Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Laughed ‘Til He Died
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Intrigue and foul play are no strangers to the idyllic South Carolina sea island of Broward’s Rock. Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, who specialize in solving problems, plunge into a startling web of danger and deceit when a trio of deaths is linked to the island’s youth recreation center.
With the evidence mounting against her, the center’s director seeks out Max to clear her name. When it comes to intrigue, where Max goes, Annie isn’t far behind.
Something I Keep Upstairs
by Philip Crawford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Coleman Cooper is a troubled young man who can never get anything right—not even his own suicide.
When he is sent to an open-door mental health facility in a small New England village to get his life back on track, his journey darkens even further: someone starts killing the psychiatrists, one by one.
After taking a job tending bar at a local country inn – the social heart of the quirky little town where everyone knows everyone and grudges can last for decades – Coleman unwittingly finds himself at the center of the investigation, even a suspect.
The Punishment She Deserves
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizens–Ian Druitt, the local deacon–is accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered?
When Barbara Havers is sent to Ludlow to investigate the chain of events that led to Ian’s death, all the evidence points to suicide. But Barbara can’t shake the feeling that she’s missing something. She decides to take a closer look at the seemingly ordinary inhabitants of Ludlow–mainly elderly retirees and college students–and discovers that almost everyone in town has something to hide.
The Five
by Hallie Rubenhold
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the “Ripper” murders forever
Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London’s wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers…
Pixie Rebels Complete Series Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What happens when a gang of rogue pixies takes the troublemaking just a little too far?
They get noticed by the U.S. Army and playtime is over.
Now that they’ve been caught, they can either sign their lives away to enter an experimental new program for magical Army soldiers or accept a one-way ticket back to Oriceran.
Can Z and her cousins learn to rein in the chaos as new magical Army recruits?
Find out with this 8-book boxed set!
Warhorse
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Throughout the universe, space horses are among the most coveted of species. They are starfaring creatures with telekinetic abilities, tamed and controlled by the Tampy aliens—who aren’t willing to share their understanding of the creatures. Despite diplomatic government intervention, human poachers are determined to capture and control the giant beings. With a tenuous peace treaty in place between the Tampy and humans, the first jointly helmed space horse will undertake its first mission. But will the two races be able to work together—or will their peace break down into all-out war?
Passion Undercover in Tehran
by Shalva Hessel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Never underestimate just how dangerous a woman on a mission can be.
Sally Amir never wanted to be a spy.
The life of covert espionage was forced upon her the day she discovered her husband was not, in fact, a simple embassy attaché – but a top-secret spy for the Israeli Mossad.
But now, undercover in Tehran, posing as a businesswoman and tasked with infiltrating the highest levels of the Iranian government, is not the time to ponder the life choices that led her there.