Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Book High And Low
by Jessica Brimer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Welcome to the re-opening of a used bookstore in East Tennessee, Bind Me Again. Books are piled high and the shelves are fully stocked.
Garnet Stone hoped the remodel would make the bookstore tidy, but her boss Jane is proving to be as messy as the previous owner. Garnet undergoes a secret mission to declutter the store, which isn’t easy with two cats running the place.
Jacob Rome overshadows Garnet’s concerns. The freelance editor has moved to Sevier Oak and causes problems with the locals. When he brings books for trade-in, Garnet and Jane find a death certificate tucked inside…
Inheritance of Flame
by D. J. Dalton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Her family is fading. Her enemies are rising. Her world is on fire.
Morgan Whiltemore is a necromancer, a healer, and the master of a struggling guild. Her mother is wasting away under an elven curse no magic can undo, and Morgan will stop at nothing to protect her.
But the magical world is breaking apart. Covens are slaughtered, guilds destroyed, and every attack pulls Morgan closer to a war she cannot escape.
Grief shadows her every step, and enemies are closing in from all sides. To protect her family and her guild, Morgan must risk everything — or watch it all burn.
Night School
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.
Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.
FALSE START
by Bev Pettersen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some lies are worth millions. Some truths are worth murder.
When Nikki Drake and her K9 Gunner are hired to protect a rebellious racehorse, she expects routine surveillance and security work. Instead, she discovers a Derby contender whose biggest threat isn’t his temperament but the powerful people determined to stop him from racing—by any means necessary.
As threats escalate from intimidation to sabotage, Nikki uncovers a tangled web of secrets that extends far beyond stable politics. When a murder at the training center shatters any illusion of safety, she and Gunner find themselves racing a killer through treacherous mountain trails.
Dangerous Shadows
by Gail Pallotta
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Shaken from an assault in the library parking lot at Hilltop College in Western North Carolina, crime reporter Emily Hanover contacts her ex-fiancé, private investigator Nick Lancaster. When the college hires Nick to recover quartz and ancient maps stolen from the library, Nick insists there’s a connection between the theft and Emily’s attack.
As Nick and Emily face danger from an elusive stalker, their romance rekindles. Nick’s sidekick, Hucklesford, spots two suspects, so he and Nick go undercover. While Nick’s surveillance points to illegal gambling and murder, Hucklesford’s investigation leads him to the college cross-country team.
Code to Zero
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America’s best hope to catch up with the Russians: the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed due to weather, even though everyone can see it is a perfectly sunny day.
The real reason for the delay rests deep in the mind of a NASA scientist who has awoken that morning to find his memory completely erased. Knowing only that he’s being followed and watched at every turn, he must find the clues to his own identity before he can discover who is responsible. But even more terrible is the dark secret that they want him to forget. A secret that can destroy the Explorer I—and America’s future. . . .
The Pacific
by Hugh Ambrose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!
Between America’s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur’s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home.
Innocence Road
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Leanne Everhart swore she’d never go back to her hometown near Marfa, Texas – but she returns when her brother needs her, only to find a town in need too, still torn apart by a decades-old crime.
Leanne Everhart knows women have something to fear in her artsy hometown, especially so if they’re not rich, white locals. Returning to town after her father’s death, she sees the ugliest sides of an area that draws people for its severe, untamed natural landscape.
Same Place, Same Lights, Different Day Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Everyone has a story…and a dream.
Jillian was determined to learn more about her family’s history and the mystery surrounding the woman in the intriguing and mysterious painting at Daine’s new home. But she didn’t count on Nic being just as interested in the mystery as she was. But he was, and while they might be amateurs at digging for historical information, they were spending hours together investigating old documents at the township’s church. Its library was almost as old as the town itself.
Faery: The Final Frontier
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
MUD AND MOSQUITOS. IS THAT WHAT LILITH REALLY WANTS?
BUT DON’T GET EXCITED. It’s a rain forest adventure by request of the faeries. Lilith, Adam, and four shamans paddle a river in Ecuador to find a remote tribe of natives who dream the dream of the world. The tribe’s work, vital to the planet, will be stopped by nearby oil drilling unless Lilith and crew can discover who’s planning it and convince them to cease operations.
SOUNDS SIMPLE, DOESN’T IT? Yet they must search on two continents to find the responsible party, with surprising twists around every corner. Before long, she must face an aching truth: in order to save the world, Lilith may very well lose her best friend and lover Adam.