Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Stealth
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he’s unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the UK and into a deadly snare. As it turns out, this is only the first volley by a rival power, one that has its eyes set on disrupting the peace of the nation.
With the help of two brilliant and stunning women, Stone must leverage a new position of power to capture a villain with a lethal agenda. But the closer he comes to nabbing the culprit, the more he realizes there’s a bigger plan at work, and a true mastermind who’s a force to be reckoned with . . .
The Things you find in Rockpools
by Gregg Dunnett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Billy Wheatley isn’t like most eleven-year-olds. It’s just him and his dad, in a remote house on the clifftop above Lornea Island’s Silverlea beach. But when a teenage girl goes missing one summer night, and the biggest police search the island has ever seen fails to find her, Billy decides to take a break from his more important projects. And catch the killer himself.
And why not? He knows almost everyone on Lornea Island. And no one knows the dunes, the cliffs and the hidden caves like he does.
But while playing detective might be fun at first, the clues Billy follows soon lead dangerously close to home. And he’s about to find out – cold-blooded murder isn’t a game.
The Baby-Snatcher
by Ann Cleeves
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #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.
Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . .
Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay’s doorstep so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal community known as the Headland. And in the Howes’ dark and cluttered kitchen they find Kathleen safe and apparently well, though acting strange.
Hornet Flight
by Ken Follett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF’s flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight. He doesn’t know what it is, but he knows he must tell someone. And when he learns the truth, it will fall upon him to deliver word to England—except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church—a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely to ever get off the ground . . . even if Harald knew how to fly it.
Infernal Tramps
by Alex Grass
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A boy discovers his father’s oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home.
An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog.
A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man’s memories of its horrors.
A mother with a trunkful of hungry, inhuman babies tracks down the family that abandoned them.
The warden of a penal colony offers to pardon a murderer, but only if the inmate can find the antidote to the poison wine the warden gave him.
A wealthy young woman receives a surgical implant that delivers more than just a shapely body.
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths.
It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away.
A Need to Kill
by Mark Pettit
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Life and Crimes of John Joubert, Nebraska’s Most Notorious Serial Child Killer
From two-time best-selling author and three-time Emmy®-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit comes the haunting true story of Nebraska serial killer John Joubert — a case that shocked a nation and still echoes across the true-crime world.
Blue Rivers
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blue Rivers has spent his life enforcing the law – but this time, the law won’t be enough.
He wears his badge like a shield, built from a childhood of abandonment and a father who taught him pain instead of mercy. The law is the only thing that ever made sense to him.
Then a letter changes everything. A woman named Addie writes to him with a desperate plea. A girl has been sold to settle a debt. His half-sister. A sister he never knew existed. Blue doesn’t hesitate. He rides out across the frontier with one goal – to bring her home.
The Snow Debt
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Everyone in Silverton Crossing knows the story.
Cairn Rusk left men to die in the snow.
The truth is harder to live with, and he’s never told it to anyone. Least of all his daughter.
A disgraced Army scout, Cairn hauls timber and keeps his head down, raising a thirteen-year-old girl and caring for a father whose mind slips a little further every day.
When winter threatens to close the high country, he takes them both up to the old family cabin, hoping the mountain will steady them. Beneath the floorboards he finds stolen Army payroll and ammunition.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The sleepy town of Halcyon Springs, Maryland hides a terrible secret – the unsolved murder of Drew Scanlon.
Reluctant restaurant owner, Izzie Di Sante was following crimes and writing stories until she returned home to help with the family business. Unlike her sister, Chloe, Izzie’s not a foodie. She itches to write about a murder. With recent changes in the restaurant, Izzie carves out time to find her next story and an alert on the Scanlon murder gets her attention. While Chloe is spicing things up in the kitchen, Izzie’s focus is on the stalled Scanlon murder investigation…
Triple Jeopardy
by Rex Stout
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Home to Roost
Somebody at the dinner table dropped a poison pellet into the vitamin addict’s pill-box.
The Cop-Killer
The murdered cop carried the clue inside his folded newspaper.
The Squirt and the Monkey
The monkey was the only witness to the murder and all it could do was gibber.
The Devil at His Elbow
by Valerie Bauerlein
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.
Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator—the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers’ association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family’s law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. The Murdaugh name ignited respect—and fear—for a hundred miles.
Other People’s Houses
by Clare Mackintosh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You want what they have, but what price would you pay?
The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one by one, and DS Leo Brady suspects the burglar is looking for something, or someone, in particular.
Over the border in Wales, DC Ffion Morgan recovers the body of an estate agent from the lake. There’s no love lost between Ffion and estate agents, but who hated this one enough to want her dead – and why?
He Who Does Not Exist
by Victoria W Thomson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
God allows the devil to temporarily make a few demons mortal.
The devil does this to improve those demons at getting souls and to select a lead soul catcher, an elite position in Hell. The demons, while on earth are mortal, meeting on a college campus, and explaining the deadly sins. Each demon is the embodiment of a deadly sin and most want to be lead soul catcher.
An angel points out the risk of making demons mortal, even for a short time; while a demon never gets the choice, a mortal can choose salvation.
Now, one of the devil’s demons, Penny, who represents the sin of Pride, may be at risk of being saved.
Starman’s Saga
by Colin Alexander
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the year 2069, humanity’s last chance for peace is the first ever interstellar mission. A multi-national crew of the most talented scientists and pilots has been chosen based on their expertise and skill. The final spot aboard the craft is assigned as a prize in a global “BerthRight” lottery, and Leif Grettison is the “everyman volunteer” who won.
However, Leif isn’t really an “everyman.” He’s a helicopter paramedic, a lab tech and a former army ranger who fought in The Troubles – a decade plus war that brought the world to the brink of apocalypse. He’s the perfect brawn to the brains aboard the ship and quickly finds himself playing the role of security and handyman as the crew begins to fragment and divide by country, just as they had during the war.
Rise to the Horizon
by Hyunah KIM
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
GOLD MEDAL WINNER — GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS 2024 (Contemporary Fiction) — HORSE LOVERS’ SENSATION!
A broken horse. A man who refuses to give up. A bond that could save them both. Can one man reach a horse consumed by fear?
After a devastating fire destroys a horse ranch, Poseidon, a once-brilliant show jumping colt, is left injured, traumatized, and dangerously aggressive. When he begins attacking anyone who approaches, the veterinarian delivers a harsh verdict: euthanasia.
Under the Summer Sun
by Roxie Holland
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Poppy Stanton is a mess. Her sabbatical from work and summer was supposed to start with her and her boyfriend heading on holiday to stay with her best friend and sister-in-law, Kiki. Instead, at the start of a long holiday and healing she’d planned, Poppy finds Harry cheating with another woman.
Heading to Kiki and Luke’s house without Harry, Poppy is determined to hold her head high and have a relaxing summer. She deserves it. She needs it. She has six months before she’s due back at work, and they expect her back with her head in a better state. Poppy’s sure she can do it. Ahead of her is supposed to be gorgeous summer days at the Cornish seaside with the people she loves the most–just the medicine she needs.
Harvest the Sun
by Judith Arnold
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Abbie Jarvis couldn’t wait to escape the sleepy California farm town of her youth. But being a high-power prosecutor in New York City isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Suffering from burn-out, she takes a vacation trip back to Wheeler to visit her father and decompress. What she discovers is that her father’s hardware store is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Everyone knows everyone in Wheeler, and everyone knows T.J. Hillyard, the one-time football star whose career ended with a devastating injury. Now he’s back in Wheeler, running a bar. He and Abbie weren’t particularly close growing up; he was a celebrated jock and she was a quiet bookworm. But he knows her father, and he’s happy to help her get the hardware store back on its feet. In return, she will help him with a nuisance lawsuit against his bar.