Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Last Victim of the Monsoon Express
by Vaseem Khan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a symbolic journey of reconciliation, the Monsoon Express is travelling between hostile neighbours India and Pakistan. The passenger list includes politicians, celebrities, former Mumbai policeman Inspector Chopra and his baby elephant ward Ganesha.
Then a senior diplomat is found murdered in his cabin. Accusations fly, tensions rise, and an international incident seems certain. But is the murder political – or personal?
The Book of Witching
by C. J. Cooke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic.
Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. When Erin wakes, she doesn’t recognize her mother. And she doesn’t answer to her name, but insists she is someone named Nyx.
Valerie Stonehold Complete Series Boxed Set
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
From the world of Para-Military Recruiter: When they pull off her wig, it’s game over.
When three local bullies pick on Iron Hills dwarf Eiravel (Val) Stonehold, she naturally defends herself.
Why is she the only one who gets thrown out of the tavern after the brawl? On her way home, two bumbling dragons in human form, Axl and Livius, accost her and hand her a letter. What can the new Eternal Queen Julie possibly want with her?
As it turns out, the queen wants her body.
Dying for Daddy
by Carlton Smith
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people—two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father.
Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother…
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.
The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen-year-old Joey has always known hunger—but nothing could prepare him for what awaits beyond it.
With war creeping ever closer to their struggling town and no work left to be found, Joey’s mother makes a desperate choice: she sends him to Lapidius, a distant schoolhouse rumored to offer food, shelter, and safety. But when Joey arrives, he discovers the truth – Lapidius isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a secretive military institute training children for what is to come.
Alongside hundreds of other recruits (like battle buddy Maisie), Joey is thrust into a world where survival means mastering more than weapons. At Lapidius, war isn’t fought with weapons alone—it’s waged with ancient magic, deadly creatures, and shadowy forces that defy logic.
Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered — above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she’s got to play dead. She’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.
The Perfect Father
by John Glatt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media—but the truth would lead to a vicious and heartbreaking murder.
In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family’s safe return.
Asta’s Book
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn’t help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary—and she continues to do so until 1967.
Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child.
Before I Lose My Own Mind
by Beverly E. Thorn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
In Before I Lose My Own Mind, Thorn—a psychologist, neuroscientist, and end-of-life doula—provides an honest vision of caregiving that is tender, openhearted, and genuinely useful. Filled with resources and insights on financial planning, advance care directives, clinical trials, support groups, death with dignity, grief, recovery, and more, this book is a roadmap for all caregivers, whether they’re family or friends, spouses or children, professionals or novices.
For those coping with the grief, exhaustion, and loneliness of a challenge they never expected, help is out there. Surviving dementia caregiving is a team effort. Consider this book a part of your support crew.
The Life of Chuck
by Stephen King
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In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: “Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!” Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck’s life, seems to be approaching its end.
Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explores one man’s past. We see him in middle age on a business trip in Boston as he is seduced by a busker into spinning a gorgeous sidewalk dance…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Dying for Chocolate
by Diane Mott Davidson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats.
Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent dinners and posh society picnics—and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Schulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop. Until, that is, the dishy doctor drives his BMW into an oncoming bus.
Crux
by James Byron Huggins
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In an experiment to discover what secrets are hidden within the infinite vastness of the galaxy, scientists create a machine so powerful that it rips a hole through space and time. But instead of revealing the dark world of their own universe the machine opens a gateway to a universe infinitely more horrifying . . . and infinitely evil.
After seven physicists vanish during a routine test of the highly guarded Hadron Super Collider in Geneva, a series of grisly murders also begin at the facility and an elite squad of American military operators are dispatched to discover the truth behind the hideous slaughter…
When Maidens Mourn
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Regency England, August 1812: Sebastian St. Cyr’s plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon with his new bride, Hero Jarvis, are shattered when the murdered body of Hero’s good friend Gabrielle Tennyson is discovered drifting in a battered boat at the site of a long-vanished castle known as Camlet Moat.
Missing and also presumed dead are Gabrielle’s two young cousins.
Still struggling to define the nature of their new marriage, Sebastian and Hero find themselves occasionally working at cross-purposes as their investigation uncovers dark secrets at the heart of the Tennyson family and an enigmatic young French lieutenant who is concealing mysteries of his own.
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A pharmaceutical mishap draws the rabbi into a murder investigation in this New York Times bestseller: “An endearing character . . . a devious plot” (San Diego Union-Tribune).
New Age thinking has come to Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. The recently elected president of Rabbi David Small’s synagogue is intent on using temple money to build a meditation retreat. The congregation is practicing yoga, buying crystals, and reciting chants. When a troubled young man returns to the town after spending time in a controversial Hasidic cult, the rabbi expects him to be another New Ager. But things take a grisly turn away from new-fangled mantras of peace and love when something terribly old fashioned happens: murder.
Stone Kiss
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a Manhattan rabbi is brutally murdered, an LAPD officer and his wife begin a dangerous mission to save a young girl from kidnapping—and investigate a deadly new case that puts them both at great peril.
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi’s brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy hotel room in upper Manhattan, and the victim’s 15-year-old niece, with whom he was spending the day, is missing…
Kiss of the Bees
by J. A Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into the Walkers’ world, nearly murdering Diana Ladd Walker and her young son, Davy. Now much has changed. The family has grown larger.
There’s Lani, the beloved adopted daughter—a beautiful Native-American teenager “kissed by the bees” and destined, according to Tohono O’odham lore, to become a woman of great spiritual power. And now the psychopath Carlisle has died in prison, so Brandon and Diana Walker believe they and their loved ones are safe at last.
The Perfect Father
by John Glatt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media—but the truth would lead to a vicious and heartbreaking murder.
In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family’s safe return.
The Forsaken
by L. A. Banks
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera.
A ruthless and carefully planned strategy—one that not even Damali will anticipate—has been developed. There is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Saks and Violins
by Mary Daheim
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Life has hit some sour notes as of late for B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin Renie. Graphic design guru Renie’s up to her eyebrows in debt after some seriously overzealous spending sprees. Meanwhile, Judith’s got her hands full with her wacky new neighbor, Rudi, a virtuoso violinist whose daily—and usually unclothed—practices are unhinging her and other neighbors in the cul-de-sac.
But, though they’d all love to kill nude, rude Rudi, it’s his larger-than-life mentor, Dolph Kluger, who takes his final bow after ingesting some ruthlessly poisoned rhubarb…
Stilettos and Sniper Rifles
by Gail Koger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
I’ve been a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy for four years. Most folks don’t have a clue about what a cop deals with every day. Like a pack of attack chihuahuas, a monkey with a bad case of diarrhea, a hungry python, a Brahma bull named Bodacious and a six-foot iguana.
And that is just the critters. Now let me tell you about the two-legged varmints. Such as a three-hundred-pound biker who got a bit irate when I zapped him with a stun gun, or a murderous nun, and let’s not forget the senior citizens having an orgy. Ugh…
The First Eagle
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
From a brilliant new voice comes a brilliant new epic fantasy saga of war, prophecy, betrayal, history, and destiny.
When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case—until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hotheaded female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest…
SWANWAKE: Echoes of Future Battles
by Juan Carlos Toral Dueñas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a hyper-advanced future, technology is king. Survival, a luxury. And Artificial Intelligence? The ultimate weapon.
When a catastrophic blackout cripples Veridia—Kaledon Republic’s shining beacon of progress—Elena’s world shatters. Pregnant and alone, she’s thrust into a desperate fight for survival as rival powers declare all-out futuristic war, an age dominated by devastating cyberattacks and swarms of autonomous drones.
Yet, the overt warfare is merely a smokescreen. Beneath it lies a covert struggle for global dominance: a high-stakes war for AI supremacy, a race to control an artificial intelligence that could seal humanity’s fate. Shadowy conspiracies ignite, internal betrayals unleash terrifying new weapons, and shifting alliances rewrite the rules of engagement.
We Are Watching
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
From USA Today bestselling and Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author Alison Gaylin comes a riveting tale of psychological suspense and family bonds, in which a mother and daughter are desperate to protect one another as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.
Sometimes the world is out to get you.
Meg Russo was behind the wheel when it happened. She and her husband Justin were driving their daughter Lily to Ithaca College, the family celebrating the eighteen-year-old music prodigy’s future.
Closing Time
by Lacey Fosburgh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: “A first-rate achievement” (Truman Capote).
In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon, spawning both a #1 New York Times–bestselling novel and a film adaptation starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the sexual revolution and the perils of the “pickup scene” at what were popularly known as singles bars.
Portrait of a Spy
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Portrait of a Spy is Silva’s eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New York to the Middle East on the trail of a deadly and elusive terrorist network responsible for massacres in Paris, Copenhagen, and at London’s Covent Garden.
Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and spy,returns in a spellbinding new novel from#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva.
For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London—a visit to a gallery in St. James’s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds.
Wicked Tongue
by C. L. Schneider
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discovering the wicked thing inside him was only the beginning.
A typical night of partying leaves Daniel Blair with far more than a hangover. His myriad of strange symptoms defies explanation, as does the blood on his pillow. And something is very wrong with his tongue.
Afraid he contracted a terrible unknown illness, Daniel seeks help. But his frantic search for answers takes a horrifying turn. Struck by violent impulses, and compelled by a cryptic voice in his head, he commits unspeakable acts. He struggles to fight back, but something is growing inside him, changing him, breaking his mind.
Four Doubt
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A cybersecurity executive is murdered. Was it a random shooting, or a targeted killing? It’s up to Silas McKay, chief investigator for Discreet Corporate Security Services, to find out.
When Silas is asked to investigate the murder of Sherwood Fenton, he discovers there are already two suspects.
The widow believes the owner of a rival software company killed her husband . . . She claims he threatened to get revenge on Sherwood during a heated argument.
The police believe Sherwood’s murder was a gang-related shooting . . . The homicide detectives are focused on a teenager with a facial tattoo who was seen running from the scene.
Love on the Merchain Express Complete Series
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A princess in disguise. A merchant with secrets. A love worth fighting for.
Princess Julie will do anything to avoid an arranged marriage – even pose as a merchant on the legendary MerChain Express caravan.
Her mission: prove she can secure profitable trade deals without sacrificing her independence.
Alex Kraft has his own demons to battle. Shunned by his family for his lack of magical ability, he sees the MerChain as his chance to prove his worth through cleverness and determination alone…
Treasure in a Field
by Sharon K Connell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Who is responsible for all the strange events happening on the MacKennas’ 1800s ancestral farm outside North Bend, Nebraska? Could someone have caused the deaths of Haley’s parents? Does the legend of the MacKenna family treasure have anything to do with these events?
Haley’s life is complicated by the man whom she’s known all her life. Her brother’s best friend. A grudge against him for something he did in high school has been festering for too long. Can she forgive him? Attention from the new man in town stirs the pot. She wonders if either of them could be responsible for the trouble on the farm. And what about their trusted farmhand, Drago?
Whispers of the Dead
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
While visiting his mentor in Tennessee, a forensics expert matches wits with a killer of terrifying skill in this acclaimed crime series.
To escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensic pathologist Dr. David Hunter leaves the United Kingdom for America, returning to the Body Farm—the Tennessee research center where he once trained. David is there to find out if he’s still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. So when his former mentor asks David to accompany him to a crime scene, he agrees. But even David is unprepared for what awaits them in a remote cabin.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Fatal Inversion
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the new owners of Wyvis Hall, a rural estate in Suffolk, set out to bury their pet dog on the grounds, they stumbled upon a ghastly relic: the bones of a woman and small child in a shallow grave. The gruesome find makes stunning headlines, especially so for the previous occupants.
A decade before, nineteen-year-old Adam Verne-Smith inherited the property and spent one debauched summer there with runaways, drifters, and his two best friends—none of whom have spoken since that fatal season…
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
by Gina Kirkham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For Mavis Upton, there’s a fine (blue) line between being a parent and a police officer in this sequel to Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong.
Our hapless heroine Constable Mavis Upton is preparing to step down the aisle with her fiancé Joe, but has to deal with her temperamental teen daughter, as well as investigate a serial flasher on a push bike. Throw a diva drag queen into the mix and readers can expect the usual hilarious Mavis mishaps that made the first book such a hit.
Another Kind of Eden
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs.
Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne’s involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult.
The Tree of Hands
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Edgar Award Finalist: In London, a missing child unites three mothers in grief, madness, and murder.
When Benet Archdale was a young girl in North London, her mother, Mopsa, made her nervous. The woman was unsound, and posed ever-present dangers. Yet Benet understood her sickness and forgave her threats. In pursuit of a relatively sane life as a novelist and loving single parent, Benet has since kept Mopsa at a distance. But it’s not only the sudden death of Benet’s two-year-old son that shakes her safe world. It’s the past. Mopsa has returned to be at her inconsolable daughter’s side. Nurturing, rational, and seemingly cured, Mopsa is going to do everything she can to ease Benet’s grief.
Where There’s Smoke
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
In this psychological thriller from the author of The Chemistry of Death, a woman’s journey to motherhood leads her into deadly territory.
Successful, single, and fiercely independent, Kate Powell has always taken charge of her own life. But lately she’s felt that something is missing. She wants a child—and she’s determined to have one on her own terms. Artificial insemination seems like the best option, but Kate doesn’t want to go through life not knowing who her child’s father is.
Original Sin: A Sally Sin Adventure
by Beth McMullen
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After falling in love and making a quick exit from her nine-year career in the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction), ex-spy Sally Sin does her best to become Lucy Hamilton, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco. No one, not even her adoring husband Will, knows about her secret agent escapades–chasing no-good masterminds through perilous jungles, escaping evil assassins, and playing dangerous games of cat and mouse with her old nemesis, Ian Blackford, a notorious and dashing illegal arms dealer.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged.
Artifact: Old Mans Comeback
by John Walker
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Veteran soldier Raymond “Flip” Kinnely believed his battle days were behind him.
Now, in the quiet twilight of his life, he toils as a janitor for a powerful military contractor, far from the chaos of war. But when he arrives to find his workplace in lockdown, his routine is shattered.
An otherworldly artifact has been discovered, harbored deep in the compound. As his employers attempt to understand how it works, a mysterious prisoner stands on the verge of a brutal interrogation. Through a chance encounter, Flip hears her plea for help. Drawn to her vulnerability, he discovers she may be the only thing standing between Earth and a coming disaster…
Unspoken Truths About Aging
by Joe R Eagleman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Aging is one of life’s most profound experiences, yet much of it remains shrouded in mystery, misconceptions, and societal silence. Unspoken Truths About Aging is an eye-opening exploration into the realities of growing older that few discuss but everyone encounters. This book sheds light on the physical, emotional, and social changes that accompany aging, helping readers navigate their own journey with greater understanding and grace. Through heartfelt stories, expert insights, and practical advice, the book provides a roadmap for embracing this natural phase of life with dignity and strength.
Unlike many books that focus on the negatives of aging, Unspoken Truths About Aging emphasizes the power of resilience and adaptation.