Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Antiques Fruitcake
by Barbara Allan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
During the dress rehearsal for a festive Christmas play in small-town Serenity, Iowa, star Madeline de Morlaye topples over – on stage! – after a bite of prop pastry. Since the frosty actress had earned plenty of enemies through her offstage dramatics, the cast of suspects is longer than Santa’s “Naughty or Nice” list. Prop mistress Brandy Borne and her diva-turned-director mother, Vivian—assisted by their savvy shih tzu, Sushi—must solve this fruitcake fatality before it’s curtains for anyone else.
Includes A Tasty Recipe!
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(A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mysteries)
Ice Cold Spy
by Blake Banner, David Archer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Why was Dr. Robert Magnusson murdered? More to the point, why was he murdered five hundred miles from anywhere, in the frozen wilderness of Greenland?
And then there is the question of what he was doing seventy miles north of the UCLA base camp, where he should have been – and what were the instruments he had secretly set up and housed in the shack out there?
And then again. there is the question of who killed him. Thor Olafson, his colleague and friend, blames the United States’ Presidential Commission on Sustainable Energy, because his findings defied the Commission’s wishes.
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(Alex Mason Mysteries)
Wagon Train
by Ash Lingam, Casey Nash
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The first Western adventure in a brand new series from Ash Lingam and Casey Nash!
When the Hardwood brothers decide to lead a wagon train of 200 from Galveston, Texas to Wichita, Kansas, they have no idea what a challenge it will be given the diversity of the people. There are at least six different languages spoken between the overlanders.
But Willis and Walt are smart enough to ask their uncle, Slim Hardwood, a former Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, to join them. He is a seasoned guide—salty, gritty, and has the hair of the bear.
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(Wagon Train From Texas Western Mysteries)
Stratton
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 4.0 #ad
To an enemy with an impressive lifespan, one failed campaign is not an obstacle. It is a challenge.
It took millennia for Earth to join the galactic community. Some thought the long wait was worth it. Some thought…otherwise. And while the Earth did get to wear a name-tag of “Core” world, the title was more ornamental than functional. After all, the Confederation Alliance of Planets and Star Systems was already six-thousand years old when Earth finally climbed on board.
To Karin, Shakespeare’s plays are classics, twelve-thousand years old. To Kitaya, the Rimworlder with Caritan roots, they’re incomprehensible collection of metaphors. To Alvin, the prototype AI who runs the STRATTON Space Post, they’re simply an infrequently retrieved data collection he stores in his vast memory.
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(Rim Chronicles Collection)
All Things Slip Away
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Rating: 4.6 #ad
All Things Slip Away, (the second book in the Spookie Town Murder Mysteries Series; third book: Ghosts Beneath Us; fourth book: Witches Among Us).
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who’d kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he’d fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found. But the killer wasn’t dead. He’d only been waiting to take his revenge on Frank and those he cares about now…ten years later. Frank retired early and is living back in his hometown of Spookie when the killer resurfaces to take up where he left off. Kidnapping more innocents and tormenting Frank and the people he cares about.
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(Spookie Town Murder Mysteries)
CREEP
by William Cook
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A dark story of a young woman’s date with death!
CREEP is a short psychological thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Serial Killers don’t always get away with murder, no matter how hard they try.
Includes bonus short story – Legacy.
“Creep is indeed a good story. Imagine being kidnapped, abused and chained in a dark place. William Cook, has sparked fear in this read. Travelling alone can be deadly. An enjoyable read page after page.” by Amazon Customer
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lord Peter Views the Body,
Hangman’s Holiday,
In the Teeth of the Evidence,
Striding Folly
“I recently discovered Dorothy Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey series and I am addicted. I’ve been reading, listening, watching the different presentations of her books and enjoying each. She was truly original. Her characters are endearingly human and appealing. Lord Peter’s character changes and develops as he ages. This collection are unlike any I read in earlier sets. Perhaps because they are short stories. Any fan would want to include these, I think.” by Amazon Customer
Gabriel Hansen
by William Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Civil War veteran and cowboy Gabriel Hansen is called to serve as a deputy in order to stop Rube Bauer, an evil and unstable man who has a sinister plan to become wealthy.
Bauer’s plan involves murder and illegal land sales in Arizona Territory. He wants to swoop up lands in small towns Newton and nearby Grove. But the town of Newton is an all-black settlement, which no longer trusts white authorities especially in the aftermath of the killing of a black family. The lynching has concerned officials from Tucson to Washington.
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(Post-Civil War Western Justice)