Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Miss Silver Mysteries Volume One
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first three Miss Silver Mysteries introduce the British governess-turned-sleuth and a “timelessly charming” series (Charlotte MacLeod).
From a “first-rate storyteller,” here are three full-length mystery novels in one volume, set in England between the two world wars and featuring Maud Silver, a retired governess and teacher who embarks on a new career in private detection (The Daily Telegraph).
Grey Mask,
The Case Is Closed,
Lonesome Road
Ben: Books 1-3
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Enjoy this box set of three fast-paced, full-length Christian novels featuring Ben Mitchell, a CIA covert operative mentored by veteran intelligence officer, Titus Ray, who serves as the first-person narrator of this award-winning spy series.
Ben in Love – Book 1: Is Ben really in love with the daughter of a Turkish dissident?
Ben in Charge – Book 2: Can Ben handle his first assignment as a primary officer even when it turns deadly?
Ben in Trouble – Book 3: Will Ben’s scheme to impress the CIA director keep him out of a desk job?
Murder in My Backyard
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now in print for the first time in the US.
No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . but here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David’s Eve.
When detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins to emerge. Yes, old Mrs. Parry was loved by everyone, but sometimes her kindness had caused trouble.
What Strange Creatures
by Emily Arsenault
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Scandal, love, family, and murder combine in this gripping literary mystery by critically acclaimed author Emily Arsenault, in which a young academic’s life is turned upside down when her brother is arrested for murder and she must prove his innocence.
The Battle siblings are used to disappointment. Seven years, one marriage and divorce, three cats, and a dog later, Theresa still hasn’t finished her dissertation. Instead of a degree, she’s got a houseful of adoring pets and a dead-end copywriting job for a local candle company.
Ghost Galaxy Omnibu
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle, Craig Martelle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kill the bad guys. Save the galaxy. All in a hard day’s work.
Get both the Completed Omnibus of Ghost Squadron and Precious Galaxy series in one GIANT omnibus for a stellar price!
Ghost Galaxy encompasses the two Age of Expansion series co-written by Sarah Noffke and Michael Anderle!
Wild Hunt: The Witch’s Odyssey
by Alison Levy
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For fans of urban fantasy and tales of found family, the second installment of The Witch’s Odyssey—the story of a young witch breaking free from generational abuse and finding her purpose in life with the help of her friends, magical and otherwise.
Georgette Delaney’s emotional well-being has improved dramatically since she fled from her abusive, manipulative family. She is surrounded by friends and chosen family, however, the young witch’s life is still challenging. She’s in a loving relationship with her boyfriend, Neil, but his workplace drama is intruding on their lives. Her job at Club Nocturne is fulfilling but her boss, the Vampire Kazimiera, is growing erratic and endangering every magical being in her care. Her best friend, Mei-Xing, is sinking into depression. And on top of it all, her narcissistic mother, Hazel, continues to try to control her from the opposite side of the country.
The Original Adventures of Frank & Joe Hardy MEGAPACK
by Franklin W. Dixon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
This volume collects the first 8 novels in the original Hardy Boys series, before it was rewritten and dumbed down in the 1950s for a sanitized TV-raised audience.
These adventures, first published in the late 1920s, feature rougher, tougher versions of Frank and Joe Hardy, willing to take chances — and pay the price — to solve mysteries. So if you think you know these books based on later versions, you’re going to be in for a very pleasant surprise: they’re better.
Hot Girl Murder Club
by Ashley Winstead
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“Prepare to meet your next summer binge read.” —May Cobb, bestselling author of The Hunting Wives
From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary.
What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice for murder?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Wild Orchids
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Since his wife’s death, world-famous author Ford Newcombe has lived a solitary life, void of creativity—or love. Then Jackie Maxwell tears down the walls of his isolated world with her sassy wit and fierce intelligence. Ford’s heart is touched by his vivacious assistant, and his imagination is sparked by her knowledge of a strange story that drives them to a small North Carolina town brimming with secrets.
There, they will trace the mystery of a woman said to have loved the devil himself…and discover not only the truth about a crime from the past, but a passion that holds the promise of a new life together.
Before You Wake: Three Horrors
by Adam Nevill
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
A trilogy of horror tales selected from the award-winning writer’s second full collection – HASTY FOR THE DARK – featuring more of the nightmarish visions and ghastly creatures that have been disturbing readers for years. In this book you’ll find three stories of occult and demoniac horror.
No blackmail is as ghastly as extortion from angels. A swift reckoning often travels in handheld luggage. No sign of life aboard an abandoned freighter, but what is left below deck tells a strange story.
Doctors From Hell
by Vivien Spitz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors reveals the shocking truth of their torture and murder in this monumental memoir.
Vivien Spitz reported on the Nuremberg trials for the U.S. War Department from 1946 to 1948. In Doctors from Hell, she vividly describes her experiences both in and out of the courtroom. A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, this important memoir includes trial transcripts as well as photographs used as evidence.
The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg…
The Last Parcel
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cass Garvin has spent most of his life running a ranch that was never legally his. He’s long past the trouble he once went looking for.
Then a freight driver rides in half-dead from Texas.
Cass’s cousin has been shot, his cousin’s son killed, and sixteen-year-old Iris Garvin dragged from the freight yard at gunpoint.
The price for her return is the Garvin land, including the Arizona ranch Cass built with his own hands.
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
by John Tresch
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award. Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award
An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science.
Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”?
A Very Furry Christmas
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Finalist in the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
For most people Christmas is a time for reflection, a time to share and celebrate with family and friends, but for some it is a time of sadness and quiet desperation.
What if your soul mate, best friend and lover is no longer around to share in the season of joy and you are about to lose the last remaining link to a life you once knew and loved. Would you find the strength to survive?
Simon’s Magical Cowboy Ranch Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Betrayal, a senseless crime…and a fairytale too good to be true. A tragic betrayal…a family torn apart…a desperate escape…and a centuries-old magical cowboy ranch house filled with mysteries.
The story about Simon Fountaine’s magical cowboy ranch had been told in their family for more years than she cared to count. It was a fanciful story filled with drama, adventures, a mysterious ranch house, and Simon’s determination to find the special place he always dreamed about. Now, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be a bit of truth to the whimsical fairytale her great-granddaughter loved to hear each night…if there was any chance it was more than just an elaborate bedtime story to tell children.
In Wonderland
by Joyce Maynard
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In one golden summer, Frances trades her working-class world for an elite Maine lakeside estate—where privilege and betrayal turn into a deadly game.
Frances believes she’s found a ticket to paradise when a wealthy couple hires her for the summer as their mother’s helper at their lakefront summer home in Maine. The vintage wooden boats, the days at the country club, a shiny new bicycle, and a tennis racquet – suddenly Frances has everything her modest childhood lacked. Best of all, she gets to spend the summer with Forrest Emerson, her father’s charismatic childhood friend who escaped their neighborhood when he married into money.
Ransom
by Daniel Silva
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Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon searches for the missing wife of a British billionaire in the electrifying new tale of greed, corruption, and betrayal from #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist Daniel Silva.
Alice Winter, one of Britain’s most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life—a lavish home in posh Knightsbridge, a grand estate in Devon, millions of followers on social media who eagerly await her next post. But when she disappears without a trace while on holiday with three old friends from Cambridge, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to none other than Gabriel Allon to find her.