Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Other Woman
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal
She was his best-kept secret … In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.
The Vampire Jack Townson
by Jack Townson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Trade your entire life for fame, fortune, and eternal beauty. The only thing have to lose is your soul… Magic is real. And real damn scary.
A man down on his luck trips and stumbles into a world of bloodthirsty monsters hidden among the precipices of New York City. A chance encounter with illustrious vampire Alexander LaMont ensnares the clumsy yet hopeful James Donovan in shadow and treachery, thrusting James into his new identity, The Vampire Jack Townson. Will Jack survive the vampiric politics of Manhattan, or will final death come to claim him at the next sunrise?
Welcome to New York. We bite.
A Faint Cold Fear
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful.” – BookPage
Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, GA, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues – and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal – but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don’t add up.
Deep in the Alaskan Woods
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Something deadly lurks outside your door . . . First in the Alaska Wild series from the New York Times–bestselling romantic suspense author.
Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins’ B&B in Falls Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The surrounding forest can be harsh and unforgiving—luckily, rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from Quinn is no longer an option.
All the Devils Are Here
by Louise Penny
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life.
When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art.
A Place of Darkness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Place of Darkness (A Psychological Thriller)
Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone.
It’s taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life.
Everything seems to be under control until a strange telephone message and envelope set in motion a series of events that could once again destabilize Vigo’s fragile mental equilibrium. Will Vigo overcome this final, life-threatening challenge, or is his world about to unravel?
and Other Stories
The Too-Smart Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Suz stumbles into her workplace after her too-smart Great Dane kept her awake all night turning the bedside lamp on and off, she thinks her day could not get worse…but it does. She falls asleep in a meeting and is so embarrassed that she runs out of the office – straight into a dead man’s legs sticking out of a wheelbarrow. Suzanne falls, the corpse lands on top of her, and her nightmare journey into a world of murder, intrigue and danger begins.
When her secret heartthrob goes public with his feelings for her, her life spins into joy and ecstasy – until she considers the possibility that he might be the killer.
Laser Trap
by Frank DiBianca
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #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. With millions of dollars and Dan’s life at stake, can he be rescued before it’s too late?
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing!
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Garden Girls Cozy Mystery Novels Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Gloria Rutherford, a lonely widow finds new purpose in life when she and her senior friends help solve a murder in their small Midwestern town.
★★★★★ “If you like clean, fun-filled mysteries that keep you guessing until the end, you’ll love the Garden Girls!”
Discover why so many fans love the Garden Girls Mystery Series with thousands of four and five star reviews!
The Day After Roswell
by William J. Birnes, Philip Corso
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today.
Former member of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and the Foreign Technology Desk in the United States Army, Colonel Philip J. Corso was assigned to work at a strange crash site in Roswell in 1947. He had no idea that his work there would change his life and the course of history forever.
Hallowed Ground
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A troubling discovery leads Chief of Police Kate Burkholder on a strange investigation ending at a long-abandoned Amish farm in this short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo.
When a family dog brings home a human bone, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself on a desperate search for answers. Where did the bone come from? Who does it belong to? And perhaps most importantly, are the bones a result of foul play? With Halloween approaching, the unsettling questions garner uneasiness, rumors, and macabre theories among the residents of Painters Mill
The Dusty Road to Homicide
by LeeAnne James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dusty Sampson’s parents split up when he was four years old. Dusty’s mother tries to provide as much love and guidance as she can, but at the same time, she has to work long hours just to pay the bills and put a roof over their head.
Left to his own devices, Dusty eventually gets into drugs and alcohol. When his mother has had enough, he finds himself kicked out of her house, and forced to float from couch to couch. Consistently unemployed and out of money, Dusty decides to rob a restaurant for some quick cash but shoots two people in cold blood on the way out.
The Pyramid
by Multipl Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The story of the Swedish detective’s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries: “An indispensable chapter to the saga” (Booklist Online).
Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Kurt Wallander’s growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how he became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of the character who “remains one of the most impressive and credible creations of crime fiction today” (The Guardian).
Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back on the life of his own character, these mysteries are vintage Henning Mankell and essential reading for fans of the fiction series or the BBC program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. The Pyramid is a wonderful display of Mankell’s virtuosity powers as “the unrivalled master of Swedish crime fiction and one of the finest practitioners of the genre anywhere” (Toronto Star).
Brett Wilson and De Leon’s Well
by John Suter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The seven cities of gold have remained hidden behind a veil of the earth’s electromagnetic field for thousands of years. Scientist Rock Wilson developed a way to detect the magnetic abnormalities that connect our world to the ancient world. On a scientific expedition, Rock Wilson disappears into the hidden ancient realm.
His eleven-year-old daughter, Brett Wilson, armed with his old field book and equipped with the mystical Cross of De Soto finds a bridge between the two connected lands. Brett enters the veiled world to find that the forces that hold it together are diminishing.
False Witness
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller.
AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.
HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST… But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.
BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP…
The Dark: Ghost Stories
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as “the genre’s sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions”—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied and talented authors and invited them to scare the heck out of her.
The resulting anthology redefines the ghost story, venturing beyond the accustomed tropes and into horror’s true realm: the unknown. The Dark takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunted Hibiscus
by Laura Childs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.
It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society, and tonight heralds the grand opening of their literary and historical themed haunted house.
Deal Breaker
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.” – Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend – a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead—the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
The Way of the Bear
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken?
Gracie and the Trouble with Pinatas
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What you see is not always what you get. In fact, what you see may be nothing at all.
Finding a woman attacked and left for dead in her driveway hadn’t been anywhere near San Antonio law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner’s cold January plans. She immediately jumps into action and soon discovers a link to what appears to be a benign local research institution. Of course, what seems to be often isn’t, and it takes a series of explosive illusions that rock a small slice of the city before Gracie and her coworkers understand the fuller picture: a rogue relationship between the research group and a corrupt faction inside the Pentagon.
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Boy in the Well
by Douglas Lindsay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
‘A dark and satisfying mystery . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended’ James Oswald
The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old . . .
No one comes forward to identify #Boy9, and DI Ben Westphall’s only suspects are the farmers on whose land the well sits. They certainly seem as though they have something to hide. But it might not be what he thinks.
Summer Suspicions Suspense Collection
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Summer Suspicions: Ten Christian Romantic Suspense Novels
Escape into a world of love, mystery, and faith with these ten Christian romantic suspense novels. Today’s bestselling Christian fiction authors are bringing you ten page-turning, action-packed adventures filled with unforgettable characters, adrenaline-pumping mysteries, and heartwarming romance.
Summer suspicions lurk everywhere in small towns and in the countryside, as well as in the cities and on the coast. Cowboys, protectors, former military, single moms, pastors, good friends, sheriffs, missing children, hostages, fugitives, heroes, villains, and more, all in one limited-edition boxed set collection just for the summer of 2024 only.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
by Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Written with award–winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues – including forensic evidence—that conclusively identifies his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history. Finally, all the questions that have surrounded the case for almost fifty years are answered in this riveting narrative—a singular work of true crime at its finest, as well as a sensational and powerful memoir.
Pandemic Psychology
by Dr. Varda Silberberg
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Optimism, flexibility, and self-compassion – learn how the COVID pandemic prepared us for the next global crisis, one lesson at a time.
The 2019 COVID pandemic brought with it various challenges, most of which we will continue to feel years after the last COVID-19 patient leaves their hospital bed: personal, financial, social, and economic crises that took years to overcome. But can we turn those challenges into opportunities? Can we take what we experienced during COVID and somehow turn our past failures into future successes? Can yesterday’s health crisis help us overcome the global crisis of tomorrow?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Book Lover’s Loft
by Ellery Adams
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane’s hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . .
Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing a dark secret in her family tree that threatens all she holds dear back in Storyton…
If I Can’t Have You
by G.M. Lawrence
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Freya hopes there’s one man she never sees again. Her husband.
Freya has recently escaped from her violent and abusive husband, Liam, and has moved to the city where she is fighting to build a new life for herself. But she knows in her heart that Liam won’t give up so easily, that he’ll do everything in his power to find her and bring her back…
Caught between two terrifying men, can Freya confront her past and hold onto the future she’s fought so hard to create?
Grace for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pastor Paisley Yukon fought many hard battles to win acceptance and lead Ideal’s Grace Cowboy Church as a woman, but when a possible cult moves into town—her conflicts multiply along with unsolved murders.
A widow, who lost her husband and daughter in the same horrific traffic accident, Paisley could easily fall in love with Ideal’s Sheriff Kip Restwinder. However, when she befriends and hides a missing teen, the sheriff becomes inimical toward her, a fact that is only complicated by two murders and attempts on her own life.
Family Business
by Jonathan Sims
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.
Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?
Origin Story of Monsters Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s a full moon, the Summer Solstice, and an ancient coffin has washed up on the beaches of Moher, Ireland.
Could the Mother of Monsters really have returned? It’s just not possible.
Can Halsey dig up enough evidence to prove that the elementals’ ancient foe has returned to level the monstrous playing field? Or will it be too late to prepare for what’s to come?
2024
by Amy Cross
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The year is 2024. Twenty-five years ago, Beth Cooper’s family died at Hadlow House. Now Beth’s after revenge.
Having researched the house’s history extensively, Beth thinks she knows exactly what she’s up against. She knows all about the deadly Fanny Baxter, and about the lives of all the people who’ve lived at the house over the years. She also knows all about ghosts, and about how to make them suffer.
At least, she thinks she knows.
The Knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, a double murder in front of an exclusive club takes a London detective on a wild ride.
Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand—a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper.
Like Lions
by Brian Panowich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain.
Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut, Bull Mountain. Now with Like Lions, he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction.
Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain’s most notorious criminal family.