Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Portofino
by T A Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series…It’s murder in paradise!
A much-needed holiday…
Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him. He’s hoping a much-needed trip to beautiful Portofino will give him the break he needs and quality time with girlfriend Anna.
A gathering of celebrities…
The Mighty Johns
by David Baldacci
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Forty years ago, Herschel Ruggles, the most legendary player on the Mighty Johns football team at Draven University, disappeared after scoring a record-breaking touchdown.
Instead of tossing the ball to the referee after his near-mythical athletic feat or celebrating with the nearly 25,000 spectators in the stands, Ruggles continued running, ball in hand, into a passageway that led deep underneath the field to the Mighty Johns’ locker room – and was never seen again.
Captive of Fear
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lindsey Hunter, who experienced incidents of extreme terror during childhood, resolves to no longer be held captive by fear. Yet when she arrives in Scotland with her husband of one week, that resolution seems impossible to attain.
Marc’s house is more of a castle, haunted by memories of his first wife; the family dog is a rambunctious Great Dane that terrifies Lindsey; and the housekeeper is dour and disapproving. Marc’s business partner, Neville, resents her. Marc’s brother, Jules, seems to be a vague man who scrambles to keep up with his wife Casi’s strange flights of fancy. Lindsay’s only friend and ally in this forbidding land is Amy, Casi’s best friend.
The Bounty
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Rayne Sutherland never set out to be a father. He was a bounty hunter, not a caretaker. But when he found a scared, orphaned boy hiding in the shadows, he couldn’t just walk away – even if the kid was the son of a notorious killer.
Rayne did his best to raise Jeb right, teaching him to be everything his father wasn’t – sharp, strong, and honorable. But somewhere along the trail, things went wrong. Ginny, the schoolteacher, insists it wasn’t Rayne’s fault, but doubt gnaws at him.
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.
Stalking the Angel
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable—something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.
Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks—and what he didn’t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did…
A Lush and Seething Hell
by John Hornor Jacobs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.
Malachite
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.1 #ad
Meanwhile, Jack Keller, once a respected rancher, descends into the vengeful Black Jack Keller. Fuelled by years of mistreatment by Malachite’s residents, he unleashes havoc upon the town, leaving destruction in his wake. Ashton’s uncle, the only family he has left, becomes another casualty of Keller’s rampage.
Determined to avenge his loved ones, Ashton embarks on a perilous journey to bring Keller to justice. Along the way, he encounters May, a spirited saloon girl whose courage and compassion provide a glimmer of hope in the darkest of times.
Santa’s Secret
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $9.52 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Christmas is filled with beloved and long-kept traditions, but sometimes, there’s nothing better than creating brand-new ones. That’s why Francesca and her high school friends Amy, Rachael, and Nina are traveling to Italy to spend the holidays with Frankie’s boyfriend, Giovanni, and his family.
Giovanni and his brother, Marco, run a small Italian restaurant in Manhattan, where cherished family recipes delight tourists and locals alike. But there’s one recipe that eludes the brothers. Their mama refuses to divulge the special ingredient in her coveted panettone, claiming it is “Santa’s secret.”
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
by Rick Riordan
Kindle $10.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats.
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?