Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lady Alkmene Collection
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Four fabulous 1920s-set murder mysteries you won’t want to miss in 2025, perfect for cozy crime fans!
A Proposal to Die For: A murderous beginning
Diamonds of Death: A family of secrets…
Deadly Treasures: Murder on the coast
Fatal Masquerade: Masked danger…
The House on the Cliff
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A GRIPPING, SUSPENSEFUL TALE TOLD FROM THE HOUSE’S POINT OF VIEW.
Facing mortality for the first time in its life, a two-hundred-year-old house vividly recalls, in its own words, two of its beloved families.
In the 1950’s, Magnus Quinn, a reclusive sea captain, whose heart has been marred by a horrific tragedy, hesitantly agrees to marry Audrey, a pregnant woman with whom he shares a volatile past. As they forge a tentative bond, their relationship is hampered by secrets—one, long-buried, one, still raw—which threaten to tear them apart, along with Quinn’s brooding and vindictive brother Callum, who will stop at nothing to end their marriage.
Ranger Protection
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover thrilling suspense and heartfelt romance in this inspiring series by Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lynn Shannon…
When Dr. Tara Sims is robbed, she fights back to protect her daughter and nearly pays with her life. She’s rescued by Texas Ranger Grady West. Her childhood friend is now a handsome lawman, but Tara refuses to acknowledge the chemistry sparking between them. With a little girl to raise and a growing medical practice, she has no room in her life for romance.
Grady suspects the vicious assault wasn’t a random act. What he can’t figure out is why anyone would attack the single mother. He vows to protect Tara and her little girl while keeping his growing feelings for them out of the equation…
The Wind Dancer
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A hidden killer . . . A conspiracy of treachery. . . And two people caught in the most desperate game of all . . .
In Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a family—and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will need the help of a thief—one he can control body and soul…
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…*
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell…
Too Close to Home
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?
Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home…
John’s Purpose
by Laura Domino
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
ONE WILL GIVE YOU ROSES . When John offered to help a woman at church, he didn’t know he had stumbled onto the adventure of his life. Will he be able to protect her without endangering everyone around them?
Emma’s a scientist, researching to find the key to a cure for a disease that took her relatives. If she wins the research grant she applied for, she’d leave Fulton Ridge and move to a tiny island. Once Emma tells John that she’s hoping to leave the country, each one has to decide whether to pursue the relationship.
Patriarch’s Hope
by David Feintuch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Transpop Rebellion ended ten years ago with now–Secretary General Nicholas Seafort as a hero. With that political capital, Seafort stepped into place as one of the most powerful men in the world. But political clout isn’t all it seems to be. While Seafort tries to stay true to his moral code, he’s being pulled in every direction. His former colleagues in the Navy demand more ships, while the enviro lobbyists plead with him to repair the planet’s broken ecosystem. Patriarch’s Hope returns the focus to the Seafort Saga’s charismatic and troubled title character…
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller—a remarkable debut novel from a blazing talent that will keep readers spellbound
Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangman’s noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murders of a Feather
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine’s Day (and the fact that she’s alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities are in fact homicides…
American Mummy
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
When a series of bizarre supernatural disturbances rock historic sites across the Northeast, Captain Leah Morgan is tasked with assembling the Legacy Operations Command—an elite team of specialists dedicated to neutralizing threats from America’s past. Their first mission takes them deep beneath Boston’s Old North Church, where an unearthed Revolutionary War-era relic has awakened something terrifying: the only known mummy created on American soil.
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(The Guardians of Legacy Mysteries)
She’s Mine
by Tammy Doherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
This summer is going to be explosive for Caitlin Harrington and Sean Taggart!
YOU DON’T BELONG HERE
Caitlin dreams of a quiet life teaching math at her hometown middle school. Except someone is leaving ominous notes on her door. It could be her ex-boyfriend or someone else who doesn’t want her back in town. Firefighter Sean Taggart thinks Caitlin is beautiful…and possibly crazy. When he finds out the truth, Sean wants to help. Can he save Caitlin before the stalker turns to murder?
The Perfect Prosecutor
by Gregg Bell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Successfully defending an alleged baby killer restored Ike Thompson’s reputation as “the perfect lawyer.” But it also destroyed his practice. Now, a seemingly random attack on a powerful CEO hints at a truth so horrifying, it could cost him everything.
The story was buried on the back pages of a fringe news website: a mentally ill woman randomly attacked the CEO of one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies outside its Chicago headquarters. At first, Ike dismisses it as just another disturbed person roaming the streets, but further investigation reveals that the woman was not mentally ill, the incident not an attack, and that it was not at all random.
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(Ike Thompson Legal Thriller)
Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases. Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t. She agrees to lead the race to rescue the young singer before time runs out.
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse – Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
The Bitterroots
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The ties that bind can burn you.
Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.