Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Wardrobe
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Minster’s wife, caterer, and part-time sleuth Faith Fairchild pairs up with Sophie Maxwell, last seen in Body in the Birches and now a newlywed living in historic Savannah, Georgia, where Sophie crosses paths with murder. Another delightful entry in the beloved mystery series, complete with delectable recipes.
Attorney Sophie Maxwell has come to Savannah to be with her new husband, Will. But nothing throws cold water on a hot relationship faster than a dead body. Worse for Sophie, no one believes the body she knows she saw is real…
Unnatural Exposure
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
When a woman turns up dismembered in a landfill, Scarpetta initially suspects the work of a serial killer she’s been tracking. But her investigation turns far more dangerous when she realizes the victim’s skin is covered in an unusual rash—and Scarpetta herself may have just been exposed to a deadly virus.
The Third Secret
by Steve Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion.
Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000…
“M” is for Malice
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“M” is for money. Lots of it. “M” is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands.
“M” is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune–four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them–angry, troubled, and in trouble–went missing.
Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror.
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh.
The Modigliani Scandal
by Ken Follett
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.
A fabulous “lost masterpiece” becomes the ultimate prize—for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind the elegance and glamour of the art world, anything goes—theft, forgery, betrayal, and maybe even murder. . . .
Time Travel Twins
by James Patterson, Tad Safran
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
All that stands between an evil villain and world domination is a pair of twelve-year-olds who just learned they’re time travelers. What could go wrong?!?! This Revolutionary, action-packed adventure is perfect for fans of City Spies, Treasure Hunters, and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.
Twins Pew and Basket Church dream of escaping the miserable misfortune of their isolated orphanage. Or, even better, the return of their unknown parents. But even in their wildest dreams, they never imagined the truth: The twins can travel through time.
Vortex
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
#1 New York Times bestselling Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present.
Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college frat rave with her best friend, Serena, when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena, who was never seen nor heard from again. Now an investigative journalist covering the political scene in New York City, Mia discovers old photos taken the night of Serena’s disappearance and begins to uncover a sinister string of events going all the way back to that disastrous party…
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
by James Lovegrove
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
London, 1890: Days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a distressed new client, Eve Allerthorpe. The eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, Eve believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit.
Eve’s late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick—and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What’s more, she’s received mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.
The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young mother, blond and pretty, vanishes from her South Boston home, leaving behind only one witness—her four-year-old daughter—and one suspect—her handsome, secretive husband.
From the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, instinct tells her that something is seriously off with the wholesome image the couple has worked so hard to create.
The Lightness of Water
by Toni Cabell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion Award
2022 Winner – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
2022 Gold Medal – Best Fantasy Romance – Global Book Awards
Solace is beautiful, strong-willed, and called the water witch by her neighbors. She divines for water in the arid hills of her home – a dangerous pastime across the border, where the king controls access to all the water.
Rhees is brooding, bitter, and hiding a deadly secret. But he’s determined to find a way to help the thirsty people of his land – even if it means kidnapping the last living water diviner.
The Dragon’s Brave Nanny
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Keith never expected to become a single dad overnight.
When his ex leaves their infant son on his doorstep, he’s thrown into chaos. Desperate for help, he hires Stella, a professional nanny hiding from a dangerous past.
As they head to the Heart of the Ocean resort, sparks fly between the struggling father and his new nanny. But when Jordan starts showing signs of his dragon shifter heritage, and Stella’s past catches up to her, Keith is forced to reveal his own secret. With danger closing in, they’ll have to trust each other to survive and protect the family they’re building.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
THE BODY ON THE BEACH
by SIMON BRETT
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“A new neighbor moves in next door named just Jude. Jude is the opposite of Carole and is unconventional. The other event is when Carole takes her dog on a morning walk on the the beach. She discovers a body on the beach. She calls the police (after washing her dog) and they investigate. However, no body can be located. Carole and Jude team up to solve the mystery.
One of my favorite parts is when Jude talks Carole into going into a pub. Carole keeps telling herself that she is not a pub person. After more visits to the village pub, she is on a first name basis with the pub owner. She still is saying that she is not the sort to visit a pub. She does seem to like her white wine.” by Amazon Customer
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
by Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Winner of the This Is Horror Award
Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award
Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award
This is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevered imagination and crafted them into pieces of literary genius. If the absolute fear doesn’t sweep you away, his lyrical and haunting prose will. As Joe R. Lansdale states in the introduction, “You need this book. If you like anything close to horror, and also like your stories to have elements other than just standing in the darkness with a bloody knife, you have the right book. Enjoy.”
The Reunion
by M. J. Arlidge, Steph Broadribb
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it’s not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that send her reeling. It’s the heart-shaped gold pendant, its delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can’t be Hannah. But it is.
When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choose to surround herself with people who were never nice to her? Who still aren’t, even now she’s a police officer? The only person who truly looked out for her all those years ago was charming, beautiful Hannah. Until the day she disappeared…
Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A murder…A tragic accident…Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
Chronicles of the Witchborn Complete Series
by Isabel Campbell, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Those who cross a Blackwood soon learn that they won’t like the results.
Theadora Kathryn Blackwood’s life is just the way she wants it. Thea focuses on what she wants to do, what she wants to study, and the local COVEN hierarchy leaves her the hell alone.
It took years for her to accomplish that much freedom, and now she is about to graduate college, the local coven leader has given her what she wants most. The opportunity to be freed from the shackles of Coven Politics for the rest of her life.
The catch is that she must join the Arcane Investigations Division as an Arcane Consultant for three years.
The Running Grave
by Robert Galbraith
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this New York Times bestselling installment of the “outrageously entertaining” Strike series (Financial Times), detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.
The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.
Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related?
The Root of the Matter
by Lynne Tagawa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
She’s terrified. Time travel. The North Atlantic in winter. Which is worse?
Geneva Fielding is a researcher in the Archives of the Applied History department, prepping time travelers for their destinations. She loves the smell of old paper and chocolate croissants.
One day, a Traveler fails an important test and cannot go. Instead of canceling the Trip, the dean appoints Geneva and her friend Peter Donatelli, a physicist, to take his place. They have three days to prepare to Travel to 1630s New England…
Can the Bay Colony afford to allow a critic of the king to dwell among them? And what will Geneva do when she discovers Peter’s secret?
Such Sharp Teeth
by Rachel Harrison
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive USA Today bestselling novel from the author of Cackle and The Return.
Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby’s father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she’d put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she’s attacked.
Watchers
by A.M. Shine
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You can’t see them. But they can see you.
This forest isn’t charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina’s is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.
Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground…
The Mysterious Bookshop 2023
by Amor Towles
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T.C. Boyle.
In his introduction to this volume, guest editor Amor Towles pays tribute to the forgotten person of the mystery story – the cadaver. “Male or female, old or young, rich or poor,” he writes, “for over a hundred years the cadaver has been accommodating, gracious, and generally on time. There is no other figure in crime who has proven to be more reliable.”
Bethany
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Bethany Holmes had an ordinary life with her parents until the infamous outlaw, Jeremiah Blake, escaped from prison and decided to burn it to the ground.
Haunted by the brutal murder of her family at the hands of the criminal, Bethany is driven by the burning desire of revenge.
Years later, Bethany is finally ready to seek out the outlaw when she hears news of his recent robbery. She had spent a long time training under the watchful eye of a former Pinkerton agent, Theodore James, who guided her through the toughest time of her life.