Monday’s Mystery eBooks
K’s Cozy Christmas Collection
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s a cozy collection of Kirsten Weiss’s funniest Christmas mysteries!
In Deja Moo, a holiday tradition turns deadly, but is the San Benedetto paranormal museum to blame?
In Gnome Alone, Christmas is coming to small town Doyle and Susan’s UFO-themed B&B… and so is murder… And kidnapped garden gnomes… And… Bigfoot?
In Gingerbread Dead, Tea and Tarot room owner Abigail is having a hard time getting into holiday mode. Will solving a quirky murder may take a Christmas miracle?
In The Dust
by K. A. Gandy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the water is all gone, how will you survive?
A catastrophic meteor shower decimated earth hundreds of years ago, leaving the survivors scrabbling as water grew scarce and the earth slowly turned to desert.
Twenty-three year old Nyx wakes up one day to find her older brother and protector vanished, leaving her utterly alone in the Wastes. She has only her skills as a scavenger and their busted-up Bronco to lean on as she works to stay alive, and find out who took him…
Binary
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER, a classic techno thriller brimming with high-stakes action and heart-pounding suspense
In an age of political unrest, one man aims to bring the government to its knees—and there’s only one agent who can stop him.
Wealthy political radical John Wright has taken aim at the US government, believing that only he can make things right. State Department Agent John Graves has been watching Wright for months, studying him, gathering intel, trying to determine his next move before he makes it…
Frozen Farmhouse Collection
by Robert J. Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Four Bestselling EMP Prepper Fiction Books with 100+ Five-Star Reviews—Now in One Gripping Boxset!
Prepare and survive. When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country.
An electromagnetic pulse attack instantly disables all electronics, plunging society into chaos. As humanity dwindles, gangs form and starvation spreads across a lawless land. Maria and her fellow survivors navigate this perilous new reality at the border, their every step a battle for survival. Local law enforcement and emergency services, now powerless, face overwhelming challenges.
The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster…
Guilty Mothers
by Angela Marsons
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a purple sequinned ballgown and holding a knife in shaking hands, is her daughter…
In a quiet kitchen, where two mugs wait by the kettle to be filled, Sheryl Hawne lies in a pool of blood. Her only daughter, Katie, is found at her side, still clutching the murder weapon and apparently incapable of speech. To Detective Kim Stone, the case seems open and shut. But Katie is in no state to be questioned, so Kim and the team must dig deep to understand what triggered this brutal act.
Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024
by Anthony Horowitz and others
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world’s oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
From a pool of over 3,000 considered stories published last year—anything that touched on crime, mystery, and suspense, from venues as disparate as The Strand Magazine, Dark Yonder, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Bellevue Literary Review, and more—these are the very best, selected by series editor Otto Penzler and guest editor Anthony Horowitz.
DRAWN APART
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Avalon Martelli and Stephanie Lambert meet at the start of their junior year at Mystekal High, they form an instant connection. Stephanie is from South Jersey and Avalon from North Jersey, and they both feel out of place in the Southern California desert.
Aside from having a home state in common, they each possess a talent for art and the heartbreak of a broken family. Avalon has the gift of sight, where the future is sometimes revealed in her paintings, while Stephanie’s drawings are all about forever love. As Stephanie, a self-described poetry geek and hopeless romantic, talks about past lives and eternal happiness, Avalon denies she’s in love with her best guy friend, River Dalworth, who is attending art school in Los Angeles.
Prospect Shifter Daddy Mates Collection
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Things are getting steamy in the small town of Prospect, Montana! Each story in this box set will light your fire as sexy single dads, with chiseled abs, not only work hard on the ranch but also pursue the one who makes their blood pump.
As passion ignites for these cowboys, danger lurks in every direction and harrowing secrets rise to the surface. The wolf shifters will do anything it takes to protect the women who claim their hearts.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Cookies and Christmas
by Leena Clover
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Anonymous Note Screams Murder
It’s Christmas in Pelican Cove and the town is bursting with Yuletide spirit. Jenny King comes home from the tree lighting ceremony to a strange letter on her doorstep. The anonymous sender claims a gruesome murder has taken place and urges her to find the killer. Jenny plunges into the investigation, only to find that the letter might have been fake.
Refusing to give up, Jenny keeps digging for clues. Her friends think she’s on a wild goose chase and the whole town thinks she’s lost it. But Jenny follows her gut, sure that a crime has been committed…
Grave Consequences
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The deeper the roots, the darker the secrets.
In Pennsylvania’s Worlds End State Park, Malachi James and Cate Garrison unite with a mission: to protect three vulnerable bear cubs. Their noble cause puts them on a collision course with Jade, a cult founded by Malachi’s father and embraced by his mother. This sinister society threatens their mission and their lives.
When Cate goes missing while checking out a bear den, Malachi fears the worst but doesn’t know for sure if the cult has taken her. As he searches the dense forest and confronts dangerous enemies, his feelings for Cate deepen, and his faith is tested like never before.
Point Blank
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
His name is Mason Sharpe. Victims take heart—bad guys take cover.
Army veteran Mason Sharpe’s world is turned upside down when his beloved fiancée is killed in a random shooting. Struggling to cope with his grief, Sharpe instinctively heads for the North Carolina town where he and his bride had planned to honeymoon.
Alone on a beach, contemplating a future which now seems bleak and empty, he stares into the abyss. But then…
Daniel Hurst’s Psychological Thriller Box Set
by Daniel Hurst
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
THE PASSENGER: She takes the same train every day. But this is a journey she’ll never forget…
THE BOYFRIEND: What if your exes were being killed off one by one?
THE BREAK: It seems like a lovely little house. But it has dark secrets…
Don’t Move
by James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this spine-tingling horror novel from the actor best known as “Murr” on the hit television shows Impractical Jokers and The Misery Index, James S. Murray, and co-writer Darren Wearmouth, a prehistoric arachnid terrifies a stranded group in a West Virginia canyon.
Megan Forrester has barely survived the unthinkable. Six months ago, she witnessed a horrific accident that killed her husband and son, and lives with the guilt of knowing she could have done more to save them. Now, Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a local church group’s annual camping trip…
On Mystic Mountain
by Tabatha Waybright
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In Tabatha Waybright’s debut middle grade novel, Kristal and Socorro Frazier’s family vacation quickly turns into a challenge to survive when the two young siblings get separated from their parents during a camping trip.
The siblings are pressed to use their skills and wits as they face the trials of being alone and afraid. Not only do they have to find food and shelter, but they quickly learn that there is something very unusual about the mountain they are lost on. They are threatened by natural disasters as well as evil creatures who seek to harm them and trap them and fill them with fear and doubt. When the siblings get separated and the evil creatures capture Socorro, they almost give up hope of ever surviving and finding their parents again…
His Last Text
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
A romantic anniversary dinner. A heartfelt message. Then silence.
Anna Stanten’s world shatters when she learns her boyfriend Wyatt’s corporate jet has crashed. With the company dragging its feet on the search, Anna takes matters into her own hands, assembling a team of volunteers to find the man she loves.
But as she retraces Wyatt’s last known steps, danger lurks at every turn. Her uncle, driven by an insatiable greed for a mysterious key mentioned in her grandmother’s will, seems to be pulling strings from the shadows. And who is this new “aunt” that suddenly appeared in her life?
Vibrations
by A. R. Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two teens, two powers—would you die to save your loved ones?
Nada has always stayed in the shadows, terrified of what might happen if the world discovered her rare ability to see sound waves as light. But her quiet life shatters when she meets Kani, a fiercely curious new student who can sense and manipulate vibrations. Their meeting triggers a series of mysterious attacks, exposing a dangerous truth: they are the last descendants of Atlantis, heirs to a forgotten power.
Hunted by shadowy creatures born from myth and invisible to everyone else, Nada and Kani must uncover their shared heritage and confront an ancient enemy determined to destroy them. But as they race to uncover the truth, they struggle to believe they could be anything more than ordinary—even as the fate of Atlantis, and the world, rests in their hands. Can they survive long enough to discover who they truly are?
Air and Ashes
by Margaret Mantor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
What if you found out everything in your life was a lie?
After seventeen-year-old Emma Cross learns her mom didn’t die of cancer but was murdered, her life is upended. Forced from her home, Emma is thrown into a world hidden within our own, where Elementums—genetically engineered super soldiers who control the elements—are caught in a vicious war against the unstoppable Clinic.
Emma is convinced she doesn’t belong there—until she herself is targeted as a rare Halfbreed. If she wants to survive and uncover the dark secrets of her mom’s past, she must train to defend herself against the Clinic while resisting the distracting allure of the icy Kaden Hale—a powerful, driven Elementum with secrets of his own.
The Electrician and the Seamstress
by Monica Granlove
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Based on the true story of a couple torn apart during World War II, The Electrician and the Seamstress is a beautiful tale of resilience, courage, and love.
Germany, 1936. Bruno, an electrician, and Karla, a seamstress, forge a powerful love amid the rise of the Nazi Party and Hitler’s ascent to power. Staunch opponents of the Nazi ideology, they live in perpetual apprehension as they risk being labeled dissidents, navigating a complex negotiation between moral principles and self-preservation. As World War II breaks out, Bruno faces a profound internal struggle when he is drafted into service, and he is eventually captured by the Russians and imprisoned in Siberia. His nearly two-year journey back to war-ravaged Germany reveals the devastating aftermath, with his city in ruins and family displaced.