Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Questionable Character
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett’s New York Times bestselling Booktown series.
It’s a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he’s overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles’s newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It’ll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work…
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.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Premium Collection
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“I was enthralled throughout the entire Collection! Now, I should warn that some of the language (particularly regarding ethnic and religious minorities) is offensive; thankfully, the main characters only utter a few. As a member of a number of minority groups, the language threw me for a bit; I would daresay that Christie, had she been a contemporary author, would not have utilized (or, for that matter, not needed to utilize) these racial and religious epithets. I, notwithstanding, thoroughly enjoyed this collection — particularly the stories which I’d never read!” by Amazon Customer
Last But Not Leashed
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All Dr. Kate Turner wants to do is get her life in order before ringing in the new year, but with bodies turning up left and right, she’ll have to trust her own instincts—and those of her beloved animals—to stop a killer in their tracks.
As the only veterinarian at Oak Falls Animal Hospital, Dr. Kate’s life is complicated. She’s swamped with hospital patients and house calls, a long-distance relationship with law student Luke Gianetti (that is less than perfect), and a handsome, flirtatious artist who sets his sights on her as his new muse.
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
by John Steinbeck
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck’s brilliant short novels
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl’s examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.
Lady
by Thomas Tryon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after, mourning dampened neither her beauty nor her spirits. By the time the Great Depression rolls around, she is the unchallenged center of Pequot society—lovely and energetic, but subject to bouts of grim melancholy that hint at something dark beneath her surface…
Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library
by Holly Danvers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A glowing wood stove, a cozy log cabin, and shelves full of books are all Rain Wilmot needs to ride out the Wisconsin winter, now that she’s made her family’s Lofty Pines library her year-round home. But the warm-hearted librarian’s blood runs cold when local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree.
After Benson’s body is found in his ice shanty, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament’s communal “chili dump.” She later finds these same books returned to the library’s drop box, with an enigmatic note from Benson to Rain.
Napoleon’s Shadow Wife
by James Conroyd Martin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
First Place Winner, Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards, Goethe Category
Embark on a voyage through unconditional love, power, and betrayal!
How could an emperor like Napoleon Bonaparte be so captivated by the twenty-year-old Polish Countess Marie Walewska – a rare beauty but of minor nobility – that their affair would last through both his marriages? And if it wasn’t romance that first drew Marie to Napoleon, what was it?
At just eight years old, Marie finds her life forever changed by the death of her father, killed in battle against the Russians. This tragedy sparks a deep, lifelong patriotism in her as Poland is fragmented and divided among Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
Bean$ and Things
by Myla Twillie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Bean$ and Things: Confessions of a Livestream Host Living in a Social Media Digitopia During a Global Pandemic
In Bean$ and Things, journey into the heart of online culture during the height of the pandemic as a mompreneur finds herself immersed in a world where digital life and human nature collide in unexpected, sometimes unsettling ways. This captivating memoir pulls back the curtain on the raw, unfiltered experience of navigating social media communities at a time when the virtual world became our primary connection to others.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Truxton Whiskey
by Michael Allan Scott
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Sara and her dog, Rocko, life in her country town on Route 66 is easy-going. In the Arizona high desert, Kingman rolls along, just the way Sara likes it. She has plenty of time to pursue her artistic passion… until Rocko’s discovery changes everything.
Tangled up with a corpse, an alcoholic, and a runaway buffalo, Sara begins to wonder if there is a secret conspiracy to keep her from painting. Without her dog, Rocko, stepping in, her amateur sleuthing would leave a Native American mother to face the tribal police alone.
Cole Baxter’s Psychological Thriller Box Set II
by Cole Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
INTRODUCING 4 GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS BY COLE BAXTER. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Daniel Hurst, K L Slater.
THE HOLLOW HUSBAND – Stella has finally met her dream man. But is David too good to be true?
THE PATIENT – James thought he’d be safe in this old house. He was wrong.
I WILL FIND YOU – Maria loves her husband. She really, really doesn’t want to kill him.
THE DOPPELGANGER – All is not as it seems. And neither is Jeffrey.
“It’s an absolute page-turner that had me gripped until the very end. I couldn’t tear myself away from it!‘ – NetGalley Reviewer
Little Heaven
by Nick Cutter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A trio of mismatched mercenaries – Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman” – is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement called Little Heaven, where a clandestine religious cult holds sway. But shortly after they arrive, things begin to turn ominous. There are stirrings in the woods and over the treetops—and above all else, the brooding shape of a monolith known as the Black Rock casts its terrible pall. Paranoia and distrust soon grip the settlement.
Fight or Flight
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this season’s must-read for fans of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Janet Evanovich, a woman imprisoned by her painful past faces a crisis that might just set her free to claim the life she deserves.
From the comfort of her beautiful mountain-top retreat, Katherine Winston creates her bestselling young adult series, Girls with Unusual Powers. No one in the nearby small town has any idea of her true identity. To them, she’s just the reclusive woman on the mountain, and Katherine is grateful to be left alone.
The Geneva Strategy
by Jamie Freveletti
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Robert Ludlum’s bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting, ripped-from-the-headlines new novel by bestselling, award-winning thriller author Jamie Freveletti.
On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.
On the Edge
by Wallace Briggs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tom Bradley, recovering from a stroke, discovers a new, inner self who can also hear the thoughts of others in close proximity. In the park where he exercises daily, he overhears a robbery plot and reports it to the police.
The plotters are arrested and the drug gang’s profits, over two hundred thousand pounds, are impounded. The gang’s boss, K, threatens to snatch Tom’s wife, if Tom does not return the cash and Tricia is kidnapped as insurance. The villain escapes with the cash when the police botch an arrest attempt without identifying Tricia’s location. He flees to France but is arrested at the Channel Tunnel and returned into police custody, without the cash.
The Likeness
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene.
The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.
The ACT, DBT & CBT Workbook for OCD
by Ava Walters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Struggling with unwanted and intrusive thoughts, gripping compulsions, or overwhelming anxiety? If OCD is controlling your life, you’re not alone—and more importantly, you’re not powerless!
Reclaim Your Mind with the Three Most Effective OCD Therapies Today
Inside you’ll find powerful, research-backed techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you break free from the obsessive-compulsive cycle and regain control over your mind and actions.
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bridal Shower Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When her daughter gets engaged in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, reporter Lucy Stone finds herself feeling like a steamed lobster while dealing with her future son-in-law’s family – and a summer bridal shower that leads to murder . . .
Lucy Stone is thrilled about her youngest daughter Zoe’s engagement to Chad, a rising minor league baseball player with dreamy eyes and plenty of Southern charm. Yet there’s no denying the whirlwind romance has turned Lucy’s life upside down in more ways than one—especially when she learns about Chad’s complicated background and close ties to Tinker’s Cove. The secrets and rumors are enough to send her investigative reporting instincts into overdrive . . .
Memory in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. It should take more than a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady to make her fall apart. But when that lady is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. Just seeing Trudy at the station plunges Eve back to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized young girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits smiling in front of her.
Trudy claims she came all the way to New York just to see how Eve is doing. But Eve’s fiercely protective husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail attempt by Trudy proves his suspicion correct…
Rune of Thorns
by Kelly N Jane
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For readers who love epic fantasy with prophecy, fae magic, and political intrigue, where duty clashes with desire, and fate is never what it seems. Fans of Wheel of Time, The Queen’s Rising, and The Realm of the Elderlings will feel right at home.
Vengeance has its cost. Now, Rowena must pay.
Haunted by the weight of her loss, Rowena’s path to redemption is anything but clear. A web of deception tears Rowena from Bram’s side, forcing her to learn that trust is as fragile as the throne she lost. No one is beyond suspicion—not even the man who swore to stand by her.
Fatal Burn
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s been three years since Shannon Flannery was accused of—and absolved of—her husband’s murder. But while that legal nightmare had come to an end, the ones that jolted her from sleep, her heart racing, had not. And lately she felt inexplicably jumpy. If only she could train herself to cope with life the way she trained search and rescue dogs, teaching them to deftly navigate disaster areas, water, blazing buildings. . . . But then the crank calls start coming, and that’s just the beginning…
The Warmage Saga: Two complete series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Raven Alby is a girl with a dragon and a mission.
An old menace has returned to plague the kingdom of Lomberdoon and it’s up to Raven, her dragon and her friends to save their country.
But they have a lot of training to do, and fast, to learn how to control not only a dragon, but magic as well
Dive into this complete saga from bestselling authors Martha Carr and Michael Anderle, by getting 2 complete bestselling series—16 books—with this boxed set!
Family Royale
by Avery Blake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
After losing his wife and son, Orin, due to his alcoholism, Dennis Hoke feels like he really needs a lucky break. He sees the Family Royale online gaming competition as his chance at redemption. This is the moment when he can rise to the challenge and finally become the father Orin needs.
They enter the contest together, competing to see which family can come out on top. What starts out as a great bonding experience for father and son soon derails as Dennis becomes addicted to success and his newfound stardom.
Orin begins to question just how far his father will go to win? And what’s the point in winning the game if you lose your soul?
The Cabin
by Carla Neggers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Texas Ranger Jack Galway knows his wife Susanna loves him, so when their marriage hits a rough patch, he supports her decision to take their two teenaged daughters to Boston for a break. But when a few weeks turns into several months, Jack heads to Boston to get his family back.
Packing up the girls and her grandmother, Susanna heads to her cabin in the Adirondacks, trying to escape her fears, her secrets and even the man she loves. Little does she know she’s being followed, not just by her husband but also by a murderer . . .
Parents Weekend
by Alex Finlay
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brnd New Release #ad
From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.
In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up to dinner…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Man Who Could Not Shudder
by John Dickson Carr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery novel
The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen unless the butler leapt and swung on it. Was he mad? Suicidal? Or was he being pursued by something from beyond the grave?
The Perfect Spy
by Amy Martinsen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s got the best undercover crew. But will a sinister secret undo them?
Kate Ross has lost way too much in the last six months. With her mother’s death from breast cancer, an agent she handled killed on the job, and her career in jeopardy, the beleaguered CIA officer’s faith in God seems like another casualty. So she’s relieved to be offered a shot at redemption by managing an innovative team of “mom spies”… until they saddle her with a more experienced man as a babysitter.
Battling self-doubt and a loss of confidence in her espionage skills, Kate directs a smoothly successful first mission for the unit. But just as she opens up to her kind and encouraging supervisor, she suspects he’s withholding key information when the subject of their next assignment is his ex-wife. And the only solution to her predicament may be prayers she has no expectation will be answered.
Lost Man’s Lane
by Scott Carson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster.
When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox.
There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.
Buried Too Deep
by Karen Rose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep.
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD are on Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name.
The Tempests of Time
by Lloyd Jeffries
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Time Turns Deadly.
The world unravels in chaos, and for Emery Merrick and Rhyme Carter, the nightmare deepens when a cursed stranger hurls Emery through time’s shattered veins. Ancient wars, futures drowned in ash—every era whispers his name, as if he was destined to suffer.
A secret society lurks in the shadows, twisting history into a noose around their minds. Voices taunt from the void, splintering their grip on reality. Demonic faces leer from fractured memories, assassins strike from impossible angles, and a truth gnaws at their sanity: are they saviors, or pawns in a game they’ve already lost?
A Deniable Death
by Gerald Seymour
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world—“An extraordinary work of fiction” from the bestselling author (The Washington Post).
The rules are simple. Break up your shape. Hide your smell. Never show your silhouette. Check the surfaces of your kit. Space the movements of your team. Use the shadows. Danny “Badger” Baxter has a talent for surveillance. He’s always followed the rules. Until now, they’ve kept him alive.
The Passengers
by John Marrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this terrifying situation, including a faded TV star, a pregnant young woman, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an undocumented immigrant, a husband and wife, and a suicidal man.
From cameras hidden in their cars, their panic is broadcast to millions of people around the world. But the public will show their true colors when they are asked, “Which of these people should we save?…And who should we kill first?”
Small Mercies
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.
One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
Closer Than You Know
by Debra Webb
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb comes the riveting return of crime analyst Vera Boyett, fighting for justice—and her life—amid her Tennessee roots.
Vera Boyett is a master at cracking a case.
After tragedy destroyed her career as deputy police chief, she felt lost. Moving back home near her sisters, she put her skills back to use as a crime analyst, and now her star is finally back on the rise. Vera’s work really begins to heat up after the local sheriff, Gray “Bent” Benton, calls to ask her for assistance with a pressing case…