Friday’s Mystery eBooks
How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
One of Amazon’s Top 10 Best Books of April, One of Jimmy Fallon’s favorite books for Spring 2024, The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024, A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook | One of NPR’s Books We Love
It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly sixty years later, when Frances is found murdered, like she always said she would be…
Harvest Island
by Lissa Raines
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An Anguished Daughter and a Determined Police Detective Must Unravel the Secrets of Her Father’s Disappearance or Suffer the Deadly Consequences
In a quaint coastal town, John Garcia disappears under suspicious circumstances. Fifteen years later Samantha Anderson, John’s daughter, receives a cryptic message. Wondering if her father sent it, Samantha and the handsome police detective, Spencer McKenna, embark on a perilous journey to find him. Spencer is drawn to Samantha, pledging to protect her, but at what cost?
Someone is determined to stop Samantha, but her dreams with baffling clues drive her on in a frantic search…
Terrible Typhoid Mary
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Long Island, 1906: Mary Mallon has been working as a cook for a wealthy family for just a few weeks when members of the household were felled by typhoid. Mary herself wasn’t sick – but as it turned out, she was a carrier – a healthy person who spread the disease to others.
When the New York City Board of Health found out about her, she was arrested and quarantined on an island. This biography tells the story of what she went through as she became the subject of a tabloid scandal…
TWICE A BROKEN BREATH
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.
While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love – one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months…
Deep Black
by Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general’s devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author’s acclaimed technothriller series.
Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it’s all in a day’s work for the men and women of Deep Black…
Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs – the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North – where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color – Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives’ tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem—a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive.
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don’t miss the “harrowing” (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.