Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Family Style
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Pete treats Carlita and her family to a special surprise when he invites them to join him on board The Flying Gunner for the Merry Bay Christmas boat parade. There is dinner and dancing, and even Santa is on hand for the children.
Carlita’s oldest son brings his wife and new baby, along with Brittney’s bodyguards, courtesy of her father, who happens to be a NY mob boss. The festive event takes a sudden turn when someone goes missing. Foul play is suspected with Mercedes and Pirate Pete shooting to the top of a long list of suspects.
The Sixth Day
by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The mystery: shocking.
When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials blame their deaths on natural causes. However, when a small drone is spotted at the scene of the most recent death, it quickly becomes clear to FBI agents Nicholas and Michaela that there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye.
The key: indecipherable.
The Were Witch Complete Series
by Renée Jaggér
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
If Were tradition forced you to marry at twenty-five, would you do it?
Bailey Nordin is feeling the stress of pack obligations arriving too soon in her life. She prefers working on cars to going on a date.
A good fight is just a morning’s workout, and Bailey’s sarcastic wit has killed any chance of a love life. Her future isn’t looking bright. Roland is on the run from three powerful witches who want him for…what he can provide. Trying to hide from the witches, he ends up in the middle of a town so small, it’s hard to find it on a map.
A Gambling Man
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three.
Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood…
Enraged
by J.A. Konrath
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SOME THINGS SHOULD STAY EXTINCT…
The world is full of predators. Most kill for food. Some kill for sport.
It begins with a gathering of friends celebrating a joyous occasion, the party crashed by an old enemy. It ends in a remote lodge in the Alaskan wilderness, where death lurks everywhere.
Invisible Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a wealthy Minneapolis neighborhood, two elderly women are bludgeoned to death. They are apparent victims of a random robbery, though nothing of value appears to have been stolen. But when Lucas Davenport looks deeper, he fears that the victims weren’t so random, and the items stolen were far from invaluable.
As a pattern emerges it leads Lucas to…certainly not where he expected. Which is too bad, because the killers are expecting him. And that’s only the first surprise…
Warm and Dead
by Mike Krentz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He flourishes in the heart of a hectic ER but threatened loss of family becomes his greatest fear. Can an intrepid doctor protect his own from a twisted mind?
Dr. Zack Winston’s self-confidence wobbles on shaky ground. Slated to see his daughters over Christmas for the first time in five years, the skilled emergency physician worries his relationship issues will prevent them from bonding. His determination to focus on his personal life sinks fast when he questions a pediatrician colleague’s alleged suicide attempt by drowning.
Silent Bones
by Val McDermid
Kindle $14.99.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there?
Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt – it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls,
Dashing Through the Snow
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now, in one ebook boxed set, a collection of suspenseful and humorous holiday stories by Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark.
Deck the Halls
The Christmas Thief
Dashing Through the Snow
Snow Globe Secrets
by Laura Thomas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shootings. Snow globes. Secrets. When successful realtor, Alexis James, witnesses a shooting outside the bookstore in her hometown of Hollybrook, she soon realizes the perpetrator has unfinished business, and now she is caught in the crossfire.
Tom Harrington is a British, best-selling author who needs to honor a promise and find some answers in this Canadian winter wonderland—but trouble follows him across the ocean.
As Alexis is swept up in a festive whirlwind of danger and love, Tom attempts to break through her ice queen persona. But when chilling walls close in, they both have to decide: can they share their truth, rekindle their faith, and risk their lives if they have any hope for a Happily Ever After?
Nightmare Country
by Marlys Millhiser
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love
Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well.
Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER… Sally Hepworth’s novel Darling Girls has it all.
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life…
When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk returning to prison. It’s 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do’s and a much longer list of don’ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don’t go to bars, certainly don’t drink alcohol, do get a job — and don’t ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer’s years serving in the war or his time in jail…
Earthly Remains
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner’s endurance will truly be tested.
During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, he accompanies his wife to a villa on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna…
The Passenger in 5B
by Norm Hulcher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A gripping story with a terrific ending … from the author of Visitors to Victorville
Richard once lived for the rush — extortion, racketeering, and drug smuggling – and for the gambling addiction that plunged him into money laundering and a criminal conviction.
Now, after eight years in the darkness, he’s a changed man: a restored Christ follower who, with God’s grace and the compassionate support of fellow believers, has rebuilt his life on repentance and faith.
But just when his restoration and the victory over his demons are seemingly complete, his evil past revisits him, confronting him with hard evidence of his most sinister act of all…
Robert B. Parker’s Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series.
Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest – and loudest — podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vic’s riding high…until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.