Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Greene Murder Case
by S.S. Van Dine
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age” featuring amateur sleuth Philo Vance – from the author of The Canary Murder Case (Bloody Murder).
Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance—the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth—uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not before most of the Greene family has been bumped off. But that’s Our Philo: The Sleuth You Love to Hate.
The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown.
In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie.
Bridge Home
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Following the tragic death of Egan Firewalker Quartz after only a short marriage, Texas Miz Mike’s stepdaughter, Flame, blindsides her with a vacation in Scotland—as well as an extremely unexpected boyfriend! The vacation turns chaotic when Mike finds a body while out walking—and minding her own business, of course!
Mike discovers the victim is connected to her former fiancé, Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland. An eyewitness claims to have seen Evan running from the murder scene. Evan is arrested for murder, partly because he had refused to hold a same-sex marriage ceremony in his church. That action created an uproar in his parish after the murder victim fought her case in the newspapers. While Mike attempts to prove his innocence, she’s arrested on a false charge.
Mantle and Key Complete Series
by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Half-troll. Half-human. All badass.
Maine doesn’t like her father. It doesn’t help that he’s a troll. As in a literal, lives-under-a-bridge troll.
When her father is killed, Maine returns home to settle his estate and learns that he wasn’t any ordinary troll, but the town hero. And since she’s inherited his Mantle, assassins are now gunning for her.
Grab this complete series boxed set and find out if Maine can uncover the truth about her father and answers to other supernatural mysteries.
Briggleton’s Choir
by Kelsie Deschenes
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The age-old German-chasing-the-Jew tale takes a different turn in this book as the conflicts of World War II are seen through the eyes of a Nazi’s young adolescent son.
To Alfonso, it’s confusing that while he gets in trouble for bullying at school, his father then turns around and becomes a hero for shooting a group of Jews. While General Adelric sits in the seat of respect, he sends his son to a boys’ boarding school that specializes in teaching morals. Knowing nothing besides walking in his father’s footsteps, Alfonso continues to be the school bully and gets into more trouble. Then one day, he meets someone who has many things he lacks-confidence, a joy in life, faith, and an incredible voice…
How will he handle the numerous life-changing conflicts coming his way, including the fact that his new friend is a Jew wanted by the Nazis? Will Alfonso be able to stand up for what’s right for the first time in his life? Will he find his voice?
What Goes On In The Walls At Night
by Andrew Schrader
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Winner: 2018 Red City Review Book Award (Fantasy)
Featured on the Reddit No Sleep Podcast, What Goes On in the Walls at Night is a twisted and shocking collection of tales from the borders of reality.
Satisfy your craving for the odd and unexpected with stories of building-eating children, pants-grabbing TSA agents, and nature-devouring machines. Sit back, strap in, and let this powerful collection of interesting and other-worldly adventures take you away.
The Liar’s Girl
by Catherine Ryan Howard
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A very satisfying and twisty tale.” – Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Her first love confessed to five murders … but the truth was so much worse.
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College—and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
A Hussar’s Promise
by Griffin Brady
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Betrayal and war. Can love survive?
Betrayed by the lord he has served since boyhood, Jacek Dąbrowski, a captain of winged hussars, has just been exiled to a remote fortress along the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s southeastern border—a dangerous no man’s land where reviled Tatar raiders constantly hunt for fresh slaves to satisfy the Ottoman Empire’s insatiable appetites.
But Jacek’s lord, Eryk Krezowski of Biaska, has taken far more—he has also taken Jacek’s only love, Oliwia, for himself. Determined to forget Oliwia and Eryk, Jacek grinds out a new life in the war zone that is now his home. When tragedy strikes and he is called back, he cannot refuse and must once again confront those who have betrayed him.
Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye Part Two: The Aftermath
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
On a cold, blustery, snowy Saturday in late November, more than 111,000 people were crammed inside Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch the Michigan Wolverines play the Ohio State Buckeyes. It was a heated college football rivalry that had spanned more than a century.
No one inside the stadium was prepared for what would soon unfold. As the football was kicked into the snow-filled sky to start the game, long-foretold Bible prophecy came to pass right before their very eyes, causing many to suddenly vanish into thin air. Players disappeared! Coaches disappeared! Members of the media disappeared! Members of both marching bands disappeared! Cheerleaders disappeared, along with many fans in the stands…