Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Opium and Absinthe
by Lydia Kang
Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be – can it?
A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied.
Thy Killer’s Keeper
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 3.6 #ad
An unsolved murder of a small-town teacher is only the beginning….
Some crimes are inexplicable and defy reason. John Salton doesn’t believe that. As a veteran FBI agent and profiler, he maintains that there is a motive and a reason for every crime…until the unthinkable hits home. Three years after his artist-wife picked up and lit an acetylene torch and approached her two-year old, the father still can’t deal with the horrible memory. It might be the reason why he fashions an outlandish theory for what really happened to his family.
Chronicles of an Urban Druid Boxed Set #1
by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Meet Fionna mac Cumhaill an urban druid coming into her powers and trying to master them. Get the first three books of the Chronicles of an Urban Druid series in this boxed set to join her adventures.
A Gilded Cage. Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Life sucker-punched me…
I have family I didn’t know about, a magical heritage laying its claim, and a mystery I apparently need to solve. There are three things I love most in life…my wild and crazy Irish family, Redbreast Whiskey at Shenanigans, and living in Toronto.
Tim Dorsey Collection #2
by Tim Dorsey
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Five acid-splashed Florida capers in one great package! Prepare for the road trip of a lifetime with everyone’s favorite serial killer, Serge A. Storms, in the New York Times bestselling series from the “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey.
CADILLAC BEACH
TORPEDO JUICE
THE BIG BAMBOO
HURRICANE PUNCH
ATOMIC LOBSTER
The Miss Silver Mysteries Volume Two
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the Balance, The Chinese Shawl, and Miss Silver Deals with Death
Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has found a new calling: private detection. With her knitting needles and fondness for Tennyson, she may seem an unlikely sleuth, but Scotland Yard would be lost without her. “Patricia Wentworth has created a great detective in Miss Silver, the little old lady who nobody notices, but who in turn notices everything” (Paula Gosling, author of the Jack Stryker Mysteries).
In the Balance: On a train back to London, Miss Silver meets a frightened new bride. Lisle Jerningham has fled her home after overhearing a seemingly sinister conversation.
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(The Miss Silver Mysteries)
The Devil and the Deep
by Ellen Datlow
Rating: 4.1 #ad
KINDLE NOOK AUDIBLE KOBO APPLE
WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY
Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land.
Secrets Never Die
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the fifth book of the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane and Lance Kruger fight for the innocence of a young murder suspect—if only they could find him.
When a retired sheriff’s deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime.
Desperate to find her son, Evan’s mother begs PI Lance Kruger for help. She knows her son is innocent. Kruger and defense attorney Morgan Dane want to believe that too, but the evidence against the boy is damning.
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(Morgan Dane Mysteries)
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
by Cara Robertson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
KINDLE NOOK AUDIBLE KOBO APPLE
WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her murder trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence.