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…
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.