Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls,
Dashing Through the Snow
by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now, in one ebook boxed set, a collection of suspenseful and humorous holiday stories by Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark.
Deck the Halls
The Christmas Thief
Dashing Through the Snow
Snow Globe Secrets
by Laura Thomas
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shootings. Snow globes. Secrets. When successful realtor, Alexis James, witnesses a shooting outside the bookstore in her hometown of Hollybrook, she soon realizes the perpetrator has unfinished business, and now she is caught in the crossfire.
Tom Harrington is a British, best-selling author who needs to honor a promise and find some answers in this Canadian winter wonderland—but trouble follows him across the ocean.
As Alexis is swept up in a festive whirlwind of danger and love, Tom attempts to break through her ice queen persona. But when chilling walls close in, they both have to decide: can they share their truth, rekindle their faith, and risk their lives if they have any hope for a Happily Ever After?
Nightmare Country
by Marlys Millhiser
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love
Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well.
Darling Girls
by Sally Hepworth
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER… Sally Hepworth’s novel Darling Girls has it all.
For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life…
When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses. Or are they prime suspects?
One Good Deed
by David Baldacci
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder — or risk returning to prison. It’s 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do’s and a much longer list of don’ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don’t go to bars, certainly don’t drink alcohol, do get a job — and don’t ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer’s years serving in the war or his time in jail…
Earthly Remains
by Donna Leon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner’s endurance will truly be tested.
During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break. Granted leave from the Questura, he accompanies his wife to a villa on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna…
The Passenger in 5B
by Norm Hulcher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A gripping story with a terrific ending … from the author of Visitors to Victorville
Richard once lived for the rush — extortion, racketeering, and drug smuggling – and for the gambling addiction that plunged him into money laundering and a criminal conviction.
Now, after eight years in the darkness, he’s a changed man: a restored Christ follower who, with God’s grace and the compassionate support of fellow believers, has rebuilt his life on repentance and faith.
But just when his restoration and the victory over his demons are seemingly complete, his evil past revisits him, confronting him with hard evidence of his most sinister act of all…
Robert B. Parker’s Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series.
Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest – and loudest — podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric that’s reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of “entertainment” is so successful, he’s about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vic’s riding high…until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Comedy of Heirs
by Rett MacPherson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Comedy of Heirs is a creative and delightful entry in Rett MacPherson’s popular Torie O’Shea mystery series
Amidst planning for Christmas and the annual family reunion, Torie O’Shea barely has time to indulge in her hobby, genealogical research. But preparing for the reunion–and the influx of relatives–piques her curiosity about her own family tree. When Torie discovers that her own great-grandfather was murdered, and that her great-uncle was the main suspect, she never dreams that the past history she thought was long-buried could resurface in the present in such a deadly way.
Hole in One
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Chief Inspector (D.C.I.) C. D. Sloan works in the deceptively quiet town and county of Calleshire, where for many years he’s endured the pressures of his demanding, unreasonable boss and the company of Constable Crosby, Sloan’s all too constant but not very helpful sidekick. He’s also solved a series of complex murders in Aird’s long-running series long praised for it’s literate wit, style and charm. In her first new novel in almost two years, Hole in One, a death occurs on the links, a death that is nearly impossible and is, quite improbably, is murder. But improbable is a Calleshire specialty and as far as D. C. I. Sloan is concerned, impossible is merely par for the course.
Designated Daughters
by Margaret Maron
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigate they cross paths with an unlikely set of suspects: Rachel’s longtime minister; her neighbor, the respected local doctor; the friendly single father who often sought her advice; and perhaps the most puzzling party of all, the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers that Rachel’s own daughter belongs to.
When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel’s bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn’t passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems like half of Colleton County…
The Medici Return
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series, in which Cotton must solve a five hundred year-old mystery—now in development as a streaming series.
Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ—a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries—now worth in the trillions of dollars. But collecting that debt centers around what happened to the famed Medici of Florence—a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago.
Love and Other Lies
by Ben McPherson
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cal and Elsa have the perfect relationship; they’re still deeply in love after fifteen years of marriage, they have three incredible children, and most importantly, they never lie to each other. But when their oldest daughter disappears in a summer camp shooting outside Oslo, Norway, Cal and Elsa’s lives are changed forever.
Cal believes his family is strong enough to weather this blow and hold out hope for Licia’s return, but as they all deal with the tragedy in different ways, doubts begin to creep in…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
by Robert Dugoni
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A master manipulator accused of murder. An attorney sworn to defend her. Keera Duggan returns in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
When Jenna Bernstein, disgraced wunderkind CEO of a controversial biotech company, is accused of murdering her former partner and lover, she turns to Seattle attorney Keera Duggan to defend her. Keera is more than a master chess player who brings her intuitive moves into court—she’s Jenna’s childhood friend. But considering their history, Keera knows that where Jenna goes, trouble follows.
Etsy for Beginners
by Alyssa Garner, Garrett Garner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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The Haunting of Sorrow’s Leap
by Chris Sorensen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they’re ghosting her…
With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.
Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-death survivor, a paranormal tech bro, and a woman who may or may not be possessed) to investigate the mystery lurking inside his crumbling Hudson Valley estate.