Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Tale of Two Kitties
by Sofie Kelly
Rating: 4.7
In this charming mystery from the bestselling author of The Cats Came Back, two magical cats have powers of detection that prove indispensable to librarian Kathleen Paulson…
With a well-placed paw on a keyboard or a pointed stare, Kathleen’s two cats, Hercules and Owen, have helped her to solve cases in the past—so she has learned to trust their instincts. But she will need to rely on them more than ever when a twenty-year-old scandal leads to murder…
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(Magical Cats Cozy Mysteries)
Wicked Little Saints
by Tanya R. Taylor
Rating: BRAND NEW RELASE
Not everything is as it appears to be in the sparsely populated town of Nirvana.
Three years earlier, a bus full of middle grade school children went missing and none of the victims’ parents have ever seen or heard from their beloved child again. Rachelle Wigby has just had her second nervous breakdown due to the unknown whereabouts of her precious daughter, Priscilla. Dr. Barns, Rachelle’s estranged brother, feels it’s time someone got to the bottom of what happened to his niece.
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(The Cornelius Saga)
Night Train to Rigel
by Timothy Zahn
Rating: 4.3
The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities got him fired, Compton is now being sought out by the Spiders, the robotic alien beings responsible for the upkeep and operation of the Quadrail transportation system, which connects the galaxy’s twelve inhabited empires. The discovery of a sinister plot to use the Quadrail for ill has brought the Spiders to Compton—for only someone possessing the former agent’s unique skills can stop the scheme for good.
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(Quadrail Series)
Dark Saturday
by Nicci French
Rating: 4.1
Enter the world of NICCI FRENCH with Dark Saturday, an electrifying, sophisticated psychological thriller about past crimes and present dangers, featuring an unforgettable protagonist…
A decade ago, 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the shocking murder of her family. It was an open-and-shut case, and Hannah has been incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment, she reluctantly agrees.
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(A Frieda Klein Mysteries)
The Chef
by James Patterson, Max DiLallo
Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE
Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted.
In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty–as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney makes a pair of unthinkable discoveries. His beloved city is under threat of attack. And these would-be terrorists may be local.
Sweet Retaliation
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.7
People might think detectives are hard-assed cops with no home life, but Trace McGuire has a dying mom he loves fiercely. Already stressed over his personal problems, he takes a bullet for a virgin beauty hiding while mobsters shoot her brother.
This chick draws out every protective instinct he thought had disintegrated over years on the job and he becomes invested – in her hot body, her plans for retaliation and her fighting spirit. Helpless, he watches her enter the seedy underworld that’ll eat her alive. Then he sees her fight. And wonders if they’ll survive her.
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(Mob Tracker Mysteries)
The Scorpio Illusion
by Robert Ludlum
Rating: 3.8
Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, and deadly – and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. With his life and the life of the president hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Bajaratt’s serpentine trail, a path of seduction, betrayal, and the looming threat of death. Racing from a millionaire recluse’s fortress to the social whirl of Palm Beach, from the Oval Office to treacherous Caribbean waters, Hawthorne will uncover a sinister network of well-placed men and women who exist to help this consummate killer – and the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Hounded To Death
by Laurien Berenson
Rating: 4.6
As the dog days of summer turn to the playful nip of autumn’s chill, Melanie Travis is ready for a little relaxation. Her Aunt Peg has the perfect solution–a five-day symposium for dog show judges in Pennsylvania’s idyllic Pocono Mountains. While Peg and Melanie’s sister-in-law Bertie welcome the opportunity to socialize with the dog world’s elite, the very pregnant Melanie embraces the chance to simply unwind.
But when renowned judge Charles Evans delivers a keynote address that irritates many of the attendees, the symposium’s agenda takes a deadly turn. For later that evening, Charles is found floating face-down in the outdoor hot tub…
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(A Melanie Travis Mystery)
Drone
by Kyle Alexander Romines
Rating: 5.0
After the emergence of the destructive, godlike Titans, the world is more dangerous than ever.
When drone pilot David Hunter is recruited to join a top-secret military program, he learns the government has captured the Titan Prometheus. Once considered a hero by many, Prometheus is now an empty shell, retrofitted with technology to serve as a new kind of drone–and it’s David’s task to use the Titan’s powers on the government’s behalf. David has his own reasons to distrust Titans, but when he discovers some vestiges of Prometheus’ consciousness remain, it sets in motion a course of events that will cause him to learn what it means to be a hero.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.5
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run by the Emerson brothers-the irascible but dashing Radcliffe and the amiable Walter. Soon their little party is increased by one-one mummy that is, and a singularly lively example of the species.
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(Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Double Impact: An Anthology
by Tess Gerritsen, Debra Webb
Rating: 4.2
TESS GERRITSEN’S Never Say Die. Willy Jane Maitland traveled to Saigon to uncover what had happened to her father, missing in action twenty years ago. Instead she found intrigue – and murder.
DEBRA WEBB’S No Way Back. Michal Arad wanted vengeance when he kidnapped former CIA agent Ami Donovan, claiming she’d posed as his lover to set him up as an assassin.
Blood on the Tracks
by Barbara Nickless
Rating: 4.5
A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can’t shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion. In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde―both haunted by their time in Iraq – descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders.
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(Sydney Rose Parnell Mysteries)
Time of Attack
by Marc Cameron
Rating: 4.4
Fear Is Contagious. In a small town in Utah, people are contracting a horrific disease with alarming plague-like symptoms. The CDC quarantines the area but outbreaks are already being reported in China, Japan, and England. Evidence suggests this is not a new strain of superbug–but an act of war, an orchestrated deployment of unstoppable terror…
Special agent Jericho Quinn, hellbent on finding the sniper who attacked his family, steps into an even bigger, and deadlier, conspiracy: a secret cabal of elite assassins embedded throughout the globe. Infecting the very fabric of the free world.
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(Jericho Quinn Thriller)
Far Away Home
by Susan Denning
Rating: 4.0
Read FAR AWAY HOME, a five-year Amazon bestseller in the historical and western categories, in its Enhanced Edition with a bonus introduction to the much-awaited sequel, EMBRACE THE WIND.
In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men…
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(Aislynn’s Story)
In the Stars
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7
Evie and Danny have been friends forever, and neither has considered the other in a romantic way. Then, one day, in drives Charlie Adams, the sexy, gorgeous daughter of the town banker. When she sets her sights on Danny, he just can’t resist her charms.
Little does he know, Evie is about as down and out as she can get, working a dead-end job, with less than twenty dollars in her bank account. Her future and options are bleak, and to make it worse, as she watches from the sidelines, she realizes she has loved Danny forever. Will Danny realize that the love of his life may not be the woman he’s dating?
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(The Friessens)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Carbs & Cadavers
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.3
Meet the Supper Club, a group of friends dead set on counting calories and catching killers…
After giving up his dream job and moving back home to the small town of Quincy’s Gap, English literature professor James Henry is tired of finding his happiness at the bottom of a bag of cheese doodles. In an effort to expand his social life and reduce his waistline, he joins a supper club for dieters who lovingly call themselves the Flab Five. He knows he and his new friends will have to watch what they eat, but he never expected to find murder on the menu.
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(Supper Club Mysteries)
The Janus Journals
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 5.0
A Brand New Release from H. L. Wegley. Will probing the past, through her father’s secret journals, save her future?
For recent college graduate, Alisa (Allie) Petrenko, the Cold War never ended, and events set in motion years ago have endangered this innocent young woman. When her father is murdered, he left her with a warning, an assassin on her trail, and his secret history contained in a set of journals. As Allie tries to elude the assassin and read the journals, she learns that the loving father who raised her was not the man he appeared to be, and the man she must now trust with her life is someone Allie must never trust with her heart.
Survivors of the Sun
by Mia Kingslie
Rating: 4.6
Georgia was not a survivalist and she did not have a bug out plan. She was a happily married woman, at home with three children and their Boston Terriers. In an instant everything changed. The power went off, and no-one knew why. By nightfall, Nathan, her husband had still not returned. In time, the water stopped running. With only three days of food left in the house and dwindling water supplies, she has no choice but to flee Kansas City.
Their world changes dramatically, entering a post-apocalyptic age, with looting, rioting and violence becoming the norm. As they escape across country, Georgia has to overcome her fears and keep her loved ones safe.
Her Darkest Nightmare
by Brenda Novak
Rating: 4.6
THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She was only sixteen when her own boyfriend Jasper imprisoned and tortured her – and left her for dead.
Now an eminent psychiatrist who specializes in the criminal mind, Evelyn is the force behind Hanover House, a maximum-security facility located in a small Alaskan town.
Trust
by Casey Diam
Rating: 4.7
Paige: Nearly five years ago, my mom, dad, and sisters had been assassinated. I should have died that night. I still questioned my mental state because I had no proof they had been after me. But, since then, I’d been trying to outrun my past and the men responsible for what had happened that night. Until I met him–Caleb Connor.
Caleb became my safety net, and I found I couldn’t pull away from him. Couldn’t run away from him. And, if sanity hadn’t been lost on me, I would have recognized he was the last person I should have let into my life. The last person I should have trusted…
Return of the Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett, Richard Layman
Rating: 3.8
Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last – and most successful – novel.
Bringing back his classic characters, retired private investigator Nick Charles and his former debutante wife Nora, who return home to find Nora’s family gardener murdered, pulling the couple back into another deadly game of cat and mouse. Hammett has written two fully satisfying Thin Man stories, with classic, barbed Hammett dialogue and fully developed characters.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Jalapeno Cupcake Wench
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6
Law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner is assigned to a trendy San Antonio pastry shop to watch for a delivery. In addition to the intoxicating aromas of sugar and chocolate, she also has to fight her own attraction to the man working beside her, Donovan Beck. He’s a hunk and a half and perfect for a spring fling.
If she had more time, Donovan would rank higher on her to-do list. But the number one spot is occupied by her search for a missing little girl, the target of a killer. Gracie needs to find her pronto, and the odd super-instinct quirk that’s started plaguing her may help. If not, she can always see what happens if it tells her to buy a lottery ticket.
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(The Amazing Gracie Trilogy)
Vigilante
by Natalie Grey & Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.8
On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down. Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan. He’s taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good. After all, who’s going to stop him?
He had no idea there was a new type of man working for justice on the planet. A man named Barnabas. In fact, he didn’t even know who Barnabas was. But he’s about to…
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(The Vigilante Chronicles)
The Drowned Girls
by Loreth Anne White
Rating: 4.4
He surfaced two years ago. Then he disappeared. But Detective Angie Pallorino hasn’t forgotten the violent rapist who left a distinctive calling card – crosses etched into the flesh of his victims’ foreheads. When a comatose Jane Doe is found in a local cemetery, sexually assaulted, mutilated, and nearly drowned, Angie is struck by the eerie similarities to her earlier unsolved rapes. Could he be back?
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(Angie Pallorino Mysteries)
KooKooLand
by Gloria Norris
Rating: 4.4
Gloria Norris’s KooKooLand is a memoir written on the edge of a knife blade. Chilling, intensely moving, and darkly funny, it cuts to the heart and soul of a troubled American family, and announces the arrival of a startlingly original voice.
Gloria Norris grew up in the projects of Manchester, New Hampshire with her parents, her sister, Virginia, and her cat, Sylvester. A snapshot might show a happy, young family, but only a dummkopf would buy that.
Nine-year-old Gloria is gutsy and wisecracking. Her father, Jimmy, all dazzle and danger, is often on the far side of the law and makes his own rules—which everyone else better follow. Gloria’s mom, Shirley, tries not to rock the boat, Virginia unwisely defies Jimmy, and Gloria fashions herself into his sidekick—the son he never had.
The Corps Justice Series: Books 1-3
by C. G. Cooper
Rating: 4.5
Book 1: BACK TO WAR. WAR MADE HIM…BUT IT’S THE FIGHT FOR HOME THAT WILL TRULY TEST HIM.
Book 2: COUNCIL OF PATRIOTS. Ex-presidents never retire. Once a patriot… A group of retired politicians join forces to protect America. The Council of Patriots is born.
Book 3: PRIME ASSET. What do you get when old enemies return? Nothing good. Nothing good at all…
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(The Corps Justice Series)
Island 731
by Jeremy Robinson
Rating: 4.1
When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island…and no one knows how they got there. Even worse, the ship has been sabotaged, two crewman are dead and a third is missing. Hawkins spots signs of the missing man on shore and leads a small team to bring him back. But they quickly discover evidence of a brutal history left behind by the Island’s former occupants: Unit 731, Japan’s ruthless World War II human experimentation program. Mass graves and military fortifications dot the island, along with a decades old laboratory housing the remains of hideous experiments.
The Friessens: Books 6 – 8
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0
From New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a new box set collection, THE FRIESSENS: BOOKS 6 – 8, an emotionally gripping family saga fans worldwide have fallen in love with.
This Boxset Includes: FIRST LOVE (The Friessens, #6), FAMILY FIRST (The Friessens, #7), LEAVE THE LIGHT ON (The Friessens, #8). CLICK above to read the full descriptions!
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(The Friessen Legacy)