Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Best In Show
by Laurien Berenson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There are dog shows. And then there’s The Poodle Club of America National Specialty Dog Show. For poodle purists, it’s the pinnacle of the season, drawing competitors and spectators from all over the world.
Once in Maryland, Melanie Travis is put to work selling raffle tickets by the co-chairs of the raffle committee, Betty Jean and Edith Jean Boone. Sixtyish steel magnolias from the South, the reclusive sisters make few appearances. But this year, they have a silver Toy puppy that has already caused quite a buzz on the show circuit.
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(A Melanie Travis Mysteries)
The Vanishing Point
by Val McDermid
Rating: 4.0 #ad
From one of the finest crime writers we have, The Vanishing Point kicks off with a nightmare scenario—the abduction of a child in an international airport. Stephanie Harker is in the screening booth at airport security, separated from Jimmy Higgins, the five-year-old boy she’s in the process of adopting, when a man in a TSA uniform leads the boy away. The more Stephanie sounds the alarm, the more the security agents suspect her, and the further away the kidnapper gets.
It soon becomes apparent that nothing in this situation is clear-cut. For starters, Jimmy’s birth mother was a celebrity—living in a world where conspiracy and obfuscation are excused for the sake of column inches…
The Strangers on Montagu Street
by Karen White
Rating: 4.7 #ad
With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house…and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem.
Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well.
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(Tradd Street Mysteries)
Cold Snap
by Marc Cameron
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Alaska, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts four very dangerous handcuffed prisoners onto a small bush plane en route to Fairbanks. Cutter’s expecting a routine mission and a nonstop flight—or so he thinks. When the plane goes down in the wilderness, all hell breaks loose. The prisoners murder the pilot and a guard and torch the plane. But their nightmare’s just beginning. Back in Anchorage, deputy Lola Teariki has traced the dismembered foot to a missing girl—and the serial psychopath who slaughtered her.
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(An Arliss Cutter Mysteries)
The Island
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the near future, everyone’s a criminal. Every lie, every minor mistake, is monitored and logged. No-one, no matter how hard they might try, can ever be perfect. And if you build up enough points, you’ll be hauled off to work for the government.
Unless you decide that enough’s enough, in which case you can choose to go to the island. But if you take that option, you can never come back.
Arrested for a crime she didn’t commit, Iris Bloom soon discovers that she has a long criminal record that she knew nothing about. Invoking her right to go to the island, she quickly discovers that she’s merely swapped one hell for another. On the island, anything goes.
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(Island Mysteries)
The Last Time We Met
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Rating: 5,0 #ad
As a member of the richest family in town, Willow understands the importance of reputation. Her stern grandmother has taught her that family secrets are to be buried, and as the most popular girl in school, Willow follows that lesson with a smile covering up the darkness.
But when Walden, the new guy from the wrong side of town comes to her school, Willow finds her image slipping and the secrets of her homelife in danger of being exposed. As a scandal tears the couple apart and throws Willow into a new, unfamiliar life, she must choose between saving Walden’s future or risking it all for love.
Defiance of the Fall
by TheFirstDefier, JF Brink
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Just as a threat is dealt with, an opportunity presents itself.
After searching for months, Zac’s forces have finally discovered the elusive Underworld that’s both teeming with riches and dangers. Meanwhile, the armies of the Undead Empire advances on all fronts while the Dominators scheme in the dark.
Having endured the Integration in the punishing environment of the subterranean cave system, the trapped warriors of the Underworld could become the key in surviving the incursions aboveground.
But first, Zac has to deal with the golems intent on digging to the center of the plane
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(Defiance of the Fall Mysteries)