Best friends Emma and Abby work in the small town of Cozy Mountain, home to an exclusive resort that likes to control everything in its shadow. When an old friend returns to visit and promptly disappears, the two friends investigate and end up tangling with nefarious characters, alive and dead. If you love friends who are family, small town quirky characters, and paranormal shenanigans, you will love Cozy Mountain. Book 1 of 6. Free on Kindle.
Free: A Ghost on Cozy Mountain
October 8, 2022 By
The John Callahan Series
October 8, 2022 By
John Callahan is a good man with a sinister past—and his past will not let him live in peace. Against the odds, he matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and an IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as a monk in a rural Irish monastery, a vindictive superior banishes the handsome young priest to a derelict parish in New York City.
Father Callahan is forced back into dangerous filth, corruption, and crime. Can he remain a celibate priest, or will he abandon the life of faith for more sensual pleasures? Will he stay a good man or return to the dark criminal life he once knew so well?
Within each book of “The John Callahan Series,” Elizabeth Upton shares a gripping, thrilling, suspense-filled fictional story with lots of drama and intrigue. Books one through three are real page-turners for avid contemporary mystery readers.
$1.99 each on Kindle.
Waterborne
October 7, 2022 By
When Californians start getting sick from their drinking water, engineer Jake Bendel is forced to work with the FBI to discover the cause. The clock is ticking. Can they stop the terrorists and save millions of people? A thought-provoking thriller about a very real threat to the essence of life: water.
“An entertaining, action-packed tale involving viruses and terrorism.” – Kirkus Reviews
“A thriller that stacks up against any on your bookshelf, Waterborne is a penetrating novel that will keep your pulse pounding and your jaw agape!” – Indies Today
$0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Halloween Hoedowns Can Be Deadly: A Bucket List Mystery Short
October 7, 2022 By
Spooky decorations. Murderous intentions. It’s not a party until someone ends up dead.
Bluebonnet Hills, Texas. Sho Tanaka can’t shake the feeling he’s the odd man out. And being best buddies with a fading celebrity always seems to drop him in the midst of homegrown trouble. But when the suspended ICU nurse helps out at the local October festivities, he doesn’t expect to stumble over the librarian’s lifeless body.
Levi Blue is relishing his most demanding role to date. Faking it until he makes it as the interim mayor, the ex-TV tween detective is right on the job to hunt down a vicious murderer hiding among the boisterous crowds. But his script runs off the rails when the apparently deceased woman wanders back into the event… alive.
As Sho’s medical expertise is side-eyed by unamused partygoers, he dives deep to try to comprehend the bookish curator’s previous lack of pulse. And when a shocking turn disrupts the festive night, a gung-ho Levi partners with his reluctant sidekick and taps into his on-screen sleuthing skills to catch a creepy killer.
Can this not-so-dynamic duo solve another prickly puzzle in time for All Hallows’ Eve?
Halloween Hoedowns Can Be Deadly is a hilarious standalone short story in The Bucket List cozy mystery series. If you like colorful heroes, lighthearted humor, and twisty endings, then you’ll love Ryan Rivers’s small-town shenanigans.
Buy Halloween Hoedowns Can Be Deadly for a fatal fête today! Free on Kindle.
Duncan Hunter Thriller Boxed Set
October 7, 2022 By
Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board
“Duncan Hunter is a great character… an excellent read.” –A Good Thriller
PenCraft Award Winner – Best Thriller
***This box set includes the first four thrillers in the award-winning Duncan Hunter Thrillers. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Complete 5 Book Calamity Corners Box Set
October 7, 2022 By
A Pig Familiar, a Fairy, an Alligator Shifter and a Witch
Nann, that’s with 2 N’s, has inherited an old heirloom of a house, along with a pet pig familiar who talks through the radio and likes to steal toilet seats. Nothing strange there. After moving in she becomes fast friends with an alligator shifter and a fairy who works as a mechanic. The Vampire club meets upstairs above her book store. Little do they know that the ghost of a French vampire occupies the same space. And she’s not found of the sounds emitting from their bodies.
*Join Nann and friends as they battle sea hags and mundane creatures big and small in this Complete Series Set.*
This Complete Series Set includes these books:
Calm Before the Witch Storm
The Witch is in the Details
Better the Witch You Know
A Witch Axe to Grind
A Cauldron of Witch Tricks $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Both Sides of the Law: The Casper Halliday NYPD Series Book 1
October 6, 2022 By
He shared his father’s dream of becoming a detective.
A prison sentence was not part of the plan.
On his seventeenth birthday, in the throes of depression, Casper Halliday made a desperate decision. That decision brought him face-to-face with one of the most dangerous men in the city—and a future he could never have foreseen.
The Casper Halliday NYPD Series launches with the most unlikely of beginnings. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Last Variant
October 5, 2022 By
In 2024 the virus evolved. The doomsday variant, COVID-24, threatens President Gunner Harrison’s authoritarian grip as he campaigns for his third term in this explosive, mind-bending thriller from Jason James.
The charismatic but divisive President Harrison leads his devoted militia, The Patriots, to wage war against all who stand in the way of his continued reign. Senator Gabriela Garcia is Harrison’s young, astute, and tenacious rival candidate, but none of that matters when she’s infected with the last variant. Desperate, Senator Garcia takes the experimental Horus Vaccine as it’s rushed out to the world in a last-ditch effort to stop the spread of the fatal variant and rescue humanity from extinction.
The vaccine’s unexpected side effects expand her consciousness, radically transforming her perception of reality. Sixty percent of the vaccinated population experience the same mind-altering side effects as Senator Garcia. The remaining forty percent do not and develop a violent distrust toward the enlightened majority.
Will President Harrison’s haunting military past and his struggles with PTSD be his demise? Allied with a small circle of powerful influencers, will Senator Garcia be able to unseat the president and unite the fractured country, ushering in a new and enlightened era? One thing is certain—after the last variant, humanity will never be the same.
Free on Kindle.
Free: A Spirited Swindler
October 5, 2022 By
Empty nested and excited to start a new chapter in life, Quinn is almost ready to open her new lakeside café in the small town of Bookend Bay.
Everything is perfect until she realizes she’s being followed.
Confronting the stranger sets Quinn on a course where her problems no longer revolve around selecting a feature scone. She’s suddenly questioning everything she believed about her marriage and her sanity.
Midlife isn’t supposed to bring a change like this!
When police question her about a murder, Quinn quickly realizes she can’t tell anyone but her best friend about the conniving, ghostly stranger who’s stalking her. No one would believe she’s been talking to a dead person, and Quinn is barely coping with the truth herself.
Things go from bad to worse when the ghost makes her agenda clear—an exchange of favors that could save or sink Quinn’s café before she serves her first spiced latte.
The closer she gets to the truth, the more afraid she becomes of a horrible secret that could ruin her life.
Now, she can’t help thinking some secrets should rest in peace.
Free on Kindle.
Free: Dial P For Poison
October 5, 2022 By
Maggie Doyle quits her San Francisco PD job and moves to Whisper Island, Ireland, for a fresh start. But when her aunt Noreen becomes a murder suspect, Maggie must return to sleuthing — while keeping Noreen’s Movie Theater Café afloat! Free on Kindle.
Free: The Omega Strain (Mitch Herron 1)
October 5, 2022 By
Mitch Herron is the world’s deadliest assassin, but when he’s infected by a lethal biological weapon he only has days to hunt down those responsible and foil their attack. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Alpha Team: Volumes 1 – 3
October 4, 2022 By
An explosive trio of International Spy Thrillers. The Alpha Team is an elite private force of former SEALS, CIA operatives, and Delta Force members working for private a company under contract to the US Department of Defense. This trio of gripping novels will keep you on the edge of your seat. From beginning to end there’s no time to get bored as the incredible suspense builds. The action, the characters, and the storyline are truly compelling. You’ll be part of the action as author Parr trusts you into the team itself and interact with the eclectic and unique characters in the novels. Operation Due DiligenceOperation Black SwanOperation Raven The Dead Have Secrets Free on Kindle.
Free: Blood in the Bayou
October 4, 2022 By
On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about having outsiders poking around in their business.
When Jade has a chance meeting with a local hunter, she finds his assistance exactly what she needs to break through that unwelcoming barrier. She brings him on board as their go-between.
The hunter inserts himself into their investigation and gains Jade’s trust, but is he authentic, or does he have his own agenda?
A bone-chilling blindside and a dangerous chase through the Louisiana swamps is just the beginning, but the question remains—is Jade the hunter, or is she the one being hunted?
Free on Kindle.
Psychopath: A Serial Killer Novella
October 4, 2022 By
Morgan Leigh is sick and tired of mansplainers in suits. Ignored and fired too many times to count, the marketing bombshell rallies herself to clinch a coveted role with a prestigious ad agency. But after she’s tasked with landing a multi-millionaire self-help guru, she’s shocked to discover a string of grisly homicides with a disturbing link to her own firm.
Already grappling with crossing the line when she unprofessionally falls for her charismatic new client, Morgan is determined to rescue what remains of her future. But as she discovers harrowing details of the murders mirror her new boss’s wife’s cold case, the fiery-haired entrepreneur fears she’s on the payroll of a serial killer.
Can this brilliant rising star save her neck before she’s taken down by a perverted madman?
Psychopath: A Serial Killer Novella is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you like tenacious heroines, dark suspense, and pulse-pounding twists, then you’ll be mesmerized by Richard Thomas Lane’s white-knuckle story.
Buy Psychopath and strap in for an emotional roller-coaster ride today!
$0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Purgatory Creek
October 3, 2022 By
He knew. There was only a scrap of red material, but he knew.
Don Trask, Lead Agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, had no doubt what it was. For five years he had locked away the haunting memories associated with his most difficult case, the unsolved disappearance of a small girl. But now those memories had burst from their vault, and the nightmares that came with them were back.
Free on Kindle.
The Silk Road
October 3, 2022 By
Kimberly Ross has a quite lucrative, yet very illegal, secret business.
But secrets never stay hidden for long.
Suspense and thrills collide as Kimberly races against the clock to play a deadly game against a mysterious stalker who will stop at nothing to reveal the truth. Even if it kills.
$0.99 on Kindle.
Silver or Lead
October 3, 2022 By
“What would you do if you found out that the person you were trying to save might have to kill you?”
Teddy Dabrowski is a man harboring a dark secret until one fateful day a horrific crime at his favorite coffee house forces him to confront his past. $0.99 on Kindle.
Civil Terror: Gridlock
October 2, 2022 By
“A cyber-tale rooted in reality, Civil Terror: Gridlock is a thriller with surprisingly deep implications.” -BookTrib
A terrorist group led by a psychopath weaponizes the new national self-driving car network. The next attack promises to wipe out millions of Americans. Can a rogue FBI agent and the civil engineer who designed the system stop the attack? A fast-paced thriller from a real-life traffic engineer about the looming autonomous vehicle revolution. $0.99 on Kindle.
Blood Perfect
October 2, 2022 By
A young Joe Turner returns to defend Allston Walker, a man charged with the bloody attempted murder of a racist caretaker in this gripping courtroom thriller. $5.99 on Kindle.
Backyard Farming Boxset Books 1-3
October 2, 2022 By
Love heart-warming small-town cozy mysteries with relatable quirky characters? Grab the three-book boxset (Chicken Culprit/Cordial Killing/Honey Homicide) readers say are good clean fun! $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Joey Mancuso Crime Mysteries: Volumes 1 – 3
October 1, 2022 By
The first 3 unique detective crime mysteries from Joey Mancuso (former NYPD detective) and Father O’Brian. Mancuso is a means to an end guy and doesn’t put up with the typical bureaucracy. Working together with his half-brother, a priest, they work their crime investigations out of an Irish Pub in Lower Manhattan, which they own. “Riveting.” Fans of New York detective shows from Blue Bloods to Elementary will find it right up their alley, and devotees of Golden Age mysteries will love it, especially those set in New York, like Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe; and those starring brainy clergymen, like Father Brown, The Rabbi, and Father Dowling. Author Owen Parr has modeled his heroes after Holmes and Watson, and all the Doylesque markings of a head-scratching, heart-racing puzzler lie in these pages. Free on Kindle.
Free: Jack Ryder Murder Mysteries Novellas Vol 1-3
October 1, 2022 By
Becoming a consultant to the Miami Beach Crime Unit was the last thing retired Wall Street Executive and Best Selling crime author Jack Ryder wanted to do. But a murder in a South Beach condo coped directly his plot from his last novel. Forced to join Detective Logan in 3 unique murder cases. Free on Kindle.
Eve Lloyd’s A Deadline Cozy Mystery – Books 6 to 10
September 30, 2022 By
Fun-filled small town cozy mysteries. Book 6.Eve’s on a cruise with 100 Carmen Miranda impersonators – make that 99. Book 7. An unexpected guest arrives with an entourage of ex-wives and a killer. Book 8. A shopping spree, a murder and no suspects. Book 9. Eve’s catering: Hors d’oeuvres, canapes, murder and mayhem. Book 10. Christmas with Eve Lloyd. What could possibly go wrong? $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Where Did They Go?
September 29, 2022 By
Susan finds herself in another world after her husband’s death. (Book 1 of 5).
Her new friends stir up old memories and convince her, her husband was murdered. Now, will she survive the killer’s wrath once she discovers who did it? Free on Kindle.
Free: Past Grief
September 29, 2022 By
Kim Brady, third generation NYPD, returns to the job after her father’s recent suicide and catches a career-making case–a mass shooting in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Free on Kindle.
