Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Among Friends
by Michele PW, Michele Pariza Wacek
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back. If something ails you, Charlie Kingsley likely has a tea to fix it.
So, when Charlie witnesses a young woman faint on the side of the road, she has no choice but to offer her services. (Along with a cup of her famous tea, of course.)
In no time at all, the young woman is back to normal, which is good news, as she’s about to go camping with her friends.
Charlie thinks that will be the last of it … so imagine her surprise when she gets a phone call that one of the friends is missing.
Adobe Moon
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Saddle up and hold on tight
When reality TV producer Jake Huntington hires Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit to scout a chilling episode of Cryptid Hunter, Buck dives into a mystery swirling around an alien spacecraft in the enchanted high desert west of Taos, New Mexico. Beneath the watchful Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where ancient secrets hum in the twilight, Buck’s investigation weaves through cultural wisdom and spiritual revelations. He crosses paths with Elena Tafoya, a wise American Indian spiritual guide, and Kelli O’Malley, an internationally acclaimed artist whose haunting spacecraft sketches have sparked national intrigue…
The Early Classics of Agatha Christie
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“I’d forgotten how much I loved the early Agatha Christie mysteries. Her writing style changed a bit over the years, she became a bit more polished, but the early mysteries are wonderful and entertaining to read. The book contains two novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary.
It is in The Mysterious Affair at Styles that we meet Hercule Poirot for the first time, and it is a first glimpse into the character that took over her stories, as well as television and film.
A reasonable price for this book, and well worth the money. If you like Agatha Christie, you’ll love these two stories.” by Amazon Customer
Swamp Kings
by Jason Ryan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity—by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place.
The most famous man in South Carolina lives in prison. He stands convicted of a staggering amount of wrongdoing—more than 100 crimes and counting. Once a high-flying, smooth-talking, pedigreed Southern lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is now disbarred and disgraced. For more than a decade, prosecutors asserted that Alex was secretly a fraud, a thief, a drug trafficker, and an all-around phony. On the night of June 7, 2021, they claimed, he also became a killer, shooting dead his wife and son in a desperate bid to escape accountability.
Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Exil
by Joshua Hood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Former Treadstone Operative Adam Hayes finds himself at the center of a web of warring factions and high-level secrets in the second novel in the Treadstone series, the newest addition to the Robert Ludlum universe.
After the revival of Operation Treadstone, former agent Adam Hayes has retreated to Africa, determined to leave the black-ops CIA program behind for good. As a former Treadstone operative, Hayes knows just how destructive the program can be, as it turns government agents into nearly superhuman assassins. But his quiet life in Africa changes irrevocably when, while attempting to complete a charitable mission in Burkina Faso, Hayes is attacked by extremists. Forced to make an unexpected landing, his plane is damaged and he is left in a hornet’s nest of trouble…
3,096 Days in Captivity
by Natascha Kampusch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement,and Escape
On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years.
She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was-and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.
The Munich Girl_
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
The Phaistos Disc
by William Pickrel
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THE WORLD’S OLDEST RIDDLE WAS NEVER A RIDDLE. IT WAS A WARNING.
For nearly four thousand years, the Phaistos Disc has guarded its meaning in a spiral of symbols no scholar has ever cracked. Michael’s wife, Lydia, believed it was more than a mystery. She believed it was a map — to a Name the world was built to forget.
She was right. It cost her life.
Now Lydia is gone, erased by the Covenant of Ash, an ancient order that has kept one truth in the dark since the morning the tomb stood empty. They have scrubbed her name from every record, and they are coming for what she left behind. But the one man who can read the Disc is the one they never saw coming — Michael’s blind brother, Brandon, who learned to see with his hands long before the light went out.
Mysteries of Dragon’s Island
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A hidden island. A powerful magic. Eight fated loves that can’t be denied.
On Heart of the Ocean, destiny doesn’t wait. Dragon shifters are drawn to the one woman meant for them—whether they’re ready or not. From second chances and secret children to dangerous missions and forbidden attraction, each story is a battle between control and the pull of a bond that won’t be ignored.
Fate doesn’t ask permission.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cry for Vengeance
by Ernesto Patino
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moments before he dies, terminally ill Karl Muller makes a startling deathbed confession: he admits to killing thousands of Jews during World War II. His nurse, Helen Dobson, is understandably shocked. She refers the matter to Bryan De Luca, a part-time professor with experience in international affairs. De Luca soon learns that shortly after the war, Muller and dozens of former Nazis were recruited by American Intelligence to work as spies against the Soviets.
De Luca also learns that Sam O’Hara, a former immigration investigator, had compiled a secret list of ex-Nazis in America—a list that so-called contractors hired to protect them are desperate to obtain. They’ll stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep the identities of the Nazis from falling into the hands of the JFJ, Jews for Justice, whose sole objective is to kill them…
Guardians of Petra
by William Pickrel
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Some things are not meant to be kept. They are meant to be poured out.
Thirteen months after he buried his wife, archaeologist Michael Dale hasn’t touched a trowel — until a single headline drags him out of the dark. A mass discovery beneath the Treasury at Petra. Twelve skeletons arranged in a perfect circle. A thirteenth at the center, cradling a chalice the tabloids are already calling the Grail.
Michael knows that chamber. Lydia’s notebooks led straight to it — the secret work she was chasing the day she died. So he goes back to the rose-red city one last time, telling himself it’s only to finish what she started.
Death on the Edge
by Sara Paretsky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski is no stranger to the sound of bullets. Growing up in the Windy City, it was a way of life: loved ones taken too early, gangs patrolling the streets by night, police too quick to touch a trigger. Now, in the wake of a string of high school shootings across the United States, V.I.’s hometown has become impassioned by the growing movement to tackle gun violence. News reaches her old high school on Chicago’s South Side that an essay competition spearheaded by renowned newspaper The Edge is calling for high school students to write about how gun violence has affected their young lives. Overseeing the contest is Marcena Love, a British journalist V.I. has tangled with in the past.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
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A perfect murder… until it isn’t. Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Now working as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster, Tina, along with her quirky friend Amelia Pak, finds a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large.
The Iron Tiger
by Jack Higgins
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Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he’s made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he’s ready to hang up his wings.
Unfortunately, a short stop in the tiny Himalayan country of Balpur ends with his plane in flames and Drummond out of luck—until he’s approached with a very strange offer. He must help deliver a sick child over land to the Indian border. It’s not his typical job, but it’s all he’s got. Accompanied by a nurse and an elderly priest, he sets out to make one last delivery.
The Alaskan Lady
by Richard Heard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A young married couple travel to Alaska’s Denali National Park for their honeymoon and face a female specter inside cabin eight. The newlywed couple(Ron and Jackie Boston) travels from Pennsylvania to Alaska. However, the honeymoon quickly turns grim upon arrival. Denali National Park turns into a battle for breath and lives as the wooden cabin they rent has an uninvited lady who escapes her portal to reek utter terror on Ron and Jackie Boston for a murder committed on her 40 years prior.
The couple, and their guest couple and an Alaskan shaman simultaneously become captive inside cabin eight. The owners of the resort know the history of the property but stay button lipped to continue business as the specter holds and terrorizes the folks over three days in the winter snow drenched mountain retreat. Achak, the Air force veteran and air taxi pilot, uses his sage and Haida warrior background to fend off the raging deceased Native lady’s onslaught. Not until the entity’s murder cold case ( investigated by an Anchorage Alaska Detective Robinson ) is solved will her soul be at peace.
Five Chimneys
by Olga Lengyel
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Experience one of the most harrowing accounts of survival and resilience with Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys, a firsthand narrative of her time in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Told with unflinching honesty, this day-by-day account captures the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a woman who endured it.
Lengyel’s vivid storytelling offers a raw, deeply personal perspective on one of history’s darkest chapters, shedding light on the brutality of concentration camps while also highlighting the strength of the human spirit.
The Lies I Tell
by Julie Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two women. Many aliases.
Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.