Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Greedy Woman
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
There’s not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth’s sky, just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in.
The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike each other. The arrival of Maria’s gross, greedy partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance. And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door.
THE SECRET
by Nan Adel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
After a few months of uncertainty in this new time, Brian and Lisa finally returned to their natural time. They have their memories of the last two years, but no time had gone by in 1999. Despite their plans to remarry if they returned, they find out they are not meant to be together after all. Someone in the future knows a secret that prevents them from continuing their love and marriage. After you read the last page, you’ll want to go back and reread it from the very beginning to find all the hints to what you now know to be the truth.
Can eternal love be patient? Can love overcome the pain of not knowing? Can the trust in their commitment to each other from over one hundred years ago keep them on the path back to each other?
Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
by Martin Edwards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust. The challenge seems simple but exciting: Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote but wonderfully atmospheric village in north Yorkshire to win a prize that will change your fortunes for good.
Six members of staff from the shadowy Trust are there to make sure everyone plays fair. The contestants have been meticulously vetted but you can never be too careful. And with the village about to be cut off by a snow storm, everyone needs to be extra vigilant. Midwinter can play tricks on people’s minds.
Treason at Lisson Grove
by Anne Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives seconds after the knife-wielding assassin – who, in turn, flees on an erratic course that leads Pitt in wild pursuit to picturesque St. Malo on the French coast. Meanwhile, Pitt’s supervisor, Victor Narraway, stands accused of embezzling government funds. Since the man who ruined Narraway’s career is in Ireland, Pitt’s clever wife, Charlotte, agrees to pose as Narraway’s sister and accompany him to Dublin to investigate.
The King of Confidence
by Miles Harvey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect’s leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king.
From this stronghold he controlled a fourth of the state of Michigan, establishing a pirate colony where he practiced plural marriage and perpetrated thefts, corruption, and frauds of all kinds…
Divided in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Reva Ewing was a former member of the Secret Service, and then a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises—until she was found standing over the dead bodies of her husband, renowned artist Blair Bissel, and her best friend. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas believes there was more to the killing than jealous rage—all of Bissel’s computer files were deliberately corrupted.
To Roarke, it’s the computer attack that poses the real threat. He and Reva have been under a code-red government contract to develop a program that would shield against techno-terrorists…
The Crimson Throne
by Sara Raasch, Beth Revis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Samson Calthorpe’s curse has isolated him from everyone he has ever cared about. So, when the opportunity arises to break the curse, he grabs it. All he has to do for his freedom is risk his life and become a royal spy, using every bit of the skills and resolve he’s picked up on the streets of London to infiltrate the court of the Scottish Queen and uncover a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
For years, Alyth Graham has been protecting Mary Queen of Scots from threats both physical and magical, including the Queen’s own husband, Lord Darnley. Alyth is more than meets the eye though, the child of a fae prince and a human mother, she is among the most powerful protectors in Scotland: guardians sworn to defend against the Red Caps, a bloodthirsty fae clan . . . that Lord Darnley is in league with to overtake Scotland.
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
by James Patterson, Imogen Edwards-Jones
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In life, Marilyn Monroe’s superstardom defies classification. In death, she remains shrouded in mystery.
In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script for her ultimately unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give.
In the weeks before her death, she drinks champagne on Santa Monica Beach with the last photographer to take her picture.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Dog Sitter Detective
by Antony Johnston
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Penniless Gwinny Tuffel is delighted to attend her good friend Tina’s upmarket wedding. But when the big day ends with a dead body and not a happily-ever-after, Gwinny is left with a situation as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
When her friend is accused of murder, Gwinny takes it upon herself to sniff out the true culprit. With a collection of larger-than-life suspects and two pedigree Salukis in tow, she is set to have a ruff time of it.
Death in Vain
by Jane Suen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A dead girl on the road. An accident, or something more sinister?
Eve Sawyer takes off for a carefree end-of-summer getaway before diving back into another busy fall semester. Seeking relaxation and respite on the heels of solving a recent murder case, she has no plans and no destination in mind.
But when Eve stops at a roadside diner to enjoy a homestyle country meal, she hears about a dead woman found on the road. A local girl named Kaylee, not much younger than Eve.
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.
Murder Creek
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
When journalism student Eve investigates a 20-year-old cold case, she begins to unravel a small town’s darkest secrets… What exactly happened the night Lacey Walken went missing at Murder Creek?
College student Eve Sawyer senses something disturbing at Murder Creek—the site named for infamous murders committed centuries earlier and where Lacey Walken went missing.
Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace … except for her bloody scarf tangled in fallen branches at the muddy water’s edge.
Winter of the World
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.
Kissing the Demons
by Kate Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders in the nineteenth century, and also related to the disappearances of two teenage girls. When a student living in the house is found to be brutally murdered, Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is left wondering whether her death has anything to do with the house’s grim history.
As other similar deaths come to light, Joe fears a ruthless killer may be on the prowl – a killer who deprives each victim of one of their five senses.
Long Gone
by Denise Swank
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.
Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father’s law firm, a move as dull as the small town she’s returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance.
With her father’s firm representing the missing man’s wife, Harper seizes the opportunity to delve back into her investigative roots…
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go
by Joy Alicia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Writer’s Digest Humor winner. Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable Mention winner, Readers’ Favorite Finalist winner. Amazon’s #1 new release in “Humor,” June 2025.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds-barred collection of essays that turns life’s messiest moments into empowering, relatable, and wildly entertaining stories.
Written by stand-up comic Joy Alicia, this raw guide of 19 standalone essays is a bold invitation to laugh through the hookups, heartbreak, ghosting, toxic friendships, and all the awkward first dates in between.