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.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
To the Nines
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
But hey, she’s from Jersey.
Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she’s pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way . . . and she always gets her man. In To the Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who’s also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word hunter.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White—veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity—when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind.
A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government.
Stilettos and Sniper Rifles
by Gail Koger
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
I’ve been a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy for four years. Most folks don’t have a clue about what a cop deals with every day. Like a pack of attack chihuahuas, a monkey with a bad case of diarrhea, a hungry python, a Brahma bull named Bodacious and a six-foot iguana.
And that is just the critters. Now let me tell you about the two-legged varmints. Such as a three-hundred-pound biker who got a bit irate when I zapped him with a stun gun, or a murderous nun, and let’s not forget the senior citizens having an orgy. Ugh…
The Merlot Murders
by Ellen Crosby
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery’s semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family’s five-hundred-acre Virginia vineyard just as the fall harvest is about to begin. By the time he calls, Eli has already made funeral arrangements with what Lucie argues is indecent haste.
It is an emotional trip home—the first since an automobile accident two years ago, which left Lucie disabled and dependent on a cane. Her family’s once elegant home and winery are now shabby and run-down, thanks to her father’s penchant for fringy business deals…
Double Down: The Complete Series
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6#ad
Washington DC is hiding a secret. It reaches the highest echelons of government. Can this team expose the truth?
Private security force Double Down are the only ones who can take down the threat. When his sister is kidnapped, Navy SEAL Bradley has to face his feelings for Alexis as they work together to get her back. Double Down operative Mint has to track down and protect Emma. But things aren’t what they seem. Can he keep them both alive long enough to uncover the truth? Megan has a dark past. And it’s back to haunt her as she teams up with FBI agent Adrian. Together they take down a rogue FBI agent with a deadly weapon. Senator Rachel refuses to be a victim anymore. She’ll fight back against the blackmailer in the final story of the series. Steve is a fugitive on the run. But when Rachel’s life is threatened he’ll stick around to protect her. Can the team compile the evidence to expose this plot?
One Summer
by David Baldacci
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Beautifully written.” – Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box
It’s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country.
ALL THAT WAS TAKEN
by Lisette Brodey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
All That Was Taken is a novel of psychological suspense that delves deeply into love, loss, and healing.
For eight years, John Hennessey has lived in near-solitude on Catalina Island. He keeps his world small, for every precious thing in his life has been taken from him. But when his peaceful existence is threatened, he buys a cottage farther up the California coast in the sleepy town of Teal Beach.
There he meets Sunny Harrison, owner of the Teal Beach Sundial Inn where he stays until his cottage is ready for move in. The connection between them is magical, though both are surviving painful pasts and are afraid to trust … especially as an undercurrent of darkness dwells in their midst.
The Palace Perfumer
by Kaitlynn Clarkson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
There’s nothing like a palace to turn love into a scandal…
Fragrance chemist Kate Christie has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime. The catch? It’s in Morocco, inside a royal palace.
Adel Hansom is drawn to the brave woman who is determined to make her mark in the world of fragrance. Among the exotic scents and close daily encounters of the perfumery, an unexpected connection begins to grow, and for the first time, he starts to imagine a future he never planned for.
The Crossroads
by C.J. Box
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why.
A River Red With Blood
by John Connolly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Two intertwined disappearances leave a rural community in shock in the latest gripping Charlie Parker novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens” school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils—one new and one ancient—to an end…