Mysteries
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Knit Wit
by Peggy Ehrhart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a professor is poisoned, Pamela Paterson and the members of the Knit and Nibble knitting club must take a crash course in solving his mysterious murder.
Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts at Wendelstaff College. But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting. The man’s reputation as a philanderer supersedes his academic reputation. After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned—but how?
The Grave Maurice
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Chew on this,” says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who’s in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.
Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found. What is especially interesting to Plant is that Nell is also the daughter of Jury’s surgeon.
But Nell’s disappearance isn’t the only mystery at the Ryder farm. A woman has been found dead on the track-a woman who was a stranger even to the Ryders.
Under the Marshal’s Protection
by Kathleen Tailer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Entrap her own brother for a U.S. Marshal? Jessica Blake can’t bear the thought, but what choice does she have? It isn’t just the marshals who are after Michael. If his co-conspirators in the counterfeiting ring find him first, he won’t live long enough to clear his name. And both the U.S. Marshals and the counterfeiters think the best way to get to Michael is through Jessica. With danger on every sidefor herself and for the only family she has leftJessica has to make a choice. Can she trust U.S. Marshal Dominic Sullivan with her safety, her brother’s life and her heart?
The Omega Factor
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts—anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years…
Whisper of Danger
by Alexa Verde
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Her second chance at love or her last chance to survive?
Lydia, a school counselor with sharpshooting skills, guards her gut-wrenching secret with enough desperation to break off her engagement to the hometown cop Aidan Rowe. But when her friend’s child is kidnapped, Lydia has no choice but to unite forces with the man she still loves. When the search for the missing child leads her to a trail of past mistakes and painful personal connections, how much will she sacrifice for love and loyalty?
A Dog Gone Murder
by Elaine Viets
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mystery shopper Josie Marcus catches a new case when the owner of a popular doggy day spa bites the dust and her mother’s friend is collared for the crime…
Josie’s been assigned to sniff around Uncle Bob’s Doggy Day Camp, one of St. Louis’s hottest pet spas. It doesn’t take her long to dig up dirt on the camp’s top dog, “Uncle” Bob Manning himself. Employee Frank Hyzy – Josie’s mom’s new boyfriend – reveals Bob should be in the doghouse for his cruel treatment of the canine customers. But before Josie can write Bob up, someone puts him down…and Frank is the cops’ prime suspect.
It Should Have Been Me
by Susan Wilkins
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murdered sister, a killer released from jail, a cop in a deadly battle to uncover the truth.
DC Jo Boden was eleven years old when her older sister, Sarah, was brutally murdered during her first year at university. Sarah’s boyfriend, Nathan Wade, was convicted of the killing.
Now, sixteen years later, Wade is being released on licence and documentary filmmaker, Briony Rowe, insists she can prove his innocence.
The Code Girl From London
by Deb Stratas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Germans’ transmissions are in her hands. Will she be enough to save her loved ones’ lives?
England, 1944. On a classified Navy base situated atop the cliffs of Dover, telegraph operator Katie Kingston toils day and night intercepting and translating enemy transmissions in Morse Code, hunting for the next piece of information that will give Britain the edge in the ongoing war.
But as the entire base quietly prepares for Britain’s most daring operation yet, Katie has more at stake than her fellow telegraphists. Because among the allied forces due to land on the shores of Normandy in Operation Overlord is Special Forces Lt. Ciaran McElroy, an Irishman who has stolen her heart.
Our Little Secret
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $9.52 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him.
Brooke Hastings is ready to end her six-week affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away her marriage and family for. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.
He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at a Vineyard Mansion
by Philip R. Craig
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Vineyard’s criminal du jour, “the Silencer,” is loved by many and hated by some for his campaign to destroy the audio systems in music-blasting party houses and open-windowed vehicles. Owners of said houses and vehicles feel both fear and hate, while some residents who seek silence silently cheer. J.W. Jackson, former cop and now a part-time investigator, finds it difficult to get too excited about the Silencer’s crimes. J.W.’s a classical music man himself, which may explain his reluctance to take the so-called crimes very seriously.
Gravitium Complete Series Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Gravitium, where the stakes are high and the danger is real.
In this tale of a city in the clouds, Adjudicator Anselm Horst will do whatever it takes to keep the floating metropolis of Summerland afloat.
But when he descends to the perilous surface in search of answers, he finds himself joined by Clare Voyhent, a fiercely capable survivor with a knack for unraveling mysteries.
As they navigate the treacherous landscape, facing assassination attempts and encountering all manner of monsters and men, Anselm and Clare must work together to uncover the truth behind the threats to their city.
But with enemies lurking around every corner and their own lives on the line, will they be able to make it back in one piece or die trying?
Fear Nothing
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
They were daughters of a monster—a father who slaughtered eight prostitutes before dying himself. Dr. Adeline Glen left the nightmare behind, and now she specializes in pain management. Her sister, Shana Day, followed in her father’s violent footsteps, first killing at age fourteen and being incarcerated for more than twenty-five years.
After a brutal attack, Boston Detective D. D. Warren needs Adeline’s professional help to recover physically. But when a new psychopath known as the Rose Killer begins a reign of terror, D. D. must also consult the insane Shana—who claims she can help catch the madman…
Dirty Dozen
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series.
April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective to be posted to the Met’s renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the ‘Sweeney’. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises.
Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised to discover she is actually part of a short term internal experiment, intended to have a calming influence on a team that likes to dub themselves as the ‘Dirty Dozen’.
At Risk
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Sparks fly and twists abound in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling crime author Patricia Cornwell.
Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she’s planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk—its motto: “Any crime, any time.” In particular, she’s been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she’s found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right?
The Ferryman
by Justin Cronin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia – where the truth isn’t what it seems.
The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean, in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity – or whatever remains of it.
Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives. They are attended to by support staff who live on a cramped neighboring island, where whispers of revolt are brewing – but for the Prosperans, life is perfection. And when the end of life approaches, they’re sent to a mysterious third island, where their bodies are refreshed, their memories are wiped away, and they return to start life anew…
The Three Emperors
by William Dietrich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Adventurer Ethan Gage travels through the darkest and most superstitious realms of eighteenth century Europe, to the castles and caves of Bohemia to rescue his family and uncover a mysterious medieval device rumored to foretell the future.
Having quick-wittedly survived the battle of Trafalgar, Ethan is rushing to rescue “Egyptian priestess” Astiza and son Harry from imprisonment by a ruthless mystic who seeks revenge for disfigurement, and an evil dwarf alchemist who experiments with the occult on Prague’s Golden Lane.
Be Your Own Rock
by Sagar Constantin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Are you facing changes in your life and struggling to stay positive? Do you feel overwhelmed by the uncertainty that comes with unexpected changes? Have you tried to change something in your life, but given up?
Change is the most certain thing in life…
In “Be Your Own Rock,” Sagar Constantin offers more than just strategies for making and dealing with changes; she provides a powerful blueprint for transforming life’s uncertainties into opportunities for growth. Delivering a practical, step-by-step journey toward personal resilience and self-awareness, using the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology. Whether you’re navigating personal upheavals, professional transitions, or the unpredictable twists of everyday life, this book equips you with tools to manage change and challenges with confidence and grace. You will also learn the key to change your habits, lose those extra pounds, or make changes at work. Even more important, the book will explain the reason why we resist change and give up before reaching our goals.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Crime and Cherry Pits
by Amanda Flower
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shiloh Bellamy can hardly believe it—for the first time in her family farm’s seventy-year history, she has managed to score a highly-coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City, Michigan. It’s a huge win in her master plan to bring the rundown farm back to life… and the fact that her coup has sent her next-door neighbor and organic farming competitor into fits of jealousy doesn’t hurt, either. But the festive atmosphere at the farm market takes a dark turn when a man entered in the famous cherry pit-spitting competition chokes and dies right in front of Shiloh, who is standing near the sidelines as a spectator.
Secrets
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jude Deveraux brilliantly entwines passion, memory, and a touch of intrigue in this spellbinding New York Times bestseller.
At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother’s business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother’s coldness; even after meeting a man she thought she might marry, her heart still yearned for Jeff.
In a decisive moment, Cassandra calls off her pending engagement and travels to Williamsburg, Virginia, to become the nanny to the now-widowed Jeff’s young daughter…
Hawk
by James Patterson
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this dark dystopian tale, 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City – until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight and protect her home.
Where is Maximum Ride? Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared. Now she’s just a fading legend, remembered only in stories.
Hawk doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.
MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testamants—this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy “has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that’s an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past” (The New York Times Book Review).
The Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth…
Twisted Tales Volume 16: Demon Stone
by Geoff North
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Heads are rolling, and they’re being tossed in drainways and ditches all over the city.
Cain Cullen should be helping his daughter and son find the serial killer stalking San Diego’s homeless, but he’s too preoccupied fighting demons of his own in another country. When one of his children becomes the next to go missing, Cain returns, and all hell breaks loose.
This is a different kind of twist to an already twisted series of short stories. Consider Demon Stone as a stepping on point to an all new series set to launch just before Halloween!
Nightshade
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He delivers street justice. She upholds the law. To protect the innocent, they’ll set aside their differences—and uncover undeniable common desires in Nightshade, a Night Tales novel of romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Colt Nightshade has no patience for the bureaucratic red tape that entangles law enforcement and sets the guilty free. Lieutenant Althea Grayson believes in the rules and procedures that help keep order over the chaos that threatens society. Together, they are a teenage girl’s only hope of survival against a ruthless criminal.
Dead Fall
by Brad Thor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.
With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.
Daddy Wolf’s Fake Marriage
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
I was trying my hardest to stay away from the sexy rancher at work… until he discovered a huge secret.
It’s almost comical to watch Mitchell care for the baby that he just found out he had. I’m a veterinarian at the same ranch he works at, and his glances haven’t escaped me. Mitchell is a tall and handsome alpha.
Asking for help isn’t in his DNA but this unique situation calls for something drastically different. Different… as in… me.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Fairmont Finds Canine: Books 1-3
by Cate Lawley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A hound with a nose for trouble and a heart for romance stirs up both in this small-town cozy mystery collection.
Fairmont loves his new lady, Zella, with all the exuberance of a once abandoned dog. A fluffy dog bed, delicious meals, and exceptional company – what more could a dog want? Everything’s grand…until he sniffs out a dead body. Zella’s new life began with the addition of an adoring spotted dog, but adopting Fairmont is only the beginning. Soon she’s got a new home, a new town, and a new name. A lovely beginning that’s spoiled only by the corpse in her otherwise perfect backyard. Join Zella, Fairmont, and all their new friends in White Sage, Texas as they solve three mysteries!
Demons Never Lose
by Ava Lock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Fury’s back in this action-packed sequel to Demons Also Dream. Introducing Demons Never Lose, where dreams of thrilling treasure hunts and supernatural romance magically blend into a dark fantasy for adults that will leave you spellbound. Get ready for an unforgettable summer filled with spicy island adventures, supernatural battles, and romantic escapades.
Meet Joscelyn B. Wild, an empath and psychic: series inspired by the psychic visions in her dreams. Her books are famous for taking readers on a journey through Hell unlike any other—it all feels so real. What’s her secret? The demons are real! She simply spies on them and reports what she sees. Sounds easy, right? For Joss, it usually is.
But now these visions are interfering with everyday life—while she’s awake. Is Joss hallucinating? Or is a dangerous assassin really loose in the Bahamas?
What Lies Inside
by Iain Maitland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
At last, Malcolm has found the perfect woman. Now he just has to keep her.
Malcolm Todd seems like an average older man – he lives a quiet life in an ordinary bungalow on a suburban street.
But Malcolm is hungry – he’s looking for love. There was that young woman at work with the lovely hair. That didn’t work out. And the one who worked at a delicatessen. That ended quite badly.
But now someone very special has come to stay, right here in his own home. Josie is young, beautiful, spirited. And it’s clear to Malcolm that he and she have a very strong connection. A connection that could lead to a truly delicious future.
Witness in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
The opening night of the revival of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution” at New York’s New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death right on center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high-profile celebrity homicide on her hands…
People Who Eat Darkness
by Richard Lloyd Parry
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie’s disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the trust of her family and friends, won unique access to the Japanese detectives and Japan’s convoluted legal system, and delved deep into the mind of the man accused of the crime, Joji Obara, described by the judge as “unprecedented and extremely evil.”
Scratch One
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A pulp-fiction thrill ride through a deadly case of mistaken identity
Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.
Tom Clancy Support and Defend
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dominic Caruso. Nephew of President Jack Ryan. FBI agent. And operator for the top secret U.S. intelligence agency known as The Campus. Already scarred by the death of his brother, Caruso is further devastated when he is unable to save a friend and his family from a terrorist attack. Ethan Ross was a mid-level staffer for the National Security Council. Now he’s a wanted fugitive on the run with a microdrive that contains enough information to destroy American intelligence efforts around the world. The CIA is desperate to get the drive back before it’s captured by the Russians or one of the various terrorist groups also vying for it.
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, an intricate tale of evil unfolds.
Inferno
by Dan Brown
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A diverting thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly
With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno.
Strange Loyalties
by William McIlvanney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Strange Loyalties begins with Jack Laidlaw’s despair and anger at his brother’s death in a banal road accident. But his nagging doubts about the dynamics of the incident lead to larger questions about the nature of pain and injustice and the greater meaning of his own life. He becomes convinced there is more to his brother’s death. His investigations will lead to a confrontation with his own past and a harrowing journey into the dark Glasgow underworld.
The Laidlaw books are widely considered to be among the greatest achievements of Scottish crime writing and the founding novels of what has since become known as the school of Tartan Noir that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin.
Bloodless
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night…and into history.
A brutal crime steeped in legend and malevolence: Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.
A case like no other…