Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Banana Cream Pie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen’s marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up back in Minnesota, it seems the newlywed’s homecoming won’t be as sweet as anticipated.
Hannah’s eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But then her mother’s neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town, and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman as police claim, or was a deadlier scheme at play?
Reset
by Tim Goff
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The sun sputters. Cultists rally in the streets, calling this a sign of the apocalyptic ‘Reset.’
Hounded by cultists and corrupt government agents, Sitex and his siblings seek to forge new lives for themselves in the growing chaos, following a thin thread that may ensure their survival.
But nothing about the Reset or their world is as it seems…
Exiles
by Jane Harper
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend’s baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation.
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year ago, at a busy town festival on a warm spring night, Kim safely tucked her sleeping baby into her stroller, then vanished into the crowd. No one has seen her since. When Kim’s older daughter makes a plea for anyone with information about her missing mom to come forward, Falk and his old buddy Raco can’t leave the case alone.
A Conjuring of Ravens
by Azalea Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius. But even geniuses need schooling.
When Siobhan stumbled into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thought her dreams of becoming the world’s most powerful sorcerer were destroyed. But then a mysterious spell changed her life forever…
Siobhan is now wearing the body of a strange man and has a new identity—Sebastien. With a new chance for a new start, she allies herself with a local gang—secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. Now, she is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors.
Fatal Past: Twin Oaks Secrets
by Sarah Hamaker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a pediatrician foils an attempted child abduction, she’s thrust into a dangerous game in which she must rely on the help of her former boyfriend to stay alive.
Dr. Eve Davenport has forged a life for herself far from the pain of her past. But when she foils the kidnapping attempt of Ethan Smith, she comes face-to-face with the boy’s father, Jefferson Smith—the high school sweetheart who broke her heart and left her with secrets she’s buried for nearly a decade. Jefferson can’t believe the woman who saved Ethan, his late twin brother’s son, is Eve—the girl he once loved and lost. But as the danger mounts, Jefferson and Eve must confront their tangled history and uncover who is behind the attacks targeting Ethan and Eve.
Fire Knife Dancing
by John Enright
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Det. Apelu Soifua risks losing his career – and his life – in a case that exposes the dark heart of American Samoa, from the author of Pago Pago Tango.
Long before he was a cop, Apelu Soifua performed as a fire knife dancer during his teen years in San Francisco. The Polynesian dance troupe was headed by Ezra Strand and his wife, who now live in a secluded house on the cliffs between the ocean and the jungle in Piapiatele. The elderly Ezra has once again been caught discharging a firearm, and Apelu must confiscate the weapon. He never expects Ezra to turn the shotgun on him…
A Breath of Fresh Air
by John B. Rosenman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Michael Windsor’s luck has abandoned him. His wife, Muriel, left him, taking his beloved seven-year-old son Andy with her, and is sleeping with a rich lawyer.
As if that isn’t enough, he experiences three near-death episodes in his sleep, fighting for breath and nearly suffocating. It’s called obstructive sleep apnea, and his neurologist advises him to use a device to help regulate his breathing at night. It sounds even more miserable, but Michael agrees.
What follows is a whirlwind of surreal changes as his body strengthens, his life improves, and he feels somehow more alive. He knows it’s the machine, but he also knows that’s crazy…
Rescuing the Warrior
by Roxanne Hicks
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Returning from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan, Liam Blackmer takes up a quest to find his deceased sister’s child before the local trafficker does.
Back cover paragraph–When Liam Blackmer returned home from multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan as a medic, his father and sister were both deceased. He hires on as a paramedic with the Woodridge Fire and Rescue Department. A motorcycle accident lands him in the hospital and then the home of his parents’ former pastor to recover.
Cold Cold Heart
by Tami Hoag
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since she survived her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares, Dana returns to her hometown in an attempt to begin to put her life back together. But home doesn’t provide the comfort she expects.
Dana’s harrowing story and her return to small-town life have rekindled police and media interest in the unsolved case of her childhood best friend, Casey Grant, who disappeared without a trace the summer after their graduation from high school…
The Countering
by Patrick Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
After countless millions silently and mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth—including all small children—in the blink of an eye, the world was plunged into unbridled chaos.
In the days following the Rapture of Christ’s Church, the ultimate enemy of God raised up his primary human agent in the flesh to carry out his diabolical mission, Salvador Romanero.
With a secret society working feverishly behind the scenes, and with Romanero being supernaturally empowered by the prince of darkness, the former lawyer from Spain quickly rose above the landscape of humanity to become the most powerful man on earth.