Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cup of Holiday Fear
by Ellie Alexander
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime and everyone is heading to Torte, the most cheerful bakery in town. There’s no place like home for the homicide…
Ashland, Oregon, looks as pretty as a postcard this holiday season. The halls are decked, stockings hung, and eyes are all aglow—mostly thanks to the buttered rum. Jules Capshaw and her staff at Torte are busier than ever. . . still, even the town’s most in-demand bakers need to take a break. So Jules invites everyone to celebrate at the local Winchester Inn’s Dickens Feast, a six-course extravaganza with Yorkshire Pudding, Christmas goose, and all the trimmings…
Austin Wyrd
by Steve Curry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Being a bouncer at a Heavy Metal/Goth bar sounds pretty exciting…unless you’re one of Odin’s Chosen Warriors hiding out from Valhalla and your past. So Magnus aka Mouse is less than thrilled when Fate drops a supernatural murder at his feet. Is there anyway he can stop the killer without tripping over his own secrets? Or will the cops, the feds, or his Valkyrie find him first? And can someone explain how his pet raven is learning to speak Norse?
Something I Keep Upstairs
by J.D. Barker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.
In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler’s life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities.
As they dig into the island’s dark past, they awaken an ancient evil that has influenced generations. What begins as an innocent summer adventure quickly descends into a nightmare.
Treachery in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law—including the ones sworn to uphold it.
Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime—an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody’s first case as primary detective—good thing she learned from the master…
Dust to Dust
by James M. Thompson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
A MEDICAL MIRACLE
The first subjects are lab rats. Injected with two experimental drugs by two different doctors, the rats begin to show signs of renewed youth, restored health, and remarkable vigor. Surprised by the results, neurologist Kat Williams and biochemist Burton Harris believe they have stumbled upon a major breakthrough in the science of aging. But there is only one way to know if their formula can truly reverse the aging process. Their next subject needs to be human . . .
A LIVING NIGHTMARE
Audrey Rose
by Frank De Felitta
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Elliot Hoover loses his wife and daughter, Audrey Rose, in a fiery car crash, his world explodes. To heal his mental anguish and claim some peace, he visits a psychic who reveals to him that his daughter has been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton, a young girl living in New York City. Desperate to reclaim anything from his daughter’s past, he searches out Ivy, only to discover that the unbelievable is shockingly true-his daughter is back. Now, in an effort to save her life, Hoover must choose between two horrifying possibilities-leaving his daughter’s soul in torment, or taking the life of the young girl in whom she now lives.
Cruel Deception
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Gregg Olsen tells the whole shocking story of this true crime in Cruel Deception.
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan’s Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until their son Michael, a boy who by all accounts was terrified of his mother, began showing signs of the same affliction that stole the life of his baby sister…
Disrupt Everything – and Win
by James Patterson, Patrick R.
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Disruption is the most powerful force of change in our lifetime.
Every day we are confronted with:
Sudden pivots at our workplace and in the job market
Rule-changing technology such as Artificial Intelligence
Unexpected crises and a culture of chaos
The sinking feeling that we are losing control of our lives
This book is about taking back control. It’s easy to follow and easy to turn into lifelong habits. It has been thoroughly researched and examined. Simply put, Disrupt Everything works.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Hardcore Twenty-Four
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times bestselling sensation Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-forth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey…
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie’s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun—whether that’s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen…
The Snowman
by Jo Nesbo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules … and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web…
Silent Refuge
by William Stone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
The moment the grid dies, she realizes the EMP wasn’t the threat… it was the evil waiting for it.
Her family is trapped in a city losing its soul, and Caroline must fight through lawless streets to save them, then defend their ranch from the chaos spreading outward.
Into the Leopard’s Den
by Harini Nagendra
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Amateur detective Kaveri Murthy returns with her most complex case yet: investigating a series of murders that take her from the bungalows of Bangalore to the mist-enshrouded mountains of Coorg.
Bangalore, 1922: Pregnant and confined to the house by her protective mother-in-law, Kaveri Murthy has resolved to take a break from detection. But when an elderly woman is murdered at night and dies clutching a photograph of Kaveri while asking for her help—how can she refuse? Missing the assistance of her husband Ramu, who is working in Coorg, Kaveri investigates her new case with her able assistants, milk boy Venu and housemaid Anandi. They find a trail of secrets that lead them to suspect the killer may be in Coorg.
Forget Me Not
by Leah Cupps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Riley earns a living by digging up the past. But some secrets are better left buried.
Archaeologist Riley Donovan has had it rough. Her beloved fiancé has passed away, her career is crumbling, and lately she feels like she’s losing the will to live.
But when she meets Corbin Cross, a charismatic YouTube historian, Riley finally sees a glimmer of hope. He’s charming, brilliant, and seems to understand her pain. Seizing this second chance for happiness, Riley begins to rebuild her shattered life.
But there’s a problem – nothing is as it seems.
Chrysalis
by Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale.
And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating.
Wedding to Die For
by Jovie Grace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Falling in love is risky. This Christmas, it might be deadly.
Three years ago, Bea Hazelwood jilted humble cowboy Griff Jameson to please her well-to-do family. Now she’s broke and applying for a job at the inn he owns.
Griff doesn’t need Bea stirring up old feelings while he’s tracking a gang of train robbers. Secrecy is key to serving as an undercover detective. But Bea’s sharp wit, secret family recipes, and signature stubborn streak make it difficult to keep his heart — or his cover story about a fake second engagement — intact. All too soon, she, her Christmas Book Club friends, and a nosy cat are sniffing out clues to his case that land them in grave danger.
Dark Blood
by James M. Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.4 #ad
AN UNDENIABLE CRAVING For two hundred years, Roger Neimann has never had to know the end that mortals face. But eternal existence comes with a price he cannot accept . . . consuming human blood. Hiding in New Orleans under an assumed identity, he desperately searches for a cure for his vampirism.
AN INSATIABLE HUNGER Stalking the streets of New Orleans, a vicious serial killer dubbed “The Ripper” leaves his victims drained of blood. For Houston physician Matthew Carter, it is an all-too-familiar pattern—one that sends him racing to find Neimann. But he is not alone in his hunt.
A RAGING THIRST
The Truth about the Devlins
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.
But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
He Knows When You’re Awake
by Alta Hensley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
This Christmas, it’s all about getting what you really want in this dark billionaire stalker romance sequel to He Sees You When You’re Sleeping.
Stalking in a winter wonderland… Jewelry designer Sloane dreams of launching her own custom line—but she needs a Christmas miracle to pull it off. With traditional banks turning her down left and right, she can’t resist when a mysterious stranger offers her a lifeline.
I see what she creates in those stolen moments when she thinks no one’s watching. I see everything. There’s a darkness at her core and I will unravel her until I find it.
No Way Out
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The FBI profiler teams up with Scotland Yard in this “outstanding thriller” by the USA Today–bestselling author of The 7th Victim (Library Journal, starred review).
When a potent firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard on drafting a threat assessment to head off future attacks. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a four-hundred-forty-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England’s past—with dramatic political and social implications. The manuscript’s content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs.
The Root of the Matter
by Lynne Tagawa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Her job is to prep time travelers. Now she is one.
Archivist Geneva Fielding would rather stick to ancient manuscripts and chocolate croissants. But when a mission to 1630s New England loses its Traveler, Geneva and her physicist friend Peter are tapped to go, with only three days to prepare.
She’s terrified but determined. This is her chance to learn the truth about John Winthrop and the early Puritans—were they the oppressors history has painted them to be?
Geneva and Peter are dumped into an early, struggling Massachusetts, the Puritan inhabitants having escaped the persecution only to face a howling wilderness.
Along Came a Spider
by Ben Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Peacekeepers were meant to fix a broken justice system – until a Spider turned them into targets. Someone wanted judges bought, not dead, but Everett Chase refused to kneel. With partner Lex and rogue judge Dane Varron, he fought back. The war wasn’t won with weapons, but with truth. As corruption fell, Peacekeepers became legends. But justice has a price – and Everett was willing to pay it.
Whispers from the Ice
by Robert Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the eternal frost of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, a forgotten rover stirs. Echo-7—its batteries nearly drained, its final log echoing the melancholy of its Martian ancestor: Batteries low, and it’s getting dark. A tremor ripples through the ice, and the rover’s systems flicker to life, sending a ping across the void.
The reply doesn’t come from a human ear. It comes from Zyrak, an exiled scout from the Hive-world Kaelith Prime, forty-seven light-years away. He found a Voyager probe and followed its star-map to Earth. What he finds is not a cradle, but a ruin: humanity’s own merciless superintelligence pruned its makers into extinction.
Let Me in Your Window
by Adam Ellis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
This brand-new collection of delightful horror comics includes ten new thrilling and terrifying stories that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and peering out their windows in fright. Adam Ellis, one of the biggest stars in webcomics, brings his unique blend of humor and horror to life with stunning illustrations and gripping narratives. Stories include Sleepwalker, about a terrifying and unexplained incident at a youth hostel, Old Machines, about receiving instant messages from a friend who has been dead for years, and Sunken Express, which chronicles a paranormal journey on a phantom subway car.
Season of Angels
by Jo Grafford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A waitress is keeping a huge secret to protect two people she loves — a task that would be a lot harder if the bachelor sheriff she’s crushing on wasn’t forever lending her a hand.
Tiva Nez’s life has been a hot mess since the day she was born, so it’s just her misfortune to find herself posing as a single mom to protect her sister and nephew. No, Christmas is NOT the most wonderful time of the year. She would rather skip it altogether.
Everyone knows Police Chief Adriel Montana is married to his job. He lives to serve his tribe on the reservation, including his favorite waitress who refuses to officially date him despite privately paying him in kisses every time he rushes to her rescue — which is pretty often.
The Covered Bridge
by Karen Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes her neighbor with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Abby overhears some suspicious activity, and it lands her in harm’s way, forcing Ben to come to her rescue. He vows never to let anyone hurt her, even though secrets in his past threaten to put everything at risk—their community, their way of life…and their future together.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Up to Snow Good
by Beatrice Fishback
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s almost Christmas, and Daisy McFarland must leave her quaint British home for the holidays. Aunt Juliet, her last living relative, has passed away. As the sole heir, it is Daisy’s responsibility to sell the childhood home she grew up in and liquidate her aunt’s assets in Windswept Pines, North Carolina.
Unexpected surprises face Daisy once she’s back in the States.Encounters with three teaching colleagues – otherwise known as the I.C.E. Queens – whose ill treatment over the years had been a primary reason for her move to England, appear genuinely happy to see her. But is their behavior merely a ruse?
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(Daisy McFarland Cozy Mysteries)
An Oriceran Warrior Witches Collection
by Judith Berens, Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Heroes aren’t born; they’re made. But so are villains.
Raine Campbell never knew she was special until her dormant magic unleashed to protect her friends.
Winland Underwood has been running her whole life. Today, she stops to stand her ground!
Grab two complete Oriceran Series – 16 books and more than 3500 pages of urban fantasy adventure—with this boxed set!
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her…
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $4.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025
Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.
A Weekend Getaway, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
What could go wrong when an amateur sleuth and her detective husband escape to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway?
With Maddie away on a high school trip, Sheridan and Brett are looking forward to some alone time – and a long-needed break from work and crime. To that end, they rent a cabin in the woods, planning to enjoy nature and hike the trails in the adjacent state park. But their plans are soon derailed by the appearance of a frantic dog, its owner nowhere in sight.
The insistent dog leads them to an injured couple and a lifeless body. Sheridan and Brett are quick to offer assistance, both to the injured and the local authorities. It turns out Sheridan and Brett aren’t the only amateur sleuth-detective couple to find these isolated cabins, and their dog, Jasper, helps in the investigation.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Delusion in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lieutenant Eve Dallas must foil a terrorist plot in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown—until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things—monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear and rage and paranoia. When forensics makes its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone into temporary insanity—if not kill them outright.
Holidays in Danger Boxed Set
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Because danger doesn’t take a holiday…
Discover hours of reading enjoyment with the inspiring romances in this set – real emotion, humor, and more than a dash of danger! You get six Christmas romances plus a bonus novella (not available anywhere else!), and each story includes completed tender romance and edge-of-your-seat mystery and suspense.
Book 1 SHOW ME A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS
Book 2 NO MISTLETOE KISS FOR A COWBOY
Book 3 SEASON OF AFFECTION
Book 4 SEASIDE COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS WISH
Book 5 NOELLE ON THE RUN
Book 6 WAY OF HONOR
Bonus novella HOLIDAY PURSUIT
Secret Room to Die For
by Jovie Grace
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
She wants peace and quiet. She gets mystery, danger, and one infuriatingly handsome detective.
Tessa Kingsley has everything a lady could want – independence, wealth, a charming little bookstore to call her own, and an adoring cat who helps her run it. Best of all, she’s finally free of her scheming guardian’s clutches and the dreadful arranged marriage he once tried to force on her. She’s sworn off suitors forever, until a certain persistent Pinkerton agent refuses to leave town—or her thoughts.
Curl up with this cozy mystery full of cattitude, nail-biting suspense, and a love story that refuses to stay shelved.
Leave Murder to the Professionals
by A.G. Russ
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Maeve’s resolve is strained to the breaking point by demands from all sides. Though Vic supports her and does his best to protect her, she makes a difficult and dangerous decision to go against his advice. On one side, former first love, powerful Irish crime boss Lory, threatens her and those she cares about. On the other side, the FBI demands her help to stop him. The G-Men know she’s holding back information. She knows she can’t divulge all she knows or would face dire consequences. She has to walk a razor’s edge.
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(O’Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series)
Blood Mansion
by Robert Howell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Peter Vanderbilt had a very special house built to his exact specifications. Unknown to almost everyone, the materials he used were ‘special.’ He searched the world, looking for parts of other haunted houses and places where acts of evil had taken place to build his final retreat. He then incorporated them into the very structure of his mansion. Why would someone intentionally build a haunted house? Was he a madman or the most brilliant mind of his generation?
Shortly after its completion, the owner offers the house to a young couple for their wedding. After the event, sixty-six guests, including the bride and groom, retired to their rooms.