Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
Return, Ericka Stone Case #013
by Felicia Rogers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ericka Stone has succeeded in all measures of life. She’s been in the military. She’s become a police officer and detective for multiple police departments. She’s married the love of her life. Now all she wants to do is settle down to a simple life in a small town with her new name: Ericka Stone Kane. But the adage that expectations often set one up for failure has now become a reality.
When Greg and Ericka are let go from the small-town sheriff’s department in Clifton, Tennessee, their high expectations are exchanged for worry. Worry about meeting the bills.
Playing for the Ashes
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When milkman Martin Snell makes his usual delivery to fifteenth-century Celandine Cottage one morning in Kent, he expects to be greeted by the cottage’s sensual and seductive tenant, Gabriella Patten—not by the ugly remains of a fire pointing to a murder. As Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, begin their investigation, they soon find themselves in conflict with the local investigator—and discover ripples of shock spreading outward from the crime: from the victim’s husband, who claims indifference to her faithlessness, to the estranged wife of a member of the national cricket team, to an angry teenager, a former prostitute, and an ex-lover of Gabriella who has sworn her off to save his marriage.
The Last Hour
by Mason Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller Boxset
When the power goes out for good, chaos takes over. Evelyn Hart, a surgeon haunted by loss, must survive gangs, violence, and betrayal. With only her skills and courage, she faces a ruthless new world where every choice could mean life or death.
The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A man with a mysterious past must find a missing teenage girl in this shocking thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away.
Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Now an adult, he still doesn’t know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing.No one seems to take Naomi Pine’s disappearance seriously, not even her father—with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school.
The Long Burn
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
When an EMP kills the grid on Halloween, Lance Cooper races through a city of fire, fear, and violence to reach the people he loves.
“This book was very well written. No annoying typos. There was nonstop action and the characters were likeable. I hope there is more from this author. Great job! I read it in two days. It was that good.” by Amazon Customer
The Devoted Game
by Debra Webb
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A disgraced FBI agent is challenged to a life-or-death match by a deviously clever kidnapper in this propulsive novel by USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.
Former FBI agent Ryan McBride crashed and burned three years ago after a case took a fatal turn. He swore he was done with the Bureau forever—until Special Agent Vivian Grace shows up at his door with a new case he can’t refuse.
Six-year-old Alyssa Byrne has been kidnapped, and her abductor, alias Devoted Fan, has threatened to kill her in twenty-four hours. He promises to reveal the girl’s location to the FBI on one condition: He’ll only talk to McBride.
She Made a Mistake Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two worlds. One destiny.
Lord Dickus Kahn is unbeatable in the online gaming world, but in real life, Laith Kelso is a pushover—allowing his ex-girlfriend to walk all over him while she dates other men in their shared apartment.
His life changes forever when a mysterious portal sucks him into another world called Krish.
Pick up this complete trilogy today and journey between worlds with Laith where online gaming skills might just save humanity.
The Fourth Option
by Jack Carr, M.P. Woodward
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When law enforcement, the courts, and the prison system fail, there is a fourth and final option. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr launches a new thriller series cowritten with New York Times bestselling author M.P. Woodward.
Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker’s help. Thrust into a conspiracy that goes deeper than he ever imagined, Walker must go up against the system and the very Constitution he once swore an oath to support and defend in order to find justice for his friend’s widow.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
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Found
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling young adult series.
It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.
Hard Gray Eyes
by Jon Richards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A financial conspiracy. A dangerous secret. A team that refuses to back down.
What Jack Murphy thought was the banking opportunity of a lifetime turned into a humiliating arrest, a brutal prison term, and a Texas Hill Country shootout with a Mexican drug cartel.
With the help of alliances forged behind prison walls, a Texas Hill Country recluse, a wizened FBI agent willing to push limits, and the unwavering love and support of his wife, Murphy recovers millions in hidden cartel money — and orchestrates the downfall of those who engineered the false claims that sent him to prison.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others—even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages.
Away With the Fairies
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
It’s 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women’s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues’ deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos.,,
Juggler of Worlds
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings…
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth’s secret weapon, humanity’s best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential – and imaginary – of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth’s traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
Not Lost Forever
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this memoir of true crime and survival, a woman recounts the remarkable story of her father’s murderous rampage and how she was left for dead.
On April 14, 1989, in California’s idyllic Sonoma Valley, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a rampage, killing his wife, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and his wife’s suspected lover. Then he slashed the throats of his three young daughters—ages four years, three years, and twenty-two months—and left them for dead in the county dump. A day later, when the children’s bodies were finally discovered, three-year-old Carmina was miraculously still alive. “Daddy cut me,” she told her rescuers.
Loyal Justice
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Protection is easy. Trust is harder. Love is hardest of all.
K-9 officer Jack Hayes has always answered the call—but nothing prepares him for Samantha Cole, a woman on the run from an abusive ex. With danger around every corner and faith guiding their steps, Jack and Sam must learn to trust God, each other, and the courage in their own hearts. Because in Glory, justice is loyal—and love can be the greatest protection of all.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton finally receives the last gift from her mother just days before Christmas. While exploring Locke Pointe, she discovers her grandparents’ home holds not only secrets to her family’s past, but may also be the key to finding the priceless “Shifting Sands Medallion,” rumored to be hidden somewhere on the island.
After she finds a mysterious slip of paper with numbers written on it tucked behind her mother’s painting, Morgan is convinced it’s a clue her mother left for her years ago in order to help her in the present day…
A Matter of Circumstance
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
SUNSETS & SECRETS: After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abducted in broad daylight. With her captors demanding a ransom that no one can pay, Amanda’s hope dims and she begins to panic…
The New Deputy in Town by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels: Some days it appears that everyone in Whitehorse has a secret—including their new lawman, Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers. But falling for Laney Cavanaugh isn’t a good way to maintain a low profile, especially when Nick’s trying to solve an engagement party murder.
A Special Kind of Evil
by Blaine L. Pardoe, Victoria R. Hester
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For four years a killer, or killers, stalked Virginia’s Tidewater region, carefully selecting victims and terrorizing the local community. Again and again, young people in the prime of their lives were targeted. But the pattern that stitched these killings together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. The unknown predator, or predators, who stalked the Colonial Parkway seemingly disappeared.
Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases. Interviewing the victims’ family and friends, as well as members of law enforcement, they provide the most complete and in-depth look at these horrifying murders and disappearances…
The Janson Equation
by Douglas Corleone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory’s girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference.
When Janson and Kincaid realize they’re being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime—and the cover-up—were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea…
Show Me Betrayal
by Ellen E. Withers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Two deaths occur decades apart. Is it possible these deaths are related? What motivates a killer, who got away with murder sixty years ago, to kill again? Was it uncontrollable rage or the hope of silencing someone who fit all the puzzle pieces together and deduced who committed the crime?
Set in the picturesque town of Mexico, Missouri, Show Me Betrayal takes flight in words and emotions of rich characters woven together into a story you won’t want to put down.
Cold Wind
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+
Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.
But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl’s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
The Billionaire and the Brooding Artist
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ben Archer doesn’t trust rich people – especially not Julia Whitmore, the powerful heiress who hired him to renovate her homes.
But when a storm traps them together, their arguments spark into something neither of them expected. One night changes everything.
When scandal and pride push them apart, Ben realizes too late that the one woman he tried to escape is the only one he can’t forget.
Now he’ll have to risk everything to prove their story didn’t end with the storm.
THE VAGUS NERVE RESET PROTOCOL
by Ava Walters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Stress is unavoidable. Resilience is trainable. Your vagus nerve is the bridge between the two.
If you feel wired but exhausted… calm one moment and triggered the next… or stuck in stress cycles you can’t break, your vagus nerve may be the missing link to restoring calm, clarity, and control.
The Vagus Nerve Reset Protocol is a practical, science-backed workbook that shows you how to activate your vagus nerve, improve vagal tone, and retrain your nervous system for real, lasting relief.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin.
The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The One Man
by Andrew Gross
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine.
Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war…
Dawn of Mankind
by John Walker, David Cooper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Commander Cassian Reeve expected his survey run to end the way it always did. Tag the rocks, log the readings, go home.
Then object four fifty-three rolls across his display. Its surface reads like ordinary nickel-iron. Its core says something else entirely. Whatever is buried inside that asteroid has been waiting a very long time.
Reeve makes one mistake. He tells his crew to drill.
The moment the bit touches that ancient shell, a pulse goes out. Somewhere far beyond human space, something old and patient opens its eyes. A silent vessel shifts course through systems no human has ever charted, and another faction, older and far less forgiving, is already closing in.
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
by Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo, James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author—perfect for fans of One Italian Summer.
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag.
Every mother has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. “Dr. Liz,” Laurie’s mother, is an elegant perfectionist who travels the world with a matched set of suitcases.
Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is mystified, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape—with the help of two mysterious British diplomats—saves him from trial.
But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander’s life as he knows it. He returns to London hoping to win back his one-time fiancée and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn…
The Pieter Van In Mysteries
by Pieter Aspe
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Four gripping police procedurals set in Bruges, starring “a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).
Featuring the bad-tempered, libidinous, alcoholic but skilled police investigator Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In, these four gritty crime novels from a #1 international bestselling author reveal the darker side of the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges.
The Square of Revenge,
The Midas Murders,
From Bruges with Love,
The Fourth Figure
Rising Storm
by Edie James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Homecomings can be deadly.
When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations…none of them good.
What he doesn’t expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret.
After her husband’s sudden death, Alyssa Archer scrimped and saved to purchase the abandoned farmhouse on the prettiest hill in McKenzie Cove, but someone wants her off the land. If she won’t leave, she’ll die.
A Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz
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They’re making a major feature film of the first Hawthorne/Horowitz mystery novel. Except—they’re behind schedule, they’ve run out of money and . . . oh! The star has just been murdered.
Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne is dead.
Or, rather, the actor playing him in the film adaptation of The Word is Murder is. Rising star David Caine has been stabbed, and it seems that everyone on the set had a motive.
Caine had just fired his PA. He had fallen out with his director, slept with the screenwriter, humiliated his co-star and dropped his agent days before he was about to sign a multi-million-dollar deal to appear in the next Spider-Man movie.