Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, Curlers, and Cast
by Arlene McFarlane
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dead men tell no tales—but killers leave clues. Valentine intends to find every last one aboard a pirate ship movie set and prove (once again) that a good set of tools can outsmart even the cleverest killer.
It’s all hands on deck when beautician Valentine Beaumont is cast as an extra in a pirate movie. When a dead body is discovered on the ship, it’s clear there’s a villain on board, and it’s not just an act. Complicating things more, Valentine’s personal life is in shambles.
False Convictions
by Amy Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some secrets are better left alone. But leaving things alone, especially when it comes to murder, is not Kim Jackson’s style. In Gunnison, Colorado, Kim is loving life as a criminology student—until her favorite professor is murdered.
At the time of his death, Kent Dodge is a rising star at the university, preparing to publish his first crime thriller. But not everyone in the mountain community is happy about the book. Details have leaked that Dodge based his plot on a local tale about an alpine misadventure that nearly cost six people their lives.
‘Salem’s Lot
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.
But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination.
The Complete Warrior Collection
by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It starts in boot camp. It ends in a war against a god.Her family called her power an illness. The Army is about to call it a weapon. Seventeen-year-old Idina Moorfield sees green lines that no one else can see.
They show her an opponent’s weak spot, the winning move and the shape of what’s coming. Her wealthy family calls it a condition and keeps her medicated. When they dismiss everything she has earned, she does the one thing they fear most: she enlists, just like Uncle Rick, the family outcast nobody will talk about.
The Turning of our Bones
by Ed James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The killer is dead. His last victim isn’t. Two years after the Chameleon shot DI Rob Marshall’s partner and vanished, his body turns up, dragging Marshall back home to Melrose in the Scottish Borders and a tragedy he’s avoided for twenty years.
Worse, one victim is still missing and she’s running out of time. The Chameleon lived by stolen identities. To find the final victim, Rob must unpick the one the killer wore last, by following a trail through tight-knit towns, old grudges and the trauma Marshall left behind in Melrose.
Cape Fear
by John D. MacDonald
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sam Bowden has it all: a successful law career, a devoted wife, and three children. But a terrifying figure from Bowden’s past looms in the shadows, waiting to shatter his pristine existence. Fourteen years ago, Bowden’s testimony put Max Cady behind bars.
Ever since, the convicted rapist has been nursing a grudge into an unrelenting passion for revenge. Cady has been counting the days until he is set free, desperate to destroy the man he blames for all his troubles. Now that time has come.
An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back . . . Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist.
Shelter Me This Christmas
by Susan May Warren, Christy Barritt, Robin Patchen, Susan Sleeman, Elle E. Kay, Taylor Hart, Alexa Verde & Jorgia Yates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Eight previously-published novels… 8 couples face stalkers, killers, spies, and blizzards in these Christian romantic suspense novels filled with faith, courage, and Christmas love. Oh! The Weather Outside Is Frightful by Susan May Warren. Two smokejumpers, one plane crash and a love neither will admit. Hannah would’ve quit rookie camp without CJ.
CJ wouldn’t have survived the crash without Hannah. But now he’s wounded, and hiding his heart. When a Christmas wedding forces them to travel together and a blizzard strands them in remote Montana, they’ll have to survive together again…but will it finally ignite the love they both long for?
A Court of Splintered Harmony
by Sarah J. Maas
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he’s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands.
The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.