Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Hamish Macbeth Collection
by M. C. Beaton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Three New York Times–bestselling cozy mysteries, featuring Scotland’s cleverest but most unambitious policeman, by the author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries.
Death of a Kingfisher,
Death of Yesterday,
Death of a Policeman Omnibus
“This red-headed police sergeant living in the small village of Lochdubh, Scotland is such a hoot and a howl that you never want to see this character come to an end… . . . There’s never a dull moment in the life of Hamish Macbeth. . . . A+!”―New England News
Storm Damage
by Terry Bacon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile.
When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer.
That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a drug no one can identify, his body locked in euphoric paralysis. The incident rattles Sonny, but the news about Kat hits harder. When he learns she was among the victims, he drops everything to be at her side.
The House on the Hill
by S Saywack
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Can a house be evil? A telegram Vince Ransome receives makes him wonder.
The Martins stand on the brow of a hill, wreathed in mystery. If a house could choose solitude, perhaps that house did. Or perhaps it was the choice of its last owner, who died mysteriously in a fire fifty years ago.
A boy witnessed it. Vince Ransome wonders: did he also witness the deaths of each owner of the house since it was built over a hundred years ago? If so, what is he? A ghost, maybe. And now, Vince’s sister owns the house.
Shadow Moon
by Alexandra Sokoloff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve. ASAC Matthew Roarke exiles Singh to Portland to work as an assistant to his old mentor, retiring profiler Chuck Snyder—but a mysterious break-in alerts Singh and Snyder to a sinister threat revolving around an old investigation: a series of brutal murders of homeless teenagers on the streets of Portland and Seattle.
Singh and Snyder must go on the road and deep into the mystery of Roarke’s and Cara’s pasts to discover a pattern of destiny and interconnection that holds the key to unsolved child murders, past and present.
Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lee Child tells the stories behind the stories from the bestselling Jack Reacher novels.
Includes a new, never-before-seen Reacher tale.
After making his debut in 1997’s The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular—and most enduring—fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written solely by Lee Child, chock full of colorful anecdotes and intriguing inspirations. One by one, they expand upon each novel and place it in the context not only of the author’s life, but of the world outside the books. And taken together, they chart the rise of an action icon, from 1999’s The Killing Floor to 2019’s Blue Moon.
Lie Down with the Devil
by Linda Barnes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” (New York Post).
On the outs with her secretive mob boss lover, Sam Gianelli, Carlotta occupies herself with a seemingly routine case. She feels an immediate bond with her new client, Jessie Franklin. Right now, both women are dealing with issues of trust. For Jessie, it’s the man she’s soon to marry. Tipped off that he’s cheating on her, she wants Carlotta to tail him. No sooner does Carlotta get a track on the likely cad, than Jessie is killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Nameless
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Danger swirls in the mists of the Puget Sound. People are disappearing, the most recent being a young child. Nothing links the victims, except the kidnapper. FBI Special Agent Dakarai Lakes suspects the victim count will only increase… unless he and his team can stop the criminal.
His team’s newest agent might be their greatest weapon. Special Agent Kevyn Taylor has a reputation as a mind reader. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she’s spent years honing her skills to read and predict human behavior with a high degree of accuracy. She might be the secret weapon they need to get inside the kidnapper’s head – if her rule-bending, renegade tactics don’t drive Dak crazy first.
Cruel Truth
by Rachel Lynch
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Even beauty has a dark side
It’s a stunning summer evening in the Lake District. The day has been hot and long, and tourists are only just leaving Rydal Water. One solitary rowing boat remains; face-down in the reeds. Underneath is the body of a young woman.
DI Kelly Porter heads to the scene but when she arrives she gets another call. A suspected suicide at a health and fitness conference nearby. Two deaths in one day is never a good sign.
Then the first body is found.
MEMOIRS of a CLEVER PRANKSTER
by Peter Henry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tales of laugh-out-loud unique gags, absurd jokes, and funny stories will enrich your life.
Fun-loving Peter Henry is one of the most clever pranksters EVER. Henry’s beautiful life includes hilarious gut-busting tales, funny stories, and absurd gags. With pleasure, he carefully crafts humorous jokes that evoke rousing laughter as each trick unfolds.
Henry’s memoir tells his joyful journey from childhood through his 50-year career as a hospitality professional, including an astounding 36 years as GM of America’s finest luxury destination resorts. Henry also owned and operated a highly popular Caribbean restaurant for four years.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Witchy Hot Spells
by C. A. Phipps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder, Magic & Mayhem in Good Fortune!
Jessica Lavender never wanted to be a witch, but fate—and her sassy cat familiar—had other plans. Running a potion shop is challenging enough when you can barely brew a proper potion.
Add in a spirited (literally) mother, an overzealous assistant, and a town buzzing with secrets, and Jess has her hands full.
When a shocking death shakes Good Fortune, Jess is pulled into a tangled web of lies and danger…
A Dark and Bloody Ground
by Darcy O’Brien
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.
Robert B. Parker’s Fallout
by Mike Lupica
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again.
The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team’s biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult—the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further.
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Dance of the Bones
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Years ago, Amos Warren, a prospector, was gunned down out in the desert and Sheriff Brandon Walker made the arrest in the case. Now, the retired Walker is called in when the alleged killer, John Lassiter, refuses to accept a plea deal that would release him from prison with time served. Lassiter wants Brandon and The Last Chance to find Amos’s “real” killer and clear his name.
Sixteen hundred miles to the north in Seattle, J.P. Beaumont is at loose ends after the Special Homicide Investigation Team, affectionately known as S.H.I.T., has been unexpectedly and completely disbanded…
Battleground Pacific
by Sterling Mace, Nick Allen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A powerfully wrought military memoir by a member of World War II’s fabled 1st Marine division.
“Engrossing account of the vicious combat encountered by US Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II. . . . Will appeal to fans of The Pacific or Band of Brothers.” — Kirkus Reviews
Sterling Mace’s unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division), and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack.
Crucified
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Detective Jack Warr should be resting on his laurels. He’s just put sadistic serial killer Rodney Middleton behind bars and he’s ready to enjoy some time at home with his young family.
Instead, Jack is having violent nightmares that leave his wife Maggie terrified.
What Jack needs is a break, but instead he finds himself sucked into another grisly case as a man is found horrifically murdered in an art-framer’s shop. Jack becomes fascinated by the elaborately staged killing – especially coming straight after the surprise reappearance of charismatic forger Adam Border.
The Buried City
by Boris Bacic
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Fans of The Dark Tower series must read this book.
No one ever escapes the Beyond.
On one side, an endless ocean stretches across the horizon. On the other, a vast black desert swallows the land whole. Trish has no memory of how she got there. No idea where her husband is, or where she should go. So she starts walking.
This world isn’t like home. Day and night don’t follow rules. Enormous eyes drift across the sky. Disembodied faces hover in the distance. Giants roam black oceans. Entire cities lie in ruins. At night, something even more dangerous comes out.
The Coastal Café
by Meg Hartwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A café with a hidden past, a woman with a broken heart, and her journey to uncover the truth.
Linda’s life seems to have crumbled like a stale cookie. Divorced, jobless, and with her daughter off at college, her world feels adrift. But fate has a mysterious recipe for change. An unexpected inheritance of a quaint café in Apalachicola, Florida, serves up a fresh start and an enigmatic link to the mother she never knew.
Linda soon finds herself whisked into a small town brimming with Southern charm, where secrets simmer under the warmth of the Floridian sun. Here, she befriends feisty, big-hearted Gail and together they breathe new life into The Hidden Pearl Café, guided by her mother’s old cookie recipes.
One Night Stand After Another
by Amanda Usen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Clara Duke lives to crochet wearable art. But right this second, she’s looking at the one guy who has the uncanny ability to unravel her in every possible way. Zane Brampton. He broke her heart in high school and now wants to make it up to her—in a single night. Just being in the same room as him feels dangerously volatile. A whole night with this delectable, gorgeous man would be nothing less than a total sexpocalypse. But oh, what a way to go.
The sight of Clara and her mouthwatering curves might actually kill restaurateur Zane. Ten years ago, their volcanic chemistry exploded… taking their social circle along with it. But Zane hasn’t forgotten the heat—and this feels almost like fate. He’ll be damned if he’ll let her run from their connection again. And he might just have found his chance to prove he deserves more than just one night…