Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Center of Enigma
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Suspense in Paradise… An atypical tale in Amish country
In homage to Agatha Christie, this modern-day mystery weaves together a captivating tapestry of comradeship, enigma, and suspense in the picturesque Amish community of Paradise, PA.
Haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng, a recent university graduate from New York, seeks solace in the inheritance left by her late grandaunt. Yet, per the will’s conditions, she must take on the role of a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise, Pennsylvania. Upon arriving, she rescues an Amish girl and entangles herself in the mysterious disappearances of young Amish women.
Trace Elements
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a dying hospice patient gasps that her husband was murdered over “bad money,” Commissario Brunetti softly promises he and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that the man had worked in the field, collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice’s water supply, and that he had recently died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Piecing together the tangled threads, Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman’s accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region…
The Hideaway
by Meryl Sawyer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After spending the night at a retreat dedicated to sensual pleasures, a woman finds herself at the center of a murder investigation in this edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller from New York Times–bestselling author Meryl Sawyer
The wolf at the door of Claire Holt’s Taos art gallery is Lobo, a dangerous hybrid of German shepherd and timber wolf belonging to Zach Coulter, the town’s one-time bad boy. Now, instead of running from the law, he is the law. But the homicide-cop-turned-local-sheriff isn’t there to rekindle an old flame.
The body of Claire’s business rival has been found at the Hideaway, an illicit club where drugs and sex are bartered in the midnight shadows…
The Secrets Next Door
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What does she know? On a leafy, suburban street, curtains are subtly twitched to watch the new neighbor moving in.
Anne gets exactly the welcome to the neighborhood she expects: a basket of homemade cupcakes delivered by the woman next door and her best friend. One wears a curious smile while the other studies her every move. When Talia and Tabitha leave, Anne throws the treats in the trash.
She knows what to expect from the new neighbors. Talia with her perfect husband and pale-peach sweater sets, and Tabitha who reigns as queen in the close-knit community. That’s why she chose this house.
Blithe Images
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mode Magazine is one of New York City’s premier fashion glossies and Hilary Baxter has just been contracted as one of their models. The culture shock she experiences between her small-town Kansas life and the glamour of the Big Apple is nothing compared to the thrill she gets when Mode’s charismatic publisher Bret Bardoff takes a personal interest in guiding her career. Unable to resist Bret’s seductive allure, Hilary’s infatuation turns into love—a love she hopes is strong enough for Bret to see the person behind the beauty…
The Breaking of Time
by J. J. Hebert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
SA Today bestselling author J. J. Hebert’s brand-new urban fantasy series Chronicles of the Arvynth begins with The Breaking of Time, a novel about a devoted father whose desperate act to save his son fractures reality itself, awakening ancient magic and drawing him back into the path of an immortal order he once betrayed, where love, time, and silence collide in a race against eternity.
ONE FATHER’S DESPERATE CHOICE FRACTURES TIME AND REALITY ITSELF.
To everyone around him, Daniel Ward is a mild-mannered accountant, devoted husband and father in a quiet New England suburb. But when his ten-year-old son chases a runaway soccer ball into the street, straight into the path of a speeding truck, Daniel does the impossible. He freezes time.
Smuggler’s Cove
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a fresh, new series for fans of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Melida Leigh, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels introduces siblings Madison and Lincoln Taylor, whose unexpected Jersey Shore inheritance changes their lives in ways they never could have imagined…
Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln lived in privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor in chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city.
Dark Dreams
by Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood– writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud– will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world’s most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal the extent to which these individuals permeate our society.
Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world’s leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders– the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques – investigative approaches that he helped pioneer at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit– that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes.
The Women of Wild Hill
by Kirsten Miller
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A witty, spectacular, and timely tale of modern-day witches waging war on the patriarchy, from fan favorite Kirsten Miller, the author of The Change and Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books.
There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch murdered by colonists claimed the beautiful and fertile Wild Hill…until a young Scottish woman with strange gifts arrived. Sadie Duncan was allowed to stay.
Impulse
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3#ad
A woman acting on Impulse enjoys a romantic adventure of self-discovery in this novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
When her predictable path in life leads to dissatisfaction, Rebecca Malone quits her accounting job, sells her belongings, and leaves Philadelphia for Greece. Basking in an environment so different from everything she knows, Rebecca permits herself to enjoy the attentions of Stephen Nickodemus, a restaurant owner more than happy to share the many flavors of Greek culture with her. But when their flirtatious fling grows more serious than either expected, Rebecca must choose either to embrace her new carefree spirit or to accept the true love in her heart.
When Justice Comes
by Colleen Coble, Rick Acker
Kindle $6.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble and Rick Acker deliver the final book in their beloved Tupelo Grove series.
Hez and Savannah Webster have survived storms that would bury others without a love as strong as theirs–but can they withstand the final battle in the deadly Legare-Willard feud that threatens to sweep away everything they’ve fought for?
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Isabella’s Not Dead
by Beth Morrey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A hilarious and thought-provoking murder mystery about the death of a friendship, and one woman’s quest to track down the best friend who disappeared, for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.
Isabella’s NOT dead.
That’s what Gwen tells anyone who asks about the friend who ghosted them all fifteen years ago. But if Isabella’s not dead, then where is she? And why did she leave, just when Gwen needed her most?
Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.
Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.
He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.
Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.
Silent Justice
by Carolina Mac, Lisa Mac
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aziza Masters returns to Texas a decorated soldier—battle-hardened, confident, and ready to reclaim the life she left behind. But home has become unfamiliar…and unforgivable.
The moment she steps inside her front door, she senses it–something is deeply wrong. At first, she suspects betrayal. But the truth buried within her home is far more twisted than infidelity. As she unravels the deception, Aziza is forced to confront a darkness more disturbing than anything she faced in combat.
Next in Line
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’, Princess Diana. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster.
Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive—and unique—responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning.
The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that is “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Now an original series starring Chris Pratt on Prime Video.
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.
In the Blood
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Liar, liar, pants on fire . . .
College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that the truth seems like a distant, cloudy nightmare. But she meets her match when she begins babysitting for a volatile, manipulative eleven-year-old boy. Soon after Lana takes the job, her close friend Beck mysteriously disappears. Lana instantly begins fabricating stories – to friends, to police, to herself. Why doesn’t her account jibe with those of eye-witnesses? Lana will do anything to bury the truth about that night … and about her life. But someone else knows her secrets. And he’s dying to tell.
Who Killed My Daughter?
by Lois Duncan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . .
In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter’s accidental connection to organized crime in Albuquerque. When Duncan loses faith in the system, she reaches out to anyone that can help, including private investigators, journalists, and even a psychic. Written to inspire other families who have lost loved ones to unsolved crimes, Who Killed My Daughter? is a powerful testament to the tenacity of a mother’s love.
Burn Every Bridge
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $6.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A series of explosions. A city on edge. And two people with more to lose than they’ll ever admit…
FBI Agent Kara Reid is new to the FBI Strike Team East—an elite unit built to move fast and take on the Bureau’s most dangerous cases. When a precision blast disrupts the streets of Manhattan, what begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into something far more personal—and far more dangerous.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Wealth of Secrets
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the wake of her parents’ sudden deaths, Brynnan’s reality is spinning out of control. Unexplained threats are dredging up old fears – and fueling new anxiety about her safety.
Determined to help, Brynnan’s billionaire uncle rushes to her side, along with his newly hired head-of-security—former special forces operative, Jack McKerrick. Jack is tasked with ensuring Brynnan’s safety, but when he realizes she’s being targeted, Jack learns about Brynnan’s painful past, and starts to suspect she’s in more danger than she realizes.
We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.
Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.
For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend’s daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home…
The First 72 Hours
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive.
He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.
Mad Dog House
by Mark Rubinstein
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After thirty years, surgeon and family man Roddy “Mad Dog” Dolan reluctantly reconnects with childhood friends to open a Manhattan restaurant. For these three former delinquents from a bad neighborhood, the project is a dream opportunity–a chance to show the world they’ve become respectable.
When the business is a hit, Roddy is relieved. But before long, he realizes someone is stealing from the coffers. When a loan shark shows up, announcing the men have one week to pay him $500,000, Roddy must find out who’s behind the threat and how he can make it go away–before he loses everything…
So Nude, So Dead.
by Ed McBain
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A jazz musician wakes up from a drug-fueled blackout to find a beautiful woman dead beside him—nude and shot with his own gun.
In So Nude, So Dead, master of crime fiction Ed McBain (writing under the pseudonym Richard Marsten) delivers a lean, suspenseful noir full of desperation, paranoia, and the dark seduction of addiction. Framed for murder and hunted by the police, Ray Stone must unravel the truth before his past—and his habit—destroy him completely.
Originally published in the 1950s, this hardboiled pulp classic captures the gritty atmosphere of post-war urban America, where jazz clubs, night streets, and dope dens provide the backdrop for a chilling mystery.
NO GRAVES IN DAMNATION DESERT
by A.M. Van Dorn
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cassandra Wilde rode in to meet her family. Pickett’s Gulch greeted her with a noose.
Fresh from breaking up a cattle-rustling ring, Cassandra rides into town expecting a cold drink and a long-overdue reunion. Instead, she is arrested for a killing she did not commit—trapped in a place where fear moves faster than truth and justice has little patience.
Miles away on the trail, her sisters discover the aftermath of a massacre: burned wagons, slaughtered families, a wrecked stagecoach half-submerged along a riverbank, and a wounded priest clinging to life.
Inclusionable
by Christine Barnes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Inclusionable uses the overlooked strategy of inclusive leadership to build team performance and boost business results. Learn it. Live it.
Too often, inclusion gets reduced to buzzwords or check-the-box exercises—detached from the real pressures of leading a team and driving business results. Inclusionable bridges that gap. This isn’t a book about setting surface-level hiring goals or measuring diversity. It’s a hands-on guide for managers who want to lead better, build trust, and create a team where people thrive and perform. Grounded in extensive research and real-world stories, Inclusionable shows how inclusion, done right, isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s your edge…
Of Sorrows and Silence
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The exciting conclusion to the Audrey Baker suspense series! Audrey receives a mysterious text from a stranger that says he might know what happened to her sister.
Could Caitlyn really still be alive?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Point Blank
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
His name is Mason Sharpe. Victims take heart—bad guys take cover.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe’s world is turned upside down when his beloved fiancée is killed in a random shooting. Struggling to cope with his grief, Sharpe instinctively heads for the North Carolina town where he and his bride had planned to honeymoon.
Alone on a beach, contemplating a future which now seems bleak and empty, he stares into the abyss. But then…
A body washes ashore. An investigation begins and the police quickly pronounce an accidental death. But Mason isn’t buying it. He believes the man was murdered and someone is trying to cover it up.
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He’s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth’s own daughter, the Primer’s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
Chasing Fire
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. But there’s also little else as thrilling—at least to Rowan Tripp. Being a Missoula smoke jumper is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend in the field. At this point, returning to the wilds of Montana for the season feels like coming home—even with reminders of the partner she lost last season still lingering in the air.
One of the best of this year’s rookie crop, Gulliver Curry is a walking contradiction, a hotshot firefighter with a big vocabulary and a winter job at a kids’ arcade. And though Rowan, as a rule, doesn’t hook up with other smoke jumpers, Gull is convinced he can change her mind…
The Family Secret
by Caleb Crowe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The brother she never knew. The nightmare she can’t escape.
Charlotte Harper seems to have it all – a beautiful home in the Cheshire countryside, a loving husband, and a young son she adores. But when she collapses on a night out, doctors discover she has a rare blood disorder. Without a bone marrow transplant, she will die.
Then comes a revelation: Charlotte had a brother, John, given up for adoption at birth. Miraculously, John is a perfect donor – and he agrees to save her…
Ordinary Man’s War
by John Walker, Alex Miles
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Owen Mercer thought thirty years of fixing broken machinery was the only war he’d ever face. He was wrong.
When his son is declared Missing in Action, the fifty-three-year-old mechanic trades his wrench for a rifle. But on the brutal colony world of Hawthorn, Owen discovers his son was part of Project LANTERN—a conspiracy so dangerous that both the military and the enemy will kill to keep it buried.
Surrounded by lethal secrets and a system that wants him to stay silent, Owen must navigate a web of corruption to find the truth. The military wants him to wait for answers that will never come. Owen is done waiting.
Taken
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The search for a missing girl leads private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the nightmarish world of human trafficking in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Robert Crais.
When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter, she’s sure it’s a ruse orchestrated by the girl and her boyfriend. She’s wrong. They’ve been taken by bajadores—border bandits who prey on the innocent by buying, selling, and disposing of victims like commodities.
The Light Switch Myth
by Kerisma Vere
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Light Switch Myth challenges the idea that change should be instant, permanent, and all-or-nothing. Drawing from my own lived experiences, alongside my understanding of multiple therapeutic approaches and proven models of change, it blends personal stories, compassionate insights, with practical evidence based strategies to create a new vision of what sustainable transformation looks like.
This book is for anyone who has felt defeated by “quick fix” promises or overwhelmed by the pressure to do everything at once. Instead, it offers a gentler path: one step at a time, rooted in self-compassion, flexibility, and realistic tools that actually last. It can be a starting place to shift away from perfectionism, harsh inner dialogue, and unrealistic expectations of what real change looks like. I have travelled this path and know it is possible to integrate new approaches and strategies that are kinder, more sustainable, and ultimately more rewarding. I wrote this book to help others who struggle in the ways I once did and sometimes still do.
What Happened That Night
by Nicci French
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst.
Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion.
Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence…