Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lady Alkmene Collection
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Four fabulous 1920s-set murder mysteries you won’t want to miss in 2025, perfect for cozy crime fans!
A Proposal to Die For: A murderous beginning
Diamonds of Death: A family of secrets…
Deadly Treasures: Murder on the coast
Fatal Masquerade: Masked danger…
The House on the Cliff
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A GRIPPING, SUSPENSEFUL TALE TOLD FROM THE HOUSE’S POINT OF VIEW.
Facing mortality for the first time in its life, a two-hundred-year-old house vividly recalls, in its own words, two of its beloved families.
In the 1950’s, Magnus Quinn, a reclusive sea captain, whose heart has been marred by a horrific tragedy, hesitantly agrees to marry Audrey, a pregnant woman with whom he shares a volatile past. As they forge a tentative bond, their relationship is hampered by secrets—one, long-buried, one, still raw—which threaten to tear them apart, along with Quinn’s brooding and vindictive brother Callum, who will stop at nothing to end their marriage.
Ranger Protection
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover thrilling suspense and heartfelt romance in this inspiring series by Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lynn Shannon…
When Dr. Tara Sims is robbed, she fights back to protect her daughter and nearly pays with her life. She’s rescued by Texas Ranger Grady West. Her childhood friend is now a handsome lawman, but Tara refuses to acknowledge the chemistry sparking between them. With a little girl to raise and a growing medical practice, she has no room in her life for romance.
Grady suspects the vicious assault wasn’t a random act. What he can’t figure out is why anyone would attack the single mother. He vows to protect Tara and her little girl while keeping his growing feelings for them out of the equation…
The Wind Dancer
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A hidden killer . . . A conspiracy of treachery. . . And two people caught in the most desperate game of all . . .
In Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a family—and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will need the help of a thief—one he can control body and soul…
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…*
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell…
Too Close to Home
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?
Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home…
John’s Purpose
by Laura Domino
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
ONE WILL GIVE YOU ROSES . When John offered to help a woman at church, he didn’t know he had stumbled onto the adventure of his life. Will he be able to protect her without endangering everyone around them?
Emma’s a scientist, researching to find the key to a cure for a disease that took her relatives. If she wins the research grant she applied for, she’d leave Fulton Ridge and move to a tiny island. Once Emma tells John that she’s hoping to leave the country, each one has to decide whether to pursue the relationship.
Patriarch’s Hope
by David Feintuch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Transpop Rebellion ended ten years ago with now–Secretary General Nicholas Seafort as a hero. With that political capital, Seafort stepped into place as one of the most powerful men in the world. But political clout isn’t all it seems to be. While Seafort tries to stay true to his moral code, he’s being pulled in every direction. His former colleagues in the Navy demand more ships, while the enviro lobbyists plead with him to repair the planet’s broken ecosystem. Patriarch’s Hope returns the focus to the Seafort Saga’s charismatic and troubled title character…
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller—a remarkable debut novel from a blazing talent that will keep readers spellbound
Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangman’s noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murders of a Feather
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine’s Day (and the fact that she’s alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities are in fact homicides…
American Mummy
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
When a series of bizarre supernatural disturbances rock historic sites across the Northeast, Captain Leah Morgan is tasked with assembling the Legacy Operations Command—an elite team of specialists dedicated to neutralizing threats from America’s past. Their first mission takes them deep beneath Boston’s Old North Church, where an unearthed Revolutionary War-era relic has awakened something terrifying: the only known mummy created on American soil.
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(The Guardians of Legacy Mysteries)
She’s Mine
by Tammy Doherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
This summer is going to be explosive for Caitlin Harrington and Sean Taggart!
YOU DON’T BELONG HERE
Caitlin dreams of a quiet life teaching math at her hometown middle school. Except someone is leaving ominous notes on her door. It could be her ex-boyfriend or someone else who doesn’t want her back in town. Firefighter Sean Taggart thinks Caitlin is beautiful…and possibly crazy. When he finds out the truth, Sean wants to help. Can he save Caitlin before the stalker turns to murder?
The Perfect Prosecutor
by Gregg Bell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Successfully defending an alleged baby killer restored Ike Thompson’s reputation as “the perfect lawyer.” But it also destroyed his practice. Now, a seemingly random attack on a powerful CEO hints at a truth so horrifying, it could cost him everything.
The story was buried on the back pages of a fringe news website: a mentally ill woman randomly attacked the CEO of one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies outside its Chicago headquarters. At first, Ike dismisses it as just another disturbed person roaming the streets, but further investigation reveals that the woman was not mentally ill, the incident not an attack, and that it was not at all random.
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(Ike Thompson Legal Thriller)
Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases. Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t. She agrees to lead the race to rescue the young singer before time runs out.
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse – Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
The Bitterroots
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The ties that bind can burn you.
Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Trace: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn’t the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won’t reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.
Abby’s Fire
by R.I.Partridge
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After a fire destroys her home, Abby Bennett emerges from the hospital horribly scarred. Her husband has abandoned her, and her two little boys are – gone.
Determined to reclaim her life and get her boys back, Abby returns to her hometown in Iowa. With the help of a reclusive neighbor, Jack, she begins renovating her sister’s rental property. But the old cottage has a tragic past – a grisly unsolved murder.
When Abby sees images of the victims – a mother and her children – in a mirror above the fireplace, she realizes it holds the key to solving the decades-old mystery…
The Wrong Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in the local cemetery and gives chase. But when Tessa catches him, she learns that the ghoulish trespasser wasn’t robbing graves; he was burying a box of bones.
With the help of her fiancé, park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa discovers that the remains belong to a missing teenager from a nearby island. After the girl disappeared nine months ago, police labeled her a runaway. Now, though, it’s clear the teenager was murdered.
Homestead on Broken Lines: Boxset
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Brianna Colfax returns to her small-town roots to run a restaurant, but a national crisis shatters her peace. With a sudden draft, curfew, power outages, and dwindling supplies, Brianna must protect her business and loved ones. As winter sets in and threats close in, she relies on her military skills to navigate the chaos. In a fight for survival, Brianna discovers that home and family are worth any battle.
Someone Saw Something
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A missing child is every parent’s worst nightmare. For journalist Corina Corado, it’s a terrifying reality.
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son – and why?
Detectives suspect there’s a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina’s received over the years. In her line of work, it’s not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence…or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband, Robert, and her stepdaughter, Charlotte, have kept start to unravel.
The Bancroft Strategy
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As a field agent for Consular Operations, Tod Belknap has always had a cowboy reputation. But now, after an operation goes wrong, he has finally been cut loose from the organization. Soon afterward, his best friend and former partner is abducted by a militia group in Lebanon. When the government refuses to get involved, Belknap takes matters into his own hands.
Meanwhile, hedge fund analyst Andrea Bancroft is surprised to be offered a seat on her estranged family’s powerful foundation…
Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life—from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood…
Inspiring Stories for Amazing Boys Who Believe in Themselves
by Sati Siroda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Empower the Amazing Young Boy in Your Life to Believe in Himself with Just 5 Minutes a Day! What if 5 minutes each day could help him overcome fears, believe in himself, and dream big?
Does he sometimes doubt himself, hesitate to act or fear making mistakes? Do you want to inspire him to recognize his strengths and confidently tackle challenges?
Inside, He’ll Discover: 21 Engaging Short Stories Crafted Especially for Young Boys; Powerful Lessons on Bravery, Self-confidence, and Perseverance; Relatable Characters Facing Everyday Challenges; Strategies to Turn Setbacks Into Opportunities for Growth; Daily Affirmations and Fun Activities to Reinforce Each Lesson.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Family Secret
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Some secrets refuse to stay buried…
For years, Iris O’Connell has carried the weight of a past she’s fought hard to forget. Raising six children alone after her husband disappeared, she built a life of stability—but the night he vanished left behind a truth too dangerous to reveal.
When a body is unearthed in the Montana wilderness, whispers begin to circulate, and the O’Connell family finds themselves entangled in a mystery that threatens to expose long-buried lies. As the sheriff, Marcus O’Connell is forced to confront rumors that the remains belong to their missing father, a man who left without a trace. But when the DA starts connecting the dots, the O’Connells become suspects in a crime they never saw coming…
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
by Dorothy Gilman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown, married children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent.
She takes on a “job” in Mexico City. The assignment doesn’t sound dangerous at first, but then, as often happens, something goes wrong. Now our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country’s enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.
Blood Line
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s quiet, ordinary looking. But if you cross him – welcome to your worst nightmare.
Tom Rollins has gone AWOL from his CIA black-ops unit and is living off-grid when he hears that the woman he loves, Alejandra, has been murdered by a person or persons unknown.
Rollins is determined to punish her killers and sets out on his own personal search and destroy mission. Applying pressure as only he knows how, he quickly discovers who was behind the killing – a vicious gang of hardened criminals…
Genna’s Fight
by Sheldon D. Newton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Will She Be Able To Discover Her True Self & Get Her Son Back In Time?
Genna, a beautiful young lady looking forward to life.
Tom, a sharp, handsome, smooth-talking young man who falls for Genna. Love. Marriage. A Son. And then it happens. And what happens will keep your eyes glued on every page until the very end. This Suspense Thriller is filled with mystery with twists and turns that causes one to wonder what will happen next. Get your copy of this fascinating novel and discover why…
A Circle of Wives
by Alice LaPlante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police uncover enough incriminating evidence to suspect foul play. Det. Samantha Adams, whose Palo Alto beat usually covers petty crimes, is innocently thrown into a high-profile case that is more complicated than any she has faced before.
A renowned reconstructive surgeon and a respected family man, Dr. Taylor was beloved and admired. But beneath his perfect façade was a hidden life—in fact, multiple lives…
The Leira Chronicles Complete Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic isn’t real—until it’s staring right at her.
Detective Leira Berens prides herself on handling facts, not fantasy. Her job is chasing suspects, not ghosts. But when her mother’s wild tales of hidden worlds start surfacing, she’s forced to confront an unsettling truth…
Magic exists—and it’s coming for her.
A young prince from another realm has been murdered, and the prime suspect is hiding in Leira’s city. As she unravels an ancient conspiracy, she finds herself tangled between two worlds.
One is filled with gritty crime scenes; the other with shimmering portals and creatures from beyond.
A mysterious relic, pulsing with unearthly power, may be the key to it all. But its secrets are deadly, and time is running out.
Can Leira save her world before magic consumes it? Or will her disbelief cost her everything she holds dear?
The Ambler Warning
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one difference between Hal and the other patients – Hal isn’t crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape.
Foul Play
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger—and with both business and the safety of the city at stake, he has no choice but to get involved.
When it soon becomes clear that a complicated scheme is being hatched, Stone will need to use his expertise and connections to unravel the clever plot. Though the source remains unknown, it’s just a matter of time before he and Stone must each show their hands. From ritzy Manhattan high-rises to the lush serenity of the Connecticut countryside, the game of cat and mouse can end with only one victor….