Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at the Hunting Lodge
by Laura Stewart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Scottish village is turned upside-down by a Gaelic pagan festival, an archaeological dig, and a murder, in this absorbing new cozy mystery.
Amelia Adams, proprietor of Stone Manor, is hosting four archaeologists at her luxurious hotel as they excavate a ruined abbey. Meanwhile, the village is preparing for a festival that heralds the start of summer—an event that’s brought Moira, a tarot reader and practicing white witch, back to her hometown…
Stray Souls
by Kate Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she’s a shaman, it’s not a moment too soon: London’s soul is lost. Using her newfound oneness with the City, she sets about saving London from inevitable demise, but the problem is she has no clue where to start. Meanwhile, a mysterious gate has opened, and there are creatures loose that won’t wait for her to catch up before they go out hunting. Now Sharon and her motley crew of magical misfits must find a way to save the world…
Spells & Wishes Complete Series Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if all those fairy tales you learned as a child were true, with a twist? Turns out, the land of Ever After also has a dark underbelly of evil that’s always trying to break out.
We would need a hero with a little firepower.
This fairy godmother carries a Glock 42 as an added accessory with her wand. It also packs a punch. Her job is to cover part of the realm of Ever After and keep it safe. But something’s gone wrong.
Get this complete series boxed set to join Charlotte on her search for answers in Cincinnati!
One Step Too Far
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Timothy O’Day knew the woods. Yet when he disappeared on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip with his best friends in the world, he didn’t leave a trace. What he did leave behind were two heartbroken parents, a crew of guilt-ridden groomsmen, and a pile of clues that don’t add up.
Frankie Elkin doesn’t know the woods, but she knows how to find people. So when she reads that Timothy’s father is organizing one last search, she heads to Wyoming. Despite the rescue team’s reluctance, she joins them…
Nightwatching
by Tracy Sierra
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.
She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.
The Consequences of Fear
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he’s shocked to come face to face with the killer.
Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering a message: Maisie Dobbs. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must maintain extreme caution…
Jian
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Ninja comes the first “authentic and engrossing” thriller in the series featuring Jake Maroc (Los Angeles Times).
Jake Maroc, a top agent for the secret US government agency known as the Quarry, is a martial arts expert on a quest for vengeance. Nichiren, Jake’s deadliest adversary, is a cold-blooded assassin with a deadly secret. And Shi Zilin is a Communist minister, a cunning survivor of turmoil.
But only one can be the Jian: the ultimate master of strength and wisdom…
Caught with a Stolen Diamond
by Sandra Sookoo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jewels and treasures hold no worth when held against the lives of loved ones.
Though thrilled to adventure again, the Countess of Archewyne worries their unexpected trip to India will delay her first official mission as a new king’s agent. But when Emmaline is told she and her husband will trade a priceless diamond for the kidnapped daughter of a marquess, she’s willing to make the sacrifice. Too bad no one knows exactly where the sought-after jewel is…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Hey Diddle Diddle, the Runaway Riddle
by P.C. James
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The One Man and His Dog series is having a special promotion to celebrate the release of book 5: Gold, Greed, and a Hidden Hoard
He was forced to hang up his badge. Now, a kidnapping has raced into his retirement.
England, 1960’s. Former inspector Tom Ramsay is taking advantage of having to step down. Invalided after getting shot in the line of duty, the plain-speaking man adopts a border collie and gets down to the serious business of hiking the scenic countryside of his ancestry. But after hearing over the radio about a missing local, the fifty-five-year-old ex-cop is shocked when a pleasant walk brings him face-to-face with the victim fleeing her captors…
Dark Fire
by C. J. Sansom
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The second novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake!
In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas Cromwell, the king’s feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more weeks to prove his client’s innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find a lost cache of “Dark Fire,” a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with period detail and history…
Listening Woman
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human.
Now the solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man’s secrets—and in the shocking events of a hundred years past…
The Body in the Gallery
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A “savory” mystery featuring a crime-solving caterer and a murder at an art museum, from the Agatha Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly).
Faith’s catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the café at Aleford’s Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive—she discovers that the Romare Bearden piece she lent the museum has been switched with a fake and wants Faith to snoop around to find the culprit…
The Nicholas Linnear Novels
by Eric Van Lustbader
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times–bestselling series in one volume
Born to a British army officer and a Chinese refugee, Nicholas Linnear grows up in Japan, where he falls in love with the nation’s culture, its history, and its deadliest martial arts.
The Ninja,
The Miko,
White Ninja
Dry Bones
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+
When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum – until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond. With millions of dollars at stake, a number of groups step forward to claim her, including Danny’s family, the tribe, and the federal government. As Wyoming’s Acting Deputy Attorney and a cadre of FBI officers descend on the town, Walt is determined to find out who would benefit from Danny’s death…
The Book of Crowe
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance
Sheriff Sterling Crowe has always done things by the book—until the day his partner is gunned down in cold blood. Now, he wants justice.
The man responsible is outlaw Elias Mercer. He believes he’s untouchable. But he didn’t count on Crowe coming after him. And he didn’t count on Billie.
She’s as reckless as she is determined, and she has her own score to settle—her brother’s death. Crowe knows he should keep her out of it, but Billie won’t back down. As they hunt Mercer across the untamed frontier, Crowe finds himself battling more than just outlaws.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #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…
The Medici Return
by Steve Berry
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ—a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries—now worth in the trillions of dollars. But collecting that debt centers around what happened to the famed Medici of Florence—a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago.
Who will become the next prime minister of Italy, and who will be the next pope? Finding answers proves difficult until Cotton realizes that everything hinges on when, and if, the Medici return.
The Writer
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $14.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. “This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?”
Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?