Friday’s Mystery eBooks

Relentless (Gray Man Book 10)
Mark Greaney
Kindle 2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad

The Gray Man’s search for missing intelligence agents plunges him deep into a maelstrom of trouble in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The first agent disappearance was a puzzle. The second was a mystery. The third was a conspiracy. Intelligence operatives around the world are disappearing.

When a missing American agent re-appears in Venezuela, Court Gentry, the Gray Man, is dispatched to bring him in, but a team of assassins has other ideas. Court escapes with his life and a vital piece of intelligence. Meanwhile, CIA agent Zoya Zakharova is in Berlin.

MERCER (Mercer Trilogy Book 1)
S. K. Brown
Kindle 4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Daniel Mercer has always known there is something wrong with him. At sixteen, Daniel Mercer discovers what it feels like to take a life. He also discovers that he wants to do it again.

Years later, Danny has built the kind of life no one would think to question—a devoted wife, children he fiercely loves, a thriving automotive business, and a reputation as the dependable family man everyone seems to know. But beneath that ordinary life is another one. Women disappear. Bodies surface. And beneath Mercer Auto, Danny is building something no one was ever meant to find.

The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad

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When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return and Emma begins acting odd. At first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression. But before Apollo can do anything to help, Emma commits a horrific act and vanishes. Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His odyssey takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.

A Murder Redeemed
Bruce Hammack
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

The quiet campus harbored secrets. Now it harbors a killer. When a wave of car thefts disturbs the tranquil university campus where Assistant Police Chief CJ Harper maintains order, she considers it a manageable crisis.

But when one of her campus officers is brazenly murdered and her boss is suddenly hospitalized, CJ finds herself thrust into a leadership role she never wanted—hunting a killer who’s always one step ahead. As evidence mounts and leads emerge, CJ’s investigation plunges into the shadowy world of organized crime operating beneath the campus’s tranquil surface.

Slipping into Darkness
Peter Blauner
Kindle 0.50 Rating: 4.1 #ad

Crime thrills from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sunrise Highway—”One of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time” (Stephen King). When Allison Wallis was beaten to death, Detective Francis X. Loughlin found the killer—Julian Vega, a teenager with a crush on the murdered girl.

Using his natural sense of empathy, he cozied up to young Julian, convincing him to give a confession that would put him away until he was thirty-six.

Cari Mora
Thomas Harris
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 3.7 #ad

A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs. “Delectable.” —New York Times Book Review “A master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.” —Wall Street Journal

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Finding Angus
L.K. Johnson
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad

A bereft woman…An injured dog…An unbreakable bond… Wealthy Chicago socialite Isabelle Bordner has lost her family to a deadly Typhoid outbreak. Heartbroken and alone, she travels to London in search of a new life… and a purpose that will heal her heart.

Angus, an old Irish Wolfhound, wanders the dark alleyways of London, lost and alone, until his destiny unexpectedly entwines with Isabelle’s. Together they embark on a remarkable journey: to inspire the animal welfare movement in America and endure an unforgettable voyage aboard the RMS Titanic.

Countdown to Christmas Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery Book 32)
Leslie Meier
Kindle 12.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad

Christmas may be 63 days away, but as the Tinker’s Cove Chamber of Commerce gears up for an elaborate Dickens-themed Christmas event, reporter Lucy Stone is already feeling a bit Grinchy—until a possible murder requires her sleuthing skills in the latest Lucy Stone Mystery from bestselling author Leslie Meier.

With all four kids out of the house, Lucy Stone’s suddenly empty nest has put a damper on her usual zest for Christmas. She’s got plenty of article ideas to keep her busy though, including reports of vicious social media posts targeting several town residents.