Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
6 Killer Bodies
by Stephanie Bond
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A killer remains at large…
Carlotta Wren’s world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it. And to prove her friend’s innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter’s wishes and resumes her after-hours body-moving duties.
And then… Peter pressures her for an answer to his proposal… Her troubled brother Wesley goes missing…
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 2003
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
The finest exponents of horror fiction writing today, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Basil Cooper, Glen Hirshberg, Jay Russell, feature in the world’s premier annual horror anthology series, another bumper showcase devoted exclusively to excellence in macabre fiction.
To accompany the very best in short stories and novellas is the year’s most comprehensive horror overview and contacts listing as well as a fascinating necrology.
Ascendants
by Don Schechter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s not the life you lead; it’s the blood you bleed.
By 2060, society has been divided into two classes by a groundbreaking discovery: An afterlife exists, but only for the genetic few. Ascendants are genetically destined to experience what comes after. Biomasses are condemned to oblivion.
This new era of Ascension is controlled by The Jacobs Institute, a powerful research organization challenging the limits of consciousness and morality. Ascendants follows three characters caught up in The Institute’s web of secrets—the visionary scientist who started it all, a grieving husband beholden to his belief, and a fierce young woman grappling with what society has become. What will it cost them to unravel the science that fuels The Institute’s power?
Girls’ Night Out
by J. A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A skilled mechanic and certified spitfire, Twinkle Winkleman is as hard as nails; she has to be with a name like hers. Twinkle learned everything there is to know about cars from her time in her daddy’s garage in Anchorage, and when her father dies, she gains ownership of the shop and Maude, her dad’s prized 1973 International Harvester Travelall.
Life has not been kind to Twinkle: she grew up without her mother, her daddy’s gone, her ex-husband betrayed her, and her son Tad was killed after a trip to Seattle to handle some “unfinished business.” Right now, the only things Twinkle truly cares for are her garage, Maude, and Cindy—her daughter-in-law and Tad’s widow.
The Hidden Face of God
by R.A. Williams
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 2038, cybersecurity expert David Bishop believes his greatest battles will be fought behind firewalls—until a simple favor becomes an urgent calling he can’t ignore.
When his pastor’s website—dedicated to the mysterious Shroud of Turin—suddenly crashes, and the hosting company can’t explain why, David agrees to investigate. What he uncovers is chilling: nearly every Shroud-related site on the internet has been systematically hacked and erased. Someone—or something—is trying to silence the world’s most controversial relic and bury the scientific evidence pointing to the resurrection of Christ.
After isolating a highly sophisticated viral worm and restoring his pastor’s website, David becomes the next target…
Riptide
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A captivating action and adventure thriller from bestselling duo, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
In 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress.
Now, a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth’s mysteries.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own. But a price must be paid for the Landons to continue their powerful hold on the town, and Addison’s unborn child is the fee…
Sam Holt
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
She rides west as a man. She returns as a force of justice.
When Samantha Holloway’s husband vanishes chasing gold in California, she refuses to accept his disappearance. Determined to find him, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and disguises herself as a man to join a dangerous wagon train west. Now, Sam Holt is armed with a Hawken rifle and an iron will to find the truth.
Her search leads her to Devil’s Basin and the lawless town of Calico Ridge, where her husband’s trail grows cold and rumors of betrayal swirl. She crosses paths with Jack Carver, a Union veteran turned deputy marshal, and together they uncover a conspiracy tied to stolen gold, corrupt officials, and the truth behind her husband’s fate…
Hope Rises
by David Baldacci
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Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after becoming an informant for the FBI against a global criminal operation headed up by Victoria Steers. Steers has ripped everything Nash held dear away from him. He has nothing left to lose and with long, rigorous training under his belt the gentle and sensitive Nash has transformed into something he never thought he’d be: a physically imposing man with lethal skills. And now he has only goal left in life: taking down Victoria Steers.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Kickbacks, Kayaks, and Kidnapping
by Tonya Kappes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where NOTHING is normal.
Deep in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest, Mae West has spent the last few years bringing the rundown Happy Trails Campground and the small southern and cozy town of Normal, Kentucky back to a thriving economic community.
Mae’s efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. Not only is Happy Trails Campground in the running to be named Campground Hospitality of the Daniel Boone National Park, but she landed the coveted Paddle Fest kayak competition that secures the winner a spot on the Olympic team.
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.
The Last Close Call
by Laura Griffin
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A talented genetic analyst and a detective who’s haunted by an elusive cold case team up in the new standalone romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she’s shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents.
Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals—with the notable exception of the West Campus Rapist, a meticulous offender in Texas who has never been identified.
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Buckle up! The ride’s about to get bumpy.
When a claw rips through Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue’s teepee at midnight, he quickly realizes it isn’t an ordinary beast but a rougarou, a Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Island, the ancestral home of the Atakapa Indians. Cajun witch Paula Mouton and her friend Odette, who lives in a tent on the beach with her dog Mud Puppy, vow to confront the ghosts in the nearby lighthouse. Their actions soon lead them to the Majestic, a Prohibition-era hotel and casino—a noir setting where they face a vampire, demons, and an avenging angel. The paranormal island is about to become even more haunted. Buckle up and enjoy the thrills, fantasy, and mystery. The ride’s fun and a little racy, but it’s about to get bumpy.
Fly Away
by Kristin Hannah
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Return to the world of FIREFLY LANE—now a Netflix series—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah.
Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don’t they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . .
Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate–to be there for Kate’s children–but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people.
Breaking Point
by John Rhodes
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
1940, World War II. The Nazis have crushed Europe, and Hitler launches a massive aerial assault with the Luftwaffe against the heavily outnumbered British RAF. The fate of civilization teeters in the balance.
Johnnie Shaux, a Spitfire fighter pilot, must summon up the fortitude to fly into a battle where death is all but inevitable, and continue to do so until the inevitable occurs…
Eleanor Rand, a brilliant Fighter Command mathematician, studies the control room map constantly tracking the ebbs and flows of the conflict, and sees the glimmerings of a radical breakthrough…
Skulduggery
by Carolyn Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
“You’re the bone lady, aren’t you?”
San Francisco, 1980s: Anthropologist Ellen Christie’s date plans quickly change after a knock at her door. A frantic stranger named Jimmy says he has evidence of the ancient remains of the famed “Peking Man.” It’s a little hard to believe since the bones went missing in China in 1941, but if the bones are real, they belong in her museum. Ellen decides to throw caution to the wind and accompany Jimmy to inspect the remains.
Arriving at Jimmy’s Chinatown apartment, they meet Jimmy’s handsome brother, Dan, but thugs show up a moment later, forcing Jimmy to flee with the bones.
Unexpectedly Ivy
by Sebastiana Devine
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
There is no such thing as an Ivy League formula.
A quick, witty read told in bite-size chapteritas you can finish in one sitting. An extended bathroom break did it for some.
This book reveals how an ordinary family raised a child who was offered admission to Harvard on their own terms.
Through these pithy, reflective chapters, Sebastiana Devine shares what truly matters: confidence to resist turning a child’s life into a performance staged for applause.
For parents wondering whether they should turn into Dr. Frankenstein and stitch together the perfect child, this story offers perspective: a surgery-free, humorous path forward. No body parts required.
Last One Out
by Jane Harper
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author of Exiles and The Dry comes a captivating new novel set in a modern ghost town.
Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned, with just a handful of residents clinging onto what remains.