Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Fishers of Menace
by Wendy Heuvel
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Banford, where townsfolk are family, tea is hot, and murder is inevitable. Cassie Bridgestone’s life is simple. Along with running her country décor shop, she loves to cuddle her cat, sip tea, attend church, and watch birds.
But then, things go awry. First, the handsome but mysterious Daniel opens a bookstore in her building and challenges her to face long-buried feelings about her previous relationship. Then, a friendly fishing tournament turns deadly and her friend is accused of murder, throwing Cassie’s world into a tailspin she might never recover from.
Unless she finds the real killer…
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(Faith and Foils Cozy Mysteries)
Masked Prey
by John Sandford
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups.
It’s obviously alarming–is there an unstable extremist tracking the loved ones of powerful politicians with deadly intent? But when the FBI is called in, there isn’t much the feds can do…
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(A Prey Mysteries)
Arms of Freedom
by Kathleen Neely
Rating: 4.7 #ad
With each page of the age-old journals, Annie discovers all that unites her with a woman who once lived in her farmhouse. One lived with wealth and one with poverty, but both knew captivity. Both longed to be free.
Miriam yearns to escape her life as a super model. She drops the pseudonym and uses the name she gave up years ago—Annie Gentry. Then she alters her appearance and moves to rural South Carolina to care for her grandmother. Can she live a simple life without recognition? Can she hide a net worth valued in the millions? Love is nowhere in her plans until she meets a man who wants nothing more than Annie Gentry and the simple life he lives.
Charlotte lived in the same farmhouse in the tumultuous 1860’s. The Civil War was over, but for a bi-racial girl, freedom remained elusive. She coveted a life where she wouldn’t bring shame to her family. A life where she could make a difference. As she experiences hope, will it be wrested from her?
A Demon In My View
by Ruth Rendell
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Arthur Johnson doesn’t look like a murderous psychopath; he is a mild-mannered man who has never known how to talk to women.
Years of loneliness has warped his mind, turning his desire for a woman’s love and respect into a pathological need for carefully controlled violence. Locked in the cellar of his building is the perfect willing victim, a woman who can be murdered over and over again, a woman who waits for Arthur every night…a mannequin in the form of a female.
But when a young scholar of psychopathic personalities moves in downstairs and Arthur’s mannequin disappears, where will he turn to satisfy his urgent craving for violence?
The Graveyard Shift
by D.M. Guay
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“The Graveyard Shift, from the 24/7 Demon Mart series, is a model of what horror comedy should be. A lovable loser named Lloyd who is amusingly self-aware of his loserdom, a hot goth chick named Dee Dee, a night manager who’s a cockroach, and a host of other characters both human and supernatural battle over a gate to Hell that happens to be in the beer cave of a convenience store. This hilarious novel has a taste of Kafka, a large helping of Christopher Moore, and a whole lotta Lovecraft. Plus tons of pop-culture references. There’s non-stop action, but somehow Ms. Guay peppers every inch with jokes and satire. This book is a blast!” by Amazon Customer
Wolf Hunt
by Joseph Hagen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Werewolves continue to terrorize. When both a witch and a teen are bitten but survive, can witchcraft stop them from succumbing to the effects of the were-serum at the next moon?
Alan lost almost everything in MOONRISE, but the witches’ magic has kept him alive and coping with his were-curse. He seems to be losing the battle until another victim – a witch named Rose – arrives at the Keep. The witches see hope for Alan as they study the magic used in Rose’s taming but become distracted when another pack of werewolves arrive hunting Alan.
Magic has existed for millennia. Will it be enough to save Alan a second time?
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(MOONRISE)
The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm
by Mark Sebastian Jordan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohio who poisoned her family for love.
It was a cold and rainy day in Ohio’s Pleasant Valley in the spring of 1896, one that began like any other for the Rose family. What they didn’t know was that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She’d been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She’d been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She’d heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love.
By the time Ceely was done, her family would be dead and others threatened. Later, the place where these crimes took place became Malabar Farm, the estate of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and conservationist Louis Bromfield.
A Fools Quest To Moon Water
by Gary Diamond
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The year is 1865, the last few weeks of the American Civil War. A Confederate troop steal a consignment of Union gold and attempt to take it across the border to Mexico. They are stopped by the Apache and most of the people, including civilians, from a wagon train are butchered. White captives are taken and the Confederate captain is blindfolded and taken to Moon Water, along with the stolen gold. Somehow the captain escapes; the white captives are not so lucky.
Now in 1866, the American government want their gold back and Conrad Abernathy wants to rescue his daughter and her two children from the legendary Moon Water.
Conrad finances a quest to Moon Water and convinces Ethan Garrett to lead them there. Ethan is not interested in the gold. He has another reason to return to Moon Water.
Playing the Witch’s Game
by Zoe Forward
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pleiades witch Jennifer Marcos is certain that the host of Extreme Survivor is her soulmate. All she has to do is find a fake boyfriend, get on the show, and voila! She’ll have her destiny. Unfortunately, she has to rely on ex-Russian spy Nikolai Jovec’s six-foot-something of gorgeous, infuriating hotness. To make matters worse, the electric attraction between Jen and Nikolai is hotter than ever. But the only way Nikolai can protect Jen is by hiding the identity of her true Destined…him. Even a good witch knows how to play dirty…
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(Keepers of the Veil)
Courting Danger
by Laura Ashwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She headed west looking for adventure. Love was never part of the plan…
Clarissa Ferguson refuses to become a socialite and marry someone just to appease her mother. She craves more out of life. So, when she sees an advertisement for female Pinkerton agents, she jumps at the chance. But nothing could’ve prepared her for her handsome new boss…or how he’d make her feel…
Noah Harding has no interest in romance or marriage. Not ever again. He’s a career man through and through, and he has a murder to investigate. It’s just his unfortunate luck that in order to do so, he must enter into a marriage of convenience with a beautiful new employee who makes him question everything…