Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Anything For A Mystery
by Cynthia Hickey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A dead body. A nosy romance author. A neighborhood full of secrets.
Stormi Nelson, bestselling romance author, moves into her grand Victorian house in Oak Meadows Estates looking for peace, quiet, and inspiration. Instead, she becomes the only member of her brand-new Neighborhood Watch program.
On her very first night of patrol, Stormi stumbles over a dead body. Suddenly, her once-exclusive community is a crime scene—and she’s in the middle of it.
Enter her handsome detective neighbor, who’s not thrilled to have a mystery-loving writer interfering with his case…
Auroras & Ashes
by Boyd Craven III
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Faith, Family, and Fishing
Trapped. Attacked from all directions. Jordan Daniels felt the pressure long before the world ended. He was just trying to keep a promise to his late parents: live a good life, maintain the family cabin Up North. But peace was a luxury he couldn’t afford.
The cabin was meant to be his sanctuary, the place he pursued his love of fishing after his parents passed. Yet trouble found him relentlessly, tangling him in disputes with his ex-girlfriend, her family, and even his older and crankier neighbor…
Take it to the Limit Book Four
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Stillness of Murder – a Take it to the Limit series thriller
It begins on a cliff in Tennessee. Gunman D.J. Burnett intends to end two lives with one shove—Ethan and Mickey Jenks, husband-and-wife Nashville private investigators. Ethan fights back, saving Mickey from a deadly fall. But the cliffside struggle is only the beginning.
What begins as a hunt for answers in a legendary bar in the backwoods town of Gentry, Kentucky, spirals into a deadly trap of lies, threats, and family secrets buried for decades…
Take it to the Limit Book Four
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever—and his own deepest fears.
Alex Cross has investigated macabre crime scenes. But the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park look like ritualistic killings that mimic the work of vampires, a solution local police and the FBI are quick to dismiss.
Cross takes the case, sweeping him from Washington, DC, to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Los Angeles as he plunges into a netherworld of secret clubs, role-players, and posers…
Visitors to Victorville
by Norm Hulcher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A mysterious aircraft suddenly appears four miles above the Mojave Desert and touches down at a remote former Air Force base. Its arrival unlocks a centuries-old question. The shocking answer will reshape mankind forever.
A crisp, fast-paced novelette, Visitors to Victorville delivers an entertaining blend of mystery and intrigue. Its compelling characters and intricate plot twists will hold your attention while casting new perspectives on Earth’s place in the universe, faith, and mankind’s ultimate destiny.
Visitors to Victorville
by Norm Hulcher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you discovered everything you’ve been taught is a lie? For most of her life, seventeen-year-old Espie Hernandez’s world revolved around the Branch of Thomas, a cult-like haven in what’s left of a war-ravaged America. Their ruler, Reverent Father, keeps them safe from the Others, those outside the compound who wish to harm them. Espie questions what she’s been taught and finds herself banished from the compound. She’s thrust into the harsh world beyond their walls with the mission to prove the Others actually have a plot against them. When tensions escalate, Espie must figure out who to trust before everything she loves is torn apart.
“G” is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
G IS FOR GAME…
When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn’t heard from in six months, it’s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl’s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.
G IS FOR GUN…
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her – like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
Jack & Jill
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, join Alex Cross in a heart-stopping thrill ride as he pieces together the clues of two gruesome murders—before it’s too late. Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video show, Cross. In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre.
The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed “Jack and Jill” promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the rich and famous, and they will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out. Meanwhile, Washington, D. C. homicide detective Alex Cross is called to a murder scene only blocks from his house, far from the corridors of power where he spends his days.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Toy With Me
by Diane Kelly
Kindle $1.00 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Ciara relocates to a quaint North Carolina mountain town shortly before Christmas and takes a job in a classic toy shop, the last thing she expects is to end up investigating a robbery. But when someone steals the rent her attractive boss Nick owes to the landlord, the two are determined to work together to bring the culprit to justice. Can they solve the crime, or will only Santa know who’s stolen the money and ended up on his naughty list?
A Murder in Disguise
by Annalisa Russo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mask can hide more than just a face.
Chicago, 1928. Dulcie Nye, a writer for The Delineator Magazine, receives the opportunity of a lifetime: to write the memoir of a world-famous, beloved children’s book author. Birdie Blair plans to launch her final book at a glamorous New Year’s Eve masquerade ball—this season’s social event—a highly coveted invitation. Dulcie is eager to take on the project, but she recently learned that her former boyfriend, a Peaky Blinders gang leader, has followed her from England to the United States after she dared to end their relationship.
How can she focus on the gala with this issue? She might need to ask handsome Cameron O’Neil, the newest tenant at Archibald Lemon’s sprawling mansion, for help.
Cat & Mouse
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe, believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video show, Cross. Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered in his own home, the game of cat and mouse leads to one final trap. . .
“I” is for Innocent
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He’s smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court’s statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman’s ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake), is trying to divest David Barney of the profits of that murder. But time is running out, and David Barney still swears he’s innocent.
Hope Valley
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When an EMP wipes out the power grid, the world goes dark and law and order vanish overnight. With no food, no water, and no government response, Emily Fairfield must fight to protect her children. Her daughter is trapped in a crumbling city, her son caught in the chaos, and danger is closing in from all sides. Alongside a wounded paramedic and the daughter of a mob boss, Emily risks everything to reunite her family. In a world without rules, survival will come at a cost.
Roses Are Red
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, Alex Cross is in a race against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, D. C.—and he faces down his most brilliant enemy yet. Inspiration for the heart-pounding Prime Video show, Cross. In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work; the pathological need for control and perfection is too great…
The Quiet Tenant
by Clémence Michallon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A PULSE-POUNDING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER NARRATED BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM: HIS 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HIS GIRLFRIEND—AND THE ONE VICTIM HE HAS SPARED
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New York town where he lives. He’s the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. But Aidan has a dark secret he’s been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He’s a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there’s a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed, fearing for her life.
Across the Sea of Suns
by Gregory Benford
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The second volume in the classic hard sci-fi series by the renowned physicist and Nebula Award–winning author: “So good it hurts” (Washington Post Book World).
Technology has propelled the world into a new age of enlightenment. Nigel has left Earth to explore space and search for alien life. But while on this captivating mission, humanity’s birthplace has fallen prey to attack and its seas are seeded with alien lifeforms. Now, Nigel is left to search for the only savior he knows—the one who saved him once before—the alien machine called the “Snark.”
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Crime and Cherry Pits
by Amanda Flower
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cherry festival. A shocking death. A second chance for a beloved family farm—if Shiloh Bellamy can keep her name off the suspect list.
Shiloh has poured her soul into saving her family’s Michigan orchard, so finally landing a booth at the Traverse City Cherry Farm Market feels like a dream. But as rivalries simmer and secrets threaten to burst, the festival takes a sinister turn: a respected drama professor collapses during the famed cherry pit-spitting contest, and Shiloh is drawn straight into the heart of another small-town mystery.
“F” is for Fugitive
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Floral Beach wasn’t much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.
The people of floral Beach didn’t pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been properly processed and convicted. They weren’t even unduly concerned when, a year after the murder, Fowler walked away from the men’s prison at San Luis Obispo, never to be seen again. After all, everyone knew Jean had been a wild kid.
EMP Deep Freeze
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the aftermath of an EMP that plunges the world into darkness, Susan will do anything to protect her younger brother, Ronnie. Battling through plane wreckage and chaos, their only hope lies in reaching a remote family cabin, but danger lurks at every turn.
When they join forces with a former soldier on his own desperate search, the stakes rise as ruthless militias and a mysterious “safe haven” threaten everything. As trust fades and a dark truth comes to light, Susan must fight not just to survive, but to lead.
By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep.
But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him…or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee–before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.
Pale Gray for Guilt
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee’s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of influential movers and shakers. Then he’s found dead. For a big man, Tush was a pussycat: devoted to his wife and three kids and always optimistic about his business – even when things were at their worst. So even though his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy.
Carousel Grift
by David Lane Williams
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Callie Wind, single mom and owner of a quirky Texas amusement park, dreams of a carousel life, but her dead patriarch is determined to keep her on a chaotic thrill ride. He delights in their spectral arguments from beyond the grave.
Her estranged daughter Sophie—now a televangelist with a knack for pyramid schemes—wriggles her way back into Callie’s life with plans to turn the park into a shrine to her own ego. Caught between the old man’s ghostly antics and Sophie’s snake oil scams, Callie’s life is like snow cone syrup on pony droppings.
Yuletide Threat
by Margaret Daley, Valerie Hansen, Laura Scott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Standoff at Christmas by Margaret Daley: Anchorage K-9 officer Jake Nichols returns home for Christmas to recover from the accident that almost killed him—and find some peace. But those plans are shattered when childhood friend Rachel Hart gets caught up in a drug-smuggling ring after her aunt is murdered…
Christmas Escape by Valerie Hansen: veterinary assistant Rachel Fielding and her niece spend the holidays hiding from a killer with her boss, Kyle Roarke, and a capable K-9.
Yuletide Target by Laura Scott: someone’s gunning for Senior Airman Jacey Burke and her trusty K-9. But Staff Sergeant Sean Morris will do anything to keep her safe for Christmas.
The Spectacular
by Fiona Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes – the glamorous precision-dancing troupe – she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer.
The Blacksmith
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Five years ago Tobias “TJ” Jackman shot a corrupt marshal in self-defense. He served five years for it, and now that he’s out, he’s never going back. Once, he was a blacksmith. Now, he’s a man trying to stay ahead of his own mistakes.
When he rides into San Carvo, all he wants is a fresh start and honest work. Instead, he finds Alyssa Welch. She’s sharp-minded, stubborn, and running a freight yard on the edge of ruin. Alyssa hires him out of desperation, not trust. He stays for the same reason.
The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2
From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for—or rather, demands—the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Strangers Among Us
by L.R. Wright
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A teenager arrested for his parents’ murder has a Canadian cop investigating the dark heart of his sunny seaside village in this acclaimed mystery series.
Vancouver’s “Sunshine Coast” is famous for its beautiful vistas, but closer inspection reveals a strong dose of dysfunction among its quaint villages. Eliot Gardener is maddeningly sullen as only an angry fourteen-year-old can be. He’s also, apparently, a double-murderer, having whacked both of his parents with a machete. At least it’s an open and shut case for Canadian Mountie Karl Alberg. Or is it?
Poor Table Manners
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dawson and Lucy hit Cape Town… and Cape Town hits back
When their new employer dies in a suspicious road accident and his brother, a South African government lawyer disappears in Cape Town, Dawson and Lucy are recalled to MI6. For once their mission is straightforward: liaise with Rebecca Erasmus of South African State Security and find the missing lawyer. Then Rebecca is kidnapped. Surely this has nothing to do with the forthcoming presidential election and the vengeful Chinese assassin in town…
Code Name Camelot
by David Archer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience and without the ability to function as a normal human being. With the help of childhood friends, he learns to watch others around him and mimic their behaviors, in order to conceal the fact that his mind operates more like a computer that he has spent years programming. That program is what allows Noah to pass himself off as normal, by establishing parameters of right and wrong that are completely inviolable to him.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he’d been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity’s offices.
To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn’t like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.
The Moth Catcher
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane—a lonely place to die.
When DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. What the two victims seem to have in common is a fascination with studying moths—and with catching these beautiful, intriguing creatures.
McNally’s Chance
by Lawrence Sanders, Vincent Lardo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bestselling author Sabrina Wright wants dapper detective Archy McNally to find her husband, who vanished while looking for her MIA daughter—it may seem like a simple case, but McNally knows it’s never that easy.
Thirty-year-old Gillian Wright ran off to find her birth father, opening a Pandora’s box of scandalous revelations the tabloids can’t resist. It seems that Sabrina’s life was a bigger fiction than her bodice-ripping romances. Before her story is over, three powerful men with damning secrets could be outed . . . and murder will be the denouement. As McNally stumbles on one cover-up after another, he has one last chance to catch a killer who will stop at nothing to protect his name.
Dark Angel
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Letty Davenport’s days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas—and her incredible skills with firearms—draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant partner from the NSA pose as free-spirited programmers for hire and embark on a cross country road trip to the group’s California headquarters.
Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.
Owen
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Owen rides into Buffalo Springs looking for a new beginning. What he finds is hell on earth.
Buffalo Springs, Texas, 1868: Judge Thad Sinclair rules with bullets and fear. His hired guns patrol the streets, his mines bleed Spiderback Canyon dry, and no one who tries to leave survives.
For the townsfolk, freedom is a dream paid for in blood.
A Confederate veteran hardened by war, Owen Kirkland won’t stand by while innocents suffer. With his frontier cunning and unflinching aim, he becomes the spark of rebellion against Sinclair’s empire of greed.
The 4 Forces of Growth
by Kevin N. Lawrence
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Why do some companies keep growing while others stall?
Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course.
Filled with on-the-ground examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.
The Threads of Becoming
by Tamara Hill
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A debut poetry collection that offers an intimate exploration of modern womanhood.
As a single mother, successful businesswoman, and global traveler, Tamara Hill doesn’t back down from hardship. In the face of sorrow, she’s become only more resilient and creative. In The Threads of Becoming, Tamara shares her hard-earned life lessons through a poetic lens that reflects on love and loss. “I have carved a life that is wholly mine,” she writes. “I am not waiting for rescue.”