Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Sip & Save Club Murders
by Mary Maxwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Deliveries are a frequent occurrence at Sky High Pies in Crescent Creek, Colorado. The continuous flow of items includes fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, dairy products and paper goods. But when a mysterious package appears one morning at the bakery-café, it leads to questions, confusion and—within a matter of hours—a pair of homicides that confound the local authorities.
Since Sky High is her family’s business and Kate Reed is a former private investigator, the police recruit her to help find the killer. As she searches for evidence and suspects, Kate discovers that the strange delivery is connected to a long-ago financial scandal as well as allegations of bribery and judicial corruption.
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Eight Miles High
by D. B. Borton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
World War II veteran pilot Toots Magruder survived sabotage, criminal negligence, slander, and friendly fire during the war before crash landing her plane in the middle of a suburban Fourth of July picnic. But two of her former WASP cohorts have recently died and now she appears to be next on the killer’s hit list.
Can detective Cat Caliban and her partner Moses Fogg catch the murderer before another plane goes down? Can Cat survive two plane rides, a parachute jump, and a round of golf?
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(The Cat Caliban Mysteries Mysteries)
Night Chills
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“An early D. Koontz work. Listed as re-issued in the 80’s, the copyright is actually ©1976. Going back that far was very entertaining, since I had never read this one. The novel is clearly written in a different, more descriptive way, clearly showing his evolution in style. I miss the more basic style evident in this book.
The plot revolves around subliminal mind control, which has been done before. It hasn’t been done this well.
A bit of caution. There is graphic violence and language throughout. If you feel that a turnoff, you may want to pass on this; if you don’t mind it, the novel is an earlier written winner.” by Amazon Customer
Laser Trap
by Frank DiBianca
Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you can’t invent it, steal it!
Engineering grad student Dan Butler discovers an unorthodox way to produce lasers of unprecedented power. When the malevolent bosses at StarWay Labs, who sell weapons to the international underworld, discover this, they kidnap Dan and demand he replicate his work in their secret lab.
Dan’s fellow grad student, Lana Madison, who Dan had hired to help him find a girlfriend, is alarmed at his disappearance. She forms a high-tech team with four of their friends to help the authorities rescue Dan. They make remarkable breakthroughs in tracking down his whereabouts while the criminal cadre at StarWay pushes Dan close to his breaking point.
The Rogue Queen
by Emily R. King
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the explosive third volume of The Hundredth Queen Series, the queen of fire faces off against a demon of ice.
Despite the odds, Kalinda has survived it all: Marriage to a tyrant. Tournaments to the death. The forbidden power to rule fire. The icy touch of a demon.
That same demon now disguises itself as Rajah Tarek, Kalinda’s late husband and a man who has never stopped haunting her. Upon taking control of the palace and the army, the demon brands Kalinda and her companions as traitors to the empire. They flee across the sea, seeking haven in the Southern Isles.
APOCALYPSE ONLINE
by Robyn Wideman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At first everyone thought it was a game…
But aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer.
Brad and Sam are gamers and when they started playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online they had no idea that the game was a preview of reality! With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, our heroes will have a chance to survive the apocalypse. They just have to survive, level up and find other survivors.
Jake is no gamer. But when he finds out aliens have arrived, he’ll do anything to protect his little sister Sam.
Will they be able to grow strong enough for the second wave or will they become alien plant food?
Carrie
by David Culp
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Carrie Larsen spent the early ‘60s searching in the counterculture of the Great American West.
Until she got tired.
In the Spring of 1967 she came home to her parents’ now-empty nest in Ohio, maybe just for a visit. It was where she’d been raised by her loving family as a small-town girl.
She calls herself “a Buddhist, not a Romantic.”
Carrie loves her parents as long as they last, though she resists her mother’s hopes that she get married and have children, not necessarily in that order. When not busy at the Veterinary Clinic on Main Street, Carrie spends a lot of time balancing her enthusiasm for sex, drugs, and rock and roll with compassion, a sense of justice, and hours of playing J.S. Bach on her mother’s Concert Grand Piano.