Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Bullet That Missed
by Richard Osman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“The quartet of aging amateur sleuths…remain wonderful company.” – The New York Times Book Review
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case – their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
Of Fate & Ruin
by Rowan Tixie
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The storm isn’t coming. She is.
She was born with wings, but no magic. Emerald is the princess of a powerful kingdom who has spent her entire life caged within castle walls. Always hidden. Always watched. Always silenced. Feeling a mysterious pull to the outside world, one day she leaves. That single act of defiance awakens something ancient inside her.
He is a creature carved from war and ruin. Kyros is an exile marked by violence, haunted by blood and betrayal he cannot outrun—until her voice cuts through the dark. The world sees a powerless princess. He hears something else. Familiar. Impossible. And unmistakably his.
The Texas Murders
by James Patterson, Andrew Bourelle
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer.
When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case.
Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police.
The investigation leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take deadly aim with every shot in their arsenals.
Nothing Ever Happens Here
by Seraphina Nova Glass
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Nothing ever happens in small towns…
When Shelby Dawson survives a harrowing attack that should have left her dead, she tries to move past it—for herself, and for her family. Fifteen months later, with the help of her best friend, Mackenzie, she finally feels safe again in the snowy Minnesota town she calls home. But when an anonymous note appears on her windshield bearing the same threats her attacker made, Shelby realizes that her nightmare has only just begun.
A Promise to Protect
by Suzanne Brockmann
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Taylor’s Temptation by New York Times–bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann: When it came to protecting the innocent, Navy SEAL Bobby Taylor was your man. But when his best friend asked him to keep an eye on his little sister, Bobby wanted to take a pass…
Gut Instinct by USA Today–bestselling author Barb Han: FBI agent Luke Campbell has never been more determined to catch the serial killer who’s eluded him for two years. Because this time the monster is after Julie, the ex he walked out on when he returned from Iraq…
The Prometheus Deception
by Robert Ludlum
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
An ex-master spy turned professor must take down the shadowy group who made him in this espionage thriller by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Nicholas Bryson spent years as a deep cover operative for the American secret intelligence group, the Directorate. After a critical undercover mission went horribly wrong, Bryson was retired to a new identity. Years later, his closely held cover is cracked, and Bryson learns that the Directorate was not what it claimed—that he was a pawn in a complex scheme against his own country’s interests.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
by Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father at the age of thirty-nine, he never imagined his quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself.
Written with award–winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identifies his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history.
Tell Me: The Prelude
by Tina Martin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
You know the type of man who’s filthy rich, and has everything he desires?
That’s me, billionaire hedge fund manager, Khenji Halifax. On the outside, I’m the picture of success. Internally, I’m numb – a forty-year old virgin with a dark past that haunts me daily. I’ve punished myself to a life of loneliness because there’s no way a woman can or should handle what I have to offer.
So, I ignore all them. All of them. Until her… I first saw her at a business function–a beautiful younger woman in a striking red dress. From the moment our paths crossed, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Death in the Dice
by Sarah Hualde
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Remi McIntyre is ready to make a sweet, fresh start—and this time, it’s all about donuts.
Opening a donut-and-gaming shop with her bestie Hazel Glaze, Remi’s life is already jam-packed. But when a murder is discovered right outside their brand-new shop, things quickly take a twist. With her family’s safety, the town’s peace, and the grand opening all on the line, Remi has no choice but to glaze over the clues and uncover the truth.
Can Remi crack the case before it crumbles her dreams?
V2: A novel of World War II
by Robert Harris
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Conclave, Fatherland, and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program.
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny on the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
Plum Lovin’
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From #1 blockbuster bestselling author Janet Evanovich comes Plum Lovin’, a Stephanie Plum novel that takes adventure, action, suspense (and maybe even true love?) to new heights.
Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum’s apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie—and he’s not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a “relationship expert” who is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie needs to find her, fast. Diesel knows where she is. So they make a deal: He’ll help her get Annie if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie’s most difficult clients.
The History Hunters: Four Complete Novels
by K. R. Eckert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are historians. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are adventurers. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are The History Hunters. Here, for the first time, four of their most daring and exotic adventures are collected together in one volume.
The Templar Succession,
The Gettysburg Cypher,
The Templar Fire,
The Masonic Manuscript
Deadly Trio
by Emma Jameson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Lord & Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series follows Lord Anthony Hetheridge, DS Kate Wakefield, and DS Paul Bhar as they tackle the trickiest murders of all: those involving London’s rich, aristocratic, famous, and infamous.
Deadly Trio contains the first three novels in one volume. Book 1, Ice Blue, is a witty, romantic mystery that pits Hetheridge, Kate, and Paul against a brutal murderer in the heart of Mayfair. Book 2, Blue Murder, pits the team against a killer who just might be Paul’s old nemesis, the baronet-psychopath Sir Duncan Godington. Book 3, Something Blue, finds Hetheridge and Kate getting married and murder crashing the party.
Cold Betrayal
by J.A. Jance
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling author hailed for her “inimitable, take-no-prisoners style” (Kirkus Reviews), Cold Betrayal is a fast-paced crime novel that forces Ali Reynolds to confront the face of evil and protect women who are being hunted.
Revenge isn’t the only dish served cold…
Ali’s longtime friend and taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Something about her strikes a chord in Sister Anselm, reminding her of a case she worked years before when another young girl wasn’t so lucky.
Run Away
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
You’ve lost your daughter. She’s addicted to drugs and has an abusive boyfriend. And she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found.
Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she’s not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble.
You don’t stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Since she graduated from Oxford’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high—only to find that her life is in danger once again.
The Keeper
by Tana French
Kindle $13.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.
In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
The Sheepman
by Frank Wheeler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Cade McAlister thought he’d left the war behind. After serving as a Union sharpshooter, he traded his rifle for a sheep ranch on eastern Oregon’s volcanic plateau. For ten years he kept to himself, raising his daughter Emmie and asking nothing from the world but to be left alone.
Until Harlan Stead decided the plateau belonged to the cattle.
When McAlister refuses to give up his land, Stead sends men to make the decision for him. They scatter the flock. They burn the range. And they kill Cade’s daughter.
Beyond Paydirt at Destiny’s End
by Ralph Hecht
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
“Beyond Paydirt at Destiny’s End” plunges readers into the exhilarating journey of Richard Hammer, a restless retired engineer searching for purpose, and his steadfast companion, Peggy Jacobs, whose unwavering support anchors his every daring step. Restless in tranquil Kettle Springs, a mesmerizing YouTube gold prospecting video and Peggy’s steady encouragement propel them into the wild expanse of the Little Thunder Mountains. Their simple quest becomes a pulse-pounding saga for gold, utilizing prospecting techniques such as metal detecting, sluicing, panning, and eventually mining.