Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Emily Lickenson’s The Case of Dead Words
by CeeCee James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Emily, our esteemed cat-blogger detective, accompanies her Aunt Mattie on a journey back to their past. What should have been an excursion down memory lane turns into an unexpected investigation when they discover a crime scene cluttered with “dead words”. And a dead body.
The case takes a personal turn when Emily recognizes the victim. His murder on Aunt Mattie’s stomping grounds (with both of them now suspects) forces Emily into a deeper investigation. And just a little digging reveals a man with a complex history.
Where Secrets Lie
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some secrets refuse to stay buried…
Anna Stanten thought she’d left her past behind when she fled to Texas after her mother’s death. But a haunting phone call shatters her new life, luring her back to Idaho with promises of long-buried truths. As she delves into a labyrinth of family secrets, Anna finds herself face-to-face with Wyatt Stone, the first love she’d all but forgotten. Can she trust him with her heart as she unravels the web of lies surrounding her family?
Confronted by the enigmatic figure of her great-uncle Atticus and pursued by an unseen threat, Anna must summon the courage to face the darkness of her family’s history…
The Night She Disappeared
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.
One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”
The First Mrs. Harper
by Ella Hancock
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
How many wives does it take to get to the White House?
Danny Harper is a modern-day Henry VIII, and Kaydence Pruitt is the first of his six wives.
As an aspiring congressman, Danny’s rise to power threatens to be his undoing. When his brother dies, Danny’s life becomes entangled with his fiancée Kaydence – an heiress, teacher, and the daughter of a political family legacy.
Things between them escalate quickly when the couple says “I do.” But as things begin to unravel in their relationship, Kaydence finds her faith tested. Danny commits unspeakable betrayals, setting off a chain of events that will reshape not only their lives, but the fate of the entire nation…
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged…
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, wit, and fortitude than Indian Jones himself, the intrepid Amelia Peabody confronts danger and dark mystery in the desert sands of Egypt in The Ape Who Guards the Balance—a breathtaking adventure from New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters that encompasses treachery, villainy, bloodthirsty cults, the Book of the Dead…and murder most foul. The Charleston Post and Courier proclaims Elizabeth Peters “a mistress of plot,” while the New York Times Book Review declares, “Amelia remains an irrepressible delight.”
Garden of Forbidden Secrets
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
So you want to play with magic?
There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room victim in the courtyard of the forbidden Lalaurie mansion…
Eleven Numbers
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics – in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever…