Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Among The Fishes
by Louise Clark
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
The long-promised Jamieson-Armstrong family camping trip takes a pause with news of murder at the local fish farm where the vacationing families recently visited. Even worse, it looks like their campsite neighbor’s brother-in-law, Adam, is the prime suspect in the fish farm Manager’s murder.
Ignoring protests from family, Christy and Sledge, along with Stormy the cat, start asking questions at the mayor’s office and quickly learn of political opposition to the fish farm and form a list of distinguished suspects.
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(The 9 Lives Cozy Mysteries)
Mushroom Murders: Fog Busters Detectives
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 3.9 #ad
When Susan goes into the forest to pick mushrooms for a café in her Scottish village, she gets lost, is threatened by a “monster man,” and finds a dead woman.
The Fog Busters Detective Agency, friends who prove that age is a number, not a malady, spring into action to solve the mystery. Alec is nearly blind, John and Peg are essentially deaf, Morag is on a crutch, and Rory and Susan – at sixty – are the youngest members of the group. Determining the “whodunit” seems impossible when Rory vanishes.
Further complicating the investigation for the amateur detectives, unexpected suitors materialize to pursue Susan and Rory, farm animals get mixed into the melee, and an attempt is made to purloin Rory’s want-to-be girlfriend out a window while she’s sleeping in Susan’s bedroom.
Tom Clancy Enemy Contact
by Mike Maden
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Ryan, Jr.’s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this blistering entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
The CIA’s deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn’t know who, how or why.
Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail dead ends in a harrowing fight from which he barely escapes with his life.
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(A Jack Ryan Jr. Mysteries)
The Cursebound Thief
by Megan O’Russell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The world wants a hero. The curse needs a thief.
The party of the decade stands between Jerek Holden and saving the people he would do anything to protect. After twelve years, he’s finally found a way to break the curse that ripped all magic from the world and destroyed the peace that took generations to build. All he needs is one, simple artifact. But he can’t steal the heliostone alone.
A girl with a soul of fire. A vampire bound by a vow. A werewolf bent on revenge. A knight torn between honor and duty. A hacker to keep them all alive.
The Void
by J.D. Horn
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An otherworldly energy runs through the city of Savannah, betraying its sleepy, moss-cradled charm. The old, beguiling streets look welcoming to most…but certain families know what lurks under their genteel surfaces. Families like Mercy Taylor’s, which has the most powerful lineage of witches in the South, know this all too well.
Mercy and her husband, Peter, are happily preparing to welcome baby Colin into their lives. But their excitement quickly becomes overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: someone has scattered severed limbs throughout the city. After a troubling visit from an old foe, Mercy learns dark magic is at play, and someone – or something – wants her and her unborn child out of the picture.
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(Witching Savannah Mysteries)
Night Vipers Box Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Farrell Donovan heads up the newly expanded Night Vipers Squad, Harley riders against violent crime. Follow Farrell and his team as they work in conjunction with the Blackmore Agency to bring criminals to justice in the State of Texas.
A Tangled Web
by Leslie Rule
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone. Cari’s boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, accepted the breakup at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, had doubts. “I need to hear your voice,” Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing.
While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police believed Dave and his girlfriend, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, when they reported that the missing woman was cyberstalking them.
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Leaving New York on a night flight to Germany, the quiet, thoughtful Tom, and feisty, emotional Melly, are apprehensive about life in a foreign land. While they will attend the American high school in Würzburg, brother and sister realize they are the only stability each has had in their young lives. They also leave behind the sole adult they came to trust, their Aunt Deeny, a librarian who introduced them long ago to a way to cope with life’s ups and downs—reading and books.
In Search of Christian Origins
by J. Steven Paul
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There is the accepted, often-repeated version of Christian history—and then there’s the real story. In this gripping volume, author J. Steven Paul uncovers the little-known details of the world’s largest religion.
How did Christianity originate? Who created its earliest writings? Who decided which books would be in the Bible? Where did the ideas of heaven and hell originate, and when did people begin taking the Bible literally? How did Christianity evolve and fracture into the many forms it takes today? From fascinating background on its central tenets to curious details that have been largely swept under the rug, this comprehensive overview traces Christianity from ancient practices through its centuries-long rise in popularity, power, influence, and dominance.