Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder within Murder
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman.
Miss Amelia Gipson doesn’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she’s ever made a mistake, and it’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There’s simply no question: She was poisoned.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Fallout
by Jeff Rovin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series.
After successfully extricating one of Beijing’s top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes from multiple embassies in Washington, D.C. The Chinese squad has also infiltrated American intelligence and is aware of every move Black Wasp makes. Complicating matters, the new president of the United States seems willing to let Op Center take the fall for the mission that precipitated the crisis.
The Butcher
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
They called him the Butcher because he never left work unfinished.
Once a soldier, now a hunter, Caleb earned the name tracking men who believed themselves untouchable – and proving they weren’t. When the war ended, he buried that life and walked away.
Or so he thought. When a ghost from the battlefield resurfaces, Caleb’s rules return with it:
1) hunt without mercy; 2) finish the job; 3) never look back.
Code Name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A woman must rescue her cousin’s family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
Quiet War
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Keller Ward asked little from life. Honest work. A roof over his boys’ heads. Enough peace to keep the past where it belonged. Then one son is murdered in a gold convoy ambush, and the other is left broken between life and death.
Everyone in Calico Ridge knows who did it. Randall Vexler.
Heir to a cattle fortune and nephew to the town marshal.
When the courts turn their backs and Randall walks free, Keller decides to settle things himself. Soon men begin turning up dead. As fear spreads, Keller continues his silent war.
Black Swan Rising
by Lee Carroll
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman discovers a magical world within New York City in this urban fantasy trilogy opener—”Fans of Charles de Lint and Mercedes Lackey should enjoy this vibrant addition to the urban fantasy genre” (Library Journal).
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, asks her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly matches the ring given to Garet by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe this eerie coincidence until she opens the box and otherworldly things start happening . . .
What Remains of Heaven
by C. S. Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
London 1812. When the controversial reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death in an ancient crypt beside the corpse of an unidentified man murdered decades before, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, reluctantly agrees to investigate. As his search for the killer leads him from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of Whitehall, Sebastian must confront the well-guarded secrets of his own family’s past—and a devastating truth that could ultimately force him to question who—and what—he really is.