Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knot My Sister’s Keeper
by Mary Marks
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Martha Rose is shocked to find she has a half-sister, especially one so different from her. Giselle Cole is wealthy, widowed, and lives a glamorous life in West Los Angeles. At least her grandmother was a quilter! But Giselle can’t answer Martha’s many questions about their father—he disappeared when she was only a child and the few clues left behind indicate he may have been murdered. So Martha and Giselle team up on an investigation that weaves them through the streets of L.A., their father’s hidden love affairs, and into some mysterious unfinished Cole family business . . .
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(A Quilting Mysteries)
Her Last Call
by Elle Gray
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Come out, come out, wherever you are…”
A beautiful young woman trapped within a killer’s sick and twisted game. Stella Hughes called for help, but help did not come in time. She could not hide, fight, or escape. Stella was ensnared in the killer’s web. The victim of a twisted serial killer’s mind.
Shortly after detective Paxton takes on the case of Stella Hughes, he realizes this is no ordinary murder. It becomes clear very quickly that Stella, the girl Paxton had known, was the victim of another serial killer – a theory that’s quickly confirmed by a bright, quirky independent journalist named Marcy. As they dig deeper into this killer, they soon learn of his twisted obsession.
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(A Pax Arrington Mysteries)
Mr. and Miss Anonymous
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Like many college students struggling to get by, Lily Madison and Peter Kelly help pay for tuition by making donations to a local fertility clinic. One day they meet each other at the clinic and find they have more in common than their mutual attraction, like the odd feeling all is not as it seems at the clinic. But their meeting is brief, and Lily and Pete go their separate ways.
Twenty years later, Pete, now a wealthy entrepreneur, sees Lily in an airport and instantly falls for her all over again. While they enjoy their unlikely reunion, a story on the news captures their attention: the disappearance of two teenage boys may be linked to the fertility clinic Pete and Lily visited in college. In a shocking twist, one of the boys looks exactly like Pete . . .
Never His Mate
by Sarah Spade
Rating: 4.1 #ad
After my mate rejected me, I wanted to kill him. Instead, I ran away—which nearly killed me…
A year ago, everything was different. I had just left my home, joining the infamous Mountainside Pack. The daughter of an omega wolf, I’ve always been prized – but not as prized as I would be if my new packmates found out my secret. But when my fated mate – Mountainside’s Alpha – rejected me in front of his whole pack council and my secret got out, I realized I had one choice. Going lone wolf was the only option I had, and I took it.
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(Claws and Fangs Mysteries)
Emergence
by Shira Shiloah
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A SCALPEL WIELDING VILLAIN.
A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT FAILS.
A WHISTLEBLOWER THAT PROTECTS HER PATIENTS – NO MATTER THE COSTS.
Trusted anesthesiologist, Dr. Roxanne Roth, is healing from the loss of her fiancé by consuming her time with work. It doesn’t hurt that her new love interest, Dr. Justin Kirkland, spends almost as much time at the hospital as she does. Entranced in the throes and complications of new love, Roxanne looks forward to work every day. Her time at the hospital would almost be cathartic if not for Dr. D.K. Webb, a neurosurgeon, who is quickly amassing a pile of complaints – and bodies.
Left to Die
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
NOTHING’S MORE TERRIFYING . . . One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can’t yet see the beauty in his work—but soon, very soon, they will . . .
THAN BEING LEFT ALONE . . . In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer’s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come . . . TO DIE . . .
The Lonely Tree
by Yael Politis
Rating: 4.4 #ad
1944, British Mandate Palestine A compelling love story, told against the background of Israel’s chaotic birth, with the initial focus on events at one isolated border kibbutz – Kfar Etzion.
Tonia is the daughter of modern orthodox Polish immigrants, who are fervent socialist Zionists. Amos is a passionate patriot, whose Yemenite family has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations.
Though irresistibly drawn to one another, Tonia and Amos are very different. They share a deep love of family and homeland, but Tonia is a reluctant participant in the effort to achieve statehood, believing it will inflict further catastrophe upon the Jewish people.