Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim Qwilleran for help. But he was too late. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death—but by whom? Or what? Now Qwilleran’s moved into the historic farmhouse with his two cat companions—and Koko the Siamese is spooked.
Is it a figment of feline imagination—or the clue to a murder in Moose County? And does Qwilleran have a ghost of a chance of solving this haunting mystery?
Wealth of Secrets
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the wake of her parents’ sudden deaths, Brynnan’s reality is spinning out of control. Unexplained threats are dredging up old fears—and fueling new anxiety about her safety.
Determined to help, Brynnan’s billionaire uncle rushes to her side, along with his newly hired head-of-security—former special forces operative, Jack McKerrick. Jack is tasked with ensuring Brynnan’s safety, but when he realizes she’s being targeted, Jack learns about Brynnan’s painful past, and starts to suspect she’s in more danger than she realizes.
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind?
McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something’s just not right. Not only has Maureen’s doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up—and no one seems to have any answers.
Yours to Protect Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
USA Today Bestselling Author and Kindle All-Star Jennifer Youngblood presents a gripping collection of bodyguard romances filled with fearless protectors, dangerous secrets, and undeniable attraction.
These highly trained bodyguards know how to anticipate every threat, maintain control, and put themselves between danger and the people they’re sworn to protect. But as professional boundaries blur and every new threat draws protector and client closer, they’ll face the one risk they didn’t anticipate—falling in love.
Packed with high-stakes danger, unexpected twists, and swoony romance, this four-book collection will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Paper Girls
by Alex Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The one case he couldn’t crack was the one that finally broke him.
Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family.
But his newfound peace doesn’t last. Two newspaper delivery girls have gone missing in the city, and the clues point to a serial kidnapper.
Kett is dragged into the centre of one of the darkest cases of his career—a case that pits him head to head against a horrifying evil.
MAN ONE
by Loren D. Estleman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Young widow Sage Holland doesn’t look like a murderer—and that’s because she isn’t one. The beautiful dame has driven non-stop from her home in frozen Alaska to seek out the services of private investigator Amos Walker, bringing not just the ice and snow with her. Sage has a stalker: her late husband’s vengeful brother, who’s determined to make her pay for a crime she didn’t commit. Someone killed David, but it wasn’t her.
Walker is no fool. He knows not to take the words of husky-voiced, sorrowful women at face value. But Sage is in sore need of protection, and Walker’s hunt for clues on Detroit’s wintry streets soon leads to far more dead bodies than expected.
The Butcher Game
by Alaina Urquhart
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in the Dr. Wren Muller series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.
Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher, as he heads north to evade capture for his horrific crimes. As he seeks safe harbor with a former friend, he remains focused on unfinished business with forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller, the only target who’s ever escaped him—twice. But not this time. He’s determined to make Wren suffer, and he’s promised to make her play by his own twisted rules.
Stranger
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Wes Avery has spent years riding freight roads and keeping other men alive. Then a dying friend asks him for one last favor.
He is to protect his sister and her eight-year-old daughter from the Coyle family, and get them to Larkin alive.
Lacey Reed has already watched the Coyles burn her homestead and hunt her brother into the winter. Her daughter has not spoken since. Now an armed stranger rides into her yard carrying news of her brother’s death, asking Lacey to trust him with the only family she has left.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid’s Secret
by Nita Prose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner—a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciting, her wedding to Juan Manuel.
When Molly brings in some old trinkets to be appraised on the show, one item is revealed to be a rare and coveted artifact worth millions. Molly becomes a rags-to-riches sensation, and a media frenzy swirls as she prepares to sell her priceless treasure. Then, on auction day, the treasure suddenly vanishes. and Molly and her friends find themselves at the center of the boldest art heist in recent memory.
Homeschool and Homicide Collection
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three gripping Christian mysteries. One unforgettable heroine. Hours of page-turning suspense.
Discover a Heartfelt Mystery Series Filled with Faith and Suspense!
If you cherish strong, compassionate women, gripping twists, and a journey of faith, then the Honey Pot Christian mystery series is perfect for you!
Missing on Main Street
Lethal in Lavender
Farmers Market Fatality
The River Girls
by Melinda Woodhall
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As another girl’s body washes up on the banks of the Willow River, Eden Winthrop’s young niece is taken…
A heart-stopping, emotional thriller you won’t want to put down!
Traumatized by her sister’s brutal murder, Eden Winthrop is drawn into the search for a sadistic killer who is preying on her small-town’s most vulnerable women. The hunt becomes personal when Eden’s niece is abducted just as the body of yet another victim is discovered in a local river. Can Eden find the strength to face her deepest fears and save the ones she loves the most?
The Cuban Affair
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daniel Graham MacCormick—Mac for short—seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don’t tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac’s finances are more than a little shaky.
One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups…
The Sentinel
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.
But there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.
A Fatal Lie
by Charles Todd
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy stumbles on a body in a nearby river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body, he isn’t a local, and no one will admit to having seen him before. With little to go on, the village police turn to Scotland Yard for help.
When Inspector Ian Rutledge is sent from London to find answers, he is given few clues—a faded military tattoo on the victim’s arm and an unusual label in the collar of his shirt…
Compulsion
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The iconic thriller series that inspired the upcoming streaming show on Prime Video, in development now!
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer’s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.
Dead First
by Johnny Compton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she’s more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith’s assistant driving an iron rod straight through the back of his skull. Scratch that—the last thing she expects to see is Braith’s resurrection afterward.
Braith can’t die, it turns out, but he has no explanation for his immortality, and very few intact memories of his past. Which is why he wants to pay Shyla millions to investigate him, and bring his long-buried history to light.