Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Blood Stained
by CJ Lyons
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ever since she fatally disobeyed orders, Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino has been chained to her desk. But now a mysterious letter has arrived, hinting that a case she closed four years ago pinned a string of rapes and killings on the wrong man. Lucy jumps at the chance to re-open the case—despite orders to leave well enough alone.
Her unofficial investigation takes her back to the small town where a killer took his own life along with one final victim—a mother who left behind a grieving husband and son. Could those dramatic events have all been orchestrated to protect the real killer?
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(Lucy Guardino Mysteries)
The Serpent and the Swan
by Ashland Pym
Rating: 4.7 #ad
She’s not quite human, but is she as dangerous as they believe?
Cygna is the king’s fairy get, born with a swan wing in place of an arm. Something monstrous to hide away. But when a monster from the Underworld appears, they’re all too happy to sacrifice her life for theirs.
The kingdom is withering into a wasteland and the Lindworm is making its march of destruction toward the castle. And at her coming of age, Cygna is forced from hiding and into the private war between king and queen. Born to unconventional parentage, she is stuck between two worlds and a threat to anyone who won’t suffer an inhuman girl’s ascent to power.
The Savage Road
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sheriff Lee Powers wants to keep the peace. Jasper Savage wants to break it. TIghtwater, Texas is supposed to be a quite little town, but the bodies start piling up fast when Jasper arrives. Jasper’s as smooth as he is dangerous. And he’s got everyone fooled, except for Lee. Only one woman, Winnie Clark, shares Lee’ concerns. But Winnie’s got secrets of her own. And she’s not ready to share them.
When Lee discovers the town’s new deputy mayor is planning the ultimate heist, no one will take him seriously. But as more blood spills, suspicions start to grow. The mayor tries to fix things by declaring a “no-gun” ordinance, and the entire town spins into chaos.
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(A Western Adventure Fiction)
Twice a Daughter
by Julie Ryan McGue
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren’t happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents—and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background.
House Revenge
by Mike Lawson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney’s hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building for a massive new development. Mahoney is just in it for the free press until Sean Callahan, the developer, disrespects him and even worse, Elinore suffers a horrible “accident,” likely at the hands of two thugs on Callahan’s payroll. Now Mahoney and DeMarco are out for revenge. DeMarco tries to dig up dirt through Callahan’s former mentor, and one of his ex-wives. But it’s only when DeMarco gets a tip on the likely illegal source of some of Callahan’s financing that things get deadly.
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(Joe DeMarco Mysteries)
A Handful of Hard Men
by Hannes Wessels
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro.
During the West’s great transition into the post-colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s, fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance. During this long war, many heroes emerged, but none more skillful and courageous than Capt. Darrell Watt of the Rhodesian SAS, who placed himself at the tip of the spear in the deadly battle to resist the forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.
The Quadrail Series Books 1–3
by Timothy Zahn
Rating: 4.2 #ad
All aboard the Quadrail for three tales of nonstop action from the #1 New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of Star Wars: Thrawn.
It is the Quadrail—a miracle of design that connects all twelve of the galaxy’s inhabited empires, allowing diverse alien species and cultures to exchange ideas, inspire imaginations, build bridges of understanding . . . and orchestrate the subjugation of all living things.
Night Train to Rigel,
The Third Lynx,
Odd Girl Out