Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Delivery
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Fall is the theme on board the Siren of the Seas after Andy wagers with a rival cruise director from another ship. It’s all fun and games until somebody turns up dead.
It’s all hands on deck as Andy and his entertainment staff jump through hoops to ensure they win the bet. But it’s not all fun and games when a crew member dies, and to make matters worse it’s Danielle’s new cabin mate.
The woman’s death is suspicious, and when an intruder sneaks into Danielle’s cabin, Millie fears for her friend’s safety. After discovering that the crew member had been receiving mysterious packages, Millie is convinced they hold the key to solving the case.
Let’s Play Dead
by Elena Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t speak. Don’t move. Don’t even breathe.
After a whirlwind romance, widow Lisa thinks she’s found her perfect match in senior policeman Alex. He’s everything she needs—a devoted husband and caring stepfather to her daughter Bella.
And, like Lisa, he knows what it is to lose someone precious. Alex suffered his own bereavement when his previous partner, Polly, passed away.
But is he really Mr. Right?
Child of a Swan
by David Burnett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Rejecting her father’s master plan for her life, sixteen-year old Alyssia Barrett faces the world alone. Lyssa, it is your destiny.
Her father did not use those exact words, but he might as well have. Lyssa Barrett was born into a family of writers.
Few authors have landed more titles on national bestseller lists than has her father. Her oldest brother walks in his father’s footsteps, her second brother is a published poet, and the third a Broadway playwright. The four men, the “Barrett Band,” as they are called, are a force in American literary circles, the “first family of American letters.” And Lyssa is meant to join them.
The Darkest Evening of the Year
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.
With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he’s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fear—and of enduring devotion.
The Light They Tried To Kill
by T.K. Chapin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They silenced the witness. Now they’re coming for the reporter who found the light.
Reporter John Quinby doesn’t chase hope – he chases headlines. But when a high-profile “suicide” doesn’t add up, his search for answers uncovers a secret that powerful enemies will do anything to keep buried.
The deeper he digs, the more dangerous it gets – and the more it forces him to confront the one thing he’s spent his life avoiding: the truth about God.
The Light They Tried to Kill is a fast-paced Christian mystery-thriller about faith under fire, the cost of truth, and the power of a light that darkness can’t overcome.
Now You See Me
by Leah Cupps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Whitley isn’t afraid of anything. Except her husband.
Whitley Crossland dreams of a better life while working her humdrum job in a shoe store.
And her prayers are answered when she meets Roman. Charming, seductive, wealthy, he seems like her perfect man.
After a whirlwind romance, they marry, and Whitley settles down to enjoy her wonderful new life.
But there’s a problem – Roman is not who he pretends to be. And as his carefully constructed façade begins to crumble, Whitley realizes she is living with a stranger, a man she soon learns to fear.
Fevre Dream
by George R. R. Martin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh’s concern – no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare – and humankind’s most impossible dream.
The Winter People
by Jennifer McMahon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished…
Rancher Wolves
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you love reading about wolf-shifters that are strong enough to save their mates from trouble, then you’ve come to the right place. These men will get themselves into trouble, get fake married, even get their mates pregnant. But can they fight off all danger to finally find love?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Sacred Bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony.” – Booklist
An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman.
Sergeant Jim Chee’s vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He’s on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier.
An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A daring escape plan. Jump into the ultimate race against time in this gripping new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.
Two deaths. Continents apart. A shocking murder in the most luxurious city on earth.
An unexpected death that sends shockwaves through the British establishment. To the world they’re unconnected. But to a master criminal, they’re the key to revenge. Can the Met’s finest detective connect the dots before it’s too late?
The Girl from Moscow’s Edge
by Nadya Frank
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Stealing from the Russian mob is Zoya’s only chance to support her little brother – until someone kills her accomplice.
With Russia’s sexist law banning women from working as auto mechanics, Zoya Volkova turns to small-time cons. But luring gullible drivers into staged crashes and car repair scams doesn’t bring in enough to rescue her little brother from their toxic mother or build a life away from Moscow’s underworld.
Out of options and desperate, Zoya agrees to take part in a heist dangerous enough to cost her life. When the mastermind behind the job is murdered, she must figure out whether it was the crime boss they were targeting—or one of their own. If she doesn’t get to the truth fast, she’ll be the next to die…
The Book of Skulls
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin).
After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death.
The Woman in Room 9
by Tim Adler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Waking up is when the nightmare begins.
Susan Gummer wakes from a coma to find herself in a remote hospital with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. The first thing she’s told is she’s an infamous murder suspect.
Ten years ago, Jamie Mawdsley, heir to a vast healthcare empire, was killed. Susan was seen fleeing the scene, covered in blood, only to be struck by a car and trapped in unconsciousness.
There are no other suspects.
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Winner of the Silver Medal for Mystery – Detective books from the 2024 Global Book Awards
The Homefront, summer 1943, Brooklyn, New York.
Smalley Pauley is missing. His brother, gangster Guido Bonasccoro, hires reluctant O’Shaughnessy Detective Agency partners Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino to find him.
A year after Vic Marino walked into the O’Shaughnessy detective agency office and told Maeve he was going to help her make a go of an agency on the brink of collapse, they have managed to keep it going thanks to the challenging murder case they solved the previous year. This second year provides newer, darker, more dangerous cases as they find themselves caught in the middle of a gangster turf war and forced to do risky work for G-men.
The Silent Wife
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder.
THE FOREVER COTTAGE
by Nan Adel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Have you ever thought it would be fun to travel back in time temporarily, or maybe permanently? How would it feel to meet and get to know your long-gone ancestors? Or walk through historic homes that are now brand new. Or just experience how people lived long ago, not just read about the famous in history books.
Something like that unexpectedly happened to Brian and Lisa. During the night of September 9, 1999, in their separate rooms, they both had a dream about falling. In the morning, they woke up in the year 1865. Was it destiny, a miracle, an accident, or a curse?