Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
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Glutton for Punishment
by Cecile Lamalle
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sleuth and master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to Appetite for Murder.
The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly finds the corpse of a local antiques dealer in the freezer. Despite warnings from the police chief, Charly can’t help investigating on his own. This title includes recipes.
The Alison Brownstone Saga
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Alison Brownstone is half-human, half-Drow… and all trouble.
If you like action, adventure, magic, and an academy-to-adult storyline, you won’t want to miss this bestselling 23-book urban fantasy boxed set. You get 2 complete series that will leave you wanting more!
Get in on the origin story of Alison Brownstone and learn the mystery behind Izzy’s past. Join us for the adventures in the School of Necessary Magic.
Midnight Offensive: Toxic Truths
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One blind date. One deadly plot.
ER nurse Sadie Kline wasn’t looking for love, or even a night out, when her roommate talked her into a blind date. She’s shocked when her date turns out to be Craig Malone, her childhood neighbor and brother’s best friend—now a Homeland Security agent. What starts as an awkward reunion spirals into danger. Craig is protecting a virologist developing an antidote to a stolen biological weapon, but when Sadie crosses paths with a suspect in her ER, she lands in the sights of a terror network with millions at stake.
As New Year’s Eve nears, threats escalate and loyalties are tested. Craig is determined to keep Sadie safe, but the bioterrorists’ midnight offensive is closing in, and failure could mean disaster…
Haunted Waterways
by Sara Clancy, Scare Street
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The La Roux ancestral home may be gone, but the horror it once sheltered is still alive.
Marigold is hunted, tormented by a demon that hungers for her to kill. She doesn’t know how much longer she can resist. In a desperate attempt to keep her sanity, Marigold flees to the rusted remains of a paddle steamer, deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayous. Here, the only people she encounters are long since dead. The ghosts that haunt the boat are possessive and territorial. They keep the demon from entering. But there are many lost souls that roam the backwaters. They are drawn to the boat, to the life on board. Marigold’s hiding place may soon become her grave…
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller.” – New York Times Book Review
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle.
Old Bones
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called “Lost Camp” of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism.
What Happened to Nina?
by Dervla McTiernan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.
Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?
Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up. Nina’s parents push the police for answers, and Simon’s parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits media campaign.
The Price of Passage
by Larry Sommers
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.9 #ad
“An intricately plotted library whodunit that both cozy readers and librarians will love!” – Amanda Flower, author of the Magic Bookshop Mysteries
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Kindle 14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
HOT FLASHES & HOMICIDE
by Patti Petrone Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Three sassy retirees. One dead developer. Zero patience for nonsense.
Welcome to Conch Key, where the sun is hot, the gossip is hotter, and the local beach just coughed up a corpse in Gucci loafers.
Daisy Picklesworth wanted nothing more than a quiet morning, a strong cup of tea, and to finish her mystery novel on the porch of The Barnacle. What she got instead was a bloated real estate mogul dead in the surf, a jellyfish charm that doesn’t belong, and the strong suspicion that someone in their sleepy seaside town just committed the most stylish murder Florida’s ever seen…
A Moment on the Edge
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century’s worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night.
“Edited by Elizabeth George, the creator of the aristocratic Inspector Lyndley, one of wife’s favorite detectives, the book presents a comprehensive overview of history of mysteries written by female writers. Her choices range from women who are well known, such as Dorothy Sayers, Ruth Rendell and Joyce Carol Oates, to some lesser known writers including Lia Matera and Minette Walters. All are excellent, and they provide a wide variety of examples of the mystery genre.” by Amazon Customer
Remember Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the hope of restoring their faltering marriage. The birth of their daughter, Hannah, has revitalized their relationship, but Menley has never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old son. The serenity of the Cape promises a new start.
But when they visit Remember House, an eighteenth-century landmark with a sinister past, strange incidents force Menley to relive the accident that killed her son, and she begins to fear for Hannah’s safety…
Bridge to Desert Desire
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Texas Miz Mike regrets the shattered romances scattered through her life like wind-thrashed flower petals. She resolves to end dystopian relationships by outdistancing the mysteries that seem to stalk her even when she is busy minding her own business. Little can she afford another mystery to sweep into her life and separate her from her new love, Scottish Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland, who is already separated from her by the ocean until she receives her United Kingdom Visa. She flees to the Nevada desert to visit an artsy friend, expecting the empty desert to shield her from murder, mystery, and mayhem. The desert proves far from empty and the secrets it guards are deadly.
The Forgotten Child
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She didn’t plan on falling in love with a broken man. And he never expected to need her…
When Emily Nelson answers a help-wanted ad for a live-in caregiver on a remote ranch in Washington, she’s just trying to piece her life back together for herself and her young daughter. But nothing prepares her for Brad Friessen—a rugged, brooding cattleman and single father whose silence speaks louder than words.
Brad’s world has been turned upside down by his ex-wife’s abandonment of their non-verbal young son, Trevor. Resentful and angry, Brad doesn’t have time for complications—or the quiet woman who challenges him in ways he never expected. But Emily’s fierce compassion, strength, and unwavering dedication to Trevor begin to tear down the walls Brad has spent years building.
Unnatural Causes
by P.D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer—but no murder he ever invented was more grisly than his own death. When his corpse is found in a drifting dinghy with both hands chopped off at the wrists, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre circle of friends. Now it’s up to brilliant Scotland Yard inspector, Adam Dalgliesh, and his extraordinary aunt to uncover the shocking truth behind the writer’s death sentence, before the plot takes another murderous turn.
Hide
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s no use locking the doors. . . .
It was the case that nearly killed him. Now a gruesome discovery in an underground chamber is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. And Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge has only one lead: a young girl who’s been in hiding for as long as she can remember.
There’s no use turning on the light. . . .
Up on the Roof and Other Stories
by Judy Ann Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Up on the Roof and Other Stories” is a unique collection of nineteen humorous and serious short stories exploring the lives and relationships of the young and old. Author and Story teller Judy Ann Davis weaves her award-winning tales to make her readers laugh, maybe cry, but always able to relate to the unique characters and the dilemmas they encounter. A grizzled old farmer, Pop, climbs up on his farmhouse roof to meditate, check his chimney and antenna, and ends up talking to God on his portable phone in “Up on the Roof.” In “Bald Revelations,” Maureen is convinced her husband of twenty years is planning to leave her when he purchases ten new pairs of black socks and starts singing Beach Boy songs.
Promises and Politics, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A small town, a murder, a fraternity, and a tangled web of people and politics
When Senator Marcus Thornton is killed at an engagement party in his hometown, amateur sleuth Sheridan Hendley is drawn into the investigation alongside her detective husband. With a reputation for flip-flopping on political issues, Thornton’s death sparks suspicion. Broken promises and hidden agendas lead to many undercurrents.
As Sheridan delves deeper into the case, she uncovers a network of social connections and a history of infidelity that may have played a role in Thornton’s murder. But with so many suspects and conflicting motives, can she piece together the truth? Is the killer’s motive political or personal? Or both?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Up on the Woof Top
by Spencer Quinn
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing.
At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne’s expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case turns out to be about much more than reindeer after Dame Ariadne’s personal assistant takes a long fall into Devil’s Purse, a deep mountain gorge…
The Zakarian Brothers Complete Series
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The void of space is dark and full of pirates. Edward and Christian Zakarian are about to find out just how dangerous space is. The only thing worse than an angry brother seeking revenge is a woman scorned.
Dive into the story today with this complete series boxed set!
Sigma Force Novels 1
by James Rollins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.
Lady Kara Kensington’s family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery’s curator, into a world they never dreamed existed. Evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend…and that something astonishing is waiting there…
The Sleepwalker
by Ian Blackwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ellie has a problem. The monster in her dreams has come to life.
Dr. Ellie Thompson has always been haunted by her nightmares. But now they’re bleeding into reality. She wakes to find there really is glass in her foot, a knife under her pillow.
How is this possible? Is she sleepwalking?
When threatening messages appear on her phone and then vanish, when incidents she vividly recalls prove to be imaginary, Ellie begins to wonder if there is something more sinister afoot. Is someone doing this to her, trying to drive her mad?
Bullet Proof
by Joshua Harkin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Frank Ranger lives by one simple rule. Justice will be done.
Former Marine Sergeant Frank Ranger is a hunted man—framed for his wife’s murder, he is determined to clear his name so he can be reunited with his young daughter.
Pursued relentlessly by his vengeful U.S. Marshal brother-in-law, Ranger finds temporary refuge in the scorching Arizona town of Namrena.
But when he intervenes to protect a desperate mother and her young son from local thugs, Ranger ignites a war with the town’s ruthless crime syndicate…
Sky Hunters: X-Battalion
by Jack Shane
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bobby Autry is one of the best in the world at what he does. An elite combat chopper pilot, Autry has been tested under fire and always come out on top. But his new assigment might change all that. He’s been tasked to lead a new unit of the elite Night Stalkers, a unit that can outfly the rest of the pilots in SOAR (Special Operations Air Regiment), outshoot the best gunners in the SEALs or Deltas, and operate as indepdently as the most lawless gureillas. The results: an experimental unit expected to fail: the X–Battalion. It won’t be easy. The pilots he has at his command are the craziest, most dangerous, most unpredictable men in the military, men capable of thinking beyond rules and regulations, but men equally capable of breaking them…
The Nameless
by Ramsey Campbell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Barbara Waugh’s daughter Angela was kidnapped aged four, and when a disfigured body turns up that appears to be the end of the matter. Dealing with grief, Barbara establishes herself as a literary agent. Years after the disappearance she receives a phone call from Angela.
Convinced her daughter is alive, Barbara’s investigations take her deep into London, New York, and Scotland. Was a brainwashing cult responsible for Angela’s abduction? The more Barbara learns, the less she can trust, including those closest to her. Will she succumb to an evil so murderous it might not be of human origin?
An Evil Heart
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.7 #ad
2024 SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.
On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning?
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
by Susan Patterson, Susan DiLallo, James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An artist and her perfectionist mother unpack a lifetime of secrets while on vacation in Paris in this moving novel – perfect for fans of One Italian Summer.
A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes – with a giant Pattersonian twist at the end!
Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets.
Laurie is an artist, a collector of experiences. She travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag…
Beyond the Surface
by Trisha McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ella is a middle-aged woman with a stagnant career, an exasperated teenage daughter, and a husband that has left to make a new life with another woman. Her first attempt at dating is a disaster, and in an attempt to refocus her life and rediscover her joy, Ella goes fishing. It is here that she meets Dennis, the older, captivating man that ends up saving her life and stealing her heart. But Dennis has a history, and Ella might just be in for the biggest heartbreak of her life if she can not get her emotions under control and face the demons from her own past.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
High Five
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie Plum throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. But hey, nobody’s perfect! Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who’s missing after arguing with his garbage company; homicidal rapist Benito Ramirez is back…
Sutherland’s Crossing
by Gwen Kelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The swamp rarely reveals its secrets, but today, June 21,1995, a car was found. A missing woman is now lost forever. The cause of death eerily similar to Mary, a nurse who was brutally murdered years earlier. Her killer never found.
Detective Beau Crenshaw must break the news to the young woman’s parents. His own memories of Mary’s death resurface as old wounds are reopened and the past comes back to haunt him.
As Beau delves deeper into the investigation, he realizes there may be a connection between this case and Mary’s murder.
Is this just a coincidence or is a serial killer striking again?
Ten Little Bloodhounds
by Virginia Lanier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Georgia dog trainer’s search for a missing cat leads her to a murdered billionaire in this mystery from the author of Blind Bloodhound Justice.
There’s a lot of excitement down at Jo Beth Sidden’s kennel. A full litter of ten baby bloodhounds is due any day. Though pressed for time, Jo Beth still agrees to do a favor for a friend— finding a reclusive, wealthy matriarch’s missing cat. But soon afterward, her client is murdered.
Now, Jo Beth is looking for a killer…
The Law & Annabelle
by L.K. Campbell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Murder and romance collide in the old west gold mining town of Red Gorge, Dakota Territory. U.S. Marshal Luke Johnson has a mystery to solve involving a phony diamond mine and two brutal murders. Young widow Annabelle Miles may hold the key to solving the crime and the key to his heart. That could change, though, when the investigation leads him to someone very close to Annabelle.
Colorado Mountain Escape
by Jessica Andersen, Cassie Miles
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Mountain Investigation by Jessica Andersen: When FBI special agent Michael “Gray” Grayson rescues Mariah Shore from a terrorist in the wilds of Colorado, he suspects she has secrets…
Unforgettable by Cassie Miles: After trekking through the Rocky Mountains and surviving a head injury and amnesia, Jack Dalton finds peace at Caitlyn Morris’s remote cabin…
Frogs and Margaritas
by Angel Ramon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to Puerto Rico! Home to cold margaritas, warm beaches, cool mountains, marvelous ruins, and killer frogs! Wait, killer frogs? That doesn’t sound right!
Justin, a college student studying archeology heads to Puerto Rico to explore the ruins of the Taino Indians. What is supposed to be a fun expedition turns into a nightmare. There is a dark legend lurking on the island of Puerto Rico. Three valuable Taino relics keep Puerto Rico from being cursed by the spirits of the extinct people. However, grave robbers attempt to make a quick payday by stealing the relics.
One Man’s Haven
by Laura Domino
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Longing for peace and truth.
When Dorian’s bodyguard duties lead him to suspect his billionaire philanthropist boss of foul play, his faith and trust in God must guide him in the midst of danger. The fact that he’s falling for the woman he’s supposed to be guarding doesn’t help matters.
Sharla’s life is falling apart. In her moments of heartache, Dorian shows up to protect her and help her through it. Should she thank him or the absent philanthropist who hired him?
Killing the Mob
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.6 #ad
O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
City of Lies
by R.J. Ellory
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A struggling writer is drawn into his estranged father’s life in the New York underworld in this thriller by the author of A Quiet Belief in Angels.
Miami Herald reporter John Harper is about to go on assignment when he received word that his father has been shot—the father who disappeared when John was two years old. Returning home to New York brings memories of childhood, many of them painful, yet nothing could prepare John for the truth.
Complete Poems And Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A pioneer of the short-story genre, American author Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished storyteller and poet who created haunting and macabre works that are enduring and influential more than 150 years after his death.
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems includes all of the master’s short stories and poetic works, including “The Raven”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “Annabel Lee,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “Lenore”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”.