Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Thief
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, have again joined forces to create a suspenseful and humorous holiday tale.
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan’s kidnapped father. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center’s famous Christmas tree…
IN STILL WATERS
by Natalie Shpet
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Years ago, in a high school in the quiet town of Austin, Minnesota, a tragic incident occurred. A classmate attacked a boy, slashing his face with a sharp object and leaving a deep scar on his cheek. Years later, a series of horrific murders shakes the peaceful community. One by one, seemingly unconnected individuals fall victim to a mysterious killer dressed in black, their face hidden beneath a hood. How does this shadowy figure manage to evade the police, leaving no trace behind? What connection do they have to a gang of arms dealers operating in the shadows? As the investigation unfolds, detectives make a chilling discovery – three of the victims attended the same high school years ago…
Under the Alaskan Ice
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The truth always surfaces.
When a small bush plane smashes through the ice at Falls Lake Lodge, it’s a chilling reminder of everything Megan Metzler has lost. Three years ago, Meg’s pilot husband died in a similar crash, a tragedy Meg and her young son, Chip, have struggled to move on from. Still, Meg does everything she can to assist when Commander Bryce Saylor arrives to investigate, even as working alongside the handsome pilot stirs up painful memories—and an attraction that catches them both off guard.
Nothing to Lose
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person’s case where danger is lurking and family secrets are exposed.
Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont’s partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson’s ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue’s teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont’s plea and Jared’s quick action saved the two boys from their father’s murderous rage.
Rogue Mancer
by 2Taverns
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Today he was going to die… finally. But death is just the beginning of his problems.
Dubbed the Unnamed Rogue Mancer, this Level Zero Custodian is about to learn just how sucky NOT dying really is…
Stricken with an incurable disease, his only hope is to join the ever-evolving game of Havenspire as a NPC custodian. Cleaning the endless Spires is better than the endless darkness, right?
But then again, darkness doesn’t punch you in the face.
Long Lost
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger ratchets up the tension as sports agent Myron Bolitar gets mixed up in some international intrigue in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
With an early morning phone call, an old flame wakes Myron Bolitar from sleep. Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help. In her debt, Myron makes the trip, and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once had a daughter who died in a car accident. Now it seems as though that daughter may be alive—and tied to a sinister plot with shocking global implications….
Hot Blooded
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on Lake Ponchartrain, late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. But who would think to link the two?
As more dead bodies turn up, Samantha’s ominous caller persists, along with someone claiming to be a woman from her past—who’s been dead for years. With Detective Rick Bentz convinced that the serial killer prowling the streets is somebody close to Samantha, she doesn’t dare trust anyone.
Keep Me Close
by Clare Franci
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman is viciously attacked by an intruder in this thrilling crime novel from international bestselling author Clare Francis
Catherine Galitza is assaulted in her own home, thrown down the stairwell, and left with serious injuries. As she recovers, she works to solve the mystery of her attacker’s identity, focusing on the barrage of nuisance phone calls she has been receiving for months. Catherine begins to consider the idea of a stalker, a watcher who has become obsessed, playing a silent role in her life. Two men are curiously intent on helping her discover the truth—Simon Jardine, her husband’s business partner; and Terry Devlin, a self-made Irish hotelier whom she has known since youth—but can they be trusted?
Killing the Witches
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches–but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.