Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Hospitality and Homicide
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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A visit to the serene coastal town of South Cove, California, could make anybody feel refreshed and inspired. But as Jill Gardner – owner of Coffee, Books, and More – discovers, some folks won’t live to tell about it . . .
Mystery author Nathan Pike checked into South Cove Bed & Breakfast to compose a compelling novel, not commit murder. But things get real when a rival B&B owner ends up exactly like the victim in his draft—undeniably dead. As Nathan prepares to complete his magnum opus behind bars, Jill’s the only one who can prove his innocence and deconstruct the plot of a twisted killer!
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(A Tourist Trap Mysteries)
A Lone Sheriff
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Historical Western Adventure.
Buck Gunder never thought he’d be sheriff, but it’s just a temp job. It should be easy. Tucson is clean, quiet, and above all, peaceful. Until the Bain brothers show up. Trained killers with no morals, integrity, or heart, but plenty of bullets. The Bains are ready for war, and the entire town is in jeopardy. Especially Rachel, the beautiful stranger with her father’s nose for news and a curious streak that might just get her killed.
She’s been making eyes at Buck, and he’s not the only one who’s noticed. The Bains have been watching and waiting for a chance just like this. And now they’ve got Leland Bitters to help them even an old score. Bitters is bent on stealing gold and causing trouble. In fact, the more trouble he causes, the better.
Tripwire
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. He’s got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous confidence of an alluring woman, and the dangerous corners of his own past.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Jason Foster
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jason ‘Jace’ Foster must find and bring home his missing brother Matt, whose life has tragically crossed paths with Arizona territory’s most ruthless man, Edgar Marble or Snake Marble. Marble’s reputation, and that of his brutal associates, is well earned and the man has no conscience when it comes to doing business with fellow thieves and degenerates.
The odds are against Jace, the former Union Army soldier, until he meets Emma Jackson, a charming and feisty woman of the west.
A Walk Through the Fire
by Marcia Muller
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Sharon McCone, weary of San Francisco’s persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of Hawaiian scholar Elson Wellbright, the film has incited major controversy among some of Wellbright’s family members who aren’t anxious to see the project reach completion. Vandalism quickly escalates into big-time violence, and McCone discovers a world of family secrets, drug dealing, political insurgency, and murder in this new crime novel by one of the world’s most beloved mystery writers.
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(A Sharon McCone Mysteries)
ThunderTree
by S. Co
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ben Evers is a drifter that never stays in one place too long, always hankering to see what’s over the next horizon. His traveling companion—an eagle. He lives by two rules. Mind his own business and always treat women with respect. The first rule stands him in good stead until he meets former Texas Ranger John T. McAllen and his niece Kate Landon.
The two are drawing him into their lives and Ben knows from personal experience no good ever comes from getting involved in other folks’ trouble. John T. and his neighbor are caught up in a feud over land and Clary’s daughter. When danger strikes, swift and hard, Ben has a decision to make. Turn his back and ride away from people he’s grown to care about or break his rule of minding his own business, and stay and fight.
Red Country
by Joe Abercrombie
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following.
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb’s buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.
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(First Law Standalones Mysteries)
True Angel
by Jessica Lynch
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Angels aren’t supposed to fall in love… Avery’s older sister is missing. All she has to go on is a psychic’s warning, a wolf print left in mud, and Heather’s abandoned cell phone. A feral shifter has snatched her sister and she’ll do anything to get her back – even rely on paranormal help.
That’s when she meets Cam, the most dazzling Para male she’d ever seen. Camiel is an Othersider. Formally known as one of the Fallen, his only goal in his earthbound existence is getting a halo and going up above again, returning to live in the celestial cities.