Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Bad Neighbors
by Maia Chance
Rating: 4.2 #ad
It’s leaf-peeping season in Naneda, New York, and Agnes Blythe has settled into helping her eccentric Great Aunt Effie restore the Stagecoach Inn. It seems nothing can shatter the golden idyll—or the ka-ching of cash registers—until a mechanic at Hatch Automotive is found bludgeoned to death with a wrench.
Sweeping into action, Agnes and Aunt Effie are on the scene, when a tourist-laden motor coach breaks down outside of town.
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(Bad Housekeeping)
The Executioner Series Books 1–3
by Don Pendleton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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In the jungles of Southeast Asia, no sniper was more ruthless than Mack Bolan. After twelve years in-country, with ninety-five confirmed kills, the Special Forces sergeant returns to the United States only to find that his father has gone berserk, slaughtering his family before taking his own life. But Bolan knows his old man was no killer: He was under pressure from a gang of Mafia thugs who were after his money—and willing to destroy his life to get it. For the sake of his father, Bolan declares war on the men who drove him mad…
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(The Executioner Mysteries)
From Daylight To Madness
by Jennifer Anne Gordon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guard, keeping watch. For many who come here, this island is a sanctuary and a betrayal.
This is a place where memories linger like ghosts, and the ephemeral nature of time begins to peel away …like the sanity of all who have been unlucky enough to step foot on its shore.
In the late spring of 1873, Isabelle gave birth to her son Oscar, he cried for three startling minutes, and then went silent. During the months that follow, Isabelle is drugged and lulled into an almost hallucinatory world of grief and fear. Her life begins to feel as though it exists in a terrifying new reality separated from those around her …
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(When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk)
The Rules of Murder
by Rob Sinclair
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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The case was closed. Now everyone connected is getting killed. Let the games begin…
Henry and Caroline Redfearne’s annual ball is the hottest social event of the year. But the fun is cut short by the discovery of their son’s body, apparently the victim of a frenzied assault. He was last seen heading off with 17-year-old Sophie Blackwood, and a blood trail seems to show that Sophie has been kidnapped.
DI Dani Stephens, still struggling after an attack by her serial killer brother, is thrown into a desperate search for a murderer who kills and keeps on killing. With Sophie still missing, and no clues in sight, she has nowhere to turn. Nowhere, that is, except her brother…
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(DI Dani Stephens Mysteries)
Garden of Forbidden Secrets
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.7 #ad
SO YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH MAGIC?
While staying at an old French Quarter hotel in New Orleans, pro basketball player Taj Davis encounters a supernatural entity. The night bellhop finds Taj naked in the hallway carrying a bloody voodoo doll and with his chest tattooed with an eerie voodoo symbol. Taj’s curiosity leads him to the St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery where he meets a strange little man who advises him to enlist the help of voodoo mambo Mama Mulate and paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas. Taj becomes entwined with a young woman who practices magic, has a tattoo identical to his, and maybe the reincarnation of a long dead Irish witch. Mama and Wyatt must deal with the woman’s magic, or fall victim to historical figures who are perpetrating mass murder in a French Quarter garden torture room.
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(Wyatt Thomas French Quarter Mysteries)
The Caller
by Karin Fossum, K.E. Semmel
Rating: 4.2 #ad
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“Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless to start with . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of Ruth Rendell.” – Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly
One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is stunned: the child is covered in blood.
Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the child is unharmed, but the parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to understand why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell.
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(Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk
by Jennifer Anne Gordon
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In one startling moment in the late summer of 1873 a tragedy fell like summer sun on the gray jagged shores of Dagger Island. Francis loses everything he thought his life was, and what it could have become. His heart breaks and his feet run, all the way back to his childhood home, he reaches for a past that may not exist.
He is there, in the little house in Dorchester Neck. A place haunted with missing time. He feels the comfort from walls that lean in too close, but then …He feels the trauma that ripped his life in two and in a blink of an eye he is back at the hotel. He can feel the memories fade as the cold fingers of winter wrap around him. He does not know how he got there, or indeed if he ever left.
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(From Daylight To Madness)
Piece of My Heart
by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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A BRAND NEW RELEASE AT REGULAR PRICE. Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny’s skim board washes up to shore, and everyone realizes that he could be anywhere, even under water.
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(Under Suspicion Mysteries)