Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid’s Secret
by Nita Prose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner – a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciting, her wedding to Juan Manuel.
When Molly brings in some old trinkets to be appraised on the show, one item is revealed to be a rare and coveted artifact worth millions. Molly becomes a rags-to-riches sensation, and a media frenzy swirls as she prepares to sell her priceless treasure. Then, on auction day, the treasure suddenly vanishes. and Molly and her friends find themselves at the center of the boldest art heist in recent memory.
Last Seen Alone
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse. She is not afraid to go after the sleaziest targets to get payback for her clients. Leigh is laser-focused on her career – to the exclusion of everything else – until a seemingly routine case and a determined cop turn her world upside down.
Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds is no stranger to midnight callouts. But when he gets summoned to an abandoned car on a desolate road, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with an unusual crime scene. A pool of blood in the nearby woods suggests a brutal homicide. But where is the victim?
Center of Enigma
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In homage to Agatha Christie, this modern-day mystery weaves together a captivating tapestry of comradeship, enigma, and suspense in the picturesque Amish community of Paradise, PA.
Haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng, a recent university graduate from New York, seeks solace in the inheritance left by her late grandaunt. Yet, per the will’s conditions, she must take on the role of a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise, Pennsylvania. Upon arriving, she rescues an Amish girl and entangles herself in the mysterious disappearances of young Amish women.
K-9: Tracking the Target
by Elizabeth Heiter
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hunting a dangerous prey K-9 Cold Case: With the help of his K-9 companion, Patches, FBI victim specialist Jax Diallo vows to help police chief Keara Hernandez solve the attacks rocking their Alaskan community.
K-9 Hideout: Police handler Tate Emory is thankful that Sabrina Jones saved his trusty K-9 companion, Sitka, but he didn’t sign up for national media exposure. That publicity unveils his true identity to the dirty Boston cops he took down…and brings Sabrina’s murderous stalker even closer to his target.
The Watchmaker’s Hand
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking.
Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs have to dodge his brilliant scheme to destroy them both, while racing against time to stop the construction site terrorists.
The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich, Steve Hamilton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Type A special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.
Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe…
Murder 101
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children, grandchildren, and their foster son, Gabe.
But working for the Greenbury Police Department isn’t as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated by his new partner, Tyler McAdams, a former Harvard student and young buck with a bad attitude.
The Widow’s Watch
by Marie Wilkens
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ella Wilson, a traveling hospice nurse, takes a job in a small town, caring for a stroke patient in a house steeped in unsettling secrets. The patient’s son warns her about his charming but dangerous brother, yet it’s the house itself that seems to hold the darkest truths. As Ella digs deeper into the family’s past, she uncovers a connection to her own life that shakes her to the core. The revelations force Ella to face a part of herself she never knew existed. Some secrets refuse to stay buried, and this one could cost her everything.
The Death Mask
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer.
World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve’s services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask.
The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair
by Meg Myers Morgan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Gemma Sinclair is coming undone.
At first glance, she seems to have it all: a successful career as a therapist, a devoted husband, two young sons, and a beautiful home. But upon closer inspection, there are serious fractures rooted in professional demands, family stresses, and—most notably—the unexpected onset of postpartum depression.
After a frightening accident injures her newborn son, Gemma lies about who is responsible. As her lies compound and pressure builds, she has no choice but to confront long-buried family secrets. Gemma soon finds her career threatened, her marriage in jeopardy, and her sanity stretched to the breaking point.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The sleepy town of Halcyon Springs, Maryland hides a terrible secret – the unsolved murder of Drew Scanlon.
Reluctant restaurant owner, Izzie Di Sante was following crimes and writing stories until she returned home to help with the family business. Unlike her sister, Chloe, Izzie’s not a foodie. She itches to write about a murder. With recent changes in the restaurant, Izzie carves out time to find her next story and an alert on the Scanlon murder gets her attention. While Chloe is spicing things up in the kitchen, Izzie’s focus is on the stalled Scanlon murder investigation.
Nothing adds up in Izzie’s mind and the detective in charge let he know he’s been told not to ask too many questions as the family is powerful. That only spurs her to delve deeper…
It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 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.
The King’s Bow
by Jamie Roe
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A throne falls to voracious teeth. An ancient power lies buried beneath the streets. A reluctant heir flees into predator lands. Can he reclaim his crown and unleash the fire in his blood before his people are butchered and his world devoured?
Asher has spent his life running from responsibility. But when tragedy strikes and the Rabbethi kingdom is threatened by a bloodthirsty horde, he discovers there’s nowhere left to run. With his people fractured and their survival uncertain, Asher must become the one thing he has always feared – king.
His only hope to re-unite his fractured kingdom lies in an ancient artifact lost to time, a divine weapon said to grant its wielder a fragment of divinity…
Carte Blanche
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
James Bond comes to life as you’ve never seen him before in the explosive spy thriller and international bestseller by Jeffrey Deaver.
The action begins when a Night Action alert cuts short a high-end dinner with a captivating woman. Headquarters has decrypted a whispered threat—plans for a chemical disaster with casualties in the thousands, British interests squarely in its crosshairs…
A rebooted James Bond set firmly in the 21st century, Carte?Blanche blends suspenseful espionage, relentless action, and a morally complex protagonist navigating terrorism in a globalized world—a must-read thriller fiction experience.
The Vanishing Hour
by Seraphina Nova Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street comes a shocking thriller about secrets…and the lengths some people will go to keep them.
Grace Holloway keeps to herself. Since narrowly escaping death at the hands of the man who kidnapped her, she’s thrown herself into the small inn she runs in Rock Harbor, Maine. It’s quiet, quaint and, in the off-season, completely isolated—the perfect place for Grace to keep her own secrets.
But Grace isn’t the only one with something to hide, and Rock Harbor isn’t just a sleepy vacation town. Someone is taking young women—girls who look an awful lot like Grace did when she was kidnapped so many years ago.
Full Tilt
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes’s Full Tilt, he lives life in the fast lane and she’s along for the ride-with no brakes….
Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie’s life gets shaken up. Max claims he’s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana’s now taking his shots in the political ring…
The Southern Novels Boxed Set
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four chilling tales from the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song and the “true master of the Gothic novel” (Booklist).
From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these four unforgettable novels.
Boy’s Life,
Mystery Walk,
Gone South,
Usher’s Passing
Unto Us a Son Is Given
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A Library Journal Mystery Bestseller • A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year • A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year
Guido Brunetti is urged by his father-in-law to investigate—and preferably intervene in—the seemingly innocent plan of the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would then be heir to Gonzalo’s entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo’s friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can’t be allowed his pleasure in peace.
No More Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce—or so she wants to believe. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man and her biggest client will wed this weekend at a historic hotel on the beach. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work—until a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps unfinished business in her path.
Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strands Aria, he jumps at the opportunity to come to her rescue. Getting stuck in a hotel without power is a bonus. As long as the snow continues to fall, he has a shot to make her love him again.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six…
The World Beyond the Redbud Tree
by C. Brightwell , Madison
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world as we know it is built upon choices. If different choices had been made in the past, we might be living in an entirely different world. What if the so-called Lost Colony of settlers in North Carolina were in fact not lost at all but instead merged happily with the Native American tribes to create a new people and unique society?
Sixteen-year-old Charli is living in a pandemic-ravaged 2020 America when she stumbles upon the parallel world of the Q’ehazi. Drawn to these peaceful people, whose constant joy and optimism provides a stark contrast to the suffering and violence in her own life, Charli wants nothing more than to stay with them forever-but first, she must learn to attain a state of grace…
Night Train to Memphis
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An assistant curator of Munich’s National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she’ll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5’11” of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as “Sir John Smythe.” And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him. . . with his new flame…
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
Red Cloud’s Revenge
by Terry C. Johnston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Seven month of small reprisals since the Fetterman massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders–both Indian and White–steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted–drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed: the Hay Field Fight and Wagon Box Fight of 1867.
The Malevolent Eight
by Sebastien de Castell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The stakes have never been higher.
The world is teetering on the brink of annihilation. The Lords Celestine and the Lords Devilish, celestial and infernal beings locked in an age-old enmity, have at last found the perfect battlefield for their apocalyptic Great Crusade: the mortal realm.
Cade Ombra, former Glorian Justiciar turned mercenary wonderist, leads a band of emotionally unstable mages in a desperate bid to prevent the impending clash of divine and diabolical titans. Failure will leave humanity to be conscripted into an eternal war, serving as foot soldiers doomed to oblivion.
The Secret Billionaire’s Last Chance
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s all broken. Hearts, bones, trust, and his latest motorcycle prototype. No one realizes that it’s the billionaire King of the Motorcycle World lying in the hospital. His life and secrets dangle by surgical thread.
Cole is found at the bottom of the canyon two days after missing the curve on a stormy late-night ride. He arrives covered in blood, with a broken body and no identity.
His nurse attends him daily for long hours. Speaking softly, touching gently, caring deeply. Healing his body, saving him. He knows it’s her. Tessa.
What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller
A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
HOT FLASHES & HOMICIDE
by Patti Petrone Miller
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Three sassy retirees. One dead developer. Zero patience for nonsense.
Welcome to Conch Key, where the sun is hot, the gossip is hotter, and the local beach just coughed up a corpse in Gucci loafers.
Daisy Picklesworth wanted nothing more than a quiet morning, a strong cup of tea, and to finish her mystery novel on the porch of The Barnacle. What she got instead was a bloated real estate mogul dead in the surf, a jellyfish charm that doesn’t belong, and the strong suspicion that someone in their sleepy seaside town just committed the most stylish murder Florida’s ever seen…
Southern Man
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The latest thrilling, page-turner following Penn Cage from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burningtrilogy and Cemetery Road, about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love.
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie.
Candle In The Wind
by Kim Baccellia
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you discovered everything you’ve been taught is a lie? For most of her life, seventeen-year-old Espie Hernandez’s world revolved around the Branch of Thomas, a cult-like haven in what’s left of a war-ravaged America. Their ruler, Reverent Father, keeps them safe from the Others, those outside the compound who wish to harm them.
Espie questions what she’s been taught and finds herself banished from the compound. She’s thrust into the harsh world beyond their walls with the mission to prove the Others actually have a plot against them. When tensions escalate, Espie must figure out who to trust before everything she loves is torn apart.
The Other Wife
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.
This is what their son, Joe O’Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood – a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?
The Cliff’s Edge
by Charles Todd
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.
Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn into the fray as two once close families take sides, even as they are forced to remain in the same house until the inquest is completed…
Black Water
by T. Jefferson Parker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A beautiful young woman is dead in the bathroom of her home. Her husband—a promising young cop named Archie Wildcraft—is shot in the head but still alive. It looks like an attempted murder/suicide, but something tells Detective Merci Rayborn that there’s more to the story.
When the suspect vanishes from his hospital bed, he draws Merci into a manhunt that leaves the entire department questioning her abilities and her judgment. Is Archie’s flight the act of a ruined mind, or a faithful heart?
The Dying Hour
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city’s blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper’s intense intern program. But unlike the program’s other young reporters, who attended big name schools and worked at other big metro dailies, Wade put himself through community college, and lacked the same experience.
The Word Is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home.
Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material…