Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Book High And Low
by Jessica Brimer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Welcome to the re-opening of a used bookstore in East Tennessee, Bind Me Again. Books are piled high and the shelves are fully stocked.
Garnet Stone hoped the remodel would make the bookstore tidy, but her boss Jane is proving to be as messy as the previous owner. Garnet undergoes a secret mission to declutter the store, which isn’t easy with two cats running the place.
Jacob Rome overshadows Garnet’s concerns. The freelance editor has moved to Sevier Oak and causes problems with the locals. When he brings books for trade-in, Garnet and Jane find a death certificate tucked inside…
Inheritance of Flame
by D. J. Dalton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Her family is fading. Her enemies are rising. Her world is on fire.
Morgan Whiltemore is a necromancer, a healer, and the master of a struggling guild. Her mother is wasting away under an elven curse no magic can undo, and Morgan will stop at nothing to protect her.
But the magical world is breaking apart. Covens are slaughtered, guilds destroyed, and every attack pulls Morgan closer to a war she cannot escape.
Grief shadows her every step, and enemies are closing in from all sides. To protect her family and her guild, Morgan must risk everything — or watch it all burn.
Night School
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.
Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.
FALSE START
by Bev Pettersen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Some lies are worth millions. Some truths are worth murder.
When Nikki Drake and her K9 Gunner are hired to protect a rebellious racehorse, she expects routine surveillance and security work. Instead, she discovers a Derby contender whose biggest threat isn’t his temperament but the powerful people determined to stop him from racing—by any means necessary.
As threats escalate from intimidation to sabotage, Nikki uncovers a tangled web of secrets that extends far beyond stable politics. When a murder at the training center shatters any illusion of safety, she and Gunner find themselves racing a killer through treacherous mountain trails.
Dangerous Shadows
by Gail Pallotta
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Shaken from an assault in the library parking lot at Hilltop College in Western North Carolina, crime reporter Emily Hanover contacts her ex-fiancé, private investigator Nick Lancaster. When the college hires Nick to recover quartz and ancient maps stolen from the library, Nick insists there’s a connection between the theft and Emily’s attack.
As Nick and Emily face danger from an elusive stalker, their romance rekindles. Nick’s sidekick, Hucklesford, spots two suspects, so he and Nick go undercover. While Nick’s surveillance points to illegal gambling and murder, Hucklesford’s investigation leads him to the college cross-country team.
Code to Zero
by Ken Follett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America’s best hope to catch up with the Russians: the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed due to weather, even though everyone can see it is a perfectly sunny day.
The real reason for the delay rests deep in the mind of a NASA scientist who has awoken that morning to find his memory completely erased. Knowing only that he’s being followed and watched at every turn, he must find the clues to his own identity before he can discover who is responsible. But even more terrible is the dark secret that they want him to forget. A secret that can destroy the Explorer I—and America’s future. . . .
The Pacific
by Hugh Ambrose
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Between America’s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur’s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home.
Innocence Road
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Leanne Everhart swore she’d never go back to her hometown near Marfa, Texas – but she returns when her brother needs her, only to find a town in need too, still torn apart by a decades-old crime.
Leanne Everhart knows women have something to fear in her artsy hometown, especially so if they’re not rich, white locals. Returning to town after her father’s death, she sees the ugliest sides of an area that draws people for its severe, untamed natural landscape.
Same Place, Same Lights, Different Day Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Everyone has a story…and a dream.
Jillian was determined to learn more about her family’s history and the mystery surrounding the woman in the intriguing and mysterious painting at Daine’s new home. But she didn’t count on Nic being just as interested in the mystery as she was. But he was, and while they might be amateurs at digging for historical information, they were spending hours together investigating old documents at the township’s church. Its library was almost as old as the town itself.
Faery: The Final Frontier
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
MUD AND MOSQUITOS. IS THAT WHAT LILITH REALLY WANTS?
BUT DON’T GET EXCITED. It’s a rain forest adventure by request of the faeries. Lilith, Adam, and four shamans paddle a river in Ecuador to find a remote tribe of natives who dream the dream of the world. The tribe’s work, vital to the planet, will be stopped by nearby oil drilling unless Lilith and crew can discover who’s planning it and convince them to cease operations.
SOUNDS SIMPLE, DOESN’T IT? Yet they must search on two continents to find the responsible party, with surprising twists around every corner. Before long, she must face an aching truth: in order to save the world, Lilith may very well lose her best friend and lover Adam.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Christmas Murder in Merrywell
by Jane Bettany
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cosy, festive murder mystery to curl up with in front of the fire, for fans of Clare Chase and Katie Gayle.
In the charming village of Merrywell, an exciting new Christmas Market is bringing festive cheer and bustling crowds. But as the stallholders celebrate in the village bookshop at the end of a successful first day, someone rushes in to announce that a body has been found.
Once again in the wrong place at the wrong time, Violet Brewster is on hand to offer the police her astute – if perhaps unwelcome – opinion on the crime. While the police dismiss the death as an accident, Violet senses that there’s more to this tragedy than meets the eye…
The Innocent Wife
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…
Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes.
Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies.
The #1 Lawyer
by James Patterson, Nancy Allen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career.
That’s when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable.
Jacobs Family Series: Books 1-2
by Vannetta Chapman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Dana and Erin Jacobs. Two women with a past that has left its scars. Two vastly different careers that require them to face their deepest fears. Can they overcome their past in time to save the people they love?
Hidden: When an embittered maniac seeks retribution against the people of Taos, Homeland Security Agents Dana Jacobs and Benjamin Marshall find themselves racing to protect the residents of this small town set against the majestic landscape of northern New Mexico.
Protected: When Erin Jacobs receives a desperate call in the middle of the night, she thinks she is rescuing an animal. But from the beginning, this case is not what she expected.
Gone
by Jamie Freveletti
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Sebastian Ryan, a risk analyst, has disappeared. Emma Caldridge saved him once, and in a moment of foresight he’s left a note asking her to save him again. And she knows where to look. Driving into Sunrise City, Utah, a town controlled by a fundamentalist cult, she’s already picked up a tail – from the local sheriff. As Emma begins to track Ryan’s kidnappers, she learns that Sunrise City’s outwardly pious appearance hides a dark secret, and when she derails an unspeakable ritual, she sets the entire town against her.
The Wrong Family
by Tarryn Fisher
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wives comes another twisted psychological thriller guaranteed to turn your world upside down – an instant bestseller!
Have you ever been wrong about someone? Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.
Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son – the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.
Middle of the Night
by Riley Sager
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend – and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again.
Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection
by Terry Pratchett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
This collection includes all five Tiffany Aching novels in Terry Pratchett’s beloved and bestselling Discworld series, including the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown.
The Wee Free Men,
A Hat Full of Sky,
Wintersmith,
I Shall Wear Midnight,
The Shepherd’s Crown
Desert Reckoning
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The desert buries secrets – but it never keeps them buried for long.
Once a lawman, now disillusioned by the failure of justice and burdened by guilt, Clint Langston drifts into a desert town in Arizona searching for silence.
Instead, he stumbles onto the charred remains of a massacre – and the only survivor, young Ruby Yates. Ruby clings to life as Clint delivers her into the hands of frontier doctor Josie Holmes, a woman tempered by grief yet unbroken by fear.
Together, Clint and Josie uncover the iron grip of the Destiny Railroad, a company that buys, bullies, or buries anyone and anything standing in the way of its ruthless empire. Backed by bribes and corrupt lawmen, the railroad’s reach stretches from dusty trails to polished boardrooms – and its enforcer, Eli Steele, leaves nothing but blood and ruin in his wake.
Exit Strategy
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. The page-turning new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing.
Picks and Shovels
by Prashant Sridharan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Master the art of developer marketing and make it big in the AI Gold Rush.
During the California Gold Rush, it wasn’t the miners who struck it rich—it was the merchants selling them picks and shovels. Today’s AI Gold Rush is no different. The real winners are the ones building tools for developers, and it takes special skills to stand out and successfully market to people who hate being marketed to.
Picks and Shovels is the definitive guide to developer marketing, built from Prashant Sridharan’s thirty years of experience helming developer programs at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Twitter, and numerous startups…