Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Death, Heists and Hat People
by Bessie Barr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Finn Dockrey has plenty to distract her in Pelican Shores. Things with Detective Pace Stringfellow are definitely heating up, her BFF, Birdie, is stirring up pumpkin streusel bars, and Tory McGee has somehow convinced a flock of glamorous international visitors to model her new Tide & Brim hat line. Or has she?
Because the strangers seem far more interested in old paintings, jewelry, and island estates than fashion. Then local estate dealer Kitty Kelley turns up dead. Suspicion falls everywhere. A furious son claims Kitty cheated his family out of a priceless first edition Hemingway.
A Matter of Love and Death
by Carmen Radtke
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As sole provider for her mother and her retired vaudevillian godfather, she can’t afford to lose her job. So when she accidentally overhears what sounds like plans for a murder, she tells herself she must be mistaken and to forget it.
But what if she’s NOT mistaken? The only person she dares confide in is charismatic nightclub owner Jack Sullivan, a man with little patience for rules. Together, they dig deeper into Adelaide’s underworld. But now someone knows Frances was listening—and is determined to silence her.
Scavenger
by Bradley Caffee
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
In a world decimated by the lethal virus, Jimmy Hunter is a scavenger. Using his skills as a drone pilot, he searches his nearly vacant city for tradable goods to help him and his two friends, Elena and Wyatt, survive each day. With criminals and violent militia roaming the streets, each trip away from the hideout is fraught with peril.
When his drone veers off-course, Jimmy discovers lost information about underground bunkers where civilization and resources are being preserved—kept secret by a group known as the Keepers.
The Ice Twins
by S.K. Tremayne
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcroft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.
But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity–that she, in fact, is Lydia–their world comes crashing down once again. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, they are forced to confront what really happened on that fateful day.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
by Alvin Schwartz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The iconic anthology series of horror tales that’s now a feature film! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.
Available for the first time as an ebook, Stephen Gammell’s artwork from the original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark appears in all its spooky glory. Read if you dare!
The Doctor’s Wife
by John Glatt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morning of December 4, 2004, neighbors found seven-year-old Dalton Corbin at their front door sobbing.
Jennifer Corbin’s death looked like a suicide. But the crime didn’t fool young Dalton, and in the coming weeks an even more horrifying story emerged: That Dr. Corbin had been left by a woman once before—and that time he may have gotten away with murder.
You Don’t Know Me
by Nancy Bush
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Everyone in Wagon Wheel, Oregon, knew that Thomas Daniels was a mean, violent man, twisted by liquor and hate. His stepdaughters, Dinah, Denise, and Hayley, knew it better than anyone. And then, with one desperate act, their lives changed forever.
Now, years after he disappeared, Thomas Daniels’s remains have been found and a murder investigation is underway. All three sisters—Dinah, a respected journalist, acclaimed actress Denise, and Hayley, hungry for her own chance at stardom—find their lives intersecting and unraveling again.
Marshal of Snowdonia
by Simon McCleave
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Retired detective Frank Marshal lives in a remote part of Snowdonia with his wife Rachel who is suffering from dementia. Working as a park ranger, Frank gets a phone call from close friend Annie, a retired judge. Her sister Meg has gone missing from a local caravan park and she needs his help to find her.
As Frank and Annie start to unravel the dark secrets of Meg’s life, it seems at first that her disappearance might be linked to her nephew and a drug deal gone wrong.