Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Snuffed
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick. What thorny secrets lie hidden beneath the blossoms?
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has invited guests to her Snodsbury estate for a charming party, featuring a tour of her newly rejuvenated rose gardens. The peaceful event quickly spirals into a vine of tangled mysteries and deadly secrets.
Can Lady Mary keep her party blooming, or will a hidden threat uproot everything?
Unnatural Death
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.
The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.
After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
Jupiter’s Ghost
by David Gwinn
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
2025 Storytrade Award Winner for Best Science Fiction
In the Orion Nebula, death is written in the stars.
Jóre, an alien outcast, joins the nebula whaling ship Jupiter’s Ghost—a vessel haunted by loss and hunted by something far worse. Whispers speak of the Great Blue, a monstrous whale that shatters steel and devours entire ships. In a crew bound by desperation and old grudges, trust is scarce and survival is a thin hope.
As Jupiter’s Ghost sails deeper into Orion Nebula, the line between hunter and hunted fades, and Jóre must decide how much of himself he’s willing to sacrifice for glory—and for revenge. Not all who sail into the nebula will return. Some dreams are meant to be swallowed whole
The Ophelia Cut
by John Lescroart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this riveting New York Times bestselling novel from the “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart, defense attorney Dismas Hardy tackles his most personal and complex case yet—defending his brother-in-law against murder charges.
When Moses McGuire becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his own daughter’s rapist, attorney Dismas Hardy—Moses’s brother-in-law—agrees to defend him. But McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers.
Times Change
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jacob Hornblower traveled from the twenty-third century back in time to find his brother. Against all reason, his sibling believes he has fallen in love and chosen to stay in the past. But Jacob’s plan to return them both to the future goes awry when he encounters Sunny Stone, a woman whose disposition is as cheerful—and exasperating—as her name.
Sunny knows there’s more to Jacob than his rigid code of living life by scientific fact alone. So she’s going to have to experiment to help him realize that feelings are just as valid as intellect—and that falling in love means following one’s heart.
City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme.
In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime.
N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, while grappling with a new partner and a passionate affair with the mysterious Venus Hernandez…
Crimson Lake
by Candice Fox
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Candice Fox’s thrilling Crimson Lake, the basis for the series Troppo starring Thomas Jane, now streaming on Prime Video!
How do you move on when the world won’t let you?
12:46: Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop
12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her
12:52: The girl is missing . . .
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.
Night Heron
by Adam Brookes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Set in China, and ripped from today’s headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.
Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing’s surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction.