Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangling by a Thread
by Lea Wait
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Mainely Needlepointers are about to learn that no man is an island—especially when greedy developers want his land . . .
Hermit Jesse Lockhart lives alone on King’s Island, three miles east of Haven Harbor, Maine, where he’s created a private sanctuary for the endangered Great Cormorants. But when a wealthy family wants to buy the island and Jesse’s cousin petitions for power of attorney to force him to sell, Jesse is the one who becomes endangered.
Mainely Needlepointer Dave Perry, who befriended Jesse in the VA hospital, rallies the group to his defense.
“D” is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who’d done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he’d stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident—death by drowning. Kinsey wasn’t so sure.
Pulled into the detritus of a dead man’s life, Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies. There’s the daughter who grew up with a cheating drunk for a father, and the wife who’s become a religious nut in response to an intolerable marriage…
Avenue for an Assassin
by Steve Haberman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jonas Shaw, ex New York detective, ex-Winston Churchill spy, gets a call from France at his Cotswold manor near London. An old World War II friend has a brother-in-law who is a cop in a tiny hamlet.
A routine traffic stop on a country road has turned out to be far from routine. Can Jonas fly out to investigate?
The answer will lead to one of the bloodiest events in the history of Paris that will echo for years.
Charade
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than just a new heart. With her second chance at life, Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer.
But her new world turns sinister when fatal “accidents” begin killing other heart transplant recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally—and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy
by Timothy Zahn
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Ruling Families that lead them.
The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy dispatches one of its brightest young military officers to root out the unseen assailants. A recruit born of no title, but adopted into the powerful family of the Mitth and given the name Thrawn.
Never Really Left
by Wendy Jordan Saffel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
When Wendy Jordan Saffel lost her twenty-year-old son, Hugh, she discovered that grief is a well without a bottom. But even as she felt herself sinking into despair, she was offered an unexpected lifeline—one that changed her perception of the world forever.
A rational thinker, Wendy focused on the facts—the tangible and the measurable. That is, until she began experiencing profound spiritual connections with her son shortly after his passing. These initial moments of contact propelled her on a yearslong journey to understand what happens when we die, what comprises the afterlife, and how a relationship with our lost loved ones can persist in ways that are real, true, beautiful, and sacred.
The Dark Tower II
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower.
Chasing Castles
by Barbara File Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Author Barbara File Marangon begins her incredible journey of self-discovery in her grandmother’s Bronx kitchen. With a glimpse of her Irish ancestry she makes a heartfelt promise to find her ancestral castle in Ireland someday.
After the poignant finale of a Hollywood show she choreographed, an appreciative cast presents her with a ticket to Italy. She is offered a job teaching ballet in Venice, but after a painful marriage to a Venetian comes to an end, she moves to a small Italian town with a castle. For nineteen years she lives there, and teaches ballet after opening her own school.
Barbara battles loneliness, bigotry, and corruption, even standing up to the Mafia. With courage and determination she prevails and finds love again.