Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Murder Before Christmas
by Michele PW
Rating: 4.1 #ad
If you’ve got a problem, Charlie Kingsley probably has a tea that’ll help make it right.
EXCEPT when it comes to love. She does NOT do love potions. Not even for Courtney, her pregnant new client who showed up three weeks before Christmas seeking a love potion because her husband was cheating on her.
So, Courtney asked about poison, instead. She said she was joking. That’s what happens between wives and husbands. They get angry and talk about killing each other. They don’t really mean it.
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(Charlie Kingsley Mysteries)
Keeper Tyree
by S. Cox
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Keeper Tyree is an aging bounty hunter who lives by his own set of rules. He’s a hard man, but just, and his word is his bond. He’s a loner and likes it that way. Then Cathleen O’Donnell catapults into his life looking to hire his gun. Josiah Pardee has killed her boy, and she’s out for vengeance. Somehow all his hard and fast rules, including working alone and minding his own business, crumbles in the face of the immovable widow he now works for.
He finds himself rescuing soiled doves, a myopic bookworm more suited to city life than the Wild West, and an hombre being dragged to death by angry cardplayers, as he tracks down the murdering sidewinder Josiah Pardee.
The Harvest King
by Paula Quinn
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Commander Caleb Desai, leader of the famed Warriors has three goals in life, to bring God and rain back to the barren wasteland of Predaria, and to make the previous king’s usurper and the man responsible for destroying his country pay. But when the new king escapes his hands, Caleb is forced to take his daughter with him on his journey home across the plains.
Dragging a pampered princess through the arid Plains of Predaria proves to be quite a challenge, even for a man of Caleb’s patience. The woman doesn’t know of the dangers on the plains, of the Catchers, the fires, the baking sun. She’s foolish and spoiled, beautiful and innocent about God and His Son, and life without water. As she’s exposed to the dying world her father left in his wake, she lets Caleb each her how to live…
Running Scared
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kate Summers’ teenage son, Jon, has been having nightmares. Someone is chasing him, the footsteps drawing relentlessly nearer. Jon can’t see the man’s face. He only senses that danger is coming—and there’s no way to stop it.
“Never tell anyone he’s not your boy,” was the warning. And Kate hasn’t. Not since the day fifteen years ago when she was offered what she most wanted—a healthy newborn baby. He was hers to keep, provided she moved far away, for good. She’s kept her word, raising Jon in a small Oregon town, lying to him for both their sakes. Despite his gift—or curse—of premonition, Jon hasn’t divined that he was adopted illegally. But now Kate’s long-ago choices are engulfing the life she’s tried to build.
Edge of Defiance
by Kyla Stone
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Amid chaos, tyranny rises. Freedom demands a price… As the United States unravels, the town of Fall Creek, Michigan struggles to survive. Hannah, Liam, and the others have endured the brutal winter and ruthless adversaries, but the threat has never been greater.
Enemies from within have wrested control of the town–including what little remains of the food. Isolated, overpowered, and on the verge of starvation, the townspeople are faced with a desperate choice. To be free, Fall Creek may have to sacrifice more than they ever thought possible.
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(Edge of Collapse Mysteries)
THE GIRL IN THE WOODS
Patricia Macdonald
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A NAIL-BITING DOMESTIC THRILLER FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
How many lives can one lie devastate?
Fifteen years ago, Blair’s best friend was murdered as she walked home through the woods. Now Blair’s dying sister confesses that the wrong man was sent to prison. If he didn’t kill her, who did?
I Promise You This
by Patricia Sands
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Suddenly single after twenty-two years of marriage, the calm of Katherine Price’s midlife has turned upside down. Seeking to find her true self, she took a chance on starting over. A year later, she is certain of this: she’s in love with Philippe and adores his idyllic French homeland, where he wants her to live with him.
But all that feels like a fantasy far removed from Toronto, where she’s helping her friend Molly, hospitalized after a life-threatening accident. Staying in her childhood home full of memories, Katherine wonders: Is she really ready to leave everything behind for an unknown life abroad? And if all her happiness lies with Philippe, will it last? Can she trust in love again?
The Quiet People
by Paul Cleave
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, joking that no one knows how to get away with crime like they do. After all, they write about it for a living.
So when their seven-year-old son Zach goes missing, the police and the public naturally wonder if they have finally decided to prove what they have been saying all this time… Are they trying to show how they can commit the perfect crime?