Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
At Wits’ End
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A laugh-out-loud mystery that’s out of this world…
Men in Black. Conspiracy-crazed old ladies. Can a clueless innkeeper catch a killer … and stick to her carefully crafted schedule?
When control-freak Susan Witsend inherits her grandmother’s UFO-themed B&B, she’s ready to put her organizational skills to the test. She knows she can make the B&B work, even if there is a faux-UFO in the roof. After all, what’s not to love about a Victorian nestled in the high Sierra foothills?
Long Shadows
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench.
What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband—but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack?
Rhyme, Riddle, and Romance
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
She’s a grumpy faerie with a failing bakery and one very inept employee… too bad she can’t fire him. He’s a fastidious werewolf with a fondness for feng shui and one very sloppy boss… too bad he can’t quit.
When Sophie inherits the Rhyme ’N Riddle Bakeshop from an elderly relation, it’s a dream come true for the faerie with the magic touch for baking. Even when she discovers she must employ her auntie’s former companion, Sophie figures it’s a small price to pay… until she meets him…
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.
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it’s a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn’t spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city.
Mystified by Myrna’s reluctance to reveal her friend’s name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
Dear Hanna
by Zoje Stage
Kindle $2.49 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy—and writing letters to her younger brother—has since curbed those nasty tendencies.
Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people.
A Soft Place to Fall
by Liz Flaherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Early McGrath doesn’t want freedom from her thirty-year marriage to Nash, but when it’s forced upon her, she does the only thing she knows to do – she goes home to the Ridge to reinvent herself.
Only what is someone who’s spent her life taking care of other people supposed to do when no one needs her anymore? Even as the threads of her life unravel, she finds new ones – reconnecting with the church of her childhood, building the quilt shop that has been a long-time dream, and forging a new friendship with her former husband.
The Light of Ordinary Days
by Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A deeply moving memoir of healing and ancestral reconnection, weaving an intimate personal story with the epic history of Ireland.
In 2013, exactly a century after her grandparents emigrated from Ireland to America, Carolyn Brigit Flynn returned to her ancestral homeland in the wake of a family tragedy. Raised in a boisterous Irish Catholic family in 1970s Washington, DC, Flynn grew up amid traditional music, stories, and blarney—but also with silence about the poverty and hardship her grandparents left behind. Her charismatic father bore his own wounds and shunned her when she fell in love with another girl in high school.