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
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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
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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
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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.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Bookish Ending
by Anthea Fraser
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Meet Rona Parish, a feisty biographer with a talent for digging up murder and mystery wherever she goes — and Gus, the adorable Golden Retriever trotting loyally at her heels!
Rona’s determined to give this book an ending. Or die trying.
When Rona’s agent asks her to complete Russell Page’s final biography, Rona jumps at the chance. Russell was a fine writer, who’d pursue the truth no matter where it led . . . Until his untimely death in a car crash.
Brazen Virtue
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
NOW THE NETFLIX FILM BRAZEN, STARRING ALYSSA MILANO
After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who’s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher’s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator.
Veil of Silence
by Danielle Abi-Saab
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Beirut, 1985. Amid the destruction and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, romantic and idealistic fifteen-year-old Hoda longs for love above all else.
Believing they are safeguarding their daughter’s honor, Hoda’s parents force her into an arranged marriage with Tony, a man more than twice her age. Swayed by his generous gifts and attention, Hoda believes Tony’s promises of a better life away from her shattered city. But will her marriage be the fairytale she dreams it to be? Bound by religious law and familial duties, Hoda must play the hand she was dealt: to be a devoted wife, a good mother, and a faithful daughter, even if it means remaining silent about the truth.
Garden of Shadows
by V.C. Andrews
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall…
V.C. Andrews’ thrilling novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions—of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth’s bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread…an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl.
Texas
by James A. Michener
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Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master.
The Big Tilt
by Dan Flanigan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
An old flame in danger. A friend framed. A Mafia vow to see him buried.
To save the people he loves, O’Keefe must walk into the past he never escaped.
A year after exposing a violent criminal ring, Peter O’Keefe is back in his hometown, trying to build a steadier life for himself and his daughter.
O’Keefe’s closest friend, attorney Mike Harrigan, is arrested and publicly humiliated. The charges are flimsy, the timing is convenient, and the forces behind the case are anything but innocent. Then comes the worst blow of all: the Mafia boss O’Keefe crossed in the desert left one final order before he died—kill O’Keefe.
The Price of Butcher’s Meat
by Reginald Hill
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While recovering from injuries at a seaside resort, the Yorkshire detective stumbles onto a deadly smalltown scandal in this acclaimed crime series.
A bomb couldn’t kill Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel—but his convalescence at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown (“Home of the Healthy Holiday”) just might. Sneaking out to the local pub provides Fat Andy with a bit of necessary diversion, allowing him a pint or two on the sly, plus an update on the world of trouble outside the clinic…
Backtrack
by Marc Cameron
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A generations-old vendetta catches up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter in a propulsive thriller about revenge and blood ties on the deceptively calm waters of Alaska’s Inside Passage.
D Wayne Cutter is a former U.S. Army Green Beret, part-time horseshoer, and a full-time Texas deputy sheriff with a second grandchild on the way when a quiet Sunday morning ends in murder and a manhunt. The theft of five million dollars in diamonds from an armored truck leaves two guards dead, one outlaw tracked down and taken out by Cutter…