Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangerous Inspiration
by Greg Stone
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Synesthesia alters detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini’s perceptions. But can it help him find the killer?
Detective-turned-novelist Ronan Mezini has skewed perceptions because of a condition called synesthesia, which for him transforms sounds into colors. These visions give him unusual insights that help him solve the case. So when a collection of eccentric – and possibly violent — creative people come together at an elite artists’ colony in rural Vermont, murders occur in rapid succession and suspicion falls on everyone as Mezini unearths the founding family’s secrets.
The Moment She Left
by Susan Lewis
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Kesterly-on-Sea is full of secrets. Some are darker than others; many are shameful. One is even deadly.
Andee is an ex-detective whose marriage is breaking up. So when a young female student disappears without trace, she throws herself into the search.
Meanwhile, the town’s beloved Rowzee Cayne has just discovered that she is terminally ill, and doesn’t want to burden her family and friends with the news.
The Final Witness
by Thomas Britten
Kindle $5.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the truth becomes treason, one voice dares to speak.
In a world determined to forget God and where defiance can mean death, sixteen-year-old David fights to hold onto the truth. As the Academy he attends seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of faith in the old religion, cryptic chalkboard messages, and an unlikely friendship spark David’s resolve. As the world hurtles toward its final reckoning, can he withstand the opposition and become the final witness before the moment that changes everything?
The Hollow Man
by Dan Simmons
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he’s been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge.
But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run–from his mind, from his past, from himself–hoping to find peace in isolation. Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across a dark and dangerous America.
Jefferson’s Ashes
by K. R. Eckert
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
~150 years ago, in the unreconstructed south, a group of powerful families form an organization for the protection of the old plantation way of life. In a climactic moment of terror, they murder a man who shouldn’t exist, a man whose very life could change history. Then the group vanishes into time.
~150 years later, young idealist Will Benning discovers his own family’s involvement with this group. Horrified, Benning flees his Southern home and heads for a friend in Boston. Hounded and desperate, he sells a box of odd and seemingly unrelated possessions, including two valuable Jefferson Bibles and a glass bottle filled with a strange dirt-like substance to rare book dealer, and ex-con, Quincy Adams Caine. That night, Benning is murdered, and Caine’s shop is burglarized. The bottle vanishes.
Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate’s shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights…
But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life—and the new love—that he has finally found for himself.
Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.
by Megan Margherio
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
This isn’t a survival story. It’s what comes after.
Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning. invites you into the long, aching aftermath of trauma, the part most stories skip.
In fragmented vignettes, raw inner dialogue, and poetic reflections, Megan doesn’t just tell you what happened. She lets you into her mind as it unravels, remembers, resists, and rebuilds.
This book doesn’t offer a before-and-after arc or a neat conclusion tied with a bow. Instead, it brings you into the in-between; the place where healing isn’t linear, and becoming whole means learning how to live alongside what hurt you.
Hope Rises
by David Baldacci
Kindle $7.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after becoming an informant for the FBI against a global criminal operation headed up by Victoria Steers. Steers has ripped everything Nash held dear away from him. He has nothing left to lose and with long, rigorous training under his belt the gentle and sensitive Nash has transformed into something he never thought he’d be: a physically imposing man with lethal skills. And now he has only goal left in life: taking down Victoria Steers.
Red Sheet
by James Ellroy
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
“The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some of Ellroy’s best work.” —NPR
It’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.
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Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Last Breath
by Kimberly Belle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It’s the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own dark past.
Sixteen years ago, Gia’s father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now that he’s back home and dying of cancer, Gia must care for him and reluctantly resumes the role of daughter to the town’s most infamous murderer. Gia’s old wounds are ripped open as protesters show up on the lawn and death threats are hurled at her, turning her own personal tragedy, once again, into front-page news.
Breaking Point
by Suzy Spencer
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter, “a classic true-crime tapestry” (Ron Franscell, bestselling author of The Darkest Night).
Andrea Yates, a suburban Houston mother of five, horrified the nation on June 20, 2001, when she dialed 911 and said, “I killed my children.”
While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife and former nurse, called the police to confess her sin.
The Guardians of Legacy Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
Some relics belong in a museum. Others should stay buried.
Beneath Boston’s Old North Church, someone unearthed the wrong relic — and now America’s only known mummy is awake and hunting.
Captain Leah Morgan’s newly formed Legacy Operations Command has one job: find the missing artifact that puts it back to sleep before a centuries-old secret society uses the chaos to resurrect a Revolutionary War spy with a very old grudge.
Racing through hidden history, deadly conspiracies, and the ghosts of her own past, Leah is learning fast that some secrets don’t stay buried — they come back with teeth.
Agents of Innocence
by David Ignatius
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius’s reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers.
Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
The Gathering Dark
by Brett Armstrong
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
After a thousand years of light, darkness covers the Lowlands.
Jason has spent his life running from the past. But when it finally catches up to him, he takes refuge in a strange inn—and hears a story that shouldn’t matter… yet changes everything.
It’s the story of Anargen.
A young man bound by loyalty to the legendary High King of All Realms, Anargen is called away from everything he loves to fulfill a dangerous mission. Alongside his mentor, Cinaed, he journeys north to broker peace between two ancient enemies—the men of Ecthelowall and the dwarfs of Ordumair…
Woman Down
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.
Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she’s been uninspired to write ever since.
Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It’s Petra’s last-ditch attempt to save her career—and herself.
Guardian
by Dennis Higgins
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Robby’s guardian angel, Charmeine was born in Heaven just prior to her charge. His special Angel of Harmony came to the earthly plane to watch over him all the days of his centenarian life—and beyond.
From childhood through the Great Depression and as a soldier during World War II, to his life as a St. Louis police officer, Charmeine was by his side. She guided him against a temptress demon and was with him through two remarkable women during his long life.
Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human.
Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell.
The Mirror
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger.
Rocket’s Red Glare
by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of special operators. They are ex-Special Forces, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. Phillips is a brilliant strategist and battle-tested leader who inspires total loyalty in his team. Now these decorated veterans of international warfare are at home and on stand-by—until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder.
Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of Mission: Impossible. Emergency operations happening not overseas but in the centers of American power, from Nantucket to Washington, DC. This national crisis is real.