Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Touch Not the Cat
by Mary Stewart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with ‘the gift’ of being able to speak to each other without words.
When Bryony Ashley’s father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words are a cryptic warning to her. Bryony returns from abroad to uncover Ashley Court’s secrets. What did her father’s message mean? What lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? And who is trying to prevent Bryony from discovering the truth?
Washington
by Thomas J. Gebhardt III
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
With the sound of gunshots, the crowd erupts in crying and screams. Some of them wonder what to do, some worry, all wanting to make it out alive. Evan finds he doesn’t think of himself at all but about Judith. Where could she be? Is she safe?
Before that dreaded day, Evan is a new transfer to Washington High School, where he’s reunited with his best friends from childhood. He’s a typical slacker who would rather sketch and daydream than pay attention in class, waiting for the bell to ring so he can go to the arcade and comic book shop after school. When he meets Judith, who aims for perfection and top honors, they slowly grow closer and closer…
Lethal Liaison
by Joey Jaymes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the heart of the nation’s capital, love isn’t just complicated; it’s lethal.
Lacy Langford had her life mapped out with a thriving career in relationship counseling, a steamy relationship with a hot hockey player, and a quiet life in Dupont Circle.
But when past secrets surface and old flames reignite, danger threatens to consume all she holds dear. Is Marcus Grayson, the man she once knew so well, really who she thinks he is? Can she trust him with her life like she once trusted him with her heart, or will confiding in him destroy everything?
The Perfect Husband
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Lisa Gardner’s books come with a built-in set of hands. They reach up out of the pages, grab you by the lapels, and hold you until you’ve read to the final, suspense-filled sentence.” – Linwood Barclay
Jim Beckett was everything she’d ever dreamed of. . . . But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins…
The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
Extinction
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.
Price of Duty
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown.
In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation’s most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb—a fearsome tool to gain superiority in Russia’s long-running battle with the West. From inside Perun Aerie—an intricate network of underground tunnels and chambers that is the heart of the Russian cyber warfare program—he is launching a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and its European allies..
Heather Graham Presents Krewe of Hunters Christmas Stories
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“These stories are a wonderful way to celebrate to celebrate Christmas and the great ways and wonders of Christmas times. It’s loving, forgiveness,truth, and hope. This is an excellent collection of Christmas stories presented by Heather Graham who really knows how to put a story on the page and draw you in with a wonderful story. I would recommend this book to anyone who believes in Christmas and the wonders of the Christmas season and the mystery it holds.” by Amazon Customer
Preacher’s Strike
by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Kindle $7.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. SEEK AND YOU SHALL DIE.
Preacher is heading home to the mountains when he’s approached by a wealthy European with an unusual proposition. He wants the legendary mountain man to track down his missing cousin—a reckless young woman who fled to America with her lover—and he’s willing to pay a small fortune to find her. Preacher isn’t one to get mixed up in the affairs of fancy foreigners, but he reluctantly agrees. The search is on. Striking westward from St. Louis, Preacher quickly begins to suspect that this search party is doomed. And this trail will lead to some very dead ends . . .