Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
One Poison Pie
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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What’s a kitchen witch to do when her almost-fiancé leaves her suddenly single and unemployed? For Mia Malone, the answer’s simple: move to her grandmother’s quirky Idaho hometown, where magic is an open secret and witches and warlocks are (mostly) welcome. With a new gourmet dinner delivery business—and a touch of magic in her recipes—Mia’s hopes are high.
Even when her ex’s little sister, Christina, arrives looking for a place to stay, Mia takes it in stride.
Her Brother-In-Law
by Amy S. Porter
Rating: 4.8 #ad
She wanted security and comfort. He gave her doubt and fear.She wanted hearts and roses. He gave her bruises and heartaches. She wanted communication and trust. He gave her conspiracy and attempted murder.
After the sudden loss of her parents, Cass Sampson packs up and lands in the small town of Silver Lake. She settles in and thinks she finds the man of her dreams. Brent Beckett is perfect– handsome, successful, well respected. Cass is excited about her future.
Very quickly, Cass discovers she married a monster. Brent is controlling and domineering with little respect for her. He abuses Cass mentally and physically while flaunting his affairs in her face. And his horrid treatment of her is only the tip of his evil iceberg…
The Shadow Order
by J.S. Malcom
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Either I defeat the monster, or I become the monster.
As if being locked up in the crazy house wasn’t bad enough, I wake up to discover that my nightmares are coming true. As in, the person I trust most in the world just morphed into a bloodthirsty monster. My only chance for escape comes in the form of two women who start calling out from within a shimmering tunnel. So, it’s either stick around and get murdered or jump through some kind of portal. And there I was thinking my new meds were working…
While we know next to nothing about the supernatural force we’re up against, we do know it changes form by hopping in and out of other peoples’ bodies. And, right now, the body it wants most is mine.
Mountain of Peril
by J. Carol Nemeth
Rating: 4.9 #ad
When Molly Walker graduated from college, she was thrilled to be hired on as a ranger at Deep Creek Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She arrived ready to begin her career and to enjoy all the aspects of her new job, but the one thing she hadn’t counted on was the local poachers and their illegal shenanigans. Molly and fellow ranger Jake Stuart try to put a stop to the escalating poaching problem while protecting the animals. In the meantime, Molly finds that the handsome ranger, who is also a local, is a great partner to have on her side. She also finds that she’s losing her heart to him when she’d planned to stay focused on her career.
Can she give her heart and have a career? She and Jake find themselves in a battle against a group of men with a hidden agenda far more sinister than poaching. Can they be stopped before Molly’s life is snuffed out?
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(Faith in the Parks Series)
Havall 16
by A. J. Ullman
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Immortality. For Havall 16, it’s a fate worse than death.Havall 16 comes back in time to warn Tommy Canada not to take his fledgling company pubic or else society will be cleaved into two factions: the Havalls – who are young, rich and can live forever – and the Havenots. Faced with turning his back on wealth and fame, Tommy must consider his personal goals versus those of society. Havall 16 asks him, “If you could go back in time and kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you? Kill an innocent to spare millions in the future?” You might, she says, have to kill before you ever become the richest man on earth, before you solve humans’ greatest fear: dying. Convincing his partner, Win Gault, presents a problem, because the future Havalls know she has gone back in time and they have a plan to deal with her… Will she or Tommy have to kill? Or will Win win?
Dead Funny
by Jinx James
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Four Women, Four Dead Bodies…Well OK, Five
DEAD FUNNY – A killer collection of ballsy women and their stories.
DEAD FUNNY confirms that the world is as crazy and off-kilter as you always suspected. It’s an outrageous quartet of Noir-Ha-Ha short stories throbbing with dark humour and suspense. It focuses a dark satirical light on the lives of four very different, but equally ballsy women who cross a moral line to get what they want.
A Fatal Inversion
by Ruth Rendell
Rating: 4.0 #ad
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When the new owners of Wyvis Hall, a rural estate in Suffolk, set out to bury their pet dog on the grounds, they stumbled upon a ghastly relic: the bones of a woman and small child in a shallow grave. The gruesome find makes stunning headlines, especially so for the previous occupants.
A decade before, nineteen-year-old Adam Verne-Smith inherited the property and spent one debauched summer there with runaways, drifters, and his two best friends – none of whom have spoken since that fatal season. Adam is now a doting father and husband…
Jordan’s World
by Allen Steadham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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Jordan Lewis and her mother have been abducted and marooned on an alien world.
Taken in by a friendly tribe of natives, Jordan tries her best to adapt to living on this strange planet called Algoran. Jordan becomes a respectable huntress, but she still longs for the life she once knew on Earth.
When she learns the beings who took her may be on the other side of Algoran, she sets out for answers. Joined by three of her fellow hunters, Jordan crosses dangerous terrain, facing perilous creatures and people. Will Jordan risk death for a chance to return to Earth? What is God’s will for her life on Algoran?
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(The Jordan of Algoran Series)
Goat Dance
by Douglas Clegg
Rating: 3.6 #ad
You’ll never escape what haunts you…not once they return.
A town must face its terrifying past as a possessed child threatens to unleash unspeakable horror upon them all. Supernatural suspense blends with heart-pounding horror in this epic chiller.
“Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.”– Dean Koontz.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Valentine Candy Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In these two beloved mysteries now collected in one volume for the very first time, it’s Valentine’s Day in Tinker’s Cove, Maine—but when it comes to foul play, Pennysaver reporter Lucy Stone can’t sugar-coat the truth . . .
VALENTINE MURDER
CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
ONLY OUR DESTINY
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #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…
Meanwhile in America, Raffaela’s young Uncle Corrado has struggles of his own. He vows to move from the tenements of New York’s Little Italy, build a business, marry, bring over family members, and make good on his version of the American dream. But America is not so welcoming. Ignorance and prejudice reveal the ugliness of the immigrant experience as numbers of Italian Americans find themselves confined to internment camps during World War II.
Saving Sara
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Another best seller from Terry Toler
Sara is missing in the Cayman Islands. No one knows it. Except her abductors, of course. Beloved CIA heroine, Jamie Austen, is sent to Tampico, Mexico, to rescue four girls, abducted on their senior class trips.
Are the cases related? All of Jamie’s skills are tested as she must overcome the powerful drug war lord, El Mata, his ruthless band of heavily armed killers, and a hurricane that’s bearing down on the Caribbean islands.
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(THE SPY STORIES)
Primal Creatures
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the most haunted and forbidden city on earth, no one disregards the supernatural, paranormal and the occult, especially private investigator Wyatt Thomas and his business partner voodoo mambo Mama Mulate. When a famous movie producer hires Wyatt to investigate a heinous death on an island resort for actors, artists, and writers, he thinks he’s earned a paid vacation. Strange monks, Cajun werewolves, and people in a fishing village that practice voodoo populate the island, and he quickly learns his paid vacation is anything but.
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(French Quarter Mystery)
A Mansion Full of Enemies
by Ivy Thorne
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Valerie Monroe is a feisty hotelier, with a reputation for being ruthless, although that hasn’t always been the case. Ever since she was blindsided by a brutal betrayal, she dedicated herself to the family’s business, surprising everyone with her skills. Due to her ambition nature, her only current desire is to become her father’s successor, ignoring the risk she puts herself into. When treacherous forces seem to be conspiring against her, she decides to attend her father’s annual charity gala, where she finds old and new enemies in attendance. Βy an odd coincidence, a dangerous storm blows in, trapping all the terrified guests inside the allegedly haunted mansion. As soon as they settle down, waiting for the storm to pass, a sudden gunshot turns everyone’s blood cold…
Fatal Intent
by Tammy Euliano
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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End-of-life care – or assisted death. When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. “Old people die, that’s what they do,” is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it’s all she has left.
Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths.
Tune Up: The Secrets of Mylin
by Joe Klingler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On their second case, Qigiq and Kandy are loaned to the Traffic Division to investigate an early morning accident. Hit and run. By a motorcycle. The victim is an elderly Asian woman. A young witness in a nearby dry cleaner and a truck driver suggest all “accidents” aren’t created equal. Then the Captain drops a new assignment on their desk: an affluent Bay Area lawyer is missing. The man’s wife stomps into their office screaming about a contract she found hidden in the backups of their home computer. A contract with a seven-figure payout, and an incriminating Exhibit A.
Following the trail of both the motorcycle rider and the lawyer with Kandy complaining, “We’re homicide detectives, there should be a body,” leads to a vintage motorcycle club called the Ton Up where lips are sealed, a yacht harbor on the coast where riddles run deep, and a midnight roadside confrontation that ends with a splash.
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(The Secrets of Mylin Mysteries)
Text Me On Tuesday
by Whitney Dineen, Melanie Summers
Rating: 4.4 #ad
All is fair in love and texting … When Aimee Tompkins loaded up her old catering van and pulled into Manhattan, she had her sights set on becoming one of the best (and most lucrative) caterers to ever serve crudités and creampuffs in the Big Apple. But after a year of leaving fliers all over town, she’s not only running out of money, she’s running low on hope. So when she lands a gig at a big architecture firm, Aimee’s certain her luck is about to change.
Noel Fitzwilliam is pitching the most important project of his life—the type of project architects dream of. Everything has to go right, so when he finds the new caterer naked in his office bathroom right before the meeting, he’s torn between being thrilled and being extremely irritated. He doesn’t have time for romance, no matter how incredible she looks without her clothes on.
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(An Accidentally in Love Story)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Some Die Eloquent
by Catherine Aird
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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A deadly mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Where there’s a will, there’s a way—for murder
That Miss Beatrice Wansdyke had died is not particularly surprising. A chemistry mistress at the Girls’ Grammar School in Berebury, she was a longtime sufferer of diabetes who managed to live her modest life to a ripe old age. But one thing is odd—Beatrice Wansdyke died a very wealthy woman. What was an old schoolteacher doing with a small fortune?
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(The Calleshire Chronicles)
KnockOut
by Catherine Coulter
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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After witnessing her relatives burying a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the night, a seven-year-old uses her telepathic powers to call a man she’s seen only on television: FBI Agent Dillon Savich. Now Savich and his wife and partner, Agent Lacey Sherlock, face their most elusive foes to keep the child out of harm’s way-before it’s too late.
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(An FBI Thriller Mysteries)
Town for Sale
by William Mansfield, Jason Mansfield
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Alex, entwined in a civic lesson of greed and unethical underpinnings. If you think politicians can be corrupt, this is a local-level example of corruption and greed. It may be thought of as a victimless crime, but greed is only a gateway drug to worse. As bad as that seems, Alex is still able to hit the prime surf spots of Southern California, the envy of the world, and advance his love life and family life. Although a chronological series installment, Town for Sale can stand on its own just like the other nine books in the series.
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(An Alexander Wright Mysteries)
The Complete Grimm Chronicles
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Isabella Fontaine and Ken Brosky’s incredible talent for storytelling takes the reader on an amazing action-packed ride fueled by endless creativity and limitless imagination. TGC is like a high-stakes version of Harold and the Purple Crayon meets a contemporary, above ground Alice in Wonderland.”
– Bookfetish.org
Once upon a time, a pair of brothers used magic to bring their fairy tales to life. Now they’re everywhere, hiding in plain sight. A dwarf running a company that brainwashes clients. A wicked stepmother operating a twisted orphanage where nothing is as it seems. A magic fish who grants wishes … at a cost. And a prince whose nightly hunger must be satisfied with blood.
A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Ruth Rendell
Rating: 3.9 #ad
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A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Times–bestselling author.
Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist’s startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family’s story in a new light.
Love Her to Death
by M. William Phelps
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the midst of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of forty-five-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her death. But the next day an autopsy revealed Jan had been savagely beaten and strangled before being tossed in the water to drown. Soon Michael’s secret lover, pregnant with his child, stepped into the media spotlight. And a horrifying true story of illicit passion, deadly deceit, and cold-blooded murder unfolded . . .
Recycled Hope
by Linda Drugan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now a middle aged woman facing inevitable old age, Linda relishes reminiscing about her childhood and what people commonly refer to as the good old days. This is especially prevalent when she gets together with her siblings, and their now extended families. On one particular Saturday afternoon’s visit to her mother’s townhouse, which is located on what was once the McDowell’s Farm, Linda is reminded of the events that transpired there when she was just a young girl growing up in the sixties. Though at one time the farm was profitable and bustling with activity, by the time Linda’s family moved to the neighborhood, McDowell’s farm was overgrown and uncared for by a crotchety, old farmer and his kind hearted wife.
Playing Dirty
by Liliana Hart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. But with a secret out in the open and the election all but lost, J.J. and Jack have to figure out how to work together while their marriage is torn apart. Because death doesn’t stop for anyone.
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(A J.J. Graves Mysteries)
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Opium and Absinthe
by Lydia Kang
Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be – can it?
A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied.
Thy Killer’s Keeper
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 3.6 #ad
An unsolved murder of a small-town teacher is only the beginning….
Some crimes are inexplicable and defy reason. John Salton doesn’t believe that. As a veteran FBI agent and profiler, he maintains that there is a motive and a reason for every crime…until the unthinkable hits home. Three years after his artist-wife picked up and lit an acetylene torch and approached her two-year old, the father still can’t deal with the horrible memory. It might be the reason why he fashions an outlandish theory for what really happened to his family.
Chronicles of an Urban Druid Boxed Set #1
by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Meet Fionna mac Cumhaill an urban druid coming into her powers and trying to master them. Get the first three books of the Chronicles of an Urban Druid series in this boxed set to join her adventures.
A Gilded Cage. Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Life sucker-punched me…
I have family I didn’t know about, a magical heritage laying its claim, and a mystery I apparently need to solve. There are three things I love most in life…my wild and crazy Irish family, Redbreast Whiskey at Shenanigans, and living in Toronto.
Tim Dorsey Collection #2
by Tim Dorsey
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Five acid-splashed Florida capers in one great package! Prepare for the road trip of a lifetime with everyone’s favorite serial killer, Serge A. Storms, in the New York Times bestselling series from the “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey.
CADILLAC BEACH
TORPEDO JUICE
THE BIG BAMBOO
HURRICANE PUNCH
ATOMIC LOBSTER
The Miss Silver Mysteries Volume Two
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the Balance, The Chinese Shawl, and Miss Silver Deals with Death
Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has found a new calling: private detection. With her knitting needles and fondness for Tennyson, she may seem an unlikely sleuth, but Scotland Yard would be lost without her. “Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything” (Paula Gosling, author of the Jack Stryker Mysteries).
In the Balance: On a train back to London, Miss Silver meets a frightened new bride. Lisle Jerningham has fled her home after overhearing a seemingly sinister conversation.
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(The Miss Silver Mysteries)
The Devil and the Deep
by Ellen Datlow
Rating: 4.1 #ad
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WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY
Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land.
Secrets Never Die
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the fifth book of the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane and Lance Kruger fight for the innocence of a young murder suspect—if only they could find him.
When a retired sheriff’s deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime.
Desperate to find her son, Evan’s mother begs PI Lance Kruger for help. She knows her son is innocent. Kruger and defense attorney Morgan Dane want to believe that too, but the evidence against the boy is damning.
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(Morgan Dane Mysteries)
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
by Cara Robertson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her murder trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence.