Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Comes to Marlow
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
BBCOne show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle author), along with Becks the vicar’s wife, and Susie the dogwalker find themselves in a head-scratching, utterly clever country house, locked-room murder mystery.
Holiday festivities are now January doldrums when Judith gets a call—Sir Peter Bailey, a prominent Marlovian is inviting notable citizens to his house the day before his wedding to celebrate.
Kitten Quest
by LJ Peace
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Family friendly action and adventure with a twist of science fiction. The Golden Rule rules in this family friendly tale.
Kitten Quest is about an imaginative girl who finds adventure each summer in the special town of Cliffside. This time around, she must save a sweet kitten from the clutches of an evil bird named Buzz. You will also meet some rather creepy kittens, a very mad professor, and a strange artificial intelligence going by the name of Tinman. And that is just the start. There are monsters afoot.
On top of all that stuff, Crissy has to face a tangle of issues all twisted up within a troubled friendship. Issues like anger, envy, and arrogance. For a girl like Crissy, who loves action, the Golden Rule’s love-in-action foundation will definitely help with all of that…
Remains of Innocence
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner…
Power Play
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiancé, George McCallum, Viscount Lockenby, has died in a car accident, and mysterious rumors begin that she’s responsible begin to surface: she broke off the engagement and, heartbroken, he killed himself. Then someone tries to force her off the M-2 outside London. Again, rumors claim it was a sympathy ploy. When she returns to the United States, she’s nearly killed when a car tries to mow her down while she’s out for a run. No one believes her except FBI Special Agent Davis Sullivan.
C.O.R.P.S.E. Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What happens when the world’s deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?
Tina Harrington was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E. – until she was killed.
But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.
To survive, the android must learn how to blend in with society, acquire resources, and avoid detection – all while trying to uncover the truth about Tina’s death.
The Family Trip
by Daniel Hurst
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
How can a whole family go missing?
Everybody wants to be like the Conways – beautiful and rich with an enviable lifestyle. Rosalind and Donovan have everything most people dream of. But on a family trip to Ireland – the place where they fell in love – the secrets of their complicated past begin to unravel.
Nothing about the Conways is as it seems. Then Rosalind, Donovan and their eight-year-old son Barnaby all go missing.
Over the Edge
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn’t five years ago.
Stuart Woods’ Golden Hour
by Brett Battles
Kindle $14.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay returns for another heart-pounding Hollywood-fueled adventure in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.
Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings…