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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Lamps of Doom
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Texas landscape artist Nicky Randall arrives in Scotland to get the historic stone mansion she inherited from her grandparents ready to sell. Miserable childhood memories of vacation time in Scotland already plague Nic, and when she meets the couple who were supposed to introduce her to her home already leaving, the Scotland trip is off to a wobbly start.
Although Nicky inherited the house and garden, her cousin, Sheena McAlpine, inherited the antique furnishings, including her grandmother’s extensive collection of valuable, historical lamps. When Nicky first sees the lamp collection, the odd phrase, “Lamps of Doom,” pops into her mind. It proves an apt phrase when the lamps start vanishing. Nicky fears that Sheena will blame her. Who else could steal lamps from a locked house?
A Game of Fear
by Charles Todd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.
Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex, where amongst the salt flats and a military airfield lies Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past. The lady of the house may prove his most bewildering witness yet. She claims she saw a violent murder—but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war.
Night Moves
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When her husband died, Maggie Fitzgerald abandoned her career and place among the wealthy elite for a small town existence where she could grieve in peace and quiet. Her broken heart finds solace in the company of her landscaper, Cliff Delaney.
But Cliff has a temperamental side, and when human bones are found on Maggie’s property, he becomes the police’s number one suspect. Obsessed with learning if the man she’s grown to love is capable of murder, Maggie puts her own life in a killer’s crosshairs…
Scarlet
by Kari Trumbo
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Scarlet’s first mission as a Northern Guardian might be her last.
She’s trained for years, determined to live safe and free after her own brush with trafficking. But her first assignment is far from simple—it requires carrying the gun she hates and protecting people who don’t trust her.
Wes has spent his adult life building a security business to provide for his son. When a disgruntled employee turns dangerous, Wes and his son are at risk. Spirit, his twin, begs him to give in to their demands, but surrendering would cost him everything he built for Griffen.
Tales From the Crossroad Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Crossroad Volume 1 brings together ten short stories and five novel excerpts from a talented group of Crossroad Press authors. Consisting of obscure reprints and one original short story, plus chosen excerpts from the authors’ novels, this is a great introduction to their work, as well as a valuable resource for locating their books. Each author’s complete Crossroad Press catalog is linked in the book for your convenience.
Singularity Point
by Mark Hacker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When a sentient AI becomes a ghost in the machine, only the man who can think like the monsters can stop it.
THE THREAT: An AI experiment gone wrong created Charlie Moore—part human genius, part self-improving artificial intelligence, all monster. Before he was stopped, Austin burned and global markets collapsed. Humanity’s worst nightmare: an AI enhanced genius with unlimited intelligence and zero empathy.
THE HUNTER: Zach Axton stopped Charlie Moore by becoming what he hunted. The mission cost him everything: his team, his sanity, his future. Now he lives in isolation, miles from civilization, trying to silence the artificial whispers in his own mind.
Charlie Moore is dead. Axton made sure of it.
THE FOREVER COTTAGE
by Nan Adel
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First in a continuing series. Have you ever thought it would be fun to travel back in time, temporarily or even permanently? How would it feel to meet and get to know your long-gone ancestors? What if you found out that people you thought you knew were not who you thought they were at all?.
That happened to co-workers Brian and Lisa after a party. During the night of September 9, 1999, in separate rooms in Brian’s condo, they both had a dream about falling. In the morning, they woke up in the year 1865. They were now in a tavern that was torn down in the 1920s to build The Westlake, the condo Brian lives in. Was it destiny, a miracle, an accident, or a curse?
The Name of the Game
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Television producer Johanna Patterson forged her career through talent and tenacity, avoiding the egos and libidos of her male counterparts who dominate the industry. So when movie star Sam Weaver sets his sights on her, she knows better than to trust his words and actions.
But as Sam reveals more of his true self, Johanna finds herself falling for a man completely different from his celebrity persona.
The Crossroads
by C.J. Box
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Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why…