Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder by Milk Bottle
by Lynne Truss
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
The quirky and charming third crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
In the wake of two extremely high-profile murder cases, and with the summer of 1957 finally winding down, Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But his hoped-for rest is interrupted when he and his colleagues find a trio of bodies, all murdered with the same unusual weapon: a milk bottle.
The three victims are seemingly unconnected—a hardworking patrolman, a would-be beauty queen, and a catty BBC radio personality—so Constable Twitten, Sergeant Brunswick, and Inspector Steine are baffled…
If I Die Tonight
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things—an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone novel What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series, in which a seemingly open-and-shut police case with a clear-cut hero and villain turns out to be anything but simple.
Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station—and lives are changed forever.
First Spells
by Renata Riva
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A dark and magical tale of witches, ghosts, and dangerous family secrets.
Twelve-year-old Vianne has always been different—she sees ghosts, feels magic, and sees the future in her dreams—and knows her life isn’t exactly normal.
Raised by her single mother, Vianne knows little about her family—except that her mum is terrified of her sister, the powerful and mysterious witch aunt, Suzanne. When Vianne’s grandmother falls ill, the family is forced back together. But Aunt Suzanne has been waiting for this moment—and what she wants could change everything.
With only a magical cat and a ghost to guide her, Vianne must unlock her hidden powers, face long-buried secrets, and discover who she really is before it’s too late.
The Bourne Betrayal
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money.
But Bourne doesn’t realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia.
I, Ripper
by Stephen Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
An electrifying new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Bob Lee Swagger series, taking you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.
In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill—he ripped with a butcher’s glee—and then, after the particularly gruesome slaying of Mary Jane Kelly, he disappeared. For 127 years, Jack has haunted the dark corners of our imagination, the paradigm of the psychotic killer. We remember him not only for his crimes, but because, despite one of the biggest dragnets in London history, he was never caught.
The Big Chill
by Doug Johnstone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave at a funeral that matriarch Dorothy is conducting, she can’t help looking into the dead driver’s shadowy life.
While Dorothy uncovers a dark truth at the heart of Edinburgh society, her daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have their own struggles. Jenny’s ex-husband Craig is making plans that could shatter the Skelf women’s lives, and the increasingly obsessive Hannah has formed a friendship with an elderly professor that is fast turning deadly.
Legends Are Made Complete Series
by Patrick Michael
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A fearless young woman released from service to her town. A ghost from the past with a gift for story. The legendary Dragonlord who has been sleeping for over a thousand years.
Together, they will undertake an adventure that will change everything…
Mine
by Robert McCammon
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother’s vengeance in this terrifying thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Gone South and Boy’s Life.
Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade—a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen—Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell’s only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage…
The Escape Game
by Gina Holder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Twenty years ago, the world’s leading enigmatologist disappeared, leaving behind a cipher no one could solve… not without his journal.
Puzzle shop owner Demi Kayne has spent twenty years hoping her father would return home. When she discovers his hidden journal, she finally uncovers the clue she’s been waiting for—but it leads somewhere far more dangerous than she imagined.
Liam Shepherd, a missionary and escape-room enthusiast, is searching for answers of his own. His sister has vanished without a trace, and the trail of clues leads him straight to Demi—and the secrets hidden in her father’s journal.
You’ll Be Sorry
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to be love at first sight. Raquel, a renowned interior designer, and Theo, a brash financial wizard met and married in a matter of months, only to confront a terrible tragedy. Now, unbearably aware of the distance between them, they’ve come to a remote town in New Hampshire to begin anew.
Perched on a ledge with stunning views, the Dixon’s family lodge was once a crown jewel of the mountains. Until late one August night, when both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for thirty years.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Prestige, Privilege & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A divorce decree is made null and void by murder, the only witness the Maltese Jasper, and his widow maybe the next victim.
With the divorce papers on Ted Noth’s kitchen table, the police notify his wife, Stacie Maroni Noth, an HR specialist and trauma counselor, of his murder. She’s not prepared for his death as she starts over in her own home. No sooner than she takes custody of Jasper and someone is after her. Her dad pays a visit afraid for her safety once she’s interrogated by the police, received anonymous threats, and someone broke into her house. At the same time, her in-laws continue to foster the idea that she’s responsible for Ted’s murder. If the state-of-the-art security system her dad installed isn’t enough, the police are keeping tabs on her as well.
Choke Point
by Brad Thor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A devastating series of bombings tears through Bangkok. Scores of American citizens are dead. The attacks send shock waves around the world.
As global assistance pours into Thailand—including the FBI’s famed Evidence Response Team—the president of the United States quietly prepares a plan B: Scot Harvath, America’s top spy, trained to operate outside the law and probe the dark corners others can’t…or won’t.
But the bomber Harvath is pursuing isn’t a terrorist. He’s something far more dangerous—one of ours.
The Secret Cabin
by Sharon Sala
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
While enjoying some relaxation time in a rustic cabin in Denver, ex-military Roman Justice is stunned to discover a lost and scared woman with no memory of who she is, why she is there or why she has a duffel bag with a million dollars. Trapped in a major snowstorm, Roman decides to take care of her, and the time they spend together soon warms his distrusting heart.
But can their strong connection endure the thrilling mystery behind her?
Kisscut
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The second heart stopping Grant County novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Karin Slaughter, featuring Sara Linton of the acclaimed Will Trent Series.
In this chilling follow-up to Blindsighted, Sara Linton, her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and detective Lena Adams are caught in an evil web involving a young girl who commits suicide by forcing a cop to shoot her. Shouldering the political aftermath, Jeffrey struggles to understand the victim’s desperation. So does Sara, the girl’s pediatrician and now her coroner, who soon discovers that the suicide was linked to a brutal crime—one far more terrifying than anyone could have imagined.
Letters with Love
by Erma M. Ullrey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
An encrypted message shatters Lila James’ forbidden marriage, but a twist of fate reveals the only love that can heal her.
Lila James wants the world to see her, not her skin color. She marries Army Air Corps flyboy Joe Lane, believing his promise that together they can change the world. An encrypted message shatters her marriage. Crushed, pregnant, and alone, Lila retreats home to Boise carrying wounds she never asked for. There, she discovers her wartime pen pal’s identity. The only love meant to heal her was never lost but simply waiting for acceptance.
Hell House
by Richard Matheson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.
Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
Out of Sight
by Serenity Bea
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Page Turner Awards Finalist.
For readers of Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You who love emotionally powerful romances about imperfect people facing impossible choices. He’s the world’s most visible man. She just wants to disappear.
Silas Hart is a rock god—a storm on stage, adrift off it. Behind the sold-out shows and platinum records is a secret he’s desperate to hide—one that could end everything.
Rowan Skye has spent her life at sea, sailing solo and staying invisible. She doesn’t do fame. She doesn’t do feelings. And she definitely doesn’t do broken men with too much baggage.
Without Remorse
by Tom Clancy
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From Tom Clancy, the celebrated author of the Jack Ryan series, comes the #1 New York Times bestseller that puts CIA operative John Clark front and center….
His code name is Mr. Clark. His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient…But who is he really?
In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend, Mr. Clark.