Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Triumphs of Tenacity
by Yusra Mariyam
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Triumphs of Tenacity is an inspiring memoir by Yusra Mariyam, chronicling her remarkable journey from a young girl in Bangladesh to a UK graduate.
At seven, Yusra faced the daunting challenge of adapting to a new culture and language. Despite numerous setbacks, including academic failures and personal heartbreaks, she never lost sight of her dreams. Yusra’s transformation is profound. From a homemaker with no qualifications, raising six children, she emerged as a First-Class Honours graduate in International Business Management.
Mistress of Justice
by Jeffery Deaver
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series • “Loaded with character and action and a very devious plot, Mistress of Justice is a top-notch legal thriller.”—Mystery Lovers News
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York’s preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he’s defending but his career as well…
Surrender
by Deborah Lamoreaux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
It’s 2125 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari – the defenders.
At the turn of the 22nd century they came, with solutions for world hunger, disease, and with ground-breaking technology beyond anything mankind could ever imagine. But, they are not what they seem.
Alrissa Cole is a confident and accomplished professional by day, but by night, in that place between sleep and waking, she is unsteady and unsure–plagued by strange visitations and sights that test the strength of her beliefs. She wins a ticket to the International Academy Awards, where 3-D holograms of the world’s stars, past and present, mingle with live ones, creating an experience of a lifetime.
The Second Time Around
by Mary Higgins Clark
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that could have been ripped from today’s headlines.
When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia “Carley” DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money—including the life savings of many employees—doesn’t do much to change Carley’s already low opinion of Spencer’s wife, Lynn, who is also Carley’s stepsister and who everyone believes is involved. But when Lynn’s life is threatened, she asks Carley to help her prove that she wasn’t her husband’s accomplice…
The Algebraist
by Iain M. Banks
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.
The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.
A Firing Offense
by David Ignatius
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
“A dynamic thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced.” – Ben Bradlee, Washington Post
When rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes enmeshed in an international trade war in which even his own newspaper may be an unsuspecting participant. When Eric’s sources tell him there is a spy inside the newsroom, he is tempted to cross a dangerous professional line and risk his career—possibly even his life—to find the truth.
Below the Surface
by Karen Harper
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Briana Devon knows her twin sister would never deliberately leave her—but when she emerges from underwater, Daria and their boat have vanished. Fighting rough waves and a fast-approaching storm, Bree doesn’t have time to question: if she wants to survive, she has to swim. Exhausted and terrified, Bree barely makes it to a tiny barrier island, where Cole De Roca, who has also taken shelter, revives her. Bound to Cole by the harrowing experience, she turns to him as she struggles to understand what happened to her sister. What was her twin, whom she thought she knew so well, hiding? What really transpired that terrible afternoon? And what secrets lie dormant . . . below the surface?
The Reader’s Companion to the World of Jane Austen
by Joe Giampaolo
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
This beautifully illustrated book is a concise yet comprehensive account of Jane Austen’s life. We will take a look at her family, friends, and suitors. We will discover her favourite food, music and authors. We will explore the cuisine and fashion of the period. We will sneak into a public ball at the Assembly Rooms in Basingstoke to see Jane Austen meet the love of her life. We will help Mrs. Austen create the menu for their Christmas dinner. Lastly, we will examine Jane’s masterpieces and the literary devices she used in her novels.
JFK: Public, Private, Secret
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Kindle $17.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF AMAZON EDITORS’ BEST BOOKS OF JULY
From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story – her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.
In this definitive portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—one of America’s most consequential and enigmatic presidents – J. Randy Taraborrelli delivers a deeply researched and authoritative biography. More than the story of a presidency, this is an intimate study of a man whose public triumphs were shaped—and at times overshadowed—by the complex realities of his private life, from his legendary family to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.