Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Music and Murder at the Castle
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An English castle, a smart resourceful young sleuth, and a festival that becomes fatal.
Murder strikes a chord at Frobisher Castle’s summer festival, when a singer from a visiting band is murdered.
Kitty, a recent graduate student working at the castle, is thrust into the heart of the investigation when her close friend and castle owner Richard, is framed for the crime. Teaming up with her sharp-witted Nan, and accompanied by her loyal animal companions, Mittens the cat and Flint the castle dog, they begin to unravel the mystery.
Hidden Star
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bailey James can’t remember a thing. She doesn’t even know who she is, let alone why her bag is filled with cash, a gun, and a large blue diamond. Desperate for help, she heads to the first detective office she can find, hoping that PI Cade Parris is someone she can trust—and with no options, Bailey doesn’t have much of a choice. Cade is sure the woman of his dreams just walked through the door when Bailey shuffles in, but he’ll have to convince her that she’s not a criminal before he can consider his love for her…
Back Spin
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters’ motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn’t. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family’s darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get.
Our Little Secret
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He swore he’d never let her go. She should have believed him.
Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.
He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go…
Dead Cert
by Dick Francis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The debut novel from the New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills” features an investigation into the death of a jockey (The Atlantic Monthly).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival jockey Bill Davidson takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn’t get up again, Alan discovers it was no accident. Someone rigged a tripwire to take down the running horse.
Foundation’s Triumph
by David Brin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today’s most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished.
The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford’s Foundation’s Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation’s creator.
Safe Enough
by Lee Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected
For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher’s fame, Child’s short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child’s trademark action and suspense, the stories show the author’s mastery of the short form, and they’ve never been collected before now.
The Firebrand
by T.M. Smith
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
~2024 American Legacy Book Award~
Rein, a Vampire mixed breed, plunged into the abyss of bludfrenzy. With icy resolve, he crawled out to become a Firebrand. He doesn’t make rash decisions.
Until… Braelyn takes a shortcut through an alley musing about what she can’t have. A new job. Adventure. A cancer-free brain. Instead, she writes for a paranormal tabloid. No, she doesn’t believe such nonsense, but she’s heading to Cleveland on assignment. Oh, and her tumor is back.
Then… Rein kidnaps her and takes her to his realm, igniting a fiery romance.
Meanwhile…