Today's Featured Books— Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror

GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR SCIENCE FICTION - TIME TRAVEL IN THE GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS 2025

When time fractures, every choice can kill—or save—the one you love.

In a storm-ravaged Appalachian town, U.S. Marshal Blake Everhart hunts a fugitive whose brutal escape triggers more than chaos—it fractures time itself. Each pursuit blurs the line between past and present, forcing Blake to question her sanity, her mission, and the rules of reality. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

A beloved flower festival. A charming small town. A murder rooted in decades-old secrets.

Summer has arrived in Willowberry, and the annual Hydrangea Festival should be a celebration of blooms, neighbors, and friendly competition. Instead, it ends in tragedy when businessman Victor Ashby is found dead under suspicious circumstances. FREE – SHOP NOW /

Harmony Nader was born into a world of wealth, influence and impossible expectations. But when her billionaire father is shot dead at his lavish wedding in Spain, the life she thought she understood is shattered in an instant.

Eighteen years old and preparing for a brilliant future, Harmony is suddenly pulled into the heart of the Nader empire. As the shockwaves spread from Europe across the Atlantic, the business begins to fracture. Powerful figures circle, old secrets surface, and Harmony discovers that her father’s wealth was built on a maze of corporate interests, political connections and enemies who will stop at nothing to protect themselves. FREE – SHOP NOW /

"Fults is a master of character-driven espionage..." – The Book Commentary

An ordinary man discovers a secret powerful enough to crumble an empire.

Behind the Iron Curtain, Nikolai Kovalenko lives an invisible life of obedience. Raised on Soviet ideals and quietly serving as an electronics technician for the Ministry of Communication, he never questions the system. Danger feels like someone else’s world, and he never imagines it could touch his own. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

IT DIDN'T COPY HER. IT CHOSE HER.

East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, 1937. The cotton has failed, the debt only grows, and seventeen-year-old Emma Ruth Halloran is the one holding what's left of her family together — one meal, one prayer, one hard day at a time.

Then a dead woman's mirror comes into her hands.

Her reflection doesn't move when she moves. It waits. It watches. And when Emma finally looks — really looks — the girl in the glass smiles. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

Fans of The Dark Tower series must read this book.

No one ever escapes the Beyond.

On one side, an endless ocean stretches across the horizon. On the other, a vast black desert swallows the land whole. Trish has no memory of how she got there. No idea where her husband is, or where she should go. So she starts walking.

This world isn’t like home. Day and night don’t follow rules. Enormous eyes drift across the sky. Disembodied faces hover in the distance. Giants roam black oceans. Entire cities lie in ruins. At night, something even more dangerous comes out. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

A twisty small-town psychological thriller with romantic suspense, buried family secrets, and shocking twists.

She writes thrillers for a living. Now she’s trapped inside one.

Michelle Holdcraft lives a quiet life in small-town Indiana. But under the pen name D. Valentine, she’s a bestselling thriller author known for writing dark secrets, murder, and shocking twists.

Then one trip changes everything. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

They came to Dumont for a week off. They found a body instead - and a town convinced they're the killers.

Detectives Daniels and Remalla have walked into a nightmare. A body on the Black River. A cold case decades old - a murdered woman whose ghost still walks the bank, whose killer was never caught. And now a second victim, behind Daniels' cabin, same spot as the first. The sheriff is watching. The town is watching. And someone is willing to kill again to make sure the past stays buried.

Daniels has a personal reason to find the truth: his late grandfather knew something about this town. He never talked. Now he can't. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

When a shocking discovery unearths an old secret, can Stella expose a killer?

Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parent’s hidden corpse.

Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime. But hunting a murderer in the tight-knit small town could leave her exposed as the culprit starts sizing up more victims… FREE – SHOP NOW /

From Angela R. Key, author of the Amazon bestselling psychological thriller The Lies We Inherit, comes a colder, sharper return to the Scott family world.

What began as revelation becomes rule.

After Richard Scott’s death, Elise Marian Scott does not inherit comfort. She inherits control.

At Ashdown, the family estate that once trained everyone around it to obey, Elise locks down access, strips old assumptions of power, and begins uncovering the hidden architecture beneath the Scott name: sealed archives, buried records, off-book wealth, and a private machinery built to outlast scandal, succession, and death. What begins as custody becomes command. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

When Chatham Crossing’s beloved mayor collapses at the annual Christmas tree lighting, the town’s holiday cheer vanishes in an instant. What looks like a heartbreaking accident soon turns sinister—especially when clues point straight to Venus Bixby’s cookie bakery.

Book Two in the award-winning Venus Bixby Mystery series, Switched at Death, finds amateur sleuth and new kitty daycare owner Venus Bixby juggling holiday chaos, a mounting suspect list, and a threat that hits dangerously close to home. Will Venus be able to solve this tangled web and bring joy and cheer to Chatham Crossing in time for Christmas?  From $3.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /