Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Brush with Death
by J.M. Hall
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma have a brand-new mystery to solve in this wonderfully witty cosy mystery.
Retired schoolteachers Pat, Liz and Thelma don’t know what to think. The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that’s what the autopsy shows.
But his ex-wife isn’t convinced. She’s sure the current Mrs Hilton is involved – maybe she wasn’t at some horse event, as she told police…
The Ghostway
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
The Legend of Childer’s Forest
by Gillian Young
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Poppy the golden retriever returns with her younger sister, Devon, in another crazy cream adventure.
When a family of rabbits are driven from their home, Poppy and Devon make it their mission to help.
Their quest takes them to Childer’s Forest, the site of ancient and mysterious events. So, when the safety of their human brother, Jack, is also threatened, Poppy and Devon call on the famous Legend of Childer’s Forest for help.
The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young mother, blond and pretty, vanishes from her South Boston home, leaving behind only one witness – her four-year-old daughter – and one suspect – her handsome, secretive husband.
From the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, instinct tells her that something is seriously off with the wholesome image the couple has worked so hard to create.
Strange Weather: Four Short Novels
by Joe Hill
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.
“One of America’s finest horror writers” (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this “compelling chronicler of human nature’s continual war between good and evil,” (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who “pushes genre conventions to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life.
Vamped Up
by Kristin Miller
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Vampires in Crimson Bay have been saved by the successful duplication of Eve’s pure blood. The threat to her safety is gone, Ruan. You can return to our haven’ But if you choose the love of a mundane over the duty to your khiss, you re on your own.
Note from the San Francisco Primus. I said stop, Eve. A dark musky smell emitted from Ruan’s skin. It was possession. You don’t know what you re asking of me.
Eve had spent an entire month begging Ruan to drink from her. To share one of the most erotic experiences a vampire and mundane could share. Yet he’d denied her. Now, there was no turning back…
Hardly Knew Her
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
For the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.
Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own (four stories about places outside of Baltimore); My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore (four stories and a profile)—the inimitable Tess Monaghan, along with some old friends and new faces, is back solving crime.
Vows in Magic and Steel Complete Boxed Set
by River Tatum, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
All three novels in the enchanting enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance series where magic, duty, and centuries-old hatred collide.
When the monarchy forces a marriage between two feuding noble houses, gifted mage Elysia Kallendore and proud knight Lorand Valecrest must choose between their families’ ancient hatred and a fragile chance at peace. As mysterious attacks plague their lands and sinister forces threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, these sworn enemies discover that the strongest magic of all might be the love growing between them…
Blood Moon
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself.