Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Company
by Virginia Swift
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming’s annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It’s a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town.
Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and for Sally and Hawk, murder is anything but academic. Like the victim, Sally’s done her time in the glare of the late-night neon lights, and she knows how thin the line can be between honky-tonk angels and lost souls…
The Grey Beginning
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Devastated by her husband’s death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace – and discovers something sinister instead. Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro – accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini – Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she has stumbled upon a murderous plot that could cost Kathy her life—for it was meant to stay hidden . . . forever.
Starvation Heights
by Gregg Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women underwent brutal treatments and were emaciated shadows of their former selves…
The Look of Love
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Piper’s back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa for the wealthy and famous – where nip and tuck and murder are offered in equal measures. Clark really hits her stride with The Look of Love, providing a winning recipe for delectable mystery that combines chills, twists, humor and often very romantic suspense in the bestselling vein of Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Faye Kellerman, Elizabeth Lowell, and Jayne Ann Krentz. She even includes scrumptious pastry recipes and fabulous cake design tips.
Blood Sport
by Dick Francis
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a New York Times bestseller, “galloping entertainment” about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks of vacation. So when his boss asks for his help assisting millionaire Dave Teller locate a missing priceless breeding stallion he accepts, against his better judgement.
East of Evil
by Joni M Fisher
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A colossal fortune. A secret reaper. A young woman whose drive for justice makes her the target of dangerous people…
Nefi Jenkins dreams of becoming an FBI agent. After exposing her parents’ heartless killer, the Harvard grad focuses on getting into a stellar criminal justice master’s degree program. But her career goals take a back seat when she inherits a ten-million-dollar trust from her late parents…with a hefty chunk gone.
Can Nefi restore her parent’s wealth before her investigation turns fatal?
Darkness Under the Sun
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween—or for any haunted night—and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt…
Daniel Hudson
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When outlaw Jeb Thornton and his gang ride into town, leaving destruction in their wake and killing Daniel Hudson’s friend, Sheriff Timothy Norton, everything changed. Fueled by grief, Daniel sets out to confront Thornton and his gang.
Along the way Daniel meets Alice Waterson, a fiery woman on a mission of her own. As it turns out, Thornton has killed her husband and she has been hunting him down ever since.
As Daniel and Alice dig into Thornton’s past, they discover a tale of tragedy and revenge…
Sixty Blades of Grass
by Elizabeth Millane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bond between a Dutch teenager and her father is tested as the Resistance wages its secret war on the Nazis: “Darkly lyrical . . . An action filled plot.” —Mary Glickman, author of By the Rivers of Babylon
During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports.
But Rika’s covert activities aren’t the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth.
The Clan of Hogan Falls Boxed Set
by Serena Meadows
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Prepare yourself for these eight stories about female wolf shifters whose lives have been in danger since birth. Abandoned by their clans, they all grew up together and now run a successful bed and breakfast.
But it isn’t until they meet their fated mates that everything becomes turbulent again. The enemies have returned, and the women have much more to lose than just their lives. They now also have their hearts on the line.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Help the Poor Struggler
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. The trail begins at a desolate pub, Help the Poor Struggler. It leads straight to the estate of Lady Jessica, a ten-year-old orphaned heiress who lives with her mysterious uncle and ever-changing series of governesses. And as suspense spreads across the forbidding landscape, an old injustice returns to haunt Macalvie…with clues that link a murder in the distant past with a killing yet to come.
Find Her
by Lisa Gardner
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lisa Gardner’s runaway New York Times bestseller—a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren.
Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.
Easy Go
by Michael Crichton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself.
But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement…
Two Worlds
by Carly Brady
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Heroes of Olympus meets The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in this action-packed, humorous, epic fantasy with mysterious villains, never-before-seen magical creatures, and magical dimensions.
When the lines between reality and magic blur, one teen must find the power within to save the worlds.
One minute James is just a normal high school kid—the next, he’s transported by a crystal ball into another dimension.
Stuck inside this unfamiliar place, James is uncontrollably catapulted through multiple eras in different bodies. Here he meets two wizards Willow and Nova, and an elf named Christopher. To get back to Earth, they must survive deserts, jungles, and war-torn lands from a previous world war.
Night Shadow
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
You met Knight Winthrop, Viscount Castlerosse, in Night Fire. He’s the quintessential Regency bachelor, very happy with his life just the way it is. Then Lily shows up on his doorstep claiming she was betrothed to his murdered cousin. With her are his cousin’s three children. She has no money, nowhere to go. What’s even worse—Ugly Arnold is hard on her heels.
So what’s Knight supposed to do now? He takes them in and kisses his former life goodbye.
In the Heart of the Dark Wood
by Billy Coffey
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A motherless girl hungry for hope . . . and the dream that could be leading her astray.
Almost two years have passed since twelve-year-old Allie Granderson’s beloved mother, Mary, disappeared into the wild tornado winds. Her body has never been found.
Allie clings to memories of her mother, just as she clings to the broken compass she left behind, the makeshift Nativity scene in the front yard, and her best friend Zach. But even with Zach at her side, the compass on her wrist, and the Nativity right outside the window, Allie cannot help but feel lost in all the growing up that must get done.
The Winter List
by S.G. MacLean
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By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.
Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.
Hard Money
by Diane Capri
Kindle $9.99 Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
Accident, curse, or revenge?
Spencer Lyman managed to break free from his criminal underworld and build a legitimate empire. But escaping a crime syndicate is dangerous business.
Old man Lyman won’t accept that his grandson, Ward, is gone. He’s convinced Ward is out there, somewhere, and he’s desperate to find him before those who seek to destroy him finish what they started.