Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Darling Bud
by C.J. Skuse
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sixteen-year-old Ivy is your average teenager. She’s annoyed by the scratchy labels on her school uniform, old men who wolf-whistle, and her mother the serial killer.
Ivy was raised far away from the shadows of Rhiannon Lewis, the Sweetpea killer, but when the local predator – better known as Ivy’s football coach – is found dead, could it be that she has discovered a taste for blood? As suspicion grows deeper, Ivy’s only way out is to get some motherly advice.
He Sweetens My Bitter Waters
by Cheryl Hoover-Kelley
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.
But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently rained down from heaven.
Agents of Dreamland
by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.
In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible—the Children of the Next Level—and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by.
When Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire, she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who’s sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed.
A Noise Downstairs
by Linwood Barclay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s “normal” existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work.
His wife, Charlotte, desperate to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter—complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—to encourage him to get started on that novel he’s always intended to write.
The Dying Light
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A scorching heatwave marks the start of the summer in Devon. Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death, when the body of a young woman, Lottie, is found in the swimming pool of a luxurious holiday home.
The girl’s best friend, Hannah, whose family owns the house, is missing. The girls had arrived a few days earlier to celebrate the end of their school exams, quickly stirring unrest in the small community with incendiary social media videos mocking the place as parochial.
Being Goldie (In a “just-right’)
by Michele Olson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s autumn1984 and twins Goldie and Gilda Locks are on the move. Once again, they’re headed to a hotel in a new location, they know nothing about awaiting further instructions from their overbearing Granny.
The only parent they’ve ever known, the young ladies in their twenties, still struggle to break free from her influence. Neither is willing to give up the lifestyle Granny’s millions afford even though her erratic behavior is becoming more questionable by the day.
Solomon’s Ring (The Unseen Truth Series)
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The ring was never a weapon. It was a receipt. For twenty years Dr. Elias Brock dug the Ophel in Jerusalem on money he never questioned. Then, live on air, with Solomon’s Ring on a velvet pedestal in front of the cameras, nine figures stepped out of nowhere and asked for it back.
Nine seconds later the ring was gone and the feed was dead. Within days, everyone who had been in that tent remembered a power surge. Everyone except Brock.
Colton’s Mate
by Anastasia Wilde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After he survived helping his old friend Brandon take down a criminal biker gang, Colt pretty much has it all. A place for him and his twin brother in Brandon’s new crew, the chance to start his own construction company, and maybe a potential thing with Callie, the pretty lynx shifter he helped save when the gang sent her bar up in flames.
What he doesn’t want: A forever-type relationship, more people trying to kill him, and a new, grumpy, uncooperative shifter owl inside him, waging war with his leopard.
The Witch
by Freida McFadden
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.
Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door.