Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Spring Scribe
by Beatrice Fishback
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Daisy McFarland, a retired teacher from North Carolina living in the English village of Worlingburgh, is suffering from spring fever. Literally. An advert for an inexpensive stay in a lovely, coastal Victorian inn fits the bill for rest and recuperation from a severe case of the flu. With her larger-than-life cat, Pillow, in tow, she makes her way to the seashore town of Aldeburgh.
Settling into the idyllic room at the inn, Daisy expects a quick recovery. What she doesn’t expect is to meet the handsome, retired military officer Mark Stranger, discover that two murders occur shortly after her arrival and ultimately find herself in grave danger…
Sleep No More
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
One woman held captive for decades… Another one freed by the truth…
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it’s like to be haunted by the past. For years after her daughter Bonnie was stolen from her, she fought for closure. But now as she’s striving to begin anew, she can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is about to happen—or maybe already has. When her mother, Sandra, asks for help in finding a missing friend named Beth Avery, Eve is sure that she’s hiding something. It’s odd that Sandra would get involved at all, and the fact that she adamantly refuses to go to the police for help reinforces Eve’s suspicions that something is very wrong.
House of Decay
by Boris Bacic
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There’s something wrong with the house.
The road trip was meant to be a farewell. One last adventure before their friend leaves for college. But when a game of truth or dare leads them into the abandoned house across the road, the night turns into a fight for survival. The house isn’t empty. Something is inside. And it never allows its visitors to leave.
Safe Enough
by Lee Child
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Pulse-pounding short stories from the author Michael Connelly calls “the best thriller writer in the world.”
You know Jack Reacher. Now meet twenty more heroes and heavies from the brilliant mind of legendary crime author Lee Child.
A drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger in “Ten Keys.” A rookie cop in “Normal in Every Way” is assigned to the department’s file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he’s outsmarted…
The Lost Traveller
by Sheila Connolly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pub owner Maura Donovan is settling into a charmed life in Ireland—until a mutilated body on her property ends her lucky streak.
Boston expat Maura Donovan came to Ireland to honor her grandmother’s last wish, but she never expected to stay in provincial County Cork—much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan’s, in the small village of Leap. After a year-long struggle to stay in the black, Sullivan’s is finally thriving, and Maura has even brought back traditional Irish music to the pub. With a crop of new friends and a budding relationship with handsome Mick Nolan, Maura’s life seems rosier than ever—but even in Ireland, you can’t always trust your luck.
Side Effects
by Michael Palmer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate’s closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate’s marriage. Her sanity. life.
Kate has uncovered a horrifying secret. Important people will stop at nothing to protect it. It is a terrifying medical discovery. And its roots lie in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind.
Filthy Rich
by James Patterson, John Connolly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Now a #1 Netflix documentary series. Get the full shocking story about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in this #1 New York Times bestselling and definitive book, updated with the latest headline-making news and new photos.
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers — and for people — Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. That unceasing desire — and especially a taste for underage girls –resulted in sexual-abuse charges, to which he pleaded guilty and received a shockingly lenient sentence.
Sacred Clowns
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.
Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown’s final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.
The Marshal’s Gambit
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Payne Conway didn’t plan on staying in Arizona – until the outlaws start falling to his .44.
After signing on as town marshal in Sentinel, Payne crosses paths with ruthless businessman Sam Horton.
Sam thinks that the desolate railroad town is the perfect place to build a gambling house and brothel, but Payne doesn’t want to watch his community turn into a hotbed of vice and murder.
When Payne tosses one of Sam’s closest allies in jail, he quickly becomes the target of the Hand Gang, Sam’s desperado footmen, for daring to stand in the way of Sam’s sinister ambitions.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Portion of Malice
by Lloyd Jeffries
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Highly recommended for those who love Dan Brown’s intrigue, Stephen King’s psychological depth, and the apocalyptic. Absolutely brilliant.”
An Ancient Evil Rises. Can One Man Stop It?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Emery Merrick holds a pistol to his temple. Then, a knock at the door changes everything. Billionaire Thaddeus Drake offers him a job: write his biography. But Drake hides a chilling secret—he’s Cain, the immortal biblical killer, leading a secret society bent on sacrificing the Earth to a bloodthirsty God.
Plunged into a world of darkness, deceit, and explosive action, Emery must unravel ancient prophecies and confront unimaginable evil…
Nighttime Is My Time
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengeance against women who once humiliated him…and Jean is his final intended victim.
Relative Truth
by Joan Hetzler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Is the truth too old fashion to be believed? Or will the truth set free a popular pastor accused of killing a former church member?
In book two of the Megan O’Connell Mysteries, Megan investigates to find out if a mega church pastor was framed for the murder of a deacon who became wealthy preaching that “all is relative.” Megan’s friend, Lisa, whom she helped find her way back to church after falling away and Detective Fielding, an Atlanta homicide cop and potential love interest, are church members who believe their pastor is innocent. So does the pastor’s beautiful blonde wife, Candy, who is a surprising mixture of Southern charm and street smarts…
The Midwife Murders
by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition—it’s her life’s work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try.
Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. Lucy teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to solve the case, but the truth is far more twisted than a feisty single mom could ever have imagined.
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious.
Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She quickly learns that putting the past behind is not always an option. Sometimes it will chase, overtake, and try to kill you.
Slasher Dancer Prancer
by D.C. Brockwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A totally addictive extreme festive slasher horror that will have you turning the pages late into the night
Nine friends meet at Casa D’Amico, a log cabin by Pine Lake, Colorado, for their annual Christmas vacation. One of them is there for a very different reason.
Murder and mistletoe mingle in the secluded White River National Park, but Alfie Burstow, a seasoned San Francisco homicide detective, has no time for holiday cheer. His last case before Christmas vacation just happens to be the murder of his former lover, Paige Lo Pinto. With his partner taking the lead on the investigation, Alfie heads off to Colorado for some much-needed R&R, unaware that a sinister figure dressed as an elf is hot on his trail, determined to make this Christmas vacation his last.
The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
A Death in Cornwall
by Daniel Silva
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . .
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity.
