Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Ankeny Arsonist
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor’s home, Wanda’s investigative skills are put to a trial by fire…literally!
Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor’s home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda’s old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio’s no match for Wanda’s talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you’re apt to get burned. Can Wanda catch the Ankeny arsonist before she becomes the next victim?
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Found
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling young adult series.
It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.
Hard Gray Eyes
by Jon Richards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A financial conspiracy. A dangerous secret. A team that refuses to back down.
What Jack Murphy thought was the banking opportunity of a lifetime turned into a humiliating arrest, a brutal prison term, and a Texas Hill Country shootout with a Mexican drug cartel.
With the help of alliances forged behind prison walls, a Texas Hill Country recluse, a wizened FBI agent willing to push limits, and the unwavering love and support of his wife, Murphy recovers millions in hidden cartel money — and orchestrates the downfall of those who engineered the false claims that sent him to prison.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others—even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages.
Away With the Fairies
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
It’s 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women’s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues’ deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos.,,
Juggler of Worlds
by Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings…
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth’s secret weapon, humanity’s best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential – and imaginary – of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth’s traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
Not Lost Forever
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this memoir of true crime and survival, a woman recounts the remarkable story of her father’s murderous rampage and how she was left for dead.
On April 14, 1989, in California’s idyllic Sonoma Valley, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a rampage, killing his wife, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and his wife’s suspected lover. Then he slashed the throats of his three young daughters—ages four years, three years, and twenty-two months—and left them for dead in the county dump. A day later, when the children’s bodies were finally discovered, three-year-old Carmina was miraculously still alive. “Daddy cut me,” she told her rescuers.
Loyal Justice
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Protection is easy. Trust is harder. Love is hardest of all.
K-9 officer Jack Hayes has always answered the call—but nothing prepares him for Samantha Cole, a woman on the run from an abusive ex. With danger around every corner and faith guiding their steps, Jack and Sam must learn to trust God, each other, and the courage in their own hearts. Because in Glory, justice is loyal—and love can be the greatest protection of all.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton finally receives the last gift from her mother just days before Christmas. While exploring Locke Pointe, she discovers her grandparents’ home holds not only secrets to her family’s past, but may also be the key to finding the priceless “Shifting Sands Medallion,” rumored to be hidden somewhere on the island.
After she finds a mysterious slip of paper with numbers written on it tucked behind her mother’s painting, Morgan is convinced it’s a clue her mother left for her years ago in order to help her in the present day…
A Matter of Circumstance
by Heather Graham
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
SUNSETS & SECRETS: After an easy day studying coral in the Bahamian ocean, Amanda Blayne returns to shore looking forward to a cool drink and a lazy afternoon. But the tranquil waters turn dark and treacherous when Amanda is ruthlessly abducted in broad daylight. With her captors demanding a ransom that no one can pay, Amanda’s hope dims and she begins to panic…
The New Deputy in Town by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels: Some days it appears that everyone in Whitehorse has a secret—including their new lawman, Deputy Sheriff Nick Rogers. But falling for Laney Cavanaugh isn’t a good way to maintain a low profile, especially when Nick’s trying to solve an engagement party murder.
A Special Kind of Evil
by Blaine L. Pardoe, Victoria R. Hester
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For four years a killer, or killers, stalked Virginia’s Tidewater region, carefully selecting victims and terrorizing the local community. Again and again, young people in the prime of their lives were targeted. But the pattern that stitched these killings together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. The unknown predator, or predators, who stalked the Colonial Parkway seemingly disappeared.
Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases. Interviewing the victims’ family and friends, as well as members of law enforcement, they provide the most complete and in-depth look at these horrifying murders and disappearances…
The Janson Equation
by Douglas Corleone
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory’s girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference.
When Janson and Kincaid realize they’re being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime—and the cover-up—were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea…
Show Me Betrayal
by Ellen E. Withers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Two deaths occur decades apart. Is it possible these deaths are related? What motivates a killer, who got away with murder sixty years ago, to kill again? Was it uncontrollable rage or the hope of silencing someone who fit all the puzzle pieces together and deduced who committed the crime?
Set in the picturesque town of Mexico, Missouri, Show Me Betrayal takes flight in words and emotions of rich characters woven together into a story you won’t want to put down.
Cold Wind
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+
Joe Pickett investigates a murder that hits close to home in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he’s not sure what to do—especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.
But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl’s death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
The Billionaire and the Brooding Artist
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ben Archer doesn’t trust rich people – especially not Julia Whitmore, the powerful heiress who hired him to renovate her homes.
But when a storm traps them together, their arguments spark into something neither of them expected. One night changes everything.
When scandal and pride push them apart, Ben realizes too late that the one woman he tried to escape is the only one he can’t forget.
Now he’ll have to risk everything to prove their story didn’t end with the storm.
THE VAGUS NERVE RESET PROTOCOL
by Ava Walters
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Stress is unavoidable. Resilience is trainable. Your vagus nerve is the bridge between the two.
If you feel wired but exhausted… calm one moment and triggered the next… or stuck in stress cycles you can’t break, your vagus nerve may be the missing link to restoring calm, clarity, and control.
The Vagus Nerve Reset Protocol is a practical, science-backed workbook that shows you how to activate your vagus nerve, improve vagal tone, and retrain your nervous system for real, lasting relief.