Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, She Wrote: Gin and Daggers
by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Secrets, suspense, and unexpected alliances…
Jessica Fletcher is off to London to deliver the keynote address at a mystery writers convention. She’s also looking forward to seeing her mentor, Marjorie Ainsworth, who’s hosting a party on her estate to celebrate her latest book. But a routine business trip becomes murderous business—when Jessica discovers Marjorie stabbed to death in her own bedroom…
Beneath the Stairs
by Jennifer Fawcett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In this spine-tingling, atmospheric “nail-biter of a novel” (Shelf Awareness), a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at an alleged haunted house—the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago.
Few in sleepy Sumner’s Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did.
Three Days Clueless
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mylas Grey is determined to find the person who shot a politician in broad daylight. There’s just one problem. The killer left no clues behind. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of MURDER . . . When Mylas arrives in his hometown to spend time with Whitney, he agrees to help his father, a local private detective, examine the files of a politician who was murdered in cold blood.
Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of murder with NO CLUES . . . The wife of the slain politician believes her husband’s murder is connected to his duties as a state legislator, but the police find no clues to his murder and no evidence to support her claim.
EON
by Earl E. Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the far future, mankind lives safe and secure behind the Chronos Ring – an automatic defense system that encircles the area of space occupied by human beings. The Ring keeps out all of humanity’s enemies – in particular, a vicious race of reptilians known as the Parsnaak.
On the outer fringe of human-occupied space is the planet Muse, an entire world dedicated and established as a colossal museum – a storehouse of antiquities and relics from the ancient histories of both men and aliens. There, Ian Lotus, a man with his own mysterious past, has chosen to live in deliberate obscurity, harboring secrets that could reshape mankind’s destiny…
A Hope Most Frail
by Jimmy Gear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Officer Audrey Baker’s life changed forever when her sister, Caitlyn disappeared. As a result, she became a policewoman in order to protect others and to try and keep the same tragedy happening to them. Now she must juggle her career with an ailing father and a relationship with the semi-famous author Ryan Darrow that’s still a bit up in the air.
Not much happens in Griffith Falls, Washington, an idyllic mountain town known for its tourism. But Doug Jennings has come to town with a different ambition than sightseeing: he has followed his ex-girlfriend and her baby daughter here, and he won’t stop until he gets them back, regardless of who tries to stand in the way.
Someone in the Water
by Sarah Clarke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A gripping new destination thriller, perfect for fans of Lucy Clarke, TM Logan and Catherine Cooper.
My only child Lola is turning eighteen soon, but I won’t be with her. For two weeks every year, I hide myself away while I endure the nightmares that haunt me around her birthday.
Because she can never know the truth – that I am plagued by terrible visions from the summer I spent in Corsica when I was eighteen. It ended in tragedy, and I have never forgiven myself for the part I played.
Dusty Trails Of The Old West Anthology
by G.C. STEVENS
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The American Wild West was and still is, a land of endless horizons and untamed spirits. In the early days, it was a crucible of adventure, lawlessness, and legend. Dusty Trails books delves into the heart of that rugged era, weaving together four gripping tales that capture the essence of a time when outlaws, gunslingers, and frontier justice shaped the landscape. From daring robberies to mysterious deaths, these stories illuminate the complex tapestry of the West, where fame and infamy walked hand in hand. Our journey begins in Adair, Iowa, on July 21, 1873, where Jesse James and his gang executed one of the most audacious train robberies in history…
The Early Works of Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.09 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Discover the origins of the world’s best-loved crime writer in The Early Works of Agatha Christie, a compelling collection that showcases the novels that ignited a literary revolution. This volume brings together five foundational classics:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary
The Murder on the Links
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
SIDELINES
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.09 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chet and Tom Ballard are living every fan’s dream, getting paid to attend the Chicago Bears weekend games. It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t by design. It was the brainchild of their Uncle Fran who set a young 14-year-old Chet up with a job with Andy Frain, the iconic Chicago-based valet/security/concierge company, who was subcontracted to the Bears organization to keep the stadium moving consistently and efficiently. Within a few years, Chet brought along his brother Tom for the adventure of a lifetime as they carved niche positions for themselves, making the Ballard brothers an institution within the institution. There were no others like them…and no one could replace them.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dirty Thirty
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Janet Evanovich, the “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), is in top form as she sends Stephanie Plum on the trail of a stolen stash of dirty diamonds in this instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered an assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds from his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same day.
The Third Grave
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The old Beaumont mansion is a rotting shell of its once-grand self, especially after a disastrous hurricane sweeps through Georgia. The storm does more than dislodge shutters and shingles. It leads to a grisly find in the cellar. Three graves. But only two skeletons…
For Nikki, the discovery is a gift, the perfect subject for her next crime book—though Reed has made her promise not to keep involving herself in dangerous police business. But despite the increasing tension between them, Nikki can’t stay away from this story…
The Phantasm Prism
by Melissa Jacobson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Meet Mary Catherine “Mick” Kelly – Death Mage, Pinkerton Operative, and the last person you want on your trail.
As a field agent for the shadowy Bureau of Magical Investigation, Mick rides the energy of the dying to fuel her deadly magic. Every soul she Gleans brings her closer to power but further from peace.
In the summer of 1869, the Santa Fe Trail runs red with blood. Wagon trains are left in carnage, their passengers either slaughtered or driven mad by unseen forces. The Bureau suspects magical outlaws, but something darker stalks the Kansas plains…
Bully
by Jim Schutze
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bully is a riveting, harrowing account of adolescent rage and bloody revenge—a true crime story from 1993 that inspired the 2001 feature film.
Bobby Kent was a bully—a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs … and was never seen alive again…
The Truth About Melody Browne
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When she was a child, Melody Browne’s house burned down, destroying all her family’s possessions and her memories. Ever since this tragic event, Melody has had no recollection of her life before she was rescued from the flames.
Now in her early thirties, Melody is a single mother, living in the middle of London with her teenaged son. She hasn’t seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but she has no desire to reconnect until one night, while attending a hypnotist show with a date, she faints. When she comes around, she is suddenly overwhelmed with fragmented memories of her life before that fateful fire.
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go
by Joy Alicia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
So Drunk A Tooth’s Gotta Go is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds-barred collection of essays that turns life’s messiest moments into empowering, relatable, and wildly entertaining stories.
Stand-up comic Joy Alicia brings her signature wit and 15+ years of online dating escapades—plus thousands of candid convos with rideshare passengers—to this raw, real guide for women navigating dating, identity, and adulthood in a chaotic world.
This isn’t your typical self-help book. It’s a bold, honest invitation to laugh through the heartbreak, ghosting, body image issues, toxic friendships, career flops, and all the awkward first dates in between.
Moonshine
by J.P. McCollum
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hale has known about his family curse since he was six, but he never really believed it— until his dad died four years ago, right on time. At sixteen he has a lot on his plate: asthma attacks, a wrung-out mom, her abusive boyfriend and boss, high school, and questions about his own mortality. At times he feels like he is suffocating, until he meets a blind girl with a special gift whose presence seems to improve his mood…and his breathing. Together they try to untangle the mystery of their heritage, but they soon discover the future might be as deadly as the past.
Fatal Endings
by Anita Waller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nobody is safe…
When the murdered body of a woman is found in a Sheffield carpark, former cop turned private investigator Matt Forrester finds himself embroiled in the case, because the last call the victim made was to him…
But the case isn’t as simple as the drug theft it looks like, and – when a young boy becomes the next victim – Matt and his life partner, DI Karen Nelson, realise they’re investigating a terrifying series of revenge killings…