Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Miss Riddell’s Paranormal Mystery
by P.C. James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sydney, Australia. 1978. Miss Riddell is pleased to finally secure a temporary oasis down under. But just as she settles into her new routine, ominous voices from inside the house lead her to believe she’s not alone. And when she learns of the tragic deaths of the previous owners, she’s determined to put her expert skills to work and make sure this cold case can rest in peace.
Investigating potential suspects in the decades-old crime, she’s thrown when she endures ruthless workplace pranks played by a shadowy mastermind. But when the trail of clues reveals the malicious attacks could be related, she’ll have to pull out all the stops to avoid suffering a similar deadly fate.
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(Miss Riddell Cozy Mysteries)
Twelve Sharp
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.7 #ad
FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her.
THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious connection to dark and dangerous Carlos Manoso …street name, Ranger.
NEXT, SOMEBODY DIES The action turns deadly serious, and Stephanie goes from hunting skips to hunting a murderer. SOON, THE CHASE IS ON
ThunderTree
by S. Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ben Evers is a drifter that never stays in one place too long, always hankering to see what’s over the next horizon. His traveling companion—an eagle. He lives by two rules. Mind his own business and always treat women with respect. The first rule stands him in good stead until he meets former Texas Ranger John T. McAllen and his niece Kate Landon. The two are drawing him into their lives and Ben knows from personal experience no good ever comes from getting involved in other folks’ trouble. John T. and his neighbor are caught up in a feud over land and Clary’s daughter. When danger strikes, swift and hard, Ben has a decision to make. Turn his back and ride away from people he’s grown to care about or break his rule of minding his own business, and stay and fight.
Garden of Forbidden Secrets
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
So you want to play with magic?
There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room victim in the courtyard of the forbidden Lalaurie mansion.
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(French Quarter Mystery)
Red Death
by Alan Jacobson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seem like natural causes—he reaches out to Karen Vail, the renowned FBI profiler, who hops on the next plane.
But even for someone as fluent in the language of murder as Vail, this case is hard to read. How were these women asphyxiated with no signs of trauma? How can she gather clues or collect evidence when the killer seems to strike during the briefest casual encounters? Is this the behavior of a male or a female perpetrator? And perhaps most terrifying of all, if the deaths appear so natural at first glance, how many victims have already been overlooked?
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(The Karen Vail Mystery)
Some Degree of Murder
by Frank Zafiro, Colin Conway
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A young woman has been murdered in River City. Police Detective John Tower is assigned to the case but there are few clues to go on. As he digs into the case, he’s soon picking up hints that this murder may not be the killer’s first … or his last.
Virgil Kelly lives in the shadowy world of the criminal underground. He’s just arrived in River City with a single-minded mission: find his daughter’s killer and bury him. In his search for a murderer, Tower uses his experience and training along with all the expertise of modern forensics. In the hunt for his prey, Kelley uses intimidation and violence, tools which he wields with precision and anger.
The Last Straw
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.8 #ad
In the crosshairs of a killer… PI Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need. Two days prior, Rachel Dean disappeared without a trace from her locked-from-the-inside Dallas apartment, and every possible trail has gone cold.
Grappling with the fallout of her efforts to dismantle the shadowy organization Universal Theorem, Wyrick throws herself into her investigative work…
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(The Jigsaw Files Mysteries)
Ruthless Knight
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.3 #ad
He’s the Lord of Darkness. She’s the Lady of Light. Can his black heart find love and forgiveness before his quest for vengeance destroys him and pushes them apart?
Rook the Ruthless is one of the triplet bastards of King Edward III, out for vengeance against the father who ordered the death of the brothers at birth. This is one wound that time doesn’t heal.
Rook lives in the catacombs of the ruins of Lanercost Priory, having had to hide away as a child when Edward pillaged and burned their homeland of Scotland…
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(Legendary Bastards of the Crown Series)
Living in Cleveland With the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
by Marc Sercomb
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him.
“I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.”
Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens…