Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Spotted Dog
by Kerry Greenwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Another mystery book from Kerry Greenwood, internationally bestselling author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries! Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow…
Rising at four o’clock every morning isn’t Corinna Chapman’s favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn feels even harsher when a man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog is missing, Corinna and her longtime companion, Daniel, feel compelled to help. It soon becomes clear, though, that they have gotten involved in something much bigger and more complicated than they had bargained for…
Whispering Rain
by Jessica Lynn Sorensen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Caleb Reed’s latest case seems straightforward at first: missing four-year-old girl, Bailey Moore. But things take a wicked turn when the parents give two very different stories. The mother insists her daughter disappeared last night, while the father claims she tragically died months ago in a car accident.
As Caleb digs deeper, he finds himself caught between two conflicting realities, unsure who—or what—to believe. This case might not be his most high-profile or challenging on the surface, but it’s shaping up to be one of his most bizarre ones.
The Cruelest Month
by Louise Penny
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.
It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . .
When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil—until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?
Blood in the Snow
by Tom Henderson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine’s Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person’s report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family? Was she involved with another man?
Stephen’s frantic, emotional search for Tara made national headlines, and the case was featured on Dateline among other television shows and news outlets. But key elements in Stephen’s story still weren’t adding up: Why did he wait five days to go to police? What was the nature of his relationship with his children’s beautiful, nineteen-year-old babysitter? Why did Stephen have cuts on his hands, and random bruises? Then, the police made a gruesome discovery.
The Last Surgeon
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Michael Palmer’s novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a Gulf War vet suffering from PTSD, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his war buddy, who was plucked from the streets by the military four years ago for a secret mission and has not been seen since.
Psych nurse Gillian Coates wants to find her sister’s killer. She does not believe that the ICU nurse took her own life, even though every bit of evidence indicates that she did—every bit save one. Her sister has left Gillian a subtle clue that connects her with Nick Garrity.
The Loudest Place on Earth
by Ken Ziegler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Only Ludwig can save the fairies—if he can be bothered to.
Long before sirens and subways, New York’s first residents—noise-loathing fairies—fled underground to escape the city’s ever-increasing roar. Now, after centuries of failed plots to bring silence to the city, they’re trying something new: hiring a human.
When Ludwig, a comfort-obsessed slacker, begins hearing a word no one else remembers speaking, he follows its trail to a hidden fairy society beneath Times Square. There, he meets An Exalted Northwind, a fairy enchantress determined to forgo her species’ signature fondness for cruelty in favor of peacefully reclaiming the surface. But she can’t do it without a human go-between.
Lies
by T. M. Logan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife’s car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend’s husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious.
Now, Joe’s life is unraveling. His wife has lied to him. Her deception has put their entire family in jeopardy. The man she met at the hotel has vanished. And as the police investigate his disappearance, suspicion falls on Joe.
City of the Dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The past comes back to haunt psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when they investigate a grisly double homicide and uncover an even more unspeakable motive in this riveting novel from the bestselling master of suspense.
Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead…
White Wolf
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this cutting-edge installment of the acclaimed thriller series, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader thrusts readers into a world where power is being redefined by a revolutionary communication program that renders modern encryption obsolete, one that will topple global power structures and give rise to technology-driven totalitarian states.
Evan Ryder races against time in a landscape where secrets can no longer hide behind digital walls. Ilona Shokova, the elusive, deadly assassin White Wolf, holds the key to mastering this unhackable method.
Agent Merit
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The gold is fake. The murder is real. And a town built on lies.
When U.S. Secret Service agent Merit Malone rides into the Texas border town of Falcon Ridge, he’s tracking thirty thousand dollars in stolen payroll gold.
What he finds instead is a murder, a flood of counterfeit coins, and a town that survives on silence.
The locals claim ignorance. The sheriff blames an Apache woman. And a powerful rancher named Kerrigan seems to own half the valley – and everyone in it.
Paradox
by Douglas Preston, Aletheia Preston
Kindle $15.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
One of the holiest relics in Christendom, inexplicably defaced…
A paranoid old prospector, ritualistically murdered…
A controversial exobiologist, tortured and dismembered…
When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, whom we met in the New York Times bestseller, Extinction, team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society.