Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hands On Homicide
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Corky Hobbs never planned to solve a murder—especially not with her hands.
After a brush with death, small-town massage therapist Corky Hobbs wakes up with a strange new gift: when she touches someone, she sees their darkest secrets. Now, her peaceful life of hot stones and herbal tea isupended by visions she can’t explain—and a murder she can’t ignore.
When a beloved local turns up dead, Corky’s unusual ability may be the only clue to unmasking the killer. With her outspoken best friend Stella by her side, she dives headfirst into a swirl of small-town secrets, and hidden motives. But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Can Corky catch a killer before someone else’s secrets turn deadly?
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Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night
by James Runcie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950’s Cambridge.
Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called on to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamor photographer’s studio; and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler, in the middle of a crucial game of cricket…
Park Closes at Dusk
by D.W. Nathan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
They prowl the playground at night, looking for food, for anything to sink their teeth into. They are unlike any creature known to science. They have no sense of sympathy, no social structure. They kill and they eat. And they are hungry.
When Joe, recently paroled from prison, starts a new job as a park groundskeeper, he gets more than he bargained for. Now, Joe is trapped in a fight for survival with an enemy more bizarre and terrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora’s excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities…
Last Taste of Freedom
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The fight is coming home.
For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn’t as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father’s treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world.
Zander O’Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture.
The Final Witness
by Thomas Britten
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the truth becomes treason, one voice dares to speak.
In a world determined to forget God and where defiance can mean death, sixteen-year-old David fights to hold onto the truth. As the Academy he attends seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of faith in the old religion, cryptic chalkboard messages, and an unlikely friendship spark David’s resolve. As the world hurtles toward its final reckoning, can he withstand the opposition and become the final witness before the moment that changes everything?
The Raising
by Laura Kasischke
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
“Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.” – New York Times Book Review
From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.
Cruising the Mediterranean
by Al Lockwood, Sunny Lockwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shared passion for exploration. The Mediterranean trip of their dreams. There’s no better time for adventure than right now.
Enthusiastic explorers Al and Sunny Lockwood treasure the challenge and excitement of travel. From train rides through the Smokies to campouts in Yellowstone, they’ve documented their travel adventures to critical acclaim. With retirement, they expand their horizons and ship off for a new adventure in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Come along with Al and Sunny as they experience the dazzling beauty of the Greek Isles, the mouthwatering delights of Italian cuisine, the unique calls to prayer chanted from Istanbul’s minarets.
Infinite Graves
by J. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mack Bishop swallowed a bottle of pills in a hospital room in Nashville. She meant to die.
Instead, she woke up.
Not in the white room with its water-stained ceiling tiles. Not in her broken body. She woke up on her feet, in a city that almost looks like home, with legs that work and a life she doesn’t recognize – because it never existed until the moment she needed it. Her death didn’t end a thread. It spun a new one.
Quantum immortality: energy cannot die. It transforms. It jumps.
Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing.
An Ordinary Sort of Evil
by Kelley Armstrong
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body of a housemaid. She’s built a new life for herself. Even though she works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie, she considers them true friends. And with Gray in particular, perhaps, someday, something more.
Late one night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler, a patron of Gray’s undertaking business, and they assume there’s been a death in the household. But instead, they arrive in the midst of a seance with a ghost demanding Gray’s presence…