Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Sleigh
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Caterer and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild is back to solve her eighteenth deadly mystery in The Body in the Sleigh—the latest perfect puzzler in author Katherine Hall Page’s multiple Agatha Award-winning series. Set on Sanpere Island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, this atmospheric holiday whodunit is chock-full of suspense, surprises, real heart, and small miracles. And, as always, the mystery comes with recipes for delectable holiday treats from Faith Fairchild’s kitchen.
Dragon Teeth
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
A River in the Sky
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.” New York Times Book Review
Intrepid archaeologist and superior sleuth Amelia Peabody returns in A River in the Sky. In this breathtaking new adventure, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters transports the indomitable Amelia and her family, the Emersons, from their usual milieu, early twentieth-century Egypt, to an exciting—and dangerous—new locale: Palestine!
The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel
by K.T. Rose
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
As Riley prepares to serve at an elite party, she can’t help but feel drawn to the infamous Gallagher Hotel. Little does she know, Chris, a kleptomaniac turned professional thief, has the same destination in mind as he tries to escape his past. As they both arrive at the luxurious hotel, they quickly realize that there is more at play than just a celebration. Each guest has a deadly secret, and when night falls, their pasts come back to haunt them. Now, Riley and Chris must fight for their lives against vengeful spirits who will stop at nothing to hold them accountable for their sins.
Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered — above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she’s got to play dead. She’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel…
Daddy’s Little Girl
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister was murdered near their home in New York’s Westchester County. It was young Ellie’s tearful testimony that put Rob Westerfield, the nineteen-year-old scion of a prominent family, in jail despite the existence of two other viable suspects. Twenty-two years later, Westerfield, who maintains his innocence, is paroled. Determined to thwart his attempts to pin the crime on another, Ellie, an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, returns home and starts writing a book that will conclusively prove Westerfield’s guilt.
West of Famous
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A young woman plays the role of her life when kidnappers mistake her for a celebrity. Those who know where she is don’t value her life. Those who do, don’t know she’s missing. Who will pay for their mistake?
The third book in the Compass Crimes suspense novel series, West of Famous is set in Florida’s wilderness known as the 10,000 islands, where bootleggers delivered alcohol during Prohibition and drug runners trafficked in the 1970s and 1980s.
EON
by Earl E. Hardman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the far future, mankind lives safe and secure behind the Chronos Ring – an automatic defense system that encircles the area of space occupied by human beings. The Ring keeps out all of humanity’s enemies – in particular, a vicious race of reptilians known as the Parsnaak.
On the outer fringe of human-occupied space is the planet Muse, an entire world dedicated and established as a colossal museum – a storehouse of antiquities and relics from the ancient histories of both men and aliens. There, Ian Lotus, a man with his own mysterious past, has chosen to live in deliberate obscurity, harboring secrets that could reshape mankind’s destiny.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Halloween Cupcake Murder Collection
by Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, Carol J. Perry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
From Galway, Ireland, to the North Pole, to Salem, Massachusetts, a trio of Halloween mysteries that prove the spookiest season knows no borders . . . and neither does murder!
HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE MURDER by CARLENE O’CONNOR
MRS. CLAUS AND THE CANDY CORN CAPER by LIZ IRELAND
A TRIPLE LAYER HALLOWEEN MURDER by CAROL J. PERRY
Cold Hands, Cold Heart
by Madison Boyd
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.0 #ad
Homicide Detective Daniel Gray has discovered a chilling truth: Nurse Cathy, a respected caregiver at University Health of South Carolina, is secretly a ruthless serial killer. But before he can act, a devastating car crash leaves Gray trapped in his own body – conscious yet paralyzed, unable to move or speak.
In a cruel twist of fate, Nurse Cathy becomes Gray’s primary caregiver. As he lies helpless in his hospital bed, Gray is forced to listen as she whispers her darkest secrets, taunting and terrorizing him with the knowledge he cannot share. With each passing day, more patients succumb to Cathy’s twisted brand of ‘mercy’, while Gray struggles desperately to find a way to communicate with someone, anyone, who can help him.
Under the Radar
by Nonna Henry
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
No one is who they appear to be. Not even the enemy.
Baltimore social worker Mo Reardon is dreaming of a margarita, a manicure, and a beach vacation. And it wouldn’t hurt to understand why the most sizzling man she ever met ghosted after her best friend’s wedding. But one phone call to the police changes everything. She’s running for her life.
Commander Mac Mackenzie is a discriminating hunk of hotness. His arms have held rifles and women from around the globe. But the one woman who locked and loaded his heart over a pool table isn’t interested anymore. That is—until their lives collide under unusual circumstances.
Empire of Wild
by Cherie Dimaline
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou—a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people’s communities.
Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year—ever since that terrible night they’d had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan…
Elmore Leonard Classic 3-Book Collection
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard has written over forty books, including four about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the captivating hero of the hit FX series Justified. Now three of Leonard’s best novels—Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues, and Killshot—are together in one classic ebook collection.
“I did not know Elmore Leonard until I saw the series Justified. Being someone that always loved the books more than the movie/TV adaptions of said books I had to check the author out. I have not yet made it through all his novels but I am enjoying every minute spent in his imagination.” by Amazon Customer
Finding Moon
by Tony Hillerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias’s life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother’s baby daughter—a child Moon never knew existed—is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.
A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he’ll risk everything for the sake of one little girl—and discover a Moon Mathias who’s a better man than he ever thought he could be.
Slight Mourning
by Catherine Aird
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this classic parlor mystery from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a dinner party that ended in murder
Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park—but only eleven survive the evening. After dinner, the host, William Fent, offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die behind the wheel in a violent accident. The autopsy shows that Fent ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse…
Trailing Star
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Star Holiday is on the run.
Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery.
Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger.
Star is the only person that sees justice has been served.