Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding—this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reporter talents to art. But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese cat, are in their element—sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder. This riveting beginning to the Cat Who series is the perfect cozy mystery for cat lovers to start sleuthing!
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(Cat Who… Mysteries)
Naked Prey
by John Sandford
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is the bodies are of a black man and a white woman. Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be. And there is worse to come – much, much worse.
“All but impossible to put down.” – The Washington Post
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(The Prey Mysteries)
Deputy Cooper
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He lost his family. He won’t lose the war.
When Deputy Cooper Franklin found his sister’s body among the rubble of an overturned carriage, he thought it was a terrible accident. Then he saw the bloody arrows. Now he wants justice, and if he can’t have that, he’ll take vengeance.
But it’s been years since Indians bothered the people of Tightwater, and Cooper isn’t convinced they’re the ones behind the series of attacks taking place now.
Elijah Bentley is a railroad baron who cares more about money than he does about people. With the help of the Predators, a notorious Texas gang known for their brutality and ruthlessness, he plans to take what’s his… and what isn’t.
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(A Western Adventure Fiction)
Danger in Numbers
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and deadly secrets.
A ritualistic murder on the side of a remote road brings in the Florida state police. Special Agent Amy Larson has never seen worse, and there are indications that this killing could be just the beginning. The crime draws the attention of the FBI in the form of Special Agent Hunter Forrest, a man with insider knowledge of how violent cults operate, and a man who might never be able to escape his own past.
The Jackal Man
by Russell C. Connor
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A creature older than legend stalks the small Texas town of Asheville. A beast rarely seen but greatly feared, the Jackal Man has haunted the minds of this sleepy hamlet for ages from the uninhabited woods to the south.
Now, a land developer has purchased the area with the intent to build houses, and Frank Stanford has moved into the strange town with his family to oversee the project. He and his punk son Willie will be forced to deal with the truth behind the myth, along with an obsessed cop…a quirky zookeeper…and a sadistic hunter that may be more dangerous than the beast…
Raised in Fire
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The exciting continuation of the Top 10 Amazon Store Bestseller by Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, K.F. Breene!
It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours.
The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch. It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all.
They’re being silenced by the Mages’ Guild, a corrupt magical institution that doesn’t want word to get out of what is plaguing the city. Worse, news of my magic might’ve slipped down to the underworld, hitting the ears of some extremely powerful demons.
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(Demon Days, Vampire Nights World Mysteries)
Knife Edge
by Blake Banner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two crime scenes, two multiple murders. Two multiple murders that had too much in common to be mere coincidence.
Cherise Brown, her small daughter Shevron, her husband Earl. The only survivor, eight year-old Leroy who witnessed the whole thing. His story, that his father broke his sister’s neck, his mother stabbed his father in the back and his dad, before dying, in a kind of berserker rage, took the knife and killed his mother.
Four years later Leroy Brown is murdered along with his adoptive sister, Lea. He is stabbed in the back, while his sister’s throat is cut, in a tool shed in the back yard of his adoptive family.
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(A Dead Cold Mysteries)