Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Great Brownie Taste-off
by Lisa Maliga
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand NEW Release #ad
Cat shelter employee Yolanda Carter loves her job, but her dream is to own a bakery. Living in Sherman Oaks, California with her tuxedo cat, her only outlet is baking treats for her friends, coworkers and family.
Her situation changes when her high school friend, Teagan Mishkin, drops by to tell her about an incredible job opportunity that will give Yolanda enough money to launch her bakery…
Least of Evils
by J. M. Gregson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Northumberland detective makes “a memorable hero, as distinctive as Inspector Morse” in this thrilling whodunit of murder among the moneyed (Booklist).
DCI Percy Peach has been called to the sprawling Thorley Grange estate in Brunton to investigate the murder of Oliver Ketley. The beloved philanthropist was found in his Bentley, shot through the head. When he arrives, Peach discovers a wounded intruder lurking on the grounds, hoarding a bag of priceless gems. Case closed? Not exactly. A guy like Oliver doesn’t die in a simple robbery gone wrong. Not with his secrets.
The Other Wife
by Michael Robotham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.
This is what their son, Joe O’Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William’s bedside, covered in his blood – a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?
Trophy Hunt
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Joe Pickett series, the Wyoming game warden is up against a vicious killer who’s more beast than man…
Local authorities in Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming, are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but game warden Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst feats are confirmed: A modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose—and the killings have just begun.
On the Street Where You Live
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily’s forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago…
Stardust
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show’s star, Jill Joyce, he knows it’s on its way.First, there’s Jill herself. She’s spoiled, arrogant, drugged out — made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her — does she imagine it, or is it real?Spenser monitors her neurosis, but finds evidence of harassment. It escalates to murder. Now begins the dangerous part — while the act may have ended, the murderer lingers on.”STARDUST is a four-star noir suspense that no Spenser fan will be able to resist.” (Publisher’s Source)
Beneath A Deadly Sky
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
John Mitchell returned home from the war a changed man. Betrayed by his commanding officer, General Nathaniel Carver, all he wanted was a fresh start. But that fresh start was shattered when John’s is killed, leaving him as guardian to his six-year-old niece, Sienna.
Six years later, just as life begins to settle, Carver reappears, coveting John’s land for its rich coal deposits. Only this time, John is not backing down. Joined by his fierce ally Rune, a blacksmith with a quick temper, and Myra, Carver’s defiant daughter, John sets out to stop Carver before he can hurt anyone else.