Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Bloom
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
This winter promises record-high temperatures-and A DESIRE that reaches the boiling point…
Beaumont, South Carolina, is on “sizzle” this February. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother’s B&B. According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peachtree Bed & Breakfast needs if it’s hosting millionaire Max Holt’s upcoming wedding! If rumors of a prank-playing ghost aren’t stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived with an eye on Annie and her master suite.
Dark Tribute
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara’s lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would come back into her life, everything would be perfect.
But the carefully constructed world Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man trying to settle a score against her family, setting off a violent chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger…
A Dragon, a Gargoyle, and a Faery Walk into a Pub
by Lisa Barry , Nicole DragonBeck
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A paperwork-obsessed dragon and a gargoyle with a snacking problem aren’t the most conventional detective team—but they get the job done.
In Ireland, by-the-book detective Aiden Moss just wants to finish his report and wrap up the last case. Fun-loving detective Loch Doyle wants to get a good meal and some pints into him, the only thing anyone should be doing on a Friday evening. But that’s the thing about bad guys: they’re not that considerate.
An anonymous phone call drops the detectives straight into the kidnapping of a human under the influence of a magical drug. A single clue sends Aiden and Loch to the best place to get an investigation started —the nearest pub.
Transform
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s 2125 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari – the defenders.
At the turn of the 22nd century they came, with solutions for world hunger and disease and with ground-breaking technology beyond anything mankind could ever imagine, but they are not what they seem.
Five years earlier, in January 2120, Officer Danielle Almonzo, of the New Atlantis police department finds herself at ground zero of the worst terrorist attack in her nation’s history. When the multi-domed structure that keeps the Atlantic Ocean from devouring the aquatic city begins to shatter, she loses all that she loves in the ensuing tragedy.
Eila’s Exile Complete Series Boxed Set
by D.S. Bailey, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
An exiled faerie. A mysterious mirror. A city full of secrets.
Eila Snowshadow never expected to find herself banished from the Winter Court, much less hurled into the bustling streets of London.
Armed with unpredictable magic and a knack for trouble, Eila is determined to carve out a new life for herself. But when she stumbles upon a plot involving missing children and a magical artifact, she can’t help but get involved.
Pick up this complete trilogy and join Eila on her urban fantasy London adventure!
The Affair
by Lee Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.
Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends. Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission— and turn him into a man to be feared.
Rose of Jericho
by Alex Grecian
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Something wicked is going on in the town of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all.
The dead are not dying.
When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic.
The One You Least Suspect
by Brian McGilloway
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Katie lives a quiet life. She likes her small Derry neighbourhood. She likes her job as a barmaid at O’Reillys. And she loves her daughter, Hope.
But everything changes when she is approached by two detectives. They want Katie to tell them the things she hears at work. To become their informant.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse
by Simon Brett
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major’s work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and as a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation.
But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car… and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown…
Your Knowledge or Your Life?
by Sophie Maddon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to a London where being smart is everything—and being rich means nothing.
When seventeen-year-old Jason’s latest prank backfires, he and straight-A student Eva are thrust into an alternate reality where status comes from knowledge, not trust funds. For formerly privileged Jason, it’s a nightmare. For book-lover Eva, it’s everything she’s ever dreamed of—until dead bodies start piling up.
Two teenagers who can’t stand each other and one disturbing truth: their arrival might be killing people…
Between Twelve and One
by Vernon Loder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nine guests arrive for a weekend party at Tenon Oaks, a Tudor country house set in nine acres of the English countryside. The visitors all know Tenon Oaks by repute. It is a show-piece in the county of Wiltshire, with a full contingent of domestic staff, fine entertaining rooms and positioned atop a hill with fine views over the wooded parkland below. The host, millionaire financier Mr Copolis, is absent. His private secretary, Victor Mand, informs the assembled party – all investors in Mr Coplis’s financial schemes – that the host is sick and confined to his room. However, after dinner whilst enjoying cocktails and cigars in the piano room, the investors are informed that all their money has been lost.
Origin In Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office – murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building – the doctor’s final appointment.
Known as “Dr. Perfect,” the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is clean. Too clean for Dallas. She knows he was hiding something and suspects that his son – and successor – knows what it is…
While Idaho Slept
by J. Reuben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media’s seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike.
Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The killings would shake the small blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and platforms from Reddit and YouTube to Facebook and TikTok.
Vengeance of the Vanished Ones
by Lee Orlich Bertram
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“In Vengeance of the Vanished Ones, don’t miss this trip into Baja where mining interests and the need to preserve sacred rock paintings clash violently. Move over, Indiana Jones!” –Warren C. Easley, author of the Cal Claxton Mysteries
Discovering the meaning of the mysterious, ancient rock art of Baja has obsessed archaeologist Marcos Andersson for decades. While investigating the macabre death of Davis Pearce on site, Marcos suspects it’s connected to the rock art, but before he can prove it, he gets dragged into the spirit world where Davis languishes. He happens to meet psychiatrist-psychic Susan Cohen who guides Marcos to some understanding of the art as they explore more sites, pile up deaths, encounter vengeful spirits, and fall in love. It’s complicated by local schemes to profit off the mineral deposits accompanying the rock art sites and the secrets both Marcos and Susan keep from each other.
Back of Beyond
by C.J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Edgar Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a thriller in Back of Beyond about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone, now reissued with additional bonus content including an introduction from the author.
Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody is in no position to be investigating a homicide, but he will stop at nothing to find Hank’s killer.
The Injustice
by James Patterson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Theo Foster’s Twitter account used to be anonymous—until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. No fair.
Theo’s resigned to a life of misery working at the local mini-mart when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. Sasha Ellis knows his name. She was also expelled for a crime she didn’t commit and now he has the perfect way to get her attention: find out who set them up.
Shackled
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western romance
Doyle Baldwin left Ironwood Valley as a young soldier full of hope, dreaming of the day he’d return to open land, honest work, and the woman he planned to marry. But war leaves its mark, and the home he comes back to isn’t the one he left.
His father is missing. His fiancée is gone. And something dark has taken hold of the valley.