Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Joe Hill
by Joe Hill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror. Read on if you dare to see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
The Good King
by George WB Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
This history-based tale behind the legend of Good King Wenceslas is a thrilling journey through 10th-century Bohemia. Wenceslas devoted his life to charity-but this is no happy Christmas fable.
Duke Boleslav, brother to Wenceslas, reveals to his young son his own life’s dreadful tale, and why this boy must dedicate his life to his father’s salvation.
Pagan priests vie with one another and with the growing power of Christianity. Prague is a trading center with an important slave market, a thriving iron industry, and is a crossroads of far-reaching trade routes. It is growing in wealth, yet threatened by jealous enemies and forces, both external and within its borders.
The Screaming Room
by Thomas O’Callaghan
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Tourism in New York City is under siege. Visitors to the Big Apple have become targets of a pair of vengeful twins bent on exacting punishment on total strangers to right the wrongs perpetrated against them in a hellhole they called home. Their audacious killing spree leaves men and women of all ages and ethnicities brutally murdered then scalped, their lifeless forms displayed in macabre fashion at landmarks throughout the metropolis.
NYPD Homicide Commander John W. Driscoll, along with his dedicated team of Sgt. Margaret Aligante and Det. Cedric Thomlinson, is determined to bring the pair to justice—as is a despicable grieving father whose idea of justice is at odds with morality itself.
Drug of Choice
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain.
One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.
The Order of the Black Robe
by Tiana Dokerty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a kingdom overrun by shadows, one girl’s abduction sparks the light of hope.
Rebekah Otual lives a peaceful life in the kingdom of Freislicht. While her husband Jonathan, a Knight of J’shua, is off on a missionary journey, she is happy to stay at home raising her six-year-old daughter Sarah.
But when an official from the earl shows up one morning with soldiers demanding immediate payment for a debt and Rebekah has no means to pay it, Sarah is snatched as collateral…
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Iry Paret’s done his time – two years for manslaughter in Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan.
In prison, Iry tinkered with a song – “The Lost Get-Back Boogie” – that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family’s problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last, or pay a fateful price.
Devil’s Garden
by Aline Templeton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When DCI Kelso Strang hears that an old friend from his police college days suspects there is corruption in her local station at Halliburgh in the Borders of Scotland, he sends her undercover so they can act before a major scandal erupts. What he doesn’t expect is that this will have to take a back seat to an extraordinary series of events that unfold as revenge for a long-concealed and ugly secret takes its tragic course. Just as the situation becomes critical, the Beast from the East roars in bringing chaos and Strang can do nothing but rage and wait for the thaw.
Not On My Watch
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jackson Chandler, a Union Army veteran, values Afton town’s calm and quiet as do most of the townsfolk. And Afton, in Kansas, wants no part of being a cattle town.
Cattle, plentiful in Texas, have to be shipped back east to a hungry public, who couldn’t get enough beef. The closest railroad hubs are in Kansas. Texas drovers move massive herds through Indian Territory and into Kansas.
Corrupt banker Morton Ludwig wants his share of the lucrative cattle trade and will do anything to make Afton a wide open yet violent cattle town. He has help from a vicious outlaw he employs, named Decker Odom…
The 4S Project
by Marshall Armstrong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the year 2119 the human race started a population decline due to a vaccine that was invented rendering individuals sterile. This drug became so widespread that almost everyone between the ages of 18 and 57 has opted to take the vaccine.
In 2150, Armachez Inc. created a widely accepted, and highly encouraged, process of matching up individuals into pairs for propagation, work, and family lineage. This is commonly referred to as “The Whole Seven Floors.” Individuals must be DNA matched with at least one other ‘participant’ to be accepted into the program. The process is completed through a seven-floor interactive program where individuals have the opportunity to interact with others hoping to find a match. This program takes place at one of the many 4S compounds around the world.