Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah’s Jewel
by Simon Brett
Rating: 4.3 #ad
‘A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans’ P. D. James. ‘Murder most enjoyable’ Colin Dexter. Anyone for cricket – and a spot of burglary?
An idle conversation on the merits of the glorious game with an old Etonian chum is just the excuse Blotto needs to put himself forward for a cricket tour to foreign climes… and so begins the next adventure for our intrepid duo, where the action takes them to India where, as everyone knows, the finest cricket players hail from – as well as the world’s most skilled jewel thieves…
The Dowager Duchess has no problems in letting her two children go to the subcontinent as having her beautiful daughter Twinks married off to a massively rich Maharaja offers the Dowager Duchess the prospect of a permanent solution to the cash-draining maintenance of the Tawcester Towers plumbing.
Tools of the Trade
by Bruce Rolfe
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When the remains of Chip Hale’s daughter are uprooted by a summer storm nine years after she went missing, he vows to find her killer. Cold case detectives from The Biggest Little City in the World have investigated her disappearance without success. But when another young woman goes missing, it becomes too much for the blue-collar handyman to handle by himself.
Hard as a titanium pop-rivet, except when it comes to raising his two techno-savvy, wise-cracking teenage granddaughters, Chip relies on the girls’ computer skills and his coworkers’ military and law enforcement backgrounds when looking for the dirtbag who murdered his daughter. Meanwhile the clock is ticking as his vigilante team risks everything by taking the law into their own hands. But will their old-school sleuthing Tools of the Trade be enough?
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(Chip Hale Handyman Mysteries)
Good Girl, Bad Girl
by Michael Robotham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won’t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn’t appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can’t be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children’s home with a new name, Evie Cormac. When she initiates a court case demanding the right to be released as an adult, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must determine if Evie is ready to go free. But she is unlike anyone he’s ever met—fascinating and dangerous in equal measure.
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(Cyrus Haven Mysteries)
Goth Drow Unleashed Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
My name is Cheyenne Summerlin, remember that name. Somebody should…
I’m not Goth to hide my Drow heritage, I’m Goth because I’m not a quitter.
My world is about to be turned upside down by a heritage I am discovering.
Get the first 9 books of the best-selling Goth Drow series with this boxed set to join Cheyenne on her journey to use her Drow heritage and stake her claim in the world!
Cold Fear
by Brandon Webb, John David Mann
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Disgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run. A wanted man since he jumped ship from the USS Abraham Lincoln, he’s sought for questioning in connection to war crimes committed in Yemen by a rogue element in his SEAL team. But his memory of that night—as well as the true fate of his mentor and only friend, Lieutenant Kennedy—is a gaping hole.
Finn learns that three members of his team have been quietly redeployed to Iceland, which is a puzzle in itself; the tiny island nation is famous for being one of the most peaceful, crime-free places on the planet.
Tales of Japan
by Chronicle Books
Rating: 4.8 #ad
This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Yei Theodora Ozaki, these tales are by turns terrifying, exhilarating, and poetic.
• Striking illustrations by contemporary Japanese artist Kotaro Chiba
• Special gift edition features an embossed, textured case with metallic gold ink, and a satin ribbon page marker
• Part of the popular Tales series, featuring Nordic Tales, Celtic Tales, Tales of India, and Tales of East Africa
Kwik Krimes
by Otto Penzler, Albert Ashforth
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Entire novels are often written about a single crime, detailing every gruesome, dark detail until the last drop of blood spatters across the page. Yet in this mystery anthology, renowned editor and author Otto Penzler weaves together to heart-stopping effect more than ninety tales of brutality, terror, and unexpected demise, with each story told in a swift one thousand words or less.
These crimes may be fast in both form and fallout, but none lack the dark impulses that too often guide human hands to ill ends. Prepare to be transported into the diabolical schemes of criminal masterminds…into robberies and pranks gone horribly awry…into closets crammed with skeletons…into families bound not by love but wickedness.