Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #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…
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother’s apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat knotted tightly around her neck.
Over the next two years, twelve more bodies were discovered in and around Boston: all women, all sexually assaulted, and all strangled. None of the victims exhibited any signs of struggle, nothing was stolen from their homes, and there were no signs of forcible entry. The police could find no discernable motive or clues. Who was this madman? How was he entering women’s homes? And what insanity was driving him?
Eden in Winter
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine’s character to suture the deep wounds – both within his family and himself – torn open by the tragedy.
Moreover, as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine’s death continues, it is taking all of Adam’s cunning to protect those closest to him from figures who still suspect that Adam’s father was murdered by one of his kin.
But the sternest test of all is Adam’s proximity to Carla Pacelli – his late father’s mistress; and a woman who, despite being pivotal to his family’s plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn to.
Love to Die For
by Terry Toler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
International #1 Best Selling and Award Winning Author, Terry Toler, brings you the millionaire series. Books guaranteed to keep you turning the pages to find out what happens. All the story lines revolve around a mystery related to a millionaire. Clean fiction with faith-based theme.
Paige Wells joined the hit reality dating show Love Only hoping to find romance. But when a fellow contestant is found dead in the mansion, Paige must uncover the truth before she’s sent home for good. Not with a broken heart, but in handcuffs.
Bombproof
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Sami Macbeth is not a master criminal. He’s not even a minor one. He’s not a jewel thief. He’s not a safe-cracker. He’s not an expert in explosives. Sami plays guitar and wants to be a rock god but keeps getting sidetracked by unforeseen circumstances.
Fifty-four hours ago Sami was released from prison. Thirty-six hours ago, he slept with the woman of his dreams at the Savoy. An hour ago, his train blew up. Now he’s carrying a rucksack through London’s West End and has turned himself into the most wanted terrorist in the country.
The Sociopath Next Door
by Martha Stout Ph.D.
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.
Beyond Paydirt at Destiny’s End
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dive into a thrilling adventure of camping and gold prospecting as retired engineer Richard Hammer and his loyal companion Peggy Jacobs prospect in the Little Thunder Mountains. Their quest for gold leads to metal detecting, gold mining, and renewed romance, as they overcome claim-jumpers and wildlife, turning a mountain cabin into a lively base. They form a team working the “Lost Man’s Mine,” facing new challenges and excitement with each chapter.
Get ready for even more gold fever and adventure—sequel coming in 2026!
The Divorce
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Pre Order #ad
What is a happily ever after really worth?
Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family…
Then—he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something.An intricately plotted library whodunit that both cozy readers and librarians will love!” – Amanda Flower, author of the Magic Bookshop Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hands On Homicide
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Corky Hobbs never planned to solve a murder—especially not with her hands.
After a brush with death, small-town massage therapist Corky Hobbs wakes up with a strange new gift: when she touches someone, she sees their darkest secrets. Now, her peaceful life of hot stones and herbal tea isupended by visions she can’t explain—and a murder she can’t ignore.
When a beloved local turns up dead, Corky’s unusual ability may be the only clue to unmasking the killer. With her outspoken best friend Stella by her side, she dives headfirst into a swirl of small-town secrets, and hidden motives. But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Can Corky catch a killer before someone else’s secrets turn deadly?
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Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night
by James Runcie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950’s Cambridge.
Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called on to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamor photographer’s studio; and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler, in the middle of a crucial game of cricket…
Park Closes at Dusk
by D.W. Nathan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
They prowl the playground at night, looking for food, for anything to sink their teeth into. They are unlike any creature known to science. They have no sense of sympathy, no social structure. They kill and they eat. And they are hungry.
When Joe, recently paroled from prison, starts a new job as a park groundskeeper, he gets more than he bargained for. Now, Joe is trapped in a fight for survival with an enemy more bizarre and terrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora’s excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities…
Last Taste of Freedom
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The fight is coming home.
For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn’t as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father’s treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world.
Zander O’Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture.
The Final Witness
by Thomas Britten
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the truth becomes treason, one voice dares to speak.
In a world determined to forget God and where defiance can mean death, sixteen-year-old David fights to hold onto the truth. As the Academy he attends seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of faith in the old religion, cryptic chalkboard messages, and an unlikely friendship spark David’s resolve. As the world hurtles toward its final reckoning, can he withstand the opposition and become the final witness before the moment that changes everything?
The Raising
by Laura Kasischke
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
“Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.” – New York Times Book Review
From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.
Cruising the Mediterranean
by Al Lockwood, Sunny Lockwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shared passion for exploration. The Mediterranean trip of their dreams. There’s no better time for adventure than right now.
Enthusiastic explorers Al and Sunny Lockwood treasure the challenge and excitement of travel. From train rides through the Smokies to campouts in Yellowstone, they’ve documented their travel adventures to critical acclaim. With retirement, they expand their horizons and ship off for a new adventure in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Come along with Al and Sunny as they experience the dazzling beauty of the Greek Isles, the mouthwatering delights of Italian cuisine, the unique calls to prayer chanted from Istanbul’s minarets.
Infinite Graves
by J. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mack Bishop swallowed a bottle of pills in a hospital room in Nashville. She meant to die.
Instead, she woke up.
Not in the white room with its water-stained ceiling tiles. Not in her broken body. She woke up on her feet, in a city that almost looks like home, with legs that work and a life she doesn’t recognize – because it never existed until the moment she needed it. Her death didn’t end a thread. It spun a new one.
Quantum immortality: energy cannot die. It transforms. It jumps.
Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing.
An Ordinary Sort of Evil
by Kelley Armstrong
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body of a housemaid. She’s built a new life for herself. Even though she works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie, she considers them true friends. And with Gray in particular, perhaps, someday, something more.
Late one night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler, a patron of Gray’s undertaking business, and they assume there’s been a death in the household. But instead, they arrive in the midst of a seance with a ghost demanding Gray’s presence…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Marlow Murder Club
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One’s hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.
Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don’t believe her story. It’s an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can’t be left for dead like that.
The Poison Tree
by Alan Prendergast
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard’s seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed.
Devoted in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—initials inside reading “E” and “D”…
In Arkansas, Ella-Loo and her recently released ex-con boyfriend, Darryl, don’t ever intend to part again. So they hit the road, but then things get a little messy and they wind up killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again.
The Lost Bones
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
Deadly Hearts
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
EVERY BEAT – Mary Alford
CHAINED TO A DREAM – Julie Brown
TIME WILL TELL – Pamela Ferguson
THE INN AT CRANBERRY COVE – June Foster
SEE YOU IN 48 – Robin Densmore Fuson
HIDDEN DANGER – Gail Pallotta
VERDICT AT THE RIVER’S EDGE – Colleen Snyder
Fly, My Darling
by Lisa K. Richter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A soulful memoir of desire and a woman’s midlife quest to let go—in jazz and in life.
Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.
With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want?
Something Borrowed, Something Black
by Loren Estleman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller
Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slams his foot on the gas, sending the car into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a van, hops the curb, and crashes into a hotel, knocking Davis unconscious and breaking the neck of his would-be assassin. Davis can breathe again, but just for a moment. When the mob wants you dead, they’ll always send another killer.
Black House
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
The Temptation of Charlotte North
by Camilla Bruce
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life.
The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye.
And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all.
In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. . . .
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
THE FRENCH PARADOX
by Ellen Crosby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery’s French grandfather – until recently, a well-kept secret.
Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie’s neighbor and Jackie’s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie’s grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket’s 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She’s also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
Stay
by Jane Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It was meant to be Caitlin’s perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless.
When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she’s relieved – they seem so friendly, safe. And when they offer her a warm bed in their isolated house for the night, she’s grateful not to have to travel back alone in the dark. In any case, she’s in no rush to get home, where a grave secret is lying in wait to blow her family apart.
The Respian Man
by Mark Kadoshnikov, Sarah Kadoshnikov
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Time stops for the innocent people of Oswella, giving the Earthers amongst them all the power.
On Earth, the only thing Preston ever fought was his illness – now he battles a medieval army in an unfamiliar world. Armed with a lifetime of studying warfare, he hides behind the stolen armor of a mercenary officer in order to keep his secrets safe.
When a rogue Earther exploits the time delay, he shatters a nation’s faith, robs its treasury, and ignites a brutal war. Armies march, alliances fracture, and a dangerous shift in power throws the peaceful Isolated Isles into chaos.
Her quiet life uprooted, a tournament fighter seeks revenge for a crime she can’t remember, and the leader of a secret society searches for a missing colleague and the truths he’s discovered. Their journeys uncover a conspiracy far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.
Extinction C-14
by David Archer, Blake Banner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!
Two questions are eating Nero, the head of ODIN, the Office of the Director of Intelligence Networks: where is Dr. Billy Squire? Is he still alive?
He’s not the only one asking those question. The CIA want to know, so do the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. So does the President. And so does the Mossad.
A Killing in Amish Country
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed.
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite “bonnet” stories – romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she’d ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries – without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself “Amish Stud” and found no shortage of “English” women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church.
Glitz
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Elmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be—superior crime fiction the genre’s late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters
Mud Men
by J. A. Nunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Author J. A. Nunn returns with a sequel to his debut novel, The Stuff What Actually Is, chronicling the new adventures of young GI Mervyn Gower as he navigates his World War II posting to the Jim Crow South.
Mervyn Gower, a naive young Army draftee from an all-white immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, believes the best way to prove he’s a “real” American is in combat. Assigned to a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1942, Gower soon finds himself in hot water after a drunken brawl. Instead of being demoted or dishonorably discharged, however, he’s given a post that not enough qualified Black GIs can fill and that few white soldiers want—leader of a squad of Black recruits.
Beg for Mercy : The Collapse
by Jami Gray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The world didn’t end in fire and explosions, instead after an intensifying panic of disease, food shortages, wild weather, and floundering economies, it collapsed like slow falling dominoes, until what remained of humanity battles for survival in a harsh new reality.
After escaping a brutal betrayal that left his world of secrets soaked in blood, Math leads a handful of survivors on a mission of revenge. He’s spent years on his enemy’s trail, his focus crystal clear – until his nemesis changes the rules. When one of his own is used to bait an inevitable trap, Math must seek an alliance with Fate’s Vultures, an enigmatic crew guaranteed to screw with his long-held rule – rely on no one.
Subtraction
by K. W. Franklin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Can society survive in a world where humans live for generations?
Professor Herbert Blane’s Life-Extension Therapy (LET) has changed the world, allowing humans to live for centuries. The first recipients of LET—the so-called early generations—amassed wealth and power with no intention of ever stepping aside. Now, society is fractured. Younger generations find themselves scrambling for resources, forced into cities where skyscrapers stretch a mile into the sky, leaving streets in perpetual twilight.
As resentment deepens, the New Generations Initiative (NGI) – a covert network of disenfranchised scientists, engineers, and strategists – rises to challenge the ruling elite. Led by scientist Boris Bagan and joined by Cynthia Wu and Curtis James, two brilliant researchers from Blane’s own lab, NGI launches an underground movement that engages in daring acts of sabotage to fight for a future worth living for. But will their revolt be enough to heal a broken society? Will they be remembered as traitors . . . or the only ones brave enough to change the future?
The Crypto King’s Muse
by Francesca Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Crypto is risky. Love is riskier. But Charlotte is done playing it safe.
Charlotte Gordon-Lennox doesn’t have time to mourn her losses. Once a successful international fashion entrepreneur, she’s now buried in debt, hustling for survival in the volatile world of cryptocurrency. When a job at Riverbank—a powerful crypto platform—promises financial salvation, she grabs it. But there’s a catch.
One of Riverbank’s enigmatic cofounders is Duane Blacklock, a brilliant, secretive CEO known throughout the industry as the Crypto King and whose path once crashed with Charlotte’s in a way she’s never forgotten or forgiven.
Ironwood
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in.
Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated—by twenty-two miles of ocean—from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven.