Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $1.99 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 Snake and the Spider
by Karen Kingsbury
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona Beach unchaperoned. When the boys missed their agreed-upon daily check-ins, their parents were disappointed. When they failed to come home on their planned return date, their parents were terrified. They could not have known that their innocent sons would encounter two violent men on the Florida coast. They could not have imagined the torture their children would endure before their bodies turned up four months later in a Florida swamp. What starts as a dream vacation, ended as every parent’s worst nightmare . . .
Running from the Law
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A wisecracking lawyer takes on the defense of a prominent federal judge accused of sexual harassment, but all bets are off when the case turns deadly in this page-turning legal thriller from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline—her classic novel, now available in trade paperback for the first time.
Whether it’s at the poker table or in a court room, wisecracking attorney Rita Morrone plays to win, especially when it comes to her latest case, which is also her most personal. She’s defending the Honorable Fiske Hamilton, a prominent federal judge accused of sexual harassment. It’s no coincidence her client happens to be her live-in lover’s father.
The Mysterious Affair at Style
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.39 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Step into the world of mystery and intrigue with Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This groundbreaking work introduces the brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who would go on to become one of literature’s most iconic characters.
When wealthy Emily Inglethorp is found dead in her locked bedroom at Styles Court, suspicion and tension run high. Was it her much-younger husband, her stepchildren, or one of the many houseguests? Hercule Poirot is called upon to unravel the tangled web of lies, motives, and red herrings that surround the case.
Cliff’s Edge
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $0.39 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After she was arranged to be married at fifteen years old, Camilla has resigned herself to the role of respectable Roman wife, if only to please her father. Camilla knows that her husband Decimus is only interested in her vast fortune and social status. The only solace Camilla has is her daily walk along the pretty paths behind her seaside villa. But when she spies a beautiful stranger diving into the sea, a restlessness draws her again and again to the cliff’s edge to watch him swim, until the fortuitous moment she finds herself in Marcus Julius Paulus’s arms. Marcus, strong and gentle, is a man she could fall in love with, which only heightens her despair. For Camilla would never do anything to bring scandal to her family.
The 14th Colony
by Steve Berry
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.
Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January 20th – Inauguration Day—is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest.
New York to Dallas
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas: one that will take her all the way to the city that named her—and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood…
When a monster named Isaac McQueen—taken down by Eve back in her uniform days—escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to take up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.
Lady Apprentice
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Wishing Shelf Book Awards – FINALIST
Incipere Awards – 1st PLACE – YA FANTASY
Her homeland under siege. A dark sorcerer hot on her trail. All the prophecies say Linden can stop him. Who are they kidding?
Linden is the worst mage apprentice at her school. Her latest disaster: accidentally destroying her classroom when a small hooded fay pops up inside the fireball she’s just conjured.
Sea Storms
by Nellie Krauss
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
If a sea storm can change a coastline, imagine what it can do to a broken heart.
Antique jewelry appraiser Banji Aloysius Preston usually lives in the moment, but she never imagined a moment as devastating as this. Reinventing herself has left her unemployed and staying in her deceased Grandmother’s isolated seaside cottage. There she uncovers family secrets that should have stayed buried—while sharing her stretch of Southern California sand with a scarred man who hides secrets of his own.
Loving Jack
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author, the story of a writer enamored with her own imagined hero meets a man who ignites her desires in reality.
Three months of solitude in a gorgeous, secluded summer rental home is the perfect atmosphere for Jackie “Jack” MacNamara to write the novel featuring the man of her dreams. She only wishes that her rugged Wild West cowboy existed.
Then her reverie is interrupted by Nathan Powell, he’s a mild-mannered architect who is perplexed that his house has been rented without his knowledge and expects Jack to leave.