Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Delivery
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Fall is the theme on board the Siren of the Seas after Andy wagers with a rival cruise director from another ship. It’s all fun and games until somebody turns up dead.
It’s all hands on deck as Andy and his entertainment staff jump through hoops to ensure they win the bet. But it’s not all fun and games when a crew member dies, and to make matters worse it’s Danielle’s new cabin mate.
The woman’s death is suspicious, and when an intruder sneaks into Danielle’s cabin, Millie fears for her friend’s safety. After discovering that the crew member had been receiving mysterious packages, Millie is convinced they hold the key to solving the case.
Let’s Play Dead
by Elena Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t speak. Don’t move. Don’t even breathe.
After a whirlwind romance, widow Lisa thinks she’s found her perfect match in senior policeman Alex. He’s everything she needs—a devoted husband and caring stepfather to her daughter Bella.
And, like Lisa, he knows what it is to lose someone precious. Alex suffered his own bereavement when his previous partner, Polly, passed away.
But is he really Mr. Right?
Child of a Swan
by David Burnett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Rejecting her father’s master plan for her life, sixteen-year old Alyssia Barrett faces the world alone. Lyssa, it is your destiny.
Her father did not use those exact words, but he might as well have. Lyssa Barrett was born into a family of writers.
Few authors have landed more titles on national bestseller lists than has her father. Her oldest brother walks in his father’s footsteps, her second brother is a published poet, and the third a Broadway playwright. The four men, the “Barrett Band,” as they are called, are a force in American literary circles, the “first family of American letters.” And Lyssa is meant to join them.
The Darkest Evening of the Year
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.
With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he’s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fear—and of enduring devotion.
The Light They Tried To Kill
by T.K. Chapin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They silenced the witness. Now they’re coming for the reporter who found the light.
Reporter John Quinby doesn’t chase hope – he chases headlines. But when a high-profile “suicide” doesn’t add up, his search for answers uncovers a secret that powerful enemies will do anything to keep buried.
The deeper he digs, the more dangerous it gets – and the more it forces him to confront the one thing he’s spent his life avoiding: the truth about God.
The Light They Tried to Kill is a fast-paced Christian mystery-thriller about faith under fire, the cost of truth, and the power of a light that darkness can’t overcome.
Now You See Me
by Leah Cupps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Whitley isn’t afraid of anything. Except her husband.
Whitley Crossland dreams of a better life while working her humdrum job in a shoe store.
And her prayers are answered when she meets Roman. Charming, seductive, wealthy, he seems like her perfect man.
After a whirlwind romance, they marry, and Whitley settles down to enjoy her wonderful new life.
But there’s a problem – Roman is not who he pretends to be. And as his carefully constructed façade begins to crumble, Whitley realizes she is living with a stranger, a man she soon learns to fear.
Fevre Dream
by George R. R. Martin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet; nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York’s reasons for traversing the powerful Mississippi are to be none of Marsh’s concern – no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious York’s actions may prove. Not until the maiden voyage of Fevre Dream does Marsh realize that he has joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare – and humankind’s most impossible dream.
The Winter People
by Jennifer McMahon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished…
Rancher Wolves
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you love reading about wolf-shifters that are strong enough to save their mates from trouble, then you’ve come to the right place. These men will get themselves into trouble, get fake married, even get their mates pregnant. But can they fight off all danger to finally find love?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Sacred Bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony.” – Booklist
An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman.
Sergeant Jim Chee’s vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He’s on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier.
An Eye for an Eye
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A daring escape plan. Jump into the ultimate race against time in this gripping new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.
Two deaths. Continents apart. A shocking murder in the most luxurious city on earth.
An unexpected death that sends shockwaves through the British establishment. To the world they’re unconnected. But to a master criminal, they’re the key to revenge. Can the Met’s finest detective connect the dots before it’s too late?
The Girl from Moscow’s Edge
by Nadya Frank
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Stealing from the Russian mob is Zoya’s only chance to support her little brother – until someone kills her accomplice.
With Russia’s sexist law banning women from working as auto mechanics, Zoya Volkova turns to small-time cons. But luring gullible drivers into staged crashes and car repair scams doesn’t bring in enough to rescue her little brother from their toxic mother or build a life away from Moscow’s underworld.
Out of options and desperate, Zoya agrees to take part in a heist dangerous enough to cost her life. When the mastermind behind the job is murdered, she must figure out whether it was the crime boss they were targeting—or one of their own. If she doesn’t get to the truth fast, she’ll be the next to die…
The Book of Skulls
by Robert Silverberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin).
After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death.
The Woman in Room 9
by Tim Adler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Waking up is when the nightmare begins.
Susan Gummer wakes from a coma to find herself in a remote hospital with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. The first thing she’s told is she’s an infamous murder suspect.
Ten years ago, Jamie Mawdsley, heir to a vast healthcare empire, was killed. Susan was seen fleeing the scene, covered in blood, only to be struck by a car and trapped in unconsciousness.
There are no other suspects.
Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #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.
The Silent Wife
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder.
THE FOREVER COTTAGE
by Nan Adel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Have you ever thought it would be fun to travel back in time temporarily, or maybe permanently? How would it feel to meet and get to know your long-gone ancestors? Or walk through historic homes that are now brand new. Or just experience how people lived long ago, not just read about the famous in history books.
Something like that unexpectedly happened to Brian and Lisa. During the night of September 9, 1999, in their separate rooms, they both had a dream about falling. In the morning, they woke up in the year 1865. Was it destiny, a miracle, an accident, or a curse?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cleave the Sparrow
by Jonathan Katz
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Wilder Crick, the worst presidential candidate in history, is dead.
Now his reluctant apprentice Tom and ruthless campaign manager Shelly must carry out his final order – a bizarre, posthumous search for the true, hidden nature of reality.
“Some books tell a story,” writes Literary Titan’s Priscilla Evans. “Others drag you into a chaotic, unrelenting experience that scrambles your brain and leaves you questioning everything. Cleave The Sparrow is for people who enjoy satire so sharp it draws blood, philosophy so deep it makes your head hurt, and humor so dark you feel guilty laughing.”
What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust
by Alan Bradley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine’s main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia’s hackles, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhem.
When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead after a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family’s longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn’t it she who’d picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelet, and served it to Greyleigh moments before his death?
After That Night
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After that night, everything changed . . .
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.
Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who’s been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper’s assault is uncannily linked to Sara’s.
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 Order
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father’s loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the night of the pope’s death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to Gabriel.
The Cases Nobody Wanted
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
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.
The Things We Do for Love
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes a poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.
Unspoken
by Jann Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Farm Devastated. A Dream Destroyed. A Family Scattered. And One Texas Girl Determined to Salvage the Wreckage.
Ruby Lee Becker can’t breathe. It’s 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice —one her mother, Willa Mae, will forever regret.
To survive, Ruby is forced to leave the only place she’s ever known. Far from home in Waco, and worried her mother has abandoned her, she’s determined to get back.
Rhyme, Riddle, and Romance
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
She’s a grumpy faerie with a failing bakery and one very inept employee… too bad she can’t fire him. He’s a fastidious werewolf with a fondness for feng shui and one very sloppy boss… too bad he can’t quit.
When Sophie inherits the Rhyme ’N Riddle Bakeshop from an elderly relation, it’s a dream come true for the faerie with the magic touch for baking. Even when she discovers she must employ her auntie’s former companion, Sophie figures it’s a small price to pay… until she meets him.
Handsome-as-a-Norse-god Teddy has never seen the inside of a kitchen. The ridiculous werewolf sneezes at dust bunnies and would rather clean floors than bake cookies. What was her auntie thinking?
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
by Karin Smirnoff
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns in this chilling new installment of the multi-million-copy bestselling Millennium series.
Sweden’s far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise between a global corporation shamelessly exploiting the area’s natural resources and wary locals who have scores to settle. A bomb blasts apart a crucial bridge. Soon after, a young journalist is found murdered.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Minute to Midnight
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped — and likely killed — thirty years ago. After a lifetime of torturous uncertainty, Atlee’s unresolved anger finally gets the better of her on the job, and she finds she has to deal with the demons of her past if she wants to remain with the FBI.
Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum head back to Atlee’s rural hometown in Georgia to see what they can uncover about the traumatic night Mercy was taken and Pine was almost killed. But soon after Atlee begins her investigation, a local woman is found ritualistically murdered, her face covered with a wedding veil — and the first killing is quickly followed by a second bizarre murder.
The Wrights, Books 1-3
by Robin Patchen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The other Wright brothers: Danger, romance, and resilience collide in this thrilling boxset that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
A bodyguard confronting the shadows of her traumatic past. A mother racing against time to protect her children from a vengeful killer. High school sweethearts rekindling their bond while fleeing for their lives. These stories weave together themes of courage, justice, and the enduring power of love. With relentless enemies, heart-pounding twists, and unforgettable heroes and heroines, this collection delivers the perfect blend of suspense and emotional depth.
COURAGE IN THE SHADOWS
A MOUNTAIN TOO STEEP
ESCAPING WITH YOU
Just Another Missing Person
by Gillian McAllister
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice.
Not everyone who is lost should be found…
Twenty-two-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again…
Sweet Revenge
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth.
For ten years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents’ fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to make her famous father pay. She will take possession of the one thing he values above all others—The Sun and the Moon, a fabled necklace beyond price…
The Mephisto Club
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.
On top of Beacon Hill, the club’s acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us.
Goes To Eleven
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Eleven amazing stories of intrigue for the eleventh release of Author Dennis Higgins. Wonderfully crafted stories, which include: Time Travel, Paranormal Romance, Ghost/Horror Stories, Historical, and True Stories.
Experiences include a time-traveling room, Chicago Gangsters, a famous rock star that never was, an actual angel encounter, email romance across time, spine-tingling horror, a ghost story from the phantasm’s point of view…and more. Your amazement is guaranteed.
A Calculated Risk
by Katherine Neville
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A female financial whiz plans the perfect bank heist in this “high-tech, high-stakes” thriller from the #1 international-bestselling author of The Eight (The Washington Post).
Verity Banks is the one of the most powerful women in finance, but she still reports to a man. Her boss not only refuses to implement her security plan to safeguard customers’ deposits, he also sabotages her shot at becoming director of security at the Federal Reserve. Outraged, Verity decides to take revenge by hitting her boss where it will hurt the most: right in his company’s balance sheet. She is about to begin her assault when she hears from the last person she ever expected to see again, Zoltan Tor.
The Code
by Gregg Hurwitz
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In the latest short story from bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz, discover the teenage missions of Orphan X.
Before he was the feared black ops government assassin Orphan X, operating in the shadows and spoken about in whispers, Evan Smoak was a teenager, undergoing the most rigorous of training. At 17, Evan is sent off by his handler, ex-CIA station agent Jack Johns, to take the most intense U.S. military training course. But that is only part of the challenge before him – Evan has to get there and back, safely and quietly, maintaining operational security.
The List
by Steve Berry
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After a ten-year self-imposed exile, Brent Walker is returning home to Concord, a quaint town in central Georgia nestled close to the Savannah River. Two years ago, his father died, and now Brent, hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as its assistant general counsel, is returning to care for his ailing mother.
For decades, Southern Republic has invested heavily in Concord, creating a thriving community where its employees live, work, and retire. But the genteel sheen of this quiet town is deceiving, and when a list of cryptic code surfaces, Brent starts to see the cracks.