Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Sweet Expectations
by Mary Ellen Taylor
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Daisy McCrae knows that change can be sudden—and devastating. And while it doesn’t have to be a bad thing, change has the power to turn your whole world upside down….
Running the family bakery and living in the store’s attic might not be Daisy’s dream life, but she’s beginning to understand what being content feels like. And then she gets some unexpected news. In one moment, Daisy’s calm existence turns into chaos. Now she’s struggling to keep it together, especially with renovations at the bakery spiraling out of control.
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(A Union Street Bakery Cozy Mysteries)
Murder Through the Looking-Glass
by Cathy A. Corn
Rating: 4.3 #ad
NIGHT TERRORS. A VISITING GHOST. And a crystal clear vision of her past life self’s tragic end in the 1940’s. When Suzanne Westin and puppy Princess move into her dream home—a stately Victorian with secrets—the happily-ever-after she expects turns nightmarish and chilling instead.
DID SHE LIVE BEFORE in this same house as a Big Band singer? Are disturbing visions from her crystal ball true? Suzanne, a psychotherapist, learns that history will repeat itself—soon—unless she discovers who her murderer was back in time.
SUDDENLY, MEN MATERIALIZE OUT OF NOWHERE, seemingly attracted to her, including a dead ringer for the 1940’s boyfriend. The men’s attentions confuse her, for although she’d welcome romance, how can she trust anyone? The haunting visions and her knowing convince her that love’s a dangerous business just now.
The Last Time I Lied
by Riley Sager
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she–or anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.
Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings–massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses.
Hidden Thrones
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Angels, demons and the power of prayer.
Author and prayer warrior 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.
“What a suspenseful Christian novel this is. It is very much in the category of Frank Peretti’s “This Present Darkness” novel.” Verified purchase.
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(Hidden Thrones Series)
Never Dead
by M.L. Bullock
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ex-burlesque dancer and aspiring author Tamara Garvey just had her world turned upside down.
Her best friend died and leaves her as guardian to a teenager. Now, not only is Tamara struggling with her new role but she is also charged with caring for the family home, the Ridaught Plantation known by the locals as the Dead House.
To her surprise, the place is already occupied by an angsty ghost named Joey who has a penchant for wearing her clothes and a fascination for paranormal movies and television shows. Tamara and Joey develop an unexpected friendship but questions remain about how and when he got there.
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(Welcome To Dead House Mysteries)
Close to Home
by Robert Dugoni
Rating: 4.6 #ad
While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base. After a key piece of case evidence goes missing, he is cleared of charges in a military court. But Tracy knows she can’t turn her back on this kind of injustice.
When she uncovers the driver’s ties to a rash of recent heroin overdoses in the city, she realizes that this isn’t just a case of the military protecting its own. It runs much deeper than that, and the accused wasn’t acting alone. For Tracy, it’s all hitting very close to home.
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(Tracy Crosswhite Mysteries)
Murder in Hindsight
by Anne Cleeland
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The victims are all criminals who eluded justice—until they ran afoul of an avenger whose modus operandi is a bullet to the back of the head. The key to the vigilante’s identity lies in connecting the cold cases to an event that may have triggered retribution after all these years.
Meanwhile, Doyle finds herself shadowed by a mysterious figure. After the man steps forward to rescue her from harm, she wonders why he is invested in protecting her. But when she learns he’s in contact with Acton’s nemesis, she fears she’s being used in a plot against her husband.
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(A New Scotland Yard Mysteries)
Dead Man’s Song
by Jonathan Maberry
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Maberry’s vampire novels are unique and masterful.” — Richard Matheson
Something evil has awakened in the town of Pine Deep. While a local newsman tries to piece together the gruesome events of a long-buried crime, others are preparing for the return of an unstoppable scourge. Bodies mutilated beyond description, innocents driven to acts of vicious madness—a monstrous legacy is preying on the living and the dead. There are those in Pine Deep who are not what they seem. Who are driven by a thirst for blood and revenge. And who are quietly building an army of the undead . . .
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(A Pine Deep Mysteries)