Friday’s Mystery eBooks
City of Toys
by Lindy S Hudis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 3.5 #ad
Four beautiful women seek fame and fortune in Hollywood, the City of Toys, where actresses are like dolls, playing pretend on the big screen.
Marlo: a former child actress from New York City.
Rhonda: a small-town beauty queen.
Kim: a “nice Jewish girl” with a painful childhood.
Guyla: a “serious actress” with a debilitating, stress-induced illness.
Marlo, Rhonda, Kim, and Guyla, become friends living in the same apartment complex, in the city where dreams and disasters go hand-in-hand. They come to rely on each other as they deal with sexual come-ons, crazed stalkers, jealous starlets and the constant pressure of trying to make it in showbiz.
Torts “R” Us – A Legal Farce
by T.C. Morrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.8 #ad
Patrick A. Peters (“Pap”) and his twin brother Prescott U. Peters (“Pup”) are lawyers with a distinctive eye for opportunity. Pap convinces Pup who is a good lawyer despite having gone to Yale Law School that they should leave their respective big-firm practices in New York City to start up a hopefully lucrative practice as plaintiffs’ class action lawyers.
The brothers meet a variety of clients, judges, and lawyers as they embark on a resourceful and unique approach to lawyer-client relationships all inspired by actual court cases…
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare – a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
The Girls in the Stilt House
by Kelly Mustian
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don’t Rise.
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.
Hide Away
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York Times bestseller, Hide Away is an explosive Eve Duncan novel from Iris Johansen
DARK SECRETS World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for Eve, her beloved Joe Quinn, and Cara Delaney, the young girl they’ve both sworn to protect. With Cara’s enemies on the move, Eve has no choice but to flee the hospital—no matter what the doctors say.
DESPERATE MEASURES For years, Jane has been avoiding pressure to find a treasure thought to be buried in Scotland—but she’s finally succumbed to John MacDuff’s pleas to track it down. Eve and Cara join Jane in the remote mountains, but soon realize that nowhere is far enough away from the ruthless predators who are on their trail. . .
A Gathering of Spies
by John Altman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A beautiful Nazi spy and a British double agent match wits in this classic World War II thriller “full of action, suspense, and wheels within wheels” (Stephen Coonts).
Gorgeous, cunning, and lethal, Katarina Heinrich is America’s worst nightmare. For years, the German spy has been deep undercover, posing as the happy wife of a Princeton scientist. Now she is rushing home with key intelligence pertaining to the atomic bomb. If she reaches her destination, the war will be lost.
The Dying Hours
by Mark Billingham
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Recently demoted for stepping out of line once too often, prickly inspector Tom Thorne is convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in south London is something more sinister. When his concerns are dismissed by former colleagues at the CID, and even by his patient girlfriend, Thorne can only trust himself and his best friend—gay pub-crawling pathologist Phil Hendricks—with his suspicions of murder.
Thorne draws a chilling connection between the deaths and a controversial case three decades old. But by going solo with his investigation, he not only risks the lives of those closest to him, but also further endangers those being targeted by a deranged killer—a man with the power and cold-blooded motives to coerce his vulnerable victims toward a breathtaking end.
Close Encounters with Tort$
by T. C. Morrison
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Pap” and “Pup” Peters, those intrepid tort lawyers whose hilarious exploits have delighted readers of the four prior books in this series, return with yet another round of legal shenanigans that will make you laugh until you cry.
Their latest exploits find them defending the eccentric Mona Lott, who has been arrested for disclosing classified information regarding the mysterious UFOs that have been sighted over the East Coast. Mona’s case eventually leads the brothers to being “persuaded” by the CIA to represent the Government in a lawsuit against Russia, its spy agency and some unsavory oligarchs for using drones to spy on US airbases and naval installations.
The Thirteenth Hour
by R.J. Patterson
Kindle $5.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
They swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Now they’re destroying it from within.
Blake Barrett has faced terrorists, assassins, and foreign enemies—but nothing prepared him for this: the Echo Syndicate has infiltrated the very heart of American democracy.
When a routine surveillance mission reveals a secret cabal of legislators systematically dismantling constitutional protections, Barrett and his Mercury team discover that democracy’s greatest threat isn’t foreign invasion—it’s domestic betrayal..
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Runs in the Family
by Tamara Berry
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Amber thought she had troubles before her grandma was arrested for murder…
Former PI-in-training Amber Winslow has decided to flee her life in the dead of night, carrying nothing but the clothes on her back. Down on her luck and with no other choice, she heads to the sunny state of Arizona to the luxury accommodations of her grandmother’s retirement community. Never mind that Amber’s never actually met her estranged and eccentric Grandma Jade.
Isabelle Night and the Demon’s Flute
by Heidi Jarvis Smallidge
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
It was the last day of seventh grade and 13-year-old Isabelle Night was SO looking forward to a lazy summer! You know what can ruin a lazy summer? Demons. That’s what can ruin a lazy summer.
In this smart-kid adventure, Isabelle finds herself traveling to the Middle East with her mother, archaeologist Annaliese Night, to help their good friend Gunther Braun solve a mystery. Two mysteries actually. First, a strange man appearing out of the desert to offer Gunther help with his dig, telling of ancient secrets hidden in the palace and guarded by demons.
And then, the very next day, two guards go missing at a mysterious pit only recently opened.
The Law is a Lady
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Friendly, New Mexico is the perfect setting for director Phillip Kincaid to film his latest blockbuster. But the small town hospitality he expected turns downright hostile when he finds himself behind bars for speeding—arrested by the sexiest police officer to ever slap a pair of handcuffs on him.
Now, Phillip wants nothing more than to show Sheriff Victoria “Tory” Ashton how an outlaw can bring pleasurable disorder to her life.
The Last Child
by John Hart
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Heralded by the Washington Post as a “a magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies”, John Hart’s The Last Child is his most significant work to date, an intricate, powerful story of loss, hope, and courage in the face of evil.
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he’d been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is—confident in a way that he can never fully explain.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
by R. A. Dick, Adriana Trigiani
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Burdened by debt after her husband’s death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain’s story as a book, Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.
After Death
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished—including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.
Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he—or anyone else—has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of the most violent street gangs in Los Angeles.
Through the Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Mackenzie Scirocco grapples with the daily challenges of being a single mother of five-year-old twins and the responsibilities of running her bakery. Some days she fools herself that all the proverbial balls are in the air. Especially when the man she has a crush on asks her out. But her world—and those balls—crashes around her when her ex-husband questions her sanity and files for full custody of the boys.
Captain Phoenix Egan of the Water Course Fire Department gets trapped inside a burning building and can’t save himself from the consequences. His physical wound is nothing compared to the emotional one. He has to keep his fear of fighting fires a secret or risk his career and that makes him dangerous. Mack is the only person who can help him be whole again, and she can’t be with him.
Rowena and the Dark Lord
by Melodie Campbell
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Rowena is abducted back to medieval Land’s End, all is in turmoil. Gareth is trapped in the middle-world. Cedric is losing his soul to the black arts. What’s a modern girl to do? Learn how to control her powers of magic, of course. Things go wrong when she accidently conjures up a Roman Legion in mid-battle. Now she has to prevent Roman and Land’s End warriors from killing each other.
A royal banquet quickly dissolves into a brutal battle. The Dark Lord appears and raises the stakes by trapping Rowena in a cyclone of lust and passion. Once again, Rowena is torn between the man she loves and the mage who fires her desire.
Angel Creek – Violet
by Suzanne Jenkins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nurse practitioner on the run from heartbreak takes a temporary job in a secluded mountain town—only to discover a community, and a sheriff, willing to help her heal.
After a broken engagement and a brush with danger, nurse practitioner Violet Love escapes to the snowy mountain town of Angel Creek, hoping to heal in peace. But the quirky townspeople, stubborn patients, and a brooding local cop with secrets of his own make “quiet” impossible.
Carson Jackson is guarded, grieving, and unexpectedly protective — and something in Violet stirs the part of him he thought was long gone.