Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Epilogue to a Christmas Murder
by Lauren Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s no place like the seaside Massachusetts town of Greyborne Harbor for the holidays, and there’s no better feeling for Addie than donating to the lighthouse museum’s Twelve Days of Christmas charity fundraiser. Of the dozen books she’ll be offering as prizes from her Beyond the Page Books and Curios shop, the most special volume is a first edition of The Gift of the Magi imported from England—signed by O. Henry! Addie receives an unexpected Christmas bonus when the book is hand delivered by visiting Detective Inspector Noah Parker, whom she met in England, and has been daydreaming about ever since.
The Burial Hour
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeffrey Deaver’s New York Times bestselling series. A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman’s noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Soon the case takes a stranger turn…
Knife in the Back
by Karen Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced—through threats to her young son—into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her have returned, this time demanding she move drugs along with her flower shop’s deliveries. They threaten her son once again, but this time she’s not capitulating quietly. She hires Broussard Investigations to protect her and her son, to prove her innocence, and to put the real bad guys away.
My Canvas Bag
by Lucas Kinkaid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #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. Mark keeps a canvas bag hidden close to his house. It contains blankets, a flashlight, cans of food, a transistor radio, things to read, and more. It has everything he needs to escape from his family’s dysfunction for a while. Mark truly enjoys the peace and solitude he finds in the 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…
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier
A young woman marries a widower and discovers that more than just the memories of his deceased wife linger in their home. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives–presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
Murder at Cape Costumers
by Maddie Day
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In Agatha Award-winner Maddie Day’s delightfully spooky Cozy Capers Book Group mystery, it’s Halloween, and Cape Cod bike shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her book club must unmask a killer…
Just in time for Halloween, a new costume shop has opened on Main Street in Westham, Massachusetts. Cape Costumers is a cut above the usual seasonal pop-up stores with their flimsy mass-produced outfits and cheap plastic masks, mostly due to co-owner Shelly, a former Broadway costume designer. But when Shelly discovers her elderly boyfriend Enzo—a Broadway star who retired to Westham—dead of unnatural causes, Halloween suddenly gets a lot scarier.
The Burning Library
by Gilly Macmillan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A deadly rivalry.
A chilling secret.
One woman who can decipher the truth.
On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland’s Western Isles, Eleanor Bruton’s body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary middle-aged woman. She did flower arrangements and plumped kneeler cushions at church. Little did they know she was harboring a dark and all-consuming secret. A scrap of fraying embroidery that seems worthless at first glance.
The Billionaire’s Deep Dive
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Billionaire maritime archaeologist Archer Hale has spent years chasing a shipwreck linked to a long-buried crime. When he finally locates it, he calls in the one diver he trusts to keep her head in treacherous waters—Jan Lewis, his toughest former student.
Jan doesn’t owe Archer anything, but the mystery surrounding the wreck is too compelling to refuse. Once aboard the remote research vessel, it’s clear the danger isn’t only underwater. Equipment fails. Motives shift. And someone on the ship will do anything to keep the past submerged.
All the Memories We Never Had
by Martin P. Anderfeldt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
They had one day together.
Liu met Finn during a family trip—one crazy afternoon that felt like the beginning of something.
When she flies back months later, ready to see where that something might go, Finn is already gone.
What he left behind: a vintage tape recorder and his voice, walking her through all the places they would have gone together. The cafés. The hiking trails. The inside jokes they’ll never share. He mapped out a relationship in audio form, knowing he’d never be there to live it. Liu could go home. She probably should. Instead, she follows the tapes.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
And Then There Were Crumbs
by Eve Calder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
WELCOME TO THE COOKIE HOUSE
Kate McGuire’s life was sweet in Manhattan before she lost her restaurant job and fiancé both. But sometimes that’s just the way the cookie crumbles, and soon she finds herself starting from scratch in the island town of Coral Cay, Florida. It has everything she’s looking for: sunny beaches, friendly locals, and a Help Wanted sign in the bakery shop window. Once she convinces the shop’s crusty owner Sam Hepplewhite to hire her, Kate can’t tie on her apron fast enough. Little does she know that trouble, like warm dough, is on the rise. . .
WHERE CRIMINALS GET THEIR JUST DESSERTS
Home Again
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A tender, beautifully told story of emotional growth, forgiveness [and] the possibility of miracles.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
Madelaine Hillyard is a world-famous heart surgeon at the top of her game. Her personal life is far less successful. A loving but overworked single mom, she is constantly at odds with her teenage daughter. At sixteen, Lina is confused, angry, and fast becoming a stranger to her mother—a rebel desperate to find the father who walked away before she was born. Complicating matters for Madelaine are the vastly different DeMarco brothers…
Ruthless Kingdom
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two Kingdoms – Two Kings. One King Vows to Rule Them All
Born under a scarlet moon, Avianna Morningstar should have been revered and feared, as the prophecy proclaimed. But Avia is taken to a remote realm where she would be safe from the anarchy festering in the Kingdoms, meanwhile her potential as a sorceress is all but extinguished.
A sinfully attractive tracker is tasked with bringing Avia back to a homeland she has never known in hopes of awakening the power that has lain dormant within her.
The Kingdoms of Verdae and Inkwood are intrigued and unsettled by the sudden return of the king’s illegitimate daughter. Troublesome is the coiling and churning of forbidden black magic throughout the land.
Ruthless Kingdom
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
From Kindle All-Star and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer Youngblood comes a romantic suspense collection where loyalty is tested, courage is crucial, and love emerges when the stakes are at their highest.
These stories deliver brave protagonists, unwavering protectors, and undeniable chemistry forged in the heat of danger. Ideal for readers who enjoy swoony romance, escalating suspense, and deeply satisfying emotional payoffs. When everything is at risk, staying close may be the bravest option of all.
Protecting the Heiress
Protecting the Journalist
Protecting the Diva
The Twelfth Hour Patriot
The Reckless Warrior
Dungeon Rails Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is a currency. Power is a debt. Freedom comes at a cost.
Luke never planned on becoming a caretaker to a chaos fairy. Breaking the seal on an old puzzle box was supposed to be a simple job—appraise the relic, pocket the profit, and move on.
It’s never that easy.
Can Luke survive the lawless frontier with a chaos fairy on his shoulder? Grab your copy of this complete trilogy to find out!
Hole to Hell Mystery
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A deeply powerful and emotive story unlike any other cozy mystery. Two estranged sisters are a universe apart until they join forces to investigate their father’s murder.
Acacia and her sister, Dinah, share a broken childhood of unbelievable abuse, along with a mother who abandoned them. As adults, they couldn’t be more different. Acacia is tied to the earth beneath her feet while Di dances on clouds.
Their investigation into their father’s murder puts them in constant danger: vandalized vehicles, rocks through windows, a near hit-and-run, even a shooting. They must be getting too close to the truth. But will they ever get close to each other?
Innocence
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bonus short story Wilderness. This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.
In Innocence, Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever.
He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen.
She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Mortuary Mound
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An ancient burial mound. A fatal accident. Can a retired inspector unearth the real threat before another victim ends up in the grave?
Isle of Man, 1967. Tom Ramsay is at a crossroads. Taking a vacation while deciding whether to continue the new agency on his own, the ex-policeman has also arrived to investigate stolen finds from an archaeological dig. But the case takes a dangerous turn when a trench gives way and a young student loses her life.
Finding the site a hotbed of romantic triangles and jealousy, Ramsay suspects the death is linked to secrets beneath the surface of theft, vandalism, and festering resentment…
Dead and Buried
by J. S. Scheffel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Just when Tai Jotun is starting to come to grips with her Kitsune heritage, life throws her more curveballs than an MLB playoff. The ghost of her dead cousin is following her around and wreaking havoc on the renovations at the club. Her grandmother Inari’s idea of help gives her a headache, and now she has to learn to control her Strigoi powers on top of everything else.
Join Tai, Nico, and Magoo as they navigate contractors, heartbreak, and the undead…
Dark Lie
by Nancy Springer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dorrie White should be content with her life. She has a steady job, a loving husband.
But Dorrie also has a secret—one that has caught up with her. When she was a teenager in high school, Dorrie got pregnant and put her baby up for adoption. When she discovers her daughter, Juliet, lives nearby, she can’t help but keep tabs on the girl. But the maternal urge to be close to her child turns into every mother’s nightmare when, right before Dorrie’s eyes, Juliet is abducted at a suburban shopping mall, forced into a van that quickly drives away. Stricken, Dorrie does the only thing any mother would: she goes after her.
The Revenants
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After being magically transported to the capital city of Iriluxir, Terven, Kitaj and Iir find themselves in more danger than ever. Iir is forced to confront her estranged grandfather—who turns out to be nothing like she imagined—while Terven seeks a mage who can heal his paralyzed arm. But the palace of King Jekon, Terven’s ruthless half-brother, is dangerously close, and if the king discovers them, death is a certainty.
In the Academy of Light Magic, Yarrow begins a new chapter with a new job and a new teacher—Daraan, a charismatic, talented young mage. Daraan is good-looking and a rising star in the Academy, and soon Yarrow finds herself torn between a budding attraction and the need to keep her identity secret.
The Body Farm
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial killer who has long eluded the FBI But as she tries to make sense of the evidence, she is left with questions that lead her to the Body Farm, a little known research facility in Tennessee where, with the help of some grisly experiments, she might discover the answer.
If the Creek Don’t Rise
by Leah Weiss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta Lynn.
Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That’s long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby.
Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline…if she can just figure out how to use it.
Hemlock Grove
by Brian McGreevy
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares. Hemlock Grove is now a hit television series on Netflix.
The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues—though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they should be looking for…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cruel and Unusual
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Killing me won’t kill the beast” are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can’t explain how medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell’s fingerprints on another crime scene—after she’d performed his autopsy.
If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual…
Spearthrower
by D. BRAISTED
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Earth is a cage.
Kim has always had access to food and shelter; she grew up in a comfortable world. Yet she is wild. After graduating from high school, she enters The Branch and becomes a highly trained astronaut. Kim accepts a classified mission and is launched deep. However, she is not just the test pilot; she is also the test.
Young Kala grew up on the open grass plain with a spear in hand, but she is not wild. Her tribe does not worry about time and space; her people are innately connected to the universe. And Kala’s adventure will violently choose her.
The dual storyline of Kim and Kala is thought-provoking and touching, exploring the nature of our existence and cultural beliefs.
Greenwich Park
by Katherine Faulkner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this “outstanding debut thriller” (Booklist, starred review), Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on the way—begins to change the day she attends her first prenatal class.
There, she meets Rachel, an unpredictable single mother-to-be who doesn’t seem very maternal: she smokes, drinks, and professes little interest in parenthood. Still, Helen is drawn to her. Maybe Rachel just needs a friend. And to be honest, Helen’s a bit lonely herself. At least Rachel is fun to be with. She makes Helen laugh, invites her confidences, and distracts her from her fears.
Listen for the Lie
by Amy Tintera
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
Behind Closed Doors
by Natalie R. Collins
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.9 #ad
For twenty years, they had been closer than sisters, sharing girlhood secrets, their hopes and dreams for the future—and a soul-searing promise. Melissa was the only one who knew what had really happened to Jannie beyond the sacred walls of the Mormon Temple the night that changed her life forever….
UNTIL HER BEST FRIEND VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE.
Now Melissa has gone missing, just days after entrusting Jannie with a mysterious box that someone would kill to possess.
The Doll-Master: And Other Tales of Terror
by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is “certain to stick in your mind long after you’ve turned the last page” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
Includes “Big Momma,” a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story
Here are six of Joyce Carol Oates’s most “frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after her tragic death. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from surrounding neighborhoods . . . each with its own sinister significance.
Speed Reading
by Kam Knight
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The #1 Speed Reading Book on Amazon for 7 Straight Years
This has become the go to book for students, teachers, educators, professionals, and home-school parents & children to quickly improve their reading speed.
It present simple tips to not only accelerate your reading, but also understanding and memory.
Unlike other books that only teach how to skim & scan, this one taps into your brain and eyes’ amazing ability to naturally read more words in a shorter time.
In truth, this isn’t your average speed reading book.