Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Iced Under
by Barbara Ross
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond necklace that once belonged to Julia’s great-grandmother and disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent it—and why? Julia’s search for clues takes her on a perilous journey through her mother’s troubled family history, from a squabble over the family fortune in “frozen water” to the recent unexplained death of Jacqueline’s long-lost cousin Hugh—who’d been missing and presumed drowned for more than forty years. To protect her mother’s inheritance, Julia must fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the mystery surrounding Hugh’s demise, and get back home before the next blizzard buries them all . . .
It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. The country’s viewers are glued to their television sets, anxiously awaiting the news that their favorite morning-television personality’s little girl has been found.
With each passing day, the FBI and local authorities track down every lead: A profile of the kidnapper’s most likely characteristics is developed, every fan letter written to Eliza over the last six months is scrutinized, every sex offender registered within a fifty-mile radius is interviewed, and psychics from around the country appear on Eliza’s doorstep offering their help.
An Oriceran Cozy Urban Fantasy Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real, but the world isn’t ready to know it.
Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She’s also Silver Griffins Agent 485. She has to balance family life, PTA meetings and her secret agent duties. She has a wand and a mission. Can she get it all done?
Say the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran. Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways.
Grab two complete series—16 books and more than 4,500 pages of urban fantasy cozy mystery—with this collection!
As the Crow Flies
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
Wyoming sherriff Walt Longmire doesn’t have time for cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. Fearing Cady’s wrath, Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear set out for the Cheyenne Reservation to find a new site for the nuptials. But their expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior’s majestic cliffs. Is it a suicide, or something more sinister? It’s not Walt’s turf, but he’s coerced into the investigation by Lolo Long, the beautiful new tribal police chief.
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.
Close to Home
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The past returns to haunt Chief Inspector Alan Banks in this harrowing novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
There are human bones, buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five-years ago…and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever…
A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried…
Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction…
As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond—a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide.
Detour On An Elephant
by Multiple Auhotrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What was it like to travel on tour with a circus in the late seventies?
Detour On An Elephant is the memoir of a ballet dancer, Barbara File Marangon, who traded her pointe shoes to ride an elephant with the Greatest Show On Earth for a year. Taking a detour from the world of ballet to the circus, she recounts her experiences performing in hundreds of shows, in twenty-four cities coast to coast, with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit Show in 1978. Named Ringling’s China Doll by a New York newspaper, she compares dancing at the Metropolitan Opera House to dancing at Madison Square Garden.
The Gun Man Jackson Swagger
by Stephen Hunter
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr), returns with a classic Western—gunfights, horses, saloons, and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad—about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch.
In the frying pan of a drought-scorched 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region’s only prosperous spread, the Callahan ranch, seeking work. Jack is flinty, shrewd, tough, and a natural with a gun. As an incentive to be taken on at his age, he shows the foreman an uncanny skill with one of Mr. Winchester’s latest models. He knows a sharpshooter would be valuable to Colonel Callahan and head gun man Tom Voth.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Murder of Sleepy Hollow
by Michele PW
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor.
So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he become a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin. The problem – trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor.
First, there’s the sound of a horse galloping down the neighborhood streets at night, even though there’s never a horse to be found. Then, Ike’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Kat arrives with an urgent message for him.
Light in Our Darkest Night
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Their lives had always been connected…first by friendship…and then by a chilling tragedy neither would ever forget. But they weren’t kids anymore and everything was different. Almost everything.
The night wasn’t nearly as dark as it should be. Jackson noticed the flickering lights in the windows almost immediately. But not before his sister did.
More than once after that night, Jackson willingly admitted to anyone who asked that if it weren’t for his sister, everything could have ended in a completely different way. Without question, everyone…his brothers, his dad, and even Ally played an important role during their quickly planned, harrowing, and suspenseful escape.
Mister Magic
by Kiersten White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were on it. The friendship. The feeling of belonging. And the protection of Mister Magic.
But with no surviving video of the show, no evidence of who directed or produced it, and no records of who—or what—the beloved host actually was, memories are all the former Circle of Friends has.
77 Shadow Street
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of things far worse—that have scarred its grandeur almost from the beginning.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Dead Frequency
by Jeff Shipman
Kindle 3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dead Frequency is a psychological survival thriller set in New Braunfels, Texas—where the power dies, the animals go silent, and one analog voice keeps talking.
When the grid fails, a whispered sermon bleeds through an abandoned frequency. The words sound biblical. The intent is control. Caleb Rourke thinks it’s another blackout—until phones stay dead, cars won’t start, and neighbors begin repeating phrases they didn’t choose. With his niece, Mara, and a paranoid fixer next door, Caleb has to decide what to trust as the signal tightens its grip. Help isn’t coming. The closer you listen, the stronger it gets.
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
by Dorothy Gilman
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Although Mrs. Pollifax is determined to give up spying for good, she can’t help but agree to carry a small object to an agent in Thailand, and get one in return. The moment she lands, however, Mrs. Pollifax is horrified to find her contact dead and her husband kidnapped.
The next thing she knows, she’s tramping through the ominous Thai countryside, led by a curious fellow who may be trying to help her find her husband. Or he may have other, more sinister plans….
Remains of Innocence
by J. A Jance
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner.
Smell The Plumerias
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
PARADISE SHATTERS when Adam’s cranky daughter arrives uninvited, planning on sharing their room with them. (Not quite the ideal atmosphere for hot island lovemaking.) They’ve been swimming with wild spinner dolphins, a blissful interlude until Lilith’s favorite, Winddancer, is shot and killed while they snorkel nearby.
LILITH VOWS to find his murderer and uncovers an even greater trauma. Someone desecrates a sacred site of volcano goddess Pele, her wrath expressed by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Unless this stops, no one on the island is safe.
Remain
by Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan
Kindle 14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DYNEVOR
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain.