Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Quick Study
by Maggie Barbieri
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting and involve a lot of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks, but he has yet to invite her on any stakeouts. . . .
Then when a friend asks her to help him find his nephew, she goes to Bobby for advice only to find out that he already knows about the case. He pulled the boy out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. The boy’s employer calls it an accident, but Alison and Bobby aren’t convinced.
My Canvas Bag
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mark is a young man born into a bad situation. His parents drink too much, and his family often forgets him. He works hard to hide the harsh reality of his home life from those around him. Mark does this to avoid feeling shame. He escapes the chaos of his family by spending time in nearby woods…
He constantly struggles with the judgments of others when it comes to his family. It hurts Mark when people share their negative opinions about he and his family. He is often avoided by other kids and usually not included in things.
The anger and resentment Mark feels increase as he gets older. He makes some bad decisions and gets into trouble. There comes a time when he must choose a path for his life. Mark decides to try and separate himself from the dysfunction of his family and past mistakes. He refuses to give up.
Mark realizes he has a talent for writing and then discovers himself.
The Final Sunshine
by Joseph Galloway
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The Final Sunshine is an apocalyptic thriller set in a future where the sky has fallen and the sun no longer shines. A time of darkness will come upon the Earth. Nothing on Earth will grow. There will be famine on the Earth. Extreme violence will exist. Lawlessness will become the norm as governing bodies cease to exist. Everyone will be fighting for their own survival. Many will die from the violence, famine and sickness. Wild beasts will roam the Earth and seek out humans for food. Technology will no longer exist. Transportation will no longer exist as fuel will not be available. Money will have no value as food becomes the most essential commodity. The limited available resources will only last a short period. Producing more food will be impossible without sunlight.
This catastrophe forces people to become monsters as they fight over food and resources to survive.
Episode 1 is where the sky begins to fall, and half the Earth’s population perishes during this event. The population is confused and horrified about what is happening.
R Is For Ricochet
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn’t there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institution for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she’s about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Her father wants to be sure Reba stays straight, stays home and away from the drugs, the booze, and the gamblers…
It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week’s work. Nothing untoward—the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good.
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
My Father’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it. It is based on actual events depicted exactly as they happened while travelling the heartbreaking and harrowing road through this horrific illness. Its purpose is to give guidance and insight to others caring for loved ones with this terrible affliction, whether it is in providing helpful information, feelings of support or simply words of encouragement. Most importantly, the hope is that it will make the road for others an easier one to travel. May the many tears in this journey be the fortitude that helps others deal with the adversity from this overwhelming disease.
The Secret Room
by Jane Casey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A closed door. An impossible murder. 2:32 p.m. Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury London hotel and orders a bottle of champagne. Within the hour, her lover discovers her submerged in a bath of scalding water, dead.
At first glance it looks like an accident. No one went in with her. No one came out. But all the signs point to murder.
For DS Maeve Kerrigan, the case is a welcome distraction. But when shock news hits close to home, affecting her partner, DI Josh Derwent, she faces the toughest challenge of her career. And if she fails her world will never be the same again…
Bloodsucker County
by Jeff Strand
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bloodsuckers—fanged and feral creatures who don’t play by the vampire rules—now far outnumber humans. All the major cities have fallen. Life is an ongoing struggle to simply survive.
However, nineteen-year-old Lance Black has spent the past several years living with his mother in Out of Harm’s Way County. The few residents there have stayed alive by not drawing attention to themselves. It’s a lonely existence, but it keeps them from falling prey to the monsters…
…until Lance, walking through the forest, finds a stranger named Bill Tremaine covered in blood. He’s so badly injured that he’ll be lucky to make it through the night.
Black Widow
by Janice Kay Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A kiss good-night… Could be deadly
Jordan Hendrick has had her guard up for as long as she can remember. It was hard enough surviving an abusive past with the “hometown hero,” let alone the accusations and rumors that followed his death at her hands in self-defense. But someone wants revenge and Jordan is the number one suspect in a string of murders. Victims all connected to her—men whose only crime was going out with Jordan. So trusting her new next-door neighbor, Tom Moore, is no easy endeavor. He’s handsome, a fierce defender and stand-in bodyguard when threats zero in on Jordan. The perfect catch…or the next casualty?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Shot Through the Book
by Eva Gates
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the twelfth installment of the Lighthouse Library mysteries, Lucy McNeil is back on the case, but this time she’s on the case alone.
The upcoming YA book festival at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is bringing in renowned authors from all over the world. When best selling author Todd Harrison unexpectedly visits librarian Lucy McNeil at her Outer Banks beach house after a meeting, she is puzzled by his presence, since they’re virtually strangers. After she steps inside to get him a drink, she’s shocked to discover that he’s been murdered on her deck in the few minutes she left him alone…
The Stranger Inside
by Ruth Harrow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Zoe invited a stranger into her home. That was her first mistake. Finally free of her abusive ex, Zoe is rebuilding her life.
Then, on a parenting forum, she meets Lisa who is going through the same thing Zoe escaped- psychological torture at the hands of a cold, controlling partner.
Zoe rescues Lisa from her evil husband, Greg, and offers her a place to stay. It’s supposed to be temporary, just until Lisa gets back on her feet.
But Lisa has no plans to leave.
The Bratva Contract
by Annie J. Rose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
I’m not his bride. I’m his property. Our marriage is a contract. Signed in blood. Paid for in power.
Dima Petrov. Bratva royalty. A king who takes without asking.
I’m meant to give him an heir and stay out of his way. But his hands don’t just claim. They punish. They possess. They make me crave the man I should fear most.
Then I’m taken by his enemies. A pawn in a game I never agreed to play. But Dima doesn’t bargain. He hunts. He destroys. He burns the world to get me back.
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?
The Memory Collectors
by Dete Meserve
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past? Four strangers in the beach town of Ventura, California are about to find out.
Elizabeth aches for one more precious hour with her son who died in a senseless accident. Andy is desperate to find his first love who vanished after a whirlwind romance. Logan craves the rush of surfing and mountain climbing, yearning to reclaim the freedom he lost after a misstep landed him in a wheelchair. Brooke is looking for an hour of relief from the guilt of an unforgivable mistake.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go
by Joy Alicia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Writer’s Digest Humor winner, Readers’ Favorite Humor/Comedy award finalist, Los Angeles Book Festival 2025 Memoir honorable mention winner, Amazon’s #1 new release in “Humor,” June 2025.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds-barred collection of essays that turns life’s messiest moments into empowering, relatable, and wildly entertaining stories.
Written by stand-up comic Joy Alicia, this raw guide of 19 standalone essays is a bold invitation to laugh through the hookups, heartbreak, ghosting, toxic friendships, and all the awkward first dates in between.
No One Left Behind: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Edgar Bryce thought his war was over. Then he heard the signal.
Once a decorated soldier, Bryce now roams the stars as a freelance prospector, trading danger for solitude. The battles may be behind him, but peace has never come easy. He’s drifting until a strange signal pulls him off course.
A hidden transmission. A plea for help. A distress call from human prisoners long thought lost. The authorities won’t act. Peace is too fragile. Diplomats would rather look away. But Bryce remembers what it means to wear the uniform and the unspoken vow that comes with it. He’ll have to do the impossible: form a team, cross the border, and bring them home.
Because some promises don’t expire. And some missions… choose you.
The Motel
by Nancy Savage
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Pearl just checked in. To her own personal nightmare.
Things aren’t going well for Pearl Fuller. Reeling from a breakup and struggling to make ends meet, she’s sleeping on her ex’s couch and working nights at The Driftwood Motel.
The same motel that years ago was the scene of the legendary Berkman murder. They say that room 52 has been empty ever since that night. But if that’s true why can Pearl see someone moving around in there? And why is she the only one who can hear that eerie voice?
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Step into the sultry streets of New Orleans and immerse yourself in a world of voodoo, mystery, and murder in this gripping crime thriller. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia faces the greatest challenge of his career: a sadistic serial killer who delights in ritualistic murders of his victims. With voodoo as the only link, Tony enlists the help of urban French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to unravel the paranormal mystery and bring the killer to justice.
As Tony and Mama delve deeper into the world of voodoo, they uncover a shocking truth: the killer is none other than a former U.S. senator and a prominent member of New Orleans’ high society. Is he a demon, psychic, shapeshifter, vampire, voodoo spirit, or all of the above? With the clock ticking and the stakes higher than ever, Tony must navigate the dark, treacherous waters of local politics and mob corruption to stop the ominous killer before it’s too late.
EMBRACE THE WIND
by Susan Denning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own. Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right─ it’s potentially deadly. This unlikely love story details real triumphs and tragedies from frontier women’s letters, diaries and newspapers of the day, and places Aislynn in the center of their history. EMBRACE THE WIND illuminates an intimate picture of the American frontier; the story of the women who changed the West and helped forge the freedoms we enjoy today.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries – Complete Collection
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Complete 9 book cozy mystery series that has entertained thousands! Widowed cafe owner Anna Butler uncovers shocking secrets from her past as she tries to prove she did not murder her husband. Packed with twists you never saw coming, every book in this series leaves readers wanting more.
Fifty five year old Anna Butler is busy testing cupcake recipes, trying to cope with the loss of her beloved husband. When the license for her dream cafe is rejected, Anna realizes the local mayor will never stop making her life difficult. The formidable woman has already turned half the town against her, all because she has a silly notion that Anna killed her husband.
Take it to the Limit
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Nashville P.I.’s Ethan and Michele Jenks ignite a pulse pounding showdown against a biker bar’s sinister sex trafficking ring.
Husband and wife Nashville P.I.’s Ethan and Michele (Mickey) Jenks own separate investigative agencies. He’s a seasoned pro that loves dangerous undercover work. She’s brand new and believes her skills match her husband’s, but inexperience lands her in one dangerous situation after another.
She’s hired to find a girl who disappeared from Hellbound, a notorious biker bar. He’s infiltrated a sex trafficking ring run out of that same bar. Unknown to her, they’re working the same case, but from very different angles. The bar’s hardcore biker owner uses a double-dealing journalist to manipulate Mickey into revealing how Ethan got inside and what he’s uncovered, with deadly results.
An Inquiry into Love and Death
by Simone St. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost in this gripping novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.
Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings.
Almost immediately, unsettling incidents—a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own—escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house.
The Secret Hours
by Mick Herron
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.
Set in the MI5 world of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so.
The Fifth Survivor: The Ultimate Collection
by Angel Ramon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: New Release #ad
The ultimate Gamelit/LitRPG horror collection is here! All ten books of The Fifth Survivor series and three spinoffs all in one epic collection of mayhem and zombies!
ZOMBIES AND BACON RULE! The series where the worlds of Charles Bronson and Resident Evil combine into an episodic book series! Who says old men can’t be badass vigilantes? A middle-aged journalist turned vigilante will show he can kick some serious zombie butt and save the friggin world while maintaining his unhealthy bacon obsession.
A Savage Place
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.
Spenser’s job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser’s skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game–a game that may cost Spenser his life.
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
Everyone Is Watching
by Heather Gudenkauf
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest
The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive.
Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Break No Bone
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs comes a book set in Charleston, South Carolina, the center of a lucrative, clandestine, sophisticated trade in body parts—the kind that leaves the donor dead.
Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, Tempe is stuck teaching a lackluster archaeology field school in the ruins of a Native American burial ground on the Charleston shore. But when Tempe stumbles upon a fresh skeleton among the ancient bones, her old friend Emma Rousseau, the local coroner, persuades her to stay on and help with the investigation. When Emma reveals a disturbing secret, it becomes more important than ever for Tempe to help her friend close the case.
Blue Moon over Madagascar
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lilith Devlin’s comfortable routines shatter when a faery lures her into unknown territory.
Faery Florinda appears like magic in Pittsburgh bookstore manager Lilith’s garden one night with a proposition. Will Lilith write a novel explaining faery ways? But she soon learns there’s even more at stake.
She’s thrilled by the trip to Ireland to learn from Old World fae. But will her cat and best friend Cleo ever forgive her for abandoning her to sleep in a tent in Madagascar with a man she barely knows on some wild faery mission? After twenty years of living without romantic love, can she handle the heat?
The Final Twist
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths.
Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company’s sadistic enforcers, as he speeds from one gritty neighborhood in the City by the Bay to another. Suddenly, the job takes on a frightening urgency: Only by finding the courier bag can he expose the company and stop the murder of an entire family—slated to die in forty-eight hours.
The Starving Saints
by Caitlin Starling
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.
Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration…
THE ORIGINAL When the Mob Ran Vegas
by Steve Fischer, Sandra Wendel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“My Uncle Al would have loved this book.” – Deirdre Capone
Vegas like you’ve never seen, tales you’ve never heard – until now. Sizzling, behind-the-headlines stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made ’50s and ’60s Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert. Those were the days…
Those were the days, all chronicled in 21 unforgettable stories and vintage photos told as only Las Vegas historian Steve Fischer can tell, about those days when the Mob ran Vegas.
The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.
She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.
The Poorly Made and Other Things
by Sam Rebelein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
There’s something wrong in Renfield County.
It’s in the water, the soil, the wood. But worst of all, it’s in the minds of the residents, slowly driving them mad. When Lawrence Renfield massacred his family and drew The Giant in his farmhouse with their blood, no one imagined the repercussions. At the very least, the bloodstained wood should have been set aflame, not chopped down and repurposed as furniture, décor, and heirlooms across the county. But that’s exactly what happened. Now regular people—like you and me—are sitting on… eating with… admiring… the cursed wood and reaping the consequences.
Whistle
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Evil has a one track mind….
Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.
But Annie’s year is about to get worse.