Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Someone in the House
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An English Gothic mansion transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat—a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together.
But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive—unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear . . . and unearthly passion.
Artifacts of Condir
by Tom Raley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The outpost is the most remote and isolated in the kingdom, secluded and unreachable for much of the year. Battered by unforgiving winter storms and the devil’s wind, the outpost is home to a most unusual and unique group. These men and women, shunned by society and their own families, outcasts and criminals, desire only to go unnoticed in the frozen wasteland. In a land ruled by snow bears, wolves, and the bitter winter, life can be harsh and often quite short.
Each winter, the vicious winds drive ships to their doom along the rocky northern shores. These wrecks rarely leave survivors and only occasionally yield scraps for scavengers and looters. A new wreck not only brings a survivor, but also a new threat…
Next
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it’s the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There’s a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
A Fleeting Shadow
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A murderous monk. An ancient riddle. A man willing to pay any price to protect the people he loves.
Nigel Baskervell has faced war, revolution, and plague—and survived. Now serving as county sheriff in 14th-century England, he’s determined to shield his family and closest friends from the horrors stalking the land.
But when a monk seeking a lost relic collapses at his feet and dies in his arms, Nigel must choose: walk away unscathed or dive headlong into danger to solve a centuries-old mystery..
Midnight Bayou
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn’t understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he’d been enchanted – and obsessed – with it.
Determined to restore the mansion to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He sees visions of days from a century past and experiences sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan’s belief in the ghostly presence grows.
Scuttler’s Cove
by David Barnett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives
Scuttler’s Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.
Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town.
Nil Unlocked
by Lynne Matson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape–or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.
New arrivals cause rifts within the City, putting the Search system at risk, and calling everything Rives knows into question. Desperate for answers, he teams up with the only other person searching for them: Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past of her own. Soon the duo find themselves locked in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil–and possibly destroy the island forever. But at what cost? And who will pay the price?
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Scarpetta, an all-new Original Series, is out now on Prime Video!
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning.
Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, seems like the ideal situation for Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues, Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy. But then come the deaths…
EMP Quiet Embers
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
During the worst winter America has ever seen, an EMP destroys the grid and leaves millions freezing in the dark. Jack gets his family to a remote cabin, hoping the forest will hide them. But the blizzard is not the threat he should fear most.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Treasure State
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box’s Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who’s disappeared somewhere in the “treasure state”. A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that’s the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie begins to wonder if her client is telling her everything.
Deep End
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
This quiet little town is about to explode.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe moved to the tiny coastal town of Brynn’s Haven, Maine, for the peace it promised. Deep underwater, he finds something far darker: a child’s skeleton fitted with concrete boots.
When Mason brings the chilling discovery to Sheriff Donald Wirtz, he’s met with a polite shrug. But as more remains are discovered, the truth becomes brutally clear: Wirtz isn’t just ignoring the evidence—he’s burying it.
Now Mason is alone, cut off from the law and pushed into the crosshairs of a ruthless crime ring. These people play for keeps—they run this town and they will do whatever it takes to keep its secrets resting quietly on the seafloor…
Anatomy of a Scandal
by Sarah Vaughan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some people’s secrets are darker than others.
Sophie Whitehouse has a lovely home, two adorable children, and a handsome, successful husband. In other words, she has the “perfect” life. But everything changes the night her husband James comes home and confesses an indiscretion. Suddenly, her neat, ordered world is turned upside down. Did she ever really know the man she married?
And, as it turns out, James’s revelation is just the tip of the iceberg. He stands accused of a terrible crime.
A Banquet of Consequences
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
Taking the Fifth
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Chattanooga Times calls New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, “One of the best—if not the best,” and this classic suspense masterwork featuring Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont emphatically proves the point.
In Taking the Fifth, a gruesome and very unusual murder plunges the intrepid Beau into a lethal cinematic nightmare. Michigan’s Flint Journal places Jance “in the elite company of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell.” Taking the Fifth, now in a Premium Plus edition, is an ideal opportunity for fans of the author’s Sheriff Joanna Brady books to discover another side to the incomparable J.A. Jance.
The First Wives
by S.E. Reed
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Fans of Freida McFadden and Jeneva Rose will be glued to every twist in this tradwife psychological thriller where nothing—and no one—is what they seem.
Two women live in neighboring beachfront mansions. One posts carefully curated photos of her enviable life. The other watches from the shadows, learning every detail of that life, waiting for the right moment to destroy it.
Hannah thought she knew which one she was…
Tsisdetsi’s Shadow
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
No one escapes
In the toxic ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma, where blood-red creeks and crumbling mine shafts whisper of a poisoned past, rumors swirl of Tsisdetsi’s Shadow—a spectral creature stalking the shadows of the Tar Creek Superfund site. When reality TV’s Cryptid Hunter star Jake Huntington sets out to capture the beast on film, he enlists his voodoo priestess girlfriend, Mama Mulate, and gritty Oklahoma P.I.
Buck McDivit to lead the charge. Guided by advice from locals, residents of an off-the-grid commune, and the cryptic wisdom of Quapaw medicine woman Nadie, the team ventures into Bone Hollow.
Shifter Wolves of Pleasant Valley Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In Pleasant Valley, falling in love with the wrong man could change everything… especially when he’s a wolf.
Pleasant Valley looks like a quiet Texas town, but beneath the surface wolf shifters guard dangerous secrets. When human women arrive with troubled pasts, abusive exes, and lives in danger, the wolves sworn to avoid them find their fated mates instead. Protecting them means breaking the pack’s most sacred rules. Enemies close in, secrets unravel, and forbidden love threatens everything the wolves have built.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Body in a Bush Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Newsflash: it is not a happy Skye McKay who leaves her Texas home for her grandmother’s house in Scotland. Especially not when she finds a child’s skeleton in a trash bag under her grandmother’s hedge.
She faces questions that have no answers: who was the child? Who murdered her? Why? Skye is shocked that no one seems to have even known the child was missing. She must find answers because the child deserves justice…and justice is all anyone can give her now. It’s up to Skye to fight for that justice because no one else cares.
Her search for the killer puts her in danger: her concrete artwork is vandalized; windows are broken out in her house; walls are spray painted; car tires are slashed…
Beautiful Ugly
by Alice Feeney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“Her best book yet.” – Harlan Coben
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared…
Ninth Templar
by Don Holbrook
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Ninth Templar – Guardian of the Grail
The Knights Templar died protecting a prophecy the Church could never allow.
What if Christ left a message revealing humanity’s true destiny?
A Novel by Don Allen Holbrook
What if the Knights Templar were tortured and executed not for wealth… but for what they discovered beneath the Temple of Solomon?
What if the Holy Grail was never a chalice… …but a living bloodline?
Never Say Die
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Twenty years after her father’s plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. She recognizes the danger, but her search for the truth is the only thing that matters.
Willy knows she can’t proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard, who knows the mysterious land well. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives. What she couldn’t have prepared for are the shocking secrets and the undeniable attraction.
The Lost Tomb
by Douglas Preston, David Grann
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence?
From the jungles of Honduras to macabre archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Douglas Preston’s explorations have taken him across the globe…
This Is Why We Lied
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty…But who is a killer?
For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.
A murderer in their midst…
Venetian Rhapsody
by Tonya Penrose
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a glancing moment, Eduardo and Sofia experience a chance encounter that alters how they see their world and ignites a grand love. A romance where the barriers of time’s constraints fall away…leaving them with an unfolding mystery around their powerful connection. Two encounters a year apart bring plenty of complications, smiles, and undeniable love.
A companion album, Venetian Rhapsody, by award-winning composer and musician David Bazo highlights the story’s unfolding.
Who’s the Beach Billionaire?
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They’re all crazy rich. One in particular is a billionaire. Competition is fierce, fun, and keeps the staff hopping.
The Azure Palms is a luxury, tropical island resort, full of unforgettable characters. Its specialty is hosting an annual summer game for its weary vacationers in need of comfort, safety, and entertainment.
A number of wealthy participants play as “the billionaire”, putting on the ritz for the island guests. They provide elaborate feasts and exciting excursions, vying for the title of the richest donor. The winner is the guest who correctly identifies the billionaire.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Random in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd.
Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life.
It’s the last night of her life.
Ward D
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.
Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.
And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.
Circle of Days
by Ken Follett
Kindle $5.99 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.
Kingdom of the Blind
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
Too Late: Definitive
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother’s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her—one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day.
When undercover DEA agent Carter enters the picture, Sloan’s surprised to feel an immediate attraction between them, despite knowing that if Asa finds out, he will kill him.
Sacrificial Animals
by Kailee Pedersen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen’s own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up alongside her family’s farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.
The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.
The Lost Order
by Steve Berry
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.
Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure—one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.
What Kind of Paradise
by Janelle Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
Demystifying Enlightenment
by Dennis Macy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Do you long to know how your loved ones are doing in Heaven? Are you curious about the afterlife? Do you miss your late family members and yearn to ask them about their heavenly existence? Intrigued by the astonishing wisdom of other celestial residents? Dennis Macy, who possesses highly sensitive enhanced abilities, has helped countless individuals by delivering messages from the other side. Now he’s here to provide you with the comfort and understanding that comes from communicating with those who have passed on. Demystifying Enlightenment is a glimpse into what angels, spirits, and our dearly departed want us to know.
Whisper Creek
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan delivers a pulse-pounding thriller about one family fighting for their land against both human enemies and Mother Nature.
After the sudden death of her husband, Ellen McKenna is doing everything she can to keep her Texas farm afloat. She and her family hope to expand their operation, but times are tough and making ends meet is more expensive than she imagined, much less trying to grow. Many of their neighbors in Cooke County have thrown in the towel and agreed to sell their farms to a local businessman, but despite similar pressure, Ellen refuses to let her dreams die.