Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Engaged in Death
by Stephanie Blackmoore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
All appears peaceful in sleepy Port Quincy, Pennsylvania–but in this small town, old grudges die hard. . .
After dumping her cheating fiancé and cancelling the wedding, Mallory Shepard can’t bear another disaster. So when the former bride-to-be unexpectedly inherits Thistle Park, a ramshackle mansion in her ex’s hometown of Port Quincy, it’s a problem she can’t afford–literally. Abound with stray cats, peeling wallpaper, and nosy neighbors, Mallory is dying to sell it off–once she finally fixes up both the place and her messy life. . .
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(A Wedding Planner Mysteries)
Ties That Bind
by Sarah A. Denzil
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A collection of addictive, emotional thrillers exploring the dark side of motherhood.
In My Perfect Daughter, Zoe didn’t meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened for Maddie’s safety, she picks her up and takes her back to her father, not knowing what she’s about to step into. Because Maddie wasn’t just lost, she was there to lure her serial killer dad’s new victim.
In Little One, Fran reunites a lost child with her family. But why does little Esther keep running away? Fran worries for the girl’s safety and not long later, the entire family disappears…
In Silent Child, Emma watched helplessly as her six-year-old son’s red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. But Aiden’s body was never recovered. Ten years later, he stumbles out of the woods alone… and silent…
Devolution
by Max Brooks
Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing – and too earth-shattering in its implications – to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death.
Metropolis
by Philip Kerr
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.
In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It’s almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.
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(A Bernie Gunther Mysteries)
Perish
by Lisa Black
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner always follows the rules. Detective Jack Renner doesn’t believe in them . . .
In a mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman’s body lies in a pool of blood. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. To crack the case, Maggie and Jack will have to infiltrate the cutthroat world of high-stakes finance. But every employee at Sterling Financial is hellbent on making a killing.
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(A Gardiner and Renner Mysteries)
Korian: The Manian’s Spear
by Giorgio Garofalo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A stunning blend of mysticism, myth, nature, and adventure.
We all have a dark side. His destroys worlds.
Endura is a wondrous world full of mystery and magic. Its citizens – humans and firstlings, a docile humanoid species – are just as wondrous, having no propensity in their nature for hatred, malice, and wrath. In the early new age, a human boy is drawn to a mysterious eight-foot, rectangular-shaped metal object in the desert.
Centuries later, an ancient evil emerges from Endura’s underbelly, unleashing a sea of animated corpses, slaves to a shadowy dark figure wielding power over darkness. Two events separated temporally and spatially, but linked, plunge Endura into a dark fate. The vulnerable races, with no capacity for conflict and violence, have no way to resist such wickedness.
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(Korian: Ark of the Fallen King Mysteries)
The Reef
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tate Beaumont has a passion for treasure-hunting. Over the years, she and her father have uncovered many fabulous riches, but one treasure has always eluded them: Angelique’s Curse – a jeweled amulet heavy with history, dark with legend, and tainted with blood. In order to find this precious artifact, the Beaumonts reluctantly form a partnership with salvagers Buck and Matthew Lassiter.
As the Beaumonts and Lassiters pool their resources to locate Angelique’s Curse, the Caribbean waters darken with shadowy deceptions and hidden threats. Their partnership is placed in jeopardy when Matthew refuses to share information – including the truth behind his father’s mysterious death.
Reprisal
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Samuel stood and left the chapel, pushing the door open as another bleeding outlaw was dragged inside.
Samuel Lake isn’t much of a people person. A reformed outlaw, he’d rather leave his guns and his past behind him. Nowadays he’s happy just minding his saloon and keeping out of trouble. Until he meets Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Stanford was left for dead when rustler William Decker attacked her ranch. She survived … barely. Now, she wants justice and she’s finally found the man who can get it for her.