Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Anna and the Grumpy Ghost
by Maggie March
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She sees dead people. He is dead people. And their canine companion has a few secrets of her own. Together, they’re Lockwood Cove’s most dysfunctional detective trio!
When aspiring romance novelist Anna McGuffin relocates to Lockwood Cove, she’s hoping for a quiet retreat to jumpstart her writing – not a haunted mansion complete with a grumpy ghost and a mischievous stray dachshund.
Anna’s lifelong secret? She can see the dead—a fact she’s managed to keep hidden from the world…
Winter Kill
by Joshua Harkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One little town. One deadly cult. So many ways to die.
Former Marine Frank Ranger has been a fugitive for two long years. Framed for his wife’s murder and relentlessly hunted, his search for the truth finally leads him to Aniatak, a frozen Alaskan outpost where winter never truly ends.
There he hopes to find Bruno Harris, the last surviving member of his old squad and the man who may hold the key to clearing his name…
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A Cry for Vengeance
by Ernesto Patino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Moments before he dies, terminally ill Karl Muller makes a startling deathbed confession: he admits to killing thousands of Jews during World War II. His nurse, Helen Dobson, is understandably shocked. She refers the matter to Bryan De Luca, a part-time professor with experience in international affairs.
De Luca soon learns that shortly after the war, Muller and dozens of former Nazis were recruited by American Intelligence to work as spies against the Soviets. De Luca also learns that Sam O’Hara, a former immigration investigator, had compiled a secret list of ex-Nazis in America—a list that so-called contractors hired to protect them are desperate to obtain.
Judge and Jury
by Stephen Penner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
Seattle attorney Dan Raine is hired by an old friend, Judge Michael Hawkins, to help with a delicate family matter. Hawkins’s son has been romancing Lydia Szabo, the daughter of a local crime lord, and now owes her brother a large sum of money.
The Szabo family is using this debt to blackmail the judge into a favorable verdict on an upcoming case. Raine’s job is to scare them off by digging up some serious dirt on their criminal empire. But before he can do it, Lydia is murdered and Judge Hawkins is found standing over her body, a smoking gun in his hand.
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(A Rain City Legal Thriller)
A Face to Die For
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s most intriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen.
Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world’s most beautiful woman. Professor Smith put his life on the line to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen.
Haint
by Samuel Brower
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
BLOOD RUNS DEEP IN THE HOLLER – AND SOMETHING HUNGRY WAITS IN THE DARK.
When the Haint’s Rest Mine caves in, eighteen men are trapped underground. But what crawls out of the dark isn’t human.
Sheriff Hunter Gallogly wants answers, but the bodies piling up across Haint’s Hollow tell their own story—throats ripped open, no blood left behind. His cousins, Greg and Bob, run the holler’s drug trade and don’t believe in monsters. But when their crew starts dying, denial isn’t an option.
End Game
by Jeffrey Archer
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William Warwick and Ross Hogan will return, for one last time, in a gripping and unputdownable finale. Available now!
London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games.
But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos.
Transforming Treatment
by Ryan Bauer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare: Transforming the Future of Medicine
In an era where technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives, healthcare stands on the brink of a revolution. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are no longer just buzzwords—they’re powerful tools poised to transform the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases.
This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey through the cutting-edge world of data and AI in healthcare…
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.