Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Harvest Murder
by Frances Evesham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
One unexplained disappearance is strange, but two are sinister.
In Lower Hembrow, an idyllic village nestled beneath Ham Hill in Somerset, the villagers are preparing to enjoy the autumn traditions of the rural English countryside until Joe Trevillion, a curmudgeonly local farmer and the father of six children, vanishes.
When Adam Hennessy, the ex-detective proprietor of The Plough, the village’s popular Inn, investigates, he finds ominous undercurrents beneath apparently harmless rumour and gossip.
Cruel Winter of the Mountain Man
by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The latest action-packed installment in the national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone’s long-running Mountain Man historical series.
A cold day in hell descends upon Texas when mountain man sharpshooter Smoke Jensen pins on a tin star to tackle a wild bunch of bloodthirsty outlaws in this gun-blazing novel from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone. Johnstone Country. A Glorious Land.
Jonas Madigan is dying. He spent his life taming towns and upholding justice across the west with no regrets. Along the way, Madigan took the measure of good men like Smoke Jensen, who has traveled to Salt Lick, Texas to pay his respects to the lawman. But when bandits gun down the small town’s current marshal – and Smoke sends the killers to Boot Hill – Madigan asks his friend to wear the badge and keep the peace until a permanent replacement is sworn in.
The Sixth Kingdom
by pdmac
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Sixth Kingdom is the center of the known world. It is the repository of the all knowledge and secrets, and the heart of arcane wizardry. It is the College, the arbiter and enforcer of world peace. It’s also the place to learn magic, perfect deadly warrior skills, or bond with dragons.
Comprised of four Castes, the College accepts only the best and brightest of those who can afford to send their children to the hallowed halls of destiny where they are groomed to assume their future roles in each of the five kingdoms.
The Good Killer
by Harry Dolan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An act of heroism forces a husband and wife out of hiding and into a cross-country chase for their lives in this action-packed crime thriller.
Sean Tennant and his wife, Molly, are living safely, quietly, and cautiously in Houston. But that all changes after Sean heads to a local shopping mall, and a gunman begins shooting everyone in sight. A former soldier, Sean ends the slaughter with two well-placed shots—becoming a hero with his face plastered across the news.
But Sean’s newfound notoriety exposes him to the wrath of two men he thought he had left safely in his past. One of them blames Sean for his brother’s death.
The Iron Tiger
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he’s made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he’s ready to hang up his wings.
Unfortunately, a short stop in the tiny Himalayan country of Balpur ends with his plane in flames and Drummond out of luck—until he’s approached with a very strange offer. He must help deliver a sick child over land to the Indian border. It’s not his typical job, but it’s all he’s got. Accompanied by a nurse and an elderly priest, he sets out to make one last delivery.
Hothouse
by Brian W. Aldiss
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A Hugo Award–winning classic about a far-future Earth dominated by gargantuan plants and the few humans who remain
Millions of years beyond our time, our Earth has long since stopped spinning—and giant flora have taken over the sunlit half of the motionless world. Here humans are among the very few animal species that still exist, struggling to survive against enormous odds, but they have become small and weak, and their numbers have dwindled to almost nothing. When the aging leader of Gren’s tribe decrees it is time for the old ones to go “Up,” the younger are left to make their own way below.
Vendetta
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Myles Parker is just an ordinary builder in his town of Willow Creek. His life is mundane, simple and far from special. The only thing that made it special is his wife, Betty.
However, all of that is about to change.
On a fateful Sunday, a notorious gang called The Bronze Boys rob the local church during a service, killing several people. One of the victims turns out to be Betty.
Myles wants justice. But above all, he is waging a personal vendetta against The Bronze Boys.