Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Seasonal Work: Stories
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today’s top crime writers in this acclaimed collection of suspenseful stories featuring fierce women – including one never-before-published novella.
The award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories.
In the never-before-published “Just One More,” a married couple—longing for that old romantic spark—creates a playful diversion that comes with unexpected consequences.
But I Trusted You
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this chilling volume of New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule’s Crime Files, discover unforgettable cases of a spouse, lover, family member or helpful stranger who is totally trusted – until it’s too late.
Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage, the calculating sociopaths in this true crime collection targeted those closest to them – unwitting victims whose last disbelieving words could well have been “but I trusted you….”
Triumphs of Tenacity
by Yusra Mariyam
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Triumphs of Tenacity: From Struggle to Success is an inspirational memoir of resilience, women’s empowerment, and immigrant success that will uplift anyone facing challenges in life.
Born in Bangladesh and moving to the UK at just seven years old, Yusra Mariyam faced enormous obstacles—adapting to a new culture, overcoming academic failures, and balancing the demands of motherhood. As a homemaker raising six children, her dream of higher education seemed impossible. Yet, through sheer perseverance, determination, and self-belief, she transformed her life, graduating with a First-Class Honours degree in International Business Management from Anglia Ruskin University.
Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…
Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
The Blue Rose
by Terry Toler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Wanda Rose is the greatest female jazz singer of her day. How did her husband of twelve years never hear her sing?
Cathy Tolliver, an insurance claims adjuster is processing a simple Christmas tree fire claim. When a hundred-thousand-dollar necklace shows up missing a week later from Wanda Rose’s townhome, Cathy is suspicious. When two people are dead, she wonders if she will be next.
International and Award Winning Author, Terry Toler, brings you this page turning suspense thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Psychological Thriller Collection
by James Caine
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Are you a fan of Freida McFadden? Try these 5 fast-paced psychological thrillers that will have you questioning everything and everyone.
This collection has everything a psychological thriller fan will love.
✓ Shocking twists you won’t see coming. ✓ Mind bending plots. ✓ Short chapters to keep you reading all through the night.
Will you be able to sort out the pieces to each puzzle before the big reveals?
L.A Hologram: The Ghost That Burned
by Misan Akuya
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The ghosts have stopped hiding. The lies have stopped working. And Craig can no longer run from the fire that started it all.
Los Angeles trembles in the afterimage of memory. Paige feels something changing in Manny—his smiles are mechanical, his words too rehearsed. Then she sees the burn scar. The one he swears he’s always had.
Craig’s investigation leads him to the truth he’s spent years avoiding: the night of the fire wasn’t murder. It was hesitation. Two men haunted by one choice—one who froze, and one who watched his world burn.
Gajarah
by Somia Sadiq
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With stunning lyricism, Gajarah tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds – Pakistan and Canada – whose life is upended by sexual violence.
Emahn is big haired, mischievous, and larger than life. Born in the Arabian Gulf, she spends extended summers with her grandparents, aunties, and cousins on the rooftops of Lahore. But tucked away beneath her spirited exterior, Emahn carries the weight of childhood trauma. When she marries and moves to Canada, she quickly learns the art of navigating multiple realities and compartmentalizing memories of the world she left behind, even as she clings to the stories of her home. She is resilient; she is driven; she is unbreakable. Almost.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
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When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own. But a price must be paid for the Landons to continue their powerful hold on the town, and Addison’s unborn child is the fee.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, Relics & Rivalries
by Greta Sinclair
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A priceless WWII antique flute, a cathedral full of secrets, and a thief hiding in plain sight. When an 18th-century Baroque flute vanishes from Christ Church Cathedral on the eve of Nashville’s Sacred Music Festival, PI Hattie Leiper is called in.
The instrument, worth over $200,000, was to be the centerpiece of the festival’s grand finale—but now its disappearance threatens to ruin the event and the cathedral’s reputation. Everyone connected to the festival has something to hide: the bitter assistant organist, the ambitious music student, and the treasurer drowning in gambling debts.
Kill Chain
by Ian Loome
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One man against an army. The kind of odds Bob likes.
When Bob hires on as a bodyguard to pay for his friend’s medical bills, he expects routine security work in rural Washington State. Instead, he walks into a deadly conspiracy that stretches from vegan commune Jericho to the highest floors of Seattle’s Space Needle.
At first, the job seems simple – protect Jericho’s idealistic founder Toby from ruthless businessman Jessup Cross who wants to reopen a coal mine on the commune’s land. But it soon becomes clear that Cross has some other hidden agenda – and he’s willing to kill for it.
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Along Came a Spider
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world’s most popular storyteller.
Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century. The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He’s a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
The Stand
by Stephen King
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A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.
Razor Edge
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The mob has muscle. The cops have guns. Mason has nothing to lose.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe has found peace in Newark, where employment at a homeless shelter provides an opportunity to serve and maybe a chance to heal. Life isn’t easy, but it’s meaningful, and that’s all Mason is looking for.
Until the dirty cops show up. Mason sees them harassing Vinny, a friend from the shelter with his own troubled past. Mason intercedes and makes it clear—further harassment will not be tolerated. But then Vinny is fatally stabbed, and the murder weapon is recovered from Mason’s personal locker.
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Whispers of Kith and Kin
by Kaye Brownstone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Fresh start, fake name, and a corpse that threatens to ruin it all…
Lizzy James doesn’t want to ruffle any feathers. Still dealing with trauma from her past, the cautious appraiser is horrified when an ordinary day on the job turns up a trio of dead bodies. And when Witness Protection sweeps her off to a sleepy Mississippi hamlet, the determined twenty-something plans to pursue peaceful anonymity… until her gossipy neighbor joins the not-so-dearly departed.
Fending off accusations of murder from an unscrupulous sheriff, the desperate woman arms herself with wits, faith, and the support of a sharp-eyed ten-year-old. But as the skeletons spilling out of the closets in her new hometown threaten to blow her cover wide open, she must push through her fears to find Christ in the chaos.
Fever Beach
by Carl Hiaasen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Fever Beach, where the sun blazes, the politics are unhinged, and the characters are as volatile as a summer storm.
Dale Figgo is a half-baked crusader with the rare distinction of being kicked out of the Proud Boys—for being too dumb. His latest bad decision? Picking up a hitchhiker on a rainy afternoon while running an errand.
That errand sets off a chain reaction involving Viva Morales, a clever, resilient newcomer trying to rebuild her life post-divorce. She’s renting a room in Figgo’s apartment and working at the Mink Foundation—a philanthropic front with something far darker beneath the surface.
The Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Death lies between the lines when the events of a dark story start coming true in this haunting modern Gothic mystery, perfect for fans of Magpie Murders and The Lake House.
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she even teaches a course on him. But when one of Clare’s colleagues is found dead, with a line from Holland’s iconic story “The Stranger” left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with her favorite literature.
The police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her diary, the only outlet for her suspicions and fears. Then one day she notices something odd…
To Kill or Be Killed
by Joni Ankerson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A convicted murderer tells the story of the years of domestic abuse she endured that drove her to kill her police sergeant husband.
The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and the like. People shuffling in and out, everyone taking care of their important business with court appearances, document filings, paying tickets, fines and bonding loved ones out of jail.
The Crush of Christmas Past
by Nova Adams
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This Christmas, Isla Greene’s festive cheer is buried under six feet of snow.
Unemployed, evicted, and back in a hometown that no longer feels like home, the twenty-five-year-old faces a not-so-merry life reset.
The one bright spot in an otherwise bleak winter? Spending the holidays with her childhood friend and his loud, loving family. Their charming chaos provides the perfect distraction, but December isn’t done playing dirty.