Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at a Scottish Christmas
by Lucy Connelly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sea Isle, Scotland, is magical during the holiday season, and Dr. Emilia McRoy can’t wait to enjoy everything her village has to offer. But when the lead singer of a famous band is murdered in the village, just as they were about to launch a world tour, her holiday instantly comes to a halt.
As the band’s future hangs in the balance, Emilia discovers that the victim was working on new music that has since disappeared. Were these new lyrics worth killing for? And if so, who is the culprit? It seems more than one person wanted this music star dead. Shockingly, beloved constable Ewan Campbell becomes the prime suspect in the investigation, putting a damper on the town’s festivities.
The Missing Hours
by Emma Kavanagh
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman’s disappearance in western England draw a pair of sibling detectives into a baffling murder case in “this intricately plotted crime novel” (Publishers Weekly).
In the sleepy borderland between England and Wales, serious crimes are rare. But now Det. Constable Leah Mackay and her brother, Det. Sergeant Finn Hale, are fielding two disturbing calls on the same day. Psychologist Selena Cole had been at a playground with her children when she disappeared. Then the body of attorney Dominic Newell was found on a remote mountain road. Soon enough, the sibling detectives find their respective investigations inextricably linked. Then the mystery deepens when Selena reappears alive and unhurt twenty hours later.
Sanctuary
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive and suspenseful novel of dangerous liaisons and family betrayals…
Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she’d escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She’d spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all—a photo of her mother—naked, beautiful, and dead.
Rancher Defender
by Delores Fossen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two Texas lawmen-turned-new-fathers vow to protect the women they love in these two romantic suspense novels from the USA Today–bestselling author.
Lucas: Texas Ranger Lucas Ryland was shocked and hurt when Hailey Darrow disappeared after a shared night of passion. Then he found her unconscious in a wrecked car with a fake ID…
Drury: When FBI agent Drury Ryland returns to his family’s cattle ranch in Texas, he’s confronted with the ghosts of his past . . . and a threat to his future. Caitlyn Denson, the woman who broke his heart, arrives with a killer on her trail and a newborn daughter in her arms.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Treachery
by Brian Freeman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The world’s most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, is facing the one force he can’t defeat—his own past—in the latest thrilling entry in Robert Ludlum’s New York Times bestselling series.
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent who’d been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt.
The Unsponsored Chronicles Complete Series Boxed Set
by A.T. Michaels, Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating:5.9 #ad
A scrap-born rebel who fought off pirates with homemade bombs just earned a spot at the Federation Academy – and someone already wants him gone.
Peter doesn’t have sponsor money or aristocratic connections, just salvage instincts, a mismatched squad, and the stubborn refusal to cheat his way through a system rigged against him.
When mysterious sabotage starts targeting expensive gear and the Academy’s hidden agenda comes into focus, Peter realizes the real enemy was never the pirates. It was always the system itself.
Grab your copy of this complete trilogy to join Peter at the Federation Academy
Last Girl Missing
by K.L. Murphy
Kindle $0.99 Rating:4.4 #ad
She wanted to avenge her father. She needed to save herself.
When Detective Callie Forde is called to the home of a missing teenaged girl, she doesn’t initially suspect foul play. Hampstead is a quiet college town. It’s safe—if you don’t count the other girl. But as the hours wear on with no sign of Natalie, the police are forced to consider the teenager might have been abducted.
No one is more surprised than Callie when all their leads are eerily similar to that of another case, the five-year-old cold case that ended with a botched investigation, a shooting, and her father in a wheelchair.
NEVER ENOUGH HEARTS THAT DON’T NEED HEALING COLLECTION
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating:4.9 #ad
It seems like there are never enough hearts that don’t need healing…and it’s time for second chances, not just for couples in love but for those blending families.
Intrigue, secret identities, amnesia, past trauma – this collection has it all!
Whether you enjoy reading stories about sexy doctors and nurses, military men and women, rock stars, and even lawmen, you’ll be sure to find stories you love in the pages of these sweet and steamy happy-ever-after second chance romances, from SEVEN NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY, AWARD-WINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS.
Buyer Beware
by Catherine Ryan Howard
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, a page-turning thriller about two women whose shattered lives come crashing together around a house whose secrets could bury them both.
If these walls could talk, they’d scream…
When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a fresh start—a place where no one knows her name, her history, or her secrets. But what she doesn’t know is that her new home is already hiding someone else’s secrets—and the people determined to keep them are watching her.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Congregation
by A.J. Griffiths-Jones
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
England, 1970s. A bustling mining town awaits the arrival of their new vicar.
People don’t know what to expect as the rather aloof Reverend Matthews descends upon his unfamiliar parish. Nevertheless, he is welcomed with open arms.
But after discovering a journal left by his predecessor, the clergyman begins to wonder what secrets lie behind the seemingly innocent lives of his congregation.
The Vigilante
by Jacqui Morrison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It isn’t safe for men who work in the porn business in the city of Toronto.
When porn producer Sal Turbit is found dead in his apartment, no one seems to care. No one, that is, except Detective Lynette Wilton. Lynette has been a homicide detective for only three months, and has yet to earn her stripes.
Murder is murder no matter who the victim is—and Lynette is out to catch a killer.
Could the killer be Wanda Chambers, a mentally ill woman who hates the “scumbags” who prey on the vulnerable? Wanda’s beloved sister, Cathy, was one such woman. Cathy became a porn actress and then took her own life when her sleazy manager/boyfriend, Gil Lee, wouldn’t let her go.
Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother’s dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn’s brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls — and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.
The Midwife’s Secret
by Emily Gunnis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
It all began with a midwife’s secret… a secret that once uncovered, could free two families from the bitter tragedy that binds them
1969 On New Year’s Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent away. Alice is never found.
Present day Architect Willow James is working on a development at Yew Tree when she discovers the land holds a secret…
Phantom Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the clues aren’t adding up—and then there’s the young Goth girl who keeps appearing and disappearing.
Where does she come from? Where does she go every night? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here? Something very bad, very dark, and as elusive as a phantom…
The Alien Jungle Warlord’s Bride
by A.V. Wilcott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
I crashed on his planet. He found me in the wreckage. Claimed me as his bride. Now the most dangerous warlord in the jungle says I’m his. And his jungle agrees.
I’m Elena Parks. Trauma nurse. Engineer. I flew twenty survivors off a dying planet and kept us alive through a crash-landing on an alien world. Twenty women. Twenty different biomes. Twenty alien rulers who claimed us after we arrived. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
I’ve survived worse than an alien claiming ceremony. But I wasn’t prepared for Rythar.
Love You Madly
by Michael Fleeman
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
She posted it online: “Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered.” But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn’t begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother’s body locked in a van. Doused in gasoline. Burned beyond recognition…
Alaska troopers arrested two young men—both of whom had dated Rachelle and claimed to still love her. Investigators grilled Rachelle until she made shocking and apparently incriminating revelations…
The Talking Bone
by Rene Denfeld
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thriller inspired by her real life work exonerating innocents, a novel that asks how far we’ll go in our pursuit of the truth—an emotionally rich, luminously written book about evil and people trying to do good in the world.
Ruby Spencer is known as “the exonerator.” Her job as an investigator is to free innocent men from death row, and she’s good at what she does. What many people don’t know is that she spends her time finding missing women, too. The orphaned daughter of an orphaned mother, Ruby feels a natural affinity for those who have been mistreated by the world at large.