Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Balloon Body Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When Rik Patience—who has no patience—trips over the body of a murder victim sticking out from under the envelope of a hot air balloon, it turns into a sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, sometimes heartbreaking ride. Rik and her over-sixties group of fellow sleuths endeavor to solve a mystery that even the sheriff’s department can’t solve.
Things never go well for Rik in life or love in spite of her best intentions. She finds herself on the wrong side of her Mason, Texas, friends when she becomes “public enemy number one” after refusing to help with a festival that will bring tourists into town—but also promotes alcoholic beverages.
The Hollow Places
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house.
Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become.
Apprentice in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park’s ice-skating rink. The victims: a talented young skater, a doctor, and a teacher. As random as random can be.
Eve Dallas has seen a lot of killers during her time with the NYPSD but never one like this. A review of the security videos reveals that the victims were killed with a tactical laser rifle fired by a sniper, who could have been miles away when the trigger was pulled.
Labyrinth
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man’s body slams against her windshield and then—blackness.
When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she’s told about the accident and the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away. From DNA, they discover his name is Justice Cummings and he’s a CIA analyst at Langley…and he’s still missing.
Every Fifteen Minutes
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however.
His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country, and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble.
Sunforged
by Armstrong Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Too old to live, too stubborn to die, He is about to become the most dangerous man in the desert! Eldin Doon built empires from a boardroom, outlived three wives, and ran out of things that frightened him, until his own failing body became the last one.
So he does the only thing left that scares him: he puts his head into a machine and wakes up young, whole, and standing inside a game that is not a game at all. Every other Traveler runs north for the safe kingdoms.
Next Girl On The List
by Roger Stelljes
Kindle $3.75 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He’s the perfect boyfriend… with the perfect lies… but is he the perfect killer? It had been so long since she had someone so amazing in her life. She was swept off her feet and thought he was the absolutely perfect guy and the perfect date, or is it just a deadly game of seduction and deception?
What clues are hidden in a picture perfect murder? Complex clues are carefully woven into intricate crime scenes that challenge Mac McRyan, while a warped mind taunts him and stalks another innocent soul.
The Hollow
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When Harry Bosch was eleven years old, his mother was murdered and he became a ward of the state, housed in MacLaren Children’s Center, a notorious facility where abuse was rampant. Decades after its closure, a lawsuit has resulted in a massive settlement for former residents.
But when Bosch’s half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, brings him word that Harry is entitled to part of it, Bosch says he doesn’t want the money. He wants justice. The news awakens his memories of a place he had hoped never to revisit, and of a boy nicknamed Chops, a fellow ward who wound up dead.