Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Runs in the Family
by Tamara Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Amber thought she had troubles before her grandma was arrested for murder…
Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to the luxury accommodations of her grandmother’s retirement community. Never mind that Amber’s never actually met her estranged and eccentric Grandma Jade.
Isabelle Night and the Demon’s Flute
by Heidi Jarvis Smallidge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It was the last day of seventh grade and 13-year-old Isabelle Night was SO looking forward to a lazy summer! You know what can ruin a lazy summer? Demons. That’s what can ruin a lazy summer.
In this smart-kid adventure, Isabelle finds herself traveling to the Middle East with her mother, archaeologist Annaliese Night, to help their good friend Gunther Braun solve a mystery. Two mysteries actually. First, a strange man appearing out of the desert to offer Gunther help with his dig, telling of ancient secrets hidden in the palace and guarded by demons.
And then, the very next day, two guards go missing at a mysterious pit only recently opened.
The Law is a Lady
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Friendly, New Mexico is the perfect setting for director Phillip Kincaid to film his latest blockbuster. But the small town hospitality he expected turns downright hostile when he finds himself behind bars for speeding—arrested by the sexiest police officer to ever slap a pair of handcuffs on him.
Now, Phillip wants nothing more than to show Sheriff Victoria “Tory” Ashton how an outlaw can bring pleasurable disorder to her life.
The Last Child
by John Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heralded by the Washington Post as a “a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies”, John Hart’s The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is—confident in a way that he can never fully explain.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
by R. A. Dick, Adriana Trigiani
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Burdened by debt after her husband’s death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain’s story as a book, Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.
After Death
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.
Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles.
Through the Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mackenzie Scirocco grapples with the daily challenges of being a single mother of five-year-old twins and the responsibilities of running her bakery. Some days she fools herself that all the proverbial balls are in the air. Especially when the man she has a crush on asks her out. But her world—and those balls—crashes around her when her ex-husband questions her sanity and files for full custody of the boys.
Captain Phoenix Egan of the Water Course Fire Department gets trapped inside a burning building and can’t save himself from the consequences. His physical wound is nothing compared to the emotional one. He has to keep his fear of fighting fires a secret or risk his career and that makes him dangerous. Mack is the only person who can help him be whole again, and she can’t be with him.
Rowena and the Dark Lord
by Melodie Campbell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Rowena is abducted back to medieval Land’s End, all is in turmoil. Gareth is trapped in the middle-world. Cedric is losing his soul to the black arts. What’s a modern girl to do? Learn how to control her powers of magic, of course. Things go wrong when she accidently conjures up a Roman Legion in mid-battle. Now she has to prevent Roman and Land’s End warriors from killing each other.
A royal banquet quickly dissolves into a brutal battle. The Dark Lord appears and raises the stakes by trapping Rowena in a cyclone of lust and passion. Once again, Rowena is torn between the man she loves and the mage who fires her desire.
Angel Creek – Violet
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nurse practitioner on the run from heartbreak takes a temporary job in a secluded mountain town—only to discover a community, and a sheriff, willing to help her heal.
After a broken engagement and a brush with danger, nurse practitioner Violet Love escapes to the snowy mountain town of Angel Creek, hoping to heal in peace. But the quirky townspeople, stubborn patients, and a brooding local cop with secrets of his own make “quiet” impossible.
Carson Jackson is guarded, grieving, and unexpectedly protective — and something in Violet stirs the part of him he thought was long gone.