Friday’s Mystery eBooks

Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Strange happenings in the magic realm are turning Brielle Quinn’s life upside down. She’s been told to let things happen on their own and not to interfere. So difficult—and unfair! On the night of her neighbor’s birthday party, Brielle’s drunk a little too much tequila.
While on her way back to her home next door, a man calls to her and plants the kiss of a lifetime on her lips. Only thing is, Brielle doesn’t have the first clue about who he is. Or what he looks like.
I, Sniper
by Stephen Hunter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Four famed ‘60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. All the evidence—timeline, ballistics, forensics, motive, means, and opportunity—points to Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. Even his suicide. The case is almost too perfect.
Recruited by the FBI to examine the data, retired Marine sharpshooter Bob Lee Swagger penetrates the new technology of the secretive sniper world to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy run by his most ruthless adversary yet—a marksman whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rival his own.
Walls Crumbling
by Alicia Gilliam
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Hiding from the world brought them all together.
Facing it might tear them apart. Can they survive beyond the walls of the white clapboard house?
Can Seth endure the exposure of a state agent investigating their newly-buried past, including the grave he dug with his bare hands?
Will they find the missing redhead needed to exonerate Seth from suspicion? It all depends on little Benji. Government intrusion could force the boy even further into his silent bubble — or empower him to reveal his darkest secret.
The Swarm
by Andy Marino
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it’s just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.
Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance.
Seeking Glory
by Patricia Hamilton Shook
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
What would you do if you suddenly received a phone call from your daughter who has been missing for years? And then discovered you now have an orphaned granddaughter named Glory you never knew existed? What do you do when you realize her silence hides a dangerous secret?
Kate LaRue is a divorced, successful co-owner of an art and gift store on Cape Cod whose current life has been largely peaceful, well ordered and without undue daily stress. That is, until she receives a phone call saying her long-missing daughter Ally is seriously ill in a hospital in California.
House of Lords
by Philip Rosenberg
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jeffrey Blaine is a good man, a wealthy and powerful Wall Street broker with impeccable social standing. But his wife—who supports charitable foundations from their Park Avenue townhouse—seems to have lost interest in their marriage, and his daughter, a beautiful debutante ready for Yale University in the fall, has turned sullen and rebellious.
Having achieved everything he’d ever dreamed of, Blaine now feels unsettled, stagnant, hungry for a new challenge—a challenge that presents itself suddenly in the person of Chet Fiore, an ambitious entrepreneur rumored to be tied to organized crime.
Persons of Interest
by Peter Grainger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the peace and tranquility of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith, and it isn’t unusual that the call is from Kings Lake Central police station; what is unusual is the fact that he seems to be the subject of an investigation rather than taking part in one.
What can the links be between a prisoner’s violent death in another county, the disappearance of two teenagers and the highest profile case in Kings Lake for many years?
Grave Peril
by Emily Jane Trent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lela Cabelo discovers evidence that could get her killed. Her boss is a Texas senator in the cartel’s pocket. She will testify at his criminal trial. But before she is safe in witness protection, disaster strikes. Alone and on the run, she is forced to trust a bodyguard, the Navy SEAL she is falling in love with.
Ripley McConnell is the security analyst for Stealth Security. A media story from his home town of Houston alerts him to an innocent woman’s peril. He is the only man with a hope of finding Lela before the cartel tortures and interrogates her.
Murder on Threadneedle Street
by Andrea Penrose
Kindle $12.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Lord Wrexford and Charlotte’s growing family ensures that life is a source of constant adventure. The addition of Wrexford’s half-sister to their household is proving an unexpected delight. But some surprises are less welcome—and trouble strikes when Hawk, one of the young boys in their care, arrives home distraught after learning that his new drawing teacher has been found murdered on Threadneedle Street.
Fletcher Campbell’s death could be dismissed as a random robbery turned violent. But as an artist herself, Charlotte suspects there’s more to the case than meets the eye.
Royal Witch
by Philippa Gregory
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
1420. Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family’s dynasty stretching across Europe. But chaos waits in the shadows. Betrayals and shifts of power change the flourishing world Eleanor has stepped into.
Working in the household of a Countess who commands her own army, Eleanor begins to see for the first time what a woman is capable of…what men’s promises are truly worth.
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.


















