Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Missing in Little Leaf Creek
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Living in the country comes with lovable animals, a stubborn next-door neighbor, two missing people and a murder…
Cassie Alberta is loving her new life in Little Leaf Creek. She is finally coming to terms with the ghosts from her past and moving forward. She loves living next to two cheeky goats and a lovable collie mix. But when two people from Little Leaf Creek go missing and one turns up dead, she finds herself right in the middle of two baffling mysteries.
Cassie joins forces with her ornery, next-door neighbor to try and solve the murder and find the missing person.
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(A Little Leaf Creek Cozy Mysteries)
Rory: Mountain Man And Longhunter
by Mike Mackessy
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The seventh Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!
Rory is the mountain man the Penny Dreadful has named Rory Yellowstone. He hates the name and refuses to use it. Cara is his third daughter, the one that takes after her pa the most. She also seems to attract the same kind of trouble Rory does. Like her pa, trouble and problems only make her stronger.
Rory sends her to take delivery of horses he bought in Texas. The crooked sheriff and mayor frame her for rustling. They do not know who she is nor who her pa is. When Rory, her brothers, and a group of ranch hands reach that town to escort Cara and the horses, well, Cara has handled the problem in her typical way—before Rory rides into town.
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(The First Of The Mountain Men Western Mysteries)
The Dying Day
by Vaseem Khan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.
Bombay, 1950. For over a century, one of the world’s great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay’s Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia’s desk.
Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Complete Boxed Set
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Olivia Beaufont likes fixing things and keeping to herself. She’s simple like that—but her life is about to drastically change.
Liv is a rebel with royal blood who abdicated her birthright. A string of murders changes everything and the House of Seven asks her to take on a role as a Warrior, one of seven positions revered for protecting magic.
Although Liv would rather stay out of the politics and conspiracies that she ran away from years ago, her family needs her. It’s only a twelve-year stint until her sister, the next in line, can take over.
So, what’s the harm in activating her magic and accepting her place as a warrior?
Murder at Greysbridge
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Being adapted for a television crime series
Summer has arrived in Inishowen and solicitor Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is greatly tempted by a job offer from a law firm in America. Yet before making any life-changing decisions, there is her assistant Leah’s wedding to attend at the newly restored Greysbridge Hotel—with its private beach and beautiful pier.
The perfect location—but the festivities are brutally cut short when a young American, a visitor also staying at the hotel, drowns in full view of the wedding guests. And when a second death is discovered the same evening, Ben finds herself embroiled in a real country-house-murder-mystery, where all the guests are suspects.
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(An Inishowen Mysteries)
Wild Vengeance
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gavin Hammer was just a kid when his family was murdered in front of him. Ten years later, the event still haunts him. Everyone knows Stone is responsible for the crime, but he’s still running free. If the law can’t catch him, Gavin will. Capturing Stone won’t be easy though. The outlaw’s got men in every town throughout Texas, and there are sheriffs on his payroll.
When Gavin’s need for justice pushes him to a ranch run by the widow Essie Wilcox, he thinks it’s the sort of idyllic life he could get used to. But tragedy strikes again when Stone reappears, only this time it’s Essie’s family who pays the price.
The Cellist
by Daniel Silva
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia’s richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea’s exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia’s vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov’s name off his kill list.
Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents.…
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(Gabriel Allon Mysteries)
House on Fire
by Joseph Finder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nick Heller is at the top of his game when he receives some devastating news: his old army buddy Sean has died of an overdose. Sean, who once saved Nick’s life, got addicted to opioids after returning home wounded from war.
Then at Sean’s funeral, a stranger approaches Nick with a job, and maybe also a way for Nick to hold someone accountable.
The woman is the daughter of a pharmaceutical kingpin worth billions. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing her father and his company for burying evidence that its biggest money-maker was dangerously addictive. It was a lie that killed hundreds of thousands of people, including Sean.
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(A Nick Heller Mysteries)