Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sealed with a Hiss
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a local creek, with a body still in the driver’s seat, it’s up to Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and her beloved cats and dogs to save the day, in this latest mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author, Sneaky Pie Brown.
Spring is in full bloom, and everything is blossoming just right for Harry in Crozet, Virginia. Restorations to the long-shuttered local segregated school are nearly complete, and the school will be renamed to commemorate an important community member. To honor the former students, Harry and her friends are hard at work planning a reunion. It’s a big affair, and the crew spends their days hanging plaques at the gym, arranging food, and writing speeches.
Law and Disorder & Secret Bodyguard
by Heather Graham, B.J. Daniels
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Law and Disorder by Heather Graham: Undercover FBI agent Nick Connolly has met Kody before and knows she might very well blow his cover. Though determined to maintain his facade, he can’t let Kody die. He won’t. And his decision to change his own rules of law and order are about to make all hell break loose.
Secret Bodyguard by B.J. Daniels: Undercover cop Jesse McCall is assigned to watch a mobster’s daughter, but when Amanda Crowe’s baby is kidnapped, Jesse will compromise everything he values to make things right for her and her daughter.
Empire: The Complete Collection
by Tim Goff
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Like Lovecraft wrote Game of Thrones! Winning the demon war was the easy part. Rebuilding the Empire is a nightmare.
Wealthy commoner Tia Samos ventures across the tottering Solarian Empire to find a highborn husband. Accompanying Tia is Rebecca, her gypsy maid and minstrel; her protector, Sir Peter Cortez, a bitter warrior weary of bloodshed; and her carriage driver, Kyle, a haunted veteran with a knack for magic, each searching for a new life in a nation that they no longer recognize…
The Complete Miss Marple Collection
by Agatha Christie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Complete Miss Marple Collection gathers together all of Agatha Christie’s novels featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest crime fiction in the field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.
Bullets in the Briar
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The discovery of a mutilated body on remote farmland is only the start of Sheriff Lincoln James’ latest investigation. A mysterious religious sect and an intimidating biker gang add fuel to the fire. Within the sheriff’s circle of friends is someone with a hidden connection – If only she’d be willing to step forward…
To add to his problems, Lincoln has a fiercely contested election to win if he’s going to continue as sheriff. His opponent is a smooth out-of-towner who is making friends among the local people, so it’s going to be a fight.
Honest Illusions
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A man and a woman who thrive on danger and deception find explosive passion in this compelling novel where nothing is as it seems—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father’s talents—and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful worlds comes Luke Callahan, an escape artist who captures her heart—and keeps secrets that could shatter all her illusions…
The Trophy Wife
by Diana Diamond
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
For the readers of Olivia Goldsmith and Susan Isaacs comes a dramatic – and fun – thriller with an over-the-top ending that will leave readers gasping.
For twenty-five years Emily Childs has been the perfect wife. She has devoted herself completely to her successful husband, Walter, on his climb to the top of the banking world, kept his home, raised his children, and entertained his clients. Now he is about to dump her for the younger, more beautiful Angela Hilliard, the perfect trophy for his life of conspicuous achievement.
Silent Children
by Ramsey Campbell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Once upon a time there was a man who loved children. He loved them so much he tried to save them from their imperfect parents. Unfortunately, Hector Woollie didn’t work for Child Protective Services . . . and the children he rescued, he murdered.
Once upon a time, Leslie had a happy marriage, a happy son, and a happy life. Now divorced, she is trapped in ongoing battles with her ex-husband, Roger, especially over their newly-adolescent son, Ian.
When Ian and his young stepsister disappear, Roger insists the boy kidnapped the girl, while Leslie thinks Ian might have run away. She prays that her son is near and will come home soon.
Sugar and Spite
by M. C. Beaton, R.W. Green
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton’s cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again.
When a series of deaths within the small Cotswolds birdwatching community begins to unravel her village, Agatha and her team at Raisin Investigators are certain there has been foul play involved. Now, they must dig up decades’ worth of tempestuous relationships and simmering secrets among the birdwatching enthusiasts of the village in order to prevent any further deaths.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Iced Under
by Barbara Ross
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond necklace that once belonged to Julia’s great-grandmother and disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent it—and why? Julia’s search for clues takes her on a perilous journey through her mother’s troubled family history, from a squabble over the family fortune in “frozen water” to the recent unexplained death of Jacqueline’s long-lost cousin Hugh—who’d been missing and presumed drowned for more than forty years. To protect her mother’s inheritance, Julia must fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the mystery surrounding Hugh’s demise, and get back home before the next blizzard buries them all . . .
It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. The country’s viewers are glued to their television sets, anxiously awaiting the news that their favorite morning-television personality’s little girl has been found.
With each passing day, the FBI and local authorities track down every lead: A profile of the kidnapper’s most likely characteristics is developed, every fan letter written to Eliza over the last six months is scrutinized, every sex offender registered within a fifty-mile radius is interviewed, and psychics from around the country appear on Eliza’s doorstep offering their help.
An Oriceran Cozy Urban Fantasy Collection
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic is real, but the world isn’t ready to know it.
Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She’s also Silver Griffins Agent 485. She has to balance family life, PTA meetings and her secret agent duties. She has a wand and a mission. Can she get it all done?
Say the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran. Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways.
Grab two complete series—16 books and more than 4,500 pages of urban fantasy cozy mystery—with this collection!
As the Crow Flies
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
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Wyoming sherriff Walt Longmire doesn’t have time for cowboys and criminals. His daughter, Cady, is getting married in two weeks, and the wedding locale arrangements have just gone up in smoke signals. Fearing Cady’s wrath, Walt and his old friend Henry Standing Bear set out for the Cheyenne Reservation to find a new site for the nuptials. But their expedition ends in horror as they witness a young Crow woman plummeting from Painted Warrior’s majestic cliffs. Is it a suicide, or something more sinister? It’s not Walt’s turf, but he’s coerced into the investigation by Lolo Long, the beautiful new tribal police chief.
Spearthrower
by D. BRAISTED
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Earth is a cage. Kim has always had access to food and shelter; she grew up in a comfortable world. Yet she is wild. After graduating from high school, she enters The Branch and becomes a highly trained astronaut. Kim accepts a classified mission and is launched deep. However, she is not just the test pilot; she is also the test.
Young Kala grew up on the open grass plain with a spear in hand, but she is not wild. Her tribe does not worry about time and space; her people are innately connected to the universe. And Kala’s adventure will violently choose her.
The dual storyline of Kim and Kala is thought-provoking and touching, exploring the nature of our existence and cultural beliefs.
Close to Home
by Peter Robinson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The past returns to haunt Chief Inspector Alan Banks in this harrowing novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.
There are human bones, buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five-years ago…and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever…
A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried…
Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction…
As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond—a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide.
Detour On An Elephant
by Multiple Auhotrs
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What was it like to travel on tour with a circus in the late seventies?
Detour On An Elephant is the memoir of a ballet dancer, Barbara File Marangon, who traded her pointe shoes to ride an elephant with the Greatest Show On Earth for a year. Taking a detour from the world of ballet to the circus, she recounts her experiences performing in hundreds of shows, in twenty-four cities coast to coast, with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit Show in 1978. Named Ringling’s China Doll by a New York newspaper, she compares dancing at the Metropolitan Opera House to dancing at Madison Square Garden.
The Gun Man Jackson Swagger
by Stephen Hunter
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Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, “a true master at the pinnacle of his craft” (Jack Carr), returns with a classic Western—gunfights, horses, saloons, and looming above, the ominous presence of the railroad—about a Civil War veteran investigating the dark reality of a prosperous ranch.
In the frying pan of a drought-scorched 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region’s only prosperous spread, the Callahan ranch, seeking work. Jack is flinty, shrewd, tough, and a natural with a gun. As an incentive to be taken on at his age, he shows the foreman an uncanny skill with one of Mr. Winchester’s latest models. He knows a sharpshooter would be valuable to Colonel Callahan and head gun man Tom Voth.