Mysteries

The Pharaoh’s Secret (The NUMA Files)
Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

A Kurt Austin NUMA files adventure, The Pharaoh’s Secret is a gripping, action-packed and suspense-filled tale that delves into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and is set in and beside the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. On the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa a mysterious ship runs aground, explodes and releases a poisonous black mist.

As the island’s inhabitants fall where they stand, someone sends a distress call. Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are diving for antiquities when they pick up the call. As the only vessel for hundreds of miles, they attempt to rescue survivors.

The Columbus Affair
Steve Berry
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

A family’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492?

And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world? Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns.

CLICK
V. K. Michaels
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

A horrific discovery in the woods. A town under lockdown. A sound in the dark that means it’s already too late. In the quiet, timber-lined town of Oakhaven, Ohio, a summer night is shattered when a child vanishes from her backyard at the edge of Blackwood Forest.

The search reveals a scene of nightmare violence—and a lingering, unnatural sound echoing from the canopy: Click. Click. Click. Eager to prevent a county-wide panic, local authorities attribute the attack to a rogue predator and lock down the state park.

A Murder Redeemed
by Bruce Hammack
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

He wanted to end his bloodline. Instead, he awakened it. Cast out and looking for a shameful death, Isaak Rothschild found something worse in Nexus’s neon underworld. Now ancient hunger burns in his veins and a syndicate wants what he’s become. His transformation was no accident.

He’s the missing piece in something monstrous. Pick up this complete trilogy to enter a world where blood is currency and transformation is just the beginning. Disgraced and cast out, Isaak Rothschild descended into Nexus’s underworld with a simple plan: find a death so shameful it would bury his father’s empire forever.

The Accord Complete Series Boxed Set
Michael Todd and Michael Anderle
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

He wanted to end his bloodline. Instead, he awakened it. Cast out and looking for a shameful death, Isaak Rothschild found something worse in Nexus’s neon underworld. Now ancient hunger burns in his veins and a syndicate wants what he’s become. His transformation was no accident.

He’s the missing piece in something monstrous. Pick up this complete trilogy to enter a world where blood is currency and transformation is just the beginning. Disgraced and cast out, Isaak Rothschild descended into Nexus’s underworld with a simple plan: find a death so shameful it would bury his father’s empire forever.

O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC.
A.G. Russo
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York. Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.

A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year.

Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
Dorothy Gilman
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

“Mrs. Gilman has a nice, relaxed style and an easygoing way of telling a story. . . . Should delight you whether you’re looking for smiles or thrills.”—The New York Times Book Review

The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her junk closet is a young woman hiding.

Kadi Hopkirk insists that she’s being followed by two men in a dirty white van.

The Witches of Cambridge (A Read with Jenna Pick)
Alice Hoffman
Kindle 14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad

The brand-new series from the bestselling author of Practical Magic, following two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe known as the Lilith Society.

Once upon a time, women were drowned in the river and the only witnesses were the crows in the trees. The Puritans blamed Eve for the sins of the world. That was when we began to meet in the name of Lilith, Adam’s first wife—banished for refusing to do as she was told. We Fly Together…

Relentless (Gray Man Book 10)
Mark Greaney
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

The Gray Man’s search for missing intelligence agents plunges him deep into a maelstrom of trouble in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The first agent disappearance was a puzzle. The second was a mystery. The third was a conspiracy. Intelligence operatives around the world are disappearing.

When a missing American agent re-appears in Venezuela, Court Gentry, the Gray Man, is dispatched to bring him in, but a team of assassins has other ideas. Court escapes with his life and a vital piece of intelligence. Meanwhile, CIA agent Zoya Zakharova is in Berlin.

MERCER (Mercer Trilogy Book 1)
S. K. Brown
Kindle 4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Daniel Mercer has always known there is something wrong with him. At sixteen, Daniel Mercer discovers what it feels like to take a life. He also discovers that he wants to do it again.

Years later, Danny has built the kind of life no one would think to question—a devoted wife, children he fiercely loves, a thriving automotive business, and a reputation as the dependable family man everyone seems to know. But beneath that ordinary life is another one. Women disappear. Bodies surface. And beneath Mercer Auto, Danny is building something no one was ever meant to find.

The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

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When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.

A Murder Redeemed
Bruce Hammack
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

The quiet campus harbored secrets. Now it harbors a killer. When a wave of car thefts disturbs the tranquil university campus where Assistant Police Chief CJ Harper maintains order, she considers it a manageable crisis.

But when one of her campus officers is brazenly murdered and her boss is suddenly hospitalized, CJ finds herself thrust into a leadership role she never wanted—hunting a killer who’s always one step ahead. As evidence mounts and leads emerge, CJ’s investigation plunges into the shadowy world of organized crime operating beneath the campus’s tranquil surface.

Slipping into Darkness
Peter Blauner
Kindle 0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad

Crime thrills from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sunrise Highway—”One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time” (Stephen King). When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer—Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl.

Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six.

Cari Mora
Thomas Harris
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad

A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs. “Delectable.” —New York Times Book Review “A master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.” —Wall Street Journal

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Finding Angus
L.K. Johnson
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond… Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.

Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s. Together they embark on a remarkable journey: to inspire the animal welfare movement in America and endure an unforgettable voyage aboard the RMS Titanic.

Countdown to Christmas Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery Book 32)
Leslie Meier
Kindle 12.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Christmas may be 63 days away, but as the Tinker’s Cove Chamber of Commerce gears up for an elaborate Dickens-themed Christmas event, reporter Lucy Stone is already feeling a bit Grinchy—until a possible murder requires her sleuthing skills in the latest Lucy Stone Mystery from bestselling author Leslie Meier.

With all four kids out of the house, Lucy Stone’s suddenly empty nest has put a damper on her usual zest for Christmas. She’s got plenty of article ideas to keep her busy though, including reports of vicious social media posts targeting several town residents.