Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in an Italian Village
by Michael Falco
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 3.9 #ad
Set in beautiful Positano, Italy, the debut of a cozy mystery series featuring a widowed B&B owner who discovers a body in one of her bedrooms before opening day! Perfect for fans of Mario Giordano and Lorenzo Carcaterra!
On the surface, Bria’s Mediterranean life radiates beauty—the kind her late husband, Carlo, dreamed about when he concocted the romantic idea to start a bed and breakfast on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. With the grand opening of Bella Bella approaching six months after Carlo’s tragic death, Bria and her eight-year-old son Marco brace for a bittersweet new beginning by the sea . . .
In the Dark
by E. Nesbit
Kindle $1.49 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Edith Nesbit’s natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children’s author. But beyond her beloved children’s stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural.
Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, ‘nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread’, Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight world where the dead walked the earth.
All but forgotten for almost a hundred years until In the Dark was first published 30 years ago, this collection finally restored Nesbit’s reputation as a one of the most accomplished and entertaining ghost-story writers of the Victorian age.
Dying for Mercy
by Mary Jane Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The recently renovated Pentimento, located in New York’s moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, is no ordinary estate. Strange secrets have been ingeniously built into its fountains, frescoes, statues, and architecture—clues to a bizarre mystery that is first brought to light when the owner commits suicide during a lavish gala.
Eliza Blake, co-anchor of the popular morning television show KEY to America, is present when the party is cut short by the host’s sudden, macabre death—and she’s the first to discover that Pentimento is a giant “puzzle house.”
The Eyes Of The Accused
by Mark Tilbury
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She’s desperate to help her father. Even if it means killing again.
Fresh from the horrors of their last case, private investigators Ben and Maddie are plunged into a disturbing world of deadly secrets as they search for missing pregnant girl, Hannah Heath.
Drawn to Frank Crowley, a suspect in Hannah’s disappearance, Maddie is about to come face to face with true evil. But as she gets closer to Crowley, she will soon learn all is not what it seems. Crowley is just a small part of something much larger. Something so dreadful it defies reason.
The Sariah Chronicles Complete Series
by Peter Glenn, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Magic killed her parents. Will it kill her too?
Pick up the complete four book boxed set to find out. Resistance to Magic:
The amulet Sariah found buried in the mines looked liked her ticket out of her half-starved backwater life. The pendant was surely very valuable. The assassin who tried to steal it apparently agreed. Now all she wants is revenge. Or at least justice.
With a little help from a friendly mystic she learns about magic. Only with its help does she stand a chance to vanquish the forces that destroyed her life. She hates magic. But will her thirst for vengeance drive her into magic’s open arms?
Trauma
by CJ Lyons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Keeping secrets can be murder . . .
Angels of Mercy ER charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for three long years. But when a coworker is brutally assaulted and killed, she knows she can no longer remain silent.
Determined to unmask the murderer, Nora teams up with her friends— Lydia, an ER attending with a secret of her own; Gina, the once-cocky resident now struggling to strike a balance between her family and her job; and Amanda, a med student caught between her career and her conscience.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen-year-old Joey is in trouble. His mother can hardly feed him, which-because of his small size-is saying a lot. As war moves closer to their little town, his mother’s options for more work are a big fat zero.
Desperate, she sends him to a place where he won’t starve, Lapidius. Soon after arriving, however, Joey learns that he and the hundreds of other children aren’t just charity cases. Lapidius is a prestigious military institute that develops specialized skills for combat. But Lapidius is also a mysterious place where Joey learns that the battle for which they are being trained for is full of magic, malevolence, and monsters.
Second Son
by Pamela Taylor
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Historical fiction lovers will enjoy this real life Game of Thrones, a tale of knightly adventure.” – Sublime Book Review
A quiet life of service is all he desires. But when peace becomes tenuous, his commitment to duty leads him to deadly danger…
14th century. Lord Alfred is content with his mundane destiny. Too far removed from the throne to ever ascend and more interested in scholarship, he still willingly accepts his kingly grandfather’s charge to execute a secret mission. But when his bid to protect the heir leaves him captive to a dangerous man, the young lordling fears he’ll see death before his family will pay any ransom.
The Bad Weather Friend
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $9.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he’s never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time.
How strange—though it’s a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what’s inside the crate. He’s a seven-foot-tall self-described “bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He’ll find Benny’s enemies. He’ll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn’t such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Wife
by Alafair Burke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
His Scandal – Her Secret
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother’s home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.
Harvest
by Tess Gerritsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit.
But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match.
AFTER THE EXECUTION
by JAMES RAVEN
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
DISCOVER A CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ABSOLUTELY JAW-DROPPING TWIST
Lee Jordan has spent ten years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s lost everything – his wife, his dreams, his future. He finally enters the execution chamber at the famous ‘Walls’ prison in Texas. He’s strapped to a gurney and given an injection of lethal drugs in front of witnesses.
Minutes later he’s pronounced dead. BUT HE’S NOT
Missing in Conard County
by Rachel Lee
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Wyoming snowstorm races in Bringing buried secrets to the surface
A stray dog just dropped a bone at animal control officer Allan Carstairs’s feet—a human bone. K-9 cop Kelly Noveno is certain it’s connected to a recent disappearance, but with a snowstorm bearing down on Conard County, the two must hunker down in Allan’s cabin to continue the search. But their long-held feelings are rushing to the surface, making this search more complicated than ever.
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS
by A.G. Russo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.
The Best American Mystery Stories
by Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Twenty of America’s best mystery short stories from 2011, selected by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
A Tempest at Sea
by Sherry Thomas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Charlotte Holmes’s life is in peril when her brilliant deductive skills are put to the test in her most dangerous investigation yet, locked aboard a ship at sea.
After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention, Charlotte Holmes goes into hiding. But then she receives a tempting offer: Find a dossier the crown is desperately seeking, and she might be able to go back to a normal life.
Her search leads her aboard the RMS Provence. But on the night Charlotte makes her move to retrieve the dossier, in the midst of a terrifying storm in the Bay of Biscay, a brutal murder takes place on the ship.
Under the Influence
by Joyce Maynard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship.
Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a caterer. Recovering from her addiction, she spends lonely evenings checking out profiles on an online dating site. Weekend visits with her son are awkward. He’s drifting away from her, fast.