Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Kicked the Bucket
by CeeCee James
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Chelsea’s family life is pretty complicated. For starters, the family photo that she’s been carrying for her whole life has been a mystery in itself!
Before she can dig into her past, the present has taken a shocking turn… Chelsea finds a dead body in the pond and sitting on the shore is a bucket of flowers. The more she learns about the dead man, the more she realizes he’s tied up in the knotted web of her own past.
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(A Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mysteries)
Sooner Led
by David L. Thornburg
Rating: New Release #ad
There is a mysterious stranger in Oak Valley, Oklahoma. He comes from a secret community with powers enhanced by government testing. He is hunted by defense contractors, covert operatives, a TV news station, and Oak Valley police officers Daniel Minco and Lianne Ortega.
He has turned the lives of Tony and Stephanie Stratton upside down as they expect their first child and caused the new minister and doctor in town to collide, discovering their feelings for each other.
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(Oak Valley Secrets Mysteries)
The Jealous Kind
by James Lee Burke
Rating: New Release #ad
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On its surface, life in 1950s Houston is as you’d expect; stoic fathers, restless teens, drive-in movies, and souped-up Cadillacs. But underneath that surface lies a world shifting under high school junior Aaron Holland Broussard’s feet. The underlying class war between the haves and have nots is growing steadily, along with the menace of conflict overseas in Korea, providing a harrowing backdrop to his growth to manhood. But when Aaron spots the beautiful Valerie Epstein at a drive-in, he steps in when he sees her fighting with her boyfriend, Grady Harrelson. Aaron’s newfound confidence helps catch Valerie’s eye, and the two begin dating. Grady is a live wire though, and presents a looming problem for Aaron.
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(Wayfaring Stranger)
Hide And Seek
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
Payback has its price, and the Sisterhood’s last assignment almost landed them in jail. Now the women are fugitives with a bounty on their heads, but they’re not planning on hiding out for long—not when good friends need the kind of help only they can give.
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(Sisterhood)
The Rancher’s War
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Wilbur Cole enjoys a quiet life on his ranch caring for his family and his fiancée, Molly. But his quiet life is interrupted when a man from his past comes seeking vengeance. Rex Kelly is a thief, a murderer, and Lone Rock’s most wanted outlaw. He enjoys hurting men and women almost as much as he enjoys getting away with it.
The Texas Rangers have been after him for six long years, but they haven’t caught up yet. Now Rex has his sights set on Wilbur. Once, they were like brothers. Then Wilbur turned on him, and Rex has never forgotten it. Rex blames Wilbur for his life on the run and wants revenge. Wilbur places blame where it belongs, on Rex’s greediness and evil streak. He won’t give in, and he’ll never stop fighting for justice.
Vivie’s Secret
by Terry Lee Caruthers
Rating: 5.0 #ad
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“An engaging read, particularly for cat lovers, and a promising debut.” – Kirkus Reviews
Twelve-year-old Vivie and her family flee for their lives during the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. Despite the trials and travails of life on the run—starvation, trauma, fear—Vivie remains haunted by the fate of her beloved feline, Norsk, whom she was forced to leave behind. She develops a lifelong affinity for the strays and ferals she encounters during their escape, seeing both her current situation and Norsk’s reflected in their existence on the street—skinny, scared, and without a real home. During this arduous journey, Vivie is cautioned to safeguard her true identity because of those who wish to do her harm.
Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder
by Bonnie MacBird
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland, but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment in the South of France.
On the fabled Riviera, Holmes and Watson encounter treachery, explosions, rival French Detective Jean Vidocq… and a terrible discovery. This propels the duo northward to the snowy highlands. There, in a “haunted” castle and among the copper dinosaurs of a great whisky distillery, they and their young client face mortal danger, and Holmes realizes all three cases have blended into a single, deadly conundrum.
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(A Sherlock Holmes Adventure)