Mysteries
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
To the Nines
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
But hey, she’s from Jersey.
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she’s pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way . . . and she always gets her man. In To the Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who’s also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word hunter.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White—veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity—when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind.
A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government.
Stilettos and Sniper Rifles
by Gail Koger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
I’ve been a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy for four years. Most folks don’t have a clue about what a cop deals with every day. Like a pack of attack chihuahuas, a monkey with a bad case of diarrhea, a hungry python, a Brahma bull named Bodacious and a six-foot iguana.
And that is just the critters. Now let me tell you about the two-legged varmints. Such as a three-hundred-pound biker who got a bit irate when I zapped him with a stun gun, or a murderous nun, and let’s not forget the senior citizens having an orgy. Ugh…
The Merlot Murders
by Ellen Crosby
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery’s semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family’s five-hundred-acre Virginia vineyard just as the fall harvest is about to begin. By the time he calls, Eli has already made funeral arrangements with what Lucie argues is indecent haste.
It is an emotional trip home—the first since an automobile accident two years ago, which left Lucie disabled and dependent on a cane. Her family’s once elegant home and winery are now shabby and run-down, thanks to her father’s penchant for fringy business deals…
Double Down: The Complete Series
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6#ad
Washington DC is hiding a secret. It reaches the highest echelons of government. Can this team expose the truth?
Private security force Double Down are the only ones who can take down the threat. When his sister is kidnapped, Navy SEAL Bradley has to face his feelings for Alexis as they work together to get her back. Double Down operative Mint has to track down and protect Emma. But things aren’t what they seem. Can he keep them both alive long enough to uncover the truth? Megan has a dark past. And it’s back to haunt her as she teams up with FBI agent Adrian. Together they take down a rogue FBI agent with a deadly weapon. Senator Rachel refuses to be a victim anymore. She’ll fight back against the blackmailer in the final story of the series. Steve is a fugitive on the run. But when Rachel’s life is threatened he’ll stick around to protect her. Can the team compile the evidence to expose this plot?
One Summer
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Beautifully written.” – Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box
It’s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country.
ALL THAT WAS TAKEN
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
All That Was Taken is a novel of psychological suspense that delves deeply into love, loss, and healing.
For eight years, John Hennessey has lived in near-solitude on Catalina Island. He keeps his world small, for every precious thing in his life has been taken from him. But when his peaceful existence is threatened, he buys a cottage farther up the California coast in the sleepy town of Teal Beach.
There he meets Sunny Harrison, owner of the Teal Beach Sundial Inn where he stays until his cottage is ready for move in. The connection between them is magical, though both are surviving painful pasts and are afraid to trust … especially as an undercurrent of darkness dwells in their midst.
The Palace Perfumer
by Kaitlynn Clarkson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
There’s nothing like a palace to turn love into a scandal…
Fragrance chemist Kate Christie has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime. The catch? It’s in Morocco, inside a royal palace.
Adel Hansom is drawn to the brave woman who is determined to make her mark in the world of fragrance. Among the exotic scents and close daily encounters of the perfumery, an unexpected connection begins to grow, and for the first time, he starts to imagine a future he never planned for.
The Crossroads
by C.J. Box
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why.
A River Red With Blood
by John Connolly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Two intertwined disappearances leave a rural community in shock in the latest gripping Charlie Parker novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens” school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils—one new and one ancient—to an end…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at a Scottish Wedding
by Lucy Connelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Something old, something new, something borrowed and someone’s blue…
Finally feeling like Sea Isle, Scotland is becoming her new home, American doctor Emilia McRoy is delighted when she is invited to a wedding at Morrigan’s Castle. Her friends have warned her that it’s a three-day party and it’s bound to get wild, not to mention the impending snowstorm. Constable Ewan Campbell, owner of the castle, ensures their safety with the blizzard. What he didn’t ensure, is that all of his guests would survive the night alive. When Emilia explores the impressive castle, she finds a dead man in one of the turrets.
The Vacant Lot
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A heart-pounding time-travel, romance mystery.
Ian had reached a higher level of love for Eunice, a love that was pure. His feelings for her were beyond that of a friend, sister, or lover. It was a love, devoid of the labels most people need to put to their feelings. That’s what he told her the last time he saw her back in 2019 or was it 1984 since Ian believed Eunice was a time-traveler. She came to him when he was eight years old in a vacant lot near his house, and when she left, he spent the rest of his days searching for her…
MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS
by PAUL LEVINE
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
GERMANY WANTS EINSTEIN ALIVE. CHAPLIN DEAD.
Spies, assassins, a femme fatale board the Super Chief.
The Genius and the Tramp race west into danger.
Last stop: showdown at midnight.
Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America.
It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him…
The Survivor
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Eve Duncan and Riley Smith must solve their most exciting puzzle since A Face to Die For when asked to uncover the mysterious secret hidden on a remote island—from #1 bestselling author Iris Johansen.
When archeologist Riley Smith comes to ask Eve Duncan for help, Eve has to say no. Traveling halfway around the world on a dangerous quest is not her expertise as a forensic sculptor. But Eve is intrigued by the prospect of an isolated island that holds a secret locked in time.
Traveling to Southeast Asia, Riley is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who are already searching and have no qualms about killing to get what they want.
Hunter
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A skilled tracker must take down a science experiment gone wrong in the Alaskan wilderness in this thriller from the bestselling author of Dark Visions.
In an experiment to extend human life, scientists accidentally tap into the deepest recesses of the human mind and unleash a force that might well be a terrible curse. For in their desire to use a power they did not understand, they unintentionally unleash a force that will spell the end of Mankind if it cannot be destroyed.
Now an infected creature is loose in the Alaskan wilderness, and the America military is forced to ask the world’s greatest tracker, Nathaniel Hunter, to locate the beast and destroy it before it reaches a populated area…
My Mother Is a Dragonfly
by Amy Scott Rooker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Deeply unsettling and profoundly redemptive.” – Seattle Book Review, five stars
What if healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken – but remembering what’s true?
For decades, Amy Scott Rooker lived split in two: the bright, high-achieving woman everyone saw and the invisible girl inside who carried unspeakable wounds. She tried to outrun the pain with perfection—law school, prestigious jobs, an ever-shrinking body. But underneath it all, she was barely holding on.
All the World is a Haiku
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Another 101 life inspired, thought-provoking modern haiku poems, covering broad topics such as life, love, death, and almost everything in between, poems are filled with insight, passion, and a touch of humor.
The challenge and enjoyment in crafting a haiku is in attempting to portray a meaningful thought or emotion using only three lines and seventeen syllables. That was the challenge the author faced in writing this book.
The author is hopeful that you will find these haiku poems both eloquent and entertaining.
The Graduate’s Guide to Grace in the Workplace
by Anna Pikounis Paine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Common-Sense Approach to Standing Out in Your Career
You’ve landed your first serious job. Now what?
Whether you’ve earned a certification, finished your undergraduate degree, or completed your master’s program, your biggest competitive advantage when it comes to your new career is common sense. While most schools don’t teach their students how to thrive in the “real world,” there’s no need to worry—The Graduate’s Guide to Grace in the Workplace is the road map you’ve been looking for.
Echoes over Stormy Sea
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Experience adventure and romance in distant lands, a mesmerizing tale by Whong, named a 2025 Featured Author by the Minnesota Anoka County Library.
Two remarkable women, separated by eras, united by unyielding resolve.
Two eras, one stormy sea. Two women navigate love and heritage across centuries. Book 1 in this dual-time odyssey series braids together a mesmerizing tale about loyalty, redemption, and transformation.
Debra Gong, a PhD student in biochemistry, eagerly counts down to her upcoming 2020 wedding in Chicago. The unexpected death of her father, a famous writer, brings her back to Hong Kong. Then the sudden closure of borders because of the pandemic leaves her trapped and separated from her fiancé. Her father’s will requires her to complete his last, unfinished manuscript about a pirate princess to honor his memory.
Choke Point
by Brad Thor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A devastating series of bombings tears through Bangkok. Scores of American citizens are dead. The attacks send shock waves around the world.
As global assistance pours into Thailand—including the FBI’s famed Evidence Response Team—the president of the United States quietly prepares a plan B: Scot Harvath, America’s top spy, trained to operate outside the law and probe the dark corners others can’t…or won’t.
But the bomber Harvath is pursuing isn’t a terrorist. He’s something far more dangerous—one of ours.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curiously Convenient Demise
by Hannah Hendy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The higher the bid, the heavier the price.
Summerview Secondary School is holding its annual charity auction. Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are on hand to prepare delicious baked goods for the big day with the assistance of Clementine’s mysterious sister, Maria.
As the auction begins, chaos erupts when Eleanor Black, the owner of Dewstow Museum, is found murdered in the stage storeroom. Maria has vanished. Her fingerprints cover the crime scene…
The Secrets Next Door
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What does she know?
On a leafy, suburban street, curtains are subtly twitched to watch the new neighbor moving in.
Anne gets exactly the welcome to the neighborhood she expects: a basket of homemade cupcakes delivered by the woman next door and her best friend. One wears a curious smile while the other studies her every move. When Talia and Tabitha leave, Anne throws the treats in the trash.
Marked by Magic Complete Series
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Alysia Thorne’s forbidden spell doesn’t just backfire – it binds her to the most dangerous man at Velgrace Academy, an illusionist whose very existence breaks every law the school holds sacred.
Ordered to spy on him, fighting an attraction that could destroy them both, Alysia is the only one who sees past his reputation to what’s really happening: ancient wards are failing, dark magic is bleeding through the cracks, and someone in the shadows engineered all of it. Their bond was never an accident – and surviving it means trusting each other with everything.
The Call of Cthulhu
by H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The essential literary collection of H. P. Lovecraft’s ten finest short stories, from the celebrated editor of the two-volume New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft.
An indispensable collection of the best of one of literature’s “most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures” (Alan Moore), featuring H. P. Lovecraft’s most bone-chilling tales, including: “Dagon”, “The Outsider”, “The Music of Erich Zann”, “The Rats in the Walls”, “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Colour Out of Space”, “The Dunwich Horror”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, “The Shadow Out of Time” and “The Haunter of the Dark”.
Mind Game
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
With Iris Johansen’s trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller that’s impossible to put down.
Scotland holds a treasure that Jane MacGuire has been hunting for years. But as she scours the Highlands in search of it, she’s plagued by dreams of a girl in danger – dreams she can’t ignore no matter how hard she tries.
Who is this girl, and what is she trying to tell Jane? And will Jane figure it out before it’s too late – for her and the mysterious young woman?
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindle $0.52 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a gripping Sherlock Holmes mystery that plunges the famous detective into the eerie moors of Devonshire. Tasked with unraveling the supernatural legend of a ghostly hound haunting the Baskerville family, Holmes and Watson must uncover the truth behind the chilling deaths.
This classic tale masterfully blends suspense, intrigue, and the detective’s sharp intellect, making it a timeless favorite.
EMP Shadow Fall
by William Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He was the man on the mountain with more ammunition than the county sheriff’s office, a shortwave in his kitchen, and a pantry stocked to feed four people for a year. The whole mountain laughed at him.
Then the EMP hit. Now the whole mountain was coming to Dutch’s gate.
Lilly had come home to a dying father, a furious twin sister, and a family still broken by the years she’d been gone. Her sister had spent those years running the still alone, hauling wood up the ridge, and changing their father’s oxygen tanks at three in the morning.
Colorado K-9 Rescue
by Kathleen Donnelly
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A kidnapper’s twisted game is on. And a trusty K-9 won’t let him succeed.
Years after being abducted, Mckenna Parker’s worst nightmare has come true—her kidnapper is out on parole. And he’s after her again. Now an FBI victim specialist, she and her crisis canine, Mocha, have been assigned to a case with FBI agent Evan Knox. Together they must find two local girls who disappeared. As passionate as Mckenna is about helping others, Evan is ambitious about his career. Both have sworn off love. But when Mckenna vanishes into the mountain wilderness, it’s Evan—with Mocha’s amazing help—who braves danger at all costs.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
SHADOWFIRES
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rachel’s request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident.
Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric’s body disappeared from the morgue—and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.
Silent Thunder
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It was the assignment of a lifetime. . . .
Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been given the job of a lifetime. A U.S. maritime museum has just acquired the decommissioned Soviet submarine Silent Thunder for public exhibition. It’s Hannah’s job to make sure that every single inch of the legendary nuclear attack sub is safe for the thousands of visitors anticipated. Enlisting the aid of her brother, Connor, they examine the enormous vessel and delve into its long—and lethal—history.
But is it really a trap?
Dead Man’s Hand
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukrainian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin.
But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It’s a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO in a dangerous mission of international espionage—by assassinating a deputy minister of foreign affairs.
The John Corey Collection
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A three-novel omnibus featuring John Corey, a brilliant NYPD detective who becomes an FBI terrorist hunter, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Plum IslandWounded NYPD homicide detective John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when a young couple is killed. The victims were researchers at a site rumored to be a biological warfare center. Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications—and thrusts Corey into a dangerous search for the secret of Plum Island.
A Death in Cornwall
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . .
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The Empty Room
by Brian McGilloway
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Pandora – Dora – Condron wakes one morning to discover her 17-year old daughter Ellie, has not come home after a party.
The day Ellie disappears, Dora is alone as her husband Eamon has already left for the day in his job as a long-distance lorry driver. So Dora does the usual things: rings around Ellie’s friends… but no one knows where she is. Her panic growing, Dora tries the local hospitals and art college where Ellie is a student – but then the police arrive on her doorstep with the news her daughter’s handbag has been discovered dumped in a layby.
Ruthless Kingdom
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Two Kingdoms – Two Kings
One King Vows to Rule Them All
Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished.
A sinfully attractive tracker is tasked with bringing Avia back to a homeland she has never known in hopes of awakening the power that has lain dormant within her.
Cowboy Dragons Inn Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Rugged cowboys. Hidden dragons. One ranch where fate brings mates together.
At Cowboys Dragons Inn, powerful dragon shifters hide dangerous secrets behind their cowboy hats. When the women destined to claim their hearts arrive, these alpha dragons will risk everything to protect them. Single moms, runaway brides, old flames, and stubborn childhood friends soon discover that loving a dragon comes with danger. Abusive exes, kidnappers, and dark pasts threaten the future they’re trying to build.