Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Crypt Suzette
by Maya Corrigan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After winning the costume contest at the Halloween-themed bookstore party, Suzette is mowed down by a hit-and-run driver – and Val and her grandfather start to wonder whether it was really an accident or if someone was after Suzette. Granddad is a little distracted by his new enterprise as a ghost-buster, but as Val talks to Suzette’s coworkers and fellow creative writing students, she grows more convinced that the dead woman’s demons weren’t imaginary—and that she needs to rip the mask off a killer …
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A Fire in the Night
by Christopher Swann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nick Anthony has retreated to the North Carolina mountains to mourn the untimely death of his wife. Once a popular professor, Nick just wants to be left alone with his grief. But when his estranged brother and sister-in-law die in a house fire, a stunned Nick learns he has a niece, Annalise, who is missing.
At the scene of the crime, the men who set the fire have realized Annalise, and the information they are looking for, got away. Feverish and exhausted, she stumbles onto her uncle’s porch, throwing Nick into the middle of the mystery of her parents’ death and the dangerous criminals hunting her down.
Midlife Psychic
by Carolyn Arnold
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hot flashes in my forties? Expected. Waking up psychic? Not in my wildest dreams.
My name is Erin Stone. I’m forty-three with a daughter away at college and a successful career as a communications officer with the 911 dispatch center for the Toronto Police Service. My life had just returned to a new normal after my divorce and everything was going along smoothly. Then BOOM! Turns out the universe had other plans for me.
I dreamed of a plane crash—only it wasn’t just a dream. The crash happened in real life. Eighty-three dead. A vision, plain and simple. Not exactly. My family certainly wouldn’t understand. And me…psychic? I’d dabbled in new-age spirituality in the past but never plunged into the deep end. Now I’m in over my head.
Dust
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.
The Lawless Land
by Boyd Morrison
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Live by the sword. Die for the truth.
England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves.
But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them.
12th of Never
by James Patterson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor-while two killers are on the loose.
Lindsay Boxer’s beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she’s ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he’s convinced is real. Lindsay doesn’t believe him, but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor’s description to the last detail.
A Pinch of Poison
by Alyssa Maxwell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
To learn the truth, Joe must hide his identity and join the Jensen Gang. But once he’s in, there’s no guarantee he can get back out.
For months Grady Jensen has been terrorizing Hell’s End. No one has been able to stop the gang, and Joe Noble is determined to find out why.
Corruption
This word is nothing new to this town, but until Jensen took his eye and left him for dead, Joe never realized how far it extended. The sheriffs. The marshals. The Pinkertons. Everyone is in on it.
There’s only one man he trusts, and his plan is good, but dangerous. To stop Jensen, he must assume a new identity and join their gang. He’s no longer Joe Noble. Now he’s Jack Reaper.