Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mystery Guest
by Nita Prose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor.
When Detective Stark, Molly’s old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul…
EMP: The Cold Road Home
by James Hunt
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Twenty miles, a blizzard, and the chaos of an EMP stand between Nick Franklin and reuniting with his family. Nick has spent his life preparing for this very moment.
Now that the time has arrived to enact his emergency plan, Nick must decide how much of his humanity he will sacrifice to save his family.
Life Sentences
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
USA Today calls Laura Lippman, “A writing powerhouse,” and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction—from the Edgar® to the Anthony to the Agatha to the Nero Wolfe Award. As she did in her blockbuster What the Dead Know, Lippman takes a brief hiatus from her popular series character, Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan, to tell a riveting story of deceptions and dangerously fragile truths that People magazine says, “Succeeds brilliantly.”
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.
Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation.
The Key West Novels
by Meryl Sawyer
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Two novels of sizzling romantic suspense set in the steamy Florida Keys from a New York Times–bestselling author who “always entertains” (Heather Graham).
Half Moon Bay
Thunder Island
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #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.
All I Want for Christmas
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a heartwarming holiday tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, two twin boys have one wish for Christmas: a mom.
Zack and Zeke have one request for Santa this year (besides new bikes, of course)… a mom. And the new music teacher, Nell Davis, seems like the perfect candidate for their father, Mac. But Mac’s been hurt by love before and suspects that this new woman from the big city won’t stick around their town for long. The twins might just have to band together to show their dad that Nell is more than worth the risk of loving again.
Shadows Rising
by Madeleine Roux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“The Horde is nothing!” With those infamous words, Sylvanas Windrunner betrayed and abandoned the Horde she vowed to serve. The Dark Lady and her forces now work in the shadows as both the Horde and Alliance, including her own sister, Alleria, race to uncover her next move. Struggling to shoulder the crushing weight of leadership, King Anduin entrusts the void elf and High Exarch Turalyon to uncover Sylvanas’s whereabouts.
The Horde now stands at a crossroads. The various factions form a council, leaving the mantle of warchief to rest. Thrall, Lor’themar Theron, Baine Bloodhoof, First Arcanist Thalyssra, and many other familiar faces rise to this new challenge. But the threats are numerous, and the distrust runs too deep.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death on Fools Lane
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Her happy holiday is about to become a dead man’s funeral.
College student Eve Sawyer is anticipating a fun winter vacation with her two friends until a dog sniffs out a body hanging from a tree in the yard of the house where they’re staying.
Implored by the dead man’s grieving mother, Eve and her friends set out to investigate the case. Was it suicide or murder? That’s the question on everyone’s lips.
Washington
by Thomas J. Gebhardt III
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With the sound of gunshots, the crowd erupts in crying and screams. Some of them wonder what to do, some worry, all wanting to make it out alive. Evan finds he doesn’t think of himself at all but about Judith. Where could she be? Is she safe?
Before that dreaded day, Evan is a new transfer to Washington High School, where he’s reunited with his best friends from childhood. He’s a typical slacker who would rather sketch and daydream than pay attention in class, waiting for the bell to ring so he can go to the arcade and comic book shop after school. When he meets Judith, who aims for perfection and top honors, they slowly grow closer and closer. Evan is unsure how he feels, if he fits in or what he wants out of life. And before he can think things through, he finds out a new member of his group of friends is being bullied…
Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory
by Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The conservative party’s newest superstar, Alexia De Vere has worked hard to realize her political ambitions. The brilliant and ruthless wife of wealthy aristocrat Teddy De Vere, Alexia relishes her power and the control it gives her to shape and destroy lives.
Yet success has also demanded sacrifice. Her daughter, Roxie, a bitter young woman confined to a wheelchair after a failed suicide attempt, blames Alexia for ruining her life. Alexia’s dashing son, Michael, is risking the family’s good name to jump-start his entre-preneurial dreams. Thankfully, Alexia has Teddy, her devoted husband who will stop at nothing to protect her.
Bah Hum-Blood!
by Josh Burnell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Every Christmas Eve, he kills again. For eleven years, the Bah Humbug Butcher has terrorized the town—impaling girls on candy canes, strangling them with twinkle lights, and even crushing them beneath Christmas trees.
This year, Sheriff Eva Christian has one last chance to stop him. Guided by the ghost of her father and the spirits of Victims Past, Present, and Future, Eva must relive each gruesome murder—one terrifying vision at a time. What she finds isn’t just blood and bodies… but the clues that could finally unmask the Butcher.
Hold Tight
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Stay Close and The Stranger delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children—and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears.
“We’re losing him.” With those words, Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all….
The Hunter
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat…
The Three Kitties That Saved My Life
by Michael Meyer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A true romance memoir. “This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.” When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life.
Love was then. Love is now. Love is forever.
WINNER of the 2018 Stephen Memorial Award
FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD
The Bala Lake Killings
by Simon McCleave
Kindle $5.99 Rating: Brand new Release #ad
There’s no place to hide…
A local MP is murdered by a far-right extremist gang in Snowdonia. DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans arrest one of the killers, Raymond Clarke, who agrees to give evidence if he and his family are taken into protective custody. Ruth is sure they’ll be out of harm’s way in the remote wilds near Bala Lake.
But the location of the safe house is leaked and Clarke’s family is kidnapped.