Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
by Alan Bradley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce’s sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon.
“A church is a wonderful place for a wedding,” muses Flavia, “surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar.” Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional…
Houses of Stone
by Barbara Michaels
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is a find of inestimable value for Karen Holloway. The battered manuscript she holds in her hand – written in the nineteenth century and bearing the mysterious attribution “Ismene” – could prove a boon to the eager young English professor’s career. But Karen’s search for the author’s true identity is carrying her into the gray shadows of the past, to places fraught with danger and terror. For the deeper she delves into Ismene’s strange tale of gothic horror, the more she is haunted by the suspicion that the long-dead author was writing the truth…
The Wingman Adventures Volume Two
by Mack Maloney
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hawk Hunter is America’s best hope—in the bestselling military adventure series by “the best high-action thriller writer out there today, bar none” (Jon Land).
With nearly a quarter million copies sold, this high-octane series features Hawk Hunter, a fearless fighter pilot who saves the not-so-distant-future United States from the brink of all-out anarchy.
Thunder in the East,
The Twisted Cross,
The Final Storm,
Freedom Express
Without Pity
by Ann Rule
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing cases from that acclaimed series—and presents shocking, all-new true-crime accounts—in one riveting anthology.
In every explosive chapter of Without Pity, Ann Rule deepens her unrelenting exploration of the evil that lies behind the perfect facades of heartless killers . . . and the deadly compulsions of greed and power that shatter their outward trappings of material success.
Hot Ice
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looks and quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny. She has the cash and the connections. He has the stolen documents leading to a fabulous hidden fortune. It is a business proposition, pure and simple.
But the race to find the treasure, from Manhattan to Madagascar, is only part of the game. For their fierce and dangerous attraction to each other soon threatens to overwhelm them—unless their merciless and shadowy rivals kill them first.
Monsters at Midnight Collection
by Nick Clausen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
29 SCARY HORROR STORIES IN ONE SUPER COLLECTION
Spanning everything from vampires and werewolves to ghosts and wendigos, this collection of supernatural horror stories brings you the finest thrills and chills from the bestselling author of Dead Meat and Cadaver.
Don’t miss this limited-time offer. Grab your copy now and dive into the depths of the dark imagination that spawned these highly entertaining and fear-fueled adventures…
The Secret Shack
by Chris Brown
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
2020 Illumination Book Award Gold Medal for the Biography/Memoir category with his first published book, Child of Grace: A Death Row Story.
Mia finally goes to Secret Bible Society headquarters, but she and her friends scramble to escape with their stash of Bibles after a federal agent discovers their hideout. Can they outsmart big bullies and an angry agent to save the Bibles?
The Sins of the Father
by Jeffrey Archer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The Sins of the Father.
Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Pyramid Murders
by Fiona Veitch Smith
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale!
1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate sarcophagus, is finally opened and it turns out the mummy inside it is a fake, it looks like there is no rest for Clara after all…
Robert B. Parker’s Bad Influence
by Alison Gaylin
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in this exciting new thriller in the bestselling series.
Sunny Randall’s newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all the perks the lifestyle entails—a beautiful girlfriend, wealth, and adoring fans. But one of those fans has turned ugly, and Sunny is brought on board by Blake’s manager, Bethany, to protect him and to uncover who is out to kill him. In doing so, she investigates a glamorous world rife with lies and schemes…and ties to a dangerous criminal scene.
The Curse of Imhotep
by J. Robert Kennedy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
ALL WHO DISTURB THE TOMB OF IMHOTEP ARE DOOMED TO DIE. AND PROFESSOR JAMES ACTON HAS JUST DISCOVERED ITS LOCATION.
Djoser, Pharaoh of Egypt, has set his eyes on his next conquest. Imhotep’s youngest sister. Imhotep, respected physician and architect, trusted advisor to Djoser, is placed in an impossible position—turn a blind eye, condemning his sister’s future, or lose everything by intervening…
Alpha Colony: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
The End Has Arrived
The civilization of man has fallen. A mindless alien race has swept across the colonies, consuming structures and people along the way. As humanity stands on the brink of destruction, we have one hope to preserve what’s left of our culture and very lives. The Passage.
One of the greatest scientific achievements of humanity, a gateway that will hyper-accelerate our faster than light drives so we can cover an unimaginable distance. A new home waits beyond, one far from our aggressors. But can we escape the desolation of our old empire before it’s too late?
Borrowed Angel
by Heather Graham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It was supposed to be a great gig: a high-profile photo shoot in the Florida Everglades, with Ashley Dane modeling a set of famous emeralds. Instead, Ashley finds herself fleeing through the snake-filled swamp after witnessing a murder. Writer Eric Hawk is also on the run—he’s being hunted by a man from his past. Ashley doesn’t completely trust Eric, but she has no one else to turn to . . . and she finds him irresistible.
Unrelenting threats keep them on the move through the dangerous terrain, and although they come from different worlds, their deepening feelings for each other make them believe they might have a future together . . . if they make it out alive.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Otto Penzler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sherlock Holmes’s most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery
The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer’s daughter across the pitch-dark moor of Grimpen with vile intentions. The poor girl died of fright, but Baskerville’s fate was worse—a giant black hound, eyes afire and jaws dripping with blood, tore out his throat and devoured it on the spot. Since then, the specter of that terrible beast has haunted Baskerville Hall, many of whose inhabitants have met violent, mysterious, and tragic ends.
Bloody Rose
by Nicholas Eames
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A band of fabled mercenaries tour a wild fantasy landscape, battling monsters in arenas in front of thousands of adoring fans. But, a secret and dangerous gig ushers them to the frozen north, and the band is never one to waste a shot at glory. Live fast, die young.
Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.
Texas Ranger
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mitchell Rankin couldn’t stop his parents’ violent death when he was a boy.
Now the outlaws and Indians of South Texas can’t stop Mitchell Rankin.
Fifteen years after a Comanche raid upturned his young life, Mitchell joins the newly formed Frontier Battalion to help bring peace to his Texan homeland. He’s putting desperadoes on notice: someone has to pay the price for what was done to his family.