Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Baker and a Body Bag
by Avery Kent
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A charming seaside town, a sassy amateur sleuth, and a dead body.
Cakes crumble into chaos when bakery owner Annie Bishop and Sheriff Jake Hail’s romantic sunset cruise turns into a chilling discovery.
Annie is doubly thrilled with her goddaughter Nicki’s arrival back in Bishop’s Landing, and her son Ethan’s surprise visit. But delight quickly turns to distress, when Ethan has an altercation with the high school football coach, trying to protect Nicki.
When Annie and Jake accidentally discover the coach’s body, Ethan quickly becomes a suspect in the murder.
The Spy from Palestine
by Steve Haberman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s 1947 in British-controlled Palestine. Award-winning foreign correspondent, Charly Lawrence, and her lover, ex-Churchill bodyguard and spy, Jonas Shaw, arrive in the violent Promised Land. Their mission from her editor: track down a survivor of an infamous WWII German slaughter and write her heroic story. This exclusive will hopefully rescue Charly’s struggling newspaper. Little do they realize they have landed in a heap of danger.
The Buried
by Lisa Childs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Somewhere inside Halcyon Hall, the elite spa with an infamous past on a remote Maine island, are the answers state trooper Mae Montgomery desperately needs to solve a murder investigation. To find them, she’s checking into the exclusive retreat under an assumed name—that of her late sister, a former model. But at least one person isn’t fooled.
Fitness trainer Bode James grew up on Bane Island and took it upon himself to transform the former psychiatric hospital into a wellness resort. But a killer still lurks here. Bode already lost the mother of his child. And though he believes Mae is there under false pretenses, he also fears that without her help, more people will die.
The Truth With Lies
by Stephanie Hurt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Leah Carson led a simple life. But all of that changed when her friend Dana, whom she hadn’t seen for five years, knocked on her door in the middle of the night. Five days later Dana turns up dead, Leah’s house is ransacked, and things begin turning up about Dana’s last five years that don’t add up. Just as Leah is wrapping her head around everything, Dana’s death is labeled a homicide and Leah is the prime suspect.
Jake Truitt steps in to investigate the break-in at Leah’s house and the missing friend, Dana. The more he finds out about Dana, the crazier this story gets. Then when the DA puts a bullseye on Leah, Jake makes it his mission to clear her name. But the battle is only just beginning…
Broken Ground
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Karen Pirie is dealing not only with this cold case but with a domestic violence case, and as as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is.
An engrossing, twisty thriller, Broken Ground is an outstanding entry in this Diamond Dagger-winning author’s “superior series” (The New York Times Book Review).
A Time for Patriots
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling thriller-master Dale Brown delivers a story for our times. A Time for Patriots is one of his most explosive novels to date—a frightening, all-too-possible look into the near future, when the nation’s economic collapse turns thousands of Americans against their own government. In the midst of chaos, Patrick McLanahan—hero of Executive Intent, Rogue Forces, and many other previous adventures—must enlist the aid of his son and his fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists any way they can. In A Time for Patriots, Dale Brown brings the battle home!
The Mind of a Murderer
by Michael Wood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A DARK PAST Dr Olivia Winter is a forensic psychologist whose job is to understand the minds of serial killers. There’s only one monster she can’t understand, her father.
A NEW IDENTITY Notorious and brutal, he held a reign of terror until he was caught. His nine-year-old daughter was supposed to be his last victim, but she survived.
A SERIAL KILLER WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING…
The Guardian
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Surry Weathers spent his youth stirring up trouble and running with a bad crowd. After a decade behind bars for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself a free man.
But freedom is nothing without his ex-wife, Rosa.
When she resurfaces, it’s like a beacon in the darkness. But their happy reunion is cut short when she tells him her reason for coming.