Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Calamity at the Vicarage
by Emily Organ
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The event of Compton Poppleford’s festive season has arrived: the Vicarage Christmas Party. With sherry, mince pies and Christmas carols, the festivities are going well. But events take a turn when the choirmaster is found dead in the parlour. Which of the guests could possibly commit murder at Christmas time?
With everyone detained at the vicarage, elderly sleuths Churchill and Pemberley find themselves in all the wrong places at all the wrong times…
Hidden Thrones
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Bennett can see evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons that threatens not only his own life, but the soul of the entire human race. Jack becomes the FBI’s newest hire serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. Together with Special Agent Frank Lederman they investigate the improbable and the unexplainable.
The government is convinced we are not alone in this world. With invisible forces all around, agencies are seeking how to harness that power for their own uses. The mystery swirling around the unseen and unknown has caused much speculation. Some suppose lost souls are wandering the earth, others believe deceased loved ones never truly moved on, and still, there are those who are convinced that aliens have infiltrated our world.
The ancient scriptures talk about a great evil that was conceived in the depths of eternity. There, a great war occurred in a place called Heaven. Lucifer, the ancient serpent, the evil dragon of folklore, was cast out and bound to the earth and confined to its surrounding atmosphere…
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(Hidden Thrones Series)
The Pot Thief Mysteries Volume One
by J. Michael Orenduff
Rating: 4.1 #ad
An Albuquerque pottery dealer looking for artifacts finds murder and intrigue in this “smartly funny” series (Anne Hillerman, author of Spider Woman’s Daughter).
The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras
The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy
The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein
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(The Pot Thief Mysteries)
ODETTE’S SONG
by A. G. Russo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What’s going to happen to six-year-old Hunter? His parents are dead, and his grandmother is dying. He’s left with a family legacy of addiction, depression, and suicide. Hunter’s mother, Odette, wanted the husband she left for another man, to raise him, but Nico, alcoholic, depressed, and full of rage, wants no part of the child. He cannot accept that Odette, his wife and songwriting partner, left him.
During their senior year of high school, the beautiful, multiracial Odette, with an incredible voice and stage presence, joined Nico’s band. Five hard years of trying to “make it” finally paid off, but their inexperience cost them their independence, financial stability, and vultures wanting a piece of their songs, the only thing Nico, a talented guitarist, has left.
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.3
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder…
Willful Behavior
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.1 #ad
KINDLE NOOK AUDIBLE KOBO APPLE
When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, she asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it—until Claudia is found dead.
Unable to find any living relatives, he visits the elderly Austrian woman who was once Claudia’s grandfather’s lover and with whom Claudia was close – and is stunned by the extraordinary art collection she keeps in her otherwise modest apartment.
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(Commissario Brunetti Mysteries)
From The Deep
by Michael Bray
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Something has awoken. Roused from its slumber following an Antarctic ice quake, an immense beast has risen from the depths. Dwarfing even the mighty blue whale, the gargantuan wonder of evolution takes charge of the oceans, setting a catastrophic chain of events in motion.
Henry Rainwater is a rookie crab fisherman trying to make his own way in life. After surviving an encounter with the beast which sees his father and the rest of the crew of their family boat killed, Rainwater becomes a recluse, deathly afraid of the creature which lurks in the ocean.