Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Teaberry Baking Contest
by R. A. Wallace
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a popular regional Baking Contest takes over the town of Teaberry, Megan has contest judges as guests at the B&B. As temperatures rise, mayhem and murder soon follow. Megan adds a measure of sleuthing. If only Lauren could win a blue ribbon, it would be the icing on the cake. This mild cozy mystery offers a clean read with a female amateur sleuth and friends in a small-town setting.
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(A Teaberry Farm Bed & Breakfast Mysteries)
A Blue So Dark
by Holly Schindler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Holly Schindler’s Award-Winning Debut Novel – The 2022 Re-Release
Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her primary caretaker ever since Aura’s dad left them. Convinced that creative expression is behind her mother’s deteriorating condition, Aura shuns her own artistic talent. But as her mother sinks still deeper into the darkness of her disorder, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura toward the depths of her imagination. Just as desperation threatens to swallow her whole, Aura discovers that art, love, and family are profoundly linked—and together may offer an escape from her fears.
Rise of Magic Complete 2-ARC Omnibus
by CM Raymond, LE Barbant, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic…” Arthur C. Clarke
Accused of using illegal magic, and sentenced to a cruel death at the hands of the Arcadian Guards, Hannah has no choice but to trust in the aid of a strange old wizard who offers her the gift of unimaginable power.
But power has consequences, and soon Hannah is at the center of a city-wide war to take back the future that was stolen from them. Can she control the power that courses through her? Can she unite a team of heroes from different walks of life? Can she bring justice to Arcadia?
The Rise of Magic is an epic fantasy, set in the far future, where magic and monsters ravage the land of Irth and only the strong survive.
Cutout
by Arnold Eslava-Grünwaldt
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Detectives from the Yonkers, New York Police Department suspect the faux Butcher is back in town after one of the survivors of the Tattoo case is attacked by a knife-wielding man. Unfortunately, if their suspicions are correct, Yonkersonians are in for a carnage-filled summer. To compound the problem, someone with an apparent agenda has started to kill off men in the city—and has left behind a unique set of clues. Can Detective Sergeant Ham Hitchcock and his general assignment squad catch the killer before he completes his goal and disappears? Or, will the skeletons of their last major whodunit divert their efforts?
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(The Cut Mysteries)
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Pearl, And Sir Orfeo
by Christopher Tolkien
Rating: 4.8 #ad
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEO
THREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It’s Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won’t begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court’s wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence. Arthur’s brave favorite for the challenge is Sir Gawain…
Accompanying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in this book are Sir Orfeo, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and Pearl, the moving tale of a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world.
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(Select Tolkien titles for $3.99 or less)
Unhinged
by Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in the department. But before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home – execution style. And in the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim.
Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service. Blix has shot and killed a man, and Ramm saw it all happen.
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(Alexander Blix Mysteries)
A Prisoner of Birth
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of his generation.
A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution’s main witness.