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
Kindle $5.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
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
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
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.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Killer Christmas
by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s Christmastime in Cabot Cove, but there’s more homicide than ho-ho-ho in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series.
Christmas is not an easy time to sell a house, but in Boston tycoon John Bragdon, Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead. Unfortunately, Eve gets a lump of coal in her stocking in the form of Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead but has now come back to stop his sister from selling their childhood home.
Off Course
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
SOME ROADS LEAD AWAY FROM TRUTH.
In 1989, newlyweds Jacob and Rebecca Hale drive into the Appalachian Mountains looking for adventure, quiet, and a new beginning. What they find instead is a light that doesn’t belong to this world.
What begins as awe becomes obsession. What begins as curiosity becomes a decades-long search for answers hidden in silence — pulsing through the forests, calling from beyond.
Trust No One
by James Rollins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
Knowledge can be magic—until it falls into the wrong hands.
The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.
Road to Colorado
by Ashley Judge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
The alert said to stay inside. The sky was clear. Then the power died.
Mail carrier Charlotte Meyers has already lost her husband. Now the grid is down, war is spreading, and her daughter is somewhere in the chaos.
No One Gets Out Alive
by Adam Nevill
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now a major motion picture on Netflix!
When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she’s just happy to find an affordable room for rent that’s large enough not to deserve her previous room’s nickname, “the cell.” The eccentric — albeit slightly overly-friendly — landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren’t great, but they’re stable. Or at least that’s what she tells herself when she impulsively hands over enough money to cover the first month’s rent and decides to give it a go.
Junkyard Dogs
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
It’s a volatile new economy in Durant, Wyoming when the owners of a multimillion-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. Meeting the notorious Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself, and when conflict erupts—and someone ends up dead—Sheriff Walt Longmire, his lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, and deputies Santiago Saizarbitoria and Victoria Moretti find themselves in a small town that feels more and more like a high-plains pressure cooker.
An Enemy in the Village
by Martin Walker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vézère valley, he’s ready to investigate. Inside, he finds a suicide note and the dead body of Monique, a successful businesswoman who rented châteaus to wealthy expats. It seems like an open-and-shut case.
But Bruno can’t shake the suspicion that something sinister lurks underneath this tidy narrative. After he delivers Monique’s final messages to those most important to her, malicious gossip about Bruno begins to spread through the village. One thing leads to another, and soon Bruno faces pressure to resign from the job.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
This Changes Everything
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany—except that she misses her best friend Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm in Pennsylvania. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia moments before Courtney enters the house—and makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. Rushing to support Courtney, Julia flies home the next morning.