Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Scoop
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mercury’s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina, are dealing with gossip, scandal, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop – and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time for…or does she?
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The Stranger at the Door
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A knock at the door reveals a terrifying secret—and a dangerous decision.
Newly appointed as the small-town chief of police, Mark Friessen is starting to find his footing when a mysterious woman shows up on his doorstep, unraveling a chilling tale: she was forced to marry the man who killed her family. Desperate for help, she pulls Mark and social worker Billy Jo McCabe into a tangled web of deceit and danger.
As Mark and Billy Jo dig deeper into the woman’s claims, they’re faced with unsettling secrets about her past—and their own relationship is put to the test. What starts as a cry for help turns into a high-stakes case that threatens to expose deep fractures in the town and in their lives.
Sunburn
by Laura Lippman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
One is playing a long game. But which one?
They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through. Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets.
Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan?
Sword of Fire & Light
by J.P. Arputham
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enter the world of the Aracan Chronicles. A world of magic, gods, and war.
The Qahil desert is barren, unforgiving, and godless. Long abandoned by The Divine Council of gods. Its inhabitants struggle every day for survival. Yet, Talwar knows little of this struggle. His father, an outsider and the current sheik of the Alei, has tamed the Qahil. His reign brought peace and prosperity to a portion of the desert once thought impossible. Yet, his father’s past casts an ominous shadow over Talwar, his family, and his tribe. Follow the journey of Talwar as he faces gods, assassins, and his own destiny.
The Sound of Broken Glass
by Deborah Crombie
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present.
When Detective Inspector James joins forces with Detective Inspector Melody Talbot to solve the murder of an esteemed barrister, their investigation leads them to realize that nothing is what it seems—with the crime they’re investigating and their own lives.
No Quiet Water
by Shirley Miller
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After the U.S. declares war on Japan in 1941, all persons of Japanese descent in the Western U.S. come under suspicion. Curfews are imposed, bank accounts frozen, and FBI agents search homes randomly.
Despite the fact that two generations of the Miyota family are American citizens, Fumio and his parents and sister Kimiko must pack meager belongings and are transported under military escort to the California desert to be held at Camp Manzanar, leaving their good friends and neighbors the Whitlocks to care for their farm and their dog, Flyer…
Lyrical, visual, and rendered with strict attention to historical accuracy, No Quiet Water, shines a poignant light on current issues of racism and radical perspectives.
The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The bestselling legal thriller has charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller taking on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy — but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it’s even about justice.
Phantom’s Ransom
by Jesse Storm
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Phantom is a man who wore death like a second skin – until his daughter is taken.
A former sheriff, bounty hunter, and grieving widower, he’d carved out a hard peace raising his girl Maddie alone. Now, with her snatched by ruthless men, the ghosts of his past roar back to life.
His rules are simple: no mercy, no prisoners. Just a Colt and the uncanny silence that made his name legendary.
Hannah West never asked for trouble. A schoolteacher with a spine of steel and a heart too big for the frontier, she’s already buried one life when her husband died. But when she witnesses Maddie’s abduction, she grabs her derringer and rides into hell after her.
The Elephant in the Family Room
by René Sonneveld
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Equip your business family with the tools to tackle silent threats—including unspoken resentments, deep-seated insecurities, lingering fears, and misaligned values—that can shatter even the strongest enterprise families.
Business families face challenges that go far beyond the balance sheet. These unseen forces often remain hidden yet profoundly affect the future of both the family and the enterprise. Drawing on decades of experience advising global business families and C-suite executives, René Sonneveld addresses the “elephant in the family room”—the emotional complexities of enterprise families.
Packed with actionable insights, The Elephant in the Family Room provides enterprise families with the tools to confront power struggles, mend fractured relationships, bridge generational divides, and align family and business interests.