Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Irish Parade Murder
by Leslie Meier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Feline Fatale
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Spring flowers may be about to bloom in Crozet, Virginia, but Harry is thinking about snow. Her dear friend Ned Tucker is in the House of Delegates, advocating for a bill to improve road clearing during bad weather, and Harry and Ned’s wife, Susan, have gone down to the statehouse to support him. Tensions are high between political parties, and no one can agree on anything for long enough to get something done.
The bill’s chief detractor is the glamorous Amanda Fields, a former newscaster turned delegate whose flair for the dramatic has earned her a formidable reputation—and made her more than a few enemies…
She Started It
by Sian Gilbert
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected…
Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends—or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared secrets have kept them bonded for better or worse, even as their childhood dreams haven’t quite turned out as they’d hoped. Then one day they receive a wholly unexpected—but not entirely unwelcome—invitation from another old friend. Poppy Greer has invited them all to her extravagant bachelorette party: a first-class plane ticket to three days of white sand, cocktails, and relaxation on a luxe private island in the Bahamas.
Rebel Slave
by Richard Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Broken by war. Betrayed by a corrupt queen. Imprisoned in a frozen Hell from which no man has ever escaped before.
Charles Raptor is a soldier. Professional. Loyal. Deadly. But after eighteen years of fighting, he has one wish—to retire to a life of peace with a new wife in the country of his birth.
But war isn’t finished with Charles Raptor.
Falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit. Torn from his wife and family. Imprisoned in a mine, a thousand miles from freedom, run by a sadistic overseer, a cruel dwarf who hates all men with a passion…
Traitor In The Scottish Isles
by PAIGE EDWARDS
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release from award-winning and best-selling author PAIGE EDWARDS
An intercepted message. Missing MI6 agents. And a traitor hiding in plain sight.
Reader’s Favorite Five-Star Review: “A modern-day spy thriller set amongst the windswept and remote Scottish Isles of Uist. Fun and exciting! A fast-paced, riveting story.”
To secure her inheritance and escape a scandal not of her making, wealthy socialite Cairstie Henderson relocates to a small town in the Scottish Isles, far from the city lights and runways she once frequented.
The Carlton Smith True Crime Collection
by Carlton Smith
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people—two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father.
Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother. But when his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, law enforcement officials finally took action: The fatal pattern was impossible to ignore.
After The Flash
by Roger Hayden
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Solar Flare leaves a small northeastern town in ruins, with no assistance from the government, military, or law enforcement.
In a powerless, desolate small town, Becky and Micah struggle to find essential supplies amidst looted stores and abandoned homes. With hope dwindling, they embark on a perilous journey through the wreckage, driven by a faint glimmer of survival. Each step reveals the harsh reality of their world and the relentless spirit needed to endure. This is a gripping tale of resilience and determination in the face of desolation.
The Second Opinion
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Diagnosed with Aspergers, Dr. Thea Sperelakis has always been an outsider. Despite her brilliant medical mind, she fled the institutional politics of hospitals to work with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. But her rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when her father Petros—himself a renowned doctor—is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver.
At a top-rated Boston hospital, Petros lays in a deep coma. When Thea returns home, she learns that two of her siblings are demanding that treatment be withheld…
The Writer
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.
“This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?” Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?