Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if Cinderella were a man and the prince a witch? A wicked good witch.
Strange happenings in the magic realm are turning Brielle Quinn’s life upside down. She’s been told to let things happen on their own and not to interfere. So difficult—and unfair!
On the night of her neighbor’s birthday party, Brielle’s drunk a little too much tequila. While on her way back to her home next door, a man calls to her and plants the kiss of a lifetime on her lips. Only thing is, Brielle doesn’t have the first clue about who he is. Or what he looks like. Yet she can’t get him out of her mind. Or the taste of his kiss off her lips. How is she ever going to find him?
The Lattice Scheme
by A. L. Lieske
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Azure Prescott expected Bureau life to mean routine investigations, not dream-walking conspiracies. But when a secret sleep study grants her the ability to enter the minds of others, she discovers that every dream carries danger, and every memory may be a lie.
A web of interconnected cases, including a missing agent, a vanished Italian man, illicit neurochips capable of altering identities, and the reappearance of someone long thought dead, pulls her into a labyrinth of international intrigue.
The Beast
by Robert Stallman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a loving husband and father, and a reporter for the local paper—but the beast still hunts at night. One evening in the desert, he receives a stunning revelation—he is not alone. There are others like him. And he must find a mate and prepare for something called The Leap . . .
Meanwhile in Chicago, George Beaumont is dying of cancer. His desperate search for a miracle leads him to a strange creature who offers to save his life, and to a mysterious young woman named Lilly who guides him through a peculiar alternative therapy until he is finally cured. George wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with Lilly, but she feels a call from the Other, someone waiting for her . . .
Elphie
by Gregory Maguire
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical and the Wicked films.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
A Gideon Crew Collection
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced bundle edition of the first three books in the Gideon Crew series: Gideon’s Sword, Gideon’s Corpse, and The Lost Island, by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child.
“This is another book by the authors that succeeds in holding your attention and making you want to keep reading. It doesn’t have the over extended descriptions of everything that some books have, but has enough for the development of the narrative. It moves fast enough to keep you interested, but has enough character development so you get to know them.” by Amazon Customer
Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club–an informal men’s club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America’s most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion…
Touch of Red
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the carnage is the evidence that someone escaped the scene. But where is this witness now? A thorough search of the area yields more questions than answers, and before Brooke even packs up her evidence kit, she’s made it her goal to find the witness and get them out of harm’s way.
Homicide detective Sean Byrne has seen his share of bloody crime scenes, but this one is particularly disturbing, especially because Brooke Porter is smack in the middle of it…
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A Jance
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
