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…
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Lethally Blond
by Kate White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Whenever a celebrity throws a phone, crashes a car, or kills a spouse, celebrity journalist Bailey Weggins is there to cover it for the gossip magazine Buzz. Now, the new television show Morgue is the talk of the town, and just as Bailey starts reminiscing about her brief summer fling with the show’s gorgeous star, Chris Wickersham, he calls.
But Chris isn’t thinking about rekindling their old flame. His friend and fellow actor on the show has gone missing, and while nobody else seems to be alarmed, Chris can’t believe his friend would just run off while on the brink of stardom…
The First Beaufont Complete Series
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s time for a Medieval dragonrider to fix the modern world.
Six-hundred years ago, Genevieve Beaufont stole a dragon egg and buried it. Now it’s time for that egg to finally hatch. It’s time for Gen Beaufont to be the rebel she always dreamed of.
Gen, a resident of 15th-century England, finds herself stuck in modern day America—all because she was overly curious and followed strangers through a time travel gate.
Two things have always gotten Gen in trouble: her curiosity and defiance. But times have changed, quite literally. Those traits could save her life.
A Dangerous Man
by Robert Crais
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre–and Joe Pike’s most perilous case to date.
Joe Pike didn’t expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.
False Witness
by Karin Slaughter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.
HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST… But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.
BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP…
Nightmares & Grief Vol. 2
by Derrick Heisey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dare to Face the Darkness Within? From the shadows of grief and trauma comes Nightmares & Grief Vol. 2, a masterfully crafted collection of dark, supernatural horror. Written in a style reminiscent of Stephen King, these haunting tales will grip your soul, challenge your perceptions, and leave you questioning the boundaries of the human psyche.
Perfect for fans of dark, gritty supernatural horror, these stories combine visceral terror with deep psychological themes, blending the eerie with the profound.
The Missing Witness
by Allison Brennan
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good…
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness—a whistleblower who might be the key to everything—has disappeared.
After another person close to the case is killed, it’s clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and tracking down the witness becomes a matter of life-and-death…
Cemetery Road
by Greg Iles
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption… Iles’s latest calls to mind the late, great Southern novelist Pat Conroy. Like Conroy, Iles writes with passion, intensity and absolute commitment.” – Washington Post
When Marshall McEwan left his Mississippi hometown at eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington, DC. But as the ascendancy of a chaotic administration lifts him from print fame to television stardom, Marshall discovers that his father is terminally ill, and he must return home to face the unfinished business of his past.
Prayers for Rain
by Dennis Lehane
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.
What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death – a monster that the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against the psychopath, even as he turns tricks on them…
Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Kindle $0.75 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Enter the eerie world of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” a gothic horror tale that weaves together themes of love, fear, and the supernatural, leaving a lasting impression on all who dare to read it.
Set against the haunting backdrop of 19th-century Europe, the novella introduces Carmilla, a mysterious young woman whose presence casts a shadow over Laura, the unsuspecting protagonist. As their bond deepens, a chilling truth unfolds—Carmilla is not just a captivating beauty, but a vampire whose dark secrets come to light. Through his masterful storytelling, Le Fanu explores themes of seduction, desire, and the complexities of the human condition, creating a narrative that is both terrifying and thought-provoking.
Mistletoe on Main Street
by Holly Schindler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A magical sweet Christmas romance about lost love, second chances, and the holiday miracles waiting at Ruby’s Place.
Hard-nosed journalist Russ Keegan only wants to coast through the remainder of the holiday season, avoiding all the sentimental schmaltz. But his editor gives him one last-minute assignment: a Christmas investigation into Ruby’s Place, the mysterious supper club in Sullivan, Missouri. Locals whisper that on Christmas Eve, anyone who enters can see their long-lost loved one, share a table, hold their hand, tell them everything they didn’t have a chance to while they were still alive. Maybe I love you. Or I’m sorry.