Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knave of Diamonds
by Laurie R. King
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve.
When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.
The Haunting of the Hadley House
by JS Donovan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A family murdered. A mansion haunted. Detective Rachel Harroway can see the dead, and they’re begging her to find the killer who still walks among the living.
In 1983, a family of four was murdered in the remote Hadley House, a Queen Anne mansion in the North Carolina mountains. Decades later, Rachel and Brett Harroway buy the abandoned estate, ignoring local warnings. As they renovate, strange clues, ghostly music, and lurking figures awaken the house’s dark past. This chilling prequel launches the Rachel Harroway series with Southern Gothic suspense and supernatural terror.
True Evil
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face knows him all too well. An FBI agent working undercover, Alex Morse has come to Dr. Shepard’s office in Natchez, Mississippi, to unmask a killer. A local divorce attorney has a cluster of clients whose spouses have all died under mysterious circumstances. Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law was one of those clients, and now her beloved sister is dead.
Then comes Morse’s bombshell: Dr. Shepard’s own beautiful wife consulted this lawyer one week ago, a visit Shepard knew nothing about. Will he help Alex Morse catch a killer? Or is he the next one to fall victim to a deadly trap of sex, lies, and murder?
Red as Blood
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night, he discovers that his house has been ransacked, and his wife Gudrun missing. A letter on the kitchen table confirms that she has been kidnapped. If Flosi doesn’t agree to pay an enormous ransom, Gudrun will be killed.
Forbidden from contacting the police, he gets in touch with Áróra, who specialises in finding hidden assets, and she, alongside her detective friend Daniel, try to get to the bottom of the case without anyone catching on…
Agent in Place
by Mark Greaney
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels.
Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam’s regime.
Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn’t end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam’s rule–and a potent threat to the Syrian president’s powerful wife.
Remain
by Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth Sense
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain…
Doomsday Conspiracy
by Sidney Sheldon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Navy Commander Robert Bellamy investigates the crash of a NATO weather balloon in the Swiss Alps and soon realizes that it contains more than just hot air when a lethal force hunts him down
U.S. Navy Commander Robert Bellamy is tasked with locating witnesses to a crashed weather balloon in the Swiss Alps, only to uncover “Operation Doomsday”—a global plot to silence them and hide alien contact demanding an end to Earth’s pollution. Hunted by assassins led by the enigmatic Janus, Bellamy races across continents in a pulse-pounding fight for survival and planetary salvation.
Ginger Never Cried
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dancer, Travis Blaszkiewicz (AKA SWAY) had two passions in his life: his childhood friend and dance partner, Katy, and dancing with the legendary Ginger Rogers. The problem was that Ginger Rogers died before Sway was even born. However, strong passions can lead to amazing things, and Sway finds himself face-to-face with the object of his dreams, Ginger Rogers, in front of the old RKO Picture Studio actor’s entrance. Sway and Ginger quickly become close friends as he gets a job as a stagehand for one of her and Fred Astaire’s pictures.
Meanwhile, Sway still has business in his own time, rehearsing with Katy for the IDO dance competitions, and fighting his own demons for his feelings between her and Ginger Rogers in the past.
Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s
by Renée Brown Harmon MD
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A compassionate memoir of younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease with thoughtful guidelines for caregivers.
On a family vacation in 2009, Dr. Renée Brown Harmon felt the first jolt of fear that something might be wrong. How could her husband, Harvey, a highly intelligent physician, marathon runner, and devoted father, be struggling to keep up with their guide’s simple instructions or unable to do simple math to calculate their daughter’s age? The heartbreaking truth was confirmed nine months later when he was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease at age fifty.
Soon after, Harmon felt she had no choice but to inform the state medical board that it was no longer safe for her husband to see patients in their shared practice. Suddenly forced to manage both the family and business they’d built together, she stayed afloat by leaning on friends, family, and her faith through Harvey’s illness…