Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Squeeze Me
by Carl Hiaasen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree…
Frozen Blackout Collection
by Clay Wise
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Five Bestselling EMP Prepper Fiction Books with 100+ Five-Star Reviews from the Bestselling Safe Passage Series!
“This is the first post-apocalyptic series in years that’s really gotten to me.”
When an EMP decimates the United States, Lori, a former Marine Raider, must embark on a treacherous journey with her daughter across the former United States from Pennsylvania to a rumored sanctuary in Washington State.
The Third Angel
by Alice Hoffman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on earth who will renew her faith…
Shock Front
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
National security is under threat. It’s time to call the Trigger Man.
CIA operator Mark Pierce is the perfect weapon—skilled, focused, and unstoppable. His latest mission: extract a civilian, Roshini Jahandar, from India before some seriously bad people can get to her.
Roshini is considered a high-value asset because she is carrying half of a classified encryption device capable of unlocking America’s most closely guarded military secrets.
The bad guys know she has it and if they find her first the fallout will be catastrophic…
The Vendetta Defense
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the sixth riveting thriller in #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline’s Rosato & Associates series, a lawyer is handed the case that could make her career—and jeopardize her life.
Judy Carrier takes the case of her career to defend Anthony Lucia, fondly known as “Pigeon Tony,” who freely admits to killing his lifelong enemy in order to settle a personal vendetta. Her client’s guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy’s problems. The victim’s family wants revenge and is determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the case goes to trial. Then there’s Pigeon Tony’s hunky grandson, who makes Judy think about everything but the law…
Secrets of the Dragon’s Heart
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
He’s hiding a dangerous secret. She’s determined to uncover it. But love was never part of the plan.
Cameron Sullivan is desperate to escape his fate as the next leader of his dragon shifter clan. Retreating to a tropical island, he hopes to focus on his DNA research and avoid the magical pull of destiny. But when investigative journalist Kennedy Fisher crosses his path, his carefully guarded world begins to crumble.
Kennedy needs the perfect scoop to save her career, and Cameron’s mysterious life is the story of a lifetime. But her quest for the truth becomes complicated when sparks fly between them. Determined to stay professional, Kennedy tries to ignore her growing feelings—even as Cameron’s undeniable charm and protective nature make that impossible…
Body Count
by Ian Loome
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Russian sleeper cell. A deadly conspiracy. Bob is on the warpath.
Ex-CIA assassin Bob Singleton agrees to help out an old friend, a police officer whose career is on the line when a body goes missing from an accident scene. Sounds simple enough. But Bob has no idea what he’s getting into. Because the missing body is linked to a legendary Russian spy, codename Uncle.
Together with the granddaughter of the missing man, Bob starts to investigate. They immediately find themselves in the crosshairs of an elite team of Russian killers determined to protect Uncle’s identity at all costs…
One Last Breath
by Ginny Myers Sain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The perfect blend of Natasha Preston, Krystal Sutherland, and Delia Owens, with a paranormal twist.
Mount Orange, Florida, is famous for two things: cerulean freshwater springs, ideal for free divers who aren’t afraid of lurking gators. And the gruesome cold case murder of best friends, Bailey and Celeste, twenty years ago.
Bailey and Celeste’s murders cast a permanent darkness over sunny Mount Orange. Tru has always lived in that shadow. Now she’s supposed to head to FSU in the fall with her boyfriend, but those unsolved murders—and the death of her own sister—invade her every thought. It’s only in the shadowy deep of Hidden Glen Springs that she can breathe…
Five Decembers
by James Kestrel
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nominated for Best Novel in the 2022 EDGAR AWARDS
NOMINATED FOR BEST THRILLER IN THE 2022 BARRY AWARDS
FINALIST FOR THE HAMMETT PRIZE 2021
This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story – it’s a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. Spanning the entirety of World War II, FIVE DECEMBERS is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Wintringham Mystery
by Anthony Berkeley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Originally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house party. Even better, one of the guests declares that an after-dinner séance would be so much more entertaining than bridge. And it’s all fun and games until a young woman goes missing. Assuming the disappearance is someone’s idea of a joke, the well-heeled host Lady Susan doesn’t want to ruin a good party by calling the police…
Buried Secrets
by Denise Diana Huddle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Danger. Corruption. Passion.
When an explosion unearths human remains—and almost lands them in the morgue—historical preservationist Samantha Jordon and San Antonio police detective Nick Ballard reluctantly team up to investigate.
Since the case is as cold as the corpse, Samantha turns to the cutting-edge science of genetic genealogy to unravel the dark history of a gruesome unsolved murder and identify the body. But Nick is obstructing her at every turn. Then a targeted hit and run and a break-in force them to seek refuge in San Antonio’s forgotten historic sites and underground tunnels…
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(Deadly Secrets Texas Trilogy)
Conspiracy in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In a future where human nature remains as predictable as death, a killer plays God and puts innocent lives in the palm of his hand in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable souls of the world’s city streets. The first victim: a sidewalk sleeper, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of struggle. Just a laser-perfect, fist-sized hole where his heart had once been. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is assigned to investigate…
The mystery of the Blue Train
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.59 Rating: 4.5 #ad
‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ explores themes of wealth, love, and betrayal while offering readers the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit” experience. Detective Hercule Poirot investigates a murder aboard the luxurious Blue Train traveling from Paris to the French Riviera. The story begins when wealthy American heiress Ruth Kettering is found dead in her compartment, her face disfigured and her valuable ruby, the’Heart of Fire,’missing.
The novel demonstrates that, despite the glamor of high society, human emotions like love, betrayal, and greed can lead to tragedy.
Homemade Sin
by Mary Kay Andrews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the third book in this acclaimed series, Callahan Garrity runs afoul of her own family when she insists on investigating the carjacking death of the cousin she idolized.
Some people might call Callahan Garrity nosy, but she prefers to think of her tendency toward snooping as a healthy interest in the truth. So when news of her cousin Patti’s death reaches her, Callahan shakes off her House Mouse cleaning uniform to don her detective’s cap. It’s not that she doesn’t have confidence in the Atlanta police—she used to be among their ranks—it’s just that the crime seems too incongruous with Patti’s suburban life to be an accident.
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #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…
A Wicked Snow
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Hannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug up—one of them her mother’s. The killer was never found….
Twenty years later Hannah is a talented CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with unfinished business is on the hunt. And an anonymous message turns Hannah’s blood cold: Your Mom called . . .
The Cat Next Door
by Marian Babson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a scandalous murder trial. Cousin Chloe stands accused of stabbing her identical twin sister, Claudia, and Margot’s well-to-do relatives are, understandably, a mess—that is to say, even more dysfunctional than usual. One is eating compulsively to cope with the stress; Claudia’s teenage daughter is hiding out in her bedroom; the paparazzi are hounding everyone; and all the while Chloe won’t speak a word to the police, lawyers, or doctors. No wonder the household’s pet Abyssinian, Tikki, has gone to stay with the neighbors.
The Housemaid Is Watching
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.
Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chills…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on Oak Street
by I. M. Foster
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York, 1904. After two years as a coroner’s physician for the city of New York, Daniel O’Halleran is more frustrated than ever. What’s the point when the authorities consistently brush aside his findings for the sake of expediency? So when his fiancée leaves him standing at the altar on their wedding day, he takes it as a sign that it’s time to move on and eagerly accepts an offer to assist the local coroner in the small Long Island village of Patchogue.
Though the coroner advises him life on Long Island is far more subdued than that of the city, Daniel hasn’t been there a month when the pretty librarian, Kathleen Brissedon, asks him to look into a two-year-old murder case that took place in the city. Oddly enough, the case she’s referring to was the first one he ever worked on, and the verdict never sat right with him…
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(A South Shore Mysteries)
Between Sisters
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The renowned author of The Women vividly explores the intricate bonds of sisterhood and family.
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.
The Lantern Men
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind.
Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer north Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried—but only if Ruth will do the digging…
Too Old To Die
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Gareth Weston feels old. After a lifetime as a soldier, he’s retired to a quiet part of Earth where he expects to live out the rest of his days in quiet tranquility. With the universe at peace, he experiences a sense of uselessness.
Long hikes in the woods only go so far in keeping him busy and active. But sometimes, fate isn’t content to allow obscurity to set in. When a mysterious force descends upon Earth, Gareth learns how battered his body has become. What starts off as a threat to his small community swiftly escalates as the invaders obliterate major cities…
Gotham High Kindle & comiXology
by Melissa De La Cruz, Thomas Pitilli
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex and Eliza and The Witches of East End comes a reimagining of Gotham for a new generation of readers. Before they became Batman, Catwoman, and The Joker, Bruce, Selina, and Jack were high schoolers who would do whatever it took-even destroy the ones they love-to satisfy their own motives.
After being kicked out of his boarding school, 17-year-old Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City to find that nothing is as he left it. What once was his family home is now an empty husk, lonely but haunted by the memory of his parents’ murder. Selina Kyle, once the innocent girl next door, now rules over Gotham High School with a dangerous flair, aided by the class clown, Jack Napier…
Night Passage
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse.
Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption—replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman…
The Cases Nobody Wanted
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Winner of the Silver Medal for Mystery – Detective books from the 2023 Global Book Awards
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.
Dead in the Dark
by Stephen Booth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
How do you prove a murder without a body?
Ten years ago, Reece Bower was accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette Bower’s remains, and the case against him collapsed.
But now memories of the original investigation have been resurrected for Detective Inspector Ben Cooper—because Reece Bower himself has disappeared, and his new wife wants answers.
Murder Uncorked
by Maddie Day
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As the manager of Vino y Vida Wine Bar in Colinas, Cecelia “Cece” Barton’s first Alexander Valley harvest is a whirlwind of activity. Her twin sister, Allie Halstead, who owns a nearby Victorian bed & breakfast, is accustomed to the hustle and bustle of peak tourist season. But Cece barely has a moment to enjoy her new home in between worrying about her estranged college-age daughter, juggling her responsibilities at the bar, and navigating the sticky politics of the local wine association. Just when it seems things can’t grow any more intense, Colinas is rocked by a murder within the wine community . . . and Cece is identified as a possible suspect!
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
The Cowboy Way: Stories of the Old West
by Elmer Kelton
Kindle $14.13 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling the highs and lows of cowboy life in these sixteen stories, collected together for the first time.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Hopes and Slippery Slopes
by Trixie Silvertale
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A dangerous race. The peal of wedding bells. Will this psychic sleuth catch a bouquet or a bullet?
Mitzy Moon finally has a chance to spend a normal, murder-free day with family. And she’s super-excited to support her legendary snowmobile racer dad as he’s honored for his place in the record books. But instead of a celebration on the podium, she finds a corpse under the snow… #ad
Warlords & War Machines: The Complete Series
by David Beers, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
WARLORDS & WAR MACHINES: THE COMPLETE MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION EPIC
TWO LEGENDARY SAGAS. TWELVE COMPLETE NOVELS. ONE MASSIVE COLLECTION.
From humanity’s last stand against cosmic extinction to an empire’s brutal hunt for a singular warrior, this epic collection delivers over one million words of pulse-pounding military science fiction action.
His orders were clear: kill the rebels. His conscience said otherwise.
Unsigned Card Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s a hoot-and-a-half when Rik Patience—who has no patience—sets out to discover why a “hot” guy at her church refuses to sign the pastor’s birthday card and ends up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
Rik engages the over-sixties members of the Closure Club book reading and mystery-solving group—who refuse to let the grey streaks in their hair define them—in her quest to answer the question—why does her secret heartthrob refuse to sign anything? Is he in witness protection, or is he a criminal?
V2
by Robert Harris
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny on the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect…
Bunker Dogs
by Gage Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Don’t just fear what you’re hiding from, fear what you’re hiding with.
Cassie’s night of babysitting goes to hell when bombs explode in the distance, planes fly overhead at low altitudes, and alerts on her phone tell her to seek shelter. Luckily, the boy she babysits tells her his father has a bunker in the yard.
When they make their way to this underground shelter, they soon discover they aren’t alone. Something is living in the bunker, lurking in the walls, and it’s hungry.
The Majipoor Cycle Boxed Set
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first three novels in the acclaimed sci-fi fantasy series from the award-winning author: “An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction” (The New York Times Book Review).
In the first three books of the Majipoor Cycle, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg delivered a vast and vividly imagined world full of epic adventure, court intrigue, and high drama. In Lord Valentine’s Castle, an amnesiac wanderer receives dreams of his true destiny as ruler of the planet Majipoor. In Majipoor Chronicles, the planet’s bloodthirsty history is revealed through tales of rulers and thieves. And in the final novel, Valentine Pontifex, Valentine faces the threat of civil war as well as conspiracy within his court.
The Coffin Maker’s Son
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Luke Brenner had plans to spend his days with Laura by his side, building a life built on love and dreams. But all it took was one cruel moment for those dreams to shatter. Laura vanished without a trace.
The townsfolk say she ran off, troubled by ghosts of her past. But Luke knows better. When another young woman disappears and turns up barely clinging to life, Luke’s worst fears take shape. Laura didn’t leave on her own.
Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty.
Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust.
Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
Private Moscow
by James Patterson
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell.
But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark.In the aftermath of the murder, the victim’s wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world’s largest investigation agency. What he discovers shakes him to his core. Jack identifies another murder in Moscow…