Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Rocks
by Karen MacInerney
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Innkeeper Natalie Barnes has traded in Texas heat for Maine’s tangy salt air and risked her life savings on the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on bucolic Cranberry Island. She loves her new life of picking blueberries, watching the lobster boats putter around the island, and whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests… until Bernard Katz checks in.
The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door… right on top of a colony of endangered black-chinned terns. Worried about the birds–not to mention the sweet little town and the Gray Whale Inn’s survival–Natalie speaks out at the town meeting, letting the whole island know what she thinks of the entitled developer.
Sleeping Beauties
by Stephen King, Owen King
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious “Eve Black,” is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?
Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanted to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies.
The Wrong Bones
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Deputy Tessa Black spots a man disturbing a grave in the local cemetery and gives chase. But when Tessa catches him, she learns that the ghoulish trespasser wasn’t robbing graves; he was burying a box of bones.
With the help of her fiancé, park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa discovers that the remains belong to a missing teenager from a nearby island. After the girl disappeared nine months ago, police labeled her a runaway. Now, though, it’s clear the teenager was murdered.
You Can Hide
by Rebecca Zanetti
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What do you do when a sociopath loves you? Rising star FBI profiler Laurel Snow is about to find out …
Calling Laurel Snow’s relationship with her newly discovered half-sister challenging is an understatement. Not only does Laurel suspect Abigail is behind the mysterious disappearance of their father, but her erratic behavior also makes life in Laurel’s small hometown interesting, to say the least. Still, when Abigail claims someone is now out to kill her, Laurel’s instinct to protect her sister goes into overdrive. Then things get even more dicey as dead bodies start turning up in the icy waters of the Sauk River and there’s only one connection among them: Abigail . . .
The Lost Song of Paris
by Sarah Steele
Rating: 4.7 #ad
1941 Darkness descends over London as the sirens begin to howl and the bombs rain down. Devastation seeps from every crack of the city. In the midst of all the chaos is a woman gripping a window ledge on the first floor of a Baker Street hotel. She is perched, ready to jump. And as flames rise around her, she is forced to take her chances.
1997 Amy Novak has lost the two great loves in her life: her husband, Michael, and her first love, music. With the first anniversary of Michael’s death approaching, Amy buries herself in her job as an archivist. And when a newly declassified file lands on her desk, she is astonished to uncover proof that ‘Agent Colette’ existed – a name spoken only in whispers; an identity so secret that it has never been verified.
Path of a Novice
by R.K. Lander
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A fearless young warrior elf with a shrouded past. An implacable traitor to the throne. The path towards a destiny only a god foresaw.
A young immortal embarks on his first patrol as a Silvan novice warrior. As he learns to survive in a land plagued with Deviants and Sand Lords, unknown allies strive to protect him from dangers he has yet to understand.
As he enters the Deep Forest for the first time, the Silvan puts his martial skills to the test. But things don’t go quite the way he planned when an arcane power begins to emerge.
Don’t Open the Door
by Allison Brennan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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A family torn apart. A botched investigation. She’ll stop at nothing to get answers.
US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI’s theory that her ten-year-old son’s murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she’d had to walk away from the marshals, the case and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase’s death.
After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase’s murder, she can no longer stay away from her pain-filled past. Especially when Tommy’s murdered before she can return his call.