Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Other Emily
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this heart-stopping psychological thriller, Emily Hollister’s seemingly perfect life unravels when she becomes the target of someone intent on taking over her life. “I know what you did.” The anonymous note starts an ominous game of cat and mouse. Soon, Emily finds herself trapped in a web of gaslighting and manipulation.
Someone is lurking in the shadows, observing her every move, and insidiously replacing her in her own existence. With no one she can trust, Emily turns to a stranger for help, an ex-soldier with his own baggage to carry, but is he who he appears to be?
A Line in the Sand
by Kevin Powers
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim—Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel.
Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe. Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man’s pocket.
Lost for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kymber Allan might get lost in a cardboard box, but she has no problem finding trouble. After she gets fired on her second day at work for getting lost—she finds a dead body. That discovery thrusts her into a path of danger and dark secrets. From attempts on her life to thefts from her aunt’s art collection, Kymber struggles to stay one step ahead of the menace stalking her.
Finding a murder victim while being lost might be an unusual beginning for romance, but in this little Scottish village, the unusual is usual.
Hermit’s Peak
by Michael McGarrity
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of high-county land, the last thing he wants to think about is work. But while visiting his new property, he comes across an ailing stray dog that leads him to the butchered bones of a murder victim near the rugged mountain of Hermit’s Peak.
After assigning the case to his subordinates, Kerney returns to Santa Fe to spend time with a woman he cares about, Sara Brannon, a career army officer who is visiting him on holiday.
Benson First Responders Series
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
EMT Freya Olson, targeted by her family’s past, loses her faith but keeps on saving lives despite the rising danger. Disgraced detective Lucas Westbrook confronts the painful secrets he left behind while protecting Freya. Untangling a case that binds them together, Freya and Lucas find what they’ve been looking for–with each other.
After an injury forces her to leave the CIA, Ember Hendryx hunts for her missing sister with the help of Vanguard. EMT Trey Banning wants back on the ambulance.
Domain
by James Herbert
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Apocalyptic survival at its most terrifying. The third in the Rats trilogy, international bestseller James Herbert’s Domain pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance.
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets – if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Has become their prey . . .
Where Are the Children Now?
by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with this follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are the Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults.
Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children.
Miss Wolcott’s Ghost
by Louise Penny
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.” “Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed. But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller.
The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does know is that the man was terrified. And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body.