This book selection was updated on May 31st, 2026.
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Forensic expert Ridge Warner saves his fiancée’s life, but the blood that keeps her alive exposes a secret that turns their wedding countdown deadly.
In Woodland Park, Colorado, a murdered pastor, a desecrated church, and a hidden explosive pull Ridge into a case where every answer leads deeper into betrayal. Ridge can read evidence. The harder question is whether he can read the woman he loves. $2.99 on Kindle.
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FREE – Stand-alone or in the series, you’ll love this cozy mystery. Small-town murder with amateur sleuths you can’t get enough of. Free on Kindle.
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When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Violet visits the sticky heat of the South to help her best friend find her missing husband. Her last case involved missing ChapStick, but she’s all Fiona has, since the sheriff abandoned the case. However, as the clues add up, she realizes everyone is a suspect, including her own friend. Perfect for fans of small-town secrets and amateur sleuths. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A clean, humorous cozy mystery series featuring a sharp-witted amateur sleuth, small-town secrets, and birding adventures gone wrong.
When widow Peg Howard starts a birding group in Pensacola to cope with empty-nest syndrome, she doesn’t expect to find herself solving murders. But with a keen eye for detail and plenty of time on her hands, Peg keeps uncovering clues others miss—and landing in the middle of dangerous investigations.
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Lieutenant Virginia Hornet is on a suicide mission to save a love she thought she had left in her past in this tense, breakneck thriller by Army veteran and award-winning author Victoria Montes.
Ginny Hornet thought the hardest part of her past was behind her—until a murder case lands on her desk and pulls her straight back into it. Captain Tom Rivers is accused of the brutal murder his pregnant fiancée.
To everyone else, the evidence looks airtight—all Tom needs to do is sign the plea dea...
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From the world of the #1 Amazon Urban Fiction hit The Monster Besides the Silence comes the newest installment in the Wolf Gospel Universe: a hard, fast, pressure-loaded street novel about hunger, loyalty, fear, and the deadly math of bad decisions made too quickly.
91 Seconds follows Augustus “Ock B” Jenkins, a man pushing forty and running out of respectable ways to survive.
The jobs dried up. The money never stretches far enough. Family still needs him. Pride still tells him he can hold...
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A massive EMP plunges Los Angeles into chaos. Trapped in a penthouse, Cassy must use her military training to protect her sister and survive fires, looters, and a city collapsing into darkness. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted library and a clever talking cat!
When this club selects a book, magic happens. They are whooshed inside the book and become the main characters as the mystery comes to life. It is exhilarating fun – until they realize they can’t get out until they solve the crime and reach The End.
In every book journey they are excited to land in a unique world and meet a different kind of paranormal being. And even better, in these books, calories don’t count,...
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Every year, thousands of children disappear into networks that exist only because powerful people protect them — politicians, judges, investigators quietly told to look elsewhere. Sixty-seven pages of one such ledger fall into the hands of three people the system has already failed: a soldier whose niece was on the list, a quiet European who has waited fifteen years, and a third man who reads it end to end and says, “I choose violence.” What follows is precise, methodical, and unc...
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Time to discover a brilliantly twisty mystery series.
A tradesman is set alight in his vehicle on an isolated road. His daughter is missing. And time is running out.
“I was on the edge of my seat and couldn’t read fast enough.”“Totally riveting.”“Superb murder mystery and police procedural.”
DI Fiona Williams is a driven detective juggling work with a family crisis and growing suspicions about her new boss. Her plan to take a break is shattered when she comes across a burning van...
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The Gripping Thriller That Launched The Award-Winning, Bestselling Series!
FBI agent Nick Bracco can’t stop a Kurdish terrorist from firing missiles at random homes across the country. The police can’t stand watch over every household, so Bracco recruits his cousin Tommy to help track down this terrorist. Tommy is in the Mafia. Oh yeah, it gets messy fast. As fast as you can turn the pages. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Not only will you be pulled into some of the most haunted and active places investigated through great storytelling, but this book is also the only one of its kind, containing 90 QR codes to scan as you read through to hear the ghosts/spirits speak right off the pages! There are also a couple of bonus videos as well. Be sure to use earbuds for listening pleasure. Enjoy! $3.99 on Kindle.
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Three best friends. A lifetime of secrets.
Sahar, Riley, and Jenna have been inseparable since middle school—or so they thought. Now one of them is dead, and the investigation begins exposing affairs, betrayals, and buried lies none of them saw coming. The past they thought was behind them is catching up fast. And the truth may destroy everything they built together. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Between possessions and poltergeists, Elinor speaks with the dead to solve mysteries in this Gaslamp fantasy. Historical Fantasy, ghost mystery with a slow burn romance in a completed series with over 800 reviews.
Elinor Chalamet’s talent to speak with the dead may have landed her in the soup.
Witty and clever, Elinor uses her mediumship skills to hunt for her father’s killer. So when a body in the canal brings her to the morgue, she’s happy to help until Tristan Fontaine, the Duke de Arc...
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When an EMP kills the grid on Halloween, Lance Cooper races through a city of fire, fear, and violence to reach the people he loves. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When the power goes out for good, chaos takes over. Evelyn Hart, a surgeon haunted by loss, must survive gangs, violence, and betrayal. With only her skills and courage, she faces a ruthless new world where every choice could mean life or death. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A forgotten legend. A missing scientist. A discovery that could change humanity forever.
When gunmen shatter a quiet weekday morning and abduct archeologist Francisco Andrade from his university, authorities turn to his former protégé, Dr. Nick Randall, who’s thrust into a race that spans continents and centuries.
What begins as a desperate rescue mission quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.
From the treacherous jungles of South America to hidden caves in the Caribbean and the...
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Finalist for the 2026 ITW Thriller Award! When a beautiful TV reporter hires PI Dick Moonlight to protect her from Russian gangsters, he’s pulled into a deadly web of corruption, lies, and murder. With killers closing in and no one to trust, survival becomes his only shot at revenge. Fast, gritty, and packed with twists. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a brutal killing shatters the peace of Boonsboro, the only clue left behind is a single, chilling symbol: the letter Y. Deputy Travis Steele, a battle-tested lawman with a sharp mind and a mission, is tasked with unraveling the mystery before the killer strikes again. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Fame was his cover. Now it’s a death sentence. When CIA agent Brad James undercover as a popstar discovers a plot to overthrow the power structure in the United States, he is abandoned by his superiors and targeted for assassination. Can he stay alive long enough to foil the conspiracy, clear his name, and bring the real traitors to justice? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Book 1, Charley’s Ghost seriesUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
When Amanda’s lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce.
Then she discovers he’d been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not just dead… murdered.
On the good side, at least they are no longer married. But she’s the primary suspect in Charley’s murder�...
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The Westcombe Hall Mysteries is a cozy magical boarding school series set at Westcombe Hall — a traditional girls’ school where polished routines and house rivalries conceal an older, stranger magic. Every bell, portrait, locked corridor, and school tradition hides something the governors would rather not know about.
Each book is told entirely through the eyes of Miss Beatrice Harrow, headmistress: composed, dry-witted, quietly protective, and carrying a secret about the school that str...
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Dr. Amelia Clarke, a renowned philosopher, is thrown into a whirlwind of personal and professional upheaval as she grapples with the age-old question of identity: If something is gradually replaced, part by part, is it still the same? Tasked with restoring a famous historical ship in a groundbreaking preservation project, Amelia confronts both the physical rebuilding of the ship and her own sense of self. Her world begins to unravel as she notices small but eerie changes not only in the ship bu...
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She wanted safety. She found a controlled community instead.
Your new neighbors are watching. For your own good.
I thought moving to Serenity Heights would fix everything. After my divorce, the manicured lawns, smiling neighbors, and promise of safety felt like a fresh start—exactly what I needed to rebuild a broken life.
But insomnia has a way of revealing what daylight hides.
While the rest of the neighborhood sleeps, I’m awake—watching residents move through the streets in eerie synchr...
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When an EMP wipes out power, Renee must protect her daughter and their wildlife preserve from strangers, unrest, and the growing fear that the collapse has begun. Survival means guarding family, land, and trust before the quiet countryside becomes their prison. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a cursed heiress, a rejected suitor, a hostile relative, a ladder-climbing doctor, a mystery cat, and two naughty aunties mingle in a small Wisconsin town, mayhem and murder spring forth. Join Frankie Champagne as she unravels the granite quarry curse, armed with bakery, wine, and old-fashioned intuition, with a little help from her crew at Bubble and Bake. Free on Kindle.
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A fundraiser. A sudden blackout. And a murder no one saw coming.
Willie Wilder came to Grandview for a quieter life, not to investigate a body found backstage at the Community Center. But when a simple review of old bookkeeping ends in murder, Willie and her coffee-fueled Queenager friends are pulled back into the kind of trouble they never seem to avoid… despite repeated warnings by Sheriff CJ Corbin to stay out of it.
With her sharp-minded circle and her telepathic poodle Axel (who is very ...
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Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine. Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise uncovers the hidden system her father spent a lifetime curating, one designed not simply to protect the powerful, but to control th...
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When Phoebe Larkin inherits a boarding house for magical familiars, a grumpy raven, and a handwritten note that says “You see things,” she figures the hardest part will be learning the business. Then her first familiar client’s owner disappears, and the cat won’t stop growling at the friendliest person in the room. Two of the missing woman’s friends are hiding something. The cat knows which one. Phoebe just has to learn to listen. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a pet carrier appears on Phoebe Larkin’s porch at four in the morning with a young red fox curled trembling inside, she assumes she’s facing another puzzle from Harrowby Harbor’s quiet community of practitioners.
But the fox’s vigilance at the window isn’t grief for a missing owner — it’s fear of the man who’s been driving the back roads of the North Shore asking questions about a woman with a fox. As Phoebe traces the trail with help from animal...
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past. $0.99 on Kindle.
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One month into the collapse, Rob and his dog, Captain, have lost almost everything, but not their hope. Together, they are fighting their way toward a hidden prepper homestead, a place where life can start again. In the world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps them alive. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead—now they’re ghosting her. With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.
Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-d...
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A child lost. A secret buried. A trial that will change everything.
When a pregnant woman is brutally attacked and left in a coma, a shaken town demands justice—and fast. Police arrest the last person seen with her: a nonverbal special-needs man caught at the scene. To the public, it’s an open-and-shut case. The media explodes. And the calls for the death penalty grow louder by the hour.
Prosecutor Lori Franks is determined to win—no matter the cost.
Years ago, Lori made a decision she’...
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Sleuth out the reincarnators. Retrieve their jeweled eyes. Stop this world’s destruction. That’s Ailn’s reluctant mission—except he’s not really Ailn. He’s an impostor: a detective from another world who can’t even remember his own name.”You took my memories, and expect me to do you a favor?””Taking them away was my favor, Mr. Detective. Some endings are just too bitter. “Summoned by a young god with a terrible habit of hiding crucial details, the detective...
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The EMP hit at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the first fight broke out at the gas station. By Thursday, the grocery store was picked clean. By Friday, Jenna realized no one was coming to save them. $0.99 on Kindle.
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LIGHTNING is a multi-character, action-packed sci-fi thriller with an amoral villain, a raft of bad-guy accomplices, and footprints that spell danger for the Phoenix metro area. A genetic experiment at a military research lab has gone horribly wrong. Can the three protagonists–and one very smart dog–put the pieces together before danger picks them off one by one? $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a genetic experiment at a secret Arizona military lab goes sideways, the research subjects escape. Adam Barnett, an Army major, and woman rancher have gotten wind of the danger. Each holds a piece of the puzzle. Can they put their heads together before it’s too late? Only a remarkably smart dog has the full picture, and he’s not talking. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A serial killer confesses to an artificial intelligence across sixteen sessions. Chester LaRue is a modern-day serial killer. One night, he gets a call on his mobile from a dead woman telling him to kill his girlfriend. In an attempt to understand why he got this call, he feels compelled to confess his crimes. He does this by having 16 sessions with an AI called Simulacrum, version 4.6. Over each session, he either confesses to a crime or shares part of his history so the AI can understand more...
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