Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Double Trouble
by Denise Diana Huddle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Private investigator Iris Raines thought she’d seen everything—until she was staring into the face of a dead woman who looked exactly like her. The discovery sends Iris into a maze of hidden identities, long-buried secrets, and a conspiracy that stretches back decades. Someone is searching for a treasure connected to the past, and they’re willing to kill to get it.
Now Iris isn’t just on the case—she’s in the crosshairs. With her loyal Saint Bernard at her side and a small circle of allies she trusts with her life, Iris follows a trail of clues from dusty records and forgotten family histories to dangerous men who will do anything to get what they want.
The Book of the Dead
by Elizabeth Daly
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A copy of Shakespeare’s The Tempest pulls a bookseller into a murder case in this mystery by Agatha Christie’s favorite American author.
The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw’s battered old edition of The Tempest—and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge.
The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas
by R. A. J. Walling
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
”The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas” is a classic 1935 mystery novel by R.A.J. Walling, featuring his recurring detective Philip Tolefree, about a baffling case where a corpse appears and disappears, challenging Tolefree to unravel hidden truths and impossible logistics, noted for its intriguing plot and vintage charm.
Three completely unrelated events, occurring on the same day, but in different places, create the puzzle for Tolefree’s new adventure: A. Lord and Lady Meriden decide to sell their famous Murillo triptych; B. Sir Isaac Stratton cashes a check for three thousand pounds; C. A tabby cat finds a dark corner for the business on which she is bent.
Soul Proprietor
by Stephanie Vance
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tiffani Lutatio, a top salesfiend for Hell’s Soul Exchange, needs 142 more rentals to claw her way into Hell’s C-suite—with Fred, her fire-breathing dachshund, in tow. But in her rush to the bottom, she accidentally rents out a porn star’s recalled soul, violating one of Hell’s commandments. To retrieve it before Hell’s Information Agency finds out and stops her promotion, Tiffani must accept a humiliating bargain: grant her customer three favors.
In present-day Portland, Oregon, where demons and angels haunt dive bars alongside the living, Tiffani and her band of misfit celestials and delinquent mortal teenagers stumble onto Hell’s most classified secret.
True Story
by Michael Finkel
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article.
Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any contact with the media. Then he got a call from the San Francisco Chronicle—and Mike was thrust back into the news cycle in a way no one could have anticipated.
Kingdom Come
by Daphne Simpkins
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mildred Budge returns in Kingdom Come, a story about setbacks and how to face them. The fourth novel in the series, Kingdom Come, continues with the stories of Mildred, Fran, Winston, Janie, and Chase.
In this story, Mildred’s Cloverdale bungalow is crowded. Her best friend Fran observes, “For a single woman, Mildred, your quiver is getting very full.” And it is. There is little room in Mildred’s Cloverdale bungalow for solitude and extended prayer, and Mildred Budge needs both. Many people do.
Cross That Line
by Barbara Freethy
Kindle $6.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
FBI Agent Tyler Brennan has never hesitated to cross a line in the name of justice. Rules are flexible. Failure isn’t. Dr. Rachel Thorne believes lines exist for a reason. The last time she stood her ground against Tyler, sparks flew—and not the good kind.
Now a disturbing incident at a veterans hospital forces them back into each other’s orbit. Rachel is certain a decorated soldier didn’t simply walk away, and she needs someone to listen to her, even if that someone is Tyler Brennan.
Mystery Play
by Elizabeth Kostova
Kindle $4.3 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
After his beloved mother passes away suddenly, Jay Turner finds himself at a crossroads. She was always secretive, and when he returns to their Boston home to clear out her possessions, he finds an unusual item: a partially burned scrap of newspaper bearing the name “Gael Brogan.” Soon after, a deliveryman leaves behind a package containing a small antique volume bound in leather—and two bloody footprints.
The sight of the volume is chilling. As a young scholar, his mother had been given the medieval book—one of a set commissioned by Vlad Țepeș, otherwise known as Dracula, just before his death in 1477.
Stride
by Avra Wing
Kindle $4.6 Rating: #ad
One spring afternoon in 1990, writer and mother Avra Wing, while holding her young son, is crushed by an out-of-control car careening onto the sidewalk near her Brooklyn home. Avra manages to hold on to her little boy, who is physically unharmed. She loses her right leg.
Stride is an unflinchingly honest account of living with sudden disability in a world designed for the able-bodied. Wing writes with poetic intimacy about her experience navigating the physical and emotional obstacles to recovery, her friends’ and family’s reactions to her injury, and the hard-won wisdom gained from learning that if you reach out your hand, someone will take it.
The Aperture Effect
by Kathryn Ford
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Couples often ask, “Can people really change?” A better question is, “How do people change?” In The Aperture Effect, psychiatrist and couples therapist Dr. Kathryn Ford doesn’t just tell you how—she gives you simple tools that will immediately begin to transform your conversations and your relationship.
With the radically simple approach of Aperture Awareness, Dr. Ford integrates mindfulness, psychology, and neuroscience to help couples shift their dynamics when in distress, turning their difficulties into lasting connection.