Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Pineapple Mystery Box
by Amy Vansant
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a giant inflatable Halloween witch goes missing in the Pineapple Port retirement community, amateur sleuth Charlotte Morgan’s eager to nab the culprit. But before she can lift a fingerprint, someone threatens to kill a new neighbor who looks like an adorable Pomeranian but possesses a disturbing talent for revenge. Moments later, a stranger demands the return of a mysterious wooden box… or else.
Charlotte’s romantic interest, Declan, isn’t having a great morning either. His calculating ex-girlfriend has returned to claim she’s the rightful owner of his pawn shop. She’s livid he’s found a new lady, and she is not the sort of person you want angry at you…
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(Pineapple Port Mysteries)
When We Were Worthy
by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Evoking Emmy limited-series winner Big Little Lies, Whalen’s novel is about a Georgia town ripped apart when an outcast boy kills three cheerleaders in a car accident, bringing secrets and simmering tensions to the surface.” – The Hollywood Reporter
When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to tragedy. Just hours before, they’d watched the Wildcats score a winning touchdown. Now, they’re faced with the deaths of three cheerleaders—their promising lives cut short in a fatal crash. And the boy in the other car—the only one to survive—is believed to be at fault. As rumors begin to fly and accusations spin, allegiances form and long-kept secrets emerge.
Life Expectancy
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers’ waiting room and his dying father’s bedside. It’s a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm’s fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.
Crimson Death
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder…
Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn’t usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he’s being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats.
And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind’s few strict taboos.
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(Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Mysteries)
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread
by Joyce Carol Oates
Rating: 4.2 #ad
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Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her “mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness” (Kirkus Reviews).
Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals—brother and sister. teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway—in the beautiful, bracing prose that has become her signature.
In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city’s 1967 race riots. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral, only to find herself entranced by his dangerous new world.
Descent: The Demon Chronicles
by Diana Miller
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Demons, murderous Arch Angels: the end of the world? Serafina is human; or so she thought.
Recruited by a dark, alluring young man, she is thrust into the secret underworld of demon hierarchy at St. Michael’s Academy, where one must fight to survive. Adjusting to life with her aunt after the death of her family, she struggles to find her own identity while living up to high standards.
Struggling to fit in, she is plagued by strange dreams about an old man who claims she can’t trust anything her new friends tell her. And why does the headmaster’s grandson find her so interesting? Sera finds herself quickly entangled in a scheme to travel back in time to bring the demons more power, but who is really benefiting?
Play Hard to Get
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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From a Readers’ Favorite award—winning author and “queen of the family saga” (Aherman) comes The Parker Sisters a new spinoff series of the Married in Montana series.
Twenty-four-year-old Naomi Parker is interning as a journalist. Until she stumbles onto a big story about a ruthless man and a destroyer of women. So, with two objectives in mind: be the best she can be and not let him see who she really is. Naomi is convinced she’ll uncover everything he’s been trying to hide. The only problem: the man she set her sights on isn’t anything as rumoured and what she believes him to be.
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(The Parker Sisters)