Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder
by Gay Marris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
London, 1968. A suburban London street. But this is no ordinary road.
In number 17 live a bitter daughter and her mother, trapped with each other. Or are they?
The twin brothers at number 3 think they’re nothing like each other, but they may be proved wrong. Lesley disappeared from number 49 years ago. Then her body is found, and with it more secrets.
Atbara Avenue is a street where, all too often, murder feels like the solution.
The Steel Kiss
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She’s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not have been an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons.
The Final Witness
by T. R. Britten
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In a world where faith is forbidden and society is rigidly divided by the State, one boy refuses to surrender. After the tragic loss of his parents, David returns to England to live with his aunt and enrols at Angel Academy—a school under the iron rule of a sinister director, Mr. Molech. As David doubts God, he finds unexpected hope through two loyal friends and mysterious chalkboard messages from an unseen ally.
But as classmates begin to vanish and the regime tightens its grip, David faces an impossible choice: conform to survive—or risk everything to follow the truth…
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
Night Home
by Rose Titus
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When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town who knew the professor almost a century ago, and learns that everything he wrote in the notes he kept is true. And then she finds herself stalked by a vampire hunter.
The Sword Brothers
by Peter Darman
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Jerusalem may have fallen to the Saracens but in the Baltic Bishop Albert of Riga has created the crusader state of Livonia to bring the word of God to the indigenous pagans. The battle to convert the natives is savage and unrelenting and into this holy war is thrust Conrad Wolff, a young native of the city of Lübeck whose family has suffered a terrible injustice.
Forced to leave his homeland to seek sanctuary in Livonia, Conrad’s fate is soon entwined with that of the Sword Brothers, the order of warrior monks that fights to defend and expand Christendom in the Baltic. But as Conrad begins his training to become a member of the brethren, the enemies of the Bishop of Riga gather and soon Livonia is surrounded and battling for its very existence.
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The Cradle Will Fall
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman’s body into the trunk of a car…or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare?
At work the next day, Katie began investigating a suicide that looked more like murder. Initial evidence pointed elsewhere, but medical examiner Richard Carroll saw a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. He suspected that the famous doctor’s work “curing” infertile women was more than controversial—that it was deceitful, depraved, and often deadly…
MYSTERY Nightmare Journey: Across Time
by Crystal Mary Lindsey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
Will This Young Woman Meet Success or Will She Be Destroyed by Her own Making? Eyes Meet and Hearts Ignite.
Star Tripodi, a headstrong, and a sensationally beautiful young woman has her mind full of intoxicating future dreams. This WILD female believes herself beyond reproof from any authority, and that includes GOD. Gorgeously attractive Doctor Blain Conway, a neurosurgeon, and new to town, becomes ENCHANTED with Star when he first sets eyes on her. His DESIRE is captured. Abruptly all comes crashing down on Star one fateful day when at the wrong place she gets struck by a speeding car. Taken to hospital and placed in INTENSIVE CARE on life support, it will be Doctor Conway who takes charge of her critical care. In her delirium, Star is attacked by DEMONS before careering back through time to early colonial Virginia of 1754…
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
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Cooper Sullivan spent the summers of his youth on his grandparents’ South Dakota ranch, sharing innocent games and stolen kisses with the neighbor girl, Lil Chance. Now, twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills.
Though the memory of Coop’s touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something—or someone—has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into a heartless attack on Lil’s beloved cougar, memories of an unsolved murder have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
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When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
April Fool Dead
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool’s prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic — if rarely tranquil — South Carolina island of Broward’s Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward’s Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it’s up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail of the vicious trickster — or a secret slayer’s next lethal “joke” may very well be on her!
Beyond Mercenary Complete Series Boxed Set
by M Guida, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
We thought we knew the drill – stake ’em, salt ’em, save the day. That was until we met our newest nightmare: vampires, or so we thought, leaving nothing but skeletons in their wake. These creatures, they’re playing by rules we’ve never seen, and we’re in way over our heads.
Grab this complete series boxed set and dive into a chilling new tale, where supernatural hunters Sawyer and Damon Grant face a sinister force that defies everything they know.
The Palm Beach Murder
by Marion Collins
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It was the perfect marriage between a Florida millionaire and an Atlanta socialite—until a hitman came between them. From the author of Without a Trace.
For thirty-three-year-old millionaire James Sullivan, sweeping Lita McClinton off her feet was easy. But when the reckless social climber and adulterer turned marriage in their Palm Beach mansion into a luxurious hell, the beautiful Georgia debutante wanted out—and half of her husband’s fortune to take with her.
Then in 1987, a hitman unloaded three bullets into Lita’s head…
Kachina Doll Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
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When she goes to pay her bill at a bed and breakfast she’s stayed at for 3 days, Jordan finds the owner murdered and becomes the chief suspect, because she was the only guest the previous night. The suspicion only gets worse when the woman’s strange will leaves the property to her, a total stranger.
Jordan prides herself in being tough, but having fled the cool, piney woods of Georgia for the hostile Arizona desert to escape her jealous ex-husband, Jordan finds herself in alien surroundings that tax her to the max. Eerily surrounded by a legion of Native American kachina dolls, and both two-legged and four-legged strangers, she is thrust into a mystery that doesn’t end with the first murder.
Split Second
by Catherine Coulter
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A serial killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer has blood ties to an infamous and now long-dead monster. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on.
At the same time, Agent Carlyle learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn’t simply walk away from his family twenty-two years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy’s grandmother…
This Scorched Earth
by William Gear
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from devastation to rebirth following the American Civil War, from New York Times bestselling author William Gear.
The Hancocks of Arkansas were true American pioneers: tough, enterprising, eager to make their own destinies.
Then came the Civil War, the deadly, murderous conflict that sundered the bonds between brothers, destroyed most of a generation, and cast the Hancocks to the winds…
A Stranger Is Watching
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson—yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson’s death will not stop the pain and anger of Nina’s husband, Steve. Thompson’s death will not still the fears of Nina’s six-year-old son, Neil, witness to his mother’s brutal slaying. Not even the love and friendship of Sharon Martin, a journalist who is slowly becoming a part of their world, will ever erase their bitter memories…
A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci
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Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she’d hoped for as she’s confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.