Mysteries
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Music and Memories, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Tension is high in Clover Hill, VA, when a beloved high school art teacher is found murdered. Determined to stay out of danger, Sheridan has no intention of sleuthing again—until the victim turns out to be one of Maddie’s favorite teachers. Artist and music lover Alyssa Drake was last seen at the Old Thyme Piano Bar. With the students buzzing and the principal confidently announcing that Sheridan will crack the case, she’s sleuthing again to find answers.
As Sheridan follows a trail of secrets, she suspects the teacher uncovered something shady that led to her death. Some of the victim’s sketches spur Sheridan on. Only the killer believes Sheridan knows too much and is ready to silence her for good…
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Bullet Proof
by Joshua Harkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Frank Ranger lives by one simple rule. Justice will be done.
Former Marine Sergeant Frank Ranger is a hunted man—framed for his wife’s murder, he is determined to clear his name so he can be reunited with his young daughter.
Pursued relentlessly by his vengeful U.S. Marshal brother-in-law, Ranger finds temporary refuge in the scorching Arizona town of Namrena. But when he intervenes to protect a desperate mother and her young son from local thugs, Ranger ignites a war with the town’s ruthless crime syndicate.
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(Ranger Thrillers)
SEEDS OF VENGEANCE
by Stephen Joyce
Kindle $3.49 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A series of grisly murders have occurred across the country and are being sensationalised by the media.
Police forces operating in isolation have been highlighted as being spectacularly ineffective against a devious and brutal adversary, whose M.O. is designed to render forensics almost useless.
Caught in a pincer movement between MI6 and the Home Office, MI5 has been invited to lead the manhunt. However, the higher echelons in MI5 must protect their prestige. They have no appetite to be reduced to mere plods. This experiment must fail! A scapegoat is required.
Small-Town Secrets Collection
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ten riveting, unputdownable small-town romances filled with love, faith, and danger to warm your heart and set it racing!
Sparks and bullets fly as couples join forces to survive, solve mysteries, and find love in small towns and ranch communities where emotions run deep, people care about each other, and the secrets can be deadly!
“Wow! A great collection of suspense novels… I could hardly put them down.” by Amazon Customer
Exit Plan
by Larry Bond
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs—experts in seaborne commando operations—are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
While en route to shore, Michigan’s mini-sub suffers a battery fire, killing one crew member and forcing the survivors—four SEALs and LCDR Mitchell—to scuttle their disabled craft and swim for shore. There they find the two Iranians waiting for them, but their attempts at returning to Michigan are thwarted by heavy Iranian patrol boat activity. When agents of Iran’s secret police, VEVAK, appear, escape seems all but impossible.
The Birthright Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha doesn’t want her mother’s throne. Her sister Judica is the merciless fighter, the ruthless politician, and the groomed heir. Chancery doesn’t mind that Judica will take over everything. Truly.
Until Judica starts dating the only guy she has ever liked. Chancery’s heartily sick of taking it on the chin. She’s ready to seize control of her own life. But before Chancery can enact her plan to free herself from the miserable life in which she’s trapped, she reacts bizarrely to an old relic, fulfilling an arcane prophecy.
The Last Powered City
by Robert J Walker
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Everyone thinks Mary is just a mom. They’re wrong. When an EMP kills the grid and chaos erupts, she’ll cross a burning city to reach her daughter… even if it means unleashing the woman she spent fifteen years hiding. Some skills you never forget.
“This was a great book to read about surviving an emp with hard work and basics and building it into a homestead.” by Amazon Customer
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career – and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended.
“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal.
Dear Debbie
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes, enough is enough…
Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did.
These days, Debbie’s life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lost Books and Old Bones
by Paige Shelton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lost Books and Old Bones is a delightful new mystery by Paige Shelton, featuring bookseller and amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols.
Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town. The shop is a place filled with curiosities and surprises tucked into every shelf, and it’s Delaney’s job to research the rare tomes and obscure artifacts that people come to buy and sell. When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she’s stumbled across a rare and important find indeed…
This Book Will Bury Me
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a chilling psychological thriller that explores the dark heart of digital obsession, collective grief, and what happens when murder becomes entertainment.
After losing her father, college student Jane Sharp finds solace—and purpose—in the strange intimacy of online true crime forums. Among armchair detectives and anonymous sleuths, she becomes someone new: sharp-eyed, fast-thinking, celebrated. But when the brutal deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho spark a viral frenzy, Jane and her online friends become part of the investigation…
The Cursed Wyrm Court Complete Series
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A curse of scales, a heart of fire.
Healer Nyra Vexlin is kidnapped by the king’s men and imprisoned in Varynth Hold with one impossible task: cure the crown prince, Rhezan, who has been cursed into dragon form for fifteen years.
But powerful forces conspire against them. Enemy kingdoms gather at the borders, sensing weakness. And the first ritual nearly kills him.
Will Nyra be able to reverse the curse before it’s too late?
Smoked
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Smokescreen – the wisecracking, best bud of teen super Kid Sensation – has his first solo adventure!
Unlike several of his friends, Smokescreen isn’t anything close to a household name. With a power set that most view as little more than a parlor trick, he’s nowhere near the top of the list of folks to call in an emergency. Ergo, it’s a bit of a surprise when he’s recruited by another super-powered teen, Atalanta, for a covert mission.
Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a simple operation swiftly morphs into something incredibly convoluted…and unimaginably dangerous. Although no stranger to perilous situations, Smokescreen unexpectedly ends up at the center of events with global implications – and facing a threat that even the greatest of superheroes would find daunting.
The Hike
by Lucy Clarke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
No help.
No cell coverage.
No one to hear them scream.
Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. More than that, she craves an adventure, a total reset. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. Following a trail that climbs through lush valleys, towering peaks, and past jewel-blue lakes, Liz is sure that the hike is just what they need.
They Thirst
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A vampire turns Los Angeles into a city of the dead in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Swan Song.
The Kronsteen castle, a gothic monstrosity, looms over Los Angeles. Built during Hollywood’s golden age for a long-dead screen idol with a taste for the macabre, it stands as a decaying reminder of the past. Since the owner’s murder, no living thing has ever again taken up residence. But it isn’t abandoned. Prince Conrad Vulkan, Hungarian master of the vampires, as old as the centuries, calls it home. His plan is to replace all humankind with his kind. And he’s starting with the psychotic dregs of society in the City of Angels.
The Frosted Roses
by Julianne Munich
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A Sorceress suffering from her past. Young couples forced apart. An arrogant Law Officer. A tyrant Mage Lord.
Beneath a secret enchanted village in 1770s France, disobedient Mages are cast away in the Glass Dungeon under a cruel regime. Among them is Mathilde, left with her family secret and a lifetime of mistakes. Sleep—and dreams of her estranged son—are the only respites from her despair.
Her clever cousin, Armand, leads a motley crew of allies known as ‘The Frosted Roses’. The gang dreams up a plot to break into the Dungeon and organize a daring coup d’état.
Pendergast
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case.
It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered…
Eight Days to Live
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mother and daughter risk becoming prey to a mysterious cult in this thriller from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane MacGuire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die.
It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called “Guilt” and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face.
The Magician Killer
by Diane Merrill-Wigginton
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Difference between a Sociopath and a Psychopath is a Very Fine Line
At the tender age of nineteen, Special Agent Samantha Stevens’s life was forever altered when she was forced to endure the unspeakable. But that was ten years ago. Now, she lives an uncomplicated life in Washington, D.C., void of any commitment or ties as she pours over unsolved cases and clears them with unparalleled accuracy.
Unfamiliar Partners Make for Strange Bedfellows…
V is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of this daring Kinsey Millhone mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton.
Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in any department store’s lingerie section, but she’s entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and later learns that the one who didn’t get away has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
Cutting Edge Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors.
Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.
The Secret Place
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.
Blue Dahlia
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night…
Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee. She isn’t intimidated by Harper House—nor by its mistress. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz Harper has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing In the Garden nursery.
Hero Redefined
by Doug Levy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
What does it mean to be a hero – in sports and in life?
Heroes aren’t just the ones who bring home medals. Hero Redefined delves into the lesser-known stories of Olympic athletes—and a couple of special Olympic venues—that challenge the conventional narrative of glory and gold. In riveting personal profiles exploring herculean feats of strength, perseverance, and sportsmanship, award-winning sports journalist Doug Levy offers a new vision of heroism. There is more than one path to greatness, and the extraordinary acts of resilience and personal sacrifice by these athletes have left an indelible mark on the spirit of the Olympic games in quiet but fundamental ways through the ages.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Other Sister
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Family reunions can be hell.
Dr. Celeste Monroe seems to have the perfect life – a thriving psychology practice, bestselling self-help books, and the respect of her peers.
But when patient Daniel St. Clair begins stalking her and releases doctored recordings of their sessions which go viral, Celeste’s career crumbles overnight. As death threats flood in and her reputation disintegrates, she realizes that what’s happening in the present may be linked to her own troubled past…
War Path
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
His cover is a lie. His target is a ghost. His survival is a long shot.
When DEA agent Garcia Cardoso is snatched by the Gulf Cartel in the Bolivian jungle, CIA operatives Mark Pierce and Rachel Zang are sent to rescue him. They pull him out alive—only to watch him die moments later, cut down by a sniper’s bullet.
His final words: there’s a mole inside the Agency.
Cardoso’s killer is the Sand Viper, a ghost-like assassin working for a shadowy terrorist network called the Dekaract. They’ve armed Mexico’s warring cartels with military-grade rocket systems, and they’re about to spark a conflict that will engulf both sides of the US border.
Return of the Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller.
Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired the Prime Video show, Cross.
Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross—named the “human superhero” by The New York Times—versus Gary Soneji, who the Lexington-Herald Leader called the “most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter”. But that wasn’t their first meeting…
Stolen Tongues
by Felix Blackwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned.
High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows in the dead of night, whispering to Faye. As the weather turns deadly, Felix discovers that his terrified fiancée isn’t just mumbling in her sleep – she’s whispering back.
Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION…
Strange Brew
by Mary Kay Andrews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sixth book in the Callahan Garrity mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews finds the beloved sleuth facing a brew of community troubles—as her bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morphs into a trendy haven for yuppies—and an old flame.
Cleaning lady turned sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her hometown be transformed—and just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix…
The 7th Victim
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Special Agent Karen Vail “is a knockout, tough and brilliant” (Tess Gerritsen). As lead profiler for the FBI, Vail is spearheading the task force investigation into a serial killer known as “Dead Eyes,” who’s been terrorizing Fairfax County, Virginia.
What separates this psychopath from the others is a peculiar savagery, and an intimate knowledge of the FBI’s detailed strategy of pursuit. What separates Vail from her peers is a life that has made her hard and uncompromising. Recently divorced from an abusive husband, and in the throes of an ugly custody battle, she’s also helpless against her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. But little by little, as Vail’s personal baggage begins to consume her, the investigation threatens to derail.
The Clan of Hogan Falls Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Prepare yourself for these eight stories about female wolf shifters whose lives have been in danger since birth. Abandoned by their clans, they all grew up together and now run a successful bed and breakfast.
But it isn’t until they meet their fated mates that everything becomes turbulent again. The enemies have returned, and the women have much more to lose than just their lives. They now also have their hearts on the line.