Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Under the Cocoon Moon
by Kathleen Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dead body in the woods. A rare sapphire is missing. The connection changes her life forever. Advice columnist Olivia Penn is looking forward to spending the holidays with her friends and family in her cozy hometown of Apple Station, Virginia. The Christmas spirit has sparked a new romance, and everything seems merry and bright, until she’s mistaken for a dead woman.
When a stranger makes a wild accusation involving the parents of the man she’s falling for, Olivia finds herself in a no-win situation. As evidence mounts, a mysterious murder near his father’s cabin attracts the attention of the FBI.
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother. But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
Black Out
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her.
These are demons she can’t fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future…and her daughter.
I Know What I Saw
by Kathryn Croft
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When Ria moves with her husband to Silverleaf Heights, she hopes to recover from the incident that nearly took her life. Everything seems perfect – the houses are beautiful, the neighbours welcoming and the locked gate keeps the danger out. Or does it?
Late one night, Ria sees a woman being attacked. When she raises the alarm, there’s no evidence. No crime. No victim. But Ria knows what she saw – and she won’t let it go. Then an anonymous text appears on her phone, a video of another woman being murdered. Looking closer, Ria realises the woman is her.
Uncovered
by Rich J.B. Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A CLASS RING. A HUMAN BONE. A CASE THAT WOULDN’T STAY CLOSED. When construction crews rebuilding the Harborview waterfront uncover a gold class ring beside human remains, Detective Sarah Sloane recognizes the initials inside. N.H. Nathan Hollis disappeared eleven years ago. At the time, his death was ruled an accidental drowning.
Sarah signed the report. Now Nathan’s remains have surfaced, raising troubling questions about what really happened that night. As Sarah reopens the investigation, she must uncover the truth about Nathan’s disappearance while confronting questions about her own life that she has buried beneath a job she loves.
Missing
by Erin Kinsley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never returns. Her daughters – loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta – are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.
Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten. And there’s one obsession he won’t let go: a tragic death twenty years before. Can Lily and Marietta uncover what happened to their mother? Will Fox solve a mystery that has haunted him for decades? As their stories unexpectedly collide, long-buried secrets will change their lives in unimaginable ways.
Murder by the Book
by M. R. G. Davies
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Nothing is deadlier than angry readers… especially when you murder one of their own. When the manager of The Quaint Bookshop is found slumped between the shelves, the four members of the shop’s reading group decide to put into action all the skills they’ve picked up from their favourite fictional detectives.
If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it’s a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case…
He Feeds Dinosaurs
by Daniel Dow and Kristan Dow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Elijah Dow did not breathe on his own for the first seven minutes of his life. His father stood watching the team try to keep him alive until he finally made a sound. Before his parents left the hospital, the doctors warned them that autism was possible.
They warned them the day he was born — about a boy who would grow up to run toward strangers with his arms open. Elijah is nine. He draws chalk maps up and down his street, runs to meet every passing golf cart, and takes archery classes on Saturday.
The Heights
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every need, with a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, where self-made owner-developer Allan Franklyn himself has claimed the penthouse duplex. His neighbors include some of “Money London’s” biggest personalities: a wealthy art dealer, a young heartthrob pop star, a foreign heiress, a gangster’s wife.
The residents are used to service, deference, and privacy, all on their terms. But when nighttime concierge Dwayne Hogarth is found dead in the lobby, none of that is in their control anymore, and everyone’s under the unwelcome scrutiny of Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish.