Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Connections, Conflict & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A walk in the park, online connections, and dangerous discoveries.
When the cybersecurity expert who checked out Stacie’s computer turns up dead, Stacie and her good friend and IT whiz, Trina, find themselves entangled in the ensuing murder investigation. Who killed Sam and why? Was the motive personal or was Sam silenced because he discovered potentially illegal activity as part of a client’s routine security audit? With Stacie at her side, Trina reaches out to other tech people who knew Sam in an effort to connect the dots and, in the process, places both women in the sights of a killer.
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(A Stacie Maroni Cozy Mysteries)
Sins in Blue
by Brian Kaufman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“An engaging tale about two music lovers trying to set the historical record straight.” – Kirkus Reviews
A young man on a mission. An aging musician with a dream. Society perched over a racial divide.
It’s the 1960s, and nothing reflects the cultural revolution more than music. When Kennedy Barnes, a runaway teen, stumbles upon a rock and roll song recorded by a blues musician in the 1930s, he heads west in search of the man behind the music.
Willie Johnson, ex-bluesman, is a motel laundry worker with a bad hip and a dark past. When Kennedy arrives with the promise of riches, Willie wonders if he’s finally getting his shot at the big time. But is fame worth the cost of dredging up past sorrows?
No Man’s Nightingale
by Ruth Rendell
Rating: 3.9 #ad
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A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and wanted to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder?
Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovered the body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, and when he is invited by his old deputy to tag along with the investigators, he leaps at the chance.
108 Days: A True Story
by Lisa Lindell
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Do you trust your hospital? I did, until my husband was the patient. They told me he’d be home in about a month. A mistake in the radiology department is the first setback. Neglect and mistakes are routine. They don’t expect him to survive. I never give up.
Houston, Texas. Following an electrical accident at work, my husband, Curtis, is admitted to one of America’s top hospitals with major burn injuries. Curtis starts to decline and continues to worsen. Everybody tells me he’s fine. I keep calling doctors and telling everybody I see he’s dying and needs help.
Finally one doctor examines a week-old ultrasound and rushes him to surgery. “He has the liver of a chronic alcoholic, I blame radiology.”
The Janus Journals
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Will probing the past, through her father’s secret journals, save her future?For recent college graduate, Alisa (Allie) Petrenko, the Cold War never ended, and events set in motion years ago have endangered this innocent young woman. When her father is murdered, he left her with a warning, an assassin on her trail, and his secret history contained in a set of journals. As Allie tries to elude the assassin and read the journals, she learns that the loving father who raised her was not the man he appeared to be, and the man she must now trust with her life is someone Allie must never trust with her heart.At strong safety, Grady Jamison could defend against opponents in the red zone, but he couldn’t stop the drunk driver who hit his car and killed his sister.
Fast Track
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.8 #ad
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The world needs the avenging angels of the Sisterhood more than ever. A thriller of international intrigue from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
It’s been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system. Now, back in the United States after an enforced exile, and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki are breathing easy at last – but not for long.
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Little Girl Lost
by Mia Frances
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sheriff Zac McHenry is fit to be tied. A new “working girl” just showed up at the local truck stop. He doesn’t want “her kind” in town! He arrests her, but things aren’t what they seem. She’s no hooker…she’s a librarian! Her name is Ali, and she’s trying to track down a 13-year-old runaway.
The girl disappeared from the truck stop a week ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Zac tries to send Ali packing, even checks her out of her motel room, but she refuses to leave until she finds the girl. With the rodeo in town and all the hotel and motel rooms in the area booked up, Ali finds herself temporarily homeless. With no place else to go, she moves in with the sheriff until a room becomes available.