Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Midwinter Manor
by Anita Davison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Escaping the city doesn’t mean escaping the criminals…
1916, Midwinter Manor: Desperate for a Christmas weekend break from war-torn London, Hannah Merrill and her Aunt Violet take Bartleby the cat and themselves off to visit Hannah’s sister, in her beautiful country estate, deep in the English countryside.
The huge house is full of relatives, friends and merrymakers, and everyone’s excited to have a Christmas to remember…
Nemesis
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In New York, Special Agent Lacey Sherlock foils a terrorist attack at JFK airport, but stopping the grenade-carrying crazy was only the beginning. Another plot unfolds nearly simultaneously with a bomb at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Meanwhile, Savich—with the help of Agent Griffin Hammersmith—has his hands full trying to track an elusive murderer who is able to control those under his thrall. When an attempt on Savich’s life collides with Sherlock’s terrorist case, they must race against the clock, as more lives are in danger with every passing minute…
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Once again, Rabbi Small finds himself looking for solace outside the confines of the contentious world of his synagogue in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. When a member of his congregation expresses that she does not want him to officiate her wedding, Rabbi Small has had enough. He seeks escape by dabbling in academia with a part-time teaching gig at a local college. But his fantasy of a tranquil life in an ivory tower is about to come tumbling down.
A bombing at the school kills one of the rabbi’s coworkers, and Small finds himself caught between adversarial students and feuding faculty members…
Inadvertent Enterprises
by Elizabethe LaCoste
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Growing up is a LOT more complicated when you are trying to smuggle a baby dragon home.
Katarina McCaber finds herself among unexpected allies but must return to retrieve her friends, Jonathan and Shay, and perhaps just as importantly, her “things”. Returning will be the least of her challenges as she negotiates learning new skills, acquiring new adversaries, and encountering old faces. If she doesn’t succeed, she risks losing her friends in a foreign world and falling prey to malevolent enemies.
Will the wayward heroine be able to apply her new repertoire to navigate a more mature political stage and get home?
The Road to Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes: IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS – Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night; AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS – An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland.
Plus, for the first time in any Del Rey edition: HERBERT WEST; COOL AIR; THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN; AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES
Hush
by Karen Robards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she’s sure it’s no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone’s out for blood—specifically someone Jeff’s father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time. She suspects that someone is trying to send a message to Jeff’s father: Tell me where the money is, or everyone you care about will die.
Enter Finn Bradley, an FBI agent with a dangerous secret. He’s after the money too, and Riley quickly becomes his chief suspect. But when someone tries to kill her, he has no choice but to protect her until he can uncover the truth…
Skharr Deatheater Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A lone DeathEater has forsaken his clan.
Leaving behind his previous life, Skharr starts building a future next to a dangerous forest in an unknown land. He tells himself it is better than taking gold for questionable reasons.
A lone old man traveling with a donkey offers him a choice: Continue this farm life, or trade him Skharr’s just finished home and tilled land for a map.
A map that Skharr can use to live large for years… If he survives. The old peddler watches him.
Solitude Creek
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of “fire” are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it’s the panic and the stampede that killed them; there was no fire.
Kathryn Dance–a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert–discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people’s own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned…
Kinsey and Me: Stories
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alphabet series comes a collection of stories that “combines glimpses of her series detective, Kinsey Millhone, with a revealing self-portrait” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone and created an iconic female detective. Here, in a story collection divided into two parts, Sue Grafton provides a glimpse of her own early life in the guise of the character Kit Blue, and enriches our understanding of Kinsey Millhone, one of the spunkiest, smartest, and most entertaining private investigators in all of mystery fiction.