Thursday’s Mystery eBooks

Ghost Writer
by Alison Bruce
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

Jen Kirby has seen ghosts since she was a child, but she can’t talk to them or help them cross over. And, after a violent death in the family, she doesn’t want to see them anymore.

In her role as ghostwriter, Jen joins a Canadian Arctic expedition to document and help solve a forty-year-old mystery involving an American submarine station lost during the Cold War. The trouble is, there are people—living and dead—who don’t want the story told, and they’ll do anything to stop her.

Hollow Bones
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.

Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.

Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.

Blink of an Eye
by Roy Johansen and Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

Delilah Winter is one of the hottest pop stars on the planet, so how in the world was she kidnapped right in the middle of a show at the famous Hollywood Bowl? If anyone can figure it out, it’s Dr. Kendra Michaels, who works with local and federal authorities on only the most impossible cases.

Blind for the first twenty years of her life until a revolutionary surgical procedure allowed her to regain her sight, Kendra uses her powers of observation—honed during her years in the dark—to detect what other investigators don’t.

Lethal Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad

Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all.

Shadowed Lives
by Vikki Corowa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Rick never expected to survive prison, especially not after the knife meant to silence him. As darkness closes in, he hears words that chill him deeper than the blade. “She is ours. We are coming for her.”

When Rick wakes chained to a hospital bed and under guard, he knows the woman he once hurt is in grave danger. Steph, the woman he never stopped loving, the woman he swore he would protect, is being hunted by a ruthless international trafficking syndicate with ties to Sydney’s underworld.

Murder in Bologna
by T A Williams
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna’s prestigious Art Institute. Accompanied by his loyal Labrador, Oscar, Dan heads north from Florence to investigate. The student’s former girlfriend is consumed by grief and the Art Institute is mourning one of its brightest talents.

But beneath the surface, Dan senses that someone is hiding the truth. Doing a favour for his friend, Commissario Virgilio Pisano of the Florence murder squad, Dan soon finds himself caught up in the shady world of drug dealing, organised crime and fraud on a grand scale.

The Taken Ones
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Despite her name, Twinkle Winkleman is as tough as nails. A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, she has a nose for trouble. So when a young woman from Anchorage disappears after heading to Seattle for an internship that seems too good to be true, Twinkle is convinced that something dangerous is happening. But both the Anchorage and Seattle authorities dismiss her out of hand.

With nowhere else to turn, Twinkle calls on an old friend: private investigator and former homicide cop J. P. Beaumont.