Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
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The Madness of Crowds
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
She’s My Sister Complete Series Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for…dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind.
Grace had never been more terrified…the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe…someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust with her life. It was dark…and getting darker.
Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family…not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a detective to recognize what he did hear… Fear.
Fatal Flaw
by E L Bartol
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Unravel the dark secrets of a marriage strewn with danger, fear, and the haunting echoes of a malevolent past.
Maggie Wallis, a determined woman from an era where vows were sacred and divorce was a scarlet letter, resolves to give her tumultuous marriage one final chance. However, when her eight-year-old daughter, Piper, refuses to board the school bus, Maggie is thrust into a heart-wrenching dilemma where she must choose between saving her marriage and saving her daughter.
As she sets herself upon a path of liberation, the discovery of two missing women threatens to derail all of Maggie’s efforts. The police are desperate for any leads, and Maggie finds herself entangled in a web of lies and deceit that threatens to consume her.
Stargazer
by Anne Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, set amid the beautiful landscape of the American Southwest.
What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister.
Perelandra
by C. S. Lewis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Perelandra, the second novel in Lewis’s science fiction trilogy, tells of Dr. Ransom’s voyage to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world. He is horrified to find that his old enemy, Dr. Weston, has also arrived and is putting him in grave peril once more. As the mad Weston’s body is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom engages in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra!
The Lightning Rod
by Brad Meltzer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Zig and Nola are back—in the hugely entertaining, highly anticipated follow-up to Brad Meltzer’s #1 New York Times bestselling thriller The Escape Artist.
What’s the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He’s led a charmed life—he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered—and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint’s been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined.
The Hedge Knight
by George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Set one hundred years before the events in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Hedge Knight chronicles a young squire as he travels the cruel and complex path to knighthood in the Seven Kingdoms.
Shouldering his fallen master’s sword and shield, Duncan (or “Dunk”) is determined to reinvent himself as a knight in a nearby tournament. But first Dunk needs a sponsor, and that requirement sends him down a road studded with friends, foes, adventure, and hidden agendas. One such friend is Egg, who becomes Dunk’s squire, yet even he may hold secret motivations of his own.
Kill The Goblins
by Miranda K
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tools to quiet a noisy mind
Miranda K, a veteran of trauma recovery, provides in-the-moment practical strategies to combat unwanted, destructive thoughts.
Are you aware of the things you say to yourself? Are they friendly or mean? Do you have a busy head, full of lots of thoughts that leave you confused or overwhelmed? Do you find yourself arguing with the thoughts in your head, trying to get them to stop?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Maui Murder
by Jasmine Webb
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Charlie finally feels like she’s got a bit of breathing room. She’s flush with cash, she and Zoe are moving into a snazzy new apartment, and she’s riding the wave of having solved a murder a few weeks earlier. But when a local woman is murdered and her family hires Charlie to find the killer, she finds herself embroiled in yet another investigation.
However, what Charlie initially thinks might be an easy solve quickly finds her mired in Maui’s seedy underworld, with a victim who led a double life. Finding herself dealing with a suspect list longer than a CVS receipt, Charlie enlists the help of Dot and Rosie to narrow down that list and get a lead on the real killer…
Ghost Agents
by Nita DeBorde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The award-winning 1st installment of the Ghost Agents Trilogy
An organization that has operated in secret for centuries… a mystery that threatens to burn it all to the ground… and she’s the only agent who can stop it…
To the residents and tourists of Galveston Island, Claire Abelard is the friendly young woman who works at the local candy store by day and leads ghost tours of the island’s haunted locations by night. They don’t realize this persona is a cover for Claire’s real job as an agent of the Bureau for Historical Preservation, a clandestine organization that monitors and assists energy projections, or the entities more commonly known as “ghosts.”
Spearthrower
by D. BRAISTED
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Kim has always had food and shelter; she grew up in a comfortable world. But she is wild. After graduating from high school, she enters The Branch and becomes a highly trained astronaut. Kim accepts a classified mission and is launched deep. However, she is not just the test pilot, she is also the test. And then there is Kala. She grew up in the open grass plain with a spear in hand, but she is not wild. Her adventure will violently choose her.
This is a playful and sometimes poetic story that is a view of us. But there is hope.
A Taste of Blood
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The gripping new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. Detective Jane Tennison made a bad choice.
She was the one who put in a transfer to the quiet, local police station in Bromley, keen to escape the relentless pressure of her former West End department.
Now she regrets her decision. The tedium of petty crime investigations even makes her question remaining in the force…
Tom Clancy Power and Empire
by Marc Cameron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
As mounting tensions between China and the United States push the world’s two great powers to the brink of war, it falls to President Jack Ryan to identify the lethal chess master behind the scenes in this thriller in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggresive challenge from the Chinese government as the G20 Summit approaches. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands. It seems that Premier Zhao is determined to limit Ryan’s choices in the upcoming negotiations.
Call After Midnight
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Rediscover the thrills of this classic romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen!
Newlywed Sarah Fontaine has just received the news that every wife fears: her husband of two months has died abroad in a hotel fire. Yet convinced he’s still alive, Sarah forges an alliance with Nick O’Hara from the U.S. State Department that has the two of them crisscrossing Europe on a desperate search for signs of life. As Sarah and Nick become quarry in the secret world of international espionage, they must risk everything for answers that may prove fatal.
Inspector French and the Sea Mystery
by Freeman Wills Crofts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a dead body is found at sea, the case can only be solved by the astute Inspector French, and his most discerning readers, in this Golden Age mystery.
A mysterious shipping crate is hauled ashore off the coast of Burry Port in South Wales by two fishermen, who find a brutally murdered, decaying corpse inside. Stumped by the lack of clues, the local police call in Inspector French of Scotland Yard, one of the Criminal Investigation Department’s finest detectives. With his meticulous pursuit of leads, it’s only a matter of time until Inspector French finds the killer.
Devil’s Gate
by David Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The little-known story of a deadly 1,300-mile trek by Mormon converts in 1856: “This compelling account of a major frontier catastrophe is hard to put down.” —Booklist
In 1856, led by the church’s second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, the Mormon faithful headed west to escape persecution. They arrived in what is now Utah the following year and established a new Zion in the wilderness. Nine years later, fearing a federal invasion, Young and other Mormon leaders debated how to bring thousands of impoverished European converts, mostly British and Scandinavian, from the Old World to Zion. Young conceived of a plan in which the European Mormons would travel by ship to New York City and by train to Iowa City. From there, instead of crossing the plains by covered wagon, they would push and pull wooden handcarts all the way to Salt Lake.
Sky Ice: A Dark Fantasy Romance
by E. G. Sparks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A determined survivor. A terrifying creature of shadow. A society of protectors that could bring her a found family or an early grave.
Arien Blair yearns to belong. Aged out of the foster system and living on the streets, the desperate eighteen-year-old works odd jobs just to put a roof over her head. But when she’s attacked by a hooded and faceless being, she’s stunned when a brooding warrior steps in and promptly declares he’s duty-bound to protect.