Today's Featured Books— Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror

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 /

First in the Venus Bixby Mystery series from award-winning author Valerie Taylor.

Sea breezes and fireworks fill the air in cozy Chatham Crossing, the peaceful and historic whaling town situated between Providence and Cape Cod.

Venus Bixby, owner of the forever popular music store Oldies & Goodies, is counting on the festivities over the Fourth of July weekend to propel her to a position on the prestigious Town Committee.

After years of living in the shadow of her late husband, Venus will finally be the center of attention this holiday weekend: starting with her fiftieth birthday celebration and ending as the parade’s Grand Marshal. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

What if vampire legends were never supernatural?

Hidden beneath Antarctic ice lies evidence of a lost civilization, engineered predators, and an ancient catastrophe erased from history.

When seventeen-year-old Alex Weston survives an attack that should have killed him, he becomes entangled in a hidden war connected to Atlantis and a species humanity remembers only as myth.

He shouldn’t have survived that night.

Alex Weston didn’t believe in monsters—until something found him in the dark.
Not human. Something faster. Smarter. Designed. From $2.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

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 the line. But hunger has a sound, and after a while it gets louder than shame. When a reckless first move goes wrong and bullets replace fantasy, Ock realizes the streets are not built for hope, fantasy, or hesitation. They are built for consequence. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /

From the world of The Resident...

I knew something was wrong the moment they locked the door.
What I didn’t know was how far the truth would go to stay buried.

When journalist Samantha Watkins moves her great-aunt Nancy into Everhaven Memory Care, she tells herself it’s the right decision. The old Victorian mansion turned care home looks comforting enough—until the locked doors close behind them.

Then come the whispers. The sudden deaths. The body bags leaving in the dead of night. From $2.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /

Book 1, Charley's Ghost series
USA 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. FREE – SHOP NOW /