Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Locked Library
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.4 #ad
With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort’s latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa’s foundation, something else comes to the surface—a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of a very old book. The attendees of the Rare Book Conference are eager to assist Jane with this unexpected historical mystery—until a visitor meets an untimely end in the Henry James Library.
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(A Book Retreat Mysteries)
Time After Tyme
by Kay DiBianca
Rating: 4.5 #ad
WITH TIME ALL THINGS ARE REVEALED
Nancy Drew meets Tom Sawyer in this delightful and thought-provoking romp through the third book in The Watch Series of clean mysteries. Secret codes and university intrigue combine to give Kathryn Frasier and Cece Goldman a new and puzzling mystery to solve. But things get dicey when two misguided young girls wander into the middle of the investigation and decide to solve it themselves.
Can Kathryn and Cece decipher the codes and protect the youngsters before the killer strikes again?
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(The Watch Mysteries)
A Bride’s Love And Her Daughter’s Hope
by Florence Linnington
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Harriet is running for her life, and she is fleeing with her daughter, to the Old West. When Harriet’s unfaithful husband dies, her wealthy mother-in-law threatens to take her child Alyssa away. Harriet is pushed to make a snap decision and flees out west with Alyssa.
As the mother and daughter duo head into uncertainty, Harriet is prepared to gamble on another uncertainty – seeking a matchmaking agency to help her marry a stranger and learn how to live in the wild west.
Bounty hunter Collin Crawford is a man who needs nothing and no one. While he tries to convince himself that he is merely returning criminals to face justice, his faith in the work is beginning to waver.
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(Frontier Women Mysteries)
Camp Blaze
by Jon Athan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
At Camp Blaze – a camp with a history of violent tragedy – a group of counselors are stalked and slaughtered by a masked killer. However, due to the missing bodies, the murders are treated as disappearances. ‘Perhaps they’ve ran off to elope,’ the authorities suggest. But, as the disappearances continue to mount, Regina Park – the head counselor – begins to suspect foul play and she fears the killer may be closer than they think…
Jon Athan, the author of Night of the Prowler and Do Not Disturb, invites you to spend a night at Camp Blaze in this brutal throwback to classic ‘80s slashers.
The Order of Vengeance
by Alex J. Fischer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Getting even is all that matters for the motorcycle club aptly named the Order of Vengeance. Follow the band of outlaws as they live the life they’ve chosen.
Dealing illicit goods isn’t all fun and games. Opposing organizations, interlopers, and trouble all seem to follow the group. Just another day in the life of a 1%er outlaw biker.
The Lost Jewels
by Kirsty Manning
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return?
Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime.
But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother’s papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London?
Devious
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When New Orleans detective Reuben Montoya is called to investigate the murder of a nun, he’s shocked to recognize the victim. Sister Camille was his high school girlfriend. And she’s just been found on the altar of St. Marguerite’s cathedral…viciously garroted.
Before devoting herself to god, Camille had a knack for making bad choices. She joined the convent after falling for her sister Valerie’s soon-to-be ex-husband. But as Val—a former Texas cop—digs into Camille’s murder, she realizes how little she really knew about her sister and their shared past.
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(A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Mysteries)
The Third Realm
by Michael Chatfield
Rating: 4.6 #ad
With the third realm new challenges arise. Erik searches for Old Hei while Rugrat deals with his broken mana system. For both, their path takes them towards the alchemist association’s trial.
They didn’t mean to get into trouble, they swear, but in the ten realms trouble is not far behind the duo. They’ll have to fight across the third realm to complete the alchemist association’s trial.
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(The Ten Realms Mysteries)
Blood Victory
by Christopher Rice
Rating: 4.5 #ad
As the test subject of an experimental drug, Charlotte Rowe was infused with extraordinary powers. As the secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, she baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks. But it takes more than fear to trigger what’s coursing through Charlotte’s blood. She needs to be terrorized. Serial killer Cyrus Mattingly is up to the task.
Cyrus is a long-haul truck driver, and his cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels. To stop his bloodshed, Charlotte will become his next victim, reining in her powers so she can face each of his evils in turn.
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(The Burning Girl Mysteries)