Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Now or Never
by Janet Evanovich
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.
While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. There’s Eugene Fleck, a seemingly sweet online influencer who might also be YouTube star Robin Hoodie, masked hero to the homeless, who hijacks delivery trucks and distributes their contents to the needy…
The Misery House
by David Kummer
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sometimes the quietest little towns are haunted by the darkest secrets. A psychological thriller and a family you’ll never forget.
New Haven: This rural town has never seen a string of tragedies like this. A local store burns to the ground with two bodies inside. A newlywed couple goes missing, and all signs point to the abandoned house. With no answers, the townsfolk grow more and more worried.
The Woods family has lived here forever. But when their friends and their own children are put in danger, the threat hits home. This close-knit family must risk everything to find answers, but time is running out.
Attie’s Amazing Adventures
by Loxley Browne
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Attie McAllister has never been one to sit still. With a NASA scientist mom training for a mission to the International Space Station, an FBI agent dad heading on a covert assignment in Europe, and her adventurous Aunt Loxley unraveling forgotten history, Attie is used to life moving fast.
But when she stumbles upon an old photograph of students from Carnegie Mellon – The Six – her curiosity takes over. As Attie balances her e-bike invention, her best friend’s growing YouTube channel, and a new obsession with project management, she realizes she’s not just chasing history – she’s racing against time…
Poison
by Galt Niederhoffer
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 3.6 #ad
Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass’ two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Portland —a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly. First with small omissions and white lies that happen daily in any marital bedroom. They seem insignificant, but they are quickly followed by a series of denials and feints that mushroom and then cyclone in menace.
The Night Eternal
by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The stunning New York Times bestselling vampire saga that author Dan Simmons (Drood, The Terror) calls, “an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of ‘Salem’s Lot,” concludes with The Night Eternal. The magnificent, if monstrously warped brainchild of cinematic horror master Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) and Chuck Hogan – whose novel Prince of Thieves, was praised as, “one of the 10 best books of the year” by Stephen King – The Night Eternal begins where The Strain and The Fall left off: with the last remnants of humankind enslaved by the vampire masters in a world forever shrouded by nuclear winter.
The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carré
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose.
The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances – and lives – are bought and sold…
Death Has a Small Voice
by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Before he dies, a murdered burglar puts Mrs. North in mortal danger
The thief struts toward Broadway, confident his luck has finally begun to turn. Just a few hours earlier, he had been as scared as a trapped rat, cowering in a bathroom, hoping the homeowners would go to bed without finding him. He got lucky, and he got away with his mark: a flimsy little piece of plastic that’s worth more money than he’s ever had at one time. But before he reaches his destination, he’ll be left for dead on the sidewalk. As his last act, he drops his loot in the mail.
In This Grave Hour
by Jacqueline Winspear
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The thirteenth installment in Jacqueline Winspear’s enormously popular New York Times bestselling mystery series. As Britain declares war on Germany, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on English soil.
Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs’ flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.
Burnt Letters
by Christina Ditchkofsky
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
This isn’t a healing journey. This is a takedown. You want to know the truth? The hardest part wasn’t leaving the abuser. It was admitting I was addicted to the pattern.
Burnt Letters is not a love story. It’s a psychological excavation—of why we stay, how we fawn, and what happens when a woman finally realizes she’s been trained to mistake pain for devotion. I didn’t fall into one toxic relationship. I repeated them like clockwork.
Because the trauma wasn’t new. It was inherited. Because I was raised to endure…
To Depression, With Love
by Marsha Jacobson
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An intimate memoir on living a joyful life with mental illness.
Marsha Jacobson was thirteen when her world shifted: Depression hit so severely that she could hardly eat. Once a spunky girl, Marsha became withdrawn, afraid to share her thoughts. Her parents, while loving, were not open to discussing mental illness.
Marsha struggled with depressive episodes and anxiety throughout adolescence and at university, but at age thirty, she opened her heart to a different approach: With the understanding that depression and anxiety would always be a part of her, Marsha gave them loving space…