Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Sealed with a Hiss
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a local creek, with a body still in the driver’s seat, it’s up to Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her beloved cats and dogs to save the day, in this latest mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author, Sneaky Pie Brown.
Spring is in full bloom, and everything is blossoming just right for Harry in Crozet, Virginia. Restorations to the long-shuttered local segregated school are nearly complete, and the school will be renamed to commemorate an important community member. To honor the former students, Harry and her friends are hard at work planning a reunion. It’s a big affair, and the crew spends their days hanging plaques at the gym, arranging food, and writing speeches…
You Can Trust Me
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
They were the best of friends. And the worst of enemies. When yoga teacher Amelia falls victim to an online scam, her colleague Paige really comes through for her. And with their daughters Marnie and Taryn becoming best friends, the two families grow even closer.
But all is not as it seems. Paige has an agenda. Once she has won Amelia’s trust, Paige starts to execute her carefully laid plan… stealing Amelia’s money, destroying her business, undermining her marriage. All the while pretending to be Amelia’s closest friend…
U is for Undertow
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.
Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone’s office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.
Fever Dream
by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As he stalks his wife’s traitors from Scotland to New York City, Special Agent Pendergast discovers layers of deception and conspiracy that will shatter everything he believed to be true.
Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago.
Today, he discovers she was murdered.
Knife Edge
by JT Sawyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kyle Payne – the last face the bad guys will ever see.
CIA black-ops veteran Kyle Payne is on leave after a brutal mission. But when he gets word that his mentor, John Heller, has been killed in a high-speed crash in Pineland, Arizona, Payne smells a setup.
This was no accident – Heller was taken out. Unimpressed by local law enforcement, Payne launches his own investigation, crossing paths with beautiful DEA agent Lara Medina. Together, they uncover evidence of a ruthless cartel looking to turn Pineland into the center of their drug empire.
Check out:
(Kyle Payne Thrillers)
Tangled Threat
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. Tangled Threat by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham
A body hanging from the infamous History Tree and a wrongful murder charge unraveled Maura Antrim and Brock McGovern’s teenage love. Now grown up, Maura is again tangled up with Brock, and they’re back in Florida, where that devastating murder occurred.
FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Hijacked Bride by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels
Peach Tea Smash
by Laura Childs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Murder at an Alice in Wonderland–themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series.
During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He’s been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains and paddles of the grist mill…
Winter’s End
by Barbara Pronin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Luring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that fateful night she was saved from rape by a downed American Airman.
Nor did Zoe Visser expect to be picking pockets for Dutch ID cards for use by escaping Jews, much less leading frightened enemies of the Reich toward uncertain treks to the Belgian border – nor did Mila Brouwer, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy German collaborator, expect to be passing secrets learned at her father’s dinner table to help Resistance stalwarts blow up Nazi trains and meeting halls.
Killing Moon
by Jo Nesbo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again.
THEY’RE FACING A KILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone—fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles…
Southern Discomfort
by Ashley Farley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Isabelle is haunted by remorse over a past mistake that forever changed the lives of those closest to her. Saying “I’m sorry” would be a start—if only she had the courage to say the words aloud. Her world is turned upside down when her late husband’s will stipulates she must transform their beloved waterfront estate into a bed and breakfast. With the summer’s first guests just days away, Isabelle is overwhelmed and unprepared.
Help arrives in the form of her spirited twenty-four-year-old granddaughter.
The New Middle Way
by Mel Pine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Mel’s personal story is an extraordinary page-turner.” Reader
The New Middle Way offers an accessible, contemporary approach to Buddhism that bridges the gap between traditional, ritual-heavy practice and the modern, often secular reinterpretations of Buddhist teachings. Pine draws on his forty years of personal study and practice, integrating insights from philosophy, science, and his own life experiences—including trauma, loss, and spiritual searching.
The book is both a memoir and a guide, written in a conversational, often humorous style. Pine rejects both dogmatic religiosity and overly clinical secularism, advocating instead for a “new middle way”—a practical, lived spirituality grounded in Buddhist wisdom but open to people of any background, including skeptics and those from other faith traditions.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
My Gal Sunday
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Henry Parker Britland IV – wealthy, worldly, and popular – is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday – as clever as she is lovely – has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team…and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined.
Powerless Acres Boxed Set
by Colton Lively
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When a sudden EMP strikes, Katy Sheets’ plane crashes in rural Tennessee, leaving her world in ruins. With her husband fatally injured and society in chaos, Katy must lead her daughter and her daughter’s friend on a desperate journey home to St. Louis. Towns are collapsing, danger lurks at every turn, and the rules of survival have changed. In a powerless world, Katy will do whatever it takes to protect her family.
The Beard Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When a stranger with a long, scraggly white beard offers to pay for veterinary surgery to fix Natalie Brewster’s rescued fox’s leg, it seems too good to be true. Is the stranger a criminal? A serial killer? Because when Gunther’s missing brother, Hendricks, is found—he is discovered next to a murder victim.
Initially, Nat is distrustful of the stranger and eschews his long, untamed beard. But Gunther Wilcox wins her over with what is hidden beneath the beard. He engages her as an amateur detective to discover who killed Hendricks’ business partner—because Hendricks is under suspicion for the murder.
Vicious Circle
by Mike Carey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A freelance exorcist helps a grieving couple find their daughter’s ghost in this supernatural thriller by the author of The Girl with All the Gifts.
Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities—”good,” of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. His friend Rafi is still possessed, the succubus Ajulutsikael (Juliet to her friends) still technically has a contract on him, and he’s still dirt poor…
When a Beast is all you need
by Madison Sheldon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
If you love emotional journeys and resilience, romantic suspense filled with past secrets, psychological thrills, found family, and a second-chance love worth fighting for, this story is for you
Bella: Is beauty a blessing or a curse? Like many things in life, the answer is, it depends. Once upon a time, I ran because I was ashamed of myself, of the pain I caused, of all he lost because he saved me. This time, I run to protect him. Antonio may be a beast, but he is not the Devil. The real Devil has found me…
Journey
by James A. Michener
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In 1897, gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or death. Journey is an immersive account of the adventures of four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul across cruel Canadian terrain toward the Klondike gold fields. Vivid and sweeping, featuring Michener’s probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, thisis the kind of novel only he could write.
The Contractor
by Colin MacKinnon
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Rick Behringer is an outside contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He owns a small company that, in the light of day, provides communications security for government offices, including the CIA. In the shadows, though, Rick’s a spy. He runs overseas agents for the CIA and, through his firm, buys foreign military technology that the Agency wants to inspect but can’t be seen purchasing.
The divorced father of two little girls, Rick carries on a cold war with his ex, Liz, and a hot romance with his sexy girlfriend, Frannie. He still broods over the mysterious death of his father, a high-level CIA officer during the Vietnam War, who committed suicide when Rick was thirteen.
Cleave the Sparrow
by Jonathan Katz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Daring, unpredictable, and utterly consuming.” – San Francisco Book Review
“Uproariously funny and incredibly prescient.” – Hollywood Book Reviews
“Delivers a philosophical gut-punch unlike any other.” – Chicago Book Review
Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead.
Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order—a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.
If Two Are Dead
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three girls go into the woods, but only one comes out…
Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast.
Prospect Shifter Daddy Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Things are getting steamy in the small town of Prospect, Montana! Each story in this box set will light your fire as sexy single dads, with chiseled abs, not only work hard on the ranch but also pursue the one who makes their blood pump.
As passion ignites for these cowboys, danger lurks in every direction and harrowing secrets rise to the surface. The wolf shifters will do anything it takes to protect the women who claim their hearts.