Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder
by Gay Marris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
London, 1968. A suburban London street. But this is no ordinary road.
In number 17 live a bitter daughter and her mother, trapped with each other. Or are they?
The twin brothers at number 3 think they’re nothing like each other, but they may be proved wrong. Lesley disappeared from number 49 years ago. Then her body is found, and with it more secrets.
Atbara Avenue is a street where, all too often, murder feels like the solution.
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
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In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Night Home
by Rose Titus
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When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town who knew the professor almost a century ago, and learns that everything he wrote in the notes he kept is true. And then she finds herself stalked by a vampire hunter.
The Sword Brothers
by Peter Darman
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Jerusalem may have fallen to the Saracens but in the Baltic Bishop Albert of Riga has created the crusader state of Livonia to bring the word of God to the indigenous pagans. The battle to convert the natives is savage and unrelenting and into this holy war is thrust Conrad Wolff, a young native of the city of Lübeck whose family has suffered a terrible injustice.
Forced to leave his homeland to seek sanctuary in Livonia, Conrad’s fate is soon entwined with that of the Sword Brothers, the order of warrior monks that fights to defend and expand Christendom in the Baltic. But as Conrad begins his training to become a member of the brethren, the enemies of the Bishop of Riga gather and soon Livonia is surrounded and battling for its very existence.
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The Cradle Will Fall
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman’s body into the trunk of a car…or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare?
At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that the famous doctor’s work “curing” infertile women was more than controversial—that it was deceitful, depraved, and often deadly…
MYSTERY Nightmare Journey: Across Time
by Crystal Mary Lindsey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Will This Young Woman Meet Success or Will She Be Destroyed by Her own Making? Eyes Meet and Hearts Ignite.
Star Tripodi, a headstrong, and a sensationally beautiful young woman has her mind full of intoxicating future dreams. This WILD female believes herself beyond reproof from any authority, and that includes GOD. Gorgeously attractive Doctor Blain Conway, a neurosurgeon, and new to town, becomes ENCHANTED with Star when he first sets eyes on her. His DESIRE is captured. Abruptly all comes crashing down on Star one fateful day when at the wrong place she gets struck by a speeding car. Taken to hospital and placed in INTENSIVE CARE on life support, it will be Doctor Conway who takes charge of her critical care. In her delirium, Star is attacked by DEMONS before careering back through time to early colonial Virginia of 1754…
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
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Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
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When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?