Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Gracie and the Trouble with Pinatas
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What you see is not always what you get. In fact, what you see may be nothing at all.
Finding a woman attacked and left for dead in her driveway hadn’t been anywhere near San Antonio law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner’s cold January plans. She immediately jumps into action and soon discovers a link to what appears to be a benign local research institution. Of course, what seems to be often isn’t, and it takes a series of explosive illusions that rock a small slice of the city before Gracie and her coworkers understand the fuller picture: a rogue relationship between the research group and a corrupt faction inside the Pentagon…
Grant Us Mercy
by DC Little
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ninety percent of the world’s population will perish—they fight to be a part of the 10% that survive.
Blake Chantry knows disaster is coming—but nothing can prepare him for the inferno that tears his world apart. When a massive solar storm wipes out the power grid and plunges the nation into chaos, his mission to protect his superiors takes a deadly turn.
Now, with vehicles exploding, mobs rising, and wildfires raging, Blake faces an unthinkable choice: abandon his post or risk everything to save his wife and son…
What Happens in the Dark
by Kia Abdullah
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now, Lily is the nation’s favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace.
When news breaks about suspicious bruises on Lily’s body, Safa attempts to rekindle their old friendship. But Lily claims the bruises are nothing to worry about. And then one night the police are called to Lily’s home. Lily is strangely calm – and a body lies dead at her feet.
Lily pleads not guilty, and then says nothing more. Driven by her desire to give a voice to all victims, Safa begins her own investigation into what happened that night.
The Girl Who Sees Angels
by Jeffrey McClain Jones
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lights in the darkness, shadows in daylight, she has seen them all her life, and feared them. Can she break free now? Does she really want to?
Sophie Ramos has always thought she was cursed and maybe crazy. Even her mother doubted her when she was a child. Priests and psychiatrists doubted her too. But psychics tried to recruit Sophie to enrich and empower themselves.
Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, keeping her secret from everyone except her mother and a few close friends. But a threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake.
Almost Dark
by Letitia Trent
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
In 1993, teenage Claire and her twin brother, Sam, sneak out to Farmington’s old textile factory, where they’ve heard the high school kids go to party. When Sam falls into a basement window and injures himself, Claire runs for help, thinking she’s left Sam alone. But something horrible is inside the otherwise empty factory with him . . .
Fifteen years later, Claire is working as Farmington’s librarian, secretly wrestling with her guilt after her brother’s death. She leads a quiet, lonely life—until Sam begins visiting her.
Uma’s Head
by Kristin Kelly
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the dangerous world of Southeast Asia’s illicit antiquities trade, a curator’s search for a missing colleague uncovers a decades-old conspiracy—and a stolen artifact that could unravel it all.
When art curator Sarah Burroughs glimpses a half-hidden Khmer sculpture in her mentor’s Bangkok apartment, she doesn’t yet realize she’s staring at Uma’s head, a stolen national treasure—and a clue to a dangerous secret. Across the border in Cambodia, fellow curator Sam Heng uncovers a shocking diary written at the start of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal reign—by the father he never knew. Soon after, Heng vanishes without a trace.
Death’s Savage Passion
by Jane Haddam
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
McKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war
The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre’s “true” authors fight back, a battle breaks out in every high-class gin joint in Manhattan. It is take-no-prisoners fighting, and Patience McKenna is caught in the middle.
This ex-romance author has just turned to true crime writing when Sarah English comes to visit.
Fall From Grace
by Nora Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tim Morrison seems to be a model of respectability – until the day he comes home to tell his devoted wife Felicity that he is no longer the trusted partner in a solicitors’ firm. He has been fired – and may go to jail – because he has been caught ‘borrowing’ the money his clients trusted him with.
At first there seems to be hope: Tim’s mother will give him enough money and more to pay back his partners. Against her better judgement, Felicity agrees to cope with her shame – and Tim’s broken-hearted mother – without sharing his secret with their daughter. But then the truth begins to come out – about Tim’s other secrets and lies. Soon it seems that no matter what Felicity does, Tim’s dishonesty will ruin the lives of all three women.
Less of a Stranger
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What begins as a business proposal turns into a roller coaster ride through life and love in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ Less of a Stranger.
Megan Miller’s beloved grandfather has run Joyland Amusement Park her whole life. But he’s not as young as he used to be, so she agrees to help him keep their family playground going even if it means sacrificing her own dreams. So when David “Katch” Katcherton thinks he can just buy Joyland with a quickly scrawled check, Megan isn’t about to let some wealthy, attractive hotshot with a need for speed take her and Pops on a merry-go-round ride—no matter how much fun and joy he’s determined to bring her…