Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangerous Inspiration
by Greg Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini’s perceptions. But can it help him find the killer?
Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric – and possibly violent — creative people come together at an elite artists’ colony in rural Vermont, murders occur in rapid succession and suspicion falls on everyone as Mezini unearths the founding family’s secrets.
The Moment She Left
by Susan Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Kesterly-on-Sea is full of secrets. Some are darker than others; many are shameful. One is even deadly.
Andee is an ex-detective whose marriage is breaking up. So when a young female student disappears without trace, she throws herself into the search.
Meanwhile, the town’s beloved Rowzee Cayne has just discovered that she is terminally ill, and doesn’t want to burden her family and friends with the news.
The Final Witness
by Thomas Britten
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the truth becomes treason, one voice dares to speak.
In a world determined to forget God and where defiance can mean death, sixteen-year-old David fights to hold onto the truth. As the Academy he attends seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of faith in the old religion, cryptic chalkboard messages, and an unlikely friendship spark David’s resolve. As the world hurtles toward its final reckoning, can he withstand the opposition and become the final witness before the moment that changes everything?
The Hollow Man
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he’s been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge.
But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run–from his mind, from his past, from himself–hoping to find peace in isolation. Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across a dark and dangerous America.
Jefferson’s Ashes
by K. R. Eckert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
~150 years ago, in the unreconstructed south, a group of powerful families form an organization for the protection of the old plantation way of life. In a climactic moment of terror, they murder a man who shouldn’t exist, a man whose very life could change history. Then the group vanishes into time.
~150 years later, young idealist Will Benning discovers his own family’s involvement with this group. Horrified, Benning flees his Southern home and heads for a friend in Boston. Hounded and desperate, he sells a box of odd and seemingly unrelated possessions, including two valuable Jefferson Bibles and a glass bottle filled with a strange dirt-like substance to rare book dealer, and ex-con, Quincy Adams Caine. That night, Benning is murdered, and Caine’s shop is burglarized. The bottle vanishes.
Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate’s shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights…
But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life—and the new love—that he has finally found for himself.
Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.
by Megan Margherio
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
This isn’t a survival story. It’s what comes after.
Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning. invites you into the long, aching aftermath of trauma, the part most stories skip.
In fragmented vignettes, raw inner dialogue, and poetic reflections, Megan doesn’t just tell you what happened. She lets you into her mind as it unravels, remembers, resists, and rebuilds.
This book doesn’t offer a before-and-after arc or a neat conclusion tied with a bow. Instead, it brings you into the in-between; the place where healing isn’t linear, and becoming whole means learning how to live alongside what hurt you.
Hope Rises
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after becoming an informant for the FBI against a global criminal operation headed up by Victoria Steers. Steers has ripped everything Nash held dear away from him. He has nothing left to lose and with long, rigorous training under his belt the gentle and sensitive Nash has transformed into something he never thought he’d be: a physically imposing man with lethal skills. And now he has only goal left in life: taking down Victoria Steers.
Red Sheet
by James Ellroy
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“The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some of Ellroy’s best work.” —NPR
It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.
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Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Breath
by Kimberly Belle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It’s the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own dark past.
Sixteen years ago, Gia’s father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now that he’s back home and dying of cancer, Gia must care for him and reluctantly resumes the role of daughter to the town’s most infamous murderer. Gia’s old wounds are ripped open as protesters show up on the lawn and death threats are hurled at her, turning her own personal tragedy, once again, into front-page news.
Breaking Point
by Suzy Spencer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter, “a classic true-crime tapestry” (Ron Franscell, bestselling author of The Darkest Night).
Andrea Yates, a suburban Houston mother of five, horrified the nation on June 20, 2001, when she dialed 911 and said, “I killed my children.”
While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the police to confess her sin.
The Guardians of Legacy Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
Beneath Boston’s Old North Church, someone unearthed the wrong relic — and now America’s only known mummy is awake and hunting.
Captain Leah Morgan’s newly formed Legacy Operations Command has one job: find the missing artifact that puts it back to sleep before a centuries-old secret society uses the chaos to resurrect a Revolutionary War spy with a very old grudge.
Racing through hidden history, deadly conspiracies, and the ghosts of her own past, Leah is learning fast that some secrets don’t stay buried — they come back with teeth.
Agents of Innocence
by David Ignatius
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius’s reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers.
Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
The Gathering Dark
by Brett Armstrong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After a thousand years of light, darkness covers the Lowlands.
Jason has spent his life running from the past. But when it finally catches up to him, he takes refuge in a strange inn—and hears a story that shouldn’t matter… yet changes everything.
It’s the story of Anargen.
A young man bound by loyalty to the legendary High King of All Realms, Anargen is called away from everything he loves to fulfill a dangerous mission. Alongside his mentor, Cinaed, he journeys north to broker peace between two ancient enemies—the men of Ecthelowall and the dwarfs of Ordumair…
Woman Down
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.
Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she’s been uninspired to write ever since.
Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It’s Petra’s last-ditch attempt to save her career—and herself.
Guardian
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Robby’s guardian angel, Charmeine was born in Heaven just prior to her charge. His special Angel of Harmony came to the earthly plane to watch over him all the days of his centenarian life—and beyond.
From childhood through the Great Depression and as a soldier during World War II, to his life as a St. Louis police officer, Charmeine was by his side. She guided him against a temptress demon and was with him through two remarkable women during his long life.
Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell.
The Mirror
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger.
Rocket’s Red Glare
by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of special operators. They are ex-Special Forces, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. Phillips is a brilliant strategist and battle-tested leader who inspires total loyalty in his team. Now these decorated veterans of international warfare are at home and on stand-by—until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder.
Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of Mission: Impossible. Emergency operations happening not overseas but in the centers of American power, from Nantucket to Washington, DC. This national crisis is real.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Knocks Twice
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Seconded from rainy London to the sweltering heat of the Caribbean island of Saint Marie, DI Richard Poole would rather be having a pint at his local pub.
But when a body is discovered at the Beaumont plantation, DI Poole must put aside his woes and solve the murder. Despite the fact the victim was found in a locked room holding a smoking gun, Poole is convinced this is not a suicide.
When another body turns up the hunt is on for the killer, and the evasive Beaumont family are rather suspiciously no help at all…
American Kingpin
by Nick Bilton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye.
It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction.
Search the Shadows
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An orphaned woman searches for the truth about her past before she’s robbed of a future in this classic gothic mystery by a New York Times bestseller.
Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers—and a personal history—brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness, Haskell’s exposing much more than she bargained for.
Fighting for Tessa
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tessa Callahan, a professional violinist, ran away to avoid the consequences of her bad decision. Except even the beautiful Colorado Rockies can’t mend the pieces of her broken heart. It’s going to take so much more…
Heath Falco, a wildland firefighter and new bodyguard, has loved only one woman. He destroyed any chance of a life with her. When he’s asked to save Tessa from a wildfire, of course he goes and with no illusions that things between them will change.
Tessa and Heath are forced to escape the deadly blaze on foot with the fire in fast pursuit, promising to devour everything in its path. But the fire isn’t their only enemy…
Finding Angus
by L.K. Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond…
Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.
Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s.
Easy Go
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER
Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself.
But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement…
Poetry Inspired by Art
by Sabinah Adewole
Kindle $5.38 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Artisitic, Reflective and Healing Poetry
Where art breathes, words emerge. This debut poetry collection is inspired by art- by the colors, textures, and silent stories found in unexpected places. From the streets of Camden to quiet moments of reflection, Sabinah’s poems are born from observation, compassion, and a deep love for creativity in its many forms. From The Look of Doom Town to Spring, each poem captures a feeling, a memory, or a moment that lingers-inviting readers to see the world a little differently. Sabinah is a writer and visual artist with a passion for using creativity to connect, uplift, and inspire…
Odds Are It’s Marketing
by Shanise Ling
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Want marketing that works? Stop selling and start connecting.
Forget the buzzwords and the hot new tactics. Good marketing is choosing the message and channel that actually land with audiences. So what do you say, and how do you know it will work? The marketing that wins is rooted in simple principles: Be authentic, speak to a real audience, and make it resonate. The challenge is turning those principles into a narrative strategy that performs in the real world. Because marketing shifts. People shift. Platforms shift. You need a framework that’s built to adapt.
Deadly Exposure
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
His sister has been kidnapped. A disgraced woman is targetted. Who is telling the truth?
Navy SEAL Bradley Harris returns home to find his sister, Senator Rachel Harris, has been abducted. The FBI’s prime suspect is Alexis Calvert, Rachel’s best friend and the woman he gave his heart to long ago. Proving she’s innocent is going to be tough. Especially when he realizes the truth behind Alexis’s public shaming. Bradley must get his sister back and protect the woman he loves before the worst happens…and he loses everything. Get it now.
Daybreak
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Dallas detective wins the lottery—but his heart still belongs to the girl next door.
Dallas homicide detective Gunner Kingston enjoys his job and thinks he’s all set until a gifted lottery ticket turns out to be a winner. Determined to keep his winnings under wraps, he plans to escape the spotlight. But when a dangerous case pushes him to the edge, it’s childhood friend Holly Dillion who becomes his anchor—and his greatest temptation.
Returning to the small town where they first fell in love, Gunner finds more than safety; he finds a future worth risking everything for.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curiously Convenient Demise
by Hannah Hendy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The higher the bid, the heavier the price.
Summerview Secondary School is holding its annual charity auction. Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are on hand to prepare delicious baked goods for the big day with the assistance of Clementine’s mysterious sister, Maria.
As the auction begins, chaos erupts when Eleanor Black, the owner of Dewstow Museum, is found murdered in the stage storeroom. Maria has vanished. Her fingerprints cover the crime scene.
The Perfect Couple
by Jackie Kabler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The perfect couple … or the perfect lie?
A devoted wife… A year ago, Gemma met the love of her life, Danny. Since then, their relationship has been perfect. But one evening, Danny doesn’t return home.
A missing husband… Gemma turns to the police. She is horrified by what she discovers – a serial killer is on the loose in Bristol. When she sees photos of the victims she is even more stunned…they all look just like Danny.
Who would you believe?
Escaping the Dashia
by Rebecca Inch-Partridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Discovering who you are can be dangerous—even deadly.
Twyla’s been living in hiding on Earth, hoping to leave her past behind.
But when her mother, Madam Cassiopeia DeConnett finds her and kidnaps her back to the Paraxous Star Cluster, she expects her daughter to take her rightful place within the family business. The DeConnetts are Dashia—a group of genetically- engineered telepaths who use their powers to control some and ruin others. Their criminal organization is rich, powerful, and spans The Cluster.
Parallel Roads
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the spring of 1946 comes, Katherine Callahan decides to leave her loving husband and newborn baby so that she may embark upon an unknowingly tragic journey across the famous American highway from Chicago to her sister’s home in Burbank. She never does arrive.
Fast forward into the present, Kevin Callahan, Katherine’s grandson, along with his best friend Cheryl Bachman, traces his grandmother’s steps along the now decommissioned road to uncover the mystery surrounding her disappearance. They are armed with only a handful of postcards from Katherine and a Victorian secret code involving postage stamps surrounding a mysterious man from her past.
Keeper of the Bride
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
If Nina Cormier’s wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasn’t until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realized someone actually wanted to kill her. But who?
That’s what Detective Sam Navarro has to find out…fast. With a nightmare unfolding all around them, Sam and Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: they are at the mercy of a brilliant madman, one who is playing for keeps.…
The End of the World As We Know It
by Christopher Golden, Brian Keene, Stephen King
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
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An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!
Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.
Deadly Greed
by Joe Sharkey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The true crime story of a Boston man who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man—the case behind HBO’s Murder in Boston.
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community.
Wait and See
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
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.