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.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Trace: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn’t the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won’t reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.
Abby’s Fire
by R.I.Partridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After a fire destroys her home, Abby Bennett emerges from the hospital horribly scarred. Her husband has abandoned her, and her two little boys are – gone.
Determined to reclaim her life and get her boys back, Abby returns to her hometown in Iowa. With the help of a reclusive neighbor, Jack, she begins renovating her sister’s rental property. But the old cottage has a tragic past – a grisly unsolved murder.
When Abby sees images of the victims – a mother and her children – in a mirror above the fireplace, she realizes it holds the key to solving the decades-old mystery…
The Wrong Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in the local cemetery and gives chase. But when Tessa catches him, she learns that the ghoulish trespasser wasn’t robbing graves; he was burying a box of bones.
With the help of her fiancé, park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa discovers that the remains belong to a missing teenager from a nearby island. After the girl disappeared nine months ago, police labeled her a runaway. Now, though, it’s clear the teenager was murdered.
Homestead on Broken Lines: Boxset
by Colton Lively
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Brianna Colfax returns to her small-town roots to run a restaurant, but a national crisis shatters her peace. With a sudden draft, curfew, power outages, and dwindling supplies, Brianna must protect her business and loved ones. As winter sets in and threats close in, she relies on her military skills to navigate the chaos. In a fight for survival, Brianna discovers that home and family are worth any battle.
Someone Saw Something
by Rick Mofina
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A missing child is every parent’s worst nightmare. For journalist Corina Corado, it’s a terrifying reality.
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son – and why?
Detectives suspect there’s a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina’s received over the years. In her line of work, it’s not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence…or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband, Robert, and her stepdaughter, Charlotte, have kept start to unravel.
The Bancroft Strategy
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
As a field agent for Consular Operations, Tod Belknap has always had a cowboy reputation. But now, after an operation goes wrong, he has finally been cut loose from the organization. Soon afterward, his best friend and former partner is abducted by a militia group in Lebanon. When the government refuses to get involved, Belknap takes matters into his own hands.
Meanwhile, hedge fund analyst Andrea Bancroft is surprised to be offered a seat on her estranged family’s powerful foundation…
Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life—from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood…
Inspiring Stories for Amazing Boys Who Believe in Themselves
by Sati Siroda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Empower the Amazing Young Boy in Your Life to Believe in Himself with Just 5 Minutes a Day! What if 5 minutes each day could help him overcome fears, believe in himself, and dream big?
Does he sometimes doubt himself, hesitate to act or fear making mistakes? Do you want to inspire him to recognize his strengths and confidently tackle challenges?
Inside, He’ll Discover: 21 Engaging Short Stories Crafted Especially for Young Boys; Powerful Lessons on Bravery, Self-confidence, and Perseverance; Relatable Characters Facing Everyday Challenges; Strategies to Turn Setbacks Into Opportunities for Growth; Daily Affirmations and Fun Activities to Reinforce Each Lesson.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Family Secret
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Some secrets refuse to stay buried…
For years, Iris O’Connell has carried the weight of a past she’s fought hard to forget. Raising six children alone after her husband disappeared, she built a life of stability—but the night he vanished left behind a truth too dangerous to reveal.
When a body is unearthed in the Montana wilderness, whispers begin to circulate, and the O’Connell family finds themselves entangled in a mystery that threatens to expose long-buried lies. As the sheriff, Marcus O’Connell is forced to confront rumors that the remains belong to their missing father, a man who left without a trace. But when the DA starts connecting the dots, the O’Connells become suspects in a crime they never saw coming…
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
by Dorothy Gilman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown, married children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent.
She takes on a “job” in Mexico City. The assignment doesn’t sound dangerous at first, but then, as often happens, something goes wrong. Now our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country’s enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.
Blood Line
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
He’s quiet, ordinary looking. But if you cross him – welcome to your worst nightmare.
Tom Rollins has gone AWOL from his CIA black-ops unit and is living off-grid when he hears that the woman he loves, Alejandra, has been murdered by a person or persons unknown.
Rollins is determined to punish her killers and sets out on his own personal search and destroy mission. Applying pressure as only he knows how, he quickly discovers who was behind the killing – a vicious gang of hardened criminals…
Genna’s Fight
by Sheldon D. Newton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Will She Be Able To Discover Her True Self & Get Her Son Back In Time?
Genna, a beautiful young lady looking forward to life.
Tom, a sharp, handsome, smooth-talking young man who falls for Genna. Love. Marriage. A Son. And then it happens. And what happens will keep your eyes glued on every page until the very end. This Suspense Thriller is filled with mystery with twists and turns that causes one to wonder what will happen next. Get your copy of this fascinating novel and discover why…
A Circle of Wives
by Alice LaPlante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
When Dr. John Taylor turns up dead in a hotel room, the local police uncover enough incriminating evidence to suspect foul play. Det. Samantha Adams, whose Palo Alto beat usually covers petty crimes, is innocently thrown into a high-profile case that is more complicated than any she has faced before.
A renowned reconstructive surgeon and a respected family man, Dr. Taylor was beloved and admired. But beneath his perfect façade was a hidden life—in fact, multiple lives…
The Leira Chronicles Complete Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic isn’t real—until it’s staring right at her.
Detective Leira Berens prides herself on handling facts, not fantasy. Her job is chasing suspects, not ghosts. But when her mother’s wild tales of hidden worlds start surfacing, she’s forced to confront an unsettling truth…
Magic exists—and it’s coming for her.
A young prince from another realm has been murdered, and the prime suspect is hiding in Leira’s city. As she unravels an ancient conspiracy, she finds herself tangled between two worlds.
One is filled with gritty crime scenes; the other with shimmering portals and creatures from beyond.
A mysterious relic, pulsing with unearthly power, may be the key to it all. But its secrets are deadly, and time is running out.
Can Leira save her world before magic consumes it? Or will her disbelief cost her everything she holds dear?
The Ambler Warning
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one difference between Hal and the other patients – Hal isn’t crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape.
Foul Play
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger—and with both business and the safety of the city at stake, he has no choice but to get involved.
When it soon becomes clear that a complicated scheme is being hatched, Stone will need to use his expertise and connections to unravel the clever plot. Though the source remains unknown, it’s just a matter of time before he and Stone must each show their hands. From ritzy Manhattan high-rises to the lush serenity of the Connecticut countryside, the game of cat and mouse can end with only one victor….
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Chase the Moon
by Shirley Rousseau
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Joe Grey and his partner, Dulcie, are frantic when Courtney, their pretty teen-kitten goes missing. Aided by their two- and four-legged friends, they hit the streets of Molina Point in search of their calico girl. Has Joe Grey and Dulcie’s only daughter been lured away by someone and stolen? Is she lying somewhere hurt, or worse?
Courtney has no idea that everyone is desperately looking for her. Locked in an upstairs apartment above the local antiques shop, she’s enjoying her first solo adventure…
The Gate House
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant.
Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island…
Defy The Stars
by Cathrina Constantine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beware of the Stars Foretelling Your Destiny. Circus grunt. Charmer. Fire wrangler
Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wraps.
Relations between interspecies caused an imbalance of power and now are strictly forbidden. Dolorans, like Sage and her sister, are being hunted and persecuted because of their intense powers, leaving them no choice but to run, escaping the genocide of their kind.
Thawed to Death
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s non-stop laughter and suspense as 60-year-old antique “picker” Zoey Thunderbird explores the local ghost house and discovers a body in a freezer. She knows it was murder – no one deliberately thaws themselves to death – but she doesn’t know that her search for truth will endanger her life. Killers don’t want to get caught.
Her quest to catch a killer introduces Zoey to strange crime motifs – everything connected with the murder has a tendency to vanish, and the apparent killer seems to have an affinity for sitting in her lap.
Path of Destruction
by Drew Karpyshyn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There Dessel’s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, a far greater destiny awaits him.
As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side, Dessel embraces his new identity: Bane. But the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught…
Pretty Girls
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them?
Infected
by Scott Sigler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science…
Winds of Change
by Jo Grafford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A woman returns to her hometown to help unite two rival high schools under one roof. It’s her dream job…with one very big hitch. The cowboy who broke her heart owns the security firm that’ll be protecting her and her students.
As the new head principal of Heart Lake High, Hope Remington oversees the task of busing students from the tornado-devastated farming communities to the uptown business district. For the first time, the students of the longtime feuding Remington and Hawling families are housed on the same campus. An immediate spike in fighting and student gang activity erupts…
A Controversial Cover
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tricia Miles is ready to close the book on all her amateur sluething—she’s tired of finding dead bodies and being accused of murder. But even the best laid plans often go awry.
Stoneham is all abuzz when Lauren Barker, a famous children’s book author, arrives for an event at the local library. Lauren is a Stoneham native, and her new book strikes some members of the town as controversial. But when Lauren is found strangled to death after an altercation at the event, the plot twist throws Tricia right back into the middle of things.
Of Magic & Moonlight
by Kay Leyda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
For readers who love Tamora Pierce and Laura Greenwood style fairytales and fantasy books about girls finding their place in the world, comes a debut Young Adult Fantasy series set under the sea.
After their daring escape from Syrellian, Cari settles into her life in Piscea with her sisters. Each of the merfolk kingdoms face challenges as they fortify against his inevitable retribution. Kallan is determined to rescue Adamaris from Syrellian before Varan uncovers the truth – that he is the one leaking vital information to stop the Mad King.
Death of a Ghost
by Margery Allingham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
To vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London’s art season. But this release party—bringing family, friends, critics, and collectors together—devolves into scandal. A power outage leaves everyone in the dark, and when the lights come back on, a man lies dead—stabbed through the heart with bejeweled scissors.
Family friend Albert Campion is present during the deadly crime. The too obvious suspect is the artist’s granddaughter, Linda Lafcadio, who was engaged to the victim until he brought back a model from Italy and married her.