Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Witch In Disguise
by Karen McSpade
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Welcome to Crystal Beach, an enchanting town with a dangerous magical secret.
When psychic witch Sidney Grace discovers a crime wave in Crystal Beach, she’s determined to use her magic to unveil the culprit. But her plans take a dramatic turn when her witchy grandmother enrolls her into a school for magic.
“What? Enrolled me? Into a school for witches? But I’m too old to be in school!” Her telepathic cat, Mojo, agrees…until he finds himself in his own predicament, leaving Sidney to navigate her newfound powers and solve a perilous mystery, one that leads to murder.
Storm Surge
by Logan Ryles
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
A city ruled by gangs. A helpless child. Only one man can save her.
As a massive hurricane rolls toward the Louisiana coast, Army veteran Mason Sharpe is sheltering in Mobile, Alabama. There he meets Jessica and her gifted ten-year-old daughter, Autumn, who are fleeing a different kind of storm – an abusive husband and father with violent tendencies.
When Autumn disappears just as the hurricane is about to make landfall, Jessica is certain that Autumn’s deadbeat dad Randy has taken her. She turns to Mason for help.
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The Final Judgment
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The bestselling novel by one of today’s great authors of legal thrillers, Richard North Patterson’s The Final Judgment.
A young man has been murdered. His girlfriend, twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen, is found at the scene of the crime. She claims she is innocent—even though she’s dripping in blood, the murder weapon covered with her fingerprints. Enter attorney Caroline Masters, Brett’s estranged aunt. She’s been summoned back to her affluent New England hometown to help Brett out of this mess…and revisit the troubled family she left behind.
Caroline learned a long time ago that the ties that bind can also be broken. Now that she’s back home, she can’t help but doubt her family’s motives—and Brett’s innocence.
Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $0.59 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Embark on another enthralling escapade alongside Lord Peter Wimsey in “Clouds of Witness,” the second installment of Dorothy L. Sayers’ iconic mystery series.
Once more, the aristocratic detective finds himself immersed in a baffling case, this time involving the Duke of Denver, his own brother, who stands accused of murder. Lord Peter Wimsey’s keen intellect and unwavering determination drive him to unravel the complexities of family secrets and political entanglements. As he navigates through the labyrinth of “clouds of witness,” Sayers weaves a tapestry of suspense, wit, and timeless charm.
Christmas Presents
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline’s, who have been missing for nearly a decade. It’s an investigation that has obsessed her father Sheriff James Martin right up until his stroke took his faculties.
Good Friday
by Lynda La Plante
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the race to stop a deadly attack just pray she’s not too late . . . March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. When detective constable Jane Tennison survives a deadly explosion at Covent Garden tube station, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness and put under 24-hour police protection. As work continues round the clock to unmask the terrorists, the Metropolitan police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Amid tight security, hundreds of detectives and their wives and girlfriends will be at St Ermin’s Hotel in central London.
Strike Force
by Dale Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moving from the Pentagon to the Middle East, filled with intrigue, adventure, and danger, this is the latest adrenaline-pumped military thriller from the New York Times bestselling master
When a military coup in Iran leads to a crackdown on religious jihadists, it seems as if a new era is dawning in the Middle East, especially when the new leader, General Buzhazi, seeks to normalize relations with both America and Israel. But the Iranians are not really interested in peace . . .
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Anodyne Necklace
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion.
But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.7 #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.
The Pot Thief Who Studied the Woman at Otowi Crossing
by J. Michael Orenduff
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hubert Schuze is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and he has a fairly lucrative side gig digging up ancient relics and selling them. He also seems to have a talent for finding killers. When Hubie discovers a body outside his pottery shop, it appears the victim was stabbed in the back with something resembling a screwdriver. But the story gets a lot more mysterious when a video turns up showing the man collapsing with no one else nearby. Furthermore, a slip of paper is found in his pocket, with Hubie’s name and address on it, suggesting there may be a connection between the two men—though Hubie has no idea what it could be.
Moving Target
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this “engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) suspense novel from New York Times–bestselling author J.A. Jance, journalist-turned-investigator Ali Reynolds unearths a cold case that puts her in danger from a deadly arsonist.
Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender and talented hacker in his own right, is set on fire one night and severely burned while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds’s fiancé and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obliged to get to the bottom of what happened. With Ali off in England to help Leland Brooks at a reunion with his long-estranged family, B. turns to someone else to help out—Ali’s good friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm.
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet
by Harry Kemelman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A pharmaceutical mishap draws the rabbi into a murder investigation in this New York Times bestseller: “An endearing character . . . a devious plot” (San Diego Union-Tribune).
New Age thinking has come to Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. The recently elected president of Rabbi David Small’s synagogue is intent on using temple money to build a meditation retreat. The congregation is practicing yoga, buying crystals, and reciting chants. When a troubled young man returns to the town after spending time in a controversial Hasidic cult, the rabbi expects him to be another New Ager. But things take a grisly turn away from new-fangled mantras of peace and love when something terribly old fashioned happens: murder.
Exile
by Richard North Patterson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
David Wolfe’s life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he’s a successful San Francisco lawyer, he’s about to get married, and he’s being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif—the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school—he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana herself is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: Will he, a Jew, represent Hana—who may well be guilty—or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget?
Nine Perfect Strangers
by Liane Moriarty
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.
Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back, a broken heart, and an exquisitely painful paper cut. She’s immediately intrigued by her fellow guests. Most of them don’t look to be in need of a health resort at all…