Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Someone in the House
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An English Gothic mansion transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat—a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together.
But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven’s shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive—unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear . . . and unearthly passion.
Artifacts of Condir
by Tom Raley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The outpost is the most remote and isolated in the kingdom, secluded and unreachable for much of the year. Battered by unforgiving winter storms and the devil’s wind, the outpost is home to a most unusual and unique group. These men and women, shunned by society and their own families, outcasts and criminals, desire only to go unnoticed in the frozen wasteland. In a land ruled by snow bears, wolves, and the bitter winter, life can be harsh and often quite short.
Each winter, the vicious winds drive ships to their doom along the rocky northern shores. These wrecks rarely leave survivors and only occasionally yield scraps for scavengers and looters. A new wreck not only brings a survivor, but also a new threat…
Next
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it’s the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There’s a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
A Fleeting Shadow
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A murderous monk. An ancient riddle. A man willing to pay any price to protect the people he loves.
Nigel Baskervell has faced war, revolution, and plague—and survived. Now serving as county sheriff in 14th-century England, he’s determined to shield his family and closest friends from the horrors stalking the land.
But when a monk seeking a lost relic collapses at his feet and dies in his arms, Nigel must choose: walk away unscathed or dive headlong into danger to solve a centuries-old mystery..
Midnight Bayou
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn’t understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. Ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he’d been enchanted – and obsessed – with it.
Determined to restore the mansion to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He sees visions of days from a century past and experiences sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan’s belief in the ghostly presence grows.
Scuttler’s Cove
by David Barnett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives
Scuttler’s Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.
Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town.
Nil Unlocked
by Lynne Matson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
On the island of Nil, the rules are set. You have exactly 365 days to escape–or you die. Rives is now the undisputed Leader of Nil City, but keeping the City united is tougher than ever.
New arrivals cause rifts within the City, putting the Search system at risk, and calling everything Rives knows into question. Desperate for answers, he teams up with the only other person searching for them: Skye, a new arrival with a mysterious past of her own. Soon the duo find themselves locked in a desperate race to save all the residents of Nil–and possibly destroy the island forever. But at what cost? And who will pay the price?
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Scarpetta, an all-new Original Series, is out now on Prime Video!
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning.
Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, seems like the ideal situation for Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues, Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy. But then come the deaths…
EMP Quiet Embers
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
During the worst winter America has ever seen, an EMP destroys the grid and leaves millions freezing in the dark. Jack gets his family to a remote cabin, hoping the forest will hide them. But the blizzard is not the threat he should fear most.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Treasure State
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box’s Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who’s disappeared somewhere in the “treasure state”. A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that’s the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie begins to wonder if her client is telling her everything.
Deep End
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
This quiet little town is about to explode.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe moved to the tiny coastal town of Brynn’s Haven, Maine, for the peace it promised. Deep underwater, he finds something far darker: a child’s skeleton fitted with concrete boots.
When Mason brings the chilling discovery to Sheriff Donald Wirtz, he’s met with a polite shrug. But as more remains are discovered, the truth becomes brutally clear: Wirtz isn’t just ignoring the evidence—he’s burying it.
Now Mason is alone, cut off from the law and pushed into the crosshairs of a ruthless crime ring. These people play for keeps—they run this town and they will do whatever it takes to keep its secrets resting quietly on the seafloor…
Anatomy of a Scandal
by Sarah Vaughan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some people’s secrets are darker than others.
Sophie Whitehouse has a lovely home, two adorable children, and a handsome, successful husband. In other words, she has the “perfect” life. But everything changes the night her husband James comes home and confesses an indiscretion. Suddenly, her neat, ordered world is turned upside down. Did she ever really know the man she married?
And, as it turns out, James’s revelation is just the tip of the iceberg. He stands accused of a terrible crime.
A Banquet of Consequences
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
Taking the Fifth
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Chattanooga Times calls New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, “One of the best—if not the best,” and this classic suspense masterwork featuring Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont emphatically proves the point.
In Taking the Fifth, a gruesome and very unusual murder plunges the intrepid Beau into a lethal cinematic nightmare. Michigan’s Flint Journal places Jance “in the elite company of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell.” Taking the Fifth, now in a Premium Plus edition, is an ideal opportunity for fans of the author’s Sheriff Joanna Brady books to discover another side to the incomparable J.A. Jance.
The First Wives
by S.E. Reed
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Fans of Freida McFadden and Jeneva Rose will be glued to every twist in this tradwife psychological thriller where nothing—and no one—is what they seem.
Two women live in neighboring beachfront mansions. One posts carefully curated photos of her enviable life. The other watches from the shadows, learning every detail of that life, waiting for the right moment to destroy it.
Hannah thought she knew which one she was…
Tsisdetsi’s Shadow
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
No one escapes
In the toxic ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma, where blood-red creeks and crumbling mine shafts whisper of a poisoned past, rumors swirl of Tsisdetsi’s Shadow—a spectral creature stalking the shadows of the Tar Creek Superfund site. When reality TV’s Cryptid Hunter star Jake Huntington sets out to capture the beast on film, he enlists his voodoo priestess girlfriend, Mama Mulate, and gritty Oklahoma P.I.
Buck McDivit to lead the charge. Guided by advice from locals, residents of an off-the-grid commune, and the cryptic wisdom of Quapaw medicine woman Nadie, the team ventures into Bone Hollow.
Shifter Wolves of Pleasant Valley Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In Pleasant Valley, falling in love with the wrong man could change everything… especially when he’s a wolf.
Pleasant Valley looks like a quiet Texas town, but beneath the surface wolf shifters guard dangerous secrets. When human women arrive with troubled pasts, abusive exes, and lives in danger, the wolves sworn to avoid them find their fated mates instead. Protecting them means breaking the pack’s most sacred rules. Enemies close in, secrets unravel, and forbidden love threatens everything the wolves have built.