Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mysterious Affair at Styled Magazine
by C.A. Larmer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in the glamorously shallow world of women’s magazines, the Book Club’s eighth whodunit sees the return of the characters that made Book One a global sensation!
Beauty Assistant Ginny DeRosso has never fitted in at Styled magazine – too flirty, too “common” and far too inquisitive. So when she falls to her death in front of a city train, her old work pal Alicia Finlay suspects foul play. And it’s not just because of the looks of relief on her colleagues’ Botoxed faces…
False Connections
by Steve Sheppard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three years ago, Mel Milano was an MI5 intelligence officer with a promising career. Then, during a routine protection and surveillance operation in Wales, things went drastically wrong and three people died, including Mel’s partner and fiancé, Liam Webster.
Drummed out of the service on trumped-up charges by MI5 Deputy Director, Sarah Brook, Mel lost her career, her self-respect, her confidence and her fiancé. Nothing made sense.
Three years on, she is rebuilding her life, working for a private security outfit.
But she’s never forgiven the way she was dumped by MI5. One day she’ll discover the truth about Brook and what was really going on.
Six Days Spent
by Luana Ehrlich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When private investigator Mylas Grey gets a call from the wife of a high-profile Pentagon official, he assumes it’s about their appointment to discuss a possible stalker.
It’s not. It’s about her husband—he’s just been murdered. Mylas agrees to investigate the murder, even though he’s supposed to help Whitney find a place to live in the next six days. Can he do both?
As it turns out, finding a killer and finding a house have a lot in common . . .
Both require connections . . . Not only does Mylas need access to a neighborhood security video, as well as the password to a secret Pentagon file, he also needs a realtor who understands Whitney’s housing needs…
Cycles
by PM Kester
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
What would you do if you didn’t recognize the face in the mirror?
In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, Cailynn wakes up with a new face, fragmented memories, and a folder that claims to define her identity. Surrounded by women in identical black dresses and watched closely by a government that insists on obedience, she quickly realizes she’s not like the others-some of her memories have survived the state’s “cycling” process, a brutal system that resets minds to maintain control.
Told she exists only to serve, Cailynn tries to blend in. But her fragile cover is shattered when a mysterious stranger calls her by a different name and warns her that she has only 28 days before she cycles again-permanently.
Cold Case in the Hot Desert
by Bruce Rolfe
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two tech-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter.
The Ultimate Rose and Gen Beaufont Collection
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Beaufont legacy spans six centuries and the women who carry it don’t play by anyone’s rules but their own.
Rose Harkness has spent her whole life protected, shielded, and lied to about who she really is. When a magical dragon tears her world apart, she discovers her true name — Beaufont — and a birthright that comes with impossible expectations. Is Rose the witch hunter they’ve been waiting for?
Six hundred years earlier, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg, defied every rule her era had, and accidentally stepped through a time travel gate into modern America. Now this Medieval warrior must reckon with the magical dynasty her family built and decide if she’s ready to save a world that doesn’t know her name.
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Scorpion
by Don Mann, Ralph Pezzullo
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“The action is nonstop, and Mann does a fine job giving readers the feel of what it’s like to be a member of the SEALs, from danger to camaraderie.” —Booklist
When a cargo ship is captured by pirates off the east coast of Africa, SEAL Team Six is called into action. What looks at first like a simple search and rescue turns much more perilous when the ship’s cargo is revealed to be yellowcake, a critical component in nuclear weaponry. Thomas Crocker and his squad are dispatched to Libya with a clear objective: to secure the dangerous materials before terrorists can unleash nuclear havoc on the world.
You First
by Caroline Kepnes
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love . . . first obsession . . . first kill? Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show.
Joe Goldberg is ready for his life to start. He’s seventeen years old, working in Mr. Mooney’s bookshop, falling in love with every girl on the subway all while wondering who will be the one. He knows what he needs: A woman who will force him to get his GED, go to night school, and make something of himself. But who would ever fall in love with him?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Love Talker
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now.
There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter’s evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about—and she has photographs to prove it.
Laci: Inside the Laci Peterson Murder
by Michael Fleeman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An in-depth look at one of the most shocking and controversial crimes to capture the nation’s attention from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci Peterson’s grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci’s decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a possible “coffin birth.” It was a sad closure to an exhaustive search, and a grim end to a marriage that by all accounts had appeared to be perfect.
If Tomorrow Comes
by Nancy Kress
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity succeeds in building a ship, Friendship, to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected. No interplanetary culture, no industrial base—and no cure for the spore disease.
A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred and far more than ten years have passed.
Once again scientists find themselves in a race against time to save humanity and their kind from a deadly virus while a clock of a different sort runs down on a military solution no less deadly to all…
Her Latest Disappearance Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She escaped a hideous crime…and now had to deal with an even bigger threat.
It seemed as if no matter what she did or where she ran, it was only to find herself facing another disastrous situation.
Actually, she’d mostly walked after just barely escaping the guy who planned to kidnap her…or a worst crime she didn’t want to think about. It had been a long and harrowing trip to her personal small town USA…definitely not her idea of a fun vacation.
But from the very beginning, she’d felt certain that if she could just get to her little house in Burlington she’d be safe. She thought she was so smart. She was wrong and so completely out of her depth. She was also unbelievably tired.
And now, standing at the front door of her home in the small town by the river, the one place where she should be safe…believed she’d be safe…it turned out that the very same danger she’d faced hundred of miles to the east of her small home had once again followed her. But this time there was no where else to go.
Blame
by Jeff Abbott
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Sometimes the person you thought you knew best . . .Turns out to be someone you never really knew at all.
The crash that killed him. Two years ago, Jane Norton crashed her car on a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving her with amnesia. At first, everyone was sympathetic. Then they found Jane’s note: I wish we were dead together.
A girl to blame From that day the town turned against her. But even now Jane is filled with questions: Why were they on that road? Why was she with David? Did she really want to die?
Measure of a Man
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Isaiah Cole asked for justice. The town gave him silence.
Cattle money and freight routes keep the frontier town alive, but true power rests with Caleb Horne. A wealthy rancher with armed riders at his command, Horne controls land, law, and guns. No one challenges him. Those who do don’t last.
Isaiah Cole keeps his head down. A Black laborer on the edge of Red Willow town, he works honest jobs and raises his young daughter, Ruth, teaching her that decency still matters.
Until men tied to Horne take her.
Gone Rogue
by James Leonard
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Hale Rutherford has hunted dangerous men before, but never one like this.
Kinsey Galway was a Pinkerton, until he spent six months riding with the worst outlaw gangs in the territory and decided he liked their side better.
Now he commands a network of killers, couriers, and bought men embedded so deep in ordinary life that no posse could dig them out.
Transform: Tune In to Turn On Your Authentic Self
by Joni L. Davis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Learn to recognize unmet needs and restore the parts of yourself that were never broken, only hiding in the shadows.
Licensed Family and Marriage Counselor Joni L. Davis explores the ways in which unmet needs negatively rule our lives. Whether it’s a longing for love, a desire to be heard, or a wish to be validated, Transform teaches you how to reconnect with your internal resources to implement real, lasting change.
Based on a True Story
by Sarah Vaughan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A compelling novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.
All families have secrets. But it’s the lies that can kill.
A lavish seventieth birthday party. A body found on a storm-lashed beach. And a secret that someone is dying to tell. . . .
Famed children’s author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They’re celebrating her birthday—and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and her cubs.