Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Kindred Spirits at Harling Hall
by Sharon Booth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Can Callie give some needy ghosts their happy-ever-afterlife, while making Rowan Vale her own forever home?
When single mum Callie visits Rowan Vale with her daughter, she is enchanted. The beautiful Cotswold village is run as a living museum, allowing tourists to see history in action. But there’s more to the place than meets the eye…
To the residents’ surprise, Callie is observed talking to several villagers she simply shouldn’t be able to see – as they’re ghosts.
Big Lies in a Small Town
by Diane Chamberlain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately…
North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina…
Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam’s regime.
Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn’t end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam’s rule–and a potent threat to the Syrian president’s powerful wife.
The Last Housewife
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.
While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death—delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader—she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the predators more dangerous than ever.
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub, Stephen King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?
In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.
But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever…
Out of Bounds
by Val McDermid
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it’s as twisted as the DNA helix itself.
Meanwhile, Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. And again, she finds that nothing is as it seems.
The Last Widow
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A mysterious kidnapping. On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s been vanished into thin air.
A devastating explosion. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhoods has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC.
A diabolical enemy
Sea Glass made with Second Chances
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the small beach town of Serenity by the Sea, Kassidy Russo tells a lie. Not a big lie that would harm other people. The kind of lie that causes a small inconvenience no larger than dripping ice cream on a hot day. At least that’s how she sees it.
She’ll come clean to her estranged sisters soon enough, but first she must convince them to stay in Serenity, keep their late father’s failing tavern, and clear out his neglected home filled with years of trash and junk. Before she does any of that, she should ask herself; when everything begins with a lie, how can it end with the truth?
Grant Hawkins arrives in Serenity by the Sea under a falsehood. His brother deceived him. But Grant agrees to stay a few weeks because his secret hides well in a quaint town with interesting residents. He also owes his brother this one last try to save what Grant has broken. And maybe he stays because the pretty woman in the tavern needs his help.
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Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Scone Cold Dead
by Maddie Day
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a body is found in a local farmer’s field, country store and café owner Robbie Jordan suspects that a newcomer in South Lick, Indiana, may not be a stranger to everyone in town . . .
Robbie is just weeks away from giving birth. While her husband Abe scrambles to get the house ready for their baby’s arrival, Robbie makes last minute arrangements to keep her shop and restaurant, Pans ’N Pancakes, up and running when she’s on maternity leave. And it seems Robbie and Abe aren’t the only ones grappling with anxiety—a stranger is causing a stir in town and Robbie’s Aunt Adele appears unusually preoccupied at the baby shower . . .
The Rabbit Hunter
by Lars Kepler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR • Another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series: It’s up to Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer to untangle one of the most complex cases of their career, and follow a killer’s trail of destruction back to one horrific night of violence.
It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white. Tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to…
Fox on the Roof Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Is Wren Casper a doddering old woman or is she being gaslighted? Her friends wonder. First she claims to play ball with a fox on a roof. Then her stories escalate…to include murder.
Newly elected Bluebonnet, Texas, Sheriff Tulsa Edwards dismisses the woman with brown hair growing tired of fighting against the grey overtaking it and silver eyes capable of penetrating his façade of authority when she comes to him with claims of cars changing colors and rock climbers stealing children. He can’t dismiss the things that happen to her—like the eight-foot concrete gorilla mysteriously plunked down in her front yard. But did she order it and then forget?
She does flaky things. She falls into a hole that isn’t there. She gets lost in a newly remodeled restaurant and uses the toilet in the house next to it…
The Sixes
by Kate White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Phoebe Hall’s Manhattan life is unexpectedly derailed off the fast track when her long-term boyfriend leaves her just as she is accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to pick up the pieces, Phoebe jumps at the offer to teach at a small private college run by her former boarding school roommate and close friend Glenda in a sleepy Pennsylvania town.
But behind the campus’s quiet cafés and looming maple trees lies something darker. The body of a junior co-ed washes up from the nearby river, and soon rumors begin to swirl of of past crimes and abuses wrought by a disturbing secret society known as The Sixes.
The Last Owners
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Missing persons and half a million dollars in jewelry…
When Courtney purchases a quaint house in the countryside, her dreams of transforming it into a cozy, inviting inn appear within reach. But beneath the charming exterior lurks a tangle of dark secrets. The previous owners vanished without a trace—eight years ago. Their story is anything but forgotten.
Driven by curiosity and a sense of justice, Courtney and her husband Alex team up with Gary, the desperate son of the missing couple, to unravel the chilling mystery. The clock is ticking—rumors swirl of a stolen fortune: half a million dollars in glittering jewelry, lost the very night Gary’s parents disappeared. Now, with the promise of treasure drawing fortune hunters to dig up the tranquil backyard, danger is never far away. And when a fresh murder shatters the peace, Courtney realizes that the truth might be buried even deeper than she feared…
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.10 Rating: 4.0 #ad
As Poirot investigates the curious circumstances surrounding the flat, he uncovers a series of peculiar events and unexpected connections. Agatha Christie’s signature wit and clever plotting shine through as Poirot unravels the layers of deception and intrigue.
This short story offers readers a captivating glimpse into Poirot’s deductive prowess and the author’s ability to craft engaging mysteries even within the confines of a brief narrative.
Midnight Offensive
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A stolen biological weapon, a terror network’s countdown, and two hearts caught in the crossfire when millions of lives hang in the balance.
ER nurse Sadie Kline wasn’t looking for love, or even a night out, when her roommate talked her into a blind date. She’s shocked when her date turns out to be Craig Malone, her childhood neighbor and brother’s best friend—now a Homeland Security agent. What starts as an awkward reunion spirals into danger. Craig is protecting a virologist developing an antidote to a stolen biological weapon, but when Sadie crosses paths with a suspect in her ER, she lands in the sights of a terror network with millions at stake.
The Perfect Divorce
by Jeneva Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?
The Silver Serpent
by Paul Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sixteen-year-old Tommy Baxter will do whatever it takes to avoid attention at his English boarding school, where everyone but him is destined for greatness.
His whole world changes when he’s chosen for the school’s prestigious annual tournament – an expedition into the Amazon jungle in search of a legendary lost city.
Teamed with three brilliant classmates, Tommy is plunged into a 500-year-old quest that could rewrite world history and untangle his own mysterious past.
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Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knave of Diamonds
by Laurie R. King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.
When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.
The Haunting of the Hadley House
by JS Donovan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A family murdered. A mansion haunted. Detective Rachel Harroway can see the dead, and they’re begging her to find the killer who still walks among the living.
In 1983, a family of four was murdered in the remote Hadley House, a Queen Anne mansion in the North Carolina mountains. Decades later, Rachel and Brett Harroway buy the abandoned estate, ignoring local warnings. As they renovate, strange clues, ghostly music, and lurking figures awaken the house’s dark past. This chilling prequel launches the Rachel Harroway series with Southern Gothic suspense and supernatural terror.
True Evil
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard’s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead.
Then comes Morse’s bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about. Will he help Alex Morse catch a killer? Or is he the next one to fall victim to a deadly trap of sex, lies, and murder?
Red as Blood
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped. If Flosi doesn’t agree to pay an enormous ransom, Gudrun will be killed.
Forbidden from contacting the police, he gets in touch with Áróra, who specialises in finding hidden assets, and she, alongside her detective friend Daniel, try to get to the bottom of the case without anyone catching on…
Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam’s regime.
Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn’t end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam’s rule–and a potent threat to the Syrian president’s powerful wife.
Remain
by Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain…
Doomsday Conspiracy
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Navy Commander Robert Bellamy investigates the crash of a NATO weather balloon in the Swiss Alps and soon realizes that it contains more than just hot air when a lethal force hunts him down
U.S. Navy Commander Robert Bellamy is tasked with locating witnesses to a crashed weather balloon in the Swiss Alps, only to uncover “Operation Doomsday”—a global plot to silence them and hide alien contact demanding an end to Earth’s pollution. Hunted by assassins led by the enigmatic Janus, Bellamy races across continents in a pulse-pounding fight for survival and planetary salvation.
Ginger Never Cried
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dancer, Travis Blaszkiewicz (AKA SWAY) had two passions in his life: his childhood friend and dance partner, Katy, and dancing with the legendary Ginger Rogers. The problem was that Ginger Rogers died before Sway was even born. However, strong passions can lead to amazing things, and Sway finds himself face-to-face with the object of his dreams, Ginger Rogers, in front of the old RKO Picture Studio actor’s entrance. Sway and Ginger quickly become close friends as he gets a job as a stagehand for one of her and Fred Astaire’s pictures.
Meanwhile, Sway still has business in his own time, rehearsing with Katy for the IDO dance competitions, and fighting his own demons for his feelings between her and Ginger Rogers in the past.
Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s
by Renée Brown Harmon MD
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A compassionate memoir of younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease with thoughtful guidelines for caregivers.
On a family vacation in 2009, Dr. Renée Brown Harmon felt the first jolt of fear that something might be wrong. How could her husband, Harvey, a highly intelligent physician, marathon runner, and devoted father, be struggling to keep up with their guide’s simple instructions or unable to do simple math to calculate their daughter’s age? The heartbreaking truth was confirmed nine months later when he was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease at age fifty.
Soon after, Harmon felt she had no choice but to inform the state medical board that it was no longer safe for her husband to see patients in their shared practice. Suddenly forced to manage both the family and business they’d built together, she stayed afloat by leaning on friends, family, and her faith through Harvey’s illness…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lethally Blond
by Kate White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Whenever a celebrity throws a phone, crashes a car, or kills a spouse, celebrity journalist Bailey Weggins is there to cover it for the gossip magazine Buzz. Now, the new television show Morgue is the talk of the town, and just as Bailey starts reminiscing about her brief summer fling with the show’s gorgeous star, Chris Wickersham, he calls.
But Chris isn’t thinking about rekindling their old flame. His friend and fellow actor on the show has gone missing, and while nobody else seems to be alarmed, Chris can’t believe his friend would just run off while on the brink of stardom…
The First Beaufont Complete Series
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s time for a Medieval dragonrider to fix the modern world.
Six-hundred years ago, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg and buried it. Now it’s time for that egg to finally hatch. It’s time for Gen Beaufont to be the rebel she always dreamed of.
Gen, a resident of 15th-century England, finds herself stuck in modern day America—all because she was overly curious and followed strangers through a time travel gate.
Two things have always gotten Gen in trouble: her curiosity and defiance. But times have changed, quite literally. Those traits could save her life.
A Dangerous Man
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre–and Joe Pike’s most perilous case to date.
Joe Pike didn’t expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.
False Witness
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.
HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST… But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.
BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP…
Nightmares & Grief Vol. 2
by Derrick Heisey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dare to Face the Darkness Within? From the shadows of grief and trauma comes Nightmares & Grief Vol. 2, a masterfully crafted collection of dark, supernatural horror. Written in a style reminiscent of Stephen King, these haunting tales will grip your soul, challenge your perceptions, and leave you questioning the boundaries of the human psyche.
Perfect for fans of dark, gritty supernatural horror, these stories combine visceral terror with deep psychological themes, blending the eerie with the profound.
The Missing Witness
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good…
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness—a whistleblower who might be the key to everything—has disappeared.
After another person close to the case is killed, it’s clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and tracking down the witness becomes a matter of life-and-death…
Cemetery Road
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption… Iles’s latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment.” – Washington Post
When Marshall McEwan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But as the ascendancy of a chaotic administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom, Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill, and he must return home to face the unfinished business of his past.
Prayers for Rain
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.
What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death – a monster that the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against the psychopath, even as he turns tricks on them…
Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Enter the eerie world of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” a gothic horror tale that weaves together themes of love, fear, and the supernatural, leaving a lasting impression on all who dare to read it.
Set against the haunting backdrop of 19th-century Europe, the novella introduces Carmilla, a mysterious young woman whose presence casts a shadow over Laura, the unsuspecting protagonist. As their bond deepens, a chilling truth unfolds—Carmilla is not just a captivating beauty, but a vampire whose dark secrets come to light. Through his masterful storytelling, Le Fanu explores themes of seduction, desire, and the complexities of the human condition, creating a narrative that is both terrifying and thought-provoking.
Mistletoe on Main Street
by Holly Schindler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A magical sweet Christmas romance about lost love, second chances, and the holiday miracles waiting at Ruby’s Place.
Hard-nosed journalist Russ Keegan only wants to coast through the remainder of the holiday season, avoiding all the sentimental schmaltz. But his editor gives him one last-minute assignment: a Christmas investigation into Ruby’s Place, the mysterious supper club in Sullivan, Missouri. Locals whisper that on Christmas Eve, anyone who enters can see their long-lost loved one, share a table, hold their hand, tell them everything they didn’t have a chance to while they were still alive. Maybe I love you. Or I’m sorry.