Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Aunt Dimity and the Duke
by Nancy Atherton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England’s glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there’s more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke’s invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty.
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(Aunt Dimity Mysteries)
Black Magic Woman
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.7 #ad
TO SAVE HIS SOUL FROM AN ANCIENT VOODOO CURSE, FRENCH QUARTER DETECTIVE WYATT THOMAS MUST TIME TRAVEL BACK TO ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS
In the most haunted and forbidden city on earth, no one disregards the supernatural. When a spirit from a different life begins haunting him, Wyatt Thomas turns to the one person he knows can help—his business partner and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate. To rid himself of the curse, he must travel back in time to Antebellum New Orleans and seek the assistance of Marie Laveau, the most famous voodoo practitioner who ever lived. He has one chance to save his soul and only forty-eight hours to do it, or else be trapped in the past forever.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The paperweight – a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind? ~ Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
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(The Dumont Chronicles)
Lineage
by Joe Hart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A LIFE FILLED WITH ANGUISH Pain, horror, fear- These are the things that bestselling novelist Lance Metzger’s life have been comprised of. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and the abandonment of an apathetic mother. In turn, his only refuge became his writing.
A SANCTUARY, BROKEN When Lance loses his ability to write and becomes haunted by a nightmare that he’d thought was buried, he is drawn inexplicably to a house on the shores of Lake Superior where he finds his muse once again, but something is waiting for him when he arrives.
AN EVIL WITHOUT BOUNDARIES Now he must unlock the devastating secrets that the house holds and uncover the mystery of his own broken past before he loses his sanity, and perhaps his soul.
Spirit of Gettysburg
by S. Elizabeth Calvert
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice? Apparently so!
Washington, D.C. psychic to the powerful elites headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister flees a contemporary, shattered life into the ghostly, loving arms of Confederate soldier Major Clayton Fontaine Douglas, her former husband and one-true-soulmate. He is the only man she loves and trusts. Clayton, an unrepentant Rebel and proud, brave officer in General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, is now a ghost stuck in time in her inherited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania estate. He is furious at God for the loss of his Country and her. He is dying again because of her. Once more she must try to save him, change his fate and rewrite karma.
Murder on Black Swan Lane
by Andrea Penrose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. So when pompous, pious Reverend Josiah Holworthy publicly condemns him for debauchery, Wrexford unsheathes his rapier-sharp wit and strikes back. As their war of words escalates, London’s most popular satirical cartoonist, A.J. Quill, skewers them both. But then the clergyman is found slain in a church – his face burned by chemicals, his throat slashed ear to ear – and Wrexford finds himself the chief suspect.
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(A Wrexford & Sloane Mysteries)
ONLY OUR DESTINY
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). Up to 85 per cent of Italian Americans have their roots in this region. The story of the Coriello family begins in the fictional fishing village of Punto Roccioso along the Amalfi Coast. Alta Italia (Northern Italy) looks down on their southern countrymen as uneducated peasants. With limited opportunities available, many southern Italians dream of escaping poverty by leaving the land they love for a better life in America. But like all dreams, hardships, sacrifices, and realities intrude.
Having lived through World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and racial laws, Raffaela must raise and feed her ten children without any help from her estranged abusive husband Giuseppe, who refuses to give her money. With the support of her two oldest children, Geno, and Luisa, she struggles to survive. World War II devastates Italy and Italian Americans alike when “Il Duce” joins Hitler’s side, leaving Italians vulnerable at home and the object of hatred abroad.
I Hate You
by Natasha L. Black
Rating: 4.3 #ad
My dream job comes with a nightmare: 1. Stolen equipment. 2. Sabotage on my job site. 3. My pain in the a** boss. Correction: She’s at the top of the list. We hate each other, but I can’t keep my hands off her. She’s mouthy, infuriating, and smoking hot.
This job is nothing but trouble. And it’s about to get so much worse. Dangerous sabotage at the site puts Nicole’s life in danger. I’ll do anything to keep her safe. Especially when I find out she’s not the only one I’m fighting for. This hard-core bachelor is about to get everything I never knew I wanted. And God help the man that tries to get in my way.