Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Snuffed
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick. What thorny secrets lie hidden beneath the blossoms?
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury, has invited guests to her Snodsbury estate for a charming party, featuring a tour of her newly rejuvenated rose gardens. The peaceful event quickly spirals into a vine of tangled mysteries and deadly secrets.
Can Lady Mary keep her party blooming, or will a hidden threat uproot everything?
Unnatural Death
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.
The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.
After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
Jupiter’s Ghost
by David Gwinn
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
2025 Storytrade Award Winner for Best Science Fiction
In the Orion Nebula, death is written in the stars.
Jóre, an alien outcast, joins the nebula whaling ship Jupiter’s Ghost—a vessel haunted by loss and hunted by something far worse. Whispers speak of the Great Blue, a monstrous whale that shatters steel and devours entire ships. In a crew bound by desperation and old grudges, trust is scarce and survival is a thin hope.
As Jupiter’s Ghost sails deeper into Orion Nebula, the line between hunter and hunted fades, and Jóre must decide how much of himself he’s willing to sacrifice for glory—and for revenge. Not all who sail into the nebula will return. Some dreams are meant to be swallowed whole
The Ophelia Cut
by John Lescroart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this riveting New York Times bestselling novel from the “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart, defense attorney Dismas Hardy tackles his most personal and complex case yet—defending his brother-in-law against murder charges.
When Moses McGuire becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his own daughter’s rapist, attorney Dismas Hardy—Moses’s brother-in-law—agrees to defend him. But McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers.
Times Change
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jacob Hornblower traveled from the twenty-third century back in time to find his brother. Against all reason, his sibling believes he has fallen in love and chosen to stay in the past. But Jacob’s plan to return them both to the future goes awry when he encounters Sunny Stone, a woman whose disposition is as cheerful—and exasperating—as her name.
Sunny knows there’s more to Jacob than his rigid code of living life by scientific fact alone. So she’s going to have to experiment to help him realize that feelings are just as valid as intellect—and that falling in love means following one’s heart.
City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme.
In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime.
N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, while grappling with a new partner and a passionate affair with the mysterious Venus Hernandez…
Crimson Lake
by Candice Fox
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Candice Fox’s thrilling Crimson Lake, the basis for the series Troppo starring Thomas Jane, now streaming on Prime Video!
How do you move on when the world won’t let you?
12:46: Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop
12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her
12:52: The girl is missing . . .
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free man—and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.
Night Heron
by Adam Brookes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Set in China, and ripped from today’s headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.
A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.
Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing’s surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Marriage, Malice & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Love is in the air on the perfect day for a wedding until someone offs the wedding planner.
Nothing puts a damper on a celebration than a corpse. The wedding planner had done a great job. Predictably, he did his best to jack up the price with extras to please the “momzilla” mother of the bride who insisted on a traditional, monochromatic wedding. Even so, the bride prevailed and Trina and Bill’s wedding burst with color.
The victim also worked as an event planner at the local country club, where he was popular with the men for his organizational skills and with the ladies for other reasons…
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour
by Brett Battles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another heart-pounding Hollywood-fueled adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings.
Their Last Secret
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven.
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart.
Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter suspects that Emma is hiding something…
A Winter Haunting
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A mix of Henry Jamesian and Stephen King style scariness . . . Surely the first psychological/horror masterpiece of the 21st century.” – The Denver Post
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage—and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town—the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly “accident” back in the terrible summer of 1960—is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes.
Best Mistake
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A single mother finds her heart tempted by an unlikely father figure in a novella from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Zoe Fleming left behind her modeling career to raise her son Keenan in an atmosphere less consumed with surface appearances. But her post-model jobs barely cover expenses, so she opens her home to a tenant, sportswriter J. Cooper McKinnon. For a man who likes to talk a big game, Zoe must admit that Coop knows how to score by genuinely befriending Keenan.
Forging of a Knight
by Hugo Negron
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The second book in the Forging of a Knight series! Qualtan has become a knight at last. With Glaive, the half-orcne thief by his side, he will join a host of new friends: Jesepha, the strong-willed female knight; her mentor, the elder knight Bartholomew, who carries a strange secret; the young and hot-headed knight Euric; the glum and impatient knight Richard; and the dashing merchant lord Visandus.
A seemingly routine mission will unravel into one of greater horror, involving inter-dimensional creatures, rival sea-faring pirate nations, and a face-to-face confrontation between Qualtan and Darksiege, one of Those That Stand in Shadow, at last! Should they somehow prevail, it will just be a precursor to an even GREATER threat!
LOVE IS IN THE AIR COLLECTION
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A whirlwind romance…your eyes meet and just like that, you realize that you might have just met the ONE. So SPRING INTO LOVE!
Whether you enjoy sweet or steamy stories, these eight captivating romances from NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS, will be sure to leave a smile on your face, even after you’ve finished the very last page.
The Golem of Hollywood
by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alex Delaware novels and the award-winning #1 international bestselling author of The Genius combine their extraordinary talents for one of the most unusual—and unnerving—thrillers of the year.
Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can’t remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she’s gone. Not long after, he’s dispatched to a murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for justice.
Letters From Lucca
by Kim Baccellia
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
On the heels of Sammi’s grandmother’s whispered deathbed wish, a package of letters from Italy arrives at her post box. Reading them makes Sammi recall whispers she heard in childhood of her grandmother’s wartime involvement, a past that Sammi’s father and aunt would rather see remain closed. As if things couldn’t get any worse, her long-time boyfriend, Hunter, dumps her. However, an opportunity arises that sends her to Italy to defend her grandmother, even if the truth might shatter all she believes. In a helpful twist, Joseph, her best friend’s Italian cousin, offers to help her.
Despite the obvious growing attraction between Joseph and her, she tries to suppress it as she embarks on her mission to vindicate the grandmother she loves.