Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Bake Sale Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone’s farmhouse, life hasn’t been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy’s lawn to another neighbor’s lovable dog, quaint Tinker’s Cove, Maine, is now entangled in cul-de-sac politics and backstabbing. And when Mimi doesn’t show up for her shift at The Hat and Mitten Fund bake sale, the scent of burnt sugar leads Lucy to a shocking discovery: Mimi, face down on her kitchen floor—with a knife in her back.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
Dead Lake
by Miranda Kate
Rating: 4.8 #ad
After a massive shift of the tectonic plates decimated the world and its population, life on the remaining landmass has returned to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.
Sometimes it pays to be tricky
Damn and blast! That rancid piece of excrement, Carter, has had her ransacked out of Clancy!
Tricky returns to her cottage to find it turned upside down. An action that means she’s got three days to leave the district or face punishment. Randolf Carter, head of the district, is spreading lies and suspicion about her kind, making life difficult. But it wasn’t just an ordinary ransacking – they were searching for something…
Silent Scream
by Lynda La Plante
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Film star Amanda Delany has the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she has had a string of affairs with the hottest actors around. Then, coming home late from a night shoot, Amanda puts the key in her front door for the very last time. The next morning, Amanda’s body is found, stabbed many times, only her beautiful face left unharmed.
DI Anna Travis is ordered to the team assigned to the Delany murder, headed by Anna’s former lover, the demanding DCI James Langton. Anna is shocked by the truth behind Amanda’s public image: her addictions to drugs and starvation diets; her cold, unemotional parents; her elusive film agent; and the former lovers so quick to distance themselves. But Anna has challenges of her own to overcome too. Promotion to Chief Inspector is within her grasp, but when the time comes for her to stand before the board, she faces a shocking accusation of personal misconduct.
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(Anna Travis Mysteries)
Ski Weekend
by Rektok Ross
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Six teens, one dog, a ski trip gone wrong . . .
Sam is dreading senior ski weekend and having to watch after her brother and his best friend, Gavin, to make sure they don’t do anything stupid. Again. Gavin may be gorgeous, but he and Sam have never gotten along. Now they’re crammed into an SUV with three other classmates and Gavin’s dog, heading on a road trip that can’t go by fast enough.
Then their SUV crashes into a snowbank, and Sam and her friends find themselves stranded in the mountains with cell phone coverage long gone and temperatures dropping. When the group gets sick of waiting for rescue, they venture outside to find help—only to have a wilderness accident leave Sam’s brother with a smashed leg and, soon, a raging fever.
The Observer Effect
by Nick Jones
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Time calls the shots.
Unwitting time traveler Joseph Bridgeman is adjusting to life in the present and wondering if his traveling days are behind him. But when he’s contacted by the Continuum, an organized group of time travelers based in the future, he learns his career is just getting started.
The Continuum needs Joe’s help. One of their operatives is missing, last seen in nineteenth-century Paris and they believe Joe’s ability to see the past might be the only way to find him. Teamed up with Gabrielle Green, an acerbic, wisecracking traveler, Joe heads back to 1873 on his most dangerous mission yet, one that will take him deep inside a burning opera house.
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(The Joseph Bridgeman Mysteries)
The Collective
by Alison Gaylin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Camille Gardener is a grieving – and angry – mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible.
When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women – the collective – Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via precise, anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings.
Love At War
by Alan Hardy
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1940. World War Two. Germany is on the rampage. The Battle of Britain is at its height. The Royal Air Force is all that stands between England and invasion. Jennie is a young woman from the Welsh valleys. Petite. Slender. Quite plain. Teeth a bit too big. Mouth too wide. She’s quite willing to admit it. She gives herself no airs or graces. She finds herself one evening in a London night-club. Who should she meet but Malcolm, looking gorgeously resplendent in his iconic RAF blue-grey uniform? She is shocked. Scared. Angry. And excited.
You see, there’s a history between the two of them, stretching back three years. He seeks her out. He asks for her help. Can she turn him down? Can she forgive him, and forget his despicable behavior? Has he changed? Or is he that same arrogant, inconsiderate man who treated her like dirt?