Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
By the Book
by Laurinda Wallace
Rating: 4.1 #ad
No good deed goes unpunished as Gracie Andersen, owner of Milky Way Kennels quickly learns during Deer Creek’s worst winter in 75 years. Who knew offering hospitality and volunteering at the library would land her at a murder scene?
A valuable Civil War knife, accounting irregularities, and one very frozen body are adding up to big trouble for the Deer Creek Library. Gracie’s suspect list is full of people she’s known for years and the risk of ruining friendships piles on the pressure to find the truth. She and her intrepid Labrador, Haley make a few wrong turns on the way to finding an elusive cold-blooded killer.
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(A Gracie Andersen Cozy Mysteries)
Excise
by Danielle Girard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman was not meant to be idle, which is why she’s back at a murder scene even while reeling from recent chemotherapy treatments. Having undergone a double mastectomy, all she wants to do is dive back into her medical examiner job. It’s a gruesome world, yet Schwartzman takes comfort in its science and precision.
But the crime she’s dealing with brings her right back to the cancer ward: the victim is her own oncologist, dead from ingesting the very chemical used to fight her disease. Now, Schwartzman and homicide inspector Hal Harris must figure out why and stop the culprit before he can act again.
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(Dr. Schwartzman Mysteries)
Curtain of Death
by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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January, 1946: Two WACs leave an officers’ club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents’ first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blonde woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded.
The “incident,” however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the line, and have major repercussions not only for Claudette, but for her boss, James Cronley, Chief DCI-Europe, and for everybody involved in their still-evolving enterprise.
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(A Clandestine Operations Mysteries)
ONLY OUR DESTINY
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Having lived through World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and racial laws, Raffaela must raise and feed her ten children without any help from her estranged abusive husband Giuseppe, who refuses to give her money. With the support of her two oldest children, Geno, and Luisa, she struggles to survive. World War II devastates Italy and Italian Americans alike when “Il Duce” joins Hitler’s side, leaving Italians vulnerable at home and the object of hatred abroad. Young Italians are sent around the world to fight in a war they don’t believe in. At home Jewish families are under increasing threat. Yet, Italian men and women rebound to fight the Germans and Italian Fascists with a large and fervent partisan guerilla army.
Their courage and the ability to survive are a testament to the resilience of the Italian people who left their homeland with little else but a dream and changed America in the process.
The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world’s most heavily guarded man.
One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.
Steel’s Edge
by Ilona Andrews
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again.
Richard is a swordsman without peer, future head of his large and rambunctious Edger clan—and he’s on a clandestine quest to wipe out slavers trafficking humans in the Weird.
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(A Novel of the Edge Mysteries)
Life Untenable
by Chris Lofts
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enigmatic artist Pandora Strafer and her hated brother Tobin share a terrible secret. Pan is desperate to guard the truth which threatens to destroy everything she’s worked for. But Tobin suspects she knows something more. The problem is, she isn’t talking. Yet.
Fuelled by desperation and drug-induced paranoia he pulls Pan from her reclusive life of creativity and into his sinister world. Pan hits back with the only weapon she has: her art. She has the time, the talent and the opportunity.All she needs is the killer instinct. Or does she?
Life Untenable is a nerve-shattering fight-back thriller with a killer twist that comes from the last place you’d have expected.
Summer Lovin’
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rebecca’s job as secretary of Cascade Elementary, the same school she attended as a child, is rewarding. She has a great group of friends, many of whom are married now. And if sometimes she wished it were her up there in that sparkling white dress…
Except, wait—she did get to wear bridal white. Granted, it was a slinky party dress and the justice of the peace was Elvis in a gold lame jacket, but still, the deed was done. She’d tied the knot.
Mitch Taylor doesn’t do regrets. It would be a waste of energy bemoaning the mistakes he’d made in his life. The end of his promising football career taught him nothing in life was a guarantee.
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(Wounded Hearts)