Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Wedding to Die For
by Jovie Grace
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
She left him at the altar. Now he’s the one who holds all the cards. Can solving a mystery together serve up a second chance at love?
Three years ago, Bea Hazelwood jilted humble cowboy Griff Jameson to please her well-to-do family. Now she’s broke and applying for a job at the inn he owns.
Griff doesn’t need Bea stirring up old feelings while he’s trying to track a deadly gang of train robbers. Secrecy is key to serving as an undercover detective…
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy’s disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state police have uncovered no leads…
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Autopsy
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she’s inherited both an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.
The Crimson Maple
by C.R. Eaton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
At the heart of the forest lies a dark secret…
Kelvin Forest provides a place of serenity for historian Hugo and his friend Den, a strange-looking boy with superhuman strength. Hugo spends his days studying ancient texts in the nearby town of Harten while Den keeps busy doing what boys do in a place where people won’t make fun of him.
Their peace is interrupted when a bounty hunter named Grill stops by and inquires about a wanted man believed to be in the area. At about the same time, pets start disappearing from town, and they agree to team up to investigate the forest.
Maisie Dobbs Bundle #3
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Mapping of Love: In this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
Death and A Lesson in Secrets: Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government..
No Regrets
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A ship’s pilot legendary for guiding giant freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies’ man, and a beloved resident of Washington’s idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even in his golden years, he made shocking headlines when he inexplicably disappeared at eighty. Had he committed suicide, or had he run off with a lifelong love? Or did a trail of gruesome evidence lead to the home Rolf shared with his wife, Ruth? On an island where everyone thought they knew their neighbors, the veneer of their marriage masked a convoluted case that took many years to solve.
The Blue Nowhere
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
His code name is Phate—and he infiltrates victims’ digital lives with surgical precision and lures them to their deaths—making technology itself the weapon.
To stop him, authorities release former hacker Wyatt Gillette from prison, unwilling but essential, to assist detective Frank Bishop of the Cyber Crimes Unit. Gillette and Bishop form an uneasy partnership: one steeped in cutting-edge code, the other grounded in old-school detective work.
The Ultimate Dwarf Bounty Hunter Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Johnny Walker was a good bounty hunter in his day. James Brownstone good.
But everybody has a line, including Johnny, and he retreated from the world to lick his wounds.
But now the bad guys are back and he’s not going to let another young woman be murdered.
Join Johnny as his world gets turned upside down by his elf partner and teenage shifter Amanda Coulier in this 20-book boxed set! This boxed set contains the 12 books of the Dwarf Bounty Hunter series as well as the 8 books of Academy of Necessary Magic. More than 5,000 pages of urban fantasy adventures await you with these two complete series!
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth.
Meanwhile, the enigmatic Shinar Cane demonstrates to the world his telepathic connection to an ‘alien’ entity, promising power but leading down a dark and deceptive path.
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
Not Quite Dead Yet
by Holly Jackson
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
In seven days, Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Maid’s Secret
by Nita Prose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, two good things are just around the corner – a taping of the hit antiquities TV show Hidden Treasures and, even more exciting, her wedding to Juan Manuel.
When Molly brings in some old trinkets to be appraised on the show, one item is revealed to be a rare and coveted artifact worth millions. Molly becomes a rags-to-riches sensation, and a media frenzy swirls as she prepares to sell her priceless treasure. Then, on auction day, the treasure suddenly vanishes. and Molly and her friends find themselves at the center of the boldest art heist in recent memory.
Last Seen Alone
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse. She is not afraid to go after the sleaziest targets to get payback for her clients. Leigh is laser-focused on her career – to the exclusion of everything else – until a seemingly routine case and a determined cop turn her world upside down.
Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds is no stranger to midnight callouts. But when he gets summoned to an abandoned car on a desolate road, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with an unusual crime scene. A pool of blood in the nearby woods suggests a brutal homicide. But where is the victim?
Center of Enigma
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In homage to Agatha Christie, this modern-day mystery weaves together a captivating tapestry of comradeship, enigma, and suspense in the picturesque Amish community of Paradise, PA.
Haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng, a recent university graduate from New York, seeks solace in the inheritance left by her late grandaunt. Yet, per the will’s conditions, she must take on the role of a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise, Pennsylvania. Upon arriving, she rescues an Amish girl and entangles herself in the mysterious disappearances of young Amish women.
K-9: Tracking the Target
by Elizabeth Heiter
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hunting a dangerous prey K-9 Cold Case: With the help of his K-9 companion, Patches, FBI victim specialist Jax Diallo vows to help police chief Keara Hernandez solve the attacks rocking their Alaskan community.
K-9 Hideout: Police handler Tate Emory is thankful that Sabrina Jones saved his trusty K-9 companion, Sitka, but he didn’t sign up for national media exposure. That publicity unveils his true identity to the dirty Boston cops he took down…and brings Sabrina’s murderous stalker even closer to his target.
The Watchmaker’s Hand
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking.
Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs have to dodge his brilliant scheme to destroy them both, while racing against time to stop the construction site terrorists.
The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich, Steve Hamilton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Type A special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.
Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe…
Murder 101
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children, grandchildren, and their foster son, Gabe.
But working for the Greenbury Police Department isn’t as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated by his new partner, Tyler McAdams, a former Harvard student and young buck with a bad attitude.
The Widow’s Watch
by Marie Wilkens
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ella Wilson, a traveling hospice nurse, takes a job in a small town, caring for a stroke patient in a house steeped in unsettling secrets. The patient’s son warns her about his charming but dangerous brother, yet it’s the house itself that seems to hold the darkest truths. As Ella digs deeper into the family’s past, she uncovers a connection to her own life that shakes her to the core. The revelations force Ella to face a part of herself she never knew existed. Some secrets refuse to stay buried, and this one could cost her everything.
The Death Mask
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer.
World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve’s services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask.
The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair
by Meg Myers Morgan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Gemma Sinclair is coming undone.
At first glance, she seems to have it all: a successful career as a therapist, a devoted husband, two young sons, and a beautiful home. But upon closer inspection, there are serious fractures rooted in professional demands, family stresses, and—most notably—the unexpected onset of postpartum depression.
After a frightening accident injures her newborn son, Gemma lies about who is responsible. As her lies compound and pressure builds, she has no choice but to confront long-buried family secrets. Gemma soon finds her career threatened, her marriage in jeopardy, and her sanity stretched to the breaking point.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The sleepy town of Halcyon Springs, Maryland hides a terrible secret – the unsolved murder of Drew Scanlon.
Reluctant restaurant owner, Izzie Di Sante was following crimes and writing stories until she returned home to help with the family business. Unlike her sister, Chloe, Izzie’s not a foodie. She itches to write about a murder. With recent changes in the restaurant, Izzie carves out time to find her next story and an alert on the Scanlon murder gets her attention. While Chloe is spicing things up in the kitchen, Izzie’s focus is on the stalled Scanlon murder investigation.
Nothing adds up in Izzie’s mind and the detective in charge let he know he’s been told not to ask too many questions as the family is powerful. That only spurs her to delve deeper…
It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. The country’s viewers are glued to their television sets, anxiously awaiting the news that their favorite morning-television personality’s little girl has been found.
With each passing day, the FBI and local authorities track down every lead: A profile of the kidnapper’s most likely characteristics is developed, every fan letter written to Eliza over the last six months is scrutinized, every sex offender registered within a fifty-mile radius is interviewed, and psychics from around the country appear on Eliza’s doorstep offering their help.
The King’s Bow
by Jamie Roe
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A throne falls to voracious teeth. An ancient power lies buried beneath the streets. A reluctant heir flees into predator lands. Can he reclaim his crown and unleash the fire in his blood before his people are butchered and his world devoured?
Asher has spent his life running from responsibility. But when tragedy strikes and the Rabbethi kingdom is threatened by a bloodthirsty horde, he discovers there’s nowhere left to run. With his people fractured and their survival uncertain, Asher must become the one thing he has always feared – king.
His only hope to re-unite his fractured kingdom lies in an ancient artifact lost to time, a divine weapon said to grant its wielder a fragment of divinity…
Carte Blanche
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
James Bond comes to life as you’ve never seen him before in the explosive spy thriller and international bestseller by Jeffrey Deaver.
The action begins when a Night Action alert cuts short a high-end dinner with a captivating woman. Headquarters has decrypted a whispered threat—plans for a chemical disaster with casualties in the thousands, British interests squarely in its crosshairs…
A rebooted James Bond set firmly in the 21st century, Carte?Blanche blends suspenseful espionage, relentless action, and a morally complex protagonist navigating terrorism in a globalized world—a must-read thriller fiction experience.
The Vanishing Hour
by Seraphina Nova Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street comes a shocking thriller about secrets…and the lengths some people will go to keep them.
Grace Holloway keeps to herself. Since narrowly escaping death at the hands of the man who kidnapped her, she’s thrown herself into the small inn she runs in Rock Harbor, Maine. It’s quiet, quaint and, in the off-season, completely isolated—the perfect place for Grace to keep her own secrets.
But Grace isn’t the only one with something to hide, and Rock Harbor isn’t just a sleepy vacation town. Someone is taking young women—girls who look an awful lot like Grace did when she was kidnapped so many years ago.
Full Tilt
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes’s Full Tilt, he lives life in the fast lane and she’s along for the ride-with no brakes….
Jamie Swift has one priority in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina: running the local newspaper. Romance runs second. But with the arrival of her silent partner, the notoriously mysterious and sexy Maximillian Holt, Jamie’s life gets shaken up. Max claims he’s here to give his brother-in-law a vote of confidence. A former wrestler, Frankie Fontana’s now taking his shots in the political ring…
The Southern Novels Boxed Set
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Four chilling tales from the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song and the “true master of the Gothic novel” (Booklist).
From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award–winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these four unforgettable novels.
Boy’s Life,
Mystery Walk,
Gone South,
Usher’s Passing
Unto Us a Son Is Given
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A Library Journal Mystery Bestseller • A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year • A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year
Guido Brunetti is urged by his father-in-law to investigate—and preferably intervene in—the seemingly innocent plan of the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would then be heir to Gonzalo’s entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo’s friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can’t be allowed his pleasure in peace.
No More Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce—or so she wants to believe. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man and her biggest client will wed this weekend at a historic hotel on the beach. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work—until a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps unfinished business in her path.
Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strands Aria, he jumps at the opportunity to come to her rescue. Getting stuck in a hotel without power is a bonus. As long as the snow continues to fall, he has a shot to make her love him again.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six…
The World Beyond the Redbud Tree
by C. Brightwell , Madison
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world as we know it is built upon choices. If different choices had been made in the past, we might be living in an entirely different world. What if the so-called Lost Colony of settlers in North Carolina were in fact not lost at all but instead merged happily with the Native American tribes to create a new people and unique society?
Sixteen-year-old Charli is living in a pandemic-ravaged 2020 America when she stumbles upon the parallel world of the Q’ehazi. Drawn to these peaceful people, whose constant joy and optimism provides a stark contrast to the suffering and violence in her own life, Charli wants nothing more than to stay with them forever-but first, she must learn to attain a state of grace…
Night Train to Memphis
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An assistant curator of Munich’s National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she’ll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5’11” of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as “Sir John Smythe.” And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him. . . with his new flame…
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.
Red Cloud’s Revenge
by Terry C. Johnston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Seven month of small reprisals since the Fetterman massacre had passed. Sergeant Seamus Donegan of the Army of the West had witnessed proud leaders–both Indian and White–steel themselves for the withering clashes to come. And on two consecutive summer days, battle erupted–drowning the Dakota Territory in a damburst of bloodshed: the Hay Field Fight and Wagon Box Fight of 1867.
The Malevolent Eight
by Sebastien de Castell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The stakes have never been higher.
The world is teetering on the brink of annihilation. The Lords Celestine and the Lords Devilish, celestial and infernal beings locked in an age-old enmity, have at last found the perfect battlefield for their apocalyptic Great Crusade: the mortal realm.
Cade Ombra, former Glorian Justiciar turned mercenary wonderist, leads a band of emotionally unstable mages in a desperate bid to prevent the impending clash of divine and diabolical titans. Failure will leave humanity to be conscripted into an eternal war, serving as foot soldiers doomed to oblivion.
The Secret Billionaire’s Last Chance
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s all broken. Hearts, bones, trust, and his latest motorcycle prototype. No one realizes that it’s the billionaire King of the Motorcycle World lying in the hospital. His life and secrets dangle by surgical thread.
Cole is found at the bottom of the canyon two days after missing the curve on a stormy late-night ride. He arrives covered in blood, with a broken body and no identity.
His nurse attends him daily for long hours. Speaking softly, touching gently, caring deeply. Healing his body, saving him. He knows it’s her. Tessa.
What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller
A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.