Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Novel Theft
by Tessa Silver
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
What happens when a writer’s greatest fear comes true?
As Ellie Fitzgerald arrives in the charming town of Quillhaven, she’s hoping for a quiet reset after a painful breakup. Helping her uncle Martin run his beloved bookshop, Chapter & Chime, seems like the perfect place to begin again. The shop is warm, welcoming, and filled with stories waiting to be discovered. Even the local cats—Leo and Luna—have opinions about what people should read.
But Quillhaven isn’t an ordinary town. Magic lingers in its streets. Cats
Invisible Blood
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
FEATURES A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY: This crime fiction anthology includes 17 new short stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and others!
“With any collection like this, there are a lot of hits and misses along the way. There were way more hits than misses in this anthology, and not just by the authors that I am familiar with. I found a couple of new authors to check out and read more of their work.” by Amazon Customer
Out of the Woods
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From a girl’s abduction by a serial killer to the harrowing aftermath—a gripping and heart-wrenching true-crime story by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell.
In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family’s youngest members—eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan—were nowhere to be found.
As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning.
That First Summer
by Eleanor Romany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Every summer leaves a mark. Some leave a legacy. It’s the summer of 1999, and sixteen-year-old Jonie Kirkland’s job at Twin Pines State Park’s swimming pool feels like a dream.
She finds more than she could have ever hoped for: coworkers who become friends, Brandon Murphy, a goofy boy who tries to win her heart, and a pool run by the quiet and mysterious Alice Livingston.
But just when Jonie finally feels settled, it all comes crashing down. Alice, who has managed the park pool for decades, guarding both its traditions and her own heart, watches Jonie navigate the kind of disappointment she knows all too well.
P Is for Peril
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one—a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret—and now a whole lot of beauty, money, and lies are proving to be a fatal distraction from what Kinsey should have seen all along: a killer standing right before her eyes…
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An Indie Next Pick | Peruse Book Club Pick | A Room of Your Own Book Club Pick | A Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Selection
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world.
Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted.
Echoes of Mercy
by Kayla Lowe
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sometimes salvation comes quietly—like the ripple of water over stone.
Luke Mercer has spent years in the shadows, rescuing those the world has forgotten. When Hannah Whitaker’s sister goes missing along the river running through Glory, he can’t turn away. Hannah is determined, brave—and haunted by guilt. Together, they confront danger, uncover secrets, and discover that faith and love often echo where hope seems lost.
How To Be Happy, Healthy and Whole
by Victor Dedaj
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The majority of individuals strive for better health, a slimmer figure, and increased vitality. However, the reality is that many are facing more health issues, higher rates of obesity, and diminished energy levels. Over the last four decades, the prevalence of chronic illnesses has surged.
So, what solutions exist? Victor Dedaj explores the necessary steps to achieve a healthier, more joyful existence, and how to significantly lower the chances of developing chronic conditions.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Company of Cats
by Marian Babson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A millionaire’s cat may be the key to a murder mystery in this delightful novel from an Agatha Award–winning author.
When Annabel Hinchby-Smythe accepts an offer to serve as interior decorator to computer mogul Arthur Arbuthnot, she can’t help noticing that no one in the house seems to genuinely like the tycoon—aside from his cat, Sally.
After Arthur’s sudden death—and the revelation that Sally is named sole inheritor in his will—Annabel’s new task will be finding out the truth about her client’s demise, and keeping the furry heiress safe from harm.
Don’t Look Back
by JJ Burgess
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He saved her. Now he owns her.
Exhausted new mother Lucy is rushing her baby to hospital. Distracted by her sick child, she loses control of the car, and hits Roger, her elderly neighbor.
Terrified of being sent to prison and separated from her infant son, she makes a split-second decision and flees the scene.
Her boyfriend Ian realizes what she has done and helps her cover it up. Lucy is incredibly grateful, until she begins to understand that his kindness comes at a price. Small favors become demands. Demands become threats…
Exit Strategy
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing.
Second—a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climates. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault…
The Steradian Gate
by Nathaniel Blevens
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Peace through Compliance. The motto of the regime delivers a succinct message—Do as we say or be destroyed socially, financially, or via execution.
Ethan Burke had been trying to figure out adulting when he inherited a mysterious artifact and accompanying journal from his late uncle. While researching the artifact, he meets Summer McKeown, whose been doing some research of her own to find her missing brother. When Ethan first offers to help, he has no idea their destinies are intertwined.
They discover his artifact is a key that opens a gateway between the five dimensions, The Steradian Gate. Now they’re trapped in Lunaria, a dimension a hundred years behind technologically that’s being cleansed by the regime who’ve discovered Ethan holds one of the five Steradian Keys; keys foretold to supply immense power to those who wield them all.
Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz Nugent
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
This “haunting and poignant tale, one that won’t be easy to forget any time soon” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine), follows an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past—from internationally bestselling author Liz Nugent.
Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from hungry reporters and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the repressed memories of her horrific early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say.
The Unseen
by Katherine Webb
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Katherine Webb’s debut novel, The Legacy, was an international bestseller—and her remarkable second effort, The Unseen, is as gripping, thrilling, and unforgettable as her first. In this compelling story of love, deception, obsession, and illusion, the arrival of two dangerous strangers in a small village in England in the early 1900s disrupts the quiet lives of a vicar with a fascination with spiritualism and his naïve young wife, and ultimately leads to murder. The Unseen is literary suspense at its most entertaining and enthralling, truly superior fiction not unlike the captivating tales of Kate Morton and Diane Setterfield.
The Long Walk
by Stephen King
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the “long walk” and there is only one winner—the one that survives.
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping. The winner gets “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But the rules of the Long Walk are harsh and the stakes could not be higher…
Any Other Name
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Walt Longmire is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging deeper, Walt uncovers an incriminating secret so dark that it threatens to claim other lives even before the sheriff can serve justice—Wyoming style.