Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks

Balloon Body Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When Rik Patience—who has no patience—trips over the body of a murder victim sticking out from under the envelope of a hot air balloon, it turns into a sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, sometimes heartbreaking ride. Rik and her over-sixties group of fellow sleuths endeavor to solve a mystery that even the sheriff’s department can’t solve.
Things never go well for Rik in life or love in spite of her best intentions. She finds herself on the wrong side of her Mason, Texas, friends when she becomes “public enemy number one” after refusing to help with a festival that will bring tourists into town—but also promotes alcoholic beverages.
The Hollow Places
by T. Kingfisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house.
Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become.
Apprentice in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park’s ice-skating rink. The victims: a talented young skater, a doctor, and a teacher. As random as random can be.
Eve Dallas has seen a lot of killers during her time with the NYPSD but never one like this. A review of the security videos reveals that the victims were killed with a tactical laser rifle fired by a sniper, who could have been miles away when the trigger was pulled.
Labyrinth
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man’s body slams against her windshield and then—blackness.
When she finally regains consciousness in the hospital, she’s told about the accident and the man she struck. No one knows yet who he is or where he is because he ran away. From DNA, they discover his name is Justice Cummings and he’s a CIA analyst at Langley…and he’s still missing.
Every Fifteen Minutes
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however.
His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country, and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble.
Sunforged
by Armstrong Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Too old to live, too stubborn to die, He is about to become the most dangerous man in the desert! Eldin Doon built empires from a boardroom, outlived three wives, and ran out of things that frightened him, until his own failing body became the last one.
So he does the only thing left that scares him: he puts his head into a machine and wakes up young, whole, and standing inside a game that is not a game at all. Every other Traveler runs north for the safe kingdoms.
Next Girl On The List
by Roger Stelljes
Kindle $3.75 Rating: 4.5 #ad
He’s the perfect boyfriend… with the perfect lies… but is he the perfect killer? It had been so long since she had someone so amazing in her life. She was swept off her feet and thought he was the absolutely perfect guy and the perfect date, or is it just a deadly game of seduction and deception?
What clues are hidden in a picture perfect murder? Complex clues are carefully woven into intricate crime scenes that challenge Mac McRyan, while a warped mind taunts him and stalks another innocent soul.
The Hollow
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
When Harry Bosch was eleven years old, his mother was murdered and he became a ward of the state, housed in MacLaren Children’s Center, a notorious facility where abuse was rampant. Decades after its closure, a lawsuit has resulted in a massive settlement for former residents.
But when Bosch’s half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, brings him word that Harry is entitled to part of it, Bosch says he doesn’t want the money. He wants justice. The news awakens his memories of a place he had hoped never to revisit, and of a boy nicknamed Chops, a fellow ward who wound up dead.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks

Murder, Curlers, and Cast
by Arlene McFarlane
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dead men tell no tales—but killers leave clues. Valentine intends to find every last one aboard a pirate ship movie set and prove (once again) that a good set of tools can outsmart even the cleverest killer.
It’s all hands on deck when beautician Valentine Beaumont is cast as an extra in a pirate movie. When a dead body is discovered on the ship, it’s clear there’s a villain on board, and it’s not just an act. Complicating things more, Valentine’s personal life is in shambles.
False Convictions
by Amy Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some secrets are better left alone. But leaving things alone, especially when it comes to murder, is not Kim Jackson’s style. In Gunnison, Colorado, Kim is loving life as a criminology student—until her favorite professor is murdered.
At the time of his death, Kent Dodge is a rising star at the university, preparing to publish his first crime thriller. But not everyone in the mountain community is happy about the book. Details have leaked that Dodge based his plot on a local tale about an alpine misadventure that nearly cost six people their lives.
‘Salem’s Lot
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.
But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination.
The Complete Warrior Collection
by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It starts in boot camp. It ends in a war against a god.Her family called her power an illness. The Army is about to call it a weapon. Seventeen-year-old Idina Moorfield sees green lines that no one else can see.
They show her an opponent’s weak spot, the winning move and the shape of what’s coming. Her wealthy family calls it a condition and keeps her medicated. When they dismiss everything she has earned, she does the one thing they fear most: she enlists, just like Uncle Rick, the family outcast nobody will talk about.
The Turning of our Bones
by Ed James
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The killer is dead. His last victim isn’t. Two years after the Chameleon shot DI Rob Marshall’s partner and vanished, his body turns up, dragging Marshall back home to Melrose in the Scottish Borders and a tragedy he’s avoided for twenty years.
Worse, one victim is still missing and she’s running out of time. The Chameleon lived by stolen identities. To find the final victim, Rob must unpick the one the killer wore last, by following a trail through tight-knit towns, old grudges and the trauma Marshall left behind in Melrose.
Cape Fear
by John D. MacDonald
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sam Bowden has it all: a successful law career, a devoted wife, and three children. But a terrifying figure from Bowden’s past looms in the shadows, waiting to shatter his pristine existence. Fourteen years ago, Bowden’s testimony put Max Cady behind bars.
Ever since, the convicted rapist has been nursing a grudge into an unrelenting passion for revenge. Cady has been counting the days until he is set free, desperate to destroy the man he blames for all his troubles. Now that time has come.
An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back . . . Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist.
Shelter Me This Christmas
by Susan May Warren, Christy Barritt, Robin Patchen, Susan Sleeman, Elle E. Kay, Taylor Hart, Alexa Verde & Jorgia Yates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Eight previously-published novels… 8 couples face stalkers, killers, spies, and blizzards in these Christian romantic suspense novels filled with faith, courage, and Christmas love. Oh! The Weather Outside Is Frightful by Susan May Warren. Two smokejumpers, one plane crash and a love neither will admit. Hannah would’ve quit rookie camp without CJ.
CJ wouldn’t have survived the crash without Hannah. But now he’s wounded, and hiding his heart. When a Christmas wedding forces them to travel together and a blizzard strands them in remote Montana, they’ll have to survive together again…but will it finally ignite the love they both long for?
A Court of Splintered Harmony
by Sarah J. Maas
Kindle $16.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he’s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands.
The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.

















