Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim Qwilleran for help. But he was too late. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death—but by whom? Or what? Now Qwilleran’s moved into the historic farmhouse with his two cat companions—and Koko the Siamese is spooked.
Is it a figment of feline imagination—or the clue to a murder in Moose County? And does Qwilleran have a ghost of a chance of solving this haunting mystery?
Wealth of Secrets
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the wake of her parents’ sudden deaths, Brynnan’s reality is spinning out of control. Unexplained threats are dredging up old fears—and fueling new anxiety about her safety.
Determined to help, Brynnan’s billionaire uncle rushes to her side, along with his newly hired head-of-security—former special forces operative, Jack McKerrick. Jack is tasked with ensuring Brynnan’s safety, but when he realizes she’s being targeted, Jack learns about Brynnan’s painful past, and starts to suspect she’s in more danger than she realizes.
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind?
McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something’s just not right. Not only has Maureen’s doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up—and no one seems to have any answers.
Yours to Protect Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
USA Today Bestselling Author and Kindle All-Star Jennifer Youngblood presents a gripping collection of bodyguard romances filled with fearless protectors, dangerous secrets, and undeniable attraction.
These highly trained bodyguards know how to anticipate every threat, maintain control, and put themselves between danger and the people they’re sworn to protect. But as professional boundaries blur and every new threat draws protector and client closer, they’ll face the one risk they didn’t anticipate—falling in love.
Packed with high-stakes danger, unexpected twists, and swoony romance, this four-book collection will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Paper Girls
by Alex Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The one case he couldn’t crack was the one that finally broke him.
Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family.
But his newfound peace doesn’t last. Two newspaper delivery girls have gone missing in the city, and the clues point to a serial kidnapper.
Kett is dragged into the centre of one of the darkest cases of his career—a case that pits him head to head against a horrifying evil.
MAN ONE
by Loren D. Estleman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Young widow Sage Holland doesn’t look like a murderer—and that’s because she isn’t one. The beautiful dame has driven non-stop from her home in frozen Alaska to seek out the services of private investigator Amos Walker, bringing not just the ice and snow with her. Sage has a stalker: her late husband’s vengeful brother, who’s determined to make her pay for a crime she didn’t commit. Someone killed David, but it wasn’t her.
Walker is no fool. He knows not to take the words of husky-voiced, sorrowful women at face value. But Sage is in sore need of protection, and Walker’s hunt for clues on Detroit’s wintry streets soon leads to far more dead bodies than expected.
The Butcher Game
by Alaina Urquhart
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in the Dr. Wren Muller series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.
Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher, as he heads north to evade capture for his horrific crimes. As he seeks safe harbor with a former friend, he remains focused on unfinished business with forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller, the only target who’s ever escaped him—twice. But not this time. He’s determined to make Wren suffer, and he’s promised to make her play by his own twisted rules.
Stranger
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Wes Avery has spent years riding freight roads and keeping other men alive. Then a dying friend asks him for one last favor.
He is to protect his sister and her eight-year-old daughter from the Coyle family, and get them to Larkin alive.
Lacey Reed has already watched the Coyles burn her homestead and hunt her brother into the winter. Her daughter has not spoken since. Now an armed stranger rides into her yard carrying news of her brother’s death, asking Lacey to trust him with the only family she has left.