Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
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Found
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling young adult series.
It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.
Hard Gray Eyes
by Jon Richards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A financial conspiracy. A dangerous secret. A team that refuses to back down.
What Jack Murphy thought was the banking opportunity of a lifetime turned into a humiliating arrest, a brutal prison term, and a Texas Hill Country shootout with a Mexican drug cartel.
With the help of alliances forged behind prison walls, a Texas Hill Country recluse, a wizened FBI agent willing to push limits, and the unwavering love and support of his wife, Murphy recovers millions in hidden cartel money — and orchestrates the downfall of those who engineered the false claims that sent him to prison.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others—even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages.
Away With the Fairies
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
It’s 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women’s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues’ deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos.,,
Juggler of Worlds
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings…
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth’s secret weapon, humanity’s best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential – and imaginary – of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth’s traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
Not Lost Forever
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this memoir of true crime and survival, a woman recounts the remarkable story of her father’s murderous rampage and how she was left for dead.
On April 14, 1989, in California’s idyllic Sonoma Valley, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a rampage, killing his wife, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and his wife’s suspected lover. Then he slashed the throats of his three young daughters—ages four years, three years, and twenty-two months—and left them for dead in the county dump. A day later, when the children’s bodies were finally discovered, three-year-old Carmina was miraculously still alive. “Daddy cut me,” she told her rescuers.
Loyal Justice
by Kayla Lowe
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Protection is easy. Trust is harder. Love is hardest of all.
K-9 officer Jack Hayes has always answered the call—but nothing prepares him for Samantha Cole, a woman on the run from an abusive ex. With danger around every corner and faith guiding their steps, Jack and Sam must learn to trust God, each other, and the courage in their own hearts. Because in Glory, justice is loyal—and love can be the greatest protection of all.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton finally receives the last gift from her mother just days before Christmas. While exploring Locke Pointe, she discovers her grandparents’ home holds not only secrets to her family’s past, but may also be the key to finding the priceless “Shifting Sands Medallion,” rumored to be hidden somewhere on the island.
After she finds a mysterious slip of paper with numbers written on it tucked behind her mother’s painting, Morgan is convinced it’s a clue her mother left for her years ago in order to help her in the present day…
A Matter of Circumstance
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
SUNSETS & SECRETS: After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abducted in broad daylight. With her captors demanding a ransom that no one can pay, Amanda’s hope dims and she begins to panic…
The New Deputy in Town by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels: Some days it appears that everyone in Whitehorse has a secret—including their new lawman, Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers. But falling for Laney Cavanaugh isn’t a good way to maintain a low profile, especially when Nick’s trying to solve an engagement party murder.
A Special Kind of Evil
by Blaine L. Pardoe, Victoria R. Hester
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For four years a killer, or killers, stalked Virginia’s Tidewater region, carefully selecting victims and terrorizing the local community. Again and again, young people in the prime of their lives were targeted. But the pattern that stitched these killings together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. The unknown predator, or predators, who stalked the Colonial Parkway seemingly disappeared.
Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases. Interviewing the victims’ family and friends, as well as members of law enforcement, they provide the most complete and in-depth look at these horrifying murders and disappearances…
The Janson Equation
by Douglas Corleone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory’s girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference.
When Janson and Kincaid realize they’re being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime—and the cover-up—were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea…
Show Me Betrayal
by Ellen E. Withers
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Two deaths occur decades apart. Is it possible these deaths are related? What motivates a killer, who got away with murder sixty years ago, to kill again? Was it uncontrollable rage or the hope of silencing someone who fit all the puzzle pieces together and deduced who committed the crime?
Set in the picturesque town of Mexico, Missouri, Show Me Betrayal takes flight in words and emotions of rich characters woven together into a story you won’t want to put down.
Cold Wind
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+
Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.
But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl’s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
The Billionaire and the Brooding Artist
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ben Archer doesn’t trust rich people – especially not Julia Whitmore, the powerful heiress who hired him to renovate her homes.
But when a storm traps them together, their arguments spark into something neither of them expected. One night changes everything.
When scandal and pride push them apart, Ben realizes too late that the one woman he tried to escape is the only one he can’t forget.
Now he’ll have to risk everything to prove their story didn’t end with the storm.
THE VAGUS NERVE RESET PROTOCOL
by Ava Walters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Stress is unavoidable. Resilience is trainable. Your vagus nerve is the bridge between the two.
If you feel wired but exhausted… calm one moment and triggered the next… or stuck in stress cycles you can’t break, your vagus nerve may be the missing link to restoring calm, clarity, and control.
The Vagus Nerve Reset Protocol is a practical, science-backed workbook that shows you how to activate your vagus nerve, improve vagal tone, and retrain your nervous system for real, lasting relief.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin.
The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The One Man
by Andrew Gross
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine.
Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war…
Dawn of Mankind
by John Walker, David Cooper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Commander Cassian Reeve expected his survey run to end the way it always did. Tag the rocks, log the readings, go home.
Then object four fifty-three rolls across his display. Its surface reads like ordinary nickel-iron. Its core says something else entirely. Whatever is buried inside that asteroid has been waiting a very long time.
Reeve makes one mistake. He tells his crew to drill.
The moment the bit touches that ancient shell, a pulse goes out. Somewhere far beyond human space, something old and patient opens its eyes. A silent vessel shifts course through systems no human has ever charted, and another faction, older and far less forgiving, is already closing in.
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
by Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo, James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author—perfect for fans of One Italian Summer.
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag.
Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. “Dr. Liz,” Laurie’s mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases.
Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is mystified, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape—with the help of two mysterious British diplomats—saves him from trial.
But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander’s life as he knows it. He returns to London hoping to win back his one-time fiancée and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn…
The Pieter Van In Mysteries
by Pieter Aspe
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Four gripping police procedurals set in Bruges, starring “a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).
Featuring the bad-tempered, libidinous, alcoholic but skilled police investigator Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In, these four gritty crime novels from a #1 international bestselling author reveal the darker side of the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges.
The Square of Revenge,
The Midas Murders,
From Bruges with Love,
The Fourth Figure
Rising Storm
by Edie James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Homecomings can be deadly.
When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations…none of them good.
What he doesn’t expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret.
After her husband’s sudden death, Alyssa Archer scrimped and saved to purchase the abandoned farmhouse on the prettiest hill in McKenzie Cove, but someone wants her off the land. If she won’t leave, she’ll die.
A Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz
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They’re making a major feature film of the first Hawthorne/Horowitz mystery novel. Except—they’re behind schedule, they’ve run out of money and . . . oh! The star has just been murdered.
Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne is dead.
Or, rather, the actor playing him in the film adaptation of The Word is Murder is. Rising star David Caine has been stabbed, and it seems that everyone on the set had a motive.
Caine had just fired his PA. He had fallen out with his director, slept with the screenwriter, humiliated his co-star and dropped his agent days before he was about to sign a multi-million-dollar deal to appear in the next Spider-Man movie.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime
by Vicki Delany
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Bookshop owner Gemma Doyle heads to London for a wedding, but when a body is found in connection with a rare book, Gemma sets out to sleuth the slaying in bestselling author Vicki Delany’s tenth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.
Gemma Doyle and her friends have packed their bags and headed to London for her sister Pippa’s wedding. Waiting for her in the hotel lobby is none other than Gemma’s ex-husband, Paul Erikson. Paul has a rare book he wants her to see – calling it “the real deal” – so Gemma agrees to meet him at their old shop, Trafalgar Fine Books, the following day. But when Gemma arrives, accompanied by Grant, a rare book dealer, they find Paul dead in his office.
Tarnished Relics
by AJ Titter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Bronze Medalist of the 2025 Global Book Awards for sword & sorcery
Finalist of the 2025 Storytrade Award for fantasy.
Justice is good. Revenge is power.
Amiir, one of the first born, seeks to dethrone his father Isteni, the creator. An ancient prophecy of Ouroby says there is a woman destined to bring Amiir victory. He has searched eons, waiting for a female seer born when the lorkiss and the swan are high in the night sky.
Attoria sees the future when she dreams. A rare gift in Halgrond, even rarer for a woman. When Attoria’s parents are cursed with a deadly illness, she is determined to get her revenge. But first, she needs to discover who is responsible.
Head Wounds
by Michael McGarrity
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Clayton Istee, son of retired police chief Kevin Kerney, goes up against an elusive Mexican hitman in a mesmerizing story of murder, revenge, and redemption.
Given a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a man and a woman, have been scalped with their throats cut.
The murders show all the signs of a signature hit, but national and state crime databases reveal no similar profiles…
Better Off Dead
by Michael Fleeman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The true story of the love triangle murder of Robert Limon—from the New York Times bestselling author of Missing . . . and Presumed Dead.
In Better off Dead, Michael Fleeman strips away the pleasant veneer of the Silver Lakes neighborhood in California’s high desert to tell a shocking story about a headline-grabbing crime.
A conversation with handsome young firefighter Jonathan Hearn leads Sabrina Limon, a vivacious blond mother of two, into a steamy affair that has them hooking up once and twice a week at her home, his home, and out in hidden spots in the vast Mojave.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating:4.5 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
Down Cemetery Road
by Mick Herron
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing.
Frustrated by the police, who seem more interested in keeping the neighbors from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her, and enlists the help of Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm. But their search reveals more secrets than answers. As Zoë and Sarah draw closer to the truth, they are caught in a web of conspiracy and come up against government forces, cold-blooded mercenaries and vengeful loners.
The Launch
by Terry Toler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
READ WHAT STARTED IT ALL! This novella started two award winning franchises. The Jamie Austen Spy Thrillers and The Eden Stories.
Jamie Austen is in college and has been looking for her father for two years. Adam Lang, Jamie’s father, has been looking for her, ever since he learned he has a daughter.
She knows where he is. Kennedy Space Center. Adam is an astronaut about to leave earth on a one-way journey to the ends of the universe. It’s a race against time. Will she make it before the launch? Will there even be a launch or will a terrorist fire a missile into the spacecraft killing thousands including her father?
Chess Tactics for Beginner
by Karl-Antoine Simoneau
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Do you want to become a better chess player but feel stuck making beginner mistakes? Do you want to quickly increase your skills and climb the ELO rankings? Then this book is for you!
Packed with 1200 carefully selected chess puzzles for adults in the 600-1200 ELO range, this guide shares hundreds of fundamental tactics and must-know strategies that you’ll encounter in real games.
Featuring large graphics with easy-to-read boards and answers at the bottom of every page, this chess manual shares fun activities and calculation exercises to help you build a strong foundation—so you can avoid game-losing beginner mistakes, spot tactical opportunities, and consistently gain the advantage.
True Crime
by Patricia Cornwell
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Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere, and Scarpetta’s began when Patricia Cornwell embedded herself in a morgue.
In this achingly honest memoir, Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham’s wife Ruth…