Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cookies & Chance Mysteries Boxed Set
by Catherine Bruns
Rating: 5.0 #ad
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From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a boxed set of three full-length mysteries featuring baker turned sleuth Sally Muccio. This boxed set includes the first three novels – and tasty recipes! – from the #1 bestselling Cookies & Chance series, including:
Tastes Like Murder
Baked to Death
Burned to a Crisp
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(Cookies & Chance Mysteries Boxed Set Vol. II)
Stronghold of the Enemy
by D. R. McFadden
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Andrew Hayes is a high school senior who comes to the conclusion that government schools and compulsory schooling in general crushes the dreams and imaginations of students. He sees that the system ultimately ruins their natural love of learning and condemns many of them to living a life far below their potential. Finding Andrew too effective in his quest to slay the schooling beast, shadowy government operatives fight him and his message through kidnappings, threats and violence in order to stop his mission from succeeding.
Andrew lives out the Marines’ motto of Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. But he soon discovers that human effort alone is insufficient to bring down this stronghold of the enemy. His seemingly eccentric Grandma guides him into the knowledge and relationships that he needs in order to fulfill his destiny.
Will that be enough to bring down this evil empire?
Look for Me
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one—a sixteen-year-old girl—missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case—but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, Look for me.
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(D.D. Warren Mysteries)
Ugly Things We Hide
by M. Ocampo McIvor
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“We all bend the truth from time to time.” It’s 2007 in idyllic Costa Rica, and 24-year-old Daniel is carefree while surfing, falling in love, and getting high on the beach with friends. But reality crushes him like a tidal wave when he returns home to Hawaii. Ten years go by, and buried family secrets, questionable decisions, and memories of a girl he never stopped loving would change him forever.
Deeper, darker… Restless with his life in Hawaii, Daniel moves to the mainland and delves into the shadowy world of the filthy rich, catering to their whims for money. But his cool, smart, and practical exterior starts to crumble under the weight of his clients’ ugly secrets, though he is most wounded by his own secret shame… Shocking. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable.
Reality Barks
by Kit James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Rescue dog faces the reality of his unusual new life. When two glossy Sydney metro couples rescue an ordinary Aussie mutt from the Dog Pound, he wonders why… especially when they change his name to Elliott! But he soon realizes that Jamie, the alpha-male of one of the couples, has plans for him… big plans! It’s a humorous Australian rescue dog’s tell-all tale about how he becomes a celebrity and wins their love…
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(Mutt to Megastar Series)
Deadly Touch
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.8 #ad
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When Raina Hamish tries on a dress in a Miami boutique, she has a terrifyingly accurate vision of a murdered corpse in the murky shadows of the Everglades. She wants to help, but who would believe her when she can hardly believe herself?
Special Agent Axel Tiger has returned to Florida to help hunt a serial killer, but the investigation doesn’t have much to go on. Raina’s vision is their best chance to uncover more. Axel’s experience with the FBI’s elite paranormal team will nurture Raina’s abilities, and she may be able to help save a life—but it puts her directly in the crosshairs of a killer who is closer than they would ever suspect.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
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(A Cormoran Strike Mysteries)
Follow the Westward Star
by Glenda Manus
Rating: 5.0 #ad
It was in the Spring of 1851 when the letter from the Western Territories arrived on the doorsteps of Rafe McCade’s cabin in central Kentucky. The letter was from Rafe’s brother, Colin, asking him to leave his worn-out Kentucky farm and bring his family to join him in the Rocky Mountains where the land is free, the valleys are green and the Ponderosa pines are tall and majestic.
Rafe and his wife Dora are captivated as they read Colin’s letter and in just a few short weeks they set off with their thirteen-year-old son in a covered wagon to St. Louis where they will pick up the Sante Fe Trail to reach their destination. The journey westward in the 1800s was hard, especially on women and children, but Dora proves that she’s a woman to be reckoned with when faced with the harsh realities of the American Frontier, and her faith, spunk, and grit along the trail will become the stuff that legends are made of.
Mickey’s Baby
by Annie J. Rose
Rating: 4.6 #ad
I’ve waited months for Karin to come back to the island. Now she’s here and we can pick right back up where we left off. I was so terribly wrong. She’s cagey, aloof, and pushing me away. I try to show her that I’m the real deal, but she’s keeping me at arm’s length. Now she’s seen something she wasn’t supposed to, and her life is in danger. She tries to tell me she doesn’t need my help but we both know that’s a lie. I’m a good guy, an ex-SEAL who served with honor, but there’s no line I won’t cross to protect what’s mine.