Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Archie’s No Criminal
by Deb Graham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Blue-collar Archie Wilson can’t catch a break. His wife, Della, spends money they don’t have like she’s one of the la-dee-dah ladies down at the boutique—talk about gold-plated taste on a tin foil budget. Their marriage is stale, Della quit her job, and she shows more attention to her teacup poodle Smoochie-Pie than to Archie. A lesser man would turn to crime, but Archie is no criminal. When his great-aunt leaves him a small inheritance, he seizes the chance for a once-in-a-lifetime cruise vacation, hoping to rekindle Della’s love. When they come home, things will be different. Maybe even better.
Take it to the Limit
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Revenge is a timeless motive. Isn’t it peculiar how it can simmer for years, then explode, and the victim never sees it coming?
When top private investigator Ethan Jenks works undercover at a Nashville Christmas gala, a staged robbery and shocking drug-spiked drink exposes a three way race to retrieve an embezzled five million dollars. With a rising body count, events rapidly escalate.
Ethan and his wife Michele (Mickey) follow the deadly trail from Nashville to Ethan’s small Kentucky home town to uncover who’s behind the killings and why their family is targeted…
Latter End
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth who “has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot,” Miss Silver investigates a case of marital murder (Manchester Evening News).
Lois has always dreamed of being a Latter. The Latter brothers are both so attractive—nearly as handsome as their stately manor, Latter End. After she spoils her relationship with one brother, Lois succeeds with the other, winning his heart with her good looks and a sizeable fortune from her first marriage. But even after they’ve wed, she never quite fits in with the family. Still, she hardly expects them to kill her.
Dangerous Shadows
by Gail Pallotta
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Shaken from an assault in the library parking lot at Hilltop College in Western North Carolina, crime reporter Emily Hanover contacts her ex-fiancé, private investigator Nick Lancaster. When the college hires Nick to recover quartz and ancient maps stolen from the library, Nick insists there’s a connection between the theft and Emily’s attack.
As Nick and Emily face danger from an elusive stalker, their romance rekindles. Nick’s sidekick, Hucklesford, spots two suspects, so he and Nick go undercover. While Nick’s surveillance points to illegal gambling and murder, Hucklesford’s investigation leads him to the college cross-country team.
Pursuit
by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Less than twenty-four hours after exchanging vows with her new husband, Willem, Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine whether this was an absentminded accident or a premeditated plunge, and he quickly discovers a mysterious set of clues about what his wife might be hiding. Why, for example is there a rash-like red mark circling her wrist? What does she dream about that causes her to wake from the sound of her own screams?
Slowly, Abby begins to open up to her husband, revealing to him what she has never shared with anyone before—a story of a terrified mother; a jealous, drug-addled father; a daughter’s terrifying captivity; and the demons behind her terrible recurring dreams of wandering through a field ridden with human skulls and bones…
The Forever Home
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s our fresh new start. If we live to enjoy it…
I can’t contain my smile as we open the white screen door and step into our new home. Building a life with my amazing new husband Archie in this historic farmhouse is my dream come true. This is where we’ll grow old together, and where I can finally forget about my past. Or is it?
First, it’s a light left on in the attic, and music playing when no one is home. Next, a faded photograph of me on a hazy summer day long ago, delivered in an unmarked envelope. After years of running, someone has finally found me. My new home, our safe haven, has been threatened.
The question now is, what am I going to do to protect it?
Well-Schooled in Murder
by Elizabeth George
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Powerful . . . sure to delight readers in the mood for a thought-provoking, hard-hitting mystery.”—Baltimore Sun
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer.
Grace
by A.M. Shine
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
SHE ESCAPED ONCE. NOW IT WANTS HER BACK.
Everyone living on the island feels it. There are no visitors anymore. No children. No one willing to set foot there. Then Grace arrives.
She’s come to learn the truth about her birth parents and, in her search for answers, she soon feels the presence too – something lurking beneath the surface.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Yarn-Over Murder
by Ann Yost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A year after her marriage break-up and return to Michigan’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula, Hatti Lehtinen has settled into a peaceful life within the Finnish community as shopkeeper at Bait and Stitch, a hybrid fishing-and-yarn store.
When Hatti’s beloved dad, Pops, breaks his leg in a snowmobiling accident, the mayor tags Hatti to fill Pop’s role as the town police chief, and entire police force. Assured the job entails little more than prying quarters from frozen parking meters, Hatti steps up…
Without a Trace
by Jane Bettany
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
You can cover up the truth, but every murder leaves a trail…
The rain was relentless. It stung Ruth Prendergast’s face as she dashed towards her house, desperate to escape the cold and settle down for an early night. But upon entering her bedroom, she finds a man, lying on her bed – a knife buried in his chest.
When Detective Isabel Blood and her sergeant arrive on the scene, Ruth claims she’s never laid eyes on the victim before. But with no sign of a break-in, how did the killer gain access to the house?
Brand of Justice Series Collection
by Lisa Phillips
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cold Dead Night – Book 1
Burn the Dawn – Book 2
Quick and Dead – Book 3
Over the Limit – Book 4
“Author Lisa Phillips wrote a goldmine of a series with the Brand of Justice book series. I loved each of these books, as I was wrapped up in the danger, emotions and mysteries that were presented within each one. I fell in love with the characters that were fighting evil, as well as the ever present corruption. Phillips writing style drew me in and never let me go. I think these box sets are the perfect way to read every book in the series from beginning to end!!” by Amazon Customer
A Stir of Echoes
by Richard Matheson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award Winner
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement Recipient
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement Recipient
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he’s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him—and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know.
But as Tom’s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave.
Fire Between Two Skies
by R. F. Whong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 2022 Hong Kong, Jason Guan, after losing his job as an assistant supervisor for wetland conservation, joins his uncle’s real-estate business. A chance meeting with his high school classmate, Vivian Jiang, draws him into a web of secrecy, seduction, and moral compromise. Amid the chaos, he and his wife, Debra, read an unpublished manuscript by her father, a celebrated writer, about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851–1864) and a man’s futile pursuit of justice and peace on earth.
In nineteenth-century China, Zhang Xin, an orphan saved from the streets by Missionary Issachar Jacox Roberts, is swept into the fiery rebellion of the Taiping movement. Torn between the dream of a just kingdom, his forbidden love for Miao Lan, and his loyalty to his ruthless brother, Xin reckons with doubt, conscience, and the cost of faith.
Midnight
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dean Koontz, the bestselling master of suspense, invites you into the shocking world of Moonlight Cove – where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature.
The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified—if not brutally murdered in the dead of night…
The First Week Collection
by Mason Dean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Survival Thriller
After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past.
Off the Grid
by C. J. Box
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller…
Nate is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They’re not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming’s Red Desert, and in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear.
The Long Way Home
by Louise Penny
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny’s The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.”
The Farrier
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Josiah Vane thought he could outrun his past.Seven years ago, he walked away from a Nevada land job that left a woman dead. Since then, he’s been taking work where he finds it, trusting no one but the dog at his side.
Moss Fork was supposed to be another stop. A broken livery with quiet work and no questions. Until a drunk points at him and calls him the name.
Graham Hollis—the man a powerful woman has been hunting for years.