Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Made in Savannah Mysteries Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Follow the Garlucci family saga as Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s “Made in Savannah Mystery Series.”
1-Key to Savannah; 2-Road to Savannah; 3-Justice in Savannah;
4-Swag in Savannah; 5-Trouble in Savannah; 6-Missing in Savannah
7-Setup in Savannah; 8-Merry Masquerade; 9-The Family Affair
10-Pirates in Peril
BONUS: RECIPES INCLUDED!
City of Schemes
by Bill Garwin
Rating: 3.9 #ad
“… high-octane adventure with nonstop twists and turns … City of Schemes is just the ticket for a thoroughly engrossing read.” – Midwest Book Review
The year is 2028 and the Feds have appropriated Northern California for the Great Experiment. They designate it “Norcal” and create satellite-enforced borders to protect the clinical purity of society’s most ambitious scientific and social advancements. Megan Garrity and her 13-year-old autistic son Nick, cannot resist the trafficker’s offer to be smuggled into Norcal. Megan will be given a new life, programs for Nick she never imagined possible. The dream becomes a nightmare. Norcal is a failed experiment co-opted by a corrupt kingpin armed with a hitman and a hacker employing the tremendous power of the Grid, internet taken to a never-before-seen level.
Becoming Crone
by Lydia M. Hawke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She wanted purpose. She got dark magic and war. Claire Emerson is adrift. After a lifetime as a wife, mother, and grandma, she never saw divorce or loneliness coming and is desperate for some sense of purpose. But when her sixtieth birthday brings a snarky gargoyle, an annoyingly sexy wolf shifter, and an unknown magical calling, she thinks she’s losing the only thing she has left: her sanity.
Refusing to believe she’s the powerful defender of humankind her so-called protectors claim, Claire attempts a return to her safe life… only to have her powers ignite when she’s attacked by dark supernatural creatures. And without the training she was supposed to have received, she has no idea how she’ll defeat sinister mages plotting her demise.
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(The Crone Wars Mysteries)
Deep Focus
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A scheming woman. A man she can’t fathom. A mystery that endangers her career. Is this how God answers Lindsey’s prayers?
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, travels to the rugged coast of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to finish her photo essay on a rare breed of Makah dogs. But disaster looms for her project, and she decides to fight back. Now she must confront the man who deceived her and unravel a threatening mystery.
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(The Dumont Chronicles)
Safe Passage
by Clay Wise
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When an EMP decimates the United States, Lori, a former Marine Raider, must embark on a treacherous journey with her daughter across the former United States from Pennsylvania to a rumored sanctuary in Washington State.
“Excellent characterization and intriguing story line. Definitely makes me want to read more of this series. Author put in some upfront research for the depth of activities indicated within the story.” by Amazon Customer
Motor Mouth
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Alexandra Barnaby, mechanic extraordinaire. Sam Hooker, a sexy race car driver who can rev any woman’s engine. Barnaby’s wacky brother, Wild Bill, who’s always in trouble. The outrageous Cuban cigar-rolling women, sure to provide comic relief. They’re fabulous characters, they’re still hanging out in sunny Florida, and they’re off on another crazy adventure, in the super-duper, stupendous, magnifico sequel to Metro Girl.
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(Metro Girl)
Angels Fall
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, Reece Gilmore settles in Angel’s Fall, Wyoming—temporarily, at least—and takes a job at a local diner. One day, while hiking in the mountains, she peers through her binoculars and sees a couple arguing on the bank of the churning Snake River. And suddenly, the man is on top of the woman, his hands around her throat…
By the time Reece reaches a gruff loner named Brody farther down the trail, the pair is gone. And when authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find no trace that anyone was even there.
ONLY OUR DESTINY
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). Up to 85 per cent of Italian Americans have their roots in this region. The story of the Coriello family begins in the fictional fishing village of Punto Roccioso along the Amalfi Coast. Alta Italia (Northern Italy) looks down on their southern countrymen as uneducated peasants. With limited opportunities available, many southern Italians dream of escaping poverty by leaving the land they love for a better life in America. But like all dreams, hardships, sacrifices, and realities intrude.
Having lived through World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and racial laws, Raffaela must raise and feed her ten children without any help from her estranged abusive husband Giuseppe, who refuses to give her money. With the support of her two oldest children, Geno, and Luisa, she struggles to survive. World War II devastates Italy and Italian Americans alike when “Il Duce” joins Hitler’s side, leaving Italians vulnerable at home and the object of hatred abroad. Young Italians are sent around the world to fight in a war they don’t believe in. At home Jewish families are under increasing threat. Yet, Italian men and women rebound to fight the Germans and Italian Fascists with a large and fervent partisan guerilla army.
The Final Detail
by Harlan Coben
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron is determined to prove Esperanza’s innocence—even if she won’t speak to him on the advice of her lawyer, who warns Myron to keep away from both the case and his client. But Myron is already too close, too involved, and has too much at stake. And the closer Myron gets to the truth, the more the evidence points to the only viable suspect besides Esperanza: Myron himself.
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(Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
Perilous Hearts Collection
by Jennifer Youngblood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Enjoy this fast-paced, action-packed romance collection by USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer Youngblood featuring tough Navy SEALs and fearless athletes.
The stakes get high when the heart is on the line. Love can be a dangerous game.
The set includes:
The Reckless Warrior; The Diehard Warrior;
The Stormy Warrior; The Impossible Groom;
The Hot-Headed Patriot
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
One Door Away from Heaven
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner.
Hailed as “America’s most popular suspense novelist” (Rolling Stone) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writing career that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, and popular work yet.
At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won the acclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fans the world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of our time into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotional resonance…
Five Days Post Mortem
by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide.
When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the woods might change the course of her life.
What secrets does the water conceal? The girl in the water marks the third such case in the area — all drowned with superficial stab wounds and discovered in a body of water — and Darger feels certain she won’t be the last.
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(Violet Darger FBI Mysteries)
River Road
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother.
The case isn’t simply cold, it’s 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Too Young to Kill
by M. William Phelps
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sixteen-year-old Adrianne Reynolds couldn’t unravel the twisted tangles of jealousy and domination complicating her new life in East Moline, Illinois. What began as a fresh start after a troubled home life in Texas ended with Adrianne’s body charred, stuffed into garbage bags, and scattered. It seemed the work of hardened criminals, but the truth was far more astonishing: her own “best friends” choked Adrianne to death and cut her up. Now, master crime writer M. William Phelps recounts this horrific saga of teen lust and violence in every gripping detail.
Brandon Hall Mysteries
by John Theo Jr.
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brandon Hall is drawn back into his previous life as a private investigator with an explosive first case!
Murder at Cluster Springs Raceway –
Virginia Senator Gregory Schilling’s son died in a fiery crash on a racetrack. But was it an accident? Or murder?
Only Brandon Hall can figure this one out. But he’s still recovering from the death of his 2 year old son at the hands of a drunk driver. Will he learn to rely on God to get him through his grief while trying to find justice for a young race car driver?
The Dismal Swamp
Beneath DC
Adrenochrome
Love, Lies and Murder
by Leslie Wolfe
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Breathtaking suspense unraveling at train-wreck speed, in an unforgettable collection. Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules.
Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying.
Intense and gripping, each story features a hero that seeks justice and the triumph of good over evil by whatever means necessary—regardless of what society’s rules find acceptable.
Misfits of Magic
by Tricia Owens
Rating: 5.0 #ad
They’re the Other Guys. Not cool, mediocre at magic, and absolutely clueless.
Forming a rock band sounded fun to Kenzie and her friends, but there are two pretty big problems with the idea: 1) they don’t know how to play their instruments and 2) every time they perform, they accidentally unleash weird dark magic upon their city. Even worse, the police think they’re responsible. As if they could ever be responsible!
On the plus side, they have Kenzie, their oblivious but well-meaning fairy princess lead singer, along with three disgraced detectives who know nothing about magic. On the downside, they’re all incompetent.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
And Death Goes To…
by Laura Bradford
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s an honor just to be nominated. But, let’s get real, Tobi wants to win. The St. Louis Advertising Awards are like the Oscars for her field, and Tobi is up for its most prestigious prize, Best Overall Ad Campaign. The competition is always fierce, but this year it’s killer . . .
Despite her high hopes, Tobi isn’t exactly shocked when she doesn’t win. But she is shocked when the winner, Deidre Ryan, takes the stage only to plummet to her death as a platform suddenly gives way…
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(A Tobi Tobias Mysteries)
Nearly Drowned
by TR Moore Ede
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Malissa has never known her true origins, but that’s about to change.
Malissa’s world is flipped upside down when rescuing a man from a pool that should have been empty makes her a target of those who tried to drown him. The closer they get the more she realizes that they might have been after her for foiling their plans, but not anymore. They seem to recognize her but from where?
Adopted as an infant, Malissa was left with no information about her parents or so she thought. After rummaging through some old papers she finds a note from her biological dad. On it, it says that he left her there for her safety. Unfortunately, no clues as to what sort of danger but surely the danger is gone, right?
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(Tèarmann Chronicles)
The Corpse Flower
by Anne Mette Hancock
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel.
Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn’t been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. The police think she’s fled the country until homicide detective Erik Scháfer comes up with a lead after the reporter who originally wrote about the case is found murdered in his apartment. Has Anna Kiel struck again, or is there more than one killer at large?
Northern Deception
by Laurie Wood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Reunions can be deadly. After a savage attack in university, Kira Summers fled to the safety of northern Canada and her work as a polar bear scientist. But when her whistleblower brother dies in a mysterious car crash, she must return home to bury him and pack his belongings. Unaware she’s carrying explosive evidence someone’s willing to kill for, she has no choice but to rely on the one person she never thought she’d see again.
Lukas Tanner, a widowed single father of a special needs toddler, moved to Churchill five years ago. As the proud owner of Guiding Star Enterprises, a wilderness tour company, he and his daughter lead a simple life.
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(Heroes of the Tundra Mysteries)
Tied Up in Tinsel
by Ngaio Marsh
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The acclaimed author brings us crime at a country-house Christmas party in “one of her best and most baffling mysteries” (Daily Express).
It’s the Christmas season in 1972, and Agatha Troy is at a house party, enjoying the local holiday pageant and also painting the host’s portrait. The painting’s coming along fine, but the pageant goes a little pear-shaped when one of the players disappears. Could one of the eccentric guests have been involved? Or could the finger of blame come to rest on one of the manor-house servants, each of whom happens to be a recent prison parolee? Inspector Alleyn is on hand to wrap up the case . . .
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(Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mysteries)
A Twisted Strand
by Lynne Tagawa
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A strange new virus . . . Is it terrorism?
After dragging her heart through a divorce, Rachel Davis is ready to settle down on their South Texas country home, raise her kids, and find some peace. Can she find the secret to making her heart whole again?
William Davis, MD, would do anything to take back his horrible mistake, but infidelity is more than his wife can forgive. He goes home to an empty house in Austin every night, trying his best to be a good dad to his kids from afar.
When Rachel discovers their Jersey heifer dead from a hemorrhagic fever, she quickly realizes that the danger may spread to humans. Working for an epidemiologist, she joins the investigation. Is it natural? Or terrorism?
Denver McCoy’s Rules
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s 1876 Arizona and the territory may never become a state unless it can bring its outlaw problem under control. Only recently an illegal territory wide whiskey cartel was responsible for the murder of a beautiful young innocent woman.
Governor Anson Safford believes he may have the man to turn it all around. He is Pinkerton Detective Denver McCoy on loan from the fledgling Department of Justice.
Denver will have to use all of his cunning to go up against a gang, which lingers in the shadows and remains elusive. It’s led by Herman “Birchwood” Hatcher, who has his hands involved in several evil activities.
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(Post-Civil War Western Justice Mysteries)
Forever Free
by Joe Haldeman
Rating: 4.0 #ad
It’s 1876 Arizona and the territory may never become a state unless it can bring its outlaw problem under control. Only recently an illegal territory wide whiskey cartel was responsible for the murder of a beautiful young innocent woman.
Governor Anson Safford believes he may have the man to turn it all around. He is Pinkerton Detective Denver McCoy on loan from the fledgling Department of Justice.
Denver will have to use all of his cunning to go up against a gang, which lingers in the shadows and remains elusive. It’s led by Herman “Birchwood” Hatcher, who has his hands involved in several evil activities.
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(The Forever War Mysteries)
Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A collection of recipes and reminiscences from the New York Times-bestselling mystery series: “Simply superb.” – Publishers Weekly
Includes all-new recipes! It’s a picture postcard December in Minnesota, and Main Street is brimming with festive holiday decorations. Best of all, it’s time for the annual Holiday Cookie Exchange at the Community Center – catered by none other than Hannah Swensen’s bakery-café, The Cookie Jar! Gathered together for the delicious event, the Swensen clan and their friends share their favorite juicy tales of Lake Eden—and their favorite scrumptious cookie and luncheon recipes..
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangerous Creatures
by Steve Higgs
Rating: 4.8 #ad
‘I don’t know how he does it. More than twenty books in and each one is still as fresh and inventive as the first. No one else writes like this!’
A desperate call for help is more than enough to get Patricia and friends in motion, especially when the call is from Patricia’s socialite friend and zoo owner, the rather gin-soaked Lady Mary Bostihill-Swank.
Her husband, George, an acclaimed thriller writer, has gone missing from her home but there is no ransom note and no sign of foul play. With no crime to investigate, the police are doing nothing and that’s not good enough for Patricia.
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(Patricia Fisher Mysteries)
Someone Savage
by Mike McCrary
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A gripping, fast-paced thriller for fans of Harlan Coben, Karin Slaughter, and Rachel Abbott.
Last night two children knocked at his door. Someone is looking for them…
Nicholas Hooper wanted to be left alone. Looking to escape his past and his unfortunate present, the best-selling author rented a luxury house in the Poconos to finish what very well could be his very last book. But his plans change when one night he opens his front door to find two frightened children.
A young girl and boy all alone. They refuse to speak. Looking for help…
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Wheels of Injustice is a curtains-pulled-back true account of the out-of-control child protection system of the 1980s and the victims who risked everything to expose its egregiously unjust acts and reform it.
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan’s 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in prosecuting her innocent husband or lose her daughter. When the couple doesn’t give in to pressure, Susan loses custody of her daughter, and her husband is charged with a felony that carries a 16-year prison sentence.
No one wants to hear the facts. No one wants to know the truth.
Dead Man’s Song
by Jonathan Maberry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Members of a town terrorized by a monstrous evil search for its source in this horror novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ink.
Something evil has awakened in the town of Pine Deep. While a local newsman tries to piece together the gruesome events of a long-buried crime, others are preparing for the return of an unstoppable scourge. Bodies mutilated beyond description, innocents driven to acts of vicious madness—a monstrous legacy is preying on the living and the dead. There are those in Pine Deep who are not what they seem. Who are driven by a thirst for blood and revenge. And who are quietly building an army of the undead . . .
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(A Pine Deep Mysteries)
Zodiac Academy 6
by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Fate has torn us apart and sometimes I believe the stars have given up on us altogether.
Without my sister, the world seems darker than ever before and the shadows loom thicker, rising up to answer the call of the Shadow Princess and changing the face of Solaria for good.
Now Lionel Acrux has the strength to make a move for the throne, I’m not sure how much time we have left to stop him. Our only hope is to find the Imperial Star before he does. We made the sacrifice the stars called for and we’re paying the price for that decision so it can’t be for nothing.
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(Zodiac Academy)
Fleeced
by Carol Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Regan Reilly is back. The smart, saucy sleuth featured in all of Carol Higgins Clark’s bestselling novels was last seen in Deck the Halls, the holiday thriller Carol wrote with her mother, Mary Higgins Clark.
Now Regan is in New York to attend a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother. A friend, Thomas Pilsner — the frenetic president of the Settlers’ Club on Gramercy Park — calls Regan, desperately pleading for help. Thomas is distraught over the sudden suspicious deaths of two members of the Settlers’ Club.
Noble Ultimatum
by L.T. Ryan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
JACK. IS. BACK. The highly-anticipated and explosive thirteenth novel in the Jack Noble series is here.
Following the assassination of Frank Skinner in broad daylight, Jack Noble disappeared. But every day that passes the chances of clearing his name diminish. The CIA is in full attack mode. They don’t want to bring Jack in. They want him dead.
A shadow agency is also after not only Noble, but Bear Logan, too. The reason, unknown. The players, unknown. But they’re closing fast, and Jack and Bear might just prefer the CIA find them first.
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(Jack Noble Mysteries)
I Know a Secret
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this.” – Lee Child
Two separate homicides, at different locations, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In both cases, the bodies bear startling wounds—yet the actual cause of death is unknown. It’s a doubly challenging case for the cop and the coroner to be taking on, at a fraught time for both of them. As Jane struggles to save her mother from the crumbling marriage that threatens to bury her, Maura grapples with the imminent death of her own mother—infamous serial killer Amalthea Lank.
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(A Rizzoli & Isles Mysteries)