Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Spotted Dog
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Another mystery book from Kerry Greenwood, internationally bestselling author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries! Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow…
Rising at four o’clock every morning isn’t Corinna Chapman’s favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn feels even harsher when a man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog is missing, Corinna and her longtime companion, Daniel, feel compelled to help. It soon becomes clear, though, that they have gotten involved in something much bigger and more complicated than they had bargained for…
Whispering Rain
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Caleb Reed’s latest case seems straightforward at first: missing four-year-old girl, Bailey Moore. But things take a wicked turn when the parents give two very different stories. The mother insists her daughter disappeared last night, while the father claims she tragically died months ago in a car accident.
As Caleb digs deeper, he finds himself caught between two conflicting realities, unsure who—or what—to believe. This case might not be his most high-profile or challenging on the surface, but it’s shaping up to be one of his most bizarre ones.
The Cruelest Month
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.
It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . .
When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil—until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?
Blood in the Snow
by Tom Henderson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine’s Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person’s report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family? Was she involved with another man?
Stephen’s frantic, emotional search for Tara made national headlines, and the case was featured on Dateline among other television shows and news outlets. But key elements in Stephen’s story still weren’t adding up: Why did he wait five days to go to police? What was the nature of his relationship with his children’s beautiful, nineteen-year-old babysitter? Why did Stephen have cuts on his hands, and random bruises? Then, the police made a gruesome discovery.
The Last Surgeon
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Michael Palmer’s novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a Gulf War vet suffering from PTSD, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his war buddy, who was plucked from the streets by the military four years ago for a secret mission and has not been seen since.
Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sister’s killer. She does not believe that the ICU nurse took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she did—every bit save one. Her sister has left Gillian a subtle clue that connects her with Nick Garrity.
The Loudest Place on Earth
by Ken Ziegler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Only Ludwig can save the fairies—if he can be bothered to.
Long before sirens and subways, New York’s first residents—noise-loathing fairies—fled underground to escape the city’s ever-increasing roar. Now, after centuries of failed plots to bring silence to the city, they’re trying something new: hiring a human.
When Ludwig, a comfort-obsessed slacker, begins hearing a word no one else remembers speaking, he follows its trail to a hidden fairy society beneath Times Square. There, he meets An Exalted Northwind, a fairy enchantress determined to forgo her species’ signature fondness for cruelty in favor of peacefully reclaiming the surface. But she can’t do it without a human go-between.
Lies
by T. M. Logan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife’s car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend’s husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious.
Now, Joe’s life is unraveling. His wife has lied to him. Her deception has put their entire family in jeopardy. The man she met at the hotel has vanished. And as the police investigate his disappearance, suspicion falls on Joe.
City of the Dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The past comes back to haunt psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when they investigate a grisly double homicide and uncover an even more unspeakable motive in this riveting novel from the bestselling master of suspense.
Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead…
White Wolf
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this cutting-edge installment of the acclaimed thriller series, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader thrusts readers into a world where power is being redefined by a revolutionary communication program that renders modern encryption obsolete, one that will topple global power structures and give rise to technology-driven totalitarian states.
Evan Ryder races against time in a landscape where secrets can no longer hide behind digital walls. Ilona Shokova, the elusive, deadly assassin White Wolf, holds the key to mastering this unhackable method.
Agent Merit
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The gold is fake. The murder is real. And a town built on lies.
When U.S. Secret Service agent Merit Malone rides into the Texas border town of Falcon Ridge, he’s tracking thirty thousand dollars in stolen payroll gold.
What he finds instead is a murder, a flood of counterfeit coins, and a town that survives on silence.
The locals claim ignorance. The sheriff blames an Apache woman. And a powerful rancher named Kerrigan seems to own half the valley – and everyone in it.
Paradox
by Douglas Preston, Aletheia Preston
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
One of the holiest relics in Christendom, inexplicably defaced…
A paranoid old prospector, ritualistically murdered…
A controversial exobiologist, tortured and dismembered…
When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cat’s Garden of Secrets
by Jacqueline Diamond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A talking cat, a magical library, and a young woman with awakening powers, plus a murder to solve! Escape to an enchanted village in this charming blend of fantasy and whodunit.
On the weirdest day of a 19-year-old orphan’s life, her cat starts speaking, her car kidnaps her, and she inherits a bookshop-archive in a hidden small town. As she uncovers secrets and meets quirky characters, she struggles to master supernatural gifts before her grandmother’s killer catches up with her…
The Wrong Mother
by Charlotte Duckworth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One mother on the run. A safe place to hide. But you can’t escape the past forever . . .
Faye is 39 and single. She’s terrified she may never have the one thing she always wanted: a child of her own.
Then she discovers a co-parenting app: Acorns. For men and women who want to have a baby, but don’t want to do it alone. When she meets Louis through it, it feels as though the fates have aligned.
But just one year later, Faye is on the run from Louis, with baby Jake in tow. In desperate need of a new place to live, she contacts Rachel, who’s renting out a room in her remote Norfolk cottage. It’s all Faye can afford – and surely she’ll be safe from Louis there?
The Tenth Circle
by Jon Land
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Blaine McCracken races to stop terrorists from unleashing an ancient weapon of unimaginable power at the president’s State of the Union speech
Blaine McCracken pulled off the impossible on a mission in Iran, but his work has just begun. Returning to the US, he faces another terrible threat in the form of Reverend Jeremiah Rule, whose hateful rhetoric has inflamed half the world, resulting in a series of devastating terrorist attacks. But Rule isn’t acting alone. A shadowy cabal is pulling his strings, unaware that they are creating a monster who will soon spin free of their control…
Most Wanted
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Donor 3319 Profile:Tall. Blonde. Blue eyes. Medical Student. Wanted for Serial Murder.
Christine Nilsson and her husband, Marcus, are desperate for a baby. Unable to conceive, they find themselves facing a difficult choice they had never anticipated. After many appointments with specialists, endless research, and countless conversations, they make the decision to use a donor.
Two months pass, and Christine is happily pregnant. But one day, she is shocked to see a young blond man on the TV news being arrested for a series of brutal murders—and the blond man bears an undeniable and uncanny resemblance to her donor.
The Remaining: Fractured
by D. J. Molles
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
This is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain.
The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought. Inside the walls of Camp Ryder, a silent war is brewing, between those few that still support Lee’s vision of rebuilding, and the majority that support Jerry’s desire for isolation. But this war will not remain silent for long. And in this savage world, everyone will have to make a choice.
Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
Dead of Winter
by Anders de la Motte
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
‘Tightly plotted and dark with psychological suspense, intriguing characters and vivid milieus that never stop delivering’ KATRINE ENGBERG, author of the Korner and Werner series
IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
WINTER 1987
Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life…
You Had Me at Haiku
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
This book contains 101 thought-provoking haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between. The poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The author first encountered haiku in high school. He thought they were cool back then, as he does today.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
He’s hopeful that you will find these haiku poems both eloquent and entertaining.
The Faith of Beasts
by James S. A. Corey
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran’s command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered.
Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feared and despised by the very people he champions. Ruthless in carving out his niche in the eternal war machine of the empire, he will reshape human nature itself as a tool for their alien masters’ use. But Dafyd’s loyalty is not what it seems.
A Death in the Dark
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An assistant athletics coach is found murdered at Redwood Grove High School and all evidence points one way – but the Novel Detectives are about to face their most puzzling case yet.
When beloved local teacher and track coach Josh Bynum stumbles into the Secret Bookcase distressed and with no memory of the previous night, Annie’s and Fletcher’s instincts tell them something doesn’t add up.
As the duo delve deeper into the tight-knit world of high school athletics, they uncover a web of secrets. Between ambitious parents, suspicious fundraising activities, and a star athlete with a lot to lose, everyone has something to hide.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Second Helping of Crazy
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“I didn’t know what to expect (how many times have you read that?), but I was happily surprised by almost every story I read (I think there was one that was iffy). Wonderfully told, characters everyday people, great twists at the end that were actually unforeseeable. I think you’ll like this one, guys!” by Amazon Customer
The Ice Angels
by Caroline Mitchell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first in a new crime series with Nordic-noir elements featuring a compelling female detective, for fans of Lisa Jewell and Stieg Larsson, by New York Times bestselling author Caroline Mitchell
A deadly pattern: Jenny Flynn, Chelsea Hobbs, Sophie Miller. All three children were snatched from the streets of Lincoln, England years apart. All stolen in the bitter chill of winter. All on their way home from school. Then Sophie Miller is found. She’s not speaking, but she may hold a clue to the whereabouts of the missing girls, if someone can get her to open up. Some what reluctantly, Detective Swann calls in his not-quite ex-wife, the perfect woman for the job…
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI about her deceased mother.
Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
Metamorphosis
by Ross Jeffery, William Sterling, Truborn Press
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Metamorphosis is a haunting exploration of grief, obsession, and transformation. Cynthia, a woman who once thrived in her autonomy, now finds herself ensnared by a relentless desire to reclaim what she has lost.
Living a double life, she meticulously plans a path that blurs the lines between love and madness. Armed with a mask that reflects her inner turmoil, Cynthia descends into a world where reality and fantasy intertwine, revealing the dark depths of her psyche…
The Flamesworn Saga Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Monster hunting is a family business for the Fairbornes.
Maisie and her sister Sela have been trained by their mother to take down anything with claws, teeth, or dark magic, and they’re damn good at it.
After odious Alistair Bramble, the richest man in Draklûn Bay, threatens to take their home unless Maisie agrees to marry him, the sisters take the biggest job of their lives: a quest from King Rodmar of Valendar to find a legendary treasure buried deep in the mountains.
Enter Sir Castian. Grumpy, guarded, and infuriatingly noble. He’s assigned by the king to help them on their quest…
Dirty John and Other
True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
by Christopher Goffard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.
Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than twenty million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard…
Locked In
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this tenth installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling series, the team must solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out.
When the head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen’s Vestre prison, he realizes that a violent case from his past has finally caught up with him. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn’t talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison’s incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers.
Fatal
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into a lethal paranoia. In Belinda, West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers. Finding the link between these events could prove FATAL.
When the Wolves Are Silent
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.
London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself plunged into a murder investigation shadowed by tales of ancient human sacrifices and long-buried secrets.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mango Chili Cruiser
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Butler women are on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera to attend a shipboard wedding, looking forward to sipping margaritas in the sun. When Cassie’s friend, a rich heiress goes missing before the wedding, chaos ensues. Was it just wedding jitters or did something sinister happen to her?
Anna sets her grief aside and goes sleuthing again, accompanied by her debonair gentleman friend. Neither wedding guest nor family member escapes her scrutiny as she struggles to find a motive. The stakes are raised when the bride’s old beau meets a sticky end.
The Thicket
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Parker thought he’d already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas — orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula.
Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle’s farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack’s grandfather and kidnap his sister…
World of Warcraft: Thrall
by Christie Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Hour of Twilight has come.
The dragonflights sense a coming reckoning—an ancient threat tied to Deathwing and the breaking of the world itself. As Azeroth struggles to recover from devastation, Ysera and the other Aspects know that the greatest battle may still lie ahead. Yet the key to that battle is neither dragon nor titan—but a mortal who walks between worlds.
Thrall—former Warchief of the Horde, shaman, and champion of balance—must confront his destiny at the Maelstrom, where the elemental chaos unleashed by Deathwing threatens to consume Azeroth.
The Watch Mysteries: Books 1 – 3
by Kay DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three complete novels: The Watch on the Fencepost, Dead Man’s Watch, and Time After Tyme, from award-winning author Kay DiBianca.
The Watch
Dead Man’s Watch
Time After Tyme
“I enjoyed all three of the books. They have great characters and lots mysteries to be solved. I highly recommend this set of books” by Amazon Customer
And All the Saints
by Michael Walsh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the American Book Award for Fiction
His life of crime began at the age of ten, after he crossed the Atlantic with his family and landed in America. Starting as the leader of the most violent Irish street gang in Hell’s Kitchen, the young immigrant rose to prominence as the leading brewer and bootlegger in Prohibition-era New York. In due course, he also became Mae West’s lover; the founder and proprietor of the Cotton Club; the owner of five heavyweight champions; the man who gave his childhood friend George Raft his big break in Hollywood; and more.
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.
The Best Cadet
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Saint Michael’s Military Academy is a private school that needs a miracle. It has lost an unfair lawsuit and can no longer afford to continue operating. The administration does not know how to overcome this problem. A reason for hope arrives one day in the form of a very unlikely individual.
A defiant young man is forced by his wealthy family to attend the academy. Paul Wildman needs to attend the military academy to stay in good graces with his family. The academy needs the financial help this will provide.
As Good as the Best
by D. Novo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Power and Possibility Beyond C-PTSD
Your curiosity is your superpower. Your brain might have been wired for danger, yet you are still looking for answers. Still willing to move toward the unknown.
Still open. This book meets you where you are: not “broken,” not a “survivor”, but an exemplar of the power of the human spirit and the capacity to shape what comes next, on your own terms.
The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series
by Joe Giampaolo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century England with The Reader’s Companion to the Hampshire Stories Series, a delightful and concise guide to its rich history, traditions, and literature.
The book covers a variety of topics, including courtship and weddings, social calls, and dancing and parlour games. Readers can also explore the London Season, music and the performing arts, and learn about the monarchy and the nobility. Occupations, religion and the Church, and Christmas traditions all feature prominently. The book highlights typical English fare, fashion, modes of transportation, and the lives of the middle and upper classes.
Death Times Seven
by Anne Perry, Victoria Zackheim
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby’s mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, struggling with grief and disbelief, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman.
Daniel is convinced that Ward is innocent, yet the evidence seems to prove otherwise. Eager to assist, his pathologist wife, Miriam fford Croft, offers her forensics expertise and exposes a community of fellow pathologists who may have purposefully omitted information from their autopsy reports…
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
by Susan Patterson, James Patterson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime college friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books on their nightstands via 2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together …
So it’s an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by “Como-politans,” and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book club’s trademark “Night of Secrets.”