Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Penned
by Eileen Brady
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dr. Kate Turner, DVM, is seven months into her one-year contract to cover for a Hudson Valley vet taking a year-long world cruise. She’s getting used to the hospital and house-call workload but not to the sometimes dangerous, if not deadly, critters—animal and human—she meets.
Eighty-something-year-old Gloria LaGuardia has been installed at an assisted living center by her niece. They bump into Kate at the Oak Falls annual Halloween street bash…
Darkest Journey
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
They say it’s about the journey, not the destination…
Charlene “Charlie” Moreau is back in St. Francisville, Louisiana, to work on a movie. One night, she stumbles across the body of a Civil War reenactor, the second murdered in two days. Charlie is shocked to learn that her fathera g – uide on the Journey, a historic paddle wheeler that’s sponsoring the reenactment – is a suspect.
Meanwhile, Ethan Delaney, new to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters, is brought in on the case. He and Charlie have a history of their own, dating back to when he rescued her from a graveyard – led there by a Confederate ghost!
The House Swap
by Miranda Rijks
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell.
When two families organise a house swap, it seems like the perfect holiday arrangement. The Browns will exchange their London townhouse for a stunning chateau in the south of France, the perfect place to relax and rekindle their flagging marriage.
And the Lesters are looking forward to showing their son, Rafael, around their old haunts in the British capital…
Dauntless
by Tom Atwood Jr.
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Kacey Alexander is the typical high school graduate until she receives a chest as part of her inheritance. She looks inside and finds out that her late mother was a Sentinel, a member of an ancient order of Mages, each one dedicated to protecting humans from the forces of Darkness.
She refuses to accept this until her own powers emerge, protecting and healing her body from harm. She finds herself trapped between opposing forces, each one determined to use her to take over her city. She gathers an unlikely alliance: a gruff, older sentinel, a Dark Fey warrior, and a young woman who can control the weather. They gather to face the mercenary Pyrus and his shadowy employer.
Gabriel’s Angel
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tragedy drove Gabriel Bradley into isolation. A secluded cabin, far from those who failed him, provides the shelter his broken heart requires to heal and the space he needs to nurture his works of art. Then in the midst of a blizzard, a very pregnant Laura Malone appears on his doorstep, shivering from more than the cold. His mysterious, beautiful guest—willing to risk her life to protect her unborn child—is clearly in danger. And as Gabriel reluctantly cares for Laura, she returns his attentions with affection and passion, restoring his ability to hope, dream, and to love once again.
Sensation
by Kevin Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Like millions of other kids, Jim grew up wanting to be a superhero. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Jim actually had the goods: a plethora of super powers that would have been the envy of any meta on the planet. But when his tryout with the Alpha League – the world’s premier group of supers – goes disastrously wrong, Jim basically becomes an outcast.
Two years later, Jim is still bitter about what happened to him. However, he soon finds himself the centerpiece in an odd turn of events that gives him a second chance at his dream. But nothing is as easy as it sounds, as Jim soon discovers. Among other things, he’s made an enemy of a prospective super teammate, he’s being stalked by an unknown pursuer, and a shadowy cabal bent on world domination has identified him as the only obstacle to their plans.
The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
by Harry Hunsicker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dallas private investigator Dylan Fisher hasn’ t seen his ex-wife, Rose, in three years— which is why he’ s surprised when she asks him to meet her at a hotel. Rose Doucette is a homicide detective, and she wants Dylan’ s help with a murder investigation that she’ s been asked to step back from but can’ t seem to let go.
They review the details of the case and part ways— but as Rose is leaving the parking lot, Dylan sees a suspicious car begin to follow her. Feeling uneasy, he tails the car and tries to warn Rose, but he’ s too late— the driver of the car shoots her, killing her instantly, before speeding away…
Para-Military Recruiter Complete Series
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Julie Meadows is down on her luck when she receives an e-mail drafting her into the Official Para-Military Agency.
With the help of Taylor and a snarky mystical artifact, Julie races against the clock to avoid a killer mind-wipe. Should she succeed, her place at OPMA will be secure. If she fails, avoiding her mom’s insistence on the health benefits of aloe vera juice won’t be a problem anymore.
Get the complete best-selling Para-Military Recruiter series to find out why fans are enjoying it so much!
In Too Deep
by Lee Child, Andrew Child
Kindle $6.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.
The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Touch Not the Cat
by Mary Stewart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with ‘the gift’ of being able to speak to each other without words.
When Bryony Ashley’s father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words are a cryptic warning to her. Bryony returns from abroad to uncover Ashley Court’s secrets. What did her father’s message mean? What lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? And who is trying to prevent Bryony from discovering the truth?
Washington
by Thomas J. Gebhardt III
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
With the sound of gunshots, the crowd erupts in crying and screams. Some of them wonder what to do, some worry, all wanting to make it out alive. Evan finds he doesn’t think of himself at all but about Judith. Where could she be? Is she safe?
Before that dreaded day, Evan is a new transfer to Washington High School, where he’s reunited with his best friends from childhood. He’s a typical slacker who would rather sketch and daydream than pay attention in class, waiting for the bell to ring so he can go to the arcade and comic book shop after school. When he meets Judith, who aims for perfection and top honors, they slowly grow closer and closer…
Lethal Liaison
by Joey Jaymes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the heart of the nation’s capital, love isn’t just complicated; it’s lethal.
Lacy Langford had her life mapped out with a thriving career in relationship counseling, a steamy relationship with a hot hockey player, and a quiet life in Dupont Circle.
But when past secrets surface and old flames reignite, danger threatens to consume all she holds dear. Is Marcus Grayson, the man she once knew so well, really who she thinks he is? Can she trust him with her life like she once trusted him with her heart, or will confiding in him destroy everything?
The Perfect Husband
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Lisa Gardner’s books come with a built-in set of hands. They reach up out of the pages, grab you by the lapels, and hold you until you’ve read to the final, suspense-filled sentence.” – Linwood Barclay
Jim Beckett was everything she’d ever dreamed of. . . . But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped—and the most dangerous game of all begins…
The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
Extinction
by Douglas Preston
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.
Price of Duty
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The U.S. and its Western allies come under a diabolical Russian cyber warfare attack in this action-packed military techno-thriller from New York Times bestselling master Dale Brown.
In a top-secret location deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian President Gennadiy Gryzlov has built his nation’s most dangerous weapon since the atomic bomb—a fearsome tool to gain superiority in Russia’s long-running battle with the West. From inside Perun Aerie—an intricate network of underground tunnels and chambers that is the heart of the Russian cyber warfare program—he is launching a carefully plotted series of attacks on an unsuspecting U.S. and its European allies..
Heather Graham Presents Krewe of Hunters Christmas Stories
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
“These stories are a wonderful way to celebrate to celebrate Christmas and the great ways and wonders of Christmas times. It’s loving, forgiveness,truth, and hope. This is an excellent collection of Christmas stories presented by Heather Graham who really knows how to put a story on the page and draw you in with a wonderful story. I would recommend this book to anyone who believes in Christmas and the wonders of the Christmas season and the mystery it holds.” by Amazon Customer
Preacher’s Strike
by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Kindle $7.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. SEEK AND YOU SHALL DIE.
Preacher is heading home to the mountains when he’s approached by a wealthy European with an unusual proposition. He wants the legendary mountain man to track down his missing cousin—a reckless young woman who fled to America with her lover—and he’s willing to pay a small fortune to find her. Preacher isn’t one to get mixed up in the affairs of fancy foreigners, but he reluctantly agrees. The search is on. Striking westward from St. Louis, Preacher quickly begins to suspect that this search party is doomed. And this trail will lead to some very dead ends . . .