Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Pattern for Murder
by Ann Yost, Alice Duncan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
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There’s never been a serious crime in the Keweenaw Peninsula—that anyone can remember. That is until Larry the Basset and Lydia the Poodle discover a fresh body below the lighthouse. The victim, a wealthy landowner recently returned from California, has been at odds with the community over a lighthouse slated to become a retirement home for local seniors.
When Sheriff Horace A. Clump has no intention of giving up his Sunday brunch of pannukakku to pursue an investigation, Hatti Lehtinen, manager of The Bait and Stitch—a combination bait and knitting shop—is determined to find the killer herself.
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(The Bait & Stitch Cozy Mysteries)
Three Weeks in Washington
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Titus uncovers a plot to attack the nation’s capital with chemical weapons. Can he convince a Syrian asset to help him stop the deadly attack?
Encountering a shooter . . . CIA officer Titus Ray arrives in Washington, D.C. on the day a terrorist enters the Washington Navy Yard and murders five people. Convinced the incident is connected to a Hezbollah plot to use chemical weapons on an American city, Titus jeopardizes his own career to interrogate the killer and learn the truth.
Exposing a General. . . After the shooter reveals the identity of an Iranian deep-cover operative living in Washington, D.C., Titus embarks on an intelligence operation spanning two continents and exposing an Iranian general obsessed with destroying America.
Legacy War: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Humanity has long explored mysteries of their past. From the theories of Atlantis to the fabled stories of Greek Gods, most had been dismissed as fantasy and legend. When humanity discovered ‘the Orb’, such fairy tales came a little closer to having some potential truth. Even scratching the surface of the knowledge contained within this ancient technology granted an understanding of faster than light travel and a wild number of other luxuries.
Employing this newfound knowledge, humanity built the Gnosis, a highly advanced starship capable of long range travel and self-sufficient exploration.
Mariana
by Susanna Kearsley
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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When Julia Beckett moves into a beautiful old farmhouse, she soon discovers she’s not alone there. She encounters haunting remnants of a beautiful young woman who lived and loved there centuries ago. Julia finds herself transported into 17th-century England, and into the world of Mariana.
Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the past… until she realizes Mariana’s life is eclipsing her own. She must lay the past to rest or risk losing the chance for happiness in her own time.
Fae Queen
by Lynn Landes
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Caderyn is about to learn that fairy tales do come true, just not always the way you expect.
Caderyn is on a mission to design a fairy tale garden and put her company, Secret Gardens on the map. She does not have time for romance, and she does not believe in fairy tales.
But, fate has a mind of its own… An ancient race is in need of a Savior, and it has chosen Caderyn. In the blink of an eye, she is thrown into the world of the Fae. It is a race against time to save the Fae King, and release him from five hundred years of imprisonment. Beautiful dreams turn to nightmares, as she becomes hunted by the Shadows, who enslaved the King.
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(The Fae Series Mysteries)
Outbreak
by Richard Denoncourt
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Outbreak shattered his world. Now it’s adapt or die… Since a cataclysmic viral event decimated human civilization, Kip Garrity’s life has been a nightmare.
He should be going to school and hanging out with his friends like a normal teenager. Instead, he has become a prisoner in his own heavily fortified house, safe from a horde of predators roaming outside but faced with a bleak and lonely future.
His only companion is his father, a former Green Beret and experienced survivalist who has kept them alive this long. But when Kip discovers his dad is dying of sepsis, he must venture outside on a life-or-death mission to find the antibiotics to cure him.