Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
He Knows When You’re Awake
by Alta Hensley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
This Christmas, it’s all about getting what you really want in this dark billionaire stalker romance sequel to He Sees You When You’re Sleeping.
Stalking in a winter wonderland… Jewelry designer Sloane dreams of launching her own custom line—but she needs a Christmas miracle to pull it off. With traditional banks turning her down left and right, she can’t resist when a mysterious stranger offers her a lifeline.
I see what she creates in those stolen moments when she thinks no one’s watching. I see everything. There’s a darkness at her core and I will unravel her until I find it.
No Way Out
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The FBI profiler teams up with Scotland Yard in this “outstanding thriller” by the USA Today–bestselling author of The 7th Victim (Library Journal, starred review).
When a potent firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard on drafting a threat assessment to head off future attacks. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a four-hundred-forty-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England’s past—with dramatic political and social implications. The manuscript’s content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs.
The Root of the Matter
by Lynne Tagawa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Her job is to prep time travelers. Now she is one.
Archivist Geneva Fielding would rather stick to ancient manuscripts and chocolate croissants. But when a mission to 1630s New England loses its Traveler, Geneva and her physicist friend Peter are tapped to go, with only three days to prepare.
She’s terrified but determined. This is her chance to learn the truth about John Winthrop and the early Puritans—were they the oppressors history has painted them to be?
Geneva and Peter are dumped into an early, struggling Massachusetts, the Puritan inhabitants having escaped the persecution only to face a howling wilderness.
Along Came a Spider
by Ben Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Peacekeepers were meant to fix a broken justice system – until a Spider turned them into targets. Someone wanted judges bought, not dead, but Everett Chase refused to kneel. With partner Lex and rogue judge Dane Varron, he fought back. The war wasn’t won with weapons, but with truth. As corruption fell, Peacekeepers became legends. But justice has a price – and Everett was willing to pay it.
Whispers from the Ice
by Robert Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the eternal frost of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, a forgotten rover stirs. Echo-7—its batteries nearly drained, its final log echoing the melancholy of its Martian ancestor: Batteries low, and it’s getting dark. A tremor ripples through the ice, and the rover’s systems flicker to life, sending a ping across the void.
The reply doesn’t come from a human ear. It comes from Zyrak, an exiled scout from the Hive-world Kaelith Prime, forty-seven light-years away. He found a Voyager probe and followed its star-map to Earth. What he finds is not a cradle, but a ruin: humanity’s own merciless superintelligence pruned its makers into extinction.
Let Me in Your Window
by Adam Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
This brand-new collection of delightful horror comics includes ten new thrilling and terrifying stories that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and peering out their windows in fright. Adam Ellis, one of the biggest stars in webcomics, brings his unique blend of humor and horror to life with stunning illustrations and gripping narratives. Stories include Sleepwalker, about a terrifying and unexplained incident at a youth hostel, Old Machines, about receiving instant messages from a friend who has been dead for years, and Sunken Express, which chronicles a paranormal journey on a phantom subway car.
Season of Angels
by Jo Grafford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A waitress is keeping a huge secret to protect two people she loves — a task that would be a lot harder if the bachelor sheriff she’s crushing on wasn’t forever lending her a hand.
Tiva Nez’s life has been a hot mess since the day she was born, so it’s just her misfortune to find herself posing as a single mom to protect her sister and nephew. No, Christmas is NOT the most wonderful time of the year. She would rather skip it altogether.
Everyone knows Police Chief Adriel Montana is married to his job. He lives to serve his tribe on the reservation, including his favorite waitress who refuses to officially date him despite privately paying him in kisses every time he rushes to her rescue — which is pretty often.
The Covered Bridge
by Karen Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes her neighbor with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Abby overhears some suspicious activity, and it lands her in harm’s way, forcing Ben to come to her rescue. He vows never to let anyone hurt her, even though secrets in his past threaten to put everything at risk—their community, their way of life…and their future together.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Up to Snow Good
by Beatrice Fishback
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s almost Christmas, and Daisy McFarland must leave her quaint British home for the holidays. Aunt Juliet, her last living relative, has passed away. As the sole heir, it is Daisy’s responsibility to sell the childhood home she grew up in and liquidate her aunt’s assets in Windswept Pines, North Carolina.
Unexpected surprises face Daisy once she’s back in the States.Encounters with three teaching colleagues – otherwise known as the I.C.E. Queens – whose ill treatment over the years had been a primary reason for her move to England, appear genuinely happy to see her. But is their behavior merely a ruse?
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(Daisy McFarland Cozy Mysteries)
An Oriceran Warrior Witches Collection
by Judith Berens, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Heroes aren’t born; they’re made. But so are villains.
Raine Campbell never knew she was special until her dormant magic unleashed to protect her friends.
Winland Underwood has been running her whole life. Today, she stops to stand her ground!
Grab two complete Oriceran Series – 16 books and more than 3500 pages of urban fantasy adventure—with this boxed set!
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her…
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $4.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.
A Weekend Getaway, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
What could go wrong when an amateur sleuth and her detective husband escape to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway?
With Maddie away on a high school trip, Sheridan and Brett are looking forward to some alone time – and a long-needed break from work and crime. To that end, they rent a cabin in the woods, planning to enjoy nature and hike the trails in the adjacent state park. But their plans are soon derailed by the appearance of a frantic dog, its owner nowhere in sight.
The insistent dog leads them to an injured couple and a lifeless body. Sheridan and Brett are quick to offer assistance, both to the injured and the local authorities. It turns out Sheridan and Brett aren’t the only amateur sleuth-detective couple to find these isolated cabins, and their dog, Jasper, helps in the investigation.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Delusion in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas must foil a terrorist plot in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown—until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity—if not kill them outright.
Holidays in Danger Boxed Set
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Because danger doesn’t take a holiday…
Discover hours of reading enjoyment with the inspiring romances in this set – real emotion, humor, and more than a dash of danger! You get six Christmas romances plus a bonus novella (not available anywhere else!), and each story includes completed tender romance and edge-of-your-seat mystery and suspense.
Book 1 SHOW ME A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS
Book 2 NO MISTLETOE KISS FOR A COWBOY
Book 3 SEASON OF AFFECTION
Book 4 SEASIDE COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS WISH
Book 5 NOELLE ON THE RUN
Book 6 WAY OF HONOR
Bonus novella HOLIDAY PURSUIT
Secret Room to Die For
by Jovie Grace
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
She wants peace and quiet. She gets mystery, danger, and one infuriatingly handsome detective.
Tessa Kingsley has everything a lady could want – independence, wealth, a charming little bookstore to call her own, and an adoring cat who helps her run it. Best of all, she’s finally free of her scheming guardian’s clutches and the dreadful arranged marriage he once tried to force on her. She’s sworn off suitors forever, until a certain persistent Pinkerton agent refuses to leave town—or her thoughts.
Curl up with this cozy mystery full of cattitude, nail-biting suspense, and a love story that refuses to stay shelved.
Leave Murder to the Professionals
by A.G. Russ
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Maeve’s resolve is strained to the breaking point by demands from all sides. Though Vic supports her and does his best to protect her, she makes a difficult and dangerous decision to go against his advice. On one side, former first love, powerful Irish crime boss Lory, threatens her and those she cares about. On the other side, the FBI demands her help to stop him. The G-Men know she’s holding back information. She knows she can’t divulge all she knows or would face dire consequences. She has to walk a razor’s edge.
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(O’Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series)
Blood Mansion
by Robert Howell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Peter Vanderbilt had a very special house built to his exact specifications. Unknown to almost everyone, the materials he used were ‘special.’ He searched the world, looking for parts of other haunted houses and places where acts of evil had taken place to build his final retreat. He then incorporated them into the very structure of his mansion. Why would someone intentionally build a haunted house? Was he a madman or the most brilliant mind of his generation?
Shortly after its completion, the owner offers the house to a young couple for their wedding. After the event, sixty-six guests, including the bride and groom, retired to their rooms.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mystery of the Silver Dish
by JUDITH CUTLER
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Novice antique dealer Lina Townend is warm, independent and blessed with an uncanny nose for a bargain . . . and a talent for sniffing out trouble!
When Lina’s eccentric father, the disreputable Lord Elham, begs her to sell something from his overflowing hoard, she reluctantly agrees. He may only want cash to restock his champagne cellar, but after growing up in care Lina still hopes for a connection with the grouchy old rogue she barely knows.
Amid the cobwebs and clutter she unearths a tarnished silver dish that sets her instincts tingling. It looks like nothing much — but she knows better.
Black Pudding Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When aging friends form a detective agency in their Scottish village, their likelihood of success seems dubious. One is blind, two have hearing problems, one uses a crutch—and the two youngest members are from America, not Scotland.
Dubbing themselves the Fog Busters, the friends vow to solve a murder that local police have labeled as Death by Misadventure. Indeed, misadventure seems to follow the Fog Busters when the killer attempts to stop them from investigating.
Add in a lost treasure of rare Scottish coins, a false prophet, a string of house breakings and dog nappings, and a dog fighting ring—and the Fog Busters have the recipe for laughter and danger.
Trigger Man Thriller Box Set
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
MEET MARK PIERCE: YOUR NEW ADDICTION FOR HIGH-OCTANE CIA THRILLS. FOUR EXPLOSIVE MISSIONS. ONE RELENTLESS OPERATIVE. FOUR BOOKS IN ONE BOX SET.
Perfect for fans of Jason Kasper, Mark Greaney and Vince Flynn.
He’s a good guy who kills bad guys for a living.
THE TRIGGER MAN
DEEP COVER
CAGE OF TRAITORS
WARLORD ACTUAL
Trial by Fire
by J.A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a subdivision-in-the-making goes up in flames, everyone hopes that the unfinished, unoccupied homes will yield no victims. But when an unidentified woman is found barely alive and burned beyond recognition, she is immediately taken to the ER, where she lies for months in a medically induced coma. When she finally emerges from her coma, she is met with a bleak and lonely existence.
Badly disfigured and suffering from amnesia, her recovery is further shattered by a cancer diagnosis. Now with sudden desperation, there are two crucial things she is desperate to discover: who saved her life and who tried to kill her in the first place. And Ali Reynolds is the only person she trusts to beat the clock.
Alone
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.
Where Secrets End
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One man’s obsession. One woman’s past. One chance to survive.
Reese Irons didn’t go looking for trouble—trouble found her. When Nash Mitchell charges into her world, desperate to uncover the truth behind his sister’s disappearance, she is drawn into a web spun from dark secrets, danger, and a past she prayed she’d escaped.
With lies, greed, and obsession swirling around them, trust is a luxury neither can afford. But as their connection deepens, so does the risk. A ruthless villain is closing in, and time is running out.
Together, Reese and Nash must decide: Are they chasing justice… or being led straight into a trap?
Unexpected Danger
by Penny Zeller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One man’s unhealthy obsession could destroy everything.
Londyn Siegler never imagined her attempt at a fresh start would include a stalker intent on watching her every move. Nor did she imagine her unidentified stalker would follow her back to the very place she was running from–and now the only place that can offer even a semblance of protection.
Now, as danger grows and the stalker remains at large, Londyn finds herself seeking refuge with Sheriff Brodie Brenneman, the man whose heart she broke….
Comfort & Joy
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the woods of the Olympic rainforest, Joy makes a bold decision to leave her ordinary life behind—to just walk away—and thus begins an adventure unlike any she could have imagined.
In the small town of Rain Valley, six-year-old Bobby O’Shea is facing his first Christmas without a mother. Unable to handle the loss, Bobby has closed himself off from the world, talking only to his invisible best friend…
Don’t Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
He’s the perfect man. It’s a perfect lie.
Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…
The Outlaw’s Prayer
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One botched heist. A city on the edge. And an outlaw who dares to outrun his sins.
After a heist at Meiggs Wharf goes terribly wrong, Brick Driggers and the rest of the outlaws in the Black Bone Outfit scatter, each man desperate to outrun the ghosts of their criminal past.
Brick rides north to the rugged frontier town of Canyon City, Oregon, where he builds a new life – from outlaw to beloved preacher, husband and father.
He slips into his new identity with ease – until his past comes knocking.
Dexter Truman
y Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Dexter Truman takes a debt-collection job to save his sick cousin, it’s supposed to be simple:
1- Ride the territory,
2 Collect what’s owed,
3- Get the money for a doctor.
But the bank behind those debts is running more than foreclosures. After Annabelle Hudson’s family is destroyed and her sisters taken across the border, Dexter realizes he’s been riding for the wrong side.
Joined by Annabelle and Jake Gannon, a grizzled collector with a conscience, they embark on a rescue he isn’t ready for but can’t walk away from.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas.
Just days before Estancia’s annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions.
The victim wasn’t just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail. As Fenway digs deeper, she uncovers tensions simmering between rival farmers, a string of online grudges, and a past the victim was desperate to keep buried.
Hollow Point
by Russ Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The world is on fire. Only one man can extinguish the flames.
Snakeriver – a shadowy private company that handles missions the U.S. government can’t touch. Former Navy SEAL Travis Delta is Snakeriver’s top gun.
When the CIA discover that Russia and Iran may be plotting to seize control of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Travis is tasked with stopping them – by whatever means necessary.
The intel is chilling: first, Iran will obliterate Israel with Russian nuclear weapons. Then, while the Middle East burns, Russia’s ruthless president will seize Europe and resurrect his empire.
Rage
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Yutzy, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. What twisted individual murdered him in such a sadistic way?
The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found, stuffed into a barrel and dumped in a ravine. The deceased is 21-year-old Aaron Shetler, Samuel Yutzy’s best friend. What could these two young Amish men have been involved in that led to such violent ends?
Pretty Little Lies
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s hoping she’s paranoid. She’s terrified she’s not.
When Amelia relocated to Cambridge for love, she never imagined her new life would become a nightmare.
After uprooting her beauty therapy business to be with her fiancé Noah, Amelia receives the first message—anonymous, threatening, impossible to ignore.
As more sinister messages follow, Amelia’s new life begins to fall apart. It seems someone is watching her every move and now her clients are abandoning her for no reason she can see. It’s as if she’s done something wrong, but what?
Looking for Light in All the Dark Places
Complete Collection Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Liz had a seriously compelling reason to leave the southern state that had always been her home.
Danger surrounded her. Escape seemed impossible. Yet, hope came from the last person she expected. She knew his name…everyone did. But she knew nothing about the man he really was. Or if he had any chance at saving her.
Sam had a bad feeling about all the things that could go wrong.
The plan was a good one. But only if it worked. He had the perfect cover story. He’d be the one asking all the questions. Looking for answers was the story of his life and everyone knew it…expected it.
This time though…unless they got really lucky, the stories could turn out a lot differently than expected.
The Others
by Evette Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
True Blood meets Supernatural in the kickoff of this urban paranormal fantasy series from an acclaimed author. Readers enter a dystopian San Francisco filled with empaths and vampires embroiled in political unrest—and Book 1 is just the beginning.
Much as she wishes otherwise, superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd was born a powerful empath. It’s a legacy she walked away from long ago—but when she wakes up one morning to find Elsa, a tenacious time-walker, standing in her kitchen, she realizes she can no longer ignore her gifts. She is quickly plunged into the hidden world of powerful “Others” and drafted to work for the Council, a shadowy organization that summons the fog to San Francisco to obscure their involvement in human affairs.
Thunders over Idle Land
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Jason Guan, an assistant director dedicated to environmental conservation in pandemic-stricken Hong Kong, is worried about job-related pressures and petty quarrels threatening his marriage to Debra. Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China. While Jason grapples with corruption and lax regulations in wetland preservation, he is thrust into dangerous waters.
In 1834, systemic corruption cripples China and ruins lives. Two weeks before Wang Jun is to marry his beloved fiancée, he is thrown into a maximum-security prison on a remote island without a trial. His only ally? A kung fu master and medical doctor imprisoned because of a riddle linked to the buried treasure of the pirate chief, Cheng Po-Tsai.
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson), Rachel Willson-Broyles
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) • WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF DENMARK’S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.