Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Legend of Sleepy Mayfair
by Kassandra Lamb
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A Halloween romp with a seriously scary twist! Her adopted town is once again driving service dog trainer Marcia Banks a little nuts. No sooner has she moved her horse into the new Mayfair Riding Stable than its octogenarian, muumuu-wearing owner decides to turn the barn into a haunted house for Halloween.
Meanwhile, an anonymous prankster is haunting Mayfair, disrupting its small-town tranquility, and the local postmistress has a strange request for Marcia. All this, along with her new role of godmother to adorable twins, is a bit overwhelming. But it’s nothing compared to what’s coming.
The Anchored Series Collection
by Bridget E. Baker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if saving our world means destroying another? Alora’s brain has always been a little strange. No matter how hard things on Earth got, and they got pretty awful, she always dreamt that she possessed amazing telekinetic powers on another world. Her brother called them her delusions of grandeur.
But when things start to go unbelievably well on Earth—hot guys asking her out and her brother landing a terrific job—everything falls apart in her dream world. As people she’s seen in her dreams begin to appear on Earth, Alora fears that the two worlds may in fact be connected.
It’s Not What You Think
by Clare Mackintosh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
He has a secret. She knows he’s lying… Nadeeka is certain Jamie is having an affair. She knows the tell-tale signs. She’s been here before. When Jamie claims to be at work late, she knows he’s lying.
He’s with another woman, and she’s determined to catch him in the act. But when Nadeeka arrives home to confront him, Jamie can’t explain himself. The house has become a crime scene…Jamie is dead. YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO YOU CAN TRUST YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK.
Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 4-6
by Camilla Läckberg
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
THE STRANGER: A series of tragic road accidents and the murder of a reality TV contestant mark the end to a quiet winter for Detective Patrik Hedström. THE HIDDEN CHILD: The discovery of a Nazi medal in her late mother’s belongings leads Erica Falck to dig into her family’s past, and drag a dark truth from WW2 into the light…
THE DROWNING: When a local author and his circle of friends receive death threats, his mentor crime writer Erica Falck investigates. But as the victims conceal evidence, what is the secret they would die to protect?
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
by Iain Reid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why… I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.
Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.” And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.
Long Upon the Land
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott’s father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah’s husband, Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute.
The local newspaper implies that Deborah’s family may have had something to do with the murder-and that Dwight is dragging his feet on the case. Meanwhile, Deborah is given a cigarette lighter that once belonged to her mother.
Unexpected Visitor
by John Walker & Jack Dawson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Mur has kept a secret under his floorboards for fifty years. He was twelve when his best friend’s mother handed him a strange box and made him promise to hide it. That evening the family drove away, their house burned down, and Cleo never came back.
Mur grew up, went gray, and became the handyman every small town needs. The box stayed where he put it. Then, in a single night, two visitors come for it. One steals it and vanishes. The other is Cleo. Fifty years have passed, yet she looks like she is just twenty-five.
The Far Empty
by J. Todd Scott
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil.
Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff’s deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown.
Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Rendition
by Joshua Hood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can’t ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time.
He’s promised his wife that he won’t put his life on the line any more, and there’s nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well…almost nothing. With America withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban closing in, Abdul Nassir reached out to his old friend.