Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Help the Poor Struggler
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie…with clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.
Find Her
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lisa Gardner’s runaway New York Times bestseller—a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren.
Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.
Easy Go
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself.
But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement…
Two Worlds
by Carly Brady
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Heroes of Olympus meets The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in this action-packed, humorous, epic fantasy with mysterious villains, never-before-seen magical creatures, and magical dimensions.
When the lines between reality and magic blur, one teen must find the power within to save the worlds.
One minute James is just a normal high school kid—the next, he’s transported by a crystal ball into another dimension.
Stuck inside this unfamiliar place, James is uncontrollably catapulted through multiple eras in different bodies. Here he meets two wizards Willow and Nova, and an elf named Christopher. To get back to Earth, they must survive deserts, jungles, and war-torn lands from a previous world war.
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse—Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
In the Heart of the Dark Wood
by Billy Coffey
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A motherless girl hungry for hope . . . and the dream that could be leading her astray.
Almost two years have passed since twelve-year-old Allie Granderson’s beloved mother, Mary, disappeared into the wild tornado winds. Her body has never been found.
Allie clings to memories of her mother, just as she clings to the broken compass she left behind, the makeshift Nativity scene in the front yard, and her best friend Zach. But even with Zach at her side, the compass on her wrist, and the Nativity right outside the window, Allie cannot help but feel lost in all the growing up that must get done.
The Winter List
by S.G. MacLean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.
Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.
Hard Money
by Diane Capri
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Accident, curse, or revenge?
Spencer Lyman managed to break free from his criminal underworld and build a legitimate empire. But escaping a crime syndicate is dangerous business.
Old man Lyman won’t accept that his grandson, Ward, is gone. He’s convinced Ward is out there, somewhere, and he’s desperate to find him before those who seek to destroy him finish what they started.