Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Eclairs and Extortion
by C. A. Phipps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marriage, menace… and murder!
The day Maddie Flynn’s mother shows up unannounced in Maple Falls, a body is discovered in the town park. Maddie doesn’t believe in coincidences—and when a mysterious stranger is seen lurking around, her suspicions only deepen.
As if a murder investigation weren’t enough, Gran’s 70th birthday party is fast approaching. Planning a celebration, keeping the peace between three fiery generations of Flynn women, and trying to unmask a killer is more than any baker should have on her plate.
The Collapse Code
by Joey Wells
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels.
With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.
Night and Day
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Full of danger, intrigue and heart, Iris Johansen’s New York Times bestseller, Night and Day, is a breathtaking, high-energy adventure that’s sure to keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan risked it all to protect Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead. The journey has led them from California to a remote mountain in the Scottish highlands―and earned Eve the distinction of becoming their next target. When, despite all precautions, Cara is taken, Eve must hunt down the very people who want to kill her in order to save the young girl.
The Damned
by Tarn Richardson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a priest is brutally murdered in the French city of Arras, Poldek Tacit—a brutally efficient Inquisitor—arrives on the scene to investigate the crime. His mission: to protect the Church from those who would seek to destroy it, no matter what the cost. As Tacit strives in vain to investigate the murder, he must also uncover the reason why other Vatican servants seek to undermine him.
Meanwhile, a beautiful and spirited woman, Sandrine Prideux, warns British Lt. Henry Frost of a mutual foe lurking beneath the killing fields—an enemy that wreaks its havoc by the light of the moon.
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
The Wife Swap
by Jack Heath
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some couples would kill for a weekend away…
It was supposed to be a fun trip. Three couples, friends since high school, arrive at a remote mountain retreat ready to unwind and catch up.
When an innocent remark of swapping partners is made, they laugh it off as a joke. But after a few glasses of wine, it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. With the lights off, it’s not really cheating when you don’t know who you’re with, right?
The Ares Decision
by Kyle Mills
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.
Covert-One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant.
A Painted House
by John Grisham
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers—and two very dangerous men—came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions…