Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Cat Who Turned On and Off
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Qwilleran decides to do a feature story on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors – as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career – and the life – of one of Junktown’s leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he’s right.
Far Gone
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author whose Tracers series has been called “compelling,” “mesmerizing,” and “knock-your-socks-off” has a new forensic thriller sure to please fans of Tami Hoag and Karen Robards.
Police detective Andrea Finch is a rising star in her department until a split-second decision derails her career. Disgraced and disillusioned, she’s on leave from her job when she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. She’d prefer to ignore his latest plea for cash, but this time instinct tells her something is very wrong. Andrea’s search for answers takes her to a dusty Texas border town where danger lurks in plain sight and nothing is quite what it seems.
Zombie Fungus
by Bryan Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Looking for a “different” apocalypse story? You may have finally found it.
Abe thought he was ready for this. He’d watched the movies, read the books, and prepared accordingly. But when the monsters arrived, he realized Hollywood didn’t get all the facts right. Some of these things are so different it begs the question; are they zombies or something worse?
Maybe it’s because the source isn’t a virus, but a fungus? Or that it was synthesized in a laboratory? But who would attempt something so dastardly? How many lives will be lost when humans manipulate what they should have left alone?
Shelter
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mickey Bolitar’s year can’t get much worse. After witnessing his father’s death and sending his mom to rehab, he’s forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey’s train-wreck of a life is finally improving – until Ashley vanishes without a trace…
All the Rage
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comesthe fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and mega-selling crime series.
After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant—information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give…
Lost Birds
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child’s blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
He Is Legend
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“An impressive collection” of original short stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, Nancy A. Collins and others – honoring the renowned author of I Am Legend (Locus).
Richard Matheson has inspired a generation of storytellers with his ingeniously weird yet frighteningly realistic tales. Now an outstanding cast of top writers pays tribute to his legacy with an all-new collection of stories set in Matheson’s own fictional universes, including sequels, prequels, and companion stories to I Am Legend, Hell House, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere in Time, “Duel,” and “Button, Button.”
Down the Darkest Road
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
California, 1990 – four years after Lauren Lawton’s sixteen-year-old daughter disappeared, the world has given up the girl for dead. Lauren’s husband took his own life. Her younger daughter Leah is still looking for what’s left of her childhood. But Lauren never surrendered. She knows who took her child, and there’s not a shred of evidence against him.
Seeking a fresh start, Lauren and Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll. So does Lauren’s suspect. And suddenly it feels like history is about to repeat itself.
The Sun Never Sets
by James Leonard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Ezra Dobbs is an ex-army captain haunted by the ghosts of war and personal tragedy. After the devastating loss of his wife and son, he sets his sights on the untamed West, hoping to find a haven of peace for himself and his ten-year-old daughter.
The wagon train is full of dreamers and drifters. Among the eclectic mix is the enchanting Lizbeth Howard, a woman of quiet strength and hidden depths. Ezra can tell she’s scared of something, but he never would have guessed it’s the infamous outlaw.
Rise to the Horizon
by Hyunah KIM
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Poseidon, a thoroughbred show jumping horse, is injured during a devastating fire at the horse ranch. Traumatized, the beautiful colt becomes trapped with his demons, and aggressively attacks anyone who approaches. After Poseidon hurts several people, the vet suggests that the horse be euthanised.
Axel, a painter who grew up with horses all his life on his grandparents’ stud farm, has a unique ability to communicate with horses. In his neighborhood he’s known as a horse whisperer. After a desperate plea from Poseidon’s owner Martha to help the wretched horse, Axel agrees to cure him, regardless of the vet’s deadly warning. Can Axel help Poseidon get back to normal?