Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Speed
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Newspaper editor Jamie Swift likes a little predictability in her life. When she suddenly finds herself minus a fiancé and with a major case of the hots for her silent partner, millionaire Maximillian Holt, any bit of predictability goes right out the window. Max is like a tornado, turning her well-ordered world upside down. Now someone’s unhappy with Max’s recent business deal—dangerously unhappy. Before she knows it, Jamie’s hotfooting across state lines to help Max and land a story. But Sweet Pea, Tennessee harbors some smelly secrets, many of which reside under the big tent of revivalist Harlan Rawlins, whose link to the Almighty rides shotgun with his Mob connections.
Supernatural Criminal Investigations: Complete Series
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s hidden her identity for years, all to keep her and her family safe, but running from supernatural beings comes at a cost.
After her daughter dies, Kat is pulled back into a world she desperately tried to escape to get answers and expose the truth. Witch. Musician. Amateur sleuth.
Lila Darkholme is a university student by day, and lead vocalist of the all-girl rock band, ‘The Witch Punks,’ by night. But there’s more to her than music; she’s a witch in a world where the supernatural is real, and humans are dabbling in dangerous magic.
Black Orchids
by Rex Stout
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show—but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe’s fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer—one who’s definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a second thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters—and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe’s orchids . . . with roots that are even more twisted.
Hot Ice
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive novel of red hot passion and cold hard cash, as a Manhattan socialite living at jet-set speed crosses a desperate man on the run—and finds herself trapped in a deadly game that may have no winners or losers . . . or survivors.
Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looks and quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. It is a business proposition, pure and simple.
The Hit
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Will Robie is a master of killing.
A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst–enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.
No one else can match Robie’s talents as a hitman…no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she’s gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.
Flesh and Blood
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing.
The Girl from Guernica
by Karen Robards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Inspired by Picasso’s great masterpiece Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of love, intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war…
On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it’s only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was responsible, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas, the gestapo will silence them—by any means necessary.
My Love Affair With Music
by Joe R Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Memoir of Family, Faith, and the Soundtrack of a Lifetime
What if the greatest gift you leave your family isn’t something you build — but something you play?
In My Love Affair with Music, Joe Eagleman tells the uplifting story of a life lived in harmony. From picking up a guitar in his younger years to performing well into his 80s, music becomes more than a pastime — it becomes the heartbeat of family gatherings, friendships, and unforgettable celebrations.
As the founder of the Eagleman Band, Joe shares stories of cruise ship talent shows, annual family reunions attended by nearly one hundred relatives, milestone birthday performances, and recording five albums alongside children and grandchildren. Even when COVID paused rehearsals and life shifted in unexpected ways, the music never stopped — it simply changed key.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Novel Theft
by Tessa Silver
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
What happens when a writer’s greatest fear comes true?
As Ellie Fitzgerald arrives in the charming town of Quillhaven, she’s hoping for a quiet reset after a painful breakup. Helping her uncle Martin run his beloved bookshop, Chapter & Chime, seems like the perfect place to begin again. The shop is warm, welcoming, and filled with stories waiting to be discovered. Even the local cats—Leo and Luna—have opinions about what people should read.
But Quillhaven isn’t an ordinary town. Magic lingers in its streets. Cats
Invisible Blood
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
FEATURES A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY: This crime fiction anthology includes 17 new short stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and others!
“With any collection like this, there are a lot of hits and misses along the way. There were way more hits than misses in this anthology, and not just by the authors that I am familiar with. I found a couple of new authors to check out and read more of their work.” by Amazon Customer
Out of the Woods
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From a girl’s abduction by a serial killer to the harrowing aftermath—a gripping and heart-wrenching true-crime story by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell.
In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family’s youngest members—eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan—were nowhere to be found.
As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning.
That First Summer
by Eleanor Romany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Every summer leaves a mark. Some leave a legacy. It’s the summer of 1999, and sixteen-year-old Jonie Kirkland’s job at Twin Pines State Park’s swimming pool feels like a dream.
She finds more than she could have ever hoped for: coworkers who become friends, Brandon Murphy, a goofy boy who tries to win her heart, and a pool run by the quiet and mysterious Alice Livingston.
But just when Jonie finally feels settled, it all comes crashing down. Alice, who has managed the park pool for decades, guarding both its traditions and her own heart, watches Jonie navigate the kind of disappointment she knows all too well.
P Is for Peril
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one—a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret—and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes…
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
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Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world.
Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted.
Echoes of Mercy
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sometimes salvation comes quietly—like the ripple of water over stone.
Luke Mercer has spent years in the shadows, rescuing those the world has forgotten. When Hannah Whitaker’s sister goes missing along the river running through Glory, he can’t turn away. Hannah is determined, brave—and haunted by guilt. Together, they confront danger, uncover secrets, and discover that faith and love often echo where hope seems lost.
How To Be Happy, Healthy and Whole
by Victor Dedaj
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The majority of individuals strive for better health, a slimmer figure, and increased vitality. However, the reality is that many are facing more health issues, higher rates of obesity, and diminished energy levels. Over the last four decades, the prevalence of chronic illnesses has surged.
So, what solutions exist? Victor Dedaj explores the necessary steps to achieve a healthier, more joyful existence, and how to significantly lower the chances of developing chronic conditions.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Company of Cats
by Marian Babson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A millionaire’s cat may be the key to a murder mystery in this delightful novel from an Agatha Award–winning author.
When Annabel Hinchby-Smythe accepts an offer to serve as interior decorator to computer mogul Arthur Arbuthnot, she can’t help noticing that no one in the house seems to genuinely like the tycoon—aside from his cat, Sally.
After Arthur’s sudden death—and the revelation that Sally is named sole inheritor in his will—Annabel’s new task will be finding out the truth about her client’s demise, and keeping the furry heiress safe from harm.
Don’t Look Back
by JJ Burgess
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He saved her. Now he owns her.
Exhausted new mother Lucy is rushing her baby to hospital. Distracted by her sick child, she loses control of the car, and hits Roger, her elderly neighbor.
Terrified of being sent to prison and separated from her infant son, she makes a split-second decision and flees the scene.
Her boyfriend Ian realizes what she has done and helps her cover it up. Lucy is incredibly grateful, until she begins to understand that his kindness comes at a price. Small favors become demands. Demands become threats…
Exit Strategy
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing.
Second—a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climates. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault…
The Steradian Gate
by Nathaniel Blevens
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Peace through Compliance. The motto of the regime delivers a succinct message—Do as we say or be destroyed socially, financially, or via execution.
Ethan Burke had been trying to figure out adulting when he inherited a mysterious artifact and accompanying journal from his late uncle. While researching the artifact, he meets Summer McKeown, whose been doing some research of her own to find her missing brother. When Ethan first offers to help, he has no idea their destinies are intertwined.
They discover his artifact is a key that opens a gateway between the five dimensions, The Steradian Gate. Now they’re trapped in Lunaria, a dimension a hundred years behind technologically that’s being cleansed by the regime who’ve discovered Ethan holds one of the five Steradian Keys; keys foretold to supply immense power to those who wield them all.
Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz Nugent
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
This “haunting and poignant tale, one that won’t be easy to forget any time soon” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine), follows an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past—from internationally bestselling author Liz Nugent.
Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from hungry reporters and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the repressed memories of her horrific early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say.
The Unseen
by Katherine Webb
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Katherine Webb’s debut novel, The Legacy, was an international bestseller—and her remarkable second effort, The Unseen, is as gripping, thrilling, and unforgettable as her first. In this compelling story of love, deception, obsession, and illusion, the arrival of two dangerous strangers in a small village in England in the early 1900s disrupts the quiet lives of a vicar with a fascination with spiritualism and his naïve young wife, and ultimately leads to murder. The Unseen is literary suspense at its most entertaining and enthralling, truly superior fiction not unlike the captivating tales of Kate Morton and Diane Setterfield.
The Long Walk
by Stephen King
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the “long walk” and there is only one winner—the one that survives.
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping. The winner gets “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But the rules of the Long Walk are harsh and the stakes could not be higher…
Any Other Name
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Walt Longmire is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice—Wyoming style.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Guilty by Definition
by Susie Dent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She knew there’d be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn’t think they’d make their way to the dictionary.
Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, where Martha is a newly hired senior editor, it’s rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the coded letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.
Out of the Darkness & Night Moves
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
OUT OF THE DARKNESS: Even after a decade, Sarah Hampton is haunted by the night that nearly ended in a bloody massacre and destroyed her high school romance with handsome Tyler Grant. Now the horror has returned. It’s a reckoning from the events of that terrifying night—and a love they never let go…
NIGHT MOVES: Photographer Bryn Keller is struggling to raise three boys while getting her career on track, so working with superstar Lee Condor is an opportunity she can’t pass up, even if he is the most infuriating—and desirable—man she has ever met…
Searing Fire
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a land where magic is feared and monsters rule the night, their journey becomes the key to survival.
At thirteen, Ari already knows that life is far from easy. But when tragedy strikes, she is forced to leave her remote village and everything she knows behind and journey to the king’s City in search of her only surviving relative. What awaits her is a world far more dangerous—and far more magical—than she ever imagined.
Wes, a young soldier hiding the fact that he is also a mage, serves in a kingdom where magic is feared and mages are hunted. To survive, he must keep his powers secret, even when the king commands him to undertake a perilous mission that could change the fate of the realm.
Ours Is a Tale of Murder
by Nora Murphy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One quiet neighborhood
Three different families
Bound by murder
Klara never wanted the house with the white picket fence. Troy never wanted anything else.
Nothing is quite right with this happy couple, but isn’t every home hiding something? Mary, the mother in the blue house, is cleaning out her son’s old room before she sells, haunted by the mistakes of her past and afraid of what her home has become…
Purity in Death
by J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable—like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging…
The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there’s nothing to explain the man’s sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen: Absolute Purity Achieved.
Mommy’s Little Girl
by Diane Fanning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl’s mother.
As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey became the prime suspect. In October 2008, based on new evidence against Casey—her erratic behavior and lies, her car that showed signs of human decomposition—a grand jury indicted the young single mother.
The Friend
by Joakim Zander
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Thought-provoking… . . . Thriller fans who enjoy flawed, achingly human characters won’t be able to put this one down.” – Publishers Weekly
November 2015. Jacob Seger arrives in Lebanon eager to make the most of his internship at the Swedish embassy in Beirut. But when he meets the handsome and mysterious Yassim at a glamorous party his first night in the city, he is swept up into a passionate, obsessive affair that renders everything else in his life insignificant. When terrorist claims against Yassim are brought to light, Jacob must confront his role in a complicated game he is wholly unprepared to play. Unsure who to believe or trust, he knows only that he must flee Beirut—and fast.
Exit Strategy
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
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First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing.