Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Collection of Lies
by Connie Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In USA Today bestselling author Connie Berry’s fifth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton follows bloodstained clues to discover the truth about the murder of a modern-day Victorian gentleman.
As Kate Hamilton and her new husband, DI Tom Mallory, honeymoon in Devon, a local history museum asks them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a Victorian lacemaker accused of murder. If genuine, the dress and its puzzling connections to a nineteenth-century Romani family who camped on Dartmoor will be the centerpiece of a new historic crimes exhibit—exactly Kate’s kind of mystery. But matters turn deadly when a shot is fired during a fundraising gala, injuring the man who donated the dress…
The Illuminati
by Larry Burkett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From before the time of Christ, there have been rumors of a secret society called The Illuminati…a vicious tribe of Druids with mystical, supernatural powers. Many saw them as demons or gods. Those who opposed them simply disappeared…or met an even worse fate.
Unknown to all but the very few, this group slowly infiltrated world organizations and financial institutions with a singular goal–to control the world’s economic system.
Danger in the Coyote Zone
by Kathryn Lane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Working undercover can smother you…
Nikki Garcia, a former fraud auditor turned international private investigator, travels to Mexico – a country where private investigators are outlawed – to find a missing child.
The parents are embroiled in a nasty custody battle, with each parent accusing the other of the girl’s disappearance. It’s an easy child-snatching case – right?
That’s what Nikki thinks until an irreverent, marijuana-smoking homeless woman provides an eye-witness account of the girl’s kidnapping. Following the witness’s account, Nikki goes undercover and infiltrates a ring of dangerous human traffickers. In the midst of despair and treachery, can she find a glimmer of hope for the children trapped by traffickers?
The Birthright Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Now I have to kill my sister.
Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha doesn’t want her mother’s throne. Her sister Judica is the merciless fighter, the ruthless politician, and the groomed heir. Chancery doesn’t mind that Judica will take over everything. Truly.
Until Judica starts dating the only guy she has ever liked. Chancery’s heartily sick of taking it on the chin. She’s ready to seize control of her own life. But before Chancery can enact her plan to free herself from the miserable life in which she’s trapped, she reacts bizarrely to an old relic, fulfilling an arcane prophecy.
Displaced – Book 1
Unforgiven – Book 2
Disillusioned – Book 3
Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
by Chris Kempshall
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“So this is how liberty dies – with thunderous applause.” – Senator Padmé Amidala
When Sheev Palpatine declared the birth of his new Empire, he expected it would stand for thousands of years. Instead, it lasted only 24. This is the story of how a tyrannical regime rose from the ashes of democracy, ruled the galaxy with an iron fist, and then collapsed into dust.
We All Love the Beautiful Girls
by Joanne Proulx
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Perfect for fans of Rick Moody, Lauren Groff, and Celeste Ng, a propulsive literary breakout about three suburban families whose lives spiral dangerously out of control after tragedy strikes.
Who suffers when the privileged fall? One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate’s comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they discover that their best friend has cheated them out of their life savings. At the same time, a few doors down, their teenaged son passes out in the snow at a party–a mistake whose consequences will shatter not just their family, but an entire community.
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen’s coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead…yet.
The Enchanted Orchard Complete Boxed Set
by Kelli Robyns, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0
Magic blooms where family secrets grow. Emma Turner’s life shattered when her parents died in a storm, forcing her to move in with her grandmother in the small coastal town of Crestwood. She expected grief and loneliness.
She never expected magic. Strange things happen in Sadie’s cottage by the orchard – a fox that seems to understand human speech, a flower brought back to life with just a whisper, and ancient runes carved into trees that pulse with hidden power…
Vincible
by Jay Jameston
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4
Life is like a party balloon. You never know when it’s going to explode.
What do you do when you wake up to find a video of your drunken stupor has gone viral on Reddit? Or social media is filled with your ex-girlfriend living the party life now that she’s finally dumped you?
Jake Durham is suddenly single again, and things are going downhill fast.
Armed with nothing but a half-charged phone and questionable advice from his equally disoriented friends, Jake dives headfirst into the chaos of dating apps, HR disasters, and mornings-after that make him question every life choice.