Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Fourth of July Forgery
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fireworks aren’t the only things causing sparks this Fourth of July in Holiday Junction! The much-awaited sixth book in the Holiday Cozy Mystery series, Fourth of July Forgery, immerses readers in a mystery that’s more intricate than a firework’s design.
When the festive atmosphere is dampened by the grim discovery of a body on the shore, it’s up to our firecracker reporter, Violet Rhinehammer, to fizzle out the truth. Delving into the shadowy world of art dealing and potential forgeries, Violet must crack this case faster than a skyrocket, all while trying to keep her relationships and reputation from going up in smoke…
No Honor Among Thieves
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A semi’s gone over the embankment.” The call wakes Sheriff Joanna Brady in the middle of the night, but what brings her fully alert is the rest of the story. The driver didn’t drift off to sleep and cross the center line—he was shot, multiple times, by someone with serious firepower. And when the truck crashed through the guardrail, its payload wound up scattered all over the road—boxes upon boxes of Legos.
Legos that are being tracked by B. Simpson’s security firm to reduce black market sales—and Ali Reynolds is just the woman to get to the bottom of the crime. She has the tech and the intel to follow the money (or, in this case, the Legos), which makes her a valuable asset to Joanna’s team…
Twisted Reality
by HD Freeman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
How well do you really know the person you vowed to spend your life with?
Tonya Porter’s got a knack for picking the wrong guys. She’s been through the wringer with men who’ve cheated, lied, and let her down. Yet when her friend Crystal sets her up with Darryl, there’s something different about him. He’s everything Tonya’s dreamed of: thoughtful, engaging, and seemingly head over heels for her. It’s a refreshing change, and for once, Tonya thinks she might have found her happily ever after.
Window of Time
by Erin R. Howard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A kingdom in the future, a girl from the past, and a stained-glass window that can’t be found.
Mia Miller just needed a moment to breathe and admire the stained-glass window in the chapel before she had to plaster on a fake smile for her only sister’s wedding reception. Her artist’s eye drew her to the window but something else entirely made her fall through it. Now she’s stuck in a strange land, a different time, mistaken for a princess, and the stained-glass window nowhere to be found…
Thunderhead
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich—the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah’s canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors…
EMBRACE THE WIND
by Susan Denning
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
EMBRACE THE WIND continues the story of Aislynn Maher, heroine of FAR AWAY HOME. With over 100,000 copies sold and over 3000 5 star reviews/ ratings, this sequel has ranked as a bestseller in US Historical Fiction, Western Romance, and Historical Romance American.
What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own. Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right─ it’s potentially deadly…
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft―not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car―well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos…
The Rising Tide
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers.” – Louise Penny
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now…
The German Orphan
by Israel Zer-Aviv
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
He could change his name. He could not change his past.
Frankfurt, 1939. Herman Lehrer was only eleven years old when the Nazis destroyed his orphanage on the Night of Broken Glass. An orphan since the age of six, young Herman was no stranger to the hate and cruelty of the people who, until recently, had shared his childhood landscape.
Now, young Herman – “Manny” to his friends – is left to fend for himself.
Manny knows the terrible fate that awaits Jews in Eastern Europe under the growing shadow of Nazism. As he travels from Frankfurt to occupied France, Manny learns to conceal his true identity and become whoever he needs to survive…