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
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
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…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Clause of Death
by Lorna Barrett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce. Things are changing in the booktown, and some merchants would say not for the better. They grumble that too many non-book-related stores are moving into the village, taking up the most visible storefronts on Main Street, diluting the “Booktown” moniker. Of course, the members with other businesses, like the latest, The Bee’s Knees, are fine with other businesses moving in. No matter what side of the argument they’re on, all the business owners agree on one thing: Tricia and Angelica are to blame…
Kringle Classified Ops Complete Series Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A jolly guardian. A sinister collective. Christmas hangs in the balance.
Meet Kris Kringle. Behind the cheerful facade lies a skilled warrior with a mission: to protect the joy and spirit of Christmas from those who seek to destroy it.
Grab this complete series boxed set and join Kris Kringle as he defends Christmas from Christmas haters!
Chaos
by Patricia Cornwell
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Even before Scarpetta’s headquarters has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta’s FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol.
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Taken
by Dan Lawton
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nine-year-old Chloe Janis is missing.
Abby, her mom, is now faced with an impossible decision—revealing seventeen-year-old secrets she’s kept hidden, or losing her daughter forever.
Everything unravels after Abby receives a cryptic message from a man from her past, someone she’d tried to erase from her memory. But now, he’s back. And he’s done the unthinkable…
Love Lies Bleeding
by Jess McConkey
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 3.6 #ad
the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and TheLovely Bones by Alice Sebold comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (aka award-winning author Shirley Damsgaard) enthralls with her ingenious blending of family drama and gripping mystery. Suspenseful and absolutely chilling, Love Lies Bleeding grabs hold of the reader from page one, as a young woman whose golden life is shattered by unexpected violence is sent to a small, secluded lake town in Northern Minnesota to recover—and soon suspects the town’s eccentric residents are hiding more than one truly frightening secret.
EMP The Quiet Hideaway
by William Stone
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one believed her. When an EMP cripples the nation, Meghan is one of the few prepared to survive.
When the EMP hits, Captain Meghan Prescott loses everything except the skills her grandfather taught her. With the city descending into chaos, she sets out alone toward a distant prepper homestead, where her daughter might still be safe. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, a mother’s love is the hope that keeps her alive.
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm
by Richard Estep, Robert Graves
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm provides detailed insights from the original criminal investigation as well as the perspectives of the man who survived Herb’s attempt on his life. This chilling book also features actual supernatural evidence – from EVPs and psychic confirmations to first-hand accounts of the disembodied hands and voices that regularly manifest on the estate.
Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least eleven men, has a grim past and an unsettling present.
Considering Kate
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Kate Stanislaski Kimball is done with glamour and fame; she has come home to make a fresh start. The only thing more perfect than the beautiful—dilapidated—building she’s bought for her new dance school is Brody O’Connell, the frustrating and surprisingly fascinating contractor she’s hired for the renovation. As a single father, Brody is determined to resist Kate’s effortless allure. But how long can a man hold out against his own heart?
Fellowship of the Frazzled Moms
by Stephanie Paige King
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad9
Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but what if it only takes a cul-de-sac? After fifteen years of raising her own kids, Dana is now lending a hand to her neighbor, a new mom of triplets, who is drowning in diapers and self-doubt. Dana’s is a charmed— albeit loud and chaotic—life until she discovers her disoriented father on a peculiar neighborhood caper, and her husband is nowhere to be found when she needs his help. Now she must get to the bottom of her dad’s mental decline and solve the mystery of her husband’s sudden preoccupation with his career.
As if Josie weren’t already frazzled by caring for three infants, a family engagement spearheaded by her controlling mother sends her into a tailspin. She and Dana join forces across their cul-de-sac to build a community of moms in the same boat, desperate for support and sisterhood. Before long, one mom’s simple act of crossing the street sparks change for an entire west Texas community.