Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Shondaland, She Reads, CrimeReads
Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die.
It turns out that being known as a “self-made” widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It’s even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
“Light from an almost full moon bathed the flat expanse of land in a milky glow. A scraggly coyote trotted into sight, and when it stopped a few yards in front of his pickup, Lincoln wrapped his arms around the steering wheel to study the animal. Seconds after hearing the report, bullets pinged off his pickup…”
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
1979
by Val McDermid
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities.
But Allie is a woman in what is still a man’s world. Desperate to get away from the “women’s stories” the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies…
A Nearly Normal Family
by M. T. Edvardsson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?
Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume Three
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four razor-sharp thrillers in the long-running series from a New York Times–bestselling author—and “one hell of a writer” (New York Post).
Corruption of Blood,
Falsely Accused,
Irresistible Impulse,
Reckless Endangerment
Handling the Undead
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires.
Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become.
A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.
Thursday’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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(The Alphabet District Mysteries)
Murder On The Brazos
by Bruce Hammack
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder.
Newman County, Texas was clean and safe when Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago. But the dead drug dealer found floating down the river says things may be changing… and not for the better.
Fire engulfs the dead man’s home, and all evidence points to the new sheriff’s father. Fen, however, knows there’s more to this case than a drug deal gone bad.
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(A Fen Maguire Mysteries)
Paparazzi
by Jo Fenton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The tables are turned for a celebrity photographer who’s being stalked, in this mind-blowing thriller featuring PI Becky White.
After a traumatic incident forces her out of the police force, Becky’s longtime friend Joanna convinces her to start the White Knight Detective Agency. Their first case seems simple—help photographer Penny with a stalker who appears whenever she works with a band led by singer Troy. But the case turns deadly when Troy’s wife is murdered. And then a child goes missing. . .
A Darkness More Than Night
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb while investigating the murder of a Hollywood actress.
Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide. Bosch is both the arresting officer and the star witness in a trial that has brought the Hollywood media pack out in full-throated frenzy.
Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back…
December Park
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Piper has come to take the children away . . .
In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone sees his first dead body. The murder is linked to the Piper, the possible abductor of three other children—who haven’t been found—over the past few months.
Some people in town say the woods are haunted, but Angelo and his friends head in anyway, to search the darkness for a monster. What they find there will change who they are—and everything they once believed in . . .
Mouse’s Tale
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mouse – the mysterious man with the unassuming moniker (and the mentor of teen super Kid Sensation) – finally has his story told.
Brilliant and gifted, Mouse is a mental whiz who fails utterly in his initial attempts to join a superhero team. With his dream ostensibly out of reach, he eventually ends up working at an electronics repair shop, toiling in relative obscurity but seemingly content and at peace with the hand fate has dealt to him. However, a surprise visit from the Alpha League – the world’s premier team of superheroes – changes all of that in a heartbeat.
Public Secrets
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Emma McAvoy may have grown up in the limelight, but some secrets are hidden in a darkness no light can reach. Now on the verge of a successful career, and having fallen in love with the man of her dreams, Emma is looking to the future. Yet it’s the past that is about to catch up with her.
For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale—until the tragic night that changed her family forever. But what Emma thinks she knows about that terrible night and the man she’s about to marry is only half the truth…
The Cottage by the Sea
by Keri Beevis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
How well do you really know your husband?
Two years ago, my whole world was ripped apart when my husband and best friend were killed in a car accident in Norfolk. Since then, I’ve struggled to come to terms with my overwhelming grief and to understand why they were together in Charlie’s car that fateful day.
I know I can’t carry on with my reclusive lifestyle, hiding away, alone in this big house. I have to find a way to start living again…
Presumed Guilty
by Scott Turow
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New Release from Scott Turow
of Presumed Innocent, the phenomenon that redefined the legal thriller and is the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author).
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lady Alkmene Collection
by Vivian Conroy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Four fabulous 1920s-set murder mysteries you won’t want to miss in 2025, perfect for cozy crime fans!
A Proposal to Die For: A murderous beginning
Diamonds of Death: A family of secrets…
Deadly Treasures: Murder on the coast
Fatal Masquerade: Masked danger…
The House on the Cliff
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A GRIPPING, SUSPENSEFUL TALE TOLD FROM THE HOUSE’S POINT OF VIEW.
Facing mortality for the first time in its life, a two-hundred-year-old house vividly recalls, in its own words, two of its beloved families.
In the 1950’s, Magnus Quinn, a reclusive sea captain, whose heart has been marred by a horrific tragedy, hesitantly agrees to marry Audrey, a pregnant woman with whom he shares a volatile past. As they forge a tentative bond, their relationship is hampered by secrets—one, long-buried, one, still raw—which threaten to tear them apart, along with Quinn’s brooding and vindictive brother Callum, who will stop at nothing to end their marriage.
Ranger Protection
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover thrilling suspense and heartfelt romance in this inspiring series by Publishers Weekly bestselling author Lynn Shannon…
When Dr. Tara Sims is robbed, she fights back to protect her daughter and nearly pays with her life. She’s rescued by Texas Ranger Grady West. Her childhood friend is now a handsome lawman, but Tara refuses to acknowledge the chemistry sparking between them. With a little girl to raise and a growing medical practice, she has no room in her life for romance.
Grady suspects the vicious assault wasn’t a random act. What he can’t figure out is why anyone would attack the single mother. He vows to protect Tara and her little girl while keeping his growing feelings for them out of the equation…
The Wind Dancer
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A hidden killer . . . A conspiracy of treachery. . . And two people caught in the most desperate game of all . . .
In Renaissance Italy, intrigue is as intricate as carved cathedral doors, but none is so captivating as that surrounding the prized Wind Dancer, the lost treasure of a family—and of the man who will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Lionello Andreas is bound by his vow to guard the exquisite statue. But to recover what is rightfully his, he will need the help of a thief—one he can control body and soul…
THE GAME OF CRONES
by David Thomas Stone
Kindle $3.79 Rating: 5.0 #ad
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…*
With these words, three witches foretold of troubled times for a king. Now, trouble brews for another king—the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn. Former soldier and ex-IT guy Neil Fellows finds himself in the middle of it, wishing he’d stayed on holiday in Portugal.
As the summer festival season approaches, the town’s council is alarmed to discover their prestigious car park and festival venue not only boasts an enormous hole, it contains a disturbing secret—a portal to Hell…
Too Close to Home
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?
Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever before in a thriller where murder strikes in the place we feel safest of all. Promise Falls isn’t the kind of community where a family is shot to death in their own home…
John’s Purpose
by Laura Domino
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
ONE WILL GIVE YOU ROSES . When John offered to help a woman at church, he didn’t know he had stumbled onto the adventure of his life. Will he be able to protect her without endangering everyone around them?
Emma’s a scientist, researching to find the key to a cure for a disease that took her relatives. If she wins the research grant she applied for, she’d leave Fulton Ridge and move to a tiny island. Once Emma tells John that she’s hoping to leave the country, each one has to decide whether to pursue the relationship.
Patriarch’s Hope
by David Feintuch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Transpop Rebellion ended ten years ago with now–Secretary General Nicholas Seafort as a hero. With that political capital, Seafort stepped into place as one of the most powerful men in the world. But political clout isn’t all it seems to be. While Seafort tries to stay true to his moral code, he’s being pulled in every direction. His former colleagues in the Navy demand more ships, while the enviro lobbyists plead with him to repair the planet’s broken ecosystem. Patriarch’s Hope returns the focus to the Seafort Saga’s charismatic and troubled title character…
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller—a remarkable debut novel from a blazing talent that will keep readers spellbound
Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangman’s noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murders of a Feather
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine’s Day (and the fact that she’s alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities are in fact homicides…
American Mummy
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
When a series of bizarre supernatural disturbances rock historic sites across the Northeast, Captain Leah Morgan is tasked with assembling the Legacy Operations Command—an elite team of specialists dedicated to neutralizing threats from America’s past. Their first mission takes them deep beneath Boston’s Old North Church, where an unearthed Revolutionary War-era relic has awakened something terrifying: the only known mummy created on American soil.
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(The Guardians of Legacy Mysteries)
She’s Mine
by Tammy Doherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
This summer is going to be explosive for Caitlin Harrington and Sean Taggart!
YOU DON’T BELONG HERE
Caitlin dreams of a quiet life teaching math at her hometown middle school. Except someone is leaving ominous notes on her door. It could be her ex-boyfriend or someone else who doesn’t want her back in town. Firefighter Sean Taggart thinks Caitlin is beautiful…and possibly crazy. When he finds out the truth, Sean wants to help. Can he save Caitlin before the stalker turns to murder?
The Perfect Prosecutor
by Gregg Bell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Successfully defending an alleged baby killer restored Ike Thompson’s reputation as “the perfect lawyer.” But it also destroyed his practice. Now, a seemingly random attack on a powerful CEO hints at a truth so horrifying, it could cost him everything.
The story was buried on the back pages of a fringe news website: a mentally ill woman randomly attacked the CEO of one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies outside its Chicago headquarters. At first, Ike dismisses it as just another disturbed person roaming the streets, but further investigation reveals that the woman was not mentally ill, the incident not an attack, and that it was not at all random.
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(Ike Thompson Legal Thriller)
Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen, Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases. Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t. She agrees to lead the race to rescue the young singer before time runs out.
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse – Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
The Bitterroots
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The ties that bind can burn you.
Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.