Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Music and Memories, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A murdered art teacher, a piano bar, and danger for Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth.
Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, wants nothing more than a return to routine following their family vacation. The last thing she needs is to find herself involved in another murder investigation. But that’s precisely what happens when the victim is one of Maddie’s favorite teachers at the high school. While Sheridan’s trying not to sleuth, the high school principal assures everyone Sheridan will find the killer. Despite an abundance of people wanting to share their thoughts on the teacher, Sheridan and the police are stymied.
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Beside Us
by Stephen W. Briggs
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Simon Elliot, a police officer, witnesses the kidnapping of three siblings from their unconscious parents.
With no memory of how their children were taken, and their oldest son found dead in a crop circle in England, the family begs Simon to go abroad and continue his investigation.
In England, Simon believes he is being watched. When acquaintances die while helping with his investigation, he knows he has the attention of the kidnappers. While Simon’s investigation expands, mysterious men dressed in black hoodies intervene, trying to hide their ancient secrets.
The Horsewoman
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
This “hugely entertaining, riveting page-turner” (Louise Penny) follows the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as they face off in the Olympics – and into a ride they can barely control.
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another.
Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie’s horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky’s horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood.
For the Sake of Elena
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge – where Elena was a student at St. Stephen’s College – her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve – until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death.
The Quality of Mercy
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth’s England, yet she guards secrets that would be anyone’s undoing. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen’s own physician, Rebecca is also a converso — a Jew who practices her banned religion clandestinely. And to court danger further, she helps others of her faith escape persecution and death.
Rebecca’s risky endeavors often take her to the bustling streets of London disguised in male garb. But one such outing is leading her into a dangerous viper’s nest built of intrigue and foul murder…
Target Utopia
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Is there a traitor at Dreamland?
When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland’s drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who’s really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with nothing to lose. Someone like Air Force ace Turk Mako.
They Lurk
by Ronald Malfi
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
COME CLOSER…
Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the “modern-day Algernon Blackwood”.
Skullbelly After three teenagers disappear in a forest, a private detective is hired and uncovers a terrible local secret.
The Separation Marcus arrives in Germany to find his friend up-and-coming prizefighter Charlie in a deep depression. But soon Charlie’s behavior grows increasingly bizarre. Is he suffering from a nervous breakdown, or are otherworldly forces at work?
The Stranger
Shoot First with a .44
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Hunting the men who did it. One by one.
After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood.
Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice.