Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunted House Ghost
by James J. Cudney
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s Halloween, and excitement is brewing in Braxton.
While others carve jack-o’-lanterns, go on haunted hayrides, and race through the spooky corn maze at the Fall Festival, Kellan is moving into a mysterious old house. When a ruthless ghost promises retribution, our fearless professor turns to the eccentric town historian and an eerie psychic to investigate.
Meanwhile, construction workers discover a skeleton after breaking ground on the new Memorial Library wing. While Kellan and April dance around the chemistry sparking between them, a suspicious accident occurs at the Fall Festival.
The Sound of Sirens
by David Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The ancient city of Chester, Friday night, and the weekend starts here. High summer, skimpy fashions, short skirts, tight jeans. It’s a sultry night, and the town’s relaxed.
It’s 11pm and the pubs are closing. The band has just finished playing; packing their instruments away, but the night is young.
A young man enters the still crowded bar. Walks up to the small stage. Pulls out a handgun and empties four shots into the lead singer. One, two, three, four.
He waves the gun at the stunned and shocked crowd. Yelling, hollering and screaming, they part like the Red Sea, and he walks through the valley of death and out into the night, laughing as he goes…
Badlands
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale of “hair-raising fun” (Kirkus) in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found—and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands—lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods.
Silencing Eve
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Silencing Eve is a New York Times bestselling Eve Duncan novel from beloved thriller author Iris Johansen.
When it comes to Eve Duncan, never say never …
Is she dead or alive? That is the question on everybody’s lips. Eve appears to have been killed—that’s what everyone attending her funeral thinks, at least. But not even some of her top-brass colleagues know for sure whether her death is a hoax—a way to ensnare her brutal captor, Jim Doane, once or for all.
The Enemy
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
A Book of Horrors
by Stephen Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world’s best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist
Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fantasy Award, the Horror Critics’ Guild Award and the British Fantasy Award, but for a decade or more there has been no non-themed anthology of original horror fiction published in the mainstream. Now that horror has returned to the bookshelves, it is time for a regular anthology of brand-new fiction by the best and brightest in the field, both the Big Names and the most talented newcomers
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #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.
Sidetracked
by Richard T. Cahill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The author of Hauptmann’s Ladder recounts the true crime story of a gruesome murder in a New York town and a police investigation gone awry.
As the sun rises over the quiet city of Kingston, New York on July 12, 1988, a local transient discovers the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled and beaten to death, with the letters “KKK” carved into her thighs.
While her heartbroken family mourns, and the police work around the clock to uncover the truth, the investigation is complicated by the entrance of the Reverend Al Sharpton who insists that a racist killer is responsible. As investigators struggle to find evidence, Sharpton and his supporters denounce the entire area as a “Klan den” and make public pronouncements that a “racist cult” is operating throughout the area.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dying For Magic
by Sarah Noffke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ella Bloom can see magic no one else can, and it’s leading her straight to a killer…
When Ella accepts a mysterious job in the picturesque town of Gloamington, all she wants is six months away from the noise of the city and a quiet place to call home. Instead, she finds herself assistant to Malcolm Fawkes, a renowned paranormal detective with no memory of hiring her—or much of anything else.
When magic that only Ella can see leads her to a murder, she discovers Gloamington isn’t the quaint small town it appears to be. Five years ago, it was a magical haven until something went terribly wrong. Now the town’s dormant wellspring—the Gloaming—is stirring again, awakening with Ella’s arrival.
Shock Wave
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The fifth Virgil Flowers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford
A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests are ignored, until a bomb goes off at the megastore’s Michigan headquarters—the first of a series of explosions.
The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage and utmost fear. They do. Virgil Flowers has been enlisted to find out who’s behind the dangerous acts, but the answer he uncovers may be the biggest shock of all.
The Devil’s Song
by Lauren Stahl
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Up-and-coming Mission County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor Kate Magda has been given the assignment of a lifetime: lead counsel on a string of murders rocking the community. As the privileged daughter of a powerful local judge, Kate views the case as her chance to show her boss, her family, and the public that she is more than just “the judge’s daughter.”
As Kate delves into it, she becomes convinced that she shares a personal link with the killer, who seems to know intimate details about a tragic childhood event from Kate’s past—an event she’d long been trying to forget. Paranoia sets in, the night terrors return, and Kate has a strong sense that she’s the killer’s next victim…
The Enlightenment Project
by Lynn Hightower
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower.
Noah Archer is a renowned neurosurgeon, with an impressive success record. He has a happy home, with his beloved wife Moira, their two adopted sons, and a dog who’s a very good girl.
But Noah keeps a dark secret, shared only with his old friend Father Perry Cavanaugh. When he was just a boy, he was possessed by a demon – and it was only thanks to the exorcist priest that he survived.
Nightwalker
by Heather Graham
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Classic paranormal romantic suspense from the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she’s collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the table.
Hired to investigate the murder, private detective Dillon Wolf finds himself fascinated by the gorgeous redhead who’d been trapped beneath the victim—and by the single word the dying man had whispered in her ear. Indigo.
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…
What Cannot Be Said
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this rivetingnew historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.
July 1815: The Prince Regent’s grandiose plans to celebrate Napoléon’s recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in a chilling imitation of the stone effigies once found atop medieval tombs. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help with the investigation. For as Devlin discovers, Lovejoy’s own wife and daughter were also murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in the same bizarre postures.
Letters From The Saddle
by Michael Wegner
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In the raw, untamed heart of post Civil War Arkansas, Dewey Slocum is a young man with simple dreams: working the family farm and marrying the Jager girl he’s been eyeing for years. But when his father is brutally beaten and robbed by a gang of thieves, Dewey’s hot-headed brother Darryl takes off after the culprits, threatening to turn a bad situation into something worse.
Worried for her sons’ safety, Dewey’s mother sends him after Darryl to bring him back home. But Dewey’s search for his brother leads him into a much bigger adventure than he ever expected. Along the way, Dewey meets Phyllis, a determined and resourceful woman of mixed African and Cherokee descent, who is on a mission to find her mother—sold away before the end of the war.
AUTUMN HEAT
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There’s a chill in the air, and as summer comes to an end, falling leaves of red, orange and gold flutter from the trees.
Why not curl up in a chair near a warm cozy fire with your Kindle to take in a little Autumn Heat? These eight author favorites from New York Times & USA Today bestselling, award-winning authors will be sure to warm you up during the brisk fall season.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ripple Effect: Books 1-3
by Jeanne Glidewell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Join Rip and Rapella Ripple and the Chartreuse Caboose on Their First Three Adventures Filled With Mystery and Mayhem
BOOK 1: A RIP ROARING GOOD TIME
BOOK 2: RIP TIDE
BOOK 3: RIPPED TO SHREDS
Hell to Pay
by Denise Diana Huddle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two bodies lie in the ashes—and Iris Raines is about to expose secrets worth killing for.
This gritty Texas private investigator mystery is fast-paced and relentless—blending danger, corruption, dark humor, and shocking turns into an explosive ride.
Iris Raines makes a living unearthing the secrets others will do anything to hide. She’s sharp-tongued, armed with a biting wit, and not above bending the rules if it gets her closer to the truth. But this case drags her into a firestorm of corruption and murder no one else dares to touch.
The lawyers are pit-vipers, the politicians are crooked, and a faceless killer knows way too much about her. The cops don’t believe her, the criminals want her gone, and the powerful players behind it all will do whatever it takes to silence her…
My Brother’s Keeper
by Chris Russo Blackwood, Ted Kergan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The true story of a 1984 murder and the lengths one man went to in order to achieve justice for his brother’s killing.
The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenage prostitute and her much older grifter boyfriend—to justice and find Gary Kergan’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its conclusion.
Dark Corners
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Cash poor, Carl rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That is mistake number one. Mistake number two is keeping the bizarre collection of homeopathic and alternative “cures” that his father left in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number three is selling fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead.
Malicious Intent
by Kathryn Fox
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A gripping and powerful thriller – the debut of a stunning voice in suspense fiction – and the first appearance of a tough and remarkable investigator, pathologist, and forensic physician, Dr. Anya Crichton . . .
The only female freelancer in the male-dominated field, pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton will take any work she can find to pay child support and her mortgage, get her new business off the ground, and battle her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old son. Things turn around rapidly, however, when her expert forensic evidence is instrumental in winning a high-profile case—and new work offers start pouring in.
Payback
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Some women get angry . . . the Sisterhood gets even.
Meet the Sisterhood—seven very different women who found one another in their darkest days and formed an indelible friendship, strong enough to heal their pasts and bring laughter and joy back into their lives. In Myra Rutledge’s beautiful Virginia home, amid hugs and fresh iced tea, shrimp fritters and shell-pink tulips, the friends have gathered to embark on their second mission of sweet revenge for one of their own.
Julia Webster’s husband, a U.S. Senator, has used his wife’s graciousness and elegance to advance his career even as he’s abused her trust at every turn and left her dreams for the future in tatters.
Dark Tales of the Strange and Bizarre
by Michael Kelso
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Get ready to enter a world of darkness and mystery as you delve into the pages of “Dark Tales of the Strange and Bizarre” by Michael Kelso. This chilling collection of short stories will take you on a journey through the twisted minds of killers, the unknown depths of the ocean, and the eerie corners of museums and gardens.
From a homicidal teddy bear to a haunting sound in the middle of the ocean, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning your perception of reality. And as you encounter a garden tool that leads to murder, mysterious lights in the middle of nowhere, and the dangers of trusting AI, you’ll find yourself wondering if these tales are truly fiction or based on something much more sinister.
Ghost Creek
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Former bounty hunter Teague Nashville thought he’d left blood and vengeance behind.
But when a wagon train under his protection is ambushed, he’s dragged into a war with Ignacio Cortez, an outlaw chief with who’s ready to choke the territory with fear and fire.
If Cortez wants a fight, Teague is willing to give it. And he won’t have to do it alone.
Denied Access
by Vince Flynn, Don Bentley
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Congress is questioning the organization’s necessity. Interim CIA director Thomas Stansfield must fight for his agency’s survival while explaining why the previous candidate for his job was found murdered in a French hotel – surrounded by booze, cash, and dead men. Worst yet, a brilliantly run sting operation in Moscow has resulted in the arrest of America’s most prized Russian asset and the expulsion of his CIA handler.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Halloween Night Murder Collection
by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Liz Ireland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s usually a chill in the air when Halloween arrives—but in these three novellas by beloved cozy mystery authors Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Liz Ireland, the crimes are even colder than the haunted climate . . .
HALLOWEEN NIGHT MURDER by LESLIE MEIER
DEATH OF A HALLOWEEN NIGHT STALKER by LEE HOLLIS
MRS. CLAUS AND THE WILY WITCH by LIZ IRELAND
Stillwatch
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
With a new foreword by Riley Sager, a thrilling mystery from the Queen of Suspense about a journalist who uncovers political schemes and revisits hidden secrets from the past. I told you not to come…
Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore’s past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States.
The Tenth Vote
by Marian K. Riedy, Kim Sperduto
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
After a client is intentionally trapped in an MRI machine, Attorney Miranda Patel and her colleagues investigate the bizarre incident. They uncover a sophisticated international hacking ring reaching into the inner workings of the Supreme Court. When the cyberattack turns deadly, the lawyers race against time to identify the enemy holding the Court hostage.
In The Tenth Vote, set in Washington’s corridors of power, diplomats, attorneys, tech tycoons, spies, oligarchs, and the press duel in an intricate plot which unfolds like a set of Russian dolls with a surprise final betrayal.
Behind the Horror
by Lee Mellor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen’s greatest screams.
Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein?
Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
The Last Lie
by William Black
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She came for vengeance. She stayed for the truth.
Abandoned as a child and raised by her uncle, June Hollister never knew why her father vanished – until she uncovered the bloody legacy he left behind. He wasn’t just a missing man. He was the infamous bounty hunter Earl Hollister, gunned down by the ruthless Silver Wolf Gang.
Now, after ten years of silence, June straps on her father’s revolver to deliver justice bullet by bullet.
Her hunt leads her to Axel Thorne, a rancher with a sharpshooter’s aim and shadows in his smile.
Together, they track killers through a web of lies, but Axel’s secrets run deeper than the canyons they ride.
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.10 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“The Adventure of the Cheap Flat” by Agatha Christie presents a delightful short story featuring the incomparable Hercule Poirot. In this intriguing tale, Poirot finds himself drawn into the mysteries surrounding a seemingly affordable apartment in London.
As Poirot investigates the curious circumstances surrounding the flat, he uncovers a series of peculiar events and unexpected connections. Agatha Christie’s signature wit and clever plotting shine through as Poirot unravels the layers of deception and intrigue.
Falling Into Shadow
by Mike Palleschi
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
On the moon Novena, when the seasons turn deadly, you move, or you die. As the frigid cold creeps in, the country of Ionia prepares to move it’s people to safety only to discover that traitors have stolen their land. Can they win it back before their homes turn to ice?
This Sci Fi Fantasy epic follows multiple POV characters. Among them are Stem Shifters: people who can alter Space, Time, Energy, and Matter with their minds. Some, like Sophie Song, are peacekeepers, while others have joined the turncoats setting up a high-stakes civil war…
Allure of Elegance
by R. F. Whong
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Luxury, lies, and danger in the unexpected places…
In tribute to Agatha Christie, this modern mystery series weaves together atypical tales set in the idyllic Amish country of Paradise, PA.
Two years ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise. Now, she works as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster and is pulled into a web of lies and luxury when a bold theft targets expensive designer items. Despite her training, she struggles with self-doubt and is swayed by the allure of the opulent world…
The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
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Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
The girl won’t explain where she came from or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
Twice
by Mitch Albom
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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
What if you got to do everything in your life —twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse.