Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Silent Nights
by Martin Edwards
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the prospect of curling up in the warm with a good mystery is enticing—and much better for the digestion than yet another helping of plum pudding.
The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone Complete Collection
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
You never mess with a young girl around James Brownstone.
It doesn’t matter what crime syndicate you belong to, that just doesn’t sit well with him.
The world has changed since the news of Oriceran came out twenty years before. Now, countries all over the world have agreed to using a bounty system for dangerous criminals using advanced magic or advanced technology.
People too powerful for the cops to deal with. Magical criminals, thugs and bounty hunters, in the future we revert to what worked in the past.
A Midwinter Murder
by Verity Bright
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Winter 1924. When Lady Eleanor Swift unexpectedly finds herself a guest of the reclusive Duke of Auldwyke, she’s determined to enjoy Christmas with all the trimmings at his sprawling manor house. And that includes kisses under the mistletoe and cozying up by the fire with her fiancé, dashing detective Hugh Seldon.
Instead, the season of goodwill turns frosty as she finds the Duke’s studious secretary, Mr Porritt, dead in the storeroom. Clasped in his chilly hand is a golden pendant in the shape of a rose. The Dukedenies ever having seen the necklace before. But Eleanor can see the lies in his eyes… Did it belong to his mysteriously absent wife?
Scratch One
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER
A pulp-fiction thrill ride through a deadly case of mistaken identity
Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.
The Breaking of Time
by J. J. Hebert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
One father’s desperate choice fractures time and reality itself.
To everyone around him, Daniel Ward is a mild-mannered accountant, devoted husband and father in a quiet New England suburb. But when his ten-year-old son chases a runaway soccer ball into the street, straight into the path of a speeding truck, Daniel does the impossible. He freezes time.
That single act of defiance exposes the secret he’s buried for decades. His magic awakens the ancient order he once betrayed, the Arvynth, a brotherhood of immortal sorcerers devoted to stillness and death, determined to silence the world.
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies
by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling writing team comes a hilarious new collection of essays that observe life from a mother/daughter perspective
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They’re number one on each other’s speed dial and they tell each other everything—well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes – except one very special green jacket, which almost caused a catfight.
In other words, they’re just like every mother and daughter in the world. Best friends, and occasional enemies. Now they’re dishing about it all—their lives, their relationship, and their carb count.
Rapture in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common—and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the deaths suspicious. And her instincts pay off when autopsies reveal small burns on the brains of the victims.
Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve’s investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games—where the same techniques used to create joy and desire can also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction…
Roadside Crosses
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways – not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.
The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics—body language—expert. She and Deputy Michael O’Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report.
Journey Into Darkness
by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit.
In Mindhunter, John Douglas—who headed the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit—told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers.
Anthony Hawk
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
They burned his home, murdered his family, and thought the land would be theirs. They were wrong.
In the rugged lands of Colorado, Anthony Hawk lives by two rules: take only what you need and keep the peace.
A half-Shoshone gold prospector, he’s resisted every offer to sell his family’s land at Eagle Rock Basin – a sacred stretch rich with gold. But when he returns from a supply run to find his homestead in ashes and his family dead, the sheriff blames Indians, ignoring the bullet wounds and tracks leading toward the Silver Cross Railroad camp.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Blood Relations
by Rett MacPherson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
In Rett MacPherson’s charming cozy mysteries, genealogist Torie O’Shea always seems to be right in the middle of it all in the goings-on in New Kassel, Missouri. When a drought hits the tiny river town and the depth of the mighty Mississippi lowers, Torie is one of the first on the scene to see what the water has revealed: the decades-old wreckage of a riverboat. Soon, the rumors that surrounded its sinking have resurfaced as well and are swirling all over town, most notably about the existence of a cache of diamonds thought to be on board that was never recovered. Before long, a trove of treasure seekers flocks to town, and inevitably, tragedy strikes amid the feverish competition of the treasure hunt.
The Bounty
by Janet Evanovich, Steve Hamilton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming criminal Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold in this thrilling adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton.
Type A special agent Kate O’Hare and international criminal Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest bad guys out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet—a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood.
Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched for over seventy-five years somewhere in the mountains of Eastern Europe.
Motive
by Jonathan Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jonathan Kellerman writes razor-sharp novels that cut to the quick. Now comes Motive, which pits psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis against a vicious criminal mind – the kind only Kellerman can bring to chilling life.
Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit can’t keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don’t get solved – and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end – one even Alex Delaware’s expert insight can’t explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case – because there’s always a next one.
Born in Space
by Jeremy Clift
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A LONE MOTHER’S DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REUNITE WITH SEVEN CHILDREN, BORN IN A SPACE LAB
CAN TEAGAN WIN THE COSMIC CUSTODY BATTLE OF A LIFETIME?
When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition.
Depths of Deception
by Stacy Angell Curtis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Her parents are dead. And Bryn Marsh doesn’t want to believe allegations from the FBI–and known criminals–about her deceased mother.
Then her uncle reveals an old secret. And her world turns upside down.
Jack McKerrick would do anything to protect Bryn—as her billionaire uncle’s head of security—and as a man who wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But when a nineteenth-century corpse and new deadly threats collide with a Cat 4 hurricane, Jack will need a miracle to keep Bryn alive.
The Warrior Complete Series Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s been so long, Warrior… I can feel you…
Is Idina Moorfield going crazy or has an ancient magic found its source?
A new Warrior is about to find out the true roots of the Moorfield name. Nothing will ever be the same. Grab this complete 12-book boxed set to join her adventures
The Diplomat’s Wife
by Pam Jenoff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
One woman faces danger, intrigue, and love in the aftermath of World War II in this unforgettable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris.
Marta Nederman has barely survived the brutality of a Nazi concentration camp, where she was imprisoned for her work with the Polish resistance. Lucky to have escaped with her life, she meets Paul, an American soldier, who gives her hope of a happier future. The two make a promise to meet in London, but Paul is in a deadly plane crash and never arrives.
My Heart Will Find You
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mail-order bride
A lonely rancher
A portal to the past
Their love refused to stay quiet, echoing across time…
When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a global pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems—and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta’s life has been missing.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
NIERGEL CHRONICLES: LAST HOPE is an action-adventure that synthesizes fantasy, science, and faith in a unique supernatural thriller. Jeff Samuels is a brilliant young scientist and renowned professor who, because he was orphaned at eight years old, has grown up knowing little about his own ancestry. Awakened in the middle of the night by an unusual visitor with an urgent message, he soon finds himself amid events that threaten to topple everything he believes about reality.
While coming to terms with the unbelievable realities of his own ancestry, he encounters extraordinary discoveries and enthralling characters. Jeff must defend the ancient Niergel (Welsh: Near–ġ-el – Mysterious Secret) and fend off attacks from a brutal Crime Syndicate, as well as a pair of powerful evil ancestors and a horde of disembodied descendants of fallen angels, known as the Eljo – who, if not stopped, will threaten the entire world.
Spasm
by Robin Cook
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game.” –#1 NYT bestselling author FREIDA MCFADDEN
When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner, she and Jack find themselves uncharacteristically free for a couple of weeks. And the timing couldn’t be better when they receive a call from Jack’s former medical school classmate, Robert Neilson, who is the sole family practitioner in Essex Falls, an idyllic town tucked away in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. Serving also as the Hamilton County coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand.