Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Kissing the Demons
by Kate Ellis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders in the nineteenth century, and also related to the disappearances of two teenage girls. When a student living in the house is found to be brutally murdered, Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is left wondering whether her death has anything to do with the house’s grim history.
As other similar deaths come to light, Joe fears a ruthless killer may be on the prowl – a killer who deprives each victim of one of their five senses…
The Cold Moon
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer’s calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims’ last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius.
Fall from Pride
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A New York Times–bestselling “master of suspense, keeps readers guessing about crime and love . . . [in] this thrilling tale” in the Home Valley Amish series (Booklist, starred review).
Budding artist Sarah Kauffman has turned a few of her community’s barns into works of art, painting intricate murals on their sides to represent a piece of the Amish traditions she loved. But she’s unwittingly invited a menace into the town, as one by one, each barn is set ablaze and destroyed . . .
After the Fire
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic—a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat
Before she found fame as a bestselling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel.
Madeleine and Jane
by Emily Fox Gordon
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Madeleine and Jane, both in their early twenties, arrive separately in Manhattan in January 1968.
Jane is an aspiring writer seeking adventure, Madeleine, a fragile young woman fleeing an erotic nightmare. They meet by chance and throw in as roommates, first in an East Village tenement and later, through a stroke of dubious luck, in the luxurious uptown apartment of a mysteriously absent woman. Together and apart, Madeleine and Jane encounter the terrors and excitements—muggings, drugs, sexual freedom and experimentation—that burgeoned in the New York of that era. As the two develop a wary friendship, a self-appointed therapist—one of those Nietzschean characters who sprang up like mushrooms in the soil of the sixties—becomes entangled in their lives and, ultimately, divides them.
The Noise
by James Patterson, J. D. Barker
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
In this cinematic thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, two sisters must fight for their survival after a natural disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse . . .
Grim
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Jaxon Grim left home at the age of ten after killing a man, he never thought he’d be back. Fifteen years later, his past has come back to haunt him.
Known to most folks as the Gunman of Sombrales, Jaxon has spent his entire life trying to make up for the mistakes he made. But his newest adversaries are the most dangerous yet.
Li Wei, the Chinese saboteur, who is prepared his quest for vengeance. Victor Bloodstone, the railroad tycoon who is the object of Li’s vendetta. His greed has cost countless lives, but now it’s his own life that hangs in the balance.
If There is Nothing Left – Complete Series
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Then they each received a letter that had the potential to change their lives…
Visit Amanda’s charming hometown for an inspirational saga filled with family and hope that will rivet you with heart-wrenching moments of drama and joy, the discovery of inner strength that’s sometimes difficult to find, family and lasting friendships, an unexpected romance, laughter, love…and sometimes heartbreaking tears…and the magic of promise.
If you enjoy clean romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with love, hope, family, new and old friendships, You & Me & Us is the series collection for you.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Midnight Shadow
by Candle Sutton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s not the first time she’s fled for her life. When an armed assailant breaks into her home, geneticist Tari Salah is forced to run from an unknown enemy. The murder of two friends and the bombing of her lab strip her of all her allies. When she’s framed for the crimes and branded a terrorist, she can’t even go to the police for help.
He thought it would be an easy case… he couldn’t be more wrong. Special Agent Dalton Fowler is thrilled when the director of a covert law enforcement agency handpicks him for a sensitive case. Locating and protecting a wrongly accused geneticist should be simple. When he’s shot his second day on the case, he quickly realizes that nothing about the case will be straightforward. Failure won’t just tank his career – it’ll end his life.
Their enemies won’t relent...
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The Mercedes Coffin
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Billionaire Genoa Greeves believes the LAPD should finally solve the fifteen-year-old execution-style murder of her favorite teacher, Bennett Little—especially now that Hollywood music producer Primo Ekerling has been slain in an eerily similar manner: shot and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz.
Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a cold case simply because a rich woman says, “Jump!”…
Murderous and Desperate 2 Boxed Sets
by Daniel Scott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Murderous Mind: Five relentless years. Not a single kill. Included in this boxed set:
Hunter
Obsession
Consumed
A Desperate Man: You can’t cage evil. You have to kill it. Included in this boxed set:
A Desperate Man
A Desperate Nation
A Desperate World
Street of the Five Moons
by Elizabeth Peters
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich’s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It’s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusty antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she’s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life — or her heart…
Reckoning
by Catherine Coulter
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter’s #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths.
Dark Side of the Moon
by Alan Jacobson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth with two hundred pounds of rock—as well as something far more dangerous than they could have imagined. For decades, the military concealed the crew’s mysterious discovery. But now a NASA contractor has leaked the intel to conspiring foreign powers, putting in their hands the most powerful weapon of mass destruction yet created.
While FBI profiler Karen Vail and OPSIG Team Black colleague Alexandra Rusakov try to root out the NASA mole and break up the spy ring, covert operatives Hector DeSantos and Aaron Uziel prepare for a mission beyond anything they’ve ever attempted—a spaceflight to the moon itself—to avert a war that could not only disrupt the global balance of power, but also end in catastrophic annihilation…
I Am the Only Running Footman
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Scotland Yard detective investigates an elusive pair of murders in this “intriguing, appealing” entry in the New York Times–bestselling series (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running Footman, near Berkeley Square in London’s fashionable Mayfair District. Devon policeman Brian Macalvie believes the two murders are connected. And thus, detective Richard Jury is drawn into the so-called Porphyria killings.