Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, Mayhem and 4 of a Kind
by Duffy Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When rotten-to-the-core Payton Wilder winds up dead in Savannah, Nola Cottonwood’s two aunts are suspects in the murder. Can Nola find the real killer, and how will the others help them get away with it.
“I love Duffy Brown, and was especially wild about the Cycle Path series. This series looks to be great fun, too! Fun characters, humor, interesting plot that moves right along, and a twist at the end. Now I have to get the next book! Soon!” by Amazon Customer
The Night Before
by Lisa Jackson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A southern woman is tormented by murders she herself might be committing in this psychological thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
In the dark shadows of a sultry southern town, a serial killer strikes. It’s an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before—because every victim is an offering to a hunger that can never be sated. When Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes up covered in blood, she has no memory of the night before. Only later does she learn that her estranged husband was brutally murdered…like so many others she has known.
Cultured
by D. P. Lyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jake Longly, ex-pro baseball player turned restauranteur, is back where he belongs: relaxing on the beach in front of his restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama. His peace is interrupted, however, when he receives a call from his private investigator father – April Wilkerson has gone missing from Lindemann Farms, the rustic, yet posh, resort built by self-help and financial guru Jonathon Lindemann.
Lindemann, founder of The Lindemann Method (TLM), recruits wealthy people to join his program, charging a hefty entry fee but in return promising huge financial gains and self-enlightenment. Jake’s celebrity status makes him the best person for the case.
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
by Glenn Taylor
Kindle $0.10 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleases women, and masters the rifle – a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal wars. A teenaged union sniper, Trenchmouth is exiled to the back-woods of Appalachia’s foothills, where he spends his years running from the past.
This Gulf of Time and Stars
by Julie E. Czerneda
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Space opera meets hard science fiction in this trilogy featuring “fully-fledged alien races, intriguing plotlines, beautifully drawn worlds, and . . . believable inter-species romance” (Ursula Pflug, The Alphabet Stones).
To save their world, the most powerful of the Om’ray left their homes. They left behind all memory of their past. Calling themselves the Clan, they settled among Humanity, hiding in plain sight, using their ability to slip past normal space to travel where they wished, using their ability to control minds to ensure their place and security.
Sharp Evidence
by Julie Miller
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
History is repeating itself… With deadly consequences.
Discovering a bloody knife from two unsolved murders reunites theater professor Reese Atkinson with criminalist Jackson Dobbs. And the murder victims? Jackson’s own parents. But the shy orphaned boy from her childhood is now an army veteran and fierce protector…of the evidence and of Reese. But just who is weaving a deadly web that not only threatens their reunion…but their lives?
The Beast You Are: Stories
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
“Melancholy and funny as well as dark and complex, this novel will be the dark hit of the summer. Unique in terms of style and format, The Pallbearers Club occupies a peculiar place between a thriller, a horror novel, and a narrative that will make you question everything.” – Boston Globe
The Reckoning
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the close-knit community of Faith’s Landing, Seamus O’Malley and his half-brother, Finnegan, are outcasts, bound by blood and a promise to protect each other.
The town has always hated their fiery red hair and Irish ancestry, but their prejudice is nothing compared to the dark forces threatening them.
When the ruthless Coyote Creek Gang seizes control of Faith’s Landing, no one is safe.