Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Deadly Night at the Theatre
by Katy Watson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
MURDER IS WAITING IN THE WINGS . . .
Actresses Posy Starling and Caro Hooper both gained a name for themselves playing fictional detective Dahlia Lively on screen – but now they are back treading the boards in London’s theatre district, starring in two very different plays.
Their fellow Dahlia, Rosalind King, is in the city to catch their opening weeks, but she can’t help but notice some tensions between Posy and Caro. Perhaps because of Caro’s new friendship with her co-star Luke Burrows, who seems to have a history with Posy . . .
Tooth and Nail
by Ian Rankin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The New York Times calls Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus books “A superior series,” and Tooth and Nail is another outstanding entry.
Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from “North of the Border” to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can’t, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologist into the case develops a bizarre portrait of a killer who leaves bite marks and tears on each victim’s body. Now it’s only a question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules–or the psycho painting London with blood…
The Soul Thief
by S L Howe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
MANCHESTER 1888
Through the darkness of a mid-winter nightshift, the flicker of a candle flame illuminates the exhaustion in Dr Warren Carter’s eyes; memories of a painful surgery and the fine line of human frailty haunt his every thought. A nightcap with the beautiful Rosie is just the tonic he needs.
What should’ve been a pleasant encounter soon turns sinister when the young nurse disappears without a trace.
One by one more disappearances occur at the hospital, until a private investigator is brought in to assist. But rather than finding answers, he becomes trapped in a nightmare of his own making…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #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.
Out of the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. The second book in a prequel story arc of the Dollanganger series delivers a gothic family saga set within the shadowed halls of Foxworth Hall.
Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of her as insufficient—as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers.
Deadly Pleasure
by Brenda Joyce
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Brenda Joyce has enthralled millions of readers with her New York Times bestselling novels. Now, join us in the next chapter of her unforgettable storytelling: the Francesca Cahill novels. Step into the glittering world of New York City’s high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon…
Francesca Cahill comes from one of New York’s best families. Her mother is a leading socialite, her father, a millionaire. Their expectations for their daughter are simple– marry well, and soon. But the intrepid and self-styled “Crime-Solver Extraordinaire” has other plans…
Gifted
by JoMarie DeGioia
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.0 #ad
A world changed forever by war. Kids exploited for their gifts of mind and strength. Can the gifted keep the ones they love safe? Or is there more at stake than they know?
In 2050, the Cataclysmic Wars erupted, triggering natural disasters. Tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes. The country once known as England was changed forever.
Some survivors developed physical and mental gifts in the century since. The king uses “gifted” children for entertainment, and some die from the strain.
For seventeen-year-old Kelwin, his gift of second sight is a curse. Physical contact is painful, and he keeps his family at a distance.
Making a Killing
by Cara Hunter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime showInfamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case – the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford – he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.
Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Most Bookish
by Anthea Fraser
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Cosy up with a cup of tea and treat yourself to an utterly irresistible mystery, set amid England’s breathtakingly beautiful Chiltern Hills.
Meet Rona Parish, a feisty biographer with a talent for digging up murder and mystery wherever she goes — and Gus, the golden retriever, nipping loyally at her heels!
Rona jumps at the chance to write about Theo Harvey, a famous author who drowned in stranger-than-fiction circumstances. But is she diving head-long into danger?
The Shadow Land
by Elizabeth Kostova
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novelthat spans the past and the present – and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi—and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes.
Windslash
by Chris Bennett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
10,000 years ago. On a mythical island.
Where powerful magic exists that is destined to be lost to the seas.
Timaeus is a Wind Student, training to be a Wind Elemental. It is through an extraordinary anomaly that it is discovered he can use more than Wind Magic, this marks the beginning of an extraordinary adventure as he learns the extent of his abilities.
The Dark Elementals, malevolent and monstrous warriors, corrupted by Dark Magic, seek to revive a great evil that was sealed away long ago. After centuries of waiting they put their plan into motion, they invade Atlantis causing a war to break out, slaughtering Atlantis’ forces to find what they need to revive the great evil…
Dark Horse
by Gregg Hurwitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gregg Hurwitz’s New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission–The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn’t interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
The Craving
by J F Saxby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
What happens when two people long to be together . . . but are worlds apart?
‘The Craving’ is an award-winning, split-time Christian romance for young adults. A stadium collapse. A coma. A breathtaking journey of discovery.
Will Sutherland saves a girl from a falling beam in a stadium collapse, and is plunged into a coma. Finding himself on the Island of Eldrad, Will longs to go home to Aporto Bay. He battles addiction and anger against his rival, Ben Maddock, and his own father who has walked out.
His Last Text
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A romantic anniversary dinner. A heartfelt message. Then silence.
Anna Stanten’s world shatters when she learns her boyfriend Wyatt’s corporate jet has crashed. With the company dragging its feet on the search, Anna takes matters into her own hands, assembling a team of volunteers to find the man she loves.
But as she retraces Wyatt’s last known steps, danger lurks at every turn. Her uncle, driven by an insatiable greed for a mysterious key mentioned in her grandmother’s will, seems to be pulling strings from the shadows. And who is this new “aunt” that suddenly appeared in her life?
Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, magnetic thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that escalate into something far more sinister.
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Whispers at Midnight
by Karen Robards
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Carly Linton returns to her hometown of Benton, Georgia, to open a bed-and-breakfast in the house she inherited from her grandmother. She’s also dead-set on burying her former good-girl image – by seducing the one man who can give her a guided tour of the wild side…Matt Converse, the local sheriff, was once the town’s bad boy who shared one magical night with Carly at her senior prom. But igniting the sparks of the past can lead to a blaze of danger: First her house is burglarized, then someone comes after her. A mysterious enemy wants Carly out of Benton for good, and now she needs Matt more than ever—to keep her alive.