Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Madness in Maggody
by Joan Hess
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Chief of Police Arly Hanks will do whatever it takes to keep Maggody from losing its mind in this charming cozy mystery.
In a town as peculiar as Maggody, Arkansas, it doesn’t take much to tip the community into chaos. When Mayor Jim Bob Buchanon’s SuperSaver Buy 4 Less takes out a full-page ad boasting the new supermarket’s authentic tamales, gourmet deli counter, and various other bells and whistles, every restaurateur in town fears that Jim Bob is going to put him out of business. So when it comes time for the Buy 4 Less’s gala opening, one citizen decides to play dirty, slipping something into Jim Bob’s famous tamale sauce that leaves twenty-three unsuspecting attendees sick with food poisoning—and one dead.
The Girl in the River
by Rita Herron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The body lay in the river, arms outstretched. Long brown hair swirled in all directions, flowing with the current of the water. Her eyes were wide open in death, pale pink lips parted in a scream.
Detective Ellie Reeves should be enjoying the wedding of her dear friend Mia Norman. But instead of celebrating, she is frantically searching for the missing bride. Something is terribly wrong—just hours ago, Mia was blissfully happy. Why would she suddenly vanish?
Bursting through the dressing room, Ellie finds it in disarray—chairs overturned, a perfume bottle shattered. Hiding in the bathroom is Mia’s six-year-old daughter Pixie, curled in a ball and sobbing her heart out.
White Spider
by Cameron Curtis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two superpowers face off at the top of the world. Between them stands one man – his name is Breed. The Marshal Zhukov, a Russian submarine, has sunk without a trace. The Americans know where the wreck lies, the Russians don’t.
Anya Stein is running an operation to salvage the submarine and its hypersonic cruise missiles. The Spider, a top secret research vessel, will lift the wreck from the floor of the Greenland Sea. Everything goes according to plan… until Stein’s right-hand man on the Spider is murdered. Stein rushes Breed to the Spider to find the killer.
The Nightmare Man
by J. H. Markert
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.
Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks, and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman’s latest novel…
The Fold
by Peter Clines
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A page-turning science-fiction thriller from the author of Paradox Bound and the Ex-Heroes series. Step into the fold. It’s perfectly safe.
The folks in Mike Erikson’s small New England town would say he’s just your average, everyday guy. And that’s exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he’s chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence.
That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door.
The Night She Disappeared
by Lisa Jewell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.
One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”
My Canvas Bag
by Lucas Kinkaid
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mark is a young man born into a bad situation. His parents drink too much, and his family often forgets him. He works hard to hide the harsh reality of his home life from those around him. Mark does this to avoid feeling shame. He escapes the chaos of his family by spending time in nearby woods. Mark keeps a canvas bag hidden close to his house. It contains blankets, a flashlight, cans of food, a transistor radio, things to read, and more. It has everything he needs to escape from his family’s dysfunction for a while. Mark truly enjoys the peace and solitude he finds in the woods.
He constantly struggles with the judgments of others when it comes to his family. It hurts Mark when people share their negative opinions about he and his family. He is often avoided by other kids and usually not included in things.
“The book is very emotional; it is well written, and you actually feel like you’re going through the emotional turmoil yourself. All families have dysfunction; some talk about it and some don’t Mark, the main character, lived through dysfunction no one should deal with, and yet somehow managed to survive through it. Very thought provoking. Good read.” by Amazon Customer
Deep Craving: A Collection of Poems
by Joe Giampaolo
Rating: 4.6 #ad
#1 New Release, Amazon Canada and Amazon Italy (Canadian Poetry)
– An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in the USA, Canada, and Italy (Poetry, English)
– Gold Medal, Literary Titan Book Awards (March 2023)
Deep Craving is Joe Giampaolo’s first book of poetry and is a compilation of 35 poems that are inspiring and romantic and with a dream-like atmosphere. With each poem, the author celebrates passion or tackles topics of social justice and personal grief. With Deep Craving, Joe takes the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions with his raw and vibrant style of poetry and makes no apologies for his dives into the darkest and most remote spheres of the human psyche in search of love, beauty, truth, redemption, compassion and acceptance.
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Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Most Finicky
by Liz Mugavero
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A baker opens up a new pastry shop exclusively for pets—but has to do a sleuthing job on the side when a chef turns up dead . . .
The dog days of summer have arrived in the small town of Frog Ledge, Connecticut, and business is booming for Kristan “Stan” Connor. Her Pawsitively Organic pet food has even caught the attention of celebrity pastry chef Sheldon Allyn, who helps Stan open a fancy pet pastry shop in Frog Ledge. A partnership is born, and Sheldon invites Stan to Newport, Rhode Island, for an appreciation weekend he’s hosting for all his independent chefs. But the gourmet getaway turns sour when one of the chefs turns up dead, and a second one goes missing . . .
The Match
by Harlan Coben
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A shocking genetic match exposes a family’s darkest secret in this gripping thriller from the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close.
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.
Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers.
The Edge of Nothing
by Crystal Crawford
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Those out to save Arameth have a serious problem: their prophesied hero is dead.
Imprisoned and thrust into an unfamiliar realm of magic and fantastical beings, Lex only wants two things:
To survive, and to figure out who he is, how got here, and why everybody wants to kill him.
A mysterious girl he meets in the woods only deepens the enigma, until Lex meets some strangers who may know more than they let on. Lex’s memories begin to return in glimpses, and he quickly realizes that his fate is deeply entwined with this place, and with the people he’s met there.
The Final Deception
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It was one of Kieran’s most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer’s methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison.
Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege and greed. They suspect that those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or else someone is using another man’s madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes.
Wicked Lies
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A pregnant woman is on the run from an escaped serial killer plotting revenge in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Wicked Game.
If At First You Don’t Succeed
For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission—one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell that spawned them . . .
Kill . . . Laura Adderley didn’t plan to get pregnant by her soon-to-be ex-husband, though she’ll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison Frost is asking questions about the mysterious group of women who live at Siren Song lodge. Harrison hasn’t figured out Laura’s connection to the story yet. But Justice knows. And he is coming . . .
Then Kill Again . . .
OFF GRID: ESCAPE FROM THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
by J. P. Redding
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the halls of D.C. to the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, OFF GRID is a wild ride through a dystopian near future of mass surveillance.
In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides.
Dead Man’s Lane
by Kate Ellis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Some paths lead only to the grave . . .
Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since artist Jackson Temples lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art. Some of those girls never left the house alive.
Now, decades later, Strangefields is to be transformed into a holiday village, but the developer’s hopes of its dark history being forgotten are dashed when a skull is found on the site. And when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples’ crimes, DI Wesley Peterson fears that a copy-cat killer is at large. Especially when another brutal murder in a nearby village appears to be linked.
Purity in Death
by J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable—like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging…
The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there’s nothing to explain the man’s sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen: Absolute Purity Achieved.
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
One USCG Commander + One Veteran Navy SEAL = Fireworks from Stem to Stern
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A FALSE CONCLUSION
by VERONICA HELEY
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A DELICIOUSLY QUIRKY COZY MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Meet Bea Abbot. Life in leafy Kensington should be all Georgian houses, beautiful parks and charming tea shops. But it turns out there are plenty of murders to solve for our amateur sleuth.
Bea can’t wait to have Bernice, her sparky teenage ward, home from boarding school for the summer. Little does she know, Bernice won’t be her only guest . . .
Undead Worlds
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Undead Worlds: A Reanimated Writers Anthology is about 22 Authors, 22 Undead worlds who come together to form 1 Wicked Awesome Read!!
I read all 22 stories and I was on the edge of my seat. Would they get bit, would they survive, would they die??? Omg why did this story end?? I can see the book coming out next!!
I knew some authors in book and got to meet more. This is such a great way to experience an author. I was able to enjoy all stories even though I wanted more on some and others I was happy with ending. I highly recommend this book! What better way to find out if someone is alive, dead, or undead!! Enjoy the Apocalypse World like never before!” by Amazon Customer
One Final Breath
by Lynn H. Blackburn
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When investigator Gabriel Chavez had his cover blown by an aggressive reporter, the silver lining was being able to rejoin the dive team. The downside? Dive team captain Anissa Bell–a woman who both fascinates and frustrates him.
Anissa grew up as a missionary kid on the Micronesian island of Yap and always planned to return after college. But she remained stateside, determined to solve the case that haunts her–the murder of her best friend and the disappearance of a three-year-old child.
Influencing Justice
by Peter Kirkland
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A small town murder hides a dark secret…
When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far from his area of expertise. But with no other clients coming through his door, Leland takes the job to make ends meet.
At first, he figures the prosecution’s weak evidence should make for a simple defense. But Simone’s case isn’t as straightforward as it seems, and her testimony weaves a tale of missing young women, racism, and evidence tampering by local police.
A Noble Radiance
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Commissario Brunetti delves into the shadows of a Venetian family’s past in this “gripping intellectual mystery” in the New York Times–bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).
In A Noble Radiance, a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice’s most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the hearts of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.
Return to Brigand’s Gate
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Birch Patterson served his country. Now he’s saving his home.
When Birch returns home from the war, he’s shocked to discover how much Brigand’s Gate has changed. The town he loved so much is gone, and in its place is a den of iniquity.
The Art of Finding FLOW
by Damon Zahariades
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Radically Improve Your Performance, Creativity, and Productivity in Every Area of Your Life!
Elite athletes do it. Successful executives do it. World-class musicians do it. Top-performing students do it. They take advantage of flow to achieve remarkable goals and accomplish extraordinary feats.
Until now, the flow state of mind has been treated as a mystery. Most people leave it to luck. Some leave it to their muse. Others rarely experience it, if ever. They can’t imagine being able to focus for more than a minute or two, much less for hours on end.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Greene Murder Case
by S.S. Van Dine
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age” featuring amateur sleuth Philo Vance – from the author of The Canary Murder Case (Bloody Murder).
Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance—the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth—uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not before most of the Greene family has been bumped off. But that’s Our Philo: The Sleuth You Love to Hate.
The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown.
In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie.
Bridge Home
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Following the tragic death of Egan Firewalker Quartz after only a short marriage, Texas Miz Mike’s stepdaughter, Flame, blindsides her with a vacation in Scotland—as well as an extremely unexpected boyfriend! The vacation turns chaotic when Mike finds a body while out walking—and minding her own business, of course!
Mike discovers the victim is connected to her former fiancé, Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland. An eyewitness claims to have seen Evan running from the murder scene. Evan is arrested for murder, partly because he had refused to hold a same-sex marriage ceremony in his church. That action created an uproar in his parish after the murder victim fought her case in the newspapers. While Mike attempts to prove his innocence, she’s arrested on a false charge.
Mantle and Key Complete Series
by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Half-troll. Half-human. All badass.
Maine doesn’t like her father. It doesn’t help that he’s a troll. As in a literal, lives-under-a-bridge troll.
When her father is killed, Maine returns home to settle his estate and learns that he wasn’t any ordinary troll, but the town hero. And since she’s inherited his Mantle, assassins are now gunning for her.
Grab this complete series boxed set and find out if Maine can uncover the truth about her father and answers to other supernatural mysteries.
Briggleton’s Choir
by Kelsie Deschenes
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The age-old German-chasing-the-Jew tale takes a different turn in this book as the conflicts of World War II are seen through the eyes of a Nazi’s young adolescent son.
To Alfonso, it’s confusing that while he gets in trouble for bullying at school, his father then turns around and becomes a hero for shooting a group of Jews. While General Adelric sits in the seat of respect, he sends his son to a boys’ boarding school that specializes in teaching morals. Knowing nothing besides walking in his father’s footsteps, Alfonso continues to be the school bully and gets into more trouble. Then one day, he meets someone who has many things he lacks-confidence, a joy in life, faith, and an incredible voice…
How will he handle the numerous life-changing conflicts coming his way, including the fact that his new friend is a Jew wanted by the Nazis? Will Alfonso be able to stand up for what’s right for the first time in his life? Will he find his voice?
What Goes On In The Walls At Night
by Andrew Schrader
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Winner: 2018 Red City Review Book Award (Fantasy)
Featured on the Reddit No Sleep Podcast, What Goes On in the Walls at Night is a twisted and shocking collection of tales from the borders of reality.
Satisfy your craving for the odd and unexpected with stories of building-eating children, pants-grabbing TSA agents, and nature-devouring machines. Sit back, strap in, and let this powerful collection of interesting and other-worldly adventures take you away.
The Liar’s Girl
by Catherine Ryan Howard
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A very satisfying and twisty tale.” – Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Her first love confessed to five murders … but the truth was so much worse.
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College—and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
A Hussar’s Promise
by Griffin Brady
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Betrayal and war. Can love survive?
Betrayed by the lord he has served since boyhood, Jacek Dąbrowski, a captain of winged hussars, has just been exiled to a remote fortress along the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s southeastern border—a dangerous no man’s land where reviled Tatar raiders constantly hunt for fresh slaves to satisfy the Ottoman Empire’s insatiable appetites.
But Jacek’s lord, Eryk Krezowski of Biaska, has taken far more—he has also taken Jacek’s only love, Oliwia, for himself. Determined to forget Oliwia and Eryk, Jacek grinds out a new life in the war zone that is now his home. When tragedy strikes and he is called back, he cannot refuse and must once again confront those who have betrayed him.
Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye Part Two: The Aftermath
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
On a cold, blustery, snowy Saturday in late November, more than 111,000 people were crammed inside Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch the Michigan Wolverines play the Ohio State Buckeyes. It was a heated college football rivalry that had spanned more than a century.
No one inside the stadium was prepared for what would soon unfold. As the football was kicked into the snow-filled sky to start the game, long-foretold Bible prophecy came to pass right before their very eyes, causing many to suddenly vanish into thin air. Players disappeared! Coaches disappeared! Members of the media disappeared! Members of both marching bands disappeared! Cheerleaders disappeared, along with many fans in the stands…