Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Silent Nights
by Martin Edwards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the prospect of curling up in the warm with a good mystery is enticing—and much better for the digestion than yet another helping of plum pudding.
The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone Complete Collection
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
You never mess with a young girl around James Brownstone.
It doesn’t matter what crime syndicate you belong to, that just doesn’t sit well with him.
The world has changed since the news of Oriceran came out twenty years before. Now, countries all over the world have agreed to using a bounty system for dangerous criminals using advanced magic or advanced technology.
People too powerful for the cops to deal with. Magical criminals, thugs and bounty hunters, in the future we revert to what worked in the past.
A Midwinter Murder
by Verity Bright
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house. And that includes kisses under the mistletoe and cozying up by the fire with her fiancé, dashing detective Hugh Seldon.
Instead, the season of goodwill turns frosty as she finds the Duke’s studious secretary, Mr Porritt, dead in the storeroom. Clasped in his chilly hand is a golden pendant in the shape of a rose. The Dukedenies ever having seen the necklace before. But Eleanor can see the lies in his eyes… Did it belong to his mysteriously absent wife?
Scratch One
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER
A pulp-fiction thrill ride through a deadly case of mistaken identity
Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.
The Breaking of Time
by J. J. Hebert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
One father’s desperate choice fractures time and reality itself.
To everyone around him, Daniel Ward is a mild-mannered accountant, devoted husband and father in a quiet New England suburb. But when his ten-year-old son chases a runaway soccer ball into the street, straight into the path of a speeding truck, Daniel does the impossible. He freezes time.
That single act of defiance exposes the secret he’s buried for decades. His magic awakens the ancient order he once betrayed, the Arvynth, a brotherhood of immortal sorcerers devoted to stillness and death, determined to silence the world.
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies
by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They’re number one on each other’s speed dial and they tell each other everything—well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes – except one very special green jacket, which almost caused a catfight.
In other words, they’re just like every mother and daughter in the world. Best friends, and occasional enemies. Now they’re dishing about it all—their lives, their relationship, and their carb count.
Rapture in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common—and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the deaths suspicious. And her instincts pay off when autopsies reveal small burns on the brains of the victims.
Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve’s investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games—where the same techniques used to create joy and desire can also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction…
Roadside Crosses
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways – not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.
The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics—body language—expert. She and Deputy Michael O’Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report.
Journey Into Darkness
by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit.
In Mindhunter, John Douglas—who headed the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit—told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers.
Anthony Hawk
by Jesse Storm
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They burned his home, murdered his family, and thought the land would be theirs. They were wrong.
In the rugged lands of Colorado, Anthony Hawk lives by two rules: take only what you need and keep the peace.
A half-Shoshone gold prospector, he’s resisted every offer to sell his family’s land at Eagle Rock Basin – a sacred stretch rich with gold. But when he returns from a supply run to find his homestead in ashes and his family dead, the sheriff blames Indians, ignoring the bullet wounds and tracks leading toward the Silver Cross Railroad camp.