Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Killer Christmas
by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home.
Off Course
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SOME ROADS LEAD AWAY FROM TRUTH.
In 1989, newlyweds Jacob and Rebecca Hale drive into the Appalachian Mountains looking for adventure, quiet, and a new beginning. What they find instead is a light that doesn’t belong to this world.
What begins as awe becomes obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a decades-long search for answers hidden in silence — pulsing through the forests, calling from beyond.
Trust No One
by James Rollins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
Knowledge can be magic—until it falls into the wrong hands.
The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.
Road to Colorado
by Ashley Judge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
The alert said to stay inside. The sky was clear. Then the power died.
Mail carrier Charlotte Meyers has already lost her husband. Now the grid is down, war is spreading, and her daughter is somewhere in the chaos.
No One Gets Out Alive
by Adam Nevill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now a major motion picture on Netflix!
When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she’s just happy to find an affordable room for rent that’s large enough not to deserve her previous room’s nickname, “the cell.” The eccentric — albeit slightly overly-friendly — landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren’t great, but they’re stable. Or at least that’s what she tells herself when she impulsively hands over enough money to cover the first month’s rent and decides to give it a go.
Junkyard Dogs
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
It’s a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming when the owners of a multimillion-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. Meeting the notorious Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself, and when conflict erupts—and someone ends up dead—Sheriff Walt Longmire, his lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high-plains pressure cooker.
An Enemy in the Village
by Martin Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vézère valley, he’s ready to investigate. Inside, he finds a suicide note and the dead body of Monique, a successful businesswoman who rented châteaus to wealthy expats. It seems like an open-and-shut case.
But Bruno can’t shake the suspicion that something sinister lurks underneath this tidy narrative. After he delivers Monique’s final messages to those most important to her, malicious gossip about Bruno begins to spread through the village. One thing leads to another, and soon Bruno faces pressure to resign from the job.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
This Changes Everything
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany—except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm in Pennsylvania. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia moments before Courtney enters the house—and makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. Rushing to support Courtney, Julia flies home the next morning.