Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Rune
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In the shadowed Sierra town of Doyle, Lenore hides from a world she distrusts, seeking solace in books to escape the visions she denies. But when she finds a man’s body in Doyle Creek and her beloved aunt becomes a target of suspicion, Lenore is drawn into a web of small-town secrets and old grudges.
Pursuing a killer, she risks unraveling Doyle’s enchanted core. Can Lenore, long wary of her shamanic gifts, embrace her magic to save herself?
Red Mist: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s investigation leads her into a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale in this red-hot thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Dr. Kay Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out…
My Do-Over Year
by Dan Stancil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Larry Tolleson is confronted with a choice and not one of his making. His mother decided he was bright enough to start school a year early. Larry is entering his senior year in high school when his mother realizes that decision didn’t give him the best start in life. She agrees with his guidance counselor that he should take a do-over year to let his body and emotions catch up to his intellect.
Larry approaches his senior year full of hope. This will finally be his year. He sets his goals on becoming a better athlete, more confident with girls, and finding his path to college. Now the adults in his life are questioning his readiness and capabilities. The concept of a do-over year sounds like he’s going backwards. They say it’s his choice, and his alone, but it isn’t one he requested. They say they want him to be the best version of himself but what’s wrong with the current version?
The Violated
by Bill Pronzini
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Martin Torrey is dead. The butchered body of the registered sex offender was found in Santa Rita, California. People living in the small town suspected Torrey of committing a series of assaults, and no one will mourn his passing.
But police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz must investigate Torrey’s murder—after failing to find evidence that would have put him behind bars. At the same time, the rape survivors and their husbands grapple with their various traumas, struggling to believe the nightmare is over. The town’s mayor has already moved on, pursuing higher political ambitions. Torrey’s wife grieves her loss, while also fearing that her husband was indeed guilty.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government.
The private, quiet “Miss White” as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a “grace and favor” property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor’s war work had been, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past.
The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this “propulsive and original” award-winning thriller (Stephen King). It’s something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it’s a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn’t do as she’s told, the boy will die…
Shadows in the Pleasure Gardens
by Elaine Mary Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As a crucial witness to the “biggest scandal” early-nineteenth-century Fairmount has seen, lives hang on the balance of Chester Carter’s true and complete testimony.
Chester is an unambitious – or independent- minded – apprentice to Mr. Tate of Tate’s Banking and Loans when he witnesses a bank robbery and finds himself serving as Sheriff Hoogkirk’s justice-seeking assistant. His newfound role in law enforcement introduces him to gambling, carousing, and horse racing at the town’s pleasure gardens, and he is drawn to its excitement at the expense of his courtship and professional career. When an acquaintance from the racetrack is implicated in the robberies, Chester worries he must choose between truth and justice.
Wild Buck
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Buck Hartley swore he’d never wear a badge again – until his brother’s murder dragged him back into the fight.
A quiet rancher now, Buck walked away as a Pinkerton agent after a mission ended in tragedy. But when his brother Eli dies in a suspicious train wreck, and Eli’s 14-year-old daughter Mattie escapes with a treasure map that could get her killed, Buck straps on his Colt for one last job.
Eli’s death is not random. It is the work of James Braxton, a ruthless outlaw with a taste for buried gold and dead witnesses. As Buck investigates further, he is joined by Jane Castle, Eli’s estranged cousin and a reporter hellbent on exposing the truth.
The Portrait
by Danielle Steel
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A gifted portrait artist and a high-powered subject confront past wounds to embrace new love in this poignant novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Devon Darcy’s reputation precedes her. As a highly sought-after portrait artist, she seems to have the ability to peer into the souls of her subjects and then capture them on canvas. But the world doesn’t know about the devastating losses she has endured, first as an orphan, then as a far-too-young widow.