Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Murder of Sleepy Hollow
by Michele PW
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Unfortunately for Ike Krane, his parents had a wicked sense of humor.
So, early on, he decided to embrace his challenges rather than run from them, which is how he become a ghost hunter and ended up visiting Redemption, Wisconsin. The problem – trouble seems to follow Ike just as it did his fictional predecessor.
First, there’s the sound of a horse galloping down the neighborhood streets at night, even though there’s never a horse to be found. Then, Ike’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Kat arrives with an urgent message for him.
Light in Our Darkest Night
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Their lives had always been connected…first by friendship…and then by a chilling tragedy neither would ever forget. But they weren’t kids anymore and everything was different. Almost everything.
The night wasn’t nearly as dark as it should be. Jackson noticed the flickering lights in the windows almost immediately. But not before his sister did.
More than once after that night, Jackson willingly admitted to anyone who asked that if it weren’t for his sister, everything could have ended in a completely different way. Without question, everyone…his brothers, his dad, and even Ally played an important role during their quickly planned, harrowing, and suspenseful escape.
Mister Magic
by Kiersten White
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were on it. The friendship. The feeling of belonging. And the protection of Mister Magic.
But with no surviving video of the show, no evidence of who directed or produced it, and no records of who—or what—the beloved host actually was, memories are all the former Circle of Friends has.
77 Shadow Street
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of things far worse—that have scarred its grandeur almost from the beginning.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Dead Frequency
by Jeff Shipman
Kindle 3.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dead Frequency is a psychological survival thriller set in New Braunfels, Texas—where the power dies, the animals go silent, and one analog voice keeps talking.
When the grid fails, a whispered sermon bleeds through an abandoned frequency. The words sound biblical. The intent is control. Caleb Rourke thinks it’s another blackout—until phones stay dead, cars won’t start, and neighbors begin repeating phrases they didn’t choose. With his niece, Mara, and a paranoid fixer next door, Caleb has to decide what to trust as the signal tightens its grip. Help isn’t coming. The closer you listen, the stronger it gets.
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
by Dorothy Gilman
Kindle 1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Although Mrs. Pollifax is determined to give up spying for good, she can’t help but agree to carry a small object to an agent in Thailand, and get one in return. The moment she lands, however, Mrs. Pollifax is horrified to find her contact dead and her husband kidnapped.
The next thing she knows, she’s tramping through the ominous Thai countryside, led by a curious fellow who may be trying to help her find her husband. Or he may have other, more sinister plans….
Remains of Innocence
by J. A Jance
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.
An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner.
Smell The Plumerias
by Cathy A. Corn
Kindle 0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
PARADISE SHATTERS when Adam’s cranky daughter arrives uninvited, planning on sharing their room with them. (Not quite the ideal atmosphere for hot island lovemaking.) They’ve been swimming with wild spinner dolphins, a blissful interlude until Lilith’s favorite, Winddancer, is shot and killed while they snorkel nearby.
LILITH VOWS to find his murderer and uncovers an even greater trauma. Someone desecrates a sacred site of volcano goddess Pele, her wrath expressed by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Unless this stops, no one on the island is safe.
Remain
by Nicholas Sparks, M. Night Shyamalan
Kindle 14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
COMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DYNEVOR
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.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
No Roast for the Weary
by Cleo Coyle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When the Village Blend opens a Writer’s Block Lounge, a cold case crime turns up the heat on Clare and her crew in this gripping new entry in the beloved Coffeehouse Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.
As much as master roaster Clare Cosi adores coffee, the landmark shop she manages won’t survive if she doesn’t sell enough of it. So when the Village Blend’s customer traffic grinds to a halt, she turns to her staff for creative ideas, and the Writer’s Block Lounge is born.
Of Lightning and Silver
by Julianne Munich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In 1810 England, Miss Phoebe Eaton trains as a Vampire Hunter.
She has only ever used her Lightning magic to spark kitchen fires, until her training officer teaches her to use her power to knock vampire bats from the sky. Kindhearted Phoebe is always one to help others – even if she’s rather timid for a fighter.
Constable Jakob Weber is a dashing new member of the Mage law force. He saves Phoebe’s life during her first disastrous hunt—then mysteriously vanishes. Phoebe soon witnesses a brutal massacre at the hands of a newly sired vampire. The tragedy gives her a clue to Jakob’s disappearance, and she embarks on a new hunt with a talented, international team of high-powered Mages…
Wordsworth in Bogotá
by Scott E. Sundby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Father–son relationships are rarely easy and certainly not when the son’s first love is Shakespeare and the father is the kingpin of a drug empire. Esteban Velasquez, however, manages to forge a frosty détente with his father—he studies literature abroad while his father grooms his older brother as the heir.
Now, though, the empire faces imminent collapse, and the old go-tos of bribery and making key competitors “disappear” are no longer working. It falls to Esteban to use his literary talents to save the family’s fortune. Devising an ingenious plan, he wagers the last of his family’s fortune to stage an international poetry conference—Wordsworth in Bogotá—in an effort to outwit the DEA. But in doing so, he must make choices that will forever change the lives of friends and family.
The Overnight CEO
by Ladeira Poonian
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life can change in an instant. What you make from that change is up to you.
When Ladeira Poonian’s husband—the founder of a successful tech company in the 90s—suddenly dies, she’s thrust into the life of a CEO overnight. Left to raise a teenaged son and keep their family’s legacy above water, she had a choice: succumb to gender bias and hand over the reins of the company or take her seat at the table with all the grit and tenacity she had.
The Overnight CEO chronicles Ladeira’s unexpected journey from wife to widow, trauma nurse to CEO. From not knowing how to turn on a computer to rescuing the company from predatory investors—hers is a story of overcoming life’s challenges, harnessing resilience, and stepping up to the plate in the face of naysayers.
The Trespasser
by Tana French
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In bestselling author Tana French’s newest “tour de force” (The New York Times), being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point.
Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There’s nothing unusual about her—except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.
The Scarred Woman
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder.
In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery.
Fox
by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
“I found it mesmerizing front to back.” – Michael Connelly
Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.
Sunshine
by Robin McKinley
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Although it had been mostly deserted since the Voodoo Wars, there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, head baker at her family’s busy and popular café in downtown New Arcadia, needed a place to get away from all the noise and confusion – of the clientele and her family. Just for a few hours. Just to be able to hear herself think.
She knew about the Others, of course. Everyone did. And several of her family’s best regular customers were from SOF – Special Other Forces – which had been created to deal with the threat and the danger of the Others.
Wild Witch
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ginger fled her hometown three years ago with her high school sweetheart. Now, she returns to face the betrayal she left behind and to make amends with that former boyfriend she ultimately abandoned. But things change slowly in a small town, and she has to decide whether to face the rumors that still echo around her or leave it all behind once again.
Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
An unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben. Gone Before Goodbye is the story of a woman trapped in a deadly conspiracy—where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan … until it wasn’t.