Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Christmas Murder in Merrywell
by Jane Bettany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cosy, festive murder mystery to curl up with in front of the fire, for fans of Clare Chase and Katie Gayle.
In the charming village of Merrywell, an exciting new Christmas Market is bringing festive cheer and bustling crowds. But as the stallholders celebrate in the village bookshop at the end of a successful first day, someone rushes in to announce that a body has been found.
Once again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Violet Brewster is on hand to offer the police her astute – if perhaps unwelcome – opinion on the crime…
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN. As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event.
Creep
by Jennifer Hillier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A popular psychology professor in Seattle, Sheila works hard to keep her secrets hidden. On the surface, she’s an expert in human behavior and a well-liked educator, but nobody knows she’s a recovering sex addict in therapy—not even the love of her life, Morris. And she needs it to stay that way, or she could lose everything.
But Ethan Wolfe is impossible to resist. The graduate student is brilliant, charming, and seductive as hell. He’s also Sheila’s teaching assistant, and thirteen years her junior…
True Evil
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard’s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead. Then comes Morse’s bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about.
Instant Replays of the Exodus
by Christopher Gazeent
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
FOUR MISFITS. Red, a rebel and aspiring writer who’s probably too smart for his own good. Bones, who is bipolar and trying to find a place for himself in the world. Jim, a charismatic, loveable dork. And Ox, a hardcore introvert who loves music more than anything. Back in the day, they were the best of friends. Now, a decade later, Ox has lost his battle with depression, Jim has disappeared, and Bones wants nothing to do with Red.
Then there’s Kev, a young gay man who happens to be a goth and a furry, and Rich, a slacker with autism. Will wrongs ever be righted? Can they?
The London Bookshop Affair
by Louise Fein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war.
London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony…
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
Broken Love
by Linda Robinson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Physically mistreated by her spouse, Jennifer Tadlock changes her appearance, runs, and is hiding out in a home for abused women when she’s hired by Sheri Jenkins, owner of Serenity Cove, a bed-and-breakfast inn.
As Jennifer begins to relax in an apartment provided by Sheri and her husband Bradley, she longs to get her own identity back, but an ominous phone call from her estranged husband results in a setback of profound fear and insecurity.
Paul Mixon, a young, handsome landscaping contractor, who lost the love of his life to cancer two years before, is also employed by the inn. He’s made it through crippling grief at last and begins to think of dating, marrying, and raising a family when Jennifer catches his eye.
The Christmas Guest
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who is he?
When handsome author, Nate, moves into Laura’s picturesque guesthouse in coastal Maine, it seems like a holiday fairy tale.
Her quiet, comfortable life takes a new direction as they get to know each other. He seems too good to be true, and she can hardly believe how everything falls into place for them. As their romance blossoms, Laura questions what Nate is hiding from her. Who is he talking to in the middle of the night? Why is he so secretive?
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.”