Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Mistletoe Mayhem Collection
by Kassandra Lamb
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Christmas mayhem in Florida… Two novellas and a novelette, one from each of author Kassandra Lamb’s series, offer short “fun in the sun” reads to entertain during the busy holiday season (and year round).
An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine
A Mayfair Christmas Carol
The Twelve Heists of Christmas
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
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Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love – one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months.
Behold the Monster
by Jillian Lauren, Michael Connelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades?
As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren’s coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little’s victims only escalated.
Closer Than She Knows
by Kelly Irvin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A serial killer bent on revenge . . . and striking too close to home.
Teagan O’Rourke has always loved murder mysteries. In her job as a court reporter, she has written official records for dozens of real-life murders. She’s slapped evidence stickers on crime scene photos. She’s listened to hours of chilling testimony. But she’s never known the smell of death. And she never thought she might be a victim. Until now.
The Night Is Alive
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s a city of beauty, history hauntings. And one of the most haunted places in Savannah is a tavern called The Dragonslayer, built in the 1750s. The current owner, Gus Anderson, is a descendant of the original innkeeper and his pirate brother, Blue.
Gus summons his granddaughter, Abigail, home from Virginia, where she’s studying at the FBI Academy. When she arrives, she’s devastated to find him dead. Murdered. But Abby soon learns that Gus isn’t the only one to meet a brutal and untimely end; there’ve been at least two other victims. Then Captain Blue Anderson starts making ghostly appearances, and the FBI’s paranormal investigation unit, the Krewe of Hunters, sends in Agent Malachi Gordon.
Murder at the Kennedy Center
by Margaret Truman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“An exciting romp through the maze of Washington politics.” – The Dallas Morning News
During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party’s hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate’s son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail—and wreck his own career.
108: An Eco-Thriller
by Dheepa Maturi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At the same time, she receives a message from her father, presumed dead for fifteen years, warning her of imminent danger. Coincidence? Unlikely.
Halfway around the world, agrochemical corporation ZedChem-led by billionaire Krakun Zed-tests its latest innovation, a product heralded as the solution to topsoil erosion. But the data reveals something else entirely.
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
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In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shinar Cane demonstrates to the world his telepathic connection to an ‘alien’ entity, promising power but leading down a dark and deceptive path.
My Years With Gillian Lane
by Daniel M. Wolpe
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Jonathan Ferguson and Gillian Lane meet as children and it’s far from love at first sight for them. But as they become friends and their families grow closer despite their political differences, they must navigate many events of the time including the fight for women’s rights, the aftermath of World War 1, The Jazz Age and The Great Depression. As Jonathan and Gillian fall in love and rebel against their par-ents by pursuing their dreams and moving to New York City, they always have each other’s support, no matter the challenges they face. But is that ultimately enough to sustain their relationship in a changing world?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Pot Thief Who Studied Calvin
by J. Michael Orenduff
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Hubie Schuze usually digs through the dirt—often illegally—to find the ancient ceramics he sells in his shop, Spirits in Clay. But thanks to his nephew, Tristan, a computer science student at the University of New Mexico, Hubie receives a unique 3D-printed pot. And after a photo of it runs in the local paper, it becomes a popular item.
Unfortunately, the pot is sought-after by all the wrong people, and strange characters start darkening the doorway of Hubie’s shop…
One to Go
by Mike Pace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
What would you pay for a short re-wind?
Tom Booker is a new attorney at a powerful Washington law firm. Texting while driving across Memorial Bridge, he loses control and crashes into an oncoming minivan carrying his own daughter and three of her friends. The minivan tips up on two wheels, about to flip over into the Potomac. Time freezes, he’s alone on the bridge. A young couple approaches and offers him a re-wind. The crash would be averted, the children saved. All he must do is kill someone every two weeks—anyone—for a soul exchange. A moment later, Tom is back in his spinning car, but averts the deadly crash. He laughs about the hallucination, attributing it to bumping his head on the steering wheel when his car came to an abrupt stop…
Lucy ~ The Clarinetist
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“A merry novella for the holiday season!
Lucy Ciaffonni wants nothing more than to start her own public relations firm, but she’s stuck at the local bank performing dreary communications and advertising duties. When her best friend and computer guru, Andre Almanza, buys an area farm to create a barn theater, Lucy is pulled into the mystery of discovering where a rare, German, H.F. Kayser clarinet was hidden on the property during Prohibition. Andre Almanza has always adored Lucy from afar. He hopes she’ll take the position of barn theater manager. When she agrees to help him renovate the barn and update and furnish his huge Victorian house, he is delighted—that is, until the entire town becomes involved in locating the missing antique instrument.
All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
Code Red
by Ian Loome
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Bob is just another homeless guy. So why is he being hunted by a crack team of assassins?
Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago.
He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help. They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
Nimerigar
by L.J. Vitanza
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After Jim Wendell’s terrifying encounter with the bear in Arctodus, he visited his neighbor, Walter. The elderly gentleman kept his promise to share a story from his childhood. What is the meaning of several curious items in a living room cabinet? Jim will soon find out.
In the mid-1900s, four young Shoshone boys fled the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming to avoid capture by white men. If caught, they would have been forced into boarding schools to learn the English language and assimilate into a strange and foreign way of life.
Close to Death
by Anthony Horowitz
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Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.
It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors.
Mob Mayhem Volume One
by Multiple Authors
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If you liked The Godfather and Goodfellas, you’ll love these three up-close-and-personal true accounts of gangsters and organized crime.
THE RISE AND FALL OF A “CASINO” MOBSTER: The Tony Spilotro Story Through a Hitman’s Eyes by Frank Cullota and Dennis Griffin
Bestselling “mob expert” Dennis Griffin and former mob enforcer and Spilotro confidant, Frank Cullota, tell the story of the Las Vegas gangster whose quest for power and lack of self-control with women cost the Mob its control of Vegas—and lost Tony his life.
The Murder Machine
by Heather Graham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent.
This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner’s lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn’t leave any fingerprints?
An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Daniel Silva spins a yarn better than any living author and I appreciated the chance to disappear into a great book, if only for a single night (there is no stopping a Silva book once I’ve begun). – Todd Wilkins, Best Thriller Books
Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back . . .
Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
by Bruce Rolfe
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When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter…
The Dark Side of the Island
by Jack Higgins
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A former WWII intelligence agent searches for redemption in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
It’s been nearly twenty years since Hugh Lomax set foot on the Greek island of Kyros. During World War II, British Intelligence sent him there on a mission to take out a high-tech German radar station. Aided by the local resistance, he succeeded—but was also captured and spent the rest of the war imprisoned.
Now, he’s returned. But he is far from welcome…
Of Sorrows and Silence
by Jimmy Gear
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The exciting conclusion to the Audrey Baker suspense series! Audrey receives a mysterious text from a stranger that says he might know what happened to her sister. Could Caitlyn really still be alive?
Audrey Baker has never given up on her missing sister, even though she was abducted five years ago. When she receives a text from a stranger stating that he might know what happened to Caitlyn, Audrey can’t help but feel hopeful. She will follow any trail, however unlikely, that might lead her back to her sister, even if that means confronting the greatest threat she has ever faced.
Crash & Burn
by Lisa Gardner
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Private Investigator Tessa Leoni comes up against a case where even the victim cannot be trusted in this propuslive thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author–with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren.
Nicole Frank shouldn’t have survived the car accident, much less the crawl up the steep ravine. One thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help—she must save Vero. If the girl even exists.
Arriving at the scene, Sergeant Wyatt Foster joins the desperate hunt for a missing child, only to learn that Nicky suffers from a rare brain injury that causes delusions. According to her husband, there is no child. Never has been. And yet Nicky remains adamant. She must save Vero.
Pieces of Me
by Shaun Allan
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Poetry is not just words. It’s emotion given form. A place where grief, hope, love, and uncertainty intertwine. In this collection, we explore the depths of mortality, loss, and mental health, weaving personal experiences into universal reflections.
Each poem speaks to the struggles we carry, the quiet moments of solace, and the truths we wrestle with, offering recognition to those who have felt the same weight.
These words do not seek to provide answers but to remind readers that they are not alone. If you have ever searched for meaning in sorrow or comfort in shared experience, this book stands as an open hand, reaching out.
Flesh and Blood
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing…
Dominion
by C.J. Sansom
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Britain, 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against Germany’s war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people suffer increasingly authoritarian rule, with British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill’s Resistance soldiers on. And there are whispers of a secret that could forever alter the balance of global power. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.
Searing Fire
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
At thirteen, Ari already knows that life is difficult. But things become even more difficult when she must leave her village and travel to the city of the king to find her only surviving relative.
Wes is a young soldier, but also a mage who understands very little of magic. In a kingdom where everybody distrusts mages, Wes knows that he must keep his power secret and never attract attention, even when the king sends him on a dangerous mission.
A Thing Immortal
by Barry K Gregory
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When gods bleed on the frontier, a girl’s secret becomes humanity’s last hope.
Ana watches her mother’s murder and barely survives the outlaws who kidnap her and take her away. Now trapped by mystical wards in a mountain man’s shack, she’s lost both her freedom and her hope.
Her salvation arrives in the form of a pale old gunfighter with eyes the color of wildflowers and his companion, a black wolf the size of a shire horse. The old gunfighter offers Ana escape from her nightmare, but she has learned that trusting a stranger comes with deadly risks.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Digital Assassins III
by Danielle Spencer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Before the cyberterrorism, before the digital assassination, before Danielle Spencer – there was Ruth.
In this powerful prequel to the Digital Assassins series, Danielle Spencer takes readers deep into the roots of corruption at the Financial Revenue Service (FRS) through the unfiltered voice of Ruth, a long-serving insider who witnessed it all.
Digital Assassins III: Improper, Reprehensible, Scandals exposes the hidden history of an agency built on cronyism, systemic abuse, and impunity…
Rainbow’s End
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When three women die of “natural causes” in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection – or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
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The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Shake the Devil Off
by Ethan Brown
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Zackery Bowen was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. After years of military service he returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their hard-partying endurance during and after Hurricane Katrina had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans.
But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel. A note in his pocket directed the police to the body of Addie Hall. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city’s history. How had this popular, handsome father of two done such a thing?
The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard
by Michael Callahan
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A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
In 1959, Hollywood ingenue Mercy Welles seems to have the world at her feet. Far removed from her Nebraska roots, she has crafted herself into a glamorous Oscar-nominated actress engaged to an up-and-coming director…
Until she shockingly vanishes without a trace, just as her career is taking off…
Cone
by Amy Cross
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She put the cone on as a joke. Now she can’t take it off.
Polly Parker has a rash. And when she turns up at a party with friends, one of them – who happens to be a veterinarian – offers a simple solution: a plastic cone that will stop her scratching herself.
As soon as she puts the cone on, however, Polly finds herself drawn into an increasingly dangerous world. Having made a bet, she’s determined to keep the cone on for an entire week, but she has already attracted the attention of a mysterious man who has been looking for someone like her for a very long time. And he’s not prepared to wait.
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
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From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket…
the moment we met was a lie
by Kari Wiethop
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The colorful staff of a hedonistic club attends to the unconventional and sometimes humorous needs of their members while navigating their own friendships, rivalries and romances in this contemporary series.
Since Trip is on his way to rehab, Black temporarily takes on both Becky and Babe, the collective’s two new recruits. Their journeys start off similarly but branch off when Becky is taken under Quinn’s wing and trained for her job. Once Becky is somewhat settled in, Black enlightens her on unexplored areas of the household and his personal preferences, cumulating in a shocking explanation of his training method.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story – which includes sixteen pages of photos – with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to be “free and frank and unembarrassed” in the recounting of his life and his experiences.
Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.