Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Clawed and Dangerous
by Rita Mae Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a series of suspiciously similar deaths begin to pop up across Crozet, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen must connect the dots with the help of her beloved cats and dogs in the latest mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown.
The leaves have fallen in Crozet, Virginia, and with a sudden downpour of cold rain, autumn gloom has settled. But Harry and her best friend, Susan, are determined to cheer up the town, and with the help of a kind local doctor, they just might succeed. Not only is Dr. Anglin kind and generous, he’s also the owner of multiple properties, and he agrees to let Harry and Susan use one of his homes to throw a spooky Halloween bash.
The Key
by Kathryn Hughes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
1956 It’s Ellen Crosby’s first day as a student nurse at Ambergate Hospital. When she meets a young woman admitted by her father, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change both their lives for ever…
2006 Sarah is drawn to the now abandoned Ambergate. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who entered Ambergate fifty years earlier.
Sheltered by the Doctor
by Danielle Grandinetti
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A fake relationship might keep her safe, but will it break their hearts?
Wisconsin, 1931—Mindy Zahn can’t understand why her parents deserted the family farm, leaving her mute younger sister in her care. Until her mother’s cryptic warning to keep her sister safe becomes a life-threatening task.
Searching for that elusive something to ease his weary heart, Dr. Nick Matrone is drawn to the cheery Mindy. He would never presume to bring such a sweet woman into his beleaguered past, so friendship is all he can offer. Except, he doesn’t expect needing to save her life.
Lullabies For Suffering
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Addiction starts like a sweet lullaby sung by a trusted loved one. It washes away the pains of the day and wraps you in the warmness of the womb where nothing hurts and every dream is possible.
Yet soon enough, this warm state of bliss becomes a cold shiver, the ecstasy and dreams become nightmares, yet we can’t stop listening to the lullaby. We crave to hear the siren song as it rips us apart.
A powerful list of talent has woven tales featuring the insidious nature of addiction—damaged humans craving for highs and wholeness but finding something more tragic and horrific on the other side. You’re invited to listen to these Lullabies for Suffering.
Pretty Baby
by Mary Kubica
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family’s objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.
The Scattered Word
by William Pickrel
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Before the Flood, the Word was whole.
Now the earth is handing it back — scattered, one piece at a time.
When a landslide tears open a Colorado ridge, survivalist Caleb Dale pulls a bronze box out of ground that has been sealed since before the Flood. He films it, the way he films everything. By morning the video has millions of views — and it has been seen by people who have waited a very long time for that box to surface.
Inside is writing older than writing. His uncle Michael, a scholar who has buried his grief in ancient texts, can read it. So can Michael’s blind brother Brandon, who reads it with his hands. They do not read the same thing. The Scattered Word answers the heart that holds it, and it will not be forced.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In a race against time, Lincoln’s prime objective is to discover the killer’s identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim…
The Surgeon’s Psychic Nurse
by Laney Shaw
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She can sense danger before anyone else. He believes only in science.
When a quiet operating room nurse repeatedly saves lives through an impossible gift, the new surgeon can’t explain what he’s seeing—but he can’t ignore it either.
As friendship turns to love in a charming small town, they’ll discover that the greatest leap of faith isn’t believing in the impossible…
It’s believing in each other.
The Death Row Club
by V. A. Vazquez
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers…but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions.
When Nicola Fischer’s father is arrested for the murder of five women—including her best friend—the entire world watches it unfold on To Catch a Killer, the hit true crime TV show hosted by Greer Woods. Overnight, Nicola becomes a pariah: fired from her job, drowning in debt, and shunned by everyone she knows.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Alibi
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The sensational murder of powerful tycoon Lute Pettijohn has rocked Charleston. Prosecutor Hammond Cross sees his chance to become the city’s next district attorney . . . but only if he can put a killer behind bars.
Hammond’s investigation turns up more than one person who wants Pettijohn dead. But when the prime suspect turns out to be a mysterious woman who holds a secret that could shatter Hammond’s ambitions, he faces a moral dilemma and a haunting question: Was he set up to be the perfect alibi?
Matt Claymore
by William Black
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Once, Matt Claymore wore a badge and made outlaws think twice about riding into Victor, Texas.
As sheriff, the six-foot-four lawman kept the town’s peace with steady hands and a quick gun. Then, one night changed everything.
When his wife Sarah was killed by a careless drunk, the badge stopped meaning anything. Matt walked away from the law and the man he used to be.
Five years later, Victor town faces a new threat.
Rescued Hearts
by Hope Toler Dougherty
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
He sacrificed his cover to save her life. Now protecting her may cost him his heart.
Children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball never imagined rescuing a stranded kitten would land her in the hands of dangerous criminals. Beaten, bound, and held captive in an abandoned farmhouse, she believes her chances of escape have disappeared when a third man arrives.
But Brett Davis isn’t another criminal.
A Morning for Flamingos
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A cajun cop infiltrates the mob…but is he too close?
A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.
His partner is dead — slain during a condemned prisoner’s bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
H IS FOR HUSTLER When PI Kinsey Millhone’s good friend and colleague Parnell Perkins is found murdered in the parking lot behind California Fidelity Insurance, she can’t believe he had any enemies. The only clue that raises a red flag for Kinsey is one of Parnell’s files on a Bibianna Diaz, who appears to have made a lucrative career out of scamming insurance companies with phony claims…
H IS FOR HAZARDOUS Taking an alias, Kinsey goes undercover to befriend Bibianna, hoping she’ll get close enough to catch the con artist at her own game. But Kinsey never dreams that hanging out with Bibianna will get them both thrown in jail. And when they’re released, Bibianna’s very jealous, very dangerous ex-fiancé Raymond Maldonado is waiting for them.
H IS FOR HOMICIDE
Shadow Strike
by Brad Taylor
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
After its proxies are devastated and its offensive capability pummeled in the latest war in the middle east, a rogue group of Iranian regime officials create a brazen plot to strike back at their hated enemies once and for all. They envision a series of operational dominos culminating in a devastating attack, and the first step is the assassination of the Israeli prime minister. And there’s only one assassin with the skills to pull it off: Abdul Rahman, known in the shadows as the Ghost.
When a routine prison transfer is ambushed, the Ghost escapes and is given the assignment. The only Operator who can hunt him down is the man who stopped him before: Pike Logan.
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past—one that tests her own will to survive.
When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine’s Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband’s death twenty-nine years earlier.
What They’ll Say About Us
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $9.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Every story has two versions—the one people tell, and the one that’s true.
Tessa Conway has built her career around other people’s mysteries. As co-host of Mysteries Uncorked, the true crime podcast that shot to number one by actually solving the cases they cover, she’s heard every version of every story.
She just never expected her own to catch up with her in Chicago.