Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Masquerade Murder at the Castle
by Avery Kent
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
An English Castle, a smart young sleuth, and a dazzling masquerade ball that leads to murder…
Chaos descends on peaceful Frobisher Castle when it hosts a glamorous masked ball for American billionaire tycoon, Warren Willington.
As the glittering evening unfolds, castle employee, Kitty McCray finds herself swept into a dance with a mysterious masked partner. Just as a romantic moment develops, despicable Warren Willington is found murdered, and her dance partner disappears into the night.
The Vigilante
by Jacqui Morrison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It isn’t safe for men who work in the porn business in the city of Toronto. When porn producer Sal Turbit is found dead in his apartment, no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Detective Lynette Wilton. Lynette has been a homicide detective for only three months, and has yet to earn her stripes.
Murder is murder no matter who the victim is—and Lynette is out to catch a killer.
Could the killer be Wanda Chambers, a mentally ill woman who hates the “scumbags” who prey on the vulnerable? Wanda’s beloved sister, Cathy, was one such woman. Cathy became a porn actress and then took her own life when her sleazy manager/boyfriend, Gil Lee, wouldn’t let her go.
Playing Dead
by Monique Faison Ross, Gary M. Krebs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
This domestic abuse survivor’s memoir shares an “engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story” of a bad marriage that ended in attempted murder (Lundy Bancroft, author of The Joyous Recovery).
Monique Faison, the daughter of San Diego Charger’s football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris had always been shaky, but his verbal abuse only increased—and then gave way to physical attacks. Eventually, Monique took their children and left. That was when the stalking and serious threats began.
A Willing Murder
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A story of old secrets, deadly grudges and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth regardless of the consequences…
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she’s found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she admired as a child. It’s much too big for her alone, but she’d die before letting anyone in town know that.
The Silent Tower
by Barbara Hambly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a world where wizards are relegated to ghettos, it is no surprise to see one murdered in the street. But for Stonne Caris, a young warrior monk who sees the killing and gives chase to the culprit, there is nothing ordinary about seeing a murderer disappear into a black, inky portal. The Archmage sends him in search of Antryg Windrose—a half-mad mage who understands the nature of these passages between dimensions.
On the other side of the Void is Joanna, a programmer as mild as Caris is deadly. She has spent her life in cubicles, staring into computer terminals, as far from heroism as she can get.
Letter From The Dead
by Jack Gatland
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Victoria Davies was murdered in 2001, all evidence pointed to her husband Michael. But twenty years later a letter has appeared, written by Victoria before her death; a letter never received, and revealing new suspects; Labour MPs Shaun Donnal, Andrew MacIntyre and Charles Baker.
But two decades on, life has changed for these men. Donnal is now a paranoid alcoholic living on the streets of London, ‘Andy Mac’ is a popular YouTube Evangelist, and Charles Baker is the current Conservative Home Secretary, and bookie’s choice for next Prime Minister in the upcoming Leadership Election.
Gone South
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two decades after he finished serving his country in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Dan Lambert still pays the price. As he hustles for construction work in the heat of a brutal Louisiana summer, Dan tries to ignore the pounding in his head—a constant reminder of the Agent Orange–caused leukemia which will soon end his life. And now the bank wants to repossess his truck. His attempt to reason with the loan officer does not get him far. Dan loses himself in rage, and for a moment is back in the jungle again…
The Reluctant Sheriff
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
Kip Gossett thrived as sheriff, but after the death of his deputy, his world crumbled. Guilt-ridden, he retreated to the mountains, abandoning the badge and the life he’d known. Solitude seemed his only escape … Until a desperate plea from his ex-wife, Laura, forces him back into action.
Laura’s daughter and a local rancher’s daughter have been kidnapped, and though Laura has remarried, Kip agrees to help, hoping to right the wrongs of his past. But Kip never expected Mallory Bryce, the rancher’s fiery and headstrong eldest daughter, to join the hunt.
When Stars Align
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.25 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One December day in 1986, fifteen-year-old Mark Evans found an old electric Christmas star in a box of ornaments in his Chicago basement. When he plugged it in at Midnight on December 25th, not only did it illuminate the room in faceted color splendor, but he found himself in the same room with a fifteen-year-old girl named, Maggie Townsend whose tree was topped with the same star. However, the year was 1936—exactly fifty years in the past.
Over the years Mark would plug in his star whenever possible and on Christmas at Midnight, his and Maggie’s stars would align to bring him back to her. The romance they formed was a desperate love that would change their lives forever, well into adulthood.
Clive Cussler Desolation Code
by Graham Brown
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler.
When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA’s findings, forcing a high-speed chase—someone really didn’t want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why?