Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Hangman’s Sonnet
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman’s Sonnet.
That same morning, an elderly Paradise woman dies while her house is being ransacked. What are the thieves looking for? And what’s the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape?
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(A Jesse Stone Mysteries)
Her Perfect Life
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
“A powerhouse of a novel.” Mystery Scene Magazine
Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips―but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he―or she―know the truth?
The Night Hawks
by Elly Griffiths
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ruth is back as head of archaeology at the University of North Norfolk when a group of local metal detectorists – the so-called Night Hawks – uncovers Bronze Age artifacts on the beach, alongside a recently deceased body, just washed ashore. Not long after, the same detectorists uncover a murder-suicide—a scientist and his wife found at their farmhouse, long thought to be haunted by the Black Shuck, a humongous black dog, a harbinger of death. The further DCI Nelson probes into both cases, the more intertwined they become, and the closer they circle to David Brown, the new lecturer Ruth has recently hired, who seems always to turn up wherever Ruth goes.
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(Ruth Galloway Mysteries)
ONCE UPON A MURDEROUS DELUSION
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The year is 1980 in a small, sleepy New England town. Out of nowhere, a series of devastating murders threaten the safety and well-being of the community. A serial killer has begun a deadly game of catch-me-if-you-can with local police, who have dubbed the carnage, “The Mommy Murders.”
Frightened residents are certain the violent rape/murders are in some way connected to the psychiatric unit of Parkhirst General Hospital. Nella, a nurse angst-ridden by her service during the Vietnam War, is new to the area and the hospital. She joins the tight-knit group of nurses on the evening shift. Val, the leader of the group, with her own history of trauma, believes it stems from the prejudice their patients suffer from a community unsympathetic to mental illness. Or is evil closer to home than they think?
Fugitive Gideon Safford
by Bill Yenne
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The first adventure in a brand new Western series from acclaimed author Bill Yenne!
Gideon Safford is a fugitive, but his trail has long since grown cold. Heading into the Rockies from his native Kentucky, hoping to get across the Continental Divide before winter, he stops for refreshment and a night’s rest at the Dollar Saloon in Ithaca, Montana, a little town of farmers and small-time prospectors in the Elk Fork country. A chance intervention in a gunfight forces Gideon to kill a man in order to save another. Unfortunately, the dead man works for Clay Schugrue, a powerful rancher who controls the Elk Fork through intimidation and thievery by his hired guns. The shooting touches off an eight-day war between Schugrue’s men and riled-up townsfolk, with a mysterious rogue sniper attacking both sides. Unable to leave the people of Ithaca to their fate, Gideon reluctantly takes a stand for justice…and can only pray he’ll be able to see it through.
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(A Fugitive Gideon Safford Western Adventure)
Rampike
by European P. Douglas
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Trapped in an isolated mountain town… Something doesn’t want them to leave
When the local hermit, Maul Thorndean, disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a disconcerting state: all the surrounding trees are ghost-white, brittle, and leaning towards the cabin. There is blood on the floor, but no sign of Maul. Usually, if there is trouble in Mercy, Maul is the cause. Now, he might be the victim. The strange trees and their wraith-like limbs spread across the town. But when people begin disappearing, it’s clear that the trees are the least of the sheriff’s worries. In a desperate race to escape, only the luckiest will survive.
Little Secrets
by Jennifer Hillier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They’re admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken.
A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. She hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding Sebastian, she learns that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman.
Faithful Place
by Tana French
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show. Frank took it for granted that she’d dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie’s suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
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(Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries)
A Witch in Time
by Constance Sayers
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930’s Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles — only she doesn’t know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he’s watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning.
At first, Helen doesn’t believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman’s. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short.