Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mystery of the Silver Dish
by JUDITH CUTLER
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Novice antique dealer Lina Townend is warm, independent and blessed with an uncanny nose for a bargain . . . and a talent for sniffing out trouble!
When Lina’s eccentric father, the disreputable Lord Elham, begs her to sell something from his overflowing hoard, she reluctantly agrees. He may only want cash to restock his champagne cellar, but after growing up in care Lina still hopes for a connection with the grouchy old rogue she barely knows.
Amid the cobwebs and clutter she unearths a tarnished silver dish that sets her instincts tingling. It looks like nothing much — but she knows better.
Black Pudding Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
When aging friends form a detective agency in their Scottish village, their likelihood of success seems dubious. One is blind, two have hearing problems, one uses a crutch—and the two youngest members are from America, not Scotland.
Dubbing themselves the Fog Busters, the friends vow to solve a murder that local police have labeled as Death by Misadventure. Indeed, misadventure seems to follow the Fog Busters when the killer attempts to stop them from investigating.
Add in a lost treasure of rare Scottish coins, a false prophet, a string of house breakings and dog nappings, and a dog fighting ring—and the Fog Busters have the recipe for laughter and danger.
Trigger Man Thriller Box Set
by Aiden Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
MEET MARK PIERCE: YOUR NEW ADDICTION FOR HIGH-OCTANE CIA THRILLS. FOUR EXPLOSIVE MISSIONS. ONE RELENTLESS OPERATIVE. FOUR BOOKS IN ONE BOX SET.
Perfect for fans of Jason Kasper, Mark Greaney and Vince Flynn.
He’s a good guy who kills bad guys for a living.
THE TRIGGER MAN
DEEP COVER
CAGE OF TRAITORS
WARLORD ACTUAL
Trial by Fire
by J.A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a subdivision-in-the-making goes up in flames, everyone hopes that the unfinished, unoccupied homes will yield no victims. But when an unidentified woman is found barely alive and burned beyond recognition, she is immediately taken to the ER, where she lies for months in a medically induced coma. When she finally emerges from her coma, she is met with a bleak and lonely existence.
Badly disfigured and suffering from amnesia, her recovery is further shattered by a cancer diagnosis. Now with sudden desperation, there are two crucial things she is desperate to discover: who saved her life and who tried to kill her in the first place. And Ali Reynolds is the only person she trusts to beat the clock.
Alone
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.
Where Secrets End
by Rebecca Lake
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
One man’s obsession. One woman’s past. One chance to survive.
Reese Irons didn’t go looking for trouble—trouble found her. When Nash Mitchell charges into her world, desperate to uncover the truth behind his sister’s disappearance, she is drawn into a web spun from dark secrets, danger, and a past she prayed she’d escaped.
With lies, greed, and obsession swirling around them, trust is a luxury neither can afford. But as their connection deepens, so does the risk. A ruthless villain is closing in, and time is running out.
Together, Reese and Nash must decide: Are they chasing justice… or being led straight into a trap?
Unexpected Danger
by Penny Zeller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One man’s unhealthy obsession could destroy everything.
Londyn Siegler never imagined her attempt at a fresh start would include a stalker intent on watching her every move. Nor did she imagine her unidentified stalker would follow her back to the very place she was running from–and now the only place that can offer even a semblance of protection.
Now, as danger grows and the stalker remains at large, Londyn finds herself seeking refuge with Sheriff Brodie Brenneman, the man whose heart she broke….
Comfort & Joy
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the woods of the Olympic rainforest, Joy makes a bold decision to leave her ordinary life behind—to just walk away—and thus begins an adventure unlike any she could have imagined.
In the small town of Rain Valley, six-year-old Bobby O’Shea is facing his first Christmas without a mother. Unable to handle the loss, Bobby has closed himself off from the world, talking only to his invisible best friend…
Don’t Let Him In
by Lisa Jewell
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
He’s the perfect man. It’s a perfect lie.
Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling…
The Outlaw’s Prayer
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One botched heist. A city on the edge. And an outlaw who dares to outrun his sins.
After a heist at Meiggs Wharf goes terribly wrong, Brick Driggers and the rest of the outlaws in the Black Bone Outfit scatter, each man desperate to outrun the ghosts of their criminal past.
Brick rides north to the rugged frontier town of Canyon City, Oregon, where he builds a new life – from outlaw to beloved preacher, husband and father.
He slips into his new identity with ease – until his past comes knocking.
Dexter Truman
y Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Dexter Truman takes a debt-collection job to save his sick cousin, it’s supposed to be simple:
1- Ride the territory,
2 Collect what’s owed,
3- Get the money for a doctor.
But the bank behind those debts is running more than foreclosures. After Annabelle Hudson’s family is destroyed and her sisters taken across the border, Dexter realizes he’s been riding for the wrong side.
Joined by Annabelle and Jake Gannon, a grizzled collector with a conscience, they embark on a rescue he isn’t ready for but can’t walk away from.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Christmas Coroner
by Paul Austin Ardoin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dead celebrity chef. A quiet beach town. And a coroner racing to solve the crime before Christmas.
Just days before Estancia’s annual Christmas Parade, the body of a rising-star chef is discovered in a remote hillside cabin. At first glance, it looks like a tragic accident—until Coroner Fenway Stevenson starts asking questions.
The victim wasn’t just any chef. She was a social media sensation with a growing fanbase, a hidden identity, and a long list of people who wanted to see her fail. As Fenway digs deeper, she uncovers tensions simmering between rival farmers, a string of online grudges, and a past the victim was desperate to keep buried.
Hollow Point
by Russ Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The world is on fire. Only one man can extinguish the flames.
Snakeriver – a shadowy private company that handles missions the U.S. government can’t touch. Former Navy SEAL Travis Delta is Snakeriver’s top gun.
When the CIA discover that Russia and Iran may be plotting to seize control of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Travis is tasked with stopping them – by whatever means necessary.
The intel is chilling: first, Iran will obliterate Israel with Russian nuclear weapons. Then, while the Middle East burns, Russia’s ruthless president will seize Europe and resurrect his empire.
Rage
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Yutzy, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. What twisted individual murdered him in such a sadistic way?
The investigation has barely begun when, miles away, a second body is found, stuffed into a barrel and dumped in a ravine. The deceased is 21-year-old Aaron Shetler, Samuel Yutzy’s best friend. What could these two young Amish men have been involved in that led to such violent ends?
Pretty Little Lies
by Jessica Huntley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s hoping she’s paranoid. She’s terrified she’s not.
When Amelia relocated to Cambridge for love, she never imagined her new life would become a nightmare.
After uprooting her beauty therapy business to be with her fiancé Noah, Amelia receives the first message—anonymous, threatening, impossible to ignore.
As more sinister messages follow, Amelia’s new life begins to fall apart. It seems someone is watching her every move and now her clients are abandoning her for no reason she can see. It’s as if she’s done something wrong, but what?
Looking for Light in All the Dark Places
Complete Collection Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Liz had a seriously compelling reason to leave the southern state that had always been her home.
Danger surrounded her. Escape seemed impossible. Yet, hope came from the last person she expected. She knew his name…everyone did. But she knew nothing about the man he really was. Or if he had any chance at saving her.
Sam had a bad feeling about all the things that could go wrong.
The plan was a good one. But only if it worked. He had the perfect cover story. He’d be the one asking all the questions. Looking for answers was the story of his life and everyone knew it…expected it.
This time though…unless they got really lucky, the stories could turn out a lot differently than expected.
The Others
by Evette Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
True Blood meets Supernatural in the kickoff of this urban paranormal fantasy series from an acclaimed author. Readers enter a dystopian San Francisco filled with empaths and vampires embroiled in political unrest—and Book 1 is just the beginning.
Much as she wishes otherwise, superstar political consultant Olivia Shepherd was born a powerful empath. It’s a legacy she walked away from long ago—but when she wakes up one morning to find Elsa, a tenacious time-walker, standing in her kitchen, she realizes she can no longer ignore her gifts. She is quickly plunged into the hidden world of powerful “Others” and drafted to work for the Council, a shadowy organization that summons the fog to San Francisco to obscure their involvement in human affairs.
Thunders over Idle Land
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Jason Guan, an assistant director dedicated to environmental conservation in pandemic-stricken Hong Kong, is worried about job-related pressures and petty quarrels threatening his marriage to Debra. Amidst the chaos, they discover an unpublished manuscript by Debra’s late father, a celebrated writer, about a wronged man in nineteenth-century China. While Jason grapples with corruption and lax regulations in wetland preservation, he is thrust into dangerous waters.
In 1834, systemic corruption cripples China and ruins lives. Two weeks before Wang Jun is to marry his beloved fiancée, he is thrown into a maximum-security prison on a remote island without a trial. His only ally? A kung fu master and medical doctor imprisoned because of a riddle linked to the buried treasure of the pirate chief, Cheng Po-Tsai.
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.
Hidden Nature
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
The Living and the Dead
by Christoffer Carlsson), Rachel Willson-Broyles
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) • WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF DENMARK’S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.