Friday’s Mystery eBooks

On Folly Beach
by Karen White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it’s a sanctuary for lost souls…

When Emmy Hamilton’s mother encourages her to buy the local book store, Folly’s Finds, she hopes it will distract her daughter from the loss of her husband. But the seller has one condition that changes everything: Emmy must allow Lulu, the late owner’s difficult elderly sister, to continue selling her bottle trees from its back yard…


Drakethorn Legal Boxed Set 1: Books 1-3
by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

KINDLE

When you piss off the high and mighty some get righteously angry.

By day, Anastasia “Stacy” Drakethorn wields her Juris Doctorate as a blade of justice, carving through the corruption festering in the heart of the city. An attorney with a keen mind for the law and a fierce heart for the underdog, she’s determined to level the playing field against a system designed to favor the rich, the powerful, and the corrupt.

By night, there’s another side to the story.

In the shadowed alleys where legal arguments falter and the scales of justice are unbalanced, a whisper emerges of a vigilante who scares even those who walk in the shadows. When you piss her off, you might learn she can do more than just send you to jail.


The Unquiet
by J. D. Robb, Mary Blayney
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

KINDLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

Settle in for five startling tales of uncanny suspense and disquieting romance—including an In Death story featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.

Eve and Rourke return to investigate the murders of a series of luckless indigents—and the strange connection to a brilliant young surgeon in J. D. Robb’s “Chaos in Death.”

In Mary Blayney’s “Her Greatest Pleasure,” a shopkeeper’s solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word…wish.


Death in Holy Orders
by P. D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

NOW IN DEVELOPMENT FOR SEASON THREE OF DALGLIESH

On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and faces an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate.

Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known both loss and discovery. Having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote…


Hotel California
by Don Bruns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLE

Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns. From the titular tale “Hotel California” to a new, original Jack Reacher adventure, these stories have a little something for every mystery lover.


Cian and Arin
by Felicia Rogers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLE

How it all began… The prequel to Secret Defenders!

Teenage boys are disappearing from once-peaceful Irish villages and rumors abound of unnatural beasts prowling the streets. When Arin Clevenger’s sister is kidnapped, Arin fears the beasts have taken her, too. Even though Arin is blind, she won’t let anything stop her from finding her sister.

Cian Conn hates hiding what he really is — a young gray gryphon, destined to protect the helpless — but the grays’ ancient rules of secrecy force him to live under cover. When a new sect of gryphons arise, declaring their independence, Cian longs for the same freedom, but he’s leery of risking such change. For their feathers have turned black, and so have their souls.


Hunting Time
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

In New York Times bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver’s riveting thriller, reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems.

Allison Parker is on the run with her teenage daughter, Hannah, and Colter Shaw has been hired by her eccentric boss, entrepreneur Marty Harmon, to find and protect her. Though he’s an expert at tracking missing persons – even those who don’t wish to be found—Shaw has met his match in Allison, who brings all her skills as a brilliant engineer designing revolutionary technology to the game of evading detection…


The Pelican Harbor Collection
by Colleen Coble
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

KINDLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

All three novels from the gripping Pelican Harbor series by USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble are now available in one collection.

One Little Lie
Two Reasons to Run
Three Missing Days

“Loved how she tied in Rock Harbor books too! Love all her books! So so good! Can’t wait to read more!” by Amazon Customer


Inside the Indie Horror World
by Kevin J. Kennedy, Ann Keeran, S.E. England
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

Join your favourite Indie Horror Authors for some tales about their adventures navigating the industry. The highs, the lows and everything in between. Some of them give some tips and advice and others share their funny and embarrassing stories. This is not a ‘How To’ book, but there are many great lessons inside if you are looking to write or boost where you are at the moment. If you simply want to find out a little more about what goes on behind the closed doors of the horror book world, you have come to the right place.

Thursday’s Mystery eBooks

Irish Parade Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLE

Part-time reporter Lucy Stone isn’t about to put all her eggs in one basket during a frantic Easter in Tinker’s Cove—especially when it comes to cracking a deadly mystery . . .

Known for its cheerful staff and elaborate annual Easter Bonnet Contest, the Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press. But once the town’s retired librarian, Miss Julia Tilley, checks in to recover from an illness, Lucy sees a side of the facility that isn’t quite so perfect and pristine. And the place may soon be making headlines for different reasons following an unexplained disappearance . . .


System Override
by K. J. Gillenwater
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLE

HER SECRETS COULD RESHAPE HUMANITY

When Elijah Zurbano spots a flawless robotic version of his late wife on the crowded streets of Chicago in 2043, he’s thrust into a dangerous game he didn’t know existed. The woman he loved, whose life was cut short, now appears as a machine—and the secrets she kept are far darker and more complex than he could have imagined.

As Elijah follows a trail of hidden files, encrypted data, and the shadowy operations of Callahan, Inc., he discovers a side of his wife he never knew: a brilliant mind embedded in the world of advanced robotics development, her final project possibly intended to change humanity as we know it.


The Whispers
by Ashley Audrain
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night.

Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack—loud and clear. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then, his mother can only sit by her son’s hospital bed, where she refuses to speak to anyone, and his life hangs in the balance.


Taerak’s Void
by M. R. Mathias
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

When the wizards of the Sorcerious want you dead, magic is your only hope. Unless you have dragon in your pocket.

Taerak’s Void

After finding a strange medallion and some maps with markings that no one in his village can understand, Braxton Bray decides to take it all to the Hall of Scholars in the kingdom’s capital. But greed is everywhere. Braxton and a tough young female caravan guard named Nixalia are forced to run for their lives, for someone powerful wants what Braxton found, and is willing to go to great lengths to take it from him.


The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024
by S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears, and series editor Steph Cha.

In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.”

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 includes MEGAN ABBOTT • ALYSSA COLE • TANANARIVE DUE • ABBY GENI • JORDAN HARPER • GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD •TONI LP KELNER • BOBBY MATHEWS • LISA UNGER • and others


Nefarious Allure
by M. R. Mathias
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

In the realm of fantasy, where imagination knows no bounds, there lies a novel that promises to captivate readers and transport them to a world filled with magic, adventure, and intrigue. Using the meticulous world-building established in the million selling, The Wardstone Trilogy, and new well-developed characters, the Devious Arcana series invites readers to embark on an epic journey, where heroism is tested and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred. The narrative offers a reading experience that is both immersive and thought-provoking.

The allure of fantasy is undeniable, and this novel delivers on all fronts. It’s a must-read for enthusiasts of the genre, as well as newcomers seeking an enthralling escape. Prepare to be swept away by a story that will leave readers yearning for more, long after the last page is turned…


Now or Never
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.

While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There’s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy…


The British Military Quartet
by Mike Lunnon-Wood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

KINDLE

If you like TOM CLANCY, FREDERICK FORSYTH, ANDY MCNAB OR DANIEL SILVA, then you’ll love MIKE LUNNON-WOOD.

This specially-priced box set includes:

BOOK 1: LET NOT THE DEEP
BOOK 2: KING’S SHILLING
BOOK 3: LONG REACH
BOOK 4: CONGO BLUE


The Mercy Seat
by Henry O. Arnold
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

Hells Canyon is a neighborhood in Richland, Tennessee where tourists never venture, and locals fear to tread. Maxwell Crane, former Marine chaplain and pastor of The Mercy Seat church, struggles to provide a beacon of hope.

But others have their eyes set on Hells Canyon: power elites, robber barons, and street gangs seek their own gain at the cost of the beleaguered urban neighborhood. For the people who live there, it’s been a fight to exist their whole lives, and that fight is getting harder…


Alone with the Horrors
by Ramsey Campbell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLEAPPLENOOK

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world’s most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers’ Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his work. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell’s writing, including several award winners.

Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks

Irish Milkshake Murder Collection
by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, Liz Ireland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOK

Raise a glass for St. Paddy’s Day but keep a shamrock handy because some of these minty milkshakes are made with murder!

IRISH MILKSHAKE MURDER by CARLENE O’CONNOR
MURDER MOST IRISH by PEGGY EHRHART
MRS. CLAUS AND THE LUCKLESS LEPRECHAUN by LIZ IRELAND


The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOK

What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?

These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth—and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Conner had once been paired professionally—and personally—with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life…


Child of Emptiness
by Biff Price
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

KINDLE

Who is the Child of Emptiness? With what will he be filled? What is his purpose? The prophecy has been found, and the one who discovered it is crucified in the Coliseum in Rome. What role will the young man from America play? What does the future hold? What is coming into the world?

In Child of Emptiness, Biff Price has drawn a cast of unforgettable characters together – good and evil – in a tale that spreads across continents to an inexorable confrontation that will leave you wondering when these events will take place? It’s later than you think…


The Andromeda Evolution
by Michael Crichton, Daniel H. Wilson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOK

The Evolution is Coming.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded.


Talking with Serial Killers
by Christopher Berry-Dee
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

In Talking with Serial Killers: World’s Most Evil, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee delves deeper into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes. He examines, with shocking detail and clarity, the lives and lies of people who have killed and shines a light on the motives behind their horrific crimes. Through interviews with the killers, the police, and key members of the prosecution, alongside careful analysis of the cases themselves, the reader is given unprecedented insight into the most diabolical minds that humanity has to offer…


The First Family
by Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOK

The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when Cam Hilliard, the president’s sixteen-year-old son, experiences fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss his troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray is convinced there’s something more to Cam’s issues—something serious enough to summon her physician ex-husband for a second opinion.

Dr. Lee Blackwood must make a diagnosis from an array of symptoms he’s never seen before. His only clue is a young patient named Susie Banks, who seems to be suffering from the same baffling condition—and who was just hospitalized after an attempted murder. As Lee and Karen race to save Cam’s life, they begin to uncover betrayals that breach the highest levels of national security.


The Teacher
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.


The Gideon Oliver Mysteries Volume One
by Aaron Elkins
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

KINDLE

Edgar Award winner and former anthropologist Aaron Elkins “thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In these four initial volumes of the long-running Skeleton Detective series, Elkins introduces readers to his “likable, down-to-earth cerebral sleuth,” Professor Gideon Oliver (Chicago Tribune).

Fellowship of Fear: Gideon accepts a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Europe—without knowing the previous two fellowship holders met mysterious ends. Now caught up in a dangerous game, this professor will need to think fast in order to survive.


First Survivor
by Mark Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

KINDLE

An inspirational real life cancer memoir of a family’s journey and the impossible miracle that led to their son’s becoming a childhood cancer survivor. This is a thriller about a family’s battle to save their toddler son from a “zero chance of survival” diagnosis. With the world’s best doctors and the advocacy of his parents, Louis Unger would fight a 5-year battle for his young life. His grit and incredible attitude led to a breakthrough that would change how cancer is treated today. This is not a medical journal or a how-to guide. It is a true page-turner that gives you a front row seat to a miraculous story of courage, inspiration and determination…


A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

KINDLEAPPLENOOK

A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.

Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it…

Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
by Leonie Swann, Amy Bojang
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of an enterprising tortoise—in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full.

It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and gluttonous grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith).


Desperation
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

In Desperation Kills, author John D. Ottini weaves together three standalone yet interconnected stories about the dangerous and sometimes deadly situations that people find themselves in when blinded by passion or pushed to the point of desperation.

Parting Words

Sitting by the bedside of her dying mother, Gwen is told a secret so startling that she can only hope that what she is hearing are simply the delusions of an over-medicated woman in her final hours of life. But in the weeks and months following the funeral, that hope crumbles as more pieces of evidence come to light, threatening everything Gwen holds dear. Then tragedy strikes once more…


Laser Trap
by Frank DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

KINDLE

If you can’t invent it, steal it!

Engineering grad student Dan Butler discovers an unorthodox way to produce lasers of unprecedented power. When the malevolent bosses at StarWay Labs, who sell weapons to the international underworld, discover this, they kidnap Dan and demand he replicate his work in their secret lab.

Dan’s fellow grad student, Lana Madison, who Dan had hired to help him find a girlfriend, is alarmed at his disappearance. She forms a high-tech team with four of their friends to help the authorities rescue Dan. They make remarkable breakthroughs in tracking down his whereabouts while the criminal cadre at StarWay pushes Dan close to his breaking point…


The Intruders
by Louise Jensen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

They were told to leave. They should have listened. The perfect opportunity…

A manor house available rent-free to house-sitters is an offer too good to miss for Cass and James, who have been saving for a deposit on their own home for so long.

Although it had been abandoned for almost thirty years, after a home invasion left almost all the inhabitants dead, it is an amazing chance for them to build their future.

But is it worth the price?


WHAT THE YEARS REMEMBER
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

KINDLE

Growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley, fraternal twins Amber and Jade were always different. Amber, somewhat shy and affable, is a happy, well-liked child. Jade, often angry, laments from an early age that others have what she covets. As the girls grow up, Jade’s jealousy escalates. Dangerously so.

At sixteen, enraged by their classmate Michael’s affection for Amber, Jade lures her sister to an abandoned lot, shoves her onto concrete, and leaves her for dead. Knowing Jade would try again, her parents agree to fake her death. Amber moves to New York City with her father, and Jade moves with her mother to Los Angeles.


Stranger in the Lake
by Kimberly Belle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLEAPPLENOOKKOBO

When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman’s body floating in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife tragically drowned.

At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he’s never met the woman. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage, cracks Charlotte is determined to keep from breaking them in two.


The Hollow Ones
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

KINDLEAUDIBLE

A horrific crime that defies explanation, a rookie FBI agent in uncharted territory, and an extraordinary hero for the ages: an investigation spirals out of control in this heart-pounding thriller.

Odessa Hardwicke’s life is derailed when she’s forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn’t the tragedy itself — it’s the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent’s body after his death.


NEVER ENOUGH ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad

KINDLE

Curl up with your Kindle to read these action-packed, full-length stories of Romantic Mystery & Suspense by EIGHT New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Authors.

Mystery, Suspense, Danger and Deceit…

A woman defying drug lords while determined to rescue her kidnapped husband. Jewel thieves being hunted while on the run. Another woman keeping secrets while attempting to begin a new life. A wounded warrior on a reconnaissance mission reuniting with the girl he’s always loved while she’s being hunted by a stalker…