Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The 9th Girl
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag’s fan-favorite Minneapolis investigators, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, hunt a serial killer in this haunting thriller.
On a frigid New Year’s Eve in Minneapolis, a young woman is found brutally murdered—the ninth so far this year in a string of grisly slayings. Homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska fear that it’s the work of a serial killer they call Doc Holiday, a transient who has brought his gruesome game to a new and more terrifying level. But as Kovac and Liska uncover the truth, they find that the monsters in the ninth girl’s life may live closer to home.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
Key Of Knowledge
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dana Steele has always found her greatest passion in books. But now her boss is making her job as a librarian a living hell. Luckily, she now has a Plan B…
High on a hill overlooking the town of Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania, sits the Warrior’s Peak estate. It’s where Dana was invited to meet Malory Price and Zoe McCourt—and where they learned that they were destined to find three keys to unlock a box holding the souls of three mythical demigoddesses: one an artist, one a bard, and one a warrior…
The Ones Who Got Away
by Stephen Graham Jones
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Thirteen stories of monsters, murder, and mayhem from a master of horror, the New York Times–bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher.
Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you’ve seen before, but with outcomes you’ll never see coming.
Out of Range
by Hank Steinberg
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Hank Steinberg, the acclaimed creator, writer, and producer of the award-winning hit television series Without a Trace, makes his literary debut with this taut, driving thriller about a husband searching for his missing wife, a hunt that will lead him straight into a deadly world of spies, lies, and obsession.
Six years ago in Uzbekistan, journalist Charlie Davis was wounded when government forces fired on a group of protesters he was covering on assignment. He and his pregnant wife, Julie, barely escaped with their lives.
Sins of Our Ancestors Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heroes aren’t BORN, they EMERGE. Now you can read the first three books in the Sins of Our Ancestors series, all in one convenient collection.
Ruby had barely started kindergarten when the world collapsed, but by now she’s over it. Like, really over it. To celebrate their upcoming graduation, the teenagers in Port Gibson are gathering to play a forbidden game from Before, a game called spin the bottle.
Pretty much every girl in Port Gibson likes the same two guys, and Ruby knows them both. Wesley, the charismatic son of the town Mayor who’s being groomed to step into his dad’s job, and Sam, the ripped but terrifying second-in-command to the town’s Security Chief. But only Wesley’s graduating with Ruby, and if he shows up, she’s determined to finally seize her chance to kiss her long time crush…
The Court of Broken Knives
by Anna Smith Spark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
It is the richest empire the world has ever known, and it is also doomed—but only one man can see it.
Haunted by prophetic dreams, Orhan has hired a company of soldiers to cross the desert to reach the capital city. Once they enter the palace, they have one mission: kill the emperor, then all those who remain. Only from the ashes can a new empire be built.
The company is a group of good, ordinary soldiers for whom this is a mission like any other. But the strange boy Marith who walks among them is no ordinary soldier. Though he is young, ambitious, and impossibly charming, something dark hides in Marith’s past – and in his blood.
Talk Me Down the Crazy Tree
by Anita Higman, Hillary McMullen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two opposite teenage girls agree to a social experiment that is meant to breach the invisible walls of high school cliques. One girl is an in-your-face, flaming diva named Audrey Slater, and the other girl is a dejected outcast named Piper Collins.
After they agree to participate in this curious human test, will Audrey and Piper clash and self-destruct or could it bring Audrey and Piper to place of understanding and enduring friendship?
Fire and Storm
by KaCee Bunn-Smith
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In a world unraveling from within, one carries the fire. The other brings the storm. Together, they choose something the system never expected—each other.
In the aftermath of the Bloom and the collapse of the neXt layer, the world is fractured, burning at the seams. The Grid moves quietly, extending its reach through influence and recursion. And the Quiet Siren—once an elite response unit—is caught in between: not yet Grid, but no longer truly free.
Fahrenheit is one of its finest. A controlled blaze in constant tension, bound by loyalty and a growing uncertainty he dares not voice. On a mission to contain a firestorm, he encounters Ellemental—Elle Jarret-Smith—a weather-shard bearer already inside the blaze, risking everything to save the people the system left behind.
Stand in the Box
by Noël F. Caraccio
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tragic loss. An unconventional plan. A heartwarming fight to keep a family together.
When a sudden accident claims the lives of Jackie and Blake, their two young daughters are left orphaned—and the guardians named in the will are anything but traditional. Jake, a buttoned-up uncle reeling from heartbreak, and Tyler, a free-spirited loner with no parenting experience, are thrust together under one roof. Their mission? Raise the girls in the only home they’ve ever known—and somehow, make it work.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Now or Never
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.
While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There’s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy…
The Misery House
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sometimes the quietest little towns are haunted by the darkest secrets. A psychological thriller and a family you’ll never forget.
New Haven: This rural town has never seen a string of tragedies like this. A local store burns to the ground with two bodies inside. A newlywed couple goes missing, and all signs point to the abandoned house. With no answers, the townsfolk grow more and more worried.
The Woods family has lived here forever. But when their friends and their own children are put in danger, the threat hits home. This close-knit family must risk everything to find answers, but time is running out.
Attie’s Amazing Adventures
by Loxley Browne
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Attie McAllister has never been one to sit still. With a NASA scientist mom training for a mission to the International Space Station, an FBI agent dad heading on a covert assignment in Europe, and her adventurous Aunt Loxley unraveling forgotten history, Attie is used to life moving fast.
But when she stumbles upon an old photograph of students from Carnegie Mellon – The Six – her curiosity takes over. As Attie balances her e-bike invention, her best friend’s growing YouTube channel, and a new obsession with project management, she realizes she’s not just chasing history – she’s racing against time…
Poison
by Galt Niederhoffer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass’ two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Portland —a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly. First with small omissions and white lies that happen daily in any marital bedroom. They seem insignificant, but they are quickly followed by a series of denials and feints that mushroom and then cyclone in menace.
The Night Eternal
by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan – whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King – The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter.
The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carré
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose.
The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances – and lives – are bought and sold…
Death Has a Small Voice
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Before he dies, a murdered burglar puts Mrs. North in mortal danger
The thief struts toward Broadway, confident his luck has finally begun to turn. Just a few hours earlier, he had been as scared as a trapped rat, cowering in a bathroom, hoping the homeowners would go to bed without finding him. He got lucky, and he got away with his mark: a flimsy little piece of plastic that’s worth more money than he’s ever had at one time. But before he reaches his destination, he’ll be left for dead on the sidewalk. As his last act, he drops his loot in the mail.
In This Grave Hour
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear’s enormously popular New York Times bestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil.
Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs’ flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.
Burnt Letters
by Christina Ditchkofsky
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
This isn’t a healing journey. This is a takedown. You want to know the truth? The hardest part wasn’t leaving the abuser. It was admitting I was addicted to the pattern.
Burnt Letters is not a love story. It’s a psychological excavation—of why we stay, how we fawn, and what happens when a woman finally realizes she’s been trained to mistake pain for devotion. I didn’t fall into one toxic relationship. I repeated them like clockwork.
Because the trauma wasn’t new. It was inherited. Because I was raised to endure…
To Depression, With Love
by Marsha Jacobson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An intimate memoir on living a joyful life with mental illness.
Marsha Jacobson was thirteen when her world shifted: Depression hit so severely that she could hardly eat. Once a spunky girl, Marsha became withdrawn, afraid to share her thoughts. Her parents, while loving, were not open to discussing mental illness.
Marsha struggled with depressive episodes and anxiety throughout adolescence and at university, but at age thirty, she opened her heart to a different approach: With the understanding that depression and anxiety would always be a part of her, Marsha gave them loving space…