Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Lakeside Library
by Holly Danvers
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family’s waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain’s corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain’s mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premises.
The community of Lofty Pines starts pointing fingers at Willow, since she has been unusually absent from the library this summer. A fishy rumor surfaces when Rain learns that Willow had been spending a lot of time with Thornton. The town even thought they were having an affair.
The Couple Next Door
by Shari Lapena
Rating: 4.0 #ad
It all started at a dinner party. . .
A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . .
Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story…
The Traveler
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Light Grows in Darkness… The story of Jimmy’s supernatural adventure intensifies as he is drawn more deeply into God’s amazing plans for the world at the end of the age.
A firestorm of revival has been ignited by an unprecedented move of God’s Spirit that is sweeping the world. However, not everyone is happy about it, and powerful enemies are at work trying to stop what God is doing. Jimmy finds himself at the center of this epic conflict, suffering a tragic loss and receiving help from an unexpected source.
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(Within and Without Time)
Out of Hounds
by Rita Mae Brown
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Spring is peeking through the frost in Virginia, and though the hunting season is coming to a close, the foxes seem determined to put the members of the Jefferson Hunt Club through their paces. Sister and her friends are enjoying some of the best chases they’ve had all season when the fun is cut short by the theft of Crawford Howard’s treasured Sir Alfred Munnings painting of a woman in hunting attire riding sidesaddle. When another painting goes missing five days later—also a Munnings, also of a woman hunting sidesaddle – Sister Jane knows it’s no coincidence. Someone is stealing paintings of foxhunters from foxhunters. But why?
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(“Sister” Jane Mysteries)
Colt Knight
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Carson ‘Colt’ Knight has been promoted to Captain in the Texas Rangers and a new mission has been given to him in a mining town in the south. But a childhood promise remains like an old bruise in his heart, keeping him from complete happiness. Twenty years ago, his mother was killed at the hands of Sammy Day and his outlaws. Colt was only four.
When news arrives of an infamous outlaw being sighted in a town nearby, Colt learns that he is none other than Sammy, riding with his ruthless gang to plunder any town in their way. On his trail to bring down the outlaws, Colt meets Felicity, a healer woman who hadn’t had a chance to bury her parents as their bodies had both burned in a fire set by Sammy.
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(Western Justice Mysteries)
Platformed
by Kelsey Josund
Rating: 3.9 #ad
In near-future Silicon Valley, a young unemployed software engineer joins a tech giant’s secretive community seeking shelter from the chaos of a failing world. But this ideal society is not, in fact, so perfect.
Silicon Valley in the 2030s is not so different from today, filled with vaguely sexist CEOs, contested inequality politics, and startups that are almost a joke. After she loses her job when her startup folds and loses her home to California’s annual wildfires, Sara joins the latest thing: an unnamed tech giant’s quasi-utopian community, floating above the drowned land that was once Monterey…
The Apprentice
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.
It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.
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(A Rizzoli & Isles Mysteries)