Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Hands On Homicide
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Corky Hobbs never planned to solve a murder—especially not with her hands.
After a brush with death, small-town massage therapist Corky Hobbs wakes up with a strange new gift: when she touches someone, she sees their darkest secrets. Now, her peaceful life of hot stones and herbal tea isupended by visions she can’t explain—and a murder she can’t ignore.
When a beloved local turns up dead, Corky’s unusual ability may be the only clue to unmasking the killer. With her outspoken best friend Stella by her side, she dives headfirst into a swirl of small-town secrets, and hidden motives. But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Can Corky catch a killer before someone else’s secrets turn deadly?
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Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night
by James Runcie
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950’s Cambridge.
Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called on to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamor photographer’s studio; and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler, in the middle of a crucial game of cricket…
Park Closes at Dusk
by D.W. Nathan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
They prowl the playground at night, looking for food, for anything to sink their teeth into. They are unlike any creature known to science. They have no sense of sympathy, no social structure. They kill and they eat. And they are hungry.
When Joe, recently paroled from prison, starts a new job as a park groundskeeper, he gets more than he bargained for. Now, Joe is trapped in a fight for survival with an enemy more bizarre and terrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal—to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job.
Nora’s excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands obliterated with acid to erase their identities…
Last Taste of Freedom
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The fight is coming home.
For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn’t as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father’s treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world.
Zander O’Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture.
The Final Witness
by Thomas Britten
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the truth becomes treason, one voice dares to speak.
In a world determined to forget God and where defiance can mean death, sixteen-year-old David fights to hold onto the truth. As the Academy he attends seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of faith in the old religion, cryptic chalkboard messages, and an unlikely friendship spark David’s resolve. As the world hurtles toward its final reckoning, can he withstand the opposition and become the final witness before the moment that changes everything?
The Raising
by Laura Kasischke
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.8 #ad
“Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.” – New York Times Book Review
From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.
Cruising the Mediterranean
by Al Lockwood, Sunny Lockwood
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shared passion for exploration. The Mediterranean trip of their dreams. There’s no better time for adventure than right now.
Enthusiastic explorers Al and Sunny Lockwood treasure the challenge and excitement of travel. From train rides through the Smokies to campouts in Yellowstone, they’ve documented their travel adventures to critical acclaim. With retirement, they expand their horizons and ship off for a new adventure in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Come along with Al and Sunny as they experience the dazzling beauty of the Greek Isles, the mouthwatering delights of Italian cuisine, the unique calls to prayer chanted from Istanbul’s minarets.
Infinite Graves
by J. Morris
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mack Bishop swallowed a bottle of pills in a hospital room in Nashville. She meant to die.
Instead, she woke up.
Not in the white room with its water-stained ceiling tiles. Not in her broken body. She woke up on her feet, in a city that almost looks like home, with legs that work and a life she doesn’t recognize – because it never existed until the moment she needed it. Her death didn’t end a thread. It spun a new one.
Quantum immortality: energy cannot die. It transforms. It jumps.
Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing.
An Ordinary Sort of Evil
by Kelley Armstrong
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body of a housemaid. She’s built a new life for herself. Even though she works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray and Detective Hugh McCreadie, she considers them true friends. And with Gray in particular, perhaps, someday, something more.
Late one night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler, a patron of Gray’s undertaking business, and they assume there’s been a death in the household. But instead, they arrive in the midst of a seance with a ghost demanding Gray’s presence…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Marlow Murder Club
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One’s hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.
Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don’t believe her story. It’s an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can’t be left for dead like that.
The Poison Tree
by Alan Prendergast
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard’s seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed.
Devoted in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—initials inside reading “E” and “D”…
In Arkansas, Ella-Loo and her recently released ex-con boyfriend, Darryl, don’t ever intend to part again. So they hit the road, but then things get a little messy and they wind up killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again.
The Lost Bones
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
Deadly Hearts
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
EVERY BEAT – Mary Alford
CHAINED TO A DREAM – Julie Brown
TIME WILL TELL – Pamela Ferguson
THE INN AT CRANBERRY COVE – June Foster
SEE YOU IN 48 – Robin Densmore Fuson
HIDDEN DANGER – Gail Pallotta
VERDICT AT THE RIVER’S EDGE – Colleen Snyder
Fly, My Darling
by Lisa K. Richter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A soulful memoir of desire and a woman’s midlife quest to let go—in jazz and in life.
Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.
With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want?
Something Borrowed, Something Black
by Loren Estleman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller
Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slams his foot on the gas, sending the car into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a van, hops the curb, and crashes into a hotel, knocking Davis unconscious and breaking the neck of his would-be assassin. Davis can breathe again, but just for a moment. When the mob wants you dead, they’ll always send another killer.
Black House
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
The Temptation of Charlotte North
by Camilla Bruce
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life.
The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye.
And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all.
In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. . . .