Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Exit Wounds
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Featuring both original in-universe stories and rarely-seen reprints, this collection of 19 masterful short stories brings together some of the genre’s greatest living authors.
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan take on a delightfully twisted killer in Val McDermid’s “Happy Holidays”. In Fiona Cummin’s “Dead Weight”, an overbearing mother resorts to desperate measures to keep control of her teenage daughter. And in Dean Koontz’s “Kittens”, a young girl learns the truth about how her pets have been dying, and devises a horrible revenge.
Costly Secrets Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It began with a call…a secret code she’d been taught as a child without ever believing she’d have to use it…an attempted murder…and the last man on earth she wanted to be within ten feet of.
Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad…and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She and everyone in her family had always understood the high cost of secrets…and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly.
It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true heart-stopping fear…
The Cape Refuge Collection
by Terri Blackstock
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock’s Cape Refuge series is now available in one volume.
Cape Refuge
Southern Storm
River’s Edge
Breaker’s Reef
Mutation
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kid Sensation is back! The intrepid teen super with the plethora of powers returns in a new adventure.
Having saved the planet and earned a place with the world’s premier superhero team, Jim (aka Kid Sensation) is preparing to attend the prestigious Academy, where teen supers from every corner of the globe learn to master their abilities. At the same time, however, he is approached by a mysterious government organization that wants Jim to work for them – and they won’t take “No” for an answer…
Lie In Wait
by Eric Rickstad
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes another unforgettable thriller set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, featuring Detective Sonja Test
Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present.
In the remote pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town’s sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens…
Into the Fire
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Things are heating up in Arizona in this thrilling novella introducing a page-turning new series by New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan
Margo Angelhart was recently certified as a private investigator, but she isn’t convinced that it’s her calling. All of her cases have been minor, mostly for family and haven’t paid the bills. She’s more than happy to keep bartending and figure out her post-military career later. That is, until prosecutor Andy Flannigan walks into her bar and offers her a case she can’t turn down…
Nineteen-year-old Sergio Diaz has confessed to murder—except Andy doesn’t buy it. With his own job on the line, Andy asks Margo to work the case discreetly.
The Chemistry of Death
by Simon Beckett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Seeking refuge from a tragic past, a forensic pathologist must search for a devious killer in a rural English village in this crime thriller series debut.
Three years ago, Dr. David Hunter left London for rural Norfolk to escape the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. Giving up his career in criminal forensics, he now works as a simple country doctor in the village of Manham. But when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body, David struggles to remain uninvolved. As a newcomer, David finds he must join the investigation in order to avoid suspicion.
Saratoga Woods
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it’s a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn’t suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear “whispers”—the thoughts of others—Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she has discovered. Stranded and alone, Becca is soon befriended by Derric, a Ugandan orphan adopted by a local family; Seth, a kindhearted musician and high school dropout; Debbie, a recovering alcoholic who takes her in; and Diana, with whom Becca shares a mysterious psychic connection.