Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Lived High
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a glamorous art dealer is killed in Jim Qwilleran’s high-rise, he and cats Koko and Yum Yum reach new heights of detection in this mystery in the Cat Who series.
The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition—but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He’s determined to restore the building to its original grandeur.
So he moves in with Koko and Yum Yum—and discovers that the Casablanca is steeped in history…and mystery…
Immaculate Deception
by Warren Adler
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A high-caliber police procedural mystery from the acclaimed author Warren Adler, well-known for the iconic novel turned international box-office hit “The War of the Roses.”
“Both the public and the private story in Adler’s second book about intrepid sergeant Fitzgerald make good reading, capturing the political scene and the passionate duplicity of those who would wield power.” — Publisher’s Weekly on Immaculate Deception
When an outspoken pro-life congresswoman is found dead, there isn’t enough evidence to point to the congresswoman’s death as a suicide, as everyone thinks.
Evil is Forever
by Trilina Pucci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this sizzling sequel to One Killer Night, a special effects artist and a hotshot chef put their shared past to the test to survive a stalker—and their feelings for each other.
It’s been two years since Evie and Chase clawed their way out of the real-life horror movie that would define most people. They’ve finally moved on.
Or so they thought.
Evie’s doing special effects for a new slasher film. Chase is preparing to open his own restaurant. But it’s not work that’s getting to them—it’s each other. While Chase still has his heart-eyed sights set on Evie, she’s got hers on the nearest exit. And she’s dreaming up the best comeback to whatever annoying thing he says next.
The Killing Code
by Steve Frech
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
THE POWERFUL ARE DYING ONE BY ONE
In the heart of Atlanta, a shadowy figure emerges, targeting the city’s most powerful tech and healthcare billionaires, each with a dark past of unethical practices.
THE KILLER HAS A LIST
As bodies pile up, Detective Meredith Somerset is thrust into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Amidst the chaos, she grapples with her own personal demons, haunted by anonymous emails from her sister’s abductor.
AND HE’S JUST GETTING STARTED
Shadow Academy
by E.K. Frances
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tristan thought life was already as bad as it could get… Orphaned. Beaten. An outcast. Then he’s taken. Stolen in the night.
They chose the right boy. No one will miss Tristan Webb. No one will come looking. And no one will hear him scream as he’s trained inside the Shadow Academy.
As Tristan’s power grows, so does the fear of what he’s becoming. He isn’t being educated — he’s being shaped into a weapon. In a world where darkness wears many faces, Tristan must decide who the real enemy is… and whether survival is worth surrendering everything he once was.
The Enemies of My Country
by Jason Kasper
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
David Rivers is an elite-level assassin. A veteran operator who has served as a Ranger, a mercenary, and now as a CIA contractor conducting covert action around the world.
In his secluded mountain home in Virginia, however, David Rivers lives the quiet life of a family man. His cover legend is so strong that even his wife doesn’t know the true nature of his work.
Half a world away, on a mission to assassinate a foreign operative, Rivers uncovers intelligence pointing to an imminent attack on US soil. Now he must hunt down the terrorists before it’s too late.
Caput Mundi
by B.R. Kang
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“It’s wonderful when readers discover a book with unexpected ideas.” – YA Books Central
When Niil Terra sets off to find his missing parents, he ends up in Caput Mundi, a dazzling place filled with flourishing innovation and alchemic wonders. It is also the home of enarii, a shape-shifting metal that can be willed into any shape, whether it be swords, forks or fly swatters.
As Niil’s talent for shaping enarii emerges, he discovers something he’s never had before: a place where he belongs.
It Began With a Lie
by Michele PW
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An award-winning, gripping psychological suspense mystery, now complete and bingeable!
All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got.
Becca was sure the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin was exactly what her troubled family needed. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter.
But instead of a new beginning, Becca is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers. A past that includes the complications of interacting with her old teenage crush, Daniel, as well as living in her aunt’s old house.
It Could Have Been Her
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell, two women’s lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried in this “deliciously dark, devilishly addictive” (Alice Feeney, bestselling author of My Husband’s Wife) novel.
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he’d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert—because Jane has a dark history with this house.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
An Owl Too Many
by Charlotte MacLeod
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick’s interest is in environmental programming—a subject that inspires even the driest Balaclava professor to wax poetic.
In his search for material, Emmerick joins Peter Shandy and a few of his colleagues on the annual owl-count. And though the television producer’s loud mouth and heavy feet make him a dismal birdwatcher, none of the academics expect him to make a fatal blunder.
Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting
by Richard Chizmar, W.H. Chizmar
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Longtime residents of Harper’s Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow’s Point Lighthouse. Some say it’s cursed. Others claim it’s haunted.
Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouse’s construction, including one who mysteriously plunged to his death from the catwalk. That tragic accident was never explained, and it was just the beginning of the terror. In the decades that followed, nearly two dozen additional deaths occurred in or around the lighthouse including cold-blooded murder, suicide, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds.
Prison Breaker Complete Series Boxed Set
by Joseph Daniel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The gods aren’t dead. They’re imprisoned. My job is to break them out… for a price.
A secret war rages in the hidden wilderness of our world. I’m Leonidas Rex—exiled heir and mind-magician—I manipulate human consciousness while living off the grid with my sharpshooting friend.
You would think a mind-reader might have seen the threat coming. I didn’t.
Now I’m blackmailed into a suicide mission: breach a prison guarded by treasure-obsessed djinn. With my childhood sweetheart at my side, I face an impossible choice. Free this prisoner and risk unleashing what he carries or fail and watch as the hidden world erupts into civil war.
I Will Find You
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this breathtaking thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive—and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love—until one fateful night when David woke to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall.
Blood and Ashes
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When the living sleep, the dead come out to drink
In the sultry haze of New Orleans, where shadows whisper secrets and history bleeds through the soil, private investigator Wyatt Thomas—renowned for untangling the city’s haunted past—tackles the enigma of Belle Reve’s destruction. The antebellum plantation mansion lies in charred ruins, officially blamed on an electrical fault. But the streets hum with darker tales: arson fueled by vengeance, fanned by social media vitriol hailing the fire as “justice” for the estate’s brutal slaveholding legacy. Some point to descendants of the enslaved, their pain etched into the land’s bones. Others murmur of a voodoo curse, an otherworldly reckoning for sins long buried.
The Disappeared
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two lethal cases to contend with in this electrifying novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box.
Wyoming’s new governor isn’t sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes–these ranches are stocked with handsome young cowboys, and “ranch romances” aren’t uncommon. But no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something else.
Out
by Natsuo Kirino
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Winner of Japan’s Grand Prix for Crime Fiction • Edgar Award Finalist • Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.
This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. The coolly intelligent Masako emerges as the plot’s ringleader, but quickly discovers that this killing is merely the beginning, as it leads to a terrifying foray into the violent underbelly of Japanese society.
Brain Damage
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all.
Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband? Double check.
Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything.
As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain.
A Work in Development
by K. A. Ross
Kindle $Brand New Release Rating: 5.0 #ad
For a woman who has edited hundreds of romance novels, Nellie’s own happy ending feels out of reach. After the death of her first husband, Daniel has offered her a second chance at happiness and love. But just as Nellie begins to hope for a future with him, her in-laws arrive to celebrate her late husband’s memory. Bringing more confusion than comfort, the well-intentioned relatives test Nellie’s determination to be brave.
Problems escalate when an unexpected threat emerges to tear open deep wounds from Daniel’s past and jeopardize everything Nellie has built with him. Nellie never thought she’d find love again. Now that she has, she’ll do anything to protect it.
Wait and See
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
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Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes—returns in this action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.
When Kendra Michaels receives a cryptic message from her sometimes-paramour Adam Lynch, she concludes that he must be in extreme danger—the kind where he can’t trust his FBI and Justice department colleagues to rescue him. Lynch has saved Kendra’s life during past investigations so she’s immediately willing to put everything on the line for him.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Blindside
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in this riveting novel of knife-edge suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.
When 6-year-old Sam Kettering manages to escape after being kidnapped, FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich join forces with the boy’s father Miles—an ex FBI agent—to pursue his kidnapper, a creepy, charasmatic Southern evangelist.
As if the kidnapping case weren’t enough, Savich and Sherlock are at the same time desperate to find the cold-blooded killer of three high school math teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.
Born in Space
by Jeremy Clift
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
•Winner PenCraft Book Awards, Best Science Fiction 2025
•Winner Best New Sci-Fi Series – Born in Space, BookFest Awards, Fall, 2024
•Distinguished Favorite, Independent Press Awards, May 2025
A LONE MOTHER’S DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REUNITE WITH SEVEN CHILDREN, BORN IN A SPACE LAB. CAN TEAGAN WIN THE COSMIC CUSTODY BATTLE OF A LIFETIME?
When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition.
The 24th Hour
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As enemies lurk in the shadows, Lindsay Boxer leads the Women’s Murder Club in the high-profile murder investigation of a billionaire San Francisco couple in this thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author.
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married.
Before they can raise their glasses, there’s a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it.
The Last Ship
by James Hunt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thomas Seville spent years making sure his family could survive the end of the world. Then the end came while they were separated.
Now his boat is stocked, his instincts are sharp, and his family is out of reach. Around him, fear is spreading through the marina, and the first men willing to kill for a way out are already making their move.
Hemlock Bay
by Martin Edwards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The new seaside resort of Hemlock Bay offers something for everyone. For families, it’s the ideal summertime playground for kids and parents alike. For artists, the seascapes are peerless. For swindlers and blackmailers, it’s the perfect place to craft a new identity. And for murderers? That’s what Rachel Savernake, the enigmatic heiress and brilliant amateur sleuth, is about to discover.
When crime-beat journalist Jacob Flint receives a visit from a fortune teller who insists he’s had a vision of a murder soon to occur in Hemlock Bay, Jacob consults with Rachel to get her take on the man’s outlandish claim. Rachel is so intrigued, she rents a cottage at the seaside resort where an artist she admires also happens to be spending the summer…
The Redemption of Morgan Bright
by Chris Panatier
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the subversive voice behind The Phlebotomist comes a story that combines the uncanny atmosphere of Don’t Worry Darling with the narrative twists of The Last House on Needless Street
What would guilt make you do?
Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. The reasons are unknown. Her sister Morgan blames herself. A year later with the case still unsolved, Morgan creates a false identity, that of a troubled housewife named Charlotte Turner, and goes inside.
Mistaken Identity Collection
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Get ready for a thrilling ride of emotion and danger with this collection of clean mistaken identity romances! Secrets, mix-ups, and masquerades mean the path of true love is far from smooth for feisty women and their protective heroes. In these uplifting stories, characters wrestle with mysteries, misunderstandings, and hidden truths, ultimately finding redemption and love.
You’ll find stories filled with sigh-worthy tender romance, heartwarming humor, and real faith, plus suspense that will keep you turning pages and wondering what happens next!
Heartsight
by Kay Springsteen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
On a secluded beach in North Carolina, three lonely people find hope in each other.
Trish Evers is an artist and single mother who has inherited her grandmother’s bed and breakfast in a North Carolina coastal town. Though she must sell the house, she decides to bring her daughter to the beach for one last summer vacation in her childhood town.
Bella is a six-year-old girl with Down syndrome. Rejected by her father, Trish is the only parent she’s ever known. Bella likes to explore the beach and has a tendency to wander off. One day, Bella goes exploring on her own, and Trish finds her in the company of an intriguing stranger.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.
But as far as Miv is concerned, leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn’t an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv’s mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all?
Lullaby of Murder
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer
Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues is found shot dead in his office—and Julie may have been the last person to see him alive.
Beyond Paydirt – Altered
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
They went looking for gold. Instead, they found a ripple in reality, a portal, a hint of something the old stories called a great dream.
This is a story about gold, yes, but also about love, belief, and the precise moment when one choice bends the world off its axis. It’s where small-town warmth collides with questions too large for any one town to answer, and where romance, mystery, and science fiction meet at a crossroads marked by ancient stone.
Spring comes to Kettle Springs with light on a shotgun barrel and promises in the air. But legends have a way of finding those who still listen. A hidden bookstore opens its door. The Legend of the Lost Man whispers across sacred land. And something older, colder, and not quite of this earth waits beneath it all.
The Crash
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
Ask for Andrea
by Noelle West Ihli
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Meghan, Brecia, and Skye have just one thing in common. They were all murdered by the same man.
He hunted them online, masquerading as an eligible bachelor. Then he played the perfect gentleman, a thick layer of charm and a thousand-watt smile hiding the fact that his first dates end in shallow graves.
He’s gotten away with murder three times now. The only thing that might keep him from killing again? The women he murdered…
The Horror at Murden Cove
by D.D. Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A triple homicide. A blind witness. What is the sound of evil?
Late one night, two young couples walked to a park in an affluent Bainbridge Island neighborhood to celebrate the sale of their tech startup. The next morning, three mutilated bodies were found.
One witness was left alive. Blind from birth, she didn’t see anything. But she heard everything. The killer took his time, butchering her friends as she listened to every sadistic moment. What she heard left her broken, traumatized, and barely able to speak.
Flash Flood Jackpot
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Flash Flood Jackpot is a fast-paced prospecting thriller set in Arizona’s brutal desert country. When a violent flash flood tears a canyon open, it uncovers a fortune in gold that time buried a thousand years ago. One determined prospector finds himself pinned between sudden wealth and raw survival. A short Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Story.
Blending wilderness danger, desert grit, and the addictive thrill of discovery, this short tale follows one man’s fight to outlast the storm, outthink the rock, and claim the treasure the mountain tried to bury forever.
In the desert, gold doesn’t come easy. And it never comes free.
Counter Strike
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A vicious skinhead gang has found a promising new recruit. Tom Rollins.
Three months after losing what was left of his family, Tom Rollins is a ghost drifting through the American South.
In South Carolina, he steps into a cage fight to save a stranger from a beating and finds the violence dulls his grief. It’s not what a therapist would suggest, but it’s healing of a kind.
His prowess in the cage draws the attention of the men running the fights — the South Carolina Skinheads — and then the FBI, who want Tom to infiltrate them. The gang is mixed up in something far darker, and their leader, a former Green Beret, answers to a mastermind no one has ever seen.
The Things We Do for Love
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.