Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Charming Crime
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
June Heal has always believed in the power of homeopathic remedies to heal the body and mind. So when she decides to relocate her shop, A Dose of Darla, from the flea market booth in her hometown to the quaint and cozy town of Whispering Falls, Kentucky, she’s excited to share her natural cures with a new community.
But June’s fairy god cat, who’s always been her lucky charm, may not be enough to keep her out of trouble when a member of the community is found murdered and June becomes the number one suspect…
The Book of Souls
by Kevin Moore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
THE DEAD DON’T COME BACK… BUT SOME NEVER LEAVE. What if your entire life… never happened?
Jack Kelly remembers a wife, three children, and a life filled with love and meaning. Then he wakes up—thirteen years old, alone, and told it was all in his head.
Doctors call it trauma after a near-death experience – a false memory. But Jack knows better. Because something came back with him. He can see them now—the dead, the lost, the shadows that shouldn’t exist. And they see him too.
If his memories are impossible, why do they feel so real? And if the dead are real… what does that make him?
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother.
But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
The Death Shift
by Peter Elkind
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The true story of a killer nurse whose crimes were hidden by a hospital for years.
It’s 1980, and Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the pediatric ICU in San Antonio’s county hospital. As the weeks go by, infants under her care begin experiencing unexpected complications—and dying—in alarming numbers, prompting rumors that there is a murderer among the staff. Her eight-hour shift would come to be called “the death shift.” This strange epidemic would continue unabated for more than a year, before Jones is quietly sent off—with a good recommendation—to a rural pediatric clinic. There, eight children under her care mysteriously stopped breathing—and a 15-month-old baby girl died.
Point Blank
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The explosive action kicks off as treasure-hunting FBI agent Ruth Warnecki is on the trail of stolen Confederate gold hidden in Winkel’s cave in western Virginia. She never expects to find herself chin-deep in a grisly murder that leaves her nearly dead and rocks the town of Maestro.
Then, at a stake-out in Maryland, FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed in a horrific explosion while attempting to rescue kidnap victim, Pinky Womack. They are led to Arlington National Cemetery where they not only find Pinky, but Savich also takes a fateful call on his cell from an old man out to kill both him and Sherlock.
The Fifth Witness
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.
Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too—and he’s certain he’s on the right trail.
Cujo
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (THE MAN, THE WOMAN, and THE BOY) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes his mind even as his once affable thoughts turn uncontrollably and inexorably to hatred and murder.
Return of the Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.
Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired the Prime Video show, Cross.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death on the Rhine
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.31 #ad
A luxury cruise. Hidden family secrets. A body on board…
A birthday trip to Bonn sees amateur detective Atalanta Ashford drawn into the scandalous will of a wealthy grandmother during a scenic cruise down along the Rhine.
But growing tensions lead to a sudden and shocking death. Facing suspicion all around, Atalanta must unravel a deadly web of family secrets as treacherous as the river they voyage on, to find the killer.
Sensuous Angel
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Her best friend in danger, a young woman’s search for her will take her into the dark heart of New York’s criminal underground—and into the arms of an unlikely hero.
The lovely heiress to an olive oil empire, Donna Miro is gravely worried about her best friend, Lorna, who seems to be missing. Having traveled to New York to find the missing Lorna, Donna finds herself trapped in the city’s seedy underbelly—until an unexpected man comes to her aid. Father Luke Trudeau, the most unusual priest she has ever met, has the mouth of a sailor and the brawn to go with it. Luke offers Donna help, and he seems to know things about the city—and the dangerous people in it—that might lead them to Lorna.
Coyote Wind
by Peter Bowen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
First in the crime-fiction series set in the modern-day west, starring a half-French, half-Indian “character of legendary proportions” (Ridley Pearson).
Officially, Gabriel Du Pré is the cattle inspector for Toussaint, Montana, responsible for making sure no one tries to sell livestock branded by another ranch. Unofficially, he is responsible for much more than cows’ backsides. The barren country around Toussaint is too vast for the town’s small police force, and so, when needed, this hard-nosed Métis Indian lends a hand. When the sheriff offers gas money to investigate newly discovered plane wreckage in the desert, Du Pré quickly finds himself embroiled in a mystery stretching back a generation.
The McBain Brief: Stories
by Ed McBain
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A collection of twenty short stories from the legendary crime author and creator of the 87th Precinct series.
Ed McBain was one of the most admired and prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. His long-running 87th Precinct series helped define the gritty police procedural. In The McBain Brief, he presents a series of short stories where desperation, greed, and violence lead to bad ends.
A collector who loves his porcelain more than his daughter; a hooker who melts the heart of a tough cop; an ex-fighter who goes berserk at Christmas; an automobile dealer out for a funny business ride.
Cross Down
by James Patterson , Brendan DuBois
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For the first time, John Sampson is on his own.
The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC’s, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them.
When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random—Sampson’s friend, his partner, his brother—have told him. Don’t trust anyone.
The Hunting Grounds
by Charly Cox
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Jennie Killingbeck goes missing while driving back to Albuquerque, Detective Alyssa Wyatt and the squad quickly swing into action to bring her home, alive.
But the case takes a darker turn when FBI Agent Ryker Newlin walks into their precinct. For the past six years, the FBI have been searching for a killer dubbed ‘The Sunset Slayer’ for their M.O. of brutally murdering young red-haired women, mutilating them with an ‘X’ across their lips.
Giap
by James A. Warren
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War—includes maps and photos.
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country’s most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam’s colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody efforts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare.
Orson Deadeye
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Orson “Deadeye” Cain survived the noose once. Cottonridge may test him again.
Twenty-three years ago, sharpshooter Orson rode into a burning ranch and rode out branded a murderer. He saved a child from the flames and disappeared before the law could hang him.
Now, older and carrying a damaged gun hand, Orson drifts into Cottonridge, Arizona, where irrigation headgates decide who eats and who starves. A disciplined outlaw gang strikes canals and freight lines with precision. Each attack is followed by Federal Marshal Frank tightening his grip, claiming order while seizing control of the valley’s water.
Float Don’t Lie
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A gritty, emotional, high-stakes story about a woman, a dead wash, and a river that kept its promises. If you love raw characters, impossible geology, and wins that are earned in dust and blood — you’re not putting this down.
The Mojave takes everything, water, time, hope but Mara Castillo walks into the Searchlight Nevada wash anyway. Broke, blistered, and desperate to save her mother’s home, she finds gold where none should exist, gem stones, a strange color glowing in dead ground, and signs of a buried river that may change everything.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.