Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mysterious Affair at Styled Magazine
by C.A. Larmer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in the glamorously shallow world of women’s magazines, the Book Club’s eighth whodunit sees the return of the characters that made Book One a global sensation!
Beauty Assistant Ginny DeRosso has never fitted in at Styled magazine – too flirty, too “common” and far too inquisitive. So when she falls to her death in front of a city train, her old work pal Alicia Finlay suspects foul play. And it’s not just because of the looks of relief on her colleagues’ Botoxed faces…
False Connections
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three years ago, Mel Milano was an MI5 intelligence officer with a promising career. Then, during a routine protection and surveillance operation in Wales, things went drastically wrong and three people died, including Mel’s partner and fiancé, Liam Webster.
Drummed out of the service on trumped-up charges by MI5 Deputy Director, Sarah Brook, Mel lost her career, her self-respect, her confidence and her fiancé. Nothing made sense.
Three years on, she is rebuilding her life, working for a private security outfit.
But she’s never forgiven the way she was dumped by MI5. One day she’ll discover the truth about Brook and what was really going on.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband—he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . .
Both require connections . . . Not only does Mylas need access to a neighborhood security video, as well as the password to a secret Pentagon file, he also needs a realtor who understands Whitney’s housing needs…
Cycles
by PM Kester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
What would you do if you didn’t recognize the face in the mirror?
In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, Cailynn wakes up with a new face, fragmented memories, and a folder that claims to define her identity. Surrounded by women in identical black dresses and watched closely by a government that insists on obedience, she quickly realizes she’s not like the others-some of her memories have survived the state’s “cycling” process, a brutal system that resets minds to maintain control.
Told she exists only to serve, Cailynn tries to blend in. But her fragile cover is shattered when a mysterious stranger calls her by a different name and warns her that she has only 28 days before she cycles again-permanently.
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
by Bruce Rolfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter.
The Ultimate Rose and Gen Beaufont Collection
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Beaufont legacy spans six centuries and the women who carry it don’t play by anyone’s rules but their own.
Rose Harkness has spent her whole life protected, shielded, and lied to about who she really is. When a magical dragon tears her world apart, she discovers her true name — Beaufont — and a birthright that comes with impossible expectations. Is Rose the witch hunter they’ve been waiting for?
Six hundred years earlier, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg, defied every rule her era had, and accidentally stepped through a time travel gate into modern America. Now this Medieval warrior must reckon with the magical dynasty her family built and decide if she’s ready to save a world that doesn’t know her name.
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Scorpion
by Don Mann, Ralph Pezzullo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“The action is nonstop, and Mann does a fine job giving readers the feel of what it’s like to be a member of the SEALs, from danger to camaraderie.” —Booklist
When a cargo ship is captured by pirates off the east coast of Africa, SEAL Team Six is called into action. What looks at first like a simple search and rescue turns much more perilous when the ship’s cargo is revealed to be yellowcake, a critical component in nuclear weaponry. Thomas Crocker and his squad are dispatched to Libya with a clear objective: to secure the dangerous materials before terrorists can unleash nuclear havoc on the world.
You First
by Caroline Kepnes
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love . . . first obsession . . . first kill? Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show.
Joe Goldberg is ready for his life to start. He’s seventeen years old, working in Mr. Mooney’s bookshop, falling in love with every girl on the subway all while wondering who will be the one. He knows what he needs: A woman who will force him to get his GED, go to night school, and make something of himself. But who would ever fall in love with him?
