Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Purrfect Obsession
by Nic Saint
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Odelia Poole, Hampton Cove’s premier reporter and amateur sleuth, has been tapped to play the lead in this summer’s production of Bard in the Park. But when her understudy is found murdered, she is forced to take off her acting cap and put her detective’s cap back on. Meanwhile, Odelia’s cats face some trouble of their own when Brutus is caught in flagrante delicto with one of cat choir’s more frivolous redheads. Harriet is not happy, and suddenly the ‘Fab Four’ are no more. And when Gran uncovers a plot to target her family, life in the small town suddenly turns very dicey indeed.
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(The Mysteries of Max Mysteries)
Fateful Pathways
by Bill Hiatt
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Born of a mother manipulated by the goddess Athena into sleeping with a king and a god on the same night, Theseus’s life was never going to be easy. Athena’s plan is for him to be the hero and king who will preside over a new golden age for Athens. But to achieve that goal, Theseus can never stop fighting, first to win the crown and then to keep it. Bandits, rebels, monsters, witches, and even hostile deities stand in his way. Athena claims he is fated to succeed, but even she admits that fate is not a single path but a road with many forks. Has her intervention helped him become the hero he was meant to be? Or has she doomed him to a life of failure?
DESPERATE CREED
by Alex Kava
Rating: 4.7 #ad
KINDLE NOOK AUDIBLE KOBO APPLE
—A STORM IS COMING— In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves.
—NOT EVERYONE’S STORM IS THE SAME— In Chicago: Francine “Frankie” Russo is irritated when her young co-worker calls at 5:00 am for a video-chat and catches her in only a towel.
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(Ryder Creed K-9 Mysteries)
A Ghost Arrives
by Abe Moss
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home…
Something that only shows its face after the sun goes down. What starts as an eerie game of phantom footsteps and voices in the dark soon turns sinister as Wallace finds himself ensnared in a violent plot of family secrets and deep wounds that never healed.
Peregrine’s Tale
by Kealan Patrick Burke
Rating: 4.1 #ad
At eleven years of age, strange things started to happen to a boy named Timmy Quinn. His ordinary life was abruptly thrown into chaos by the revelation that there exists a separate plane of existence reserved solely for the vengeful spirits of the murdered: The Curtain. Worse, Timmy is a conduit for these monstrous entities, allowing them to walk freely between worlds to exact their brutal vengeance.
His search for answers has taken him halfway around the world, forcing him to endure many horrors, among them the revelation that the spiritual realm known as The Stage may have been man-made, and that the dead do not operate of their own free will, but are instead influenced by an enigmatic figure known only as “Peregrine.”
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(The Timmy Quinn Mysteries)
The Other Couple
by Cathryn Grant
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Maggie and Brad are on vacation at Lake Tahoe when they meet another couple, Skye and Joe. The four hit it off so well that Maggie invites their new friends to share her beautiful lakeside rental.
What she doesn’t realize is Skye and Joe aren’t just some random couple. They have been watching Maggie and Brad, have chosen them carefully….
And now, when they discover that Maggie has a secret which could destroy her marriage, they start turning the screws, pushing their own sinister agenda. But have they chosen their victim wisely? Or does Maggie also have a dark side?
The Classy Hustle
by Tessa E. Boyd
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When corporate managers denied Tessa E. Boyd the promotion she deserved, she had a decision to make: keep working hard on the dreams of others or get busy launching the first online/hybrid esthetics school in Florida.
Tessa chose the latter. She was told it wouldn’t work. And her success surely didn’t come easy but, with the sage advice of mentors and a pit bull tenacity, she saw her vision come to fruition. Join Tessa as she walks you through the twists and turns of her classy hustle. She will help you avoid the common pitfalls of would-be entrepreneurs by passing on lessons that shaped her success.
Billionaire Unwed~Zeke
by J. S. Scott
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Although this story is part of The Billionaire’s Obsession series, it can be easily be enjoyed as a standalone friends to lovers billionaire romance.
Lia: I thought I had my life all worked out. My wedding had been meticulously planned. All I had to do was walk down the aisle and get married to the man I’d been engaged to for over a year.
Pretty easy and uncomplicated, right?