Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Missing Manuscript and Murder
by P. C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A simple puzzle turned deadly. With scandal and folks with something to hide, can this retired inspector close the book on homicide?
North Yorkshire, 1966. Tom Ramsay can’t seem to escape mysteries. Reluctantly taking on a straightforward case to appease his assistant, the former investigator suddenly finds himself caught up in two capers when a literary agent begs for his help. But when tampering becomes theft, the frustrated man can’t walk away when a best-selling author turns up dead…
Tales of the Feisty Druid Complete Boxed Set
by Candy Crum , Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She missed the war, but she’ll be damned if she loses her chance for revenge.
Ten years after fleeing Arcadia to save her life, Arryn is all grown up. She spent the past decade in the Dark Forest with the druids, training in warrior combat and battle magic.
Now that Arcadia is safe and Arryn is more than capable of taking care of herself, she decides to go back in order to search for her father. The only problem is that the city she once called home isn’t safe at all.
Arryn knows she has to do what she was raised to do: fight…
Think Twice
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth.
Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected business associates. Myron made peace and moved on – until now, when two federal agents walked into his office, demanding to know where Greg Downing is…
The Hillside Stranglers
by Darcy O’Brien
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
For weeks that fall, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear.
But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle lead police to the arrest of a security guard—the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi—and the discovery that the strangler was not one man but two.
Aftermath: Into the Unknown
by Lena Gibson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Robin dreamed of attending Yale and using her brain. Kory lived on the streets of Seattle and relied on his brawn. Without the asteroid, they never would have met.
For three years, Robin and her grandfather have been hiding, trusting no one. When a biker gang moves into town, Robin can no longer scrounge or tend her garden. Because her grandfather is dying, he urges her to join her extended family—800 miles away in a bunker city in South Dakota, but she doesn’t want to leave…
Darkfall
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A blizzard brings a city to a standstill and ushers in an evil that defies imagination in this gripping tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Winter gripped the city. Terror gripped it, too. They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last.
At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. But soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system—and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night…
Zero Day
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From David Baldacci–the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.
And Zero Day is where it all begins….
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.
Cromwell’s Folly
by Ginny Fite
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A West Virginia cop must determine who had an axe to grind with a notorious womanizer in this mystery series opener.
Retirement is on the horizon for Det. Sam Lagarde of West Virginia’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations, and he’s looking forward to it. As a cop with a reputation for persistence, he’s earned some relaxation. But first, there’s the matter of a head . . .
Ben Cromwell is discovered, decapitated, in a dumpster behind a Charles Town spa. A known regular at the regional jail, Cromwell was no stranger to trouble. He was also no stranger to the ladies…
When You Disappeared
by John Marrs
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
All she wanted was the truth, but she’ll wish she never found out.
When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. But Simon never makes it to the office. His running shoes are by the front door. Nothing is missing—except him.
Catherine knows Simon must be in trouble. He wouldn’t just leave her. He wouldn’t leave the children.
But Simon knows the truth—about why he left and what he’s done. He knows things about his marriage that it would kill Catherine to find out. The memories she holds on to are lies.
The Bayou Marshal
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Jackson Cole walked away from the law the day he watched Gabriel Benoit, his wife’s killer, drown in a river. Justice was done, or so he believed. He turned in his badge and tried to bury the past.
Four years later, the past rises from the bayou. Rumors place Benoit alive and thriving in the lawless swamps of Louisiana, running guns, taking hostages, and leaving a trail of bodies for the alligators to feast on. Jackson wants no part of it. He’s done fighting battles no one can win.
The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Some murders can’t be solved in just one lifetime. Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence.
The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions…
