Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Mousse and Murder
by Elizabeth Logan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A young chef bites off more than she can chew when she returns to her Alaskan hometown to take over her parents’ diner.
When Chef Charlotte “Charlie” Cooke was offered the chance to leave San Francisco and return home to Elkview, Alaska, and take over her mother’s diner, she didn’t even consider saying no. For the past year, she’s built a comfortable existence, spending her days making sure the restaurant runs smoothly and that her cat, Eggs Benedict, is appropriately pampered. But soon life at the diner starts feeling a little one-note.
A Twist in the Tale
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jeffrey Archer’s collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you’ll never forget.
No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we’ve never seen and introduces us to people we’ll never forget.
Worthy Brown’s Daughter
by Phillip Margolin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown’s Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder with classic Margolin plot twists.
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy’s lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy’s arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman…
Paradise Park Boxed Set: Books 1-3
by Carolina Mac
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mystery writer, Grace Whitmarsh, moves to a quiet trailer park in the country thinking it will be an ideal setting to pursue her writing career. However, her new neighbors have other ideas. Grace is thrown into a whirlpool of murder and violence. The most unexpected thing she encounters is a torrid romance that catches her completely off guard.
Follow Grace as her surprising life unfolds.
A Fatal Grace
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny comes the second Armand Gamache mystery set in the stunning countryside of Quebec.
Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel!
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.
No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death.
The Suspect
by Fiona Barton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare…
When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared?
Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth—and this time is no exception. But she can’t help but think of her own son, whom she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling
Finding Angus
by L.K. Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond…
Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.
Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s.
The Narrows
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A creepy and atmospheric slice of small town horror from the Bram Stoker award finalist and bestselling author of Come With Me. Perfect for readers of Christopher Golden and fans of Mike Flanagan.
In the aftermath of a terrible storm, the town of Stillwater, Maryland tries to recover what it has lost. From flooded roads and houses, to ruined businesses—the residents of the town begin to clean up and return to normal.
In the midst of the clear up, people begin to see things. Matthew Crawly spies his father in the woodlands above the Narrows, but that cannot be possible…
Bear Ranger Guardians
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
I swore I’d never fall for a bear… until he became the one man I can’t resist.
Wolf shifters and bear rangers are supposed to be enemies—but fate has other plans. A wolf bent on revenge falls for the very bear she blames. A trapped loner finds safety in the arms of the enemy. A second chance ignites between ex-lovers. A broken wolf escapes an abusive mate with the help of a powerful protector. And when a deadly threat rises, wolves and bears must fight side by side… or lose everything. Passion burns. Loyalties shatter. And forbidden love changes both clans forever.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Snuffed
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick. What thorny secrets lie hidden beneath the blossoms?
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has invited guests to her Snodsbury estate for a charming party, featuring a tour of her newly rejuvenated rose gardens. The peaceful event quickly spirals into a vine of tangled mysteries and deadly secrets.
Can Lady Mary keep her party blooming, or will a hidden threat uproot everything?
Unnatural Death
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.
The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.
After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
Jupiter’s Ghost
by David Gwinn
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
2025 Storytrade Award Winner for Best Science Fiction
In the Orion Nebula, death is written in the stars.
Jóre, an alien outcast, joins the nebula whaling ship Jupiter’s Ghost—a vessel haunted by loss and hunted by something far worse. Whispers speak of the Great Blue, a monstrous whale that shatters steel and devours entire ships. In a crew bound by desperation and old grudges, trust is scarce and survival is a thin hope.
As Jupiter’s Ghost sails deeper into Orion Nebula, the line between hunter and hunted fades, and Jóre must decide how much of himself he’s willing to sacrifice for glory—and for revenge. Not all who sail into the nebula will return. Some dreams are meant to be swallowed whole
The Ophelia Cut
by John Lescroart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this riveting New York Times bestselling novel from the “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart, defense attorney Dismas Hardy tackles his most personal and complex case yet—defending his brother-in-law against murder charges.
When Moses McGuire becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his own daughter’s rapist, attorney Dismas Hardy—Moses’s brother-in-law—agrees to defend him. But McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers.
Times Change
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jacob Hornblower traveled from the twenty-third century back in time to find his brother. Against all reason, his sibling believes he has fallen in love and chosen to stay in the past. But Jacob’s plan to return them both to the future goes awry when he encounters Sunny Stone, a woman whose disposition is as cheerful—and exasperating—as her name.
Sunny knows there’s more to Jacob than his rigid code of living life by scientific fact alone. So she’s going to have to experiment to help him realize that feelings are just as valid as intellect—and that falling in love means following one’s heart.
City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme.
In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime.
N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, while grappling with a new partner and a passionate affair with the mysterious Venus Hernandez…
Crimson Lake
by Candice Fox
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Candice Fox’s thrilling Crimson Lake, the basis for the series Troppo starring Thomas Jane, now streaming on Prime Video!
How do you move on when the world won’t let you?
12:46: Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop
12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her
12:52: The girl is missing . . .
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.
Night Heron
by Adam Brookes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Set in China, and ripped from today’s headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.
Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing’s surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Marriage, Malice & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Love is in the air on the perfect day for a wedding until someone offs the wedding planner.
Nothing puts a damper on a celebration than a corpse. The wedding planner had done a great job. Predictably, he did his best to jack up the price with extras to please the “momzilla” mother of the bride who insisted on a traditional, monochromatic wedding. Even so, the bride prevailed and Trina and Bill’s wedding burst with color.
The victim also worked as an event planner at the local country club, where he was popular with the men for his organizational skills and with the ladies for other reasons…
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour
by Brett Battles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another heart-pounding Hollywood-fueled adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings.
Their Last Secret
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven.
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart.
Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter suspects that Emma is hiding something…
A Winter Haunting
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A mix of Henry Jamesian and Stephen King style scariness . . . Surely the first psychological/horror masterpiece of the 21st century.” – The Denver Post
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage—and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town—the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly “accident” back in the terrible summer of 1960—is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes.
Best Mistake
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A single mother finds her heart tempted by an unlikely father figure in a novella from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Zoe Fleming left behind her modeling career to raise her son Keenan in an atmosphere less consumed with surface appearances. But her post-model jobs barely cover expenses, so she opens her home to a tenant, sportswriter J. Cooper McKinnon. For a man who likes to talk a big game, Zoe must admit that Coop knows how to score by genuinely befriending Keenan.
Forging of a Knight
by Hugo Negron
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The second book in the Forging of a Knight series! Qualtan has become a knight at last. With Glaive, the half-orcne thief by his side, he will join a host of new friends: Jesepha, the strong-willed female knight; her mentor, the elder knight Bartholomew, who carries a strange secret; the young and hot-headed knight Euric; the glum and impatient knight Richard; and the dashing merchant lord Visandus.
A seemingly routine mission will unravel into one of greater horror, involving inter-dimensional creatures, rival sea-faring pirate nations, and a face-to-face confrontation between Qualtan and Darksiege, one of Those That Stand in Shadow, at last! Should they somehow prevail, it will just be a precursor to an even GREATER threat!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR COLLECTION
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A whirlwind romance…your eyes meet and just like that, you realize that you might have just met the ONE. So SPRING INTO LOVE!
Whether you enjoy sweet or steamy stories, these eight captivating romances from NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS, will be sure to leave a smile on your face, even after you’ve finished the very last page.
The Golem of Hollywood
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alex Delaware novels and the award-winning #1 international bestselling author of The Genius combine their extraordinary talents for one of the most unusual—and unnerving—thrillers of the year.
Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can’t remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she’s gone. Not long after, he’s dispatched to a murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for justice.
Letters From Lucca
by Kim Baccellia
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
On the heels of Sammi’s grandmother’s whispered deathbed wish, a package of letters from Italy arrives at her post box. Reading them makes Sammi recall whispers she heard in childhood of her grandmother’s wartime involvement, a past that Sammi’s father and aunt would rather see remain closed. As if things couldn’t get any worse, her long-time boyfriend, Hunter, dumps her. However, an opportunity arises that sends her to Italy to defend her grandmother, even if the truth might shatter all she believes. In a helpful twist, Joseph, her best friend’s Italian cousin, offers to help her.
Despite the obvious growing attraction between Joseph and her, she tries to suppress it as she embarks on her mission to vindicate the grandmother she loves.
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.