Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Irish Soda Bread Murder Collection
by Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart, Liz Ireland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s almost time for the delicious warmth of Irish soda bread, but be careful where you bite–some of these recipes call for murder in this delicious collection of cozy mystery novellas featuring the popular St. Paddy’s Day treat.
IRISH SODA BREAD MURDER by CARLENE O’CONNOR
AN IRISH RECIPE FOR MURDER by PEGGY EHRHART
MRS. CLAUS AND THE SINISTER SODA BREAD MAN by LIZ IRELAND
The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over
by David Carter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Late at night on a deserted Chester ring road, a man is run down and killed. But is it an accident, suicide, or murder?
First thing next day Inspector Walter Darriteau is on the case. The dead man was a lay preacher up for promotion. Surely that couldn’t be relevant, but they are zealous and jealous in that game. Or could it be something more sinister? Why didn’t the driver stop?
And the wife doesn’t seem too upset about it. Her main concern is the insurance policy that should pay off their mortgage. Where was she when it happened?
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
Gut Instinct: Based on a True Story
by Hannah McNamara
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Willow Carter and her parents head to their annual camping trip at a small Pacific Northwest beach town, the last thing they expect is to have their vacation upended and their safety threatened.
Twin Harbors State Park is all too familiar to the Carters, who have been camping there for years alongside their longtime family friends. As the two families settle into their neighboring campsites, they are greeted unexpectedly by a stranger who has no problem inserting himself into their daily activities. While her friends and family grow more and more comfortable around him, Willow has a gut instinct that something is not right…
The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter—and only one has in the past twenty years, until now.
Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from…
The Stranger She Loved
by Shanna Hogan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.
At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight, appeared natural. But days after the funeral when Dr. MacNeill moved his much younger mistress into the family home, his children grew suspicious. Conducting their own investigation into their mother’s death, the MacNeill’s daughters uncovered their father’s multiple marital affairs, past criminal record, and falsified college transcripts he used to con his way into medical school…
The Testimony of Agent Adams
by Alicia Gilliam
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Bureau betrayed him. Took away his beloved desk job and now expects him to elicit the confession of a dangerous con artist.
Quincy “Q” Adams thought he’d seen the last of the manipulative woman after he’d tracked her down, but his boss isn’t satisfied with charges of white-collar crimes.
To win her trust—and to keep her talking—the awkward agent pulls his own scam: offering to testify on her behalf for a defense she doesn’t actually need. While the deceptive relationship unnerves him, her traumatic story compels him onward—even when fulfilling his duty begins undermining an idyllic relationship with his fiancée.
Opposites Attract
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Once they ruled the tennis courts. Ty Starbuck reduced opponents to ash with his fiery athleticism. Asher Wolfe’s cool cunning skills left players frozen in their tracks. Their temperaments could not be more mismatched, but the drive that made them champions also propelled them into a steamy and scandalous affair that drove Asher from the sport and into a bad marriage. Now, three years later, she’s making a comeback that will bring her face to face with Ty only to discover their rivalry isn’t about defeating each other in Grand Slam victories, but about winning a tournament of the heart.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Welcoming
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A tale of danger and desire from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, The Welcoming follows a man in pursuit of a master criminal risking more than his life when he meets a woman who steals his heart.
Charity Ford’s seaside inn on Orcas Island is a home away from home for people seeking the simple pleasures in life. Falling prey to a hit-and-run accident has made Charity even more aware of how precious life is. But what she doesn’t know is some of her guests are not who they appear to be. Some are involved in illegal activities—and they’re responsible for Charity’s near death experience.
Children of Wrath
by Paul Grossman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of prosperity.
Berlin is deep in the throes of a giddy rush to forget its troubled past. But the same day the stock market crashes in New York, the dark underside of the German capital flushes to the surface in the form of a burlap sack spewed by floodwaters from the city sewer system. When Willi is called to investigate and discovers the sack is full of children’s bones with teeth marks on them–and a bible with a single phrase circled in red: children of wrath–he fears he’s run into “something darker than he’s ever known.”
Fatal Heat
by Diane Capri
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
For fans of Lee Child, Jack Reacher, John Grisham, and James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club
Investigative reporter Jess Kimball, dedicated to helping crime victims, assists a friend in tracking down and stopping a dangerous killer amid the scorching, deadly heat of Arizona. It’s a fast-paced, exciting read full of tension.
One Moment
by Linda Green
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time.
Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at cafes with a 5-star hygiene rating, is having a tough time at school and home.
Outspoken Kaz, 59, who has an acerbic sense of humour and a heart of gold, is working at the café when Finn and his mum come in. They don’t know it yet, but the second time they meet will be a moment which changes both of their lives forever . . .
The Shadowkiller
by Matthew Scott Hansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every hair on Ty’s body, the skin on his neck and arms, everything was clenched in a primeval fear stimulus response. In the thick of the woods not ten yards away stood a creature, manlike, apelike . . . some sort of hairy humanoid, like a gorilla standing upright on long legs. Motionless, it stared at Ty, and Ty froze dead in his tracks.
Jesus Christ, this is Bigfoot.
BIGFOOT IS ANGRY.
17 Blade
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Slade “The Blade” Cassidy has only one aim in life – revenge.
At 17, he’s already a weapon, forged not by choice but by tragedy. Once a sweet boy, now a relentless young man, Blade rides to avenge his murdered family.
His sister, Millie, survived the brutal assault that claimed their home, but trauma has stolen her voice, leaving Blade with a vow to make their enemies pay.
Riding with him is Dakota Hawthorne, half-white, half-Chinese, and every bit his equal. Raised alongside Blade and also 17 years old, she can outshoot men twice her age, and she, too, lost her parents during the unprovoked attack.