Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murders of a Feather
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine’s Day (and the fact that she’s alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities are in fact homicides…
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is never static. Just when you think you finally have everything under control, that illusion is shattered…and the life you once knew has spun off in unimaginable directions.
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California. After Ally dies with her mother by her side, Kate assumes custody of Glory, the four-year-old granddaughter she never knew she had; however, she soon discovers that Glory is selectively mute and seemingly traumatized…
Without Merit
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.
Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.
The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
The Ice Limit
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking them.
Buried Starship
by Anthony J. Melchiorri
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Some ships are meant to stay buried. Veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne thought his warfighting days were over when humanity fell to the alien Overlords.
Now he smuggles outlawed medical tech under the Overlords’ oppressive rule, doing whatever it takes to keep his family safe and alive. But when a routine job leads him to a remote space station blasted to ruins, Jace uncovers a secret the Overlords tried to erase after the war: evidence of ancient alien technology powerful enough to challenge their empire.
The Overlords move fast. His family is imprisoned. Jace is marked for elimination.
Worse Than Murder
by Michael Wood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As DCI Matilda Darke unravels a chilling cold case, she discovers some truths are deadly – and someone will stop at nothing to keep the past buried…
‘Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths
RUNNING FROM HER PAST
Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving DCI Matilda Darke finds solace in the wild, untamed beauty of the Lake District. But she can’t outrun her reputation.
A COLD CASE
The Dark Side of Midnight
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Now appearing for the first time together, three of Sidney Sheldon’s number one bestselling novels—The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, and Bloodline—are featured in this celebratory collection.
The Other Side of Midnight is Sidney Sheldon at his best. This page-turner is full of tortured romantic entanglements, reverses of fortune, thrilling suspense, and ultimate justice. In Paris, Washington, and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star . . . and as Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Kindred Spirits at Harling Hall
by Sharon Booth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Can Callie give some needy ghosts their happy-ever-afterlife, while making Rowan Vale her own forever home?
When single mum Callie visits Rowan Vale with her daughter, she is enchanted. The beautiful Cotswold village is run as a living museum, allowing tourists to see history in action. But there’s more to the place than meets the eye…
To the residents’ surprise, Callie is observed talking to several villagers she simply shouldn’t be able to see – as they’re ghosts.
Big Lies in a Small Town
by Diane Chamberlain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately…
North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina…
Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam’s regime.
Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn’t end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam’s rule–and a potent threat to the Syrian president’s powerful wife.
The Last Housewife
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.
While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub, Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?
In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.
But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever…
Out of Bounds
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself.
Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems.
The Last Widow
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mysterious kidnapping. On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s been vanished into thin air.
A devastating explosion. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhoods has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC.
A diabolical enemy
Sea Glass made with Second Chances
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the small beach town of Serenity by the Sea, Kassidy Russo tells a lie. Not a big lie that would harm other people. The kind of lie that causes a small inconvenience no larger than dripping ice cream on a hot day. At least that’s how she sees it.
She’ll come clean to her estranged sisters soon enough, but first she must convince them to stay in Serenity, keep their late father’s failing tavern, and clear out his neglected home filled with years of trash and junk. Before she does any of that, she should ask herself; when everything begins with a lie, how can it end with the truth?
Grant Hawkins arrives in Serenity by the Sea under a falsehood. His brother deceived him. But Grant agrees to stay a few weeks because his secret hides well in a quaint town with interesting residents. He also owes his brother this one last try to save what Grant has broken. And maybe he stays because the pretty woman in the tavern needs his help.
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Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Scone Cold Dead
by Maddie Day
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a body is found in a local farmer’s field, country store and café owner Robbie Jordan suspects that a newcomer in South Lick, Indiana, may not be a stranger to everyone in town . . .
Robbie is just weeks away from giving birth. While her husband Abe scrambles to get the house ready for their baby’s arrival, Robbie makes last minute arrangements to keep her shop and restaurant, Pans ’N Pancakes, up and running when she’s on maternity leave. And it seems Robbie and Abe aren’t the only ones grappling with anxiety—a stranger is causing a stir in town and Robbie’s Aunt Adele appears unusually preoccupied at the baby shower . . .
The Rabbit Hunter
by Lars Kepler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR • Another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series: It’s up to Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer to untangle one of the most complex cases of their career, and follow a killer’s trail of destruction back to one horrific night of violence.
It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white. Tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to…
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?
She does flaky things. She falls into a hole that isn’t there. She gets lost in a newly remodeled restaurant and uses the toilet in the house next to it…
The Sixes
by Kate White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Phoebe Hall’s Manhattan life is unexpectedly derailed off the fast track when her long-term boyfriend leaves her just as she is accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to pick up the pieces, Phoebe jumps at the offer to teach at a small private college run by her former boarding school roommate and close friend Glenda in a sleepy Pennsylvania town.
But behind the campus’s quiet cafés and looming maple trees lies something darker. The body of a junior co-ed washes up from the nearby river, and soon rumors begin to swirl of of past crimes and abuses wrought by a disturbing secret society known as The Sixes.
The Last Owners
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Missing persons and half a million dollars in jewelry…
When Courtney purchases a quaint house in the countryside, her dreams of transforming it into a cozy, inviting inn appear within reach. But beneath the charming exterior lurks a tangle of dark secrets. The previous owners vanished without a trace—eight years ago. Their story is anything but forgotten.
Driven by curiosity and a sense of justice, Courtney and her husband Alex team up with Gary, the desperate son of the missing couple, to unravel the chilling mystery. The clock is ticking—rumors swirl of a stolen fortune: half a million dollars in glittering jewelry, lost the very night Gary’s parents disappeared. Now, with the promise of treasure drawing fortune hunters to dig up the tranquil backyard, danger is never far away. And when a fresh murder shatters the peace, Courtney realizes that the truth might be buried even deeper than she feared…
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.10 Rating: 4.0 #ad
As Poirot investigates the curious circumstances surrounding the flat, he uncovers a series of peculiar events and unexpected connections. Agatha Christie’s signature wit and clever plotting shine through as Poirot unravels the layers of deception and intrigue.
This short story offers readers a captivating glimpse into Poirot’s deductive prowess and the author’s ability to craft engaging mysteries even within the confines of a brief narrative.
Midnight Offensive
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A stolen biological weapon, a terror network’s countdown, and two hearts caught in the crossfire when millions of lives hang in the balance.
ER nurse Sadie Kline wasn’t looking for love, or even a night out, when her roommate talked her into a blind date. She’s shocked when her date turns out to be Craig Malone, her childhood neighbor and brother’s best friend—now a Homeland Security agent. What starts as an awkward reunion spirals into danger. Craig is protecting a virologist developing an antidote to a stolen biological weapon, but when Sadie crosses paths with a suspect in her ER, she lands in the sights of a terror network with millions at stake.
The Perfect Divorce
by Jeneva Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?
The Silver Serpent
by Paul Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sixteen-year-old Tommy Baxter will do whatever it takes to avoid attention at his English boarding school, where everyone but him is destined for greatness.
His whole world changes when he’s chosen for the school’s prestigious annual tournament – an expedition into the Amazon jungle in search of a legendary lost city.
Teamed with three brilliant classmates, Tommy is plunged into a 500-year-old quest that could rewrite world history and untangle his own mysterious past.
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Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knave of Diamonds
by Laurie R. King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.
When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.
The Haunting of the Hadley House
by JS Donovan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A family murdered. A mansion haunted. Detective Rachel Harroway can see the dead, and they’re begging her to find the killer who still walks among the living.
In 1983, a family of four was murdered in the remote Hadley House, a Queen Anne mansion in the North Carolina mountains. Decades later, Rachel and Brett Harroway buy the abandoned estate, ignoring local warnings. As they renovate, strange clues, ghostly music, and lurking figures awaken the house’s dark past. This chilling prequel launches the Rachel Harroway series with Southern Gothic suspense and supernatural terror.
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. Will he help Alex Morse catch a killer? Or is he the next one to fall victim to a deadly trap of sex, lies, and murder?
Red as Blood
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped. If Flosi doesn’t agree to pay an enormous ransom, Gudrun will be killed.
Forbidden from contacting the police, he gets in touch with Áróra, who specialises in finding hidden assets, and she, alongside her detective friend Daniel, try to get to the bottom of the case without anyone catching on…
Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam’s regime.
Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn’t end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam’s rule–and a potent threat to the Syrian president’s powerful wife.
Remain
by Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain…
Doomsday Conspiracy
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Navy Commander Robert Bellamy investigates the crash of a NATO weather balloon in the Swiss Alps and soon realizes that it contains more than just hot air when a lethal force hunts him down
U.S. Navy Commander Robert Bellamy is tasked with locating witnesses to a crashed weather balloon in the Swiss Alps, only to uncover “Operation Doomsday”—a global plot to silence them and hide alien contact demanding an end to Earth’s pollution. Hunted by assassins led by the enigmatic Janus, Bellamy races across continents in a pulse-pounding fight for survival and planetary salvation.
Ginger Never Cried
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dancer, Travis Blaszkiewicz (AKA SWAY) had two passions in his life: his childhood friend and dance partner, Katy, and dancing with the legendary Ginger Rogers. The problem was that Ginger Rogers died before Sway was even born. However, strong passions can lead to amazing things, and Sway finds himself face-to-face with the object of his dreams, Ginger Rogers, in front of the old RKO Picture Studio actor’s entrance. Sway and Ginger quickly become close friends as he gets a job as a stagehand for one of her and Fred Astaire’s pictures.
Meanwhile, Sway still has business in his own time, rehearsing with Katy for the IDO dance competitions, and fighting his own demons for his feelings between her and Ginger Rogers in the past.
Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s
by Renée Brown Harmon MD
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A compassionate memoir of younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease with thoughtful guidelines for caregivers.
On a family vacation in 2009, Dr. Renée Brown Harmon felt the first jolt of fear that something might be wrong. How could her husband, Harvey, a highly intelligent physician, marathon runner, and devoted father, be struggling to keep up with their guide’s simple instructions or unable to do simple math to calculate their daughter’s age? The heartbreaking truth was confirmed nine months later when he was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease at age fifty.
Soon after, Harmon felt she had no choice but to inform the state medical board that it was no longer safe for her husband to see patients in their shared practice. Suddenly forced to manage both the family and business they’d built together, she stayed afloat by leaning on friends, family, and her faith through Harvey’s illness…