Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and… no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Ever since her darling father’s untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family’s spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy…
One Little Mistake
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
They were best friends forever. Then Kate made one little mistake…
Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes.
Social invitations vanish, her business crumbles, even her marriage starts to fall apart. It’s as if the silken thread that has been holding everything together has been pulled and now it’s all unravelling.
And it gets worse. Someone on the list seems to be out for revenge, determined to destroy whatever is left of Kate’s perfect life. As anonymous threats multiply and her son falls mysteriously ill, Kate doesn’t know where to turn or who to trust.
Something to Hide
by Elizabeth George
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.
When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She’d been working on a special task force within North London’s Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he’s assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata…
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now in print for the first time in the US.
For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties of being a vicar’s wife. But one Thursday in June would be her last—the day Dorothea Cassidy was strangled…
Heat Lightning
by John Sandford
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Virgil Flowers hunts a killer responsible for a strange string of murders in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his mouth—exactly like the body they found two weeks ago…
The Deputy & Mirabel
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mirabel Findley is fired from her nursing job for allegedly helping outlaw Danny McGowan escape from a clinic. During a Christmas blizzard, she flees to Red Gorge, Dakota Territory, where her cousin is the sheriff. There, Mirabel discovers Danny is also in town, trying to clear his brothers of a crime they didn’t commit. He forces Mirabel to help, trapping her and Deputy Micah Hansen in a perilous situation. Mirabel and Deputy Hansen must work together to survive and ensure justice prevails.
All Her Fault
by Andrea Mara
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
ONE MISSING BOY.
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognises. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.
FOUR GUILTY WOMEN.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
by Damien Lewis
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces’ operations – Daily Express
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.
He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first ‘deniable’ secret operatives behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bichoned to Death
by C.B. Wilson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Helping a friend in need could get her killed. Can she bake her way through the bedlam of bow wow biscuits to catch a murderer before he strikes again?
An award-winning, dog-loving chef should’ve fit right in the dog friendliest city in America. But, murder strikes on the set of Cat Wright’s hit cable show, Fido’s Food Fest, and what was once a simple rivalry turns into a dog fight.
With her star chef under arrest, Cat must dig up enough evidence to prove her innocence. But, as the facts stack up against them, her only suspect is a ghost.
Can Cat sniff beyond the obvious to fry the killer for life?
Counterfeit
by Kirstin Chen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise – an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
Money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a decent fake.
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home – she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point.
Verndari Awakening
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s 2135 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari – the defenders.
But to God’s loyal angels, they are exiles. The one third who fell to earth at the dawn of time.
And as the human resistance knows all too well, they are growing restless…
Elise Sharpe runs a cutting-edge non-profit, and thanks to a fated meeting with her guardian angel, she’s going places. London, Paris, Rome. Just name a famous city; chances are she’s been there…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
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.
The Lancers Books 1-3 Omnibus
by P R Adams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bounty hunters, detectives, mercenaries—people with a particular set of skills.
Four people with secrets to keep, each drawn to the fringes of human space. Three tales of mystery and suspense.
A bounty hunter arrives on a mining colony, desperate for work, which she finds. But is she ready for what awaits her deep underground?
A mercenary takes an assignment on a frontier colony world where a small group of religious zealots threaten to undo the fragile balance with the colonial government. Is she there to rescue the man who hired her team, or is there some other game at play?
The Lying House
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this domestic thriller, a terrifying home invasion unravels everything a young woman thinks she knows about her perfect home and marriage.
Lisa Taylor has friends, family and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband Jeff lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to go him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, their idyllic new neighborhood the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams are shattered when a stranger breaks into their house, holding a knife to Lisa’s throat before Jeff can chase him off…
MISTAKEN ASSASSIN
by Cynthia Hickey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Amazon, and ECPA best-selling and award-winning author.
When Marilu Hutchins wakes to a stranger in her bed and ten years of lost memories flooding back, she must face the terrifying truth—she might be a hired killer.
Marilu Hutchins thought she was living a normal life—until she wakes beside a man who isn’t her husband and memories of the last ten years come crashing back. Among the fragments lurks a chilling possibility: she might be a professional assassin.
Haunted by her past and desperate to find her missing daughter, Marilu’s world spirals into chaos when she crosses paths with Brad Morrison, an undercover agent whose brother she was hired to kill…
The Beaver Theory
by Antti Tuomainen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Henri Koskinen, intrepid insurance mathematician and adventure-park entrepreneur, firmly believes in the power of common sense and order. That is until he moves in with painter Laura Helanto and her daughter…
As Henri realises he has inadvertently become part of a group of local dads, a competing adventure park is seeking to expand their operations, not always sticking to the law in the process…
Unbreakable
by Kate Lowry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Feeling stuck with a fear-based leader? You’re not powerless – and you’re not alone.
In our fast-changing world, fear-based leaders rise quickly – tightening their grip as chaos grows. But what if you could learn to predict their behavior, neutralize their impact, and protect what matters most?
Unbreakable is your tactical guide to thriving under fear-based leadership.Written in short, digestible chapters, this book shows you how to manage up, set boundaries, and stay anchored—without losing your job, your values, or your sanity. Drawing on decades of experience in start-ups, venture capital firms, big tech, and consulting, Kate Lowry offers a master class in navigating high-control, unstable environments with clarity and agency.