Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Itch of Greed
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dark cloud hangs over the baseball season in small town Rosedale when star pitcher Randy Kampton is taken out of the game for good.
The DA is determined to pin the crime on Cole Rigley, a friend’s brother and fellow pitcher, citing the fierce competition for a major league trade as his motive for murder. Rigley’s brother asks Henry and reluctant restaurant owner, and amateur sleuth, Izzie Di Sante to help prove his innocence. Adding fuel to the fire, Kampton stole Rigley’s girlfriend months earlier.
While Kampton’s pitching skills are universally acknowledged, no one, not fans or teammates, has a kind word to say about him, making for a long list of suspects.
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Bad Influence
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in this exciting new thriller in the bestselling series.
Sunny Randall’s newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all the perks the lifestyle entails—a beautiful girlfriend, wealth, and adoring fans. But one of those fans has turned ugly, and Sunny is brought on board by Blake’s manager, Bethany, to protect him and to uncover who is out to kill him. In doing so, she investigates a glamorous world rife with lies and schemes…and ties to a dangerous criminal scene…
ALL THAT WAS TAKEN
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
All That Was Taken is a contemporary fiction novel that delves deeply into love, loss, and healing but comes with a suspenseful twist.
For eight years, John Hennessey has lived in near-solitude on Catalina Island. He keeps his world small, for every precious thing in his life has been taken from him. But when his peaceful existence is threatened, he buys a cottage farther up the California coast in the sleepy town of Teal Beach.
There he meets Sunny Harrison, owner of the Teal Beach Sundial Inn where he stays until his cottage is ready for move in. The connection between them is magical, though both are surviving painful pasts and are afraid to trust … especially as an undercurrent of darkness dwells in their midst.
Run
by Blake Crouch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A gripping apocalyptic thriller about a man and his family running for their lives in an America gone mad—from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion
No time to think. No time to ask why. Only time to run. Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began.Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation. Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace—even as the murders increased tenfold. Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize. One day ago, the power went out.
The Tradwife’s Secret
by Liane Child
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
‘Gripping and razor-sharp, this is twisted tradwife lit at its most addictive’ Heat
Madison March is the perfect wife, with the perfect family and the perfect life.
She spends her days baking sourdough and picking vegetables from the garden while watching her children play in the fields surrounding her Montana homestead.
Dinner is always on the table for her husband, and they end their days sitting on the porch, watching the sun go down. It’s a life anyone would dream of.
The Wicked Redhead
by Beatriz Williams
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But paradise is short-lived. Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste and put to work patrolling for rumrunners on the high seas, from which he promptly disappears. Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall’s desperate mother.
My Strange Neighbor
by Dan DeLuise
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Emma Flowers has never stayed anywhere for long. Thirteen towns. Thirteen fresh starts. Zero answers as to what she and her Mom are running from.
Now, they’ve landed in Twin Pines; a dot on the map that calls itself “America’s Sleepiest Town.” But something about the town feels wrong. It’s as if something has been waiting for her here. Maybe it’s tied to her father, who went missing when Emma was a little girl. Maybe it’s something older, something more sinister.
When the oddities become too strange to ignore, Emma realizes the truth: the town hasn’t given her a home. It’s chosen her as prey.
Dammi Mille Baci
by Hyunah KIM
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She is madly in love. But he can’t see past his pain. Will he ever open up to her? Can a man with a tortured past allow himself to be loved?
Axel, a striking young artist, haunted by his childhood trauma, finds peace within himself through art – expressing himself on canvas – and through the company of his favourite horse. His torment becomes the source of his inspiration to paint.
One night, Hyunah stumbles into his atelier, igniting a spark neither of them could foresee. He takes her out to discover Vienna – a beautiful European capital, rich in art and culture – and their incredible encounter changes Hyunah’s life forever. But the gorgeous artist struggles to open up to her. His emotional scars run too deep.
A Slowly Dying Cause
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $13.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.
Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. But it doesn’t take long for Inspector Beatrice Hannaford to unearth the layers of estrangement that surrounded Michael in his final days, pointing suspicions elsewhere. In comes Kayla, a young woman half Michael’s age, who has just been made his widow.