Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead Wrong
by Vannetta Chapman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Agatha Lapp’s brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country. She’s there to make a success of her brother’s dream–an Amish B&B.
Then she discovers Russell Dixon’s lifeless body in Cabin 3. She runs next door where retired detective Tony Vargas lives. The police determine that her guest died of natural causes, but as Agatha and Tony put together the events of the previous two days they become convinced that the police are Dead Wrong.
The Tristan Betrayal
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man about town in occupied Paris. He’s also a minor asset in the U.S.’s secret intelligence forces in Europe.
Through a wild twist of fate, it falls to Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former love—a fiery ballerina whose own loyalties are in question—in a delicate dance that could destroy all he loves and honors.
Under Currents
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they’ve come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?
Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own.
Crossed Fire
by Baccellia Kim
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Stephanie Stewart is a typical sixteen-year-old girl—she loves hanging out with her friends, going to concerts, and sipping mocha lattes. Yup. Just your average teenager . . . Except for one difference—she can see and talk to the dead.
In fact, Stephanie helps dead girls who who’ve been murdered or killed, cross over. Just as Stephanie is getting used to her unique “gift”, her mom stumbles into some dangerous witchcraft that backfires and triggers similar abilities in Stephanie’s best friend Cura, and nemesis Hillary.
It Should Have Been You
by Andrea Mara
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
You press send and your message disappears. Full of secrets about your neighbors, it’s meant for your sister. But it doesn’t reach her – it goes to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead. As rumor spreads like wildfire through the picture-perfect neighborhood, you convince yourself that people will move on, that this will quickly be forgotten. But then you receive the first death threat.
The next day, a woman has been murdered. And what’s even more chilling is that she had the same address as you – 26 Oakpark – but in a different part of town.
The Fate of Mercy Alban
by Wendy Webb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.
Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace.
The House of Secrets
by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel’s father is Jack Nash, the host of America’s favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad’s tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse.
Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She’s told she’s been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother.
Madness Made in Mayhem
by Claire O’Sullivan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
MURDER, MAYHEM, AND THE COST OF LOYALTY.
In Central Oregon, Detectives Luke Barritt and Dakota Littlebear fight crime—and sometimes each other. Their new chief is one part brilliant and two parts absurd, keeping the department on edge. As if they don’t already have enough to deal with.
Luke’s world splinters when the PD’s anthropologist enters his life. But when murders rock Shallows Creek, a killer sets their sights on Dakota, forcing Luke to watch the people he cares about become targets.
Dakota fights the dark battles of racism with the stoicism she’s mastered—except in front of her best friend. Her partner.
Together, they navigate Shallows Creek’s ugliest war yet, with a killer always one step ahead.
The Man They Freed
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Southeastern Arizona is drowning in blood. Ranches are burned, travelers vanish, and whole settlements live in fear of one name: Luis Mateo, the ruthless outlaw known to the Apache as Wicked Warrior. Cruel even to his own men, Mateo rules through terror, leaving a trail of bodies across the territory and humiliating every posse and army patrol sent after him.
There is only one man who knows how to hunt him. Former army scout Jess Larkin. The problem is, Larkin is serving time in prison.