Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Portion of Malice
by Lloyd Jeffries
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Highly recommended for those who love Dan Brown’s intrigue, Stephen King’s psychological depth, and the apocalyptic. Absolutely brilliant.”
An Ancient Evil Rises. Can One Man Stop It?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Emery Merrick holds a pistol to his temple. Then, a knock at the door changes everything. Billionaire Thaddeus Drake offers him a job: write his biography. But Drake hides a chilling secret—he’s Cain, the immortal biblical killer, leading a secret society bent on sacrificing the Earth to a bloodthirsty God.
Plunged into a world of darkness, deceit, and explosive action, Emery must unravel ancient prophecies and confront unimaginable evil…
Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengeance against women who once humiliated him…and Jean is his final intended victim.
Relative Truth
by Joan Hetzler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Is the truth too old fashion to be believed? Or will the truth set free a popular pastor accused of killing a former church member?
In book two of the Megan O’Connell Mysteries, Megan investigates to find out if a mega church pastor was framed for the murder of a deacon who became wealthy preaching that “all is relative.” Megan’s friend, Lisa, whom she helped find her way back to church after falling away and Detective Fielding, an Atlanta homicide cop and potential love interest, are church members who believe their pastor is innocent. So does the pastor’s beautiful blonde wife, Candy, who is a surprising mixture of Southern charm and street smarts…
The Midwife Murders
by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition—it’s her life’s work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try.
Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. Lucy teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to solve the case, but the truth is far more twisted than a feisty single mom could ever have imagined.
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious.
Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She quickly learns that putting the past behind is not always an option. Sometimes it will chase, overtake, and try to kill you.
Slasher Dancer Prancer
by D.C. Brockwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A totally addictive extreme festive slasher horror that will have you turning the pages late into the night
Nine friends meet at Casa D’Amico, a log cabin by Pine Lake, Colorado, for their annual Christmas vacation. One of them is there for a very different reason.
Murder and mistletoe mingle in the secluded White River National Park, but Alfie Burstow, a seasoned San Francisco homicide detective, has no time for holiday cheer. His last case before Christmas vacation just happens to be the murder of his former lover, Paige Lo Pinto. With his partner taking the lead on the investigation, Alfie heads off to Colorado for some much-needed R&R, unaware that a sinister figure dressed as an elf is hot on his trail, determined to make this Christmas vacation his last.
The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
A Death in Cornwall
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . .
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity.
