Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Breath
by Kimberly Belle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It’s the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own dark past.
Sixteen years ago, Gia’s father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now that he’s back home and dying of cancer, Gia must care for him and reluctantly resumes the role of daughter to the town’s most infamous murderer. Gia’s old wounds are ripped open as protesters show up on the lawn and death threats are hurled at her, turning her own personal tragedy, once again, into front-page news.
Breaking Point
by Suzy Spencer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter, “a classic true-crime tapestry” (Ron Franscell, bestselling author of The Darkest Night).
Andrea Yates, a suburban Houston mother of five, horrified the nation on June 20, 2001, when she dialed 911 and said, “I killed my children.”
While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the police to confess her sin.
The Guardians of Legacy Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
Beneath Boston’s Old North Church, someone unearthed the wrong relic — and now America’s only known mummy is awake and hunting.
Captain Leah Morgan’s newly formed Legacy Operations Command has one job: find the missing artifact that puts it back to sleep before a centuries-old secret society uses the chaos to resurrect a Revolutionary War spy with a very old grudge.
Racing through hidden history, deadly conspiracies, and the ghosts of her own past, Leah is learning fast that some secrets don’t stay buried — they come back with teeth.
Agents of Innocence
by David Ignatius
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius’s reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers.
Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
The Gathering Dark
by Brett Armstrong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After a thousand years of light, darkness covers the Lowlands.
Jason has spent his life running from the past. But when it finally catches up to him, he takes refuge in a strange inn—and hears a story that shouldn’t matter… yet changes everything.
It’s the story of Anargen.
A young man bound by loyalty to the legendary High King of All Realms, Anargen is called away from everything he loves to fulfill a dangerous mission. Alongside his mentor, Cinaed, he journeys north to broker peace between two ancient enemies—the men of Ecthelowall and the dwarfs of Ordumair…
Woman Down
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.
Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she’s been uninspired to write ever since.
Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It’s Petra’s last-ditch attempt to save her career—and herself.
Guardian
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Robby’s guardian angel, Charmeine was born in Heaven just prior to her charge. His special Angel of Harmony came to the earthly plane to watch over him all the days of his centenarian life—and beyond.
From childhood through the Great Depression and as a soldier during World War II, to his life as a St. Louis police officer, Charmeine was by his side. She guided him against a temptress demon and was with him through two remarkable women during his long life.
Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell.
The Mirror
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger.
Rocket’s Red Glare
by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of special operators. They are ex-Special Forces, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. Phillips is a brilliant strategist and battle-tested leader who inspires total loyalty in his team. Now these decorated veterans of international warfare are at home and on stand-by—until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder.
Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of Mission: Impossible. Emergency operations happening not overseas but in the centers of American power, from Nantucket to Washington, DC. This national crisis is real.