Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Here… Hold My Broom
by Carol Kilgore
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
What if Cinderella were a man and the prince a witch? A wicked good witch.
Strange happenings in the magic realm are turning Brielle Quinn’s life upside down. She’s been told to let things happen on their own and not to interfere. So difficult—and unfair!
On the night of her neighbor’s birthday party, Brielle’s drunk a little too much tequila. While on her way back to her home next door, a man calls to her and plants the kiss of a lifetime on her lips. Only thing is, Brielle doesn’t have the first clue about who he is. Or what he looks like. Yet she can’t get him out of her mind. Or the taste of his kiss off her lips. How is she ever going to find him?
The Lattice Scheme
by A. L. Lieske
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Azure Prescott expected Bureau life to mean routine investigations, not dream-walking conspiracies. But when a secret sleep study grants her the ability to enter the minds of others, she discovers that every dream carries danger, and every memory may be a lie.
A web of interconnected cases, including a missing agent, a vanished Italian man, illicit neurochips capable of altering identities, and the reappearance of someone long thought dead, pulls her into a labyrinth of international intrigue.
The Beast
by Robert Stallman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a loving husband and father, and a reporter for the local paper—but the beast still hunts at night. One evening in the desert, he receives a stunning revelation—he is not alone. There are others like him. And he must find a mate and prepare for something called The Leap . . .
Meanwhile in Chicago, George Beaumont is dying of cancer. His desperate search for a miracle leads him to a strange creature who offers to save his life, and to a mysterious young woman named Lilly who guides him through a peculiar alternative therapy until he is finally cured. George wants nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with Lilly, but she feels a call from the Other, someone waiting for her . . .
Elphie
by Gregory Maguire
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West—setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical and the Wicked films.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
A Gideon Crew Collection
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced bundle edition of the first three books in the Gideon Crew series: Gideon’s Sword, Gideon’s Corpse, and The Lost Island, by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child.
“This is another book by the authors that succeeds in holding your attention and making you want to keep reading. It doesn’t have the over extended descriptions of everything that some books have, but has enough for the development of the narrative. It moves fast enough to keep you interested, but has enough character development so you get to know them.” by Amazon Customer
Wild Fire
by Nelson DeMille
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the Custer Hill Club–an informal men’s club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America’s most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion…
Touch of Red
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the carnage is the evidence that someone escaped the scene. But where is this witness now? A thorough search of the area yields more questions than answers, and before Brooke even packs up her evidence kit, she’s made it her goal to find the witness and get them out of harm’s way.
Homicide detective Sean Byrne has seen his share of bloody crime scenes, but this one is particularly disturbing, especially because Brooke Porter is smack in the middle of it…
The Girl from Devil’s Lake
by J. A Jance
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, from a body in the desert to crimes spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.
Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny’s graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things: This was not the killer’s first murder. And it’s only a matter of time before he kills again.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Rune
by Kirsten Weiss
Kindle $2.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In the shadowed Sierra town of Doyle, Lenore hides from a world she distrusts, seeking solace in books to escape the visions she denies. But when she finds a man’s body in Doyle Creek and her beloved aunt becomes a target of suspicion, Lenore is drawn into a web of small-town secrets and old grudges.
Pursuing a killer, she risks unraveling Doyle’s enchanted core. Can Lenore, long wary of her shamanic gifts, embrace her magic to save herself?
Red Mist: Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s investigation leads her into a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale in this red-hot thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Dr. Kay Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out…
My Do-Over Year
by Dan Stancil
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Larry Tolleson is confronted with a choice and not one of his making. His mother decided he was bright enough to start school a year early. Larry is entering his senior year in high school when his mother realizes that decision didn’t give him the best start in life. She agrees with his guidance counselor that he should take a do-over year to let his body and emotions catch up to his intellect.
Larry approaches his senior year full of hope. This will finally be his year. He sets his goals on becoming a better athlete, more confident with girls, and finding his path to college. Now the adults in his life are questioning his readiness and capabilities. The concept of a do-over year sounds like he’s going backwards. They say it’s his choice, and his alone, but it isn’t one he requested. They say they want him to be the best version of himself but what’s wrong with the current version?
The Violated
by Bill Pronzini
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Martin Torrey is dead. The butchered body of the registered sex offender was found in Santa Rita, California. People living in the small town suspected Torrey of committing a series of assaults, and no one will mourn his passing.
But police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz must investigate Torrey’s murder—after failing to find evidence that would have put him behind bars. At the same time, the rape survivors and their husbands grapple with their various traumas, struggling to believe the nightmare is over. The town’s mayor has already moved on, pursuing higher political ambitions. Torrey’s wife grieves her loss, while also fearing that her husband was indeed guilty.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government.
The private, quiet “Miss White” as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a “grace and favor” property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor’s war work had been, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past.
The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this “propulsive and original” award-winning thriller (Stephen King). It’s something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone call from an unknown number changes everything: it’s a woman on the line, informing her that she has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will see her again is to follow her instructions exactly: pay a ransom, and find another child to abduct. This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself, whose son has been taken, and if Rachel doesn’t do as she’s told, the boy will die…
Shadows in the Pleasure Gardens
by Elaine Mary Griffin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
As a crucial witness to the “biggest scandal” early-nineteenth-century Fairmount has seen, lives hang on the balance of Chester Carter’s true and complete testimony.
Chester is an unambitious – or independent- minded – apprentice to Mr. Tate of Tate’s Banking and Loans when he witnesses a bank robbery and finds himself serving as Sheriff Hoogkirk’s justice-seeking assistant. His newfound role in law enforcement introduces him to gambling, carousing, and horse racing at the town’s pleasure gardens, and he is drawn to its excitement at the expense of his courtship and professional career. When an acquaintance from the racetrack is implicated in the robberies, Chester worries he must choose between truth and justice.
Wild Buck
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Buck Hartley swore he’d never wear a badge again – until his brother’s murder dragged him back into the fight.
A quiet rancher now, Buck walked away as a Pinkerton agent after a mission ended in tragedy. But when his brother Eli dies in a suspicious train wreck, and Eli’s 14-year-old daughter Mattie escapes with a treasure map that could get her killed, Buck straps on his Colt for one last job.
Eli’s death is not random. It is the work of James Braxton, a ruthless outlaw with a taste for buried gold and dead witnesses. As Buck investigates further, he is joined by Jane Castle, Eli’s estranged cousin and a reporter hellbent on exposing the truth.
The Portrait
by Danielle Steel
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A gifted portrait artist and a high-powered subject confront past wounds to embrace new love in this poignant novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Devon Darcy’s reputation precedes her. As a highly sought-after portrait artist, she seems to have the ability to peer into the souls of her subjects and then capture them on canvas. But the world doesn’t know about the devastating losses she has endured, first as an orphan, then as a far-too-young widow.