Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble
by Ann B. Ross
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Autumn’s crisp bite is in the air, but Miss Julia soon discovers that, alas, leaves aren’t the only things falling. James, Hazel Marie’s housekeeper, has taken a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him—not to mention a husband, son, and twin baby girls—when she barely knows how to boil water? Miss Julia promptly organizes the ladies of Abbotsville to give Hazel Marie cooking lessons. But before she can relax, Hazel Marie’s shady preacher-uncle turns up—just as Miss Julia learns that James has roped young Lloyd into an Internet scam!
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(Miss Julia Mysteries)
Lethal Incision
by Dobi Cross
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When a series of nameless patients vanish after they arrive, Dr. Zora Smyth scrambles for answers. There’s a dark secret…
Chief surgical resident Zora Smyth is used to the atypical: the disappearance of her sister, false murder charges from a serial killer, and a brush with death.
So when nameless patients show up on her operating table and subsequently disappear on her watch, Zora seeks to discover why.
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(Dr. Zora Smyth Medical Mysteries)
Of Seekers and Shepherds
by G.H. Duval
Rating: 4.8 #ad
She was born to protect humanity. But ancient enemies threaten to retake the land just as her god falls silent. Can an aging oracle be enough to save her people?
Siare au L’espri is desperate. Seventy years into her reign, she yearns to cede her responsibilities to her successor. Instead, her god has gone silent with no successor in sight just as ancient enemies rise to fill the void her god has left. Now, she commands her throne with waning powers, seceding warriors, and political infighting. To save her people, she must endure and adapt, relying on her intelligence and the few allies she has left where supernatural powers fail – even if it costs her life…
Black Magic Woman
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Restored
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 4.9 #ad
England talked of revolution. France tried it. But freedom and unity came only in America. Now, how hard are Americans willing to fight to keep it?
As President Wendell Walker brings the deadly force of federal troops still loyal to him against the rebellious state of Oregon, Shauna Jackson struggles to prove that she’s not an insignificant person, that she’s much more than her moniker, the Munchkin, connotes, and that she is worthy of the Oregon militia pilot Radley Baker’s attention.
Can Governor Harper’s forces and the Oregon militia defeat tyranny-minded President Walker? If so, will that unify the fractured nation?
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(Riven Republic Mysteries)
Scattered Remains
by Douglas Watkinson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Scattered Remains is the third in The Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries, written by Douglas Watkinson one of the major contributors to the tv series Midsomer Murders.
A brilliant young inventor, Patrick Scott, is abducted from his canal boat home in London. His kidnappers say they intend to auction him off to the highest bidder. But what has he invented that is potentially so valuable? And eventually will lead to his death?
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(The Nathan Hawk Mystery series)
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did – that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and a tyrant’s lover – Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged.
Victim 2117
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department’s own – the enigmatic Assad.
The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 – the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous—and deeply personal—case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future…
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(A Department Q series)