Thursday’s Mystery eBooks

Skeletons We Find
by Chelsea Michelle
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A community renovation. A concealed skeleton. And a list of cold suspects…

When twins Chelsea and Michelle Watson help remodel the local single mom’s home, the last thing they expect to find is a skeleton. Construction grinds to a halt as rumors fly in Maple Springs about both the victim and the suspects.

When their friend’s deceased father becomes the prime suspect, Michelle can’t sit back and let the investigation unfold without her. She is determined to track down every potential lead, even if it means putting herself in danger.

Concealed in Death
by J. D. Robb
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Leading the demolition of a long-empty New York building that once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband uncovers two skeletons wrapped in plastic. And by the time Eve’s done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved.

The victims are all young girls. A tattooed tough girl who dealt in illegal drugs. The runaway daughter of a pair of well-to-do doctors. They all had their stories. And they all lost their chance for a better life.

Leave Murder to the Professionals
by A.G. Russo
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*Author Statement: “I have never used AI in my writing.” A.G. Russo

*Winner of the Silver Medal for Mystery Series from the 2025 Global Book Awards

The homefront, spring 1944, Brooklyn, New York is the neo-noir setting for the final installment of Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino’s journey since becoming partners in the O’Shaughnessy Investigations detective agency.

After being drawn into World War II with the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States wholeheartedly united to fight Hitler and Fascism overseas. No one could have foreseen the tragedies and sacrifices everyone would endure. From that date on, Americans dedicated themselves to victory with a shared purpose at home and abroad. Many paid the ultimate price for freedom. Those at home did everything they could to provide support and ensure victory while living lives they never expected.

Sleep Tight
by J. H. Markert
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Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”

Beware the one who got away . . .

Father Silence once terrorized the rural town of Twisted Tree, disguising himself as a priest to prey on the most vulnerable members of society. When the police finally found his “House of Horrors,” they uncovered nineteen bodies and one survivor–a boy now locked away in a hospital for the criminally insane.

Rough Country
by John Sandford
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The murder of a successful advertising executive leads Detective Virgil Flowers to the unlikely scene of the crime: a peaceful and bucolic wooded resort with as many suspects as it has secrets…

While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a brutal murder at a nearby resort for women only. As Virgil begins investigating, he finds a web of connections between the people at the resort, the victim, and some local women, notably a talented and popular country singer. The more Virgil digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion point in many directions, encompassing a multitude of motivations: jealousy, blackmail, greed, anger, and fear.

Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben
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Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan … until it wasn’t. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion.

At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.

A Rebel’s Beacon
by Sara Blackard
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A deadly rescue mission. A haunted past. And an Alaskan wilderness that keeps its darkest secrets buried in ice.

Ex-army pilot Bjørn Rebel thought volunteering for search and rescue would be his shot at redemption. After a botched military mission left his reputation in tatters, Alaska’s unforgiving landscape seems like the perfect place to outrun his ghosts. But when he meets K9 trainer Sadie Wilde, his carefully constructed plans begin to crack.

Sadie Wilde has no room for mistakes in her K9 training program. Her family’s reputation depends on producing the best search and rescue dogs in the state. The last thing she needs is a mysterious ex-military pilot pushing her to take risks, no matter how compelling his expertise—or his unspoken demons—might be.

Whit Holmes
by Frank Wheeler
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Whit Holmes never killed anyone.

He breaks horses on a ranch outside Tolemy and wears the twin Navy Colts his dead father left behind. Deputy Marshal Collier Holmes loved those guns, but Whit knows little more about the man beyond that.
Until a dime novelist rides through and turns Whit into a legend.

Wild tales spread across the territory, about a young gunfighter cutting down outlaws in gorge country with twin revolvers.

The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
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From the author of Cemetery Road comes the first intelligent, gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Penn Cage series. 

Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage.

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten—the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well.

What I Should’ve Said
by Max Monroe
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You don’t find love. Love finds you…in New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe’s tender and emotionally charged story.

When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it’s usually to say something you’re not ready to hear.

When he first speaks to Norah Ellis, a rambling runaway bride who hitchhikes a ride from him, it’s to tell her to get out of his truck and walk because she’s a pain in the…

Nine Lives
by Catherine Steadman
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A woman spying on her glamorous neighbors discovers a terrifying secret in this twisty psychological thriller from the bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Something in the Water…

These are your neighbors. One is a killer.

Reeling from a very recent divorce, Frankie has moved into a glamorous London neighborhood. This is a new chapter in her life. She’s decided to put down roots with Blue, the beautiful Persian cat she left her marriage with.