plummets into a gas station in rural Idaho, ex-musician and sometimes-sleuth Chris Klick knows that his dream of a quieter, simpler life far from Los Angeles may not be as easy to achieve as he hoped . . .
Now he must team up with his buddy Lyel to track down a missing county courthouse employee connected to the plane crash and other freak accidents. Was she kidnapped? Is she on the run from her creditors? Searching for answers and finding only trouble, Klick’s questions pile up as the stakes climb ever higher.
Don’t Back Down
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Justice brought him home. Love might be what keeps him there.
When Army veteran Cameron Pope returns to Jubilee, Kentucky for the first time in years, he expects to confront ghosts—but not the kind that steal children in the night. He’s barely unpacked when his young niece has a chilling brush with a human trafficking ring, plunging him into a life-or-death investigation that threatens the fragile peace of his hometown.
Rusty Caldwell—the woman Cameron loved and lost—has her own reasons to join the search for justice. She’s still strong, still stunning… and still untouchable…
Taking Fire
by Ron Alexander, Charles W. Sasser
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Some of the best action writing in the field . . . Electrifying.” – New York Times–bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin
Nicknamed “Mini-Man” for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped by enemy fire, and a fearlessness that became legendary, Alexander earned enough official praise to become the second most decorated helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era. Yet, for Alexander, the real reward came from plucking his fellow soldiers from harm’s way, giving them another chance to get home alive.
Spellbound
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts spins a tale that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy as a man and woman discover just how deep their bond lies—and how some dreams are meant to be…
While on a much-needed vacation in Ireland, world-famous photographer Calin Farrell is bewitched by the ravishingly beautiful Bryna Torrence, even if he refuses to believe in the spell that has brought them together—and could destroy them both…
In the Knight’s Chamber
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $02.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sir Justin Beverley is the youngest son of a noble family. He believes no one expects anything more from him than drinking and charming his way through life. Riana, his eldest brother’s ward and sister-in-law, tempts him with her sweet sensuality, but he vows to never give in. But when the temptation proves too much can he step up and be the man she deserves?
Lady Riana Lichfield has always been different, more in tune with the emotional than the intellectual. Though safe under the protection of her sister’s new husband, Riana believes she’ll never have her own life. She wants a love of her own, a hero to save her like her sister was saved.
Headhunter
by Michael Slade
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The first in a series of crime thrillers featuring the Special X team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—world-weary cops hardened enough to deal with the most heinous of crimes.
A serial killer is loose on the streets of Vancouver. A sadist preying on women, leaving a trail of decapitated corpses—and a totem pole displaying the grisly head of his latest victim.