Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mistletoe Murders
by Laurinda Wallace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Gracie Andersen’s friend, Marci is opening The Mistletoe Bed-and-Breakfast after months of restoring the crumbling Victorian estate outside of the Western New York village. The grim history has captured the interest of the travel world and local residents. The house begins to reveal its macabre past on the cusp of the B & B’s opening, enmeshing Gracie and her husband, Marc into investigating crimes both past and present. Does evil still lurk under the Mistletoe?
Beneath the Skin
by Nicci French
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don’t seem to think so. Now, with no clear suspect and amid the growing threat of violence, the victims become the accused as authorities dig into their backgrounds for clues as to why they might have attracted the unrelenting attention of a killer…
Mr. Shivers
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Discover Robert Jackson Bennett’s stunning debut, “set during the Great Depression and reading like a collaboration between Stephen King and John Steinbeck” (Publishers Weekly — starred review).
In the ruins of the Dust Bowl, thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only: Revenge.
Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant who murdered Connelly’s daughter.
The Lost City of Z
by David Grann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado…
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
by Stephen Jones
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth
For decades, H. P. Lovecraft’s masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today’s most prominent and well-respected horror authors—the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes. Included is Lovecraft’s own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
All Through The Night
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.
All of Alvirah’s deductive powers and Willy’s world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears…
Never Never
by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning…they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.
But the more they learn about the couple they used to be…the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Saw Stars
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
UFOs in Mooseville? Rumors abound that a missing backpacker has been abducted, and it looks like Jim Qwilleran’s sedate summer may be interrupted by an investigation – with the help of his own little aliens, Koko and Yum Yum. And when the backpacker’s body turns up – and transplanted Floridian Owen Bowen is found dead soon afterward—the search for intelligent life turns into a hunt for a murderer…
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
The Father’s Tree
by Crystal Jencks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The tale of the Garden of Eden is one of the most well-known and universally loved stories of all time, and Dr. Elise Harper and her team believe there’s more than a little truth to it.
To prove the science books wrong and religious lore right, they trek into the Caucasus mountain ranges, amidst a world ravaged with war and apocalyptic tragedy. But shortly into the expedition, events pivot dangerously. Nature and hidden supernatural forces interrupt their mission, and the team’s motivation transforms from finding the Tree of Life to simply maintaining life itself.
Whiskey Beach
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore – and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home.
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of – but never arrested for – the murder of his soon-to-be ex-wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though…
The Girl Who Killed Her Mom
by MCGARVEY BLACK
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I was barely fifteen when I killed my mom. No one knew . . . until now.
I’ve spent my entire life trying to make up for what happened that day. I’ve turned my life around. I have a handsome, wealthy husband; two daughters who are everything to me; a stunning Connecticut beachfront home. I’m grateful for every minute that we have together.
Today I come home to find a silver-and-blue gift-wrapped box on the porch. The note inside says: Who killed Midge Lester? Midge Lester was my mom. Someone knows.
The Savant of Chelsea
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author, Suzanne Jenkins!
A Manhattan surgeon travels to New Orleans to face the tragedies and secrets of her youth, leading on a journey to madness. Warning: Contains graphic descriptions of child abuse.
“Jeez what a harrowing read. Molestation from an early age. A mother who doesn’t care even when Alexandria gives birth at the age of 10. Eventually the mother gives the child away on Alexandria first day back at school! As an adult having made something of get self and become a surgeon, her mother dies and while going to see about her mother’s funeral she finds her daughter who is a drug addict and prostitute with 7 children of whom she uses the oldest girl for money and molestation. Alexandria gets her daughter arrested and the court awards her custody but her daughter gets relased and she’s coming for her girls!” by Amazon Customer
The First Harm
by Steven Piskula
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Tanna Christensen spent countless hours planning for her first gross anatomy dissection, but nothing could have prepared her for what she’s found. Beneath her scalpel lies a cadaver riddled with disturbing genetic abnormalities—evidence pointing to an unthinkable crime.
Tanna believes her discovery is the tip of a terrifying secret that goes far deeper than a single corpse. But when her investigation leads to a brutal murder, a lethal cover-up threatens to destroy the future she once dreamed of.
The Prediction
by Jean Rezab
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thea kept her visions a secret her entire life. Her father warned her other people would find her knowledge of future events abnormal, leaving Thea feeling both distant from him and others.
When Thea’s latest vision reveals someone shooting her father, her psychic ability can’t be hidden from those close to her. Searching for the potential murderer, she discovers her father has enemies from the past.
With his long-held secrets coming to light, can Thea finally have the close family relationships she’s always wanted?
Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series!
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn…
Red Star Falling
by Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.
Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus—a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke’s list of painful regrets, for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince, was captured by Russian operatives and supposedly executed.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Weeding Out Trouble
by Heather Webber
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A landscaper with a knack for unearthing the truth is out to catch a killer and clear her friend’s name in this cozy mystery.
Landscaper Nina Quinn would do anything for her employees. After all, her garden makeover business wouldn’t be blooming if it weren’t for them. So when Kit Pipe, her right-hand handyman, goes missing, Nina immediately starts digging into his disappearance. But all she finds is Kit’s recent ex, Daisy Bedinghaus – and she’s dead as dirt.
The Cemetery Spot
by Jenna Moquin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When April arrived at her sister’s house, she didn’t expect to find a dead man…
Auggie has stabbed her abusive husband, Roy. Afraid of the cops due to Roy’s ties with the police force, Auggie convinces April to help her get rid of the body. April agrees because she owes a debt to her sister and wants to keep her out of prison. The two sisters bury Roy in the woods, near an old cemetery.
But someone is watching.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From a New York Times bestselling author, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, now a wife and mother, returns to catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient tomb.
It’s 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They’re raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville’s husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor.
Zero Hour
by Steve Sheffield
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Want a guy who plays by the rules? Don’t pick Virgo.
Special forces veteran Eddie Virgo is doing hard time for taking the law into his own hands. But now he is offered an early release if he agrees to work one last job…
Stacy, daughter of wealthy senator Daniel Donovan, has been kidnapped. And Virgo’s lethal skills seem to offer the best shot at getting her safely home…
The Beast You Are
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
Deadfall
by Aline Templeton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and conflicted family members all competing for a say in its future. Then a body is found, and everything starts to look suspicious.
As DCI Kelso Strang’s investigation grows more complex, he unearths layers of hatred, greed and revenge that cast suspicion even on the local police force.
A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism—until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly wealthy white couple…
The Test
by Patricia Gussin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Renowned philanthropist and billionaire Paul Parnell had reached the pinnacle of monetary success, but not without cost. Had he put too much emphasis on work and spent too little time with his family?Determined to leave something far more valuable than money to his six children, Paul instructs his lawyers to create an unusual last will and testament. This unorthodox will, which stipulates that the lions share of Pauls two billion dollar estate be given to the heirs who pass the test, was Pauls last hope of creating an enduring legacy by inspiring his children to give back to society and embrace a code of moral values…
Old Bones
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.
Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called “Lost Camp” of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism.
Whiplash
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-tech covert strike force takes aim at a nuclear armed extremist in the New York Times–bestselling co-author’s military techno-thriller.
The world is watching as the U.S. and Iran agree to lay down their swords. But one man hiding in Africa holds the power to obliterate the peace. Shrouded by the bloody madness of tribal warfare, Iranian functionary-turned-fanatic Bani Aberhadji has created a vast network dedicated to unleashing a nuclear nightmare. Only by chance are American agents now learning of its existence . . . and it may already be too late.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Twisted Skein
by Sally Goldenbaum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Summer is on the wane in the charming Massachusetts village of Sea Harbor, but there’s plenty of excitement in store courtesy of a fashion show that’s keeping the Seaside Knitters busy—along with a chilling killer with secrets to hide.
Like every coastal town, Sea Harbor needs tourists and their dollars. But there’s something special about that time of year when summer people return to their normal lives, and the wide sandy beaches welcome back locals with their dogs and strollers. And this year, even as the season cools down, Izzy Perry’s Sea Harbor Yarn Studio is heating up, thanks to an upcoming fashion benefit…
Demons Never Lose: Greed
by Ava Lock
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
GREED. TREASURE. FURY.
Fury’s back in this action-packed thriller. Introducing the Amazon bestselling Demons Never Lose, where dreams of swashbuckling pirates, forbidden desires, and cursed treasures magically blend into a paranormal dark fantasy that will leave you spellbound. Get ready for an unforgettable Caribbean adventure filled with cryptic ghosts, supernatural dangers, and thrilling escapades.
Demons, Pirates, and Ghosts in the Same Novel? Yes, Welcome to Joscelyn’s World…
The Last Widow
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, brings back Will Trent and Sara Lintonin this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming
A mysterious kidnapping. On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s been vanished into thin air.
A devastating explosion…
Thief of Souls
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
You can die and you can lose your soul. They aren’t the same.
The pandemic is over, Jazz Fest pending in New Orleans, and French Quarter private detective Wyatt Thomas has a new client. Dita Lika, the headliner of this year’s Jazz Fest is having a recurrent nightmare related to New Orleans. Will Wyatt solve the mystery of her Satan-related nightmare, or will the Prince of Darkness prevail, claim their souls and drag them both to hell?
Weapon of Choice
by Patricia Gussin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. This sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn into the diagnosis of the first case of HIV/AIDS seen in Tampa.
But the challenge of this new disease is dwarfed by the disaster that impacts Laura’s life a few days later. A highly resistant bacterial infection is raging in the surgical intensive care unit, and patients are dying. To make matters worse, Laura’s daughter is exposed to the bacteria and begins to show symptoms.
The Paris Widow
by Kimberly Belle
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle.
When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him. But her secure world comes crashing down when Adam goes missing after an explosion in the city square. Unable to reach him, she panics.
The Family Experiment
by John Marrs
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.
Some families are virtually perfect…
The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.
She’s Not Sorry
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse…
A terrible accident.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
A shocking revelation…
No one is safe…
Revenge at Charlotte Lake
by D.L. Reavis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ethan Dawson, a former Army Ranger turned investigative reporter, thought exposing a network of white-collar criminals would be his ultimate story. But when corruption within the legal system allows his wife and daughters’ killers to walk free, Ethan finds himself at a crossroad between justice and revenge. His experience and rage lead him to pursue vigilante justice, unveiling a darker underbelly of criminal influence and forcing him into hiding.
With enemies on his trail, Ethan escapes by train, befriending a young mother and her children as cover. He finds sanctuary in the secluded Christian community in the High Sierra Mountains. Here, Ethan wrestles with adapting to a peaceful way of life, working as a shepherd and forming an unlikely bond with a young woman. Yet, peace remains elusive when his enemies track him down, threatening his newfound refuge.
Vibrations : Children of Atlantis
by A. R. Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two teens, two powers—would you die to save your loved ones?
Nada has always stayed in the shadows, terrified of what might happen if the world discovered her rare ability to see sound waves as light. But her quiet life shatters when she meets Kani, a fiercely curious new student who can sense and manipulate vibrations. Their meeting triggers a series of mysterious attacks, exposing a dangerous truth: they are the last descendants of Atlantis, heirs to a forgotten power…
