Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse
by Simon Brett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major’s work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and as a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation.
But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car… and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown…
Your Knowledge or Your Life?
by Sophie Maddon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to a London where being smart is everything—and being rich means nothing.
When seventeen-year-old Jason’s latest prank backfires, he and straight-A student Eva are thrust into an alternate reality where status comes from knowledge, not trust funds. For formerly privileged Jason, it’s a nightmare. For book-lover Eva, it’s everything she’s ever dreamed of—until dead bodies start piling up.
Two teenagers who can’t stand each other and one disturbing truth: their arrival might be killing people…
Between Twelve and One
by Vernon Loder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nine guests arrive for a weekend party at Tenon Oaks, a Tudor country house set in nine acres of the English countryside. The visitors all know Tenon Oaks by repute. It is a show-piece in the county of Wiltshire, with a full contingent of domestic staff, fine entertaining rooms and positioned atop a hill with fine views over the wooded parkland below. The host, millionaire financier Mr Copolis, is absent. His private secretary, Victor Mand, informs the assembled party – all investors in Mr Coplis’s financial schemes – that the host is sick and confined to his room. However, after dinner whilst enjoying cocktails and cigars in the piano room, the investors are informed that all their money has been lost.
Origin In Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office – murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building – the doctor’s final appointment.
Known as “Dr. Perfect,” the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is clean. Too clean for Dallas. She knows he was hiding something and suspects that his son – and successor – knows what it is…
While Idaho Slept
by J. Reuben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media’s seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike.
Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The killings would shake the small blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and platforms from Reddit and YouTube to Facebook and TikTok.
Vengeance of the Vanished Ones
by Lee Orlich Bertram
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“In Vengeance of the Vanished Ones, don’t miss this trip into Baja where mining interests and the need to preserve sacred rock paintings clash violently. Move over, Indiana Jones!” –Warren C. Easley, author of the Cal Claxton Mysteries
Discovering the meaning of the mysterious, ancient rock art of Baja has obsessed archaeologist Marcos Andersson for decades. While investigating the macabre death of Davis Pearce on site, Marcos suspects it’s connected to the rock art, but before he can prove it, he gets dragged into the spirit world where Davis languishes. He happens to meet psychiatrist-psychic Susan Cohen who guides Marcos to some understanding of the art as they explore more sites, pile up deaths, encounter vengeful spirits, and fall in love. It’s complicated by local schemes to profit off the mineral deposits accompanying the rock art sites and the secrets both Marcos and Susan keep from each other.
Back of Beyond
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a thriller in Back of Beyond about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone, now reissued with additional bonus content including an introduction from the author.
Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody is in no position to be investigating a homicide, but he will stop at nothing to find Hank’s killer.
The Injustice
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Theo Foster’s Twitter account used to be anonymous—until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. No fair.
Theo’s resigned to a life of misery working at the local mini-mart when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. Sasha Ellis knows his name. She was also expelled for a crime she didn’t commit and now he has the perfect way to get her attention: find out who set them up.
Shackled
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Doyle Baldwin left Ironwood Valley as a young soldier full of hope, dreaming of the day he’d return to open land, honest work, and the woman he planned to marry. But war leaves its mark, and the home he comes back to isn’t the one he left.
His father is missing. His fiancée is gone. And something dark has taken hold of the valley.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Scoop
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mercury’s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina, are dealing with gossip, scandal, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop – and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time for…or does she?
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The Stranger at the Door
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A knock at the door reveals a terrifying secret—and a dangerous decision.
Newly appointed as the small-town chief of police, Mark Friessen is starting to find his footing when a mysterious woman shows up on his doorstep, unraveling a chilling tale: she was forced to marry the man who killed her family. Desperate for help, she pulls Mark and social worker Billy Jo McCabe into a tangled web of deceit and danger.
As Mark and Billy Jo dig deeper into the woman’s claims, they’re faced with unsettling secrets about her past—and their own relationship is put to the test. What starts as a cry for help turns into a high-stakes case that threatens to expose deep fractures in the town and in their lives.
Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One is playing a long game. But which one?
They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets.
Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan?
Sword of Fire & Light
by J.P. Arputham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enter the world of the Aracan Chronicles. A world of magic, gods, and war.
The Qahil desert is barren, unforgiving, and godless. Long abandoned by The Divine Council of gods. Its inhabitants struggle every day for survival. Yet, Talwar knows little of this struggle. His father, an outsider and the current sheik of the Alei, has tamed the Qahil. His reign brought peace and prosperity to a portion of the desert once thought impossible. Yet, his father’s past casts an ominous shadow over Talwar, his family, and his tribe. Follow the journey of Talwar as he faces gods, assassins, and his own destiny.
The Sound of Broken Glass
by Deborah Crombie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present.
When Detective Inspector James joins forces with Detective Inspector Melody Talbot to solve the murder of an esteemed barrister, their investigation leads them to realize that nothing is what it seems—with the crime they’re investigating and their own lives.
No Quiet Water
by Shirley Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After the U.S. declares war on Japan in 1941, all persons of Japanese descent in the Western U.S. come under suspicion. Curfews are imposed, bank accounts frozen, and FBI agents search homes randomly.
Despite the fact that two generations of the Miyota family are American citizens, Fumio and his parents and sister Kimiko must pack meager belongings and are transported under military escort to the California desert to be held at Camp Manzanar, leaving their good friends and neighbors the Whitlocks to care for their farm and their dog, Flyer…
Lyrical, visual, and rendered with strict attention to historical accuracy, No Quiet Water, shines a poignant light on current issues of racism and radical perspectives.
The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The bestselling legal thriller has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy — but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it’s even about justice.
Phantom’s Ransom
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Phantom is a man who wore death like a second skin – until his daughter is taken.
A former sheriff, bounty hunter, and grieving widower, he’d carved out a hard peace raising his girl Maddie alone. Now, with her snatched by ruthless men, the ghosts of his past roar back to life.
His rules are simple: no mercy, no prisoners. Just a Colt and the uncanny silence that made his name legendary.
Hannah West never asked for trouble. A schoolteacher with a spine of steel and a heart too big for the frontier, she’s already buried one life when her husband died. But when she witnesses Maddie’s abduction, she grabs her derringer and rides into hell after her.
The Elephant in the Family Room
by René Sonneveld
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Equip your business family with the tools to tackle silent threats—including unspoken resentments, deep-seated insecurities, lingering fears, and misaligned values—that can shatter even the strongest enterprise families.
Business families face challenges that go far beyond the balance sheet. These unseen forces often remain hidden yet profoundly affect the future of both the family and the enterprise. Drawing on decades of experience advising global business families and C-suite executives, René Sonneveld addresses the “elephant in the family room”—the emotional complexities of enterprise families.
Packed with actionable insights, The Elephant in the Family Room provides enterprise families with the tools to confront power struggles, mend fractured relationships, bridge generational divides, and align family and business interests.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Fortune and Glory
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur’s new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair…and the keys to a life-changing fortune.
But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli’s treasure, they discover that they’re not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way—along with a new adversary who’s even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty from Little Havana with a taste for designer clothes. She’s also a soldier of fortune, a gourmet cook, an expert in firearms and mixed martial arts—and someone who’s about to give Stephanie a real run for her money.
In Danger of Judgment
by David Rabin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A sharply defined, engrossing cast elevates this crime caper.” – Kirkus Reviews
In the shadowy streets of 1980s Chicago, will the tangled web of crime and history reveal its dark secrets before it’s too late?
Major Henry Sampson, a seasoned veteran from the Vietnam War, finds himself entangled in a covert operation that stretches decades. Meanwhile, Detective Marcelle DeSantis, driven and determined, navigates the dangerous world of gang-related murders, alongside her steady but tenacious partner Bernie Bernardelli.
Will Marcelle and Bernie uncover the truth behind the murders and drug trafficking before the city plunges deeper into chaos? Can they piece together the past and present to stop a deadly conspiracy?
Safe With You: Boxed Set
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When danger closes in, love is the only refuge.
Kindle All-Star and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer Youngblood presents a pulse-pounding and swoon-worthy romantic suspense collection where love means survival when danger is only a heartbeat away.
The Diehard Warrior
One Little Switch
Protecting the Heiress
Promise Me Love
False Illusions.
Bright Eternity
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Imagine a new technology that can cheat death – for a price. How much would you pay for eternity?
The NewEden startup claims its scientific breakthroughs will add decades to your life. They’re even shooting for the biggest prize of them all – redesigning the human species to conquer death forever. Clients are ecstatic about NewEden, but their families are worried. Is all the hype hiding a darker agenda?
That’s when gutsy photojournalist Carmen Norrell decides to infiltrate the program and uncover its secrets. Who is she to trust – NewEden or its critics? Carmen has never backed down from a challenge, but her gut tells her that behind NewEden’s charismatic leadership there may be lurking a danger like none she’s faced before.
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Covert Dreams
by Michael Meyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
What if the government said that your missing wife never existed? Intrigue and conspiracy from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia.
“As he sat there, he became one gigantic spasm. His body jerked involuntarily, without interruption, and he began to spin. The world was upside down, sideways—because what couldn’t possibly be, inexplicably was. Blobs of perspiration fell onto the book. B.J. slammed it shut. He pushed the terrible pages aside. He was in such a state that the librarian looked up at him from across the room, frowning disapproval his way as sharp as Arabian swords.
But B.J. didn’t notice. He couldn’t see. He was lost completely to the horror of his mind.”
What is real, and what is not? Who is really who, and why?
Blindman’s Bluff
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s way in the wake of a horrific home invasion and brutal multiple murder. Author Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live on the New York Times bestseller list, proves once again that “no one working in the crime genre is better” (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, surprising shocker.
The Good Sister
by Diana Diamond
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Jennifer and Catherine-sisters who have inherited equal shares of power in Pegasus Satellite Services, one of the biggest communications empires in the world-could not be more different. While Catherine is an extraordinary beauty whose looks attract the most handsome and powerful men, her sister is a plain-Jane, no-nonsense gal who prefers running the company to walking the red carpet.
But Jennifer’s aversion to the spotlight becomes secondary after the successful launch of the Pegasus III satellite, her newest technological masterpiece. The company needs someone to explain the revolutionary communications tool to potential clients and Jennifer is forced to make the awkward transition from playing scientist in the laboratory to playing hostess at the most lavish party in Cannes.
Blood in the Water
by Casey Sherman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Troubled waters hide deadly secrets…
When Nathan Carman, a young man with a complicated past, is miraculously rescued from a lifeboat bobbing in the unforgiving North Atlantic, questions swirl about the fate of his mother, who is presumed to have drowned when their fishing boat sank. Nathan is in remarkably good shape for being lost at sea for a week, and his account of what exactly happened out there on the waves raises questions from family members and law enforcement.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.
Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard—but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Twelfth Apostle
by David Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Young women are being illegally imported into the country. A young man supporting aging parents vanishes. The body of an Oriental woman is dumped outside the public swimming baths, and a magical moneymaking scheme is being promoted at a city centre hotel.
Four seemingly unconnected events, but it can’t be long before those strands find their way onto the desk of Inspector Walter Darriteau. He and his team are going to be mighty busy.
“The Twelfth Apostle” is a chunky book dealing with modern day slavery, where ruthless men will do anything to fund their lavish and evil way of life, including murder.
The Preacher
by Camilla Läckberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Hot on the heels of her phenomenal American debut, The Ice Princess, Camilla Läckberg brings readers back to the quiet, isolated fishing village in Sweden where dangerous secrets lie just beneath the community’s tranquil surface.
During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck are enjoying a rare week at home together, nervous and excited about the imminent birth of their first baby. Across town, however, a six-year-old boy makes a gruesome discovery that will ravage their little tourist community and catapult Patrik into the center of a terrifying murder case…
Hitched
by Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this entertaining mystery in the bestselling Regan Reilly series about the mayhem that ensues as Regan’s wedding approaches.
Regan Reilly and Jack “no relation” Reilly—head of the NYPD Major Case Squad—are getting married! Arriving at a bridal salon to pick up her dream gown, Regan discovers the designers bound and gagged. Four dresses (hers included!) are missing; a fifth is in shreds on the floor. With just a week before her wedding, Regan takes the case, meeting an unusual mix of brides and grooms-to-be, or not-to-be. Meanwhile, Jack is determined to crack a perplexing series of rainy-day bank robberies before his upcoming nuptials.
Morgan’s Landing
by Linda Griffin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the small Maryland town of Morgan’s Landing, fourteen-year-old Julie Morgan is living in comfort with her wealthy family. She disappears on her way to school after a spat with her twin sister.
Detective Jim Brady, married and the father of two, has been on the Morgan’s Landing police force for twelve years. He identifies a few suspects in the girl’s disappearance—Is it the fired school janitor, a paroled sex offender, Julie’s computer teacher…or his own teenage son? Jim can’t believe his son could be involved, but his wife is convinced the boy is hiding something.
Memorials
by Richard Chizmar
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia—an unforgettable, chilling novel that is “scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night” (Stephen King).
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a weeklong road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class. The project starts out as a fun adventure, with long stretches of empty road and nightly campfires where they begin to open up with one another.
Enticing the Prince
by Patricia Grasso
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Best-selling author Patricia Grasso presents Book 9 in the Lords of London Regency Romance Series.
A beautiful imposter…
The daughter of Moscow’s most celebrated goldsmith, Katerina Pavlova surpasses her father’s genius for creating dazzling jewelry designs, but she carries a great burden. After a wealthy prince caused the deaths of her sister, brother, and father, Katerina escaped Russia with her remaining family and vowed vengeance on the man who brought them such sorrow. Now, in London, Katerina has reinvented herself as Katerina Garibaldi, the windowed Contessa de Salerno from Italy. Every lady in London desires one of her magnificent creations while every gentleman desires the elusive dark-haired beauty herself.
Into the Gray Zone
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service. Both government agencies believe it’s nothing more than a minor terrorist attack, but Pike suspects that something much more sinister is at play. After another terrorist operation at the Taj Mahal, he begins to believe that outside powers are attacking India in the gray zone between peace and war, part of a proxy war that leverages terrorist groups for economic gain and control of rare earth minerals. But the separatists conducting the operations have their own agenda.
I Will Find You
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this breathtaking thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive—and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love—until one fateful night when David woke to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall.