Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Bacon Heiress
by Lee Hollis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell, becoming a local culinary celebrity opens lots of doors. Unfortunately, one leads straight to cold-blooded murder…
When Hayley is invited to do a cooking demo on one of daytime’s most popular talk shows, it’s a welcome distraction from her empty nest blues. And the newfound fame certainly has its perks–especially when Olivia Redmond, the posh bacon heiress of Redmond Meats, offers Hayley a writing gig with a juicy paycheck.
EMP Silent Grid
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
She was watching her grandson laugh at a baby gorilla when the call came.
“You have minutes. Not hours. Minutes.”
Lindy didn’t panic. She’d spent forty years preparing for this exact moment. But she’d never imagined it would come while she was holding a hot chocolate at a zoo with the two people she loved most in the world. When the EMP hits, there is no second chance. No rescue. No government coming to help. Just a grandmother, two kids, and eighty miles of dying America.
A Better Man
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter…
Killing the Shadows
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Rich in atmosphere, Val McDermid’s Killing the Shadows uses the backdrops of city and country to create an air of threatening menace, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter and hunted, a confrontation that can have only one outcome.
A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey—the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother.
But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
Pants on Fire
by Denise Diana Huddle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lying to Iris Raines is like throwing a boomerang—the truth always comes back hard.
This gritty Texas private investigator mystery is relentless and razor-sharp—where sabotage, cartel money, and dark family secrets collide in a dangerous game of truth and consequences.
Iris Raines doesn’t scare easy. Sharp-tongued, relentless, and backed by her St. Bernard, Festus, she’s built a career digging the truth out of the dung heap of deception. But when sabotage turns lethal, Iris finds herself caught between powerful enemies—and a client who isn’t telling her everything she needs to know…
Hole to Hell Mystery
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two sisters. One murder. A lifetime of secrets.
A deeply powerful and emotive story unlike any other cozy mystery. Two estranged sisters must confront their painful past while investigating their father’s murder—only to discover that the truth may destroy them both.
What happens when the past refuses to stay buried?
Acacia and Dinah grew up in the same house but in completely different worlds. Bound by a childhood scarred by abuse and abandonment, the sisters took opposite paths in life. Acacia is grounded and practical, holding on to stability after years of chaos. Dinah is restless and unpredictable, living as if the world owes her something more. They barely speak…
Convincing Alex
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Alex Stanislaski thought he’d seen it all – until he mistakenly arrests the daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McNee for soliciting. Committed to understanding her characters, Bess often looks for research opportunities to help her write the best she can – and accidentally being arrested gives her the best opportunity of all. She decides to follow the sexy detective around to get ‘ideas’ for her show, but Bess will soon discover that Alex is not only perfect for research, but maybe a perfect match for herself, as well. Now all she has to do is convince him she’s right…
Stone Cross
by Marc Cameron
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska—and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses protection. Cutter and his deputy Lola Teariki have been assigned to shadow him on his trip to this icy outland to make sure that he’s safe. But they quickly discover that no one is ever really safe in a place like this. And no one is above suspicion . . .
Let Justice Burns Slow
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Elwood Merrick spent five years in a Mexican prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s riding north hoping to find the woman he left behind—and the man who put him there.
But exposing the truth won’t be easy.
The real murderer is hiding in plain sight as Brenton’s most respected businessman, Pritchard Thomas. During the years Elwood was gone, Pritchard took control of the town, complete with a bought sheriff, hired killers, and a population too frightened to resist.
Elwood didn’t ride back looking for revenge.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
MURDER AT THE FOLLY
by JANE ADAMS
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A crumbling old manor house with its own sinister folly.
A cast full of suspects with secrets to hide. And a killer waiting in the wings . . .
Retirement suits actress Rina Martin just fine. Until she’s tempted back for one last hurrah, reprising her role as sharp-witted TV sleuth Lydia Marchant.
But is Rina returning for an encore — or the final curtain?
Rina’s seen plenty of drama over the years. But nothing like the chaos she finds on location at Septon Hall. Her costar, the decidedly sour Grace Sweeting, gets a poison pen letter — in what looks like a tasteless prank. Until . . .
Saving Grace
by Madison Lov
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The man she left behind is now her only hope of staying alive.
Grace Atwood vanished from my life nearly three decades ago, leaving me heartbroken on the courthouse steps. Now, she’s back—using a pen name, hiding from an unknown enemy, and asking for my help. As a journalist who witnessed the murder of a whistleblower, she’s seen too much. And someone is trying to make sure she stays silent.
As a former Air Force Pararescueman turned elite protection specialist for the Southern Knights, I never thought I’d see Grace again—let alone be the one assigned to protect her…
The Law of Innocence
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge.
Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. All the while he needs to look over his shoulder—as an officer of the court he is an instant target, and he makes few friends when he reveals a corruption plot within the jail.
Bride Price
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen – ‘one of modern crime fiction’s true heroes’ The Times
When jeweler Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweler’s home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions?
The Housekeeper
by Joy Fielding
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls “an ingenious master of domestic suspense.”
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Reader’s Digest
In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in.
Jodi Bishop knows success. She’s the breadwinner, a top-notch real estate agent. Her husband, Harrison . . . not so much. Once, he had big dreams. But now, he’s a middling writer who resents his wife’s success.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
It’s Youngstown, Ohio, 1962. They call it “Bomb City, USA” for good reason.
When a car bomb rocks the neighborhood and a bloody, severed foot—still wearing its shoe and argyle sock—lands on his roof, retired Mafia cleaner Nunzio sees an opportunity. The foot belongs to Salvatore, a mob turncoat who stole a pile of cash before “losing his breathing license” in a spectacular car bombing. Scribbled on the foot’s arch? A cryptic code that might lead to the missing loot.
Dance of Dreams
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, two ballet artists whose performances grace the world’s most famous stages discover a more passionate connection when they engage in a Dance of Dreams.
Five years have passed since prima ballerina Ruth Bannion joined the company founded by Russian choreographer Nikolai Davidov. Five years of intense training and conditioning to achieve the physical perfection her impulsive mentor demands of all his dancers. Five years as student and teacher before appearing on stage as equals in a sensual ballet that will inspire Ruth to break through Nikolai’s reserves so they can finally share their hearts’ desires for one another.
Your Next Breath
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Your Next Breath is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen
Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again.
The Final Storm
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $9.529 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In an exciting and richly moving new standalone page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, an acclaimed photographer who has overcome her difficult past is suddenly faced with a test of all her courage and resilience.
In her award-winning wildlife photographs, Charlotte Gray captures all the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Far better to focus on breathtaking landscapes than to turn the lens on her own painful childhood and the uncaring mother she left behind in Florida. Piece by piece, Charlotte has built a new, independent life, one she’s eager to protect.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Easter Bunny Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A sleuth keeps her ear to the ground in this mystery by the New York Times-bestselling author: “Delightful…Cozy fans will enjoy Lucy’s hunt for the truth.”—Publishers Weekly
With a harsh Maine winter finally over, Lucy Stone is excited to cover the annual Easter egg hunt for the Tinker’s Cove Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at her oceanfront estate, it’s a swanky event where the eggs are as likely to contain savings bonds as jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives at Pine Point, the gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges, only to drop dead moments later…
Her Cold Justice
by Robert Dugoni
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
To save a client accused of murder, defense attorney Keera Duggan must fight a complex web of corruption in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend are murdered in their home. When a young man named Michael Westbrook is accused of the brutal double homicide, his uncle JP Harrison turns to Keera Duggan to defend him. JP is Keera’s trusted investigator, and he desperately needs Keera to save his nephew against escalating odds.
Belshazzar’s Daughter
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A secret worth killing for…
Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul’s decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man’s blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer’s flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian émigré, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for…
In My Mind’s Eye Complete Series
by Kelli Robyns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s been drawing him in her dreams for twenty years. But destiny isn’t always what it seems.
Ivy Lewis thought her visions were just nightmares—until the stranger from her childhood sketches walks into her San Francisco tarot shop. Lucien Grey is impossibly real, devastatingly beautiful, and claims they’re fated mates bound across lifetimes. Their telepathic connection ignites with terrifying intensity, thoughts bleeding together until she can’t tell where she ends and he begins.
But the man who promised her destiny is hiding dangerous secrets…
The Friend of the Family
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, a girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving story about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love.
The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
It’s Youngstown, Ohio, 1962. They call it “Bomb City, USA” for good reason.
When a car bomb rocks the neighborhood and a bloody, severed foot—still wearing its shoe and argyle sock—lands on his roof, retired Mafia cleaner Nunzio sees an opportunity. The foot belongs to Salvatore, a mob turncoat who stole a pile of cash before “losing his breathing license” in a spectacular car bombing. Scribbled on the foot’s arch? A cryptic code that might lead to the missing loot.
Iberia
by James A. Michener
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Revenge Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Lucas Davenport must track down a ruthless Russian hit team, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
Leonard Summers – not his real name – is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard, his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service’s Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard’s family is transported to Minneapolis. The plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow.
Mexican Hat
by Michael McGarrity
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With his dazzling debut, Tularosa, Michael McGarrity was hailed “a born storyteller” (Denver Post)—and introduced readers to a memorable new hero, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney. Now, featuring his vivid feel for the southwest, McGarrity’s second gripping novel hurls Kerney onto the toughest case of his life.
Taking a job as a seasonal forest ranger in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, Kevin Kerney is looking forward to a quiet summer high in the mountains. But the murder of a Mexican tourist, and the discovery of a disoriented old man in the wild, thrust Kerney into an investigation that will carry him back in time to a sixty-year-old feud between two land-rich brothers, Edgar and Eugene Cox.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Allure of Elegance
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Luxury, lies, and danger in the unexpected places…
In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern mystery series weaves together atypical tales set in the idyllic Amish country of Paradise, PA.
Two years ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise. Now, she works as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster and is pulled into a web of lies and luxury when a bold theft targets expensive designer items. Despite her training, she struggles with self-doubt and is swayed by the allure of the opulent world.
The Witching Hours
by Heather Graham
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A haunting murder and kidnapping on the outskirts of Salem, Massachusetts, sends two people with unique talents hunting for answers from both the past and present in internationally bestselling author Heather Graham’s electrifying new Krewe of Hunters spin off for fans of Stephen King, Jayne Ann Krentz, Riley Sager, and Simone St. James.
Skye McMahon sees things. Good and bad, the past unreels in her mind’s eye like a movie. Such is Skye’s uncanny life. That’s why she’s been summoned by Special Supervisory paranormal investigators Jackson and Angela Crowe, to help solve a mystifying murder and kidnapping on the outskirts of historic Salem.
Boom!Town
by Robert Pondillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Bob Pondillo is back!The award-winning screenwriter and author returns with a hilariously dark crime story,BOOM!Town—a satire of every mob movie you’ve ever seen!
It’s a bonkers tale packed with noir comedy and mayhem! If you’re looking for a slow-burn mystery forget it! This mob parody moves like a runaway train!
Think The Sopranos meet the Coen Brothers. Fargo with Godfather-style mob-speak. A dark, character-driven dramedy where loyalty is deadly, family is everything, and sometimes the only way out is through a hive of angry bees.
All the Dangerous Things
by Stacy Willingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things.
One year ago, Isabelle Drake’s life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her—literally.
Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn’t slept in a year.
The Last Survivors
by Robert J Walker
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The locks just failed. Every cell. Every gate. Every door between civilization and 2,000 of the most violent criminals in the country. George Cannon, former Marine and correctional officer, knows exactly what happens next.
He’s got minutes to get out and a mountain homestead waiting if he can make it.
But first, he has to survive the prison.
An Act of Kindness
by Barbara Nadel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London’s East End. But their latest case could have devastating consequences.
A new client, Nasreen, has sought Hakim’s help. Recently moved to a new house, and with a baby on the way, this should be an exciting time- but Nasreen has made friends in the community that she cannot tell her husband, Abdullah, about. And when a murder takes place close to their home, Nasreen suspects that Abdullah also has something to hide.
City of Death
by Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS – the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII.
After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to volunteer as a humanitarian on the front lines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Iraqi Army and his fellow volunteers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets – all to retrieve wounded civilians.
The Season of the Hyaena
by Paul Doherty
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mysterious stranger appears in the Nile Delta – has the Emperor Akhaten returned to Egypt?
Capturing Ancient Egypt in all its beauty and brutality, Paul Doherty’s powerful novel, The Season of the Hyaena, brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the hyaena world, in which the ally standing beside you at one moment may turn the next. Perfect for fans of Christian Jacqs and Wilbur Smith.