Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Visions of Sugar Plums
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn’t got a tree. She hasn’t bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There’s not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment. And there’s a strange man in her kitchen.
Sure, this has happened to Stephanie Plum before. Strangers, weirdos, felons, creeps, and lunatics are always finding their way to her front door. But this guy is different. This guy is mysterious, sexy-and he has his own agenda. His name is Diesel and he is a man on a mission. And Diesel is unlike anyone Stephanie has ever met before in her life. The question is, what does he want with her?
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
The Woman in Ward 9
by Naomi Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Laura Winters doesn’t know why she has lost her memory, or why she was found alone, soaked in someone else’s blood.
The only thing she is certain of is that I am the only psychologist she can – or will – talk to.
I have six days to help Laura unlock her memories and find out the truth.
But what has she forgotten – and what is she hiding? And how does she know so much about me?
We Solve Murders
by Richard Osman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
Hunting Eve
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She was taken for a reason. Chosen for her skills as a forensic sculptor. Abducted by the deranged father of a serial killer and forced to reconstruct his dead son’s skull from bone fragments. Now Eve Duncan has escaped her captor—and she’s running for her life. Alone. Unarmed.
In the mountains of Colorado, Eve must use all of her strength, courage, and wits to survive this madman’s obsession. But Jim Doane is not the only player in the game. While Joe Quinn, Jane MacGuire, and Kendra Michaels search for Eve in the abandoned mining town that could be her ultimate refuge—or her grave—a stranger with ties to her long-ago past is closing in, circling like a wolf, and HUNTING EVE.
Vendetta
by Fern Michaels
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Once upon a time there were seven very different women who had been broken but not beaten by life. In those tough days of healing, they became the Sisterhood, a group of devoted friends who vowed to change their lives, empower themselves, and be there for each other, no matter what. Now, they’re ready to answer the call for the woman who started it all, Myra Rutledge.
Five years ago, Myra’s pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver—the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. Myra was left to grieve while the murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime…
Rainbow Gardens
by James Malone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shortlisted for the 2016 OZMA Fantasy Awards!Japanese immigrant Harry Shikita dreams of becoming a successful businessman by building Rainbow Gardens, Minnesota’s first neon-lit motel. But the 1920s are a tough time to be an “Oriental” in America, and Harry must deal not only with prejudice and foul play, but also the trolls.
Yes, trolls–the kind that turn to stone. Cursed descendants of Cain, the trolls are trying to find their way back to God through their Redeemer. The trolls think Harry’s their guy, but he’s on his own quest to be accepted, to be an “old boy.”
Off Broadway
by William A. Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Haunted by a troubled past, Army veteran Dave Knight pursues success in the cutthroat 1970s New York City business world. His newfound sales talent propels him up the corporate ladder, but a dishonest boss, a wife with her own agenda, and his alcoholic father’s sudden arrival threaten to derail everything. Will Dave escape the web of deceit that threatens, or will his past inability to cope reassert itself? An early reader said, “Off Broadway has a Mad Men vibe, while adding a deep dive into the pressure-packed world of a corporate sales rep.”
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Deadly Night at the Theatre
by Katy Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
MURDER IS WAITING IN THE WINGS . . .
Actresses Posy Starling and Caro Hooper both gained a name for themselves playing fictional detective Dahlia Lively on screen – but now they are back treading the boards in London’s theatre district, starring in two very different plays.
Their fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King, is in the city to catch their opening weeks, but she can’t help but notice some tensions between Posy and Caro. Perhaps because of Caro’s new friendship with her co-star Luke Burrows, who seems to have a history with Posy . . .
Tooth and Nail
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times calls Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus books “A superior series,” and Tooth and Nail is another outstanding entry.
Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from “North of the Border” to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can’t, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks and tears on each victim’s body. Now it’s only a question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules–or the psycho painting London with blood…
The Soul Thief
by S L Howe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
MANCHESTER 1888
Through the darkness of a mid-winter nightshift, the flicker of a candle flame illuminates the exhaustion in Dr Warren Carter’s eyes; memories of a painful surgery and the fine line of human frailty haunt his every thought. A nightcap with the beautiful Rosie is just the tonic he needs.
What should’ve been a pleasant encounter soon turns sinister when the young nurse disappears without a trace.
One by one more disappearances occur at the hospital, until a private investigator is brought in to assist. But rather than finding answers, he becomes trapped in a nightmare of his own making…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos.
As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Out of the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. The second book in a prequel story arc of the Dollanganger series delivers a gothic family saga set within the shadowed halls of Foxworth Hall.
Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her as insufficient—as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers.
Deadly Pleasure
by Brenda Joyce
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Brenda Joyce has enthralled millions of readers with her New York Times bestselling novels. Now, join us in the next chapter of her unforgettable storytelling: the Francesca Cahill novels. Step into the glittering world of New York City’s high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon…
Francesca Cahill comes from one of New York’s best families. Her mother is a leading socialite, her father, a millionaire. Their expectations for their daughter are simple– marry well, and soon. But the intrepid and self-styled “Crime-Solver Extraordinaire” has other plans…
Gifted
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
A world changed forever by war. Kids exploited for their gifts of mind and strength. Can the gifted keep the ones they love safe? Or is there more at stake than they know?
In 2050, the Cataclysmic Wars erupted, triggering natural disasters. Tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes. The country once known as England was changed forever.
Some survivors developed physical and mental gifts in the century since. The king uses “gifted” children for entertainment, and some die from the strain.
For seventeen-year-old Kelwin, his gift of second sight is a curse. Physical contact is painful, and he keeps his family at a distance.
Making a Killing
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime showInfamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case – the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford – he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.
Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.