Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Voodoo River
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Elvis Cole finds himself deep in the bayou of Louisiana searching for the estranged parents of a television star — but something deadly is looking for him. L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before.
Cole’s assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there’s something much darker going on.
Have Courage
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A wintry collection of Longmire stories by the beloved author of the New York Times bestselling series Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates a series of eccentric small-town crises in fifteen holiday-inspired stories. An old dog mysteriously escapes the animal shelter night after night.
A deputy deploys an unexpected diversion during a hostage standoff. The baby Jesus vanishes from a nativity scene. And Walt faces one of his most challenging assignments yet: caring for a 150-year-old sourdough starter, while apprehending a seven-year-old suspect with the diction of a 1930s gumshoe.
The Treasure Hunters Club
by Tom Ryan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary lost pirate treasure, but locals know there’s more than just gold buried in the sand. As the paths of three strangers converge in Maple Bay, the truth is about to be blown wide open.
But not before the bodies start to pile up. Peter Barnett is rapidly approaching 40 with little to show for it when a mysterious letter invites him to Maple Bay and the mansion his estranged family has called home for generations.
The Curse of Penryth Hall
by Jess Armstrong
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She’s always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her.
When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the one place she swore she’d never return. A more sensible soul would have delivered the package and left without rehashing old wounds.
Second Glance
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Sometimes I wonder….Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?” An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground.
When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again.
The Storm Sister
by Lucinda Riley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The spellbinding novel unfolds amid the icy splendor of Norway in The Storm Sister, the second book in Lucinda Riley’s epic saga that follows the bestselling The Seven Sisters—drawing inspiration from the enduring mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation.
Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage.
A Medium Fate
by Lynn Cahoon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
I see ghosts, but I do my best to ignore them. When Eddie Cayce turned home to New Orleans from her carefully built Seattle life, it’s not just for her grandmother’s funeral. She’s home to stay.
More to the point, now that she’s broken it off with the almost fiancé and quit her corporate junior designer position over one too many trainings on how to run a copier, she has no reason to return. With the money she’ll receive in her inheritance, she can finally open the antique store she’s always dreamed of – that as long as her ability to see ghosts stays dormant.
The Ambler Warning
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In Robert Ludlum’s The Ambler Warning, an agent breaks out of a top-security institution where the government has kept him drugged for years only to discover that he’s not the person he thinks he is.
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.
Smoke and Mirrors
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto’s star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were found in the woods alongside a trail of candy—a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of “Hansel and Gretel.”
Edgar has plenty of leads. Annie, a dark child, wrote gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her final script?
Dead by Midnight
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Solving puzzles comes naturally to Annie Darling, cheerful owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore on the lovely sea island of Broward’s Rock. Annie is aided and abetted by her admiring husband, Max, who runs an unusual business that offers help to people in trouble.
A recent death appears to be suicide, but Annie suspects murder. To solve the case, she unravels the mystery of a towel hidden at midnight in a gazebo, the lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a teenager’s blue shirt, and the secret of a lovers’ tryst.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped.
That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body.
One-Hit Wonder
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
First published in 2001, a reissue of #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell’s third novel, an “inventive and moving” (The Sunday Times, London) novel about a young woman determined to discover the secrets her celebrity half-sister kept after her untimely death.
Bee Beahorn had it all: a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle. At least, that’s what her estranged half-sister, Ana, had always believed. Their lives were worlds apart. Bee was beautiful, extravagant, and full of life. Ana was awkward, shy, and destined to live in Bee’s shadow.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of a dark family mystery.
Ice Cold
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned—far from home and help—in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom Come—a remote village of identical houses that seems to have become a ghost town overnight.
But the abandoned hamlet has dark secrets to tell, and Maura’s party may not be as alone as they think. Days later, word reaches homicide cop Jane Rizzoli that Maura’s charred remains have been found at the scene of a car crash.
Beyond Honor
by K.B. Brodsky
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A paramilitary operative confronting his grief on a path of retribution. A CIA analyst hunting a conspiracy that leads to the Oval Office. A Russian agent hiding in plain sight.
Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow meets Jack Carr’s The Terminal List in Beyond Honor, a debut political thriller that plunges readers into a world of international espionage, where loyalty and duty are tested. A man forged by war, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads is recruited for a solo extraction mission deep inside Siberia.
Spruced up for Murder
by Helen Golden
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She thinks he’s a boorish know-it-all. He thinks she’s a pampered princess. Unfortunately, they’re both determined to solve the same murder.
Beatrice, Countess of Rossex, is ready for a fresh start. Helping transform the Events Suite at her family’s country estate should provide exactly that. Then she finds a dead body.
When suspicion falls on Bea’s sister, standing back is no longer an option. The trouble is, the investigation is being led by Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam, an arrogant, infuriating man who seems equally determined to keep Bea out of his way.
Rook Steele
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
They blame the tribes for the bloodshed. Rook Steele knows the truth. A former Army scout, Rook recognizes the work of trained soldiers when he sees it. And the brutal robberies spreading across the Arizona Territory bear the unmistakable mark of a man who knows exactly how to wage war.
That man is Victor Kane – a ruthless Army deserter determined to turn settlers and tribes against each other. When Kane nearly kills Rook and leaves a young orphan in his path, the hunt becomes personal.
The Zig Zag Girl
by Elly Griffiths
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths—author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries—about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who’s performing their deadly tricks.
Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick—the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops group called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy.
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Love can redeem a man…but secrets and lies can condemn him. A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a prep schoolteacher, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation.
Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously launch a modern-day witch hunt.