Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Stealth
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he’s unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the UK and into a deadly snare. As it turns out, this is only the first volley by a rival power, one that has its eyes set on disrupting the peace of the nation.
With the help of two brilliant and stunning women, Stone must leverage a new position of power to capture a villain with a lethal agenda. But the closer he comes to nabbing the culprit, the more he realizes there’s a bigger plan at work, and a true mastermind who’s a force to be reckoned with . . .
The Things you find in Rockpools
by Gregg Dunnett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Billy Wheatley isn’t like most eleven-year-olds. It’s just him and his dad, in a remote house on the clifftop above Lornea Island’s Silverlea beach. But when a teenage girl goes missing one summer night, and the biggest police search the island has ever seen fails to find her, Billy decides to take a break from his more important projects. And catch the killer himself.
And why not? He knows almost everyone on Lornea Island. And no one knows the dunes, the cliffs and the hidden caves like he does.
But while playing detective might be fun at first, the clues Billy follows soon lead dangerously close to home. And he’s about to find out – cold-blooded murder isn’t a game.
The Baby-Snatcher
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now in print for the first time in the US.
Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . .
Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting strange.
Hornet Flight
by Ken Follett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF’s flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight. He doesn’t know what it is, but he knows he must tell someone. And when he learns the truth, it will fall upon him to deliver word to England—except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church—a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely to ever get off the ground . . . even if Harald knew how to fly it.
Infernal Tramps
by Alex Grass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A boy discovers his father’s oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home.
An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog.
A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man’s memories of its horrors.
A mother with a trunkful of hungry, inhuman babies tracks down the family that abandoned them.
The warden of a penal colony offers to pardon a murderer, but only if the inmate can find the antidote to the poison wine the warden gave him.
A wealthy young woman receives a surgical implant that delivers more than just a shapely body.
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths.
It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away.
A Need to Kill
by Mark Pettit
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Life and Crimes of John Joubert, Nebraska’s Most Notorious Serial Child Killer
From two-time best-selling author and three-time Emmy®-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit comes the haunting true story of Nebraska serial killer John Joubert — a case that shocked a nation and still echoes across the true-crime world.
Blue Rivers
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blue Rivers has spent his life enforcing the law – but this time, the law won’t be enough.
He wears his badge like a shield, built from a childhood of abandonment and a father who taught him pain instead of mercy. The law is the only thing that ever made sense to him.
Then a letter changes everything. A woman named Addie writes to him with a desperate plea. A girl has been sold to settle a debt. His half-sister. A sister he never knew existed. Blue doesn’t hesitate. He rides out across the frontier with one goal – to bring her home.
The Snow Debt
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Everyone in Silverton Crossing knows the story.
Cairn Rusk left men to die in the snow.
The truth is harder to live with, and he’s never told it to anyone. Least of all his daughter.
A disgraced Army scout, Cairn hauls timber and keeps his head down, raising a thirteen-year-old girl and caring for a father whose mind slips a little further every day.
When winter threatens to close the high country, he takes them both up to the old family cabin, hoping the mountain will steady them. Beneath the floorboards he finds stolen Army payroll and ammunition.