Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Fairway to Arms in Hemingway Hills
by Anna Celeste Burke, Peggy Hyndman
Rating: 4.8 #ad
One of Marty Monroe’s old contacts at the resort begs the Grand Old Lady Detective [G.O.L.D.] agency for help. There’s been a serious mishap on the golf course at the exclusive Hemingway Hills Country Club. During a brazen heist, a cache of arms is stolen from the guards who patrol the private enclave. A man is found dead on the fairway, but it’s not clear if he was in on the heist or not. When the members of G.O.L.D. learn the identity of the murdered man, how can they say no to the request to investigate another dangerous crime?
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(Seaview Cottages Cozy Mystery)
A Friend Like That
by Marissa Finch
Rating: 4.8 #ad
I should wonder why I feel so comfortable with Taylor. Why I’m so enamored with a stranger I met at a bar. I should, but I don’t.
Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she’s taken to hiding out at a dingy Manhattan pub just so that she won’t have to tell anyone the shameful truth.
So when blonde, beautiful Taylor waltzes in one sunny afternoon, Alice is ready for the distraction of an unpredictable new friend. As Alice and Taylor get closer, Alice confesses the real reason she lost her job — a hotel guest, the wealthy real estate mogul Weston Chambers, assaulted her.
Jack Be Quick
by Fiona Quinn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
To save her, he’ll have to be deadly, accurate, and most of all, quick…
First grade teachers aren’t supposed to face life-and-death scenarios. But that’s exactly what happens when Suz Molloy is kidnapped. What she really needs is her ex-Navy SEAL fiancé. It’s just her unfortunate luck that he’s laid up in the hospital with no idea she’s even missing.
When Jack McCullen wakes up from surgery to find Suz gone, his gut—and his psychic colleague at Iniquus—tells him Suz is in life-threatening danger. Now, all he can do is follow the clues to South America and pray he’ll get there in time to be the hero Suz needs.
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(Strike Force Mystery)
Sooner Led
by David L. Thornburg
Rating: 3.5 #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.
He’s 13 years old. Two communities struggle to protect their ways of life, sweeping all your favorite Oak Valley residents into the struggle.
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(Oak Valley Secrets Mystery)
Bloody Passage
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
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An intelligence officer fights to save his sister from the mob in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stavrou in order to gain her freedom: Grant must save Stavrou’s son from a secret cliff-top prison in Libya.
Adam’s Witness
by J.C. Paulson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Where Does Justice End And Vengeance Begin? When newspaper reporter Grace Rampling stumbles onto a grisly crime scene while on a routine weekend assignment, she abruptly finds herself at the centre of a police investigation into the death of a Catholic bishop.
˃˃˃ The Crime: Bewildering As the investigation unfolds, evidence points to a troubling hate crime as Grace finds herself central to the case – not only as a key witness, but a suspect and even potential victim. Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Adam Davis is thrown by the fierce attraction he feels toward Grace that, if acted upon, could throw the entire case into jeopardy.
˃˃˃ The Race: Intense…
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(Adam and Grace Mystery)
Bones of Skeleton Creek
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.2 #ad
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR ADOPTS A STRAY DOG AND TOGETHER THEY INVESTIGATE A GORY MURDER
Broke, out of work, and desperately in need of a new truck, detective Buck McDivit must earn some money before his landlord evicts him. The only job available is a one-time gig as assistant county death investigator. The case involves the particularly gory death of a local ranch hand. The police think it’s suicide. Buck knows differently. Not only was the man murdered, but his killer is also possibly more than human, maybe even supernatural. When the ranch owner, and employer of the dead cowboy, hires him to find the murderer, he learns revenge wasn’t the only motive. As the situation grows insane, he must solve the murder or become the killer’s next victim.
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(Paranormal Cowboy Mystery)
Burn-In
by P. W. Singer, August Cole
Rating: 4.3 #ad
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America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.
After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of shocking catastrophes unfolds, the two find themselves investigating a conspiracy whose mastermind is using cutting-edge tech to rip the nation apart. To stop this new breed of terrorist, their only hope is to forge a new type of partnership.