Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Auntie Mayhem
by Mary Daheim
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is happy to escape her own hotelier woes for a few days and nights in a quaint English manor, but when a box of poisoned sweets dispatches the owner, she decides to roll up her sleeves and catch a killer.
“I love the characters. The plots are great. They keep you guessing until the end. This is my second time reading this series. Enjoyed them each time. I like the humor in them too.” by Amazon Customer
Every Secret Thing
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness.
Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from “kid prison” to begin their lives over again…
Through the Darkness
by Charlie Bynar
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
An inspirational story for anyone who’s grieving, Through the Darkness explores the unbreakable bonds between loved ones, even after death.
On April 18, 2017, Charlie unexpectedly loses her only child, sixteen-year-old Isaac. Devastated, she throws herself into investigating the circumstances of his death, which she suspects was related to medical negligence. As Charlie falls into darkness, she begins to sense that Isaac is communicating with her from the other side, a spiritual realm where he returns after crossing over. There, Isaac calls upon four generations of his ancestors to help him save his mother’s life…
None of This Is True
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
This unputdownable psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell follows a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
THE VIOLIN THIEF
by GENIE HIGBEE
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
WHAT LINKS AN ABANDONED VIOLIN WITH A CRIME…AND A MIRACLE?
THE ORPHAN. It’s 1941, in the idyllic Adirondacks. A wondrous violin is charming six-year-old Douglas Tryzyna. In her wordless language she tells him they are destined to spark kindness and joy, together. Overawed, Douglas names the violin Magic Muriel. His guardian, perturbed by her charge’s infatuation, seeks help.
THE TYRANNICAL FATHER & THE REBELLIOUS SON…
THE OPPORTUNITY & OBSESSION…
Two Little Girls in Blue
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother’s search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead in this “riveting…suspense thriller [that] is certain to send terror into the heart of any parent” (Publishers Weekly).
Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner in New York to discover the police in the house, their daughters missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper’s demands, but the abandoned car they’re led to contains only Kelly, the body of the driver, and a suicide note, saying he had inadvertently killed Kathy and dumped her body in the ocean.
Behind Closed Doors
by B.A. Paris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Angel Falls
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women comes “a tearjerker . . . about the triumphs of family” (Detroit Free Press).
When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together and care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors tell Liam not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Daily he sits at Mikaela’s bedside, telling her stories of the precious life they have built together, hoping against hope that she will wake up. But then he discovers evidence of his wife’s secret past: a first marriage to movie star Julian True.
Ranch Boy Jake
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Seventeen-year-old Jake Casey has always been the shield for his family – until the day outlaw Fisher Grady burns his home to the ground and murders his parents.
With his younger brothers in tow, Jake flees into the unforgiving wilderness, his heart set on one thing: vengeance.
But the path to justice is anything but simple.
When Jake crosses paths with Elijah Redfeather, an Apache boy with his own blood feud against Fisher, the two form an uneasy alliance. Together, they navigate a land riddled with danger, where Fisher’s influence stretches far and wide. The outlaw has bought the loyalty of lawmen, turning the region into a lawless wasteland.