Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cast of Falcons
by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Dr Nell Ward is delighted when her childhood friend Percy announces she’s engaged to handsome businessman Hawke McAnstruther – and rashly offers to host the wedding at Finchmere, her family’s estate. But she hadn’t anticipated Percy’s parents’ fiery disapproval of the groom.
The ceremony is barely over before Hawke’s shady personal and professional life starts to unravel, and tension ripples through the assembled guests. When the wedding night ends with a shocking death, Nell, best-friend Rav and DI James Clarke all find themselves embroiled in a murder mystery worthy of Agatha Christie.
The Big Con
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Felicity Lomax has no idea that Alistair Morgan is a conman. Now she’s staring at bankruptcy and stands to lose her business, her house, and her self-esteem. Breaking hearts and destroying lives means nothing to Alistair.
All that matters is the euphoric sensation that courses through him after he’s scammed another victim out of their hard-earned cash.
When Felicity begs Josh Kennelly for help to recover her money, he doesn’t have a clue about how he’s going to outwit the conman.
Cat Among the Pigeons
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress—shot through the heart point-blank.
The school is thrown into chaos when the “cat” strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim.…
Resolute
by Jack Campbell
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Admiral John “Black Jack” Geary must battle dangers both within and without the Alliance, in this exciting continuation of the New York Times bestselling series.
Geary knows that some political factions in the Alliance were just trying to get rid of him when he was assigned to escort a diplomatic and scientific mission to the far reaches of humanity’s expansion into the galaxy . . . and beyond. But he views his mission as both a duty and an opportunity to make things better wherever he can. And when a crippled Rift Federation ship tumbles out of jump space, Geary leaps into action. But the survivors’ story isn’t completely adding up.
Russia: Revolution and Civil War
by Antony Beevor
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century.
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror, which in turn led to ever greater cruelty with man’s inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while contingents from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia played rival parts.
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
Doyle & Braham in
by Chad Miller
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Perfect for fans of old-school horror classics like Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Chad Miller’s The Prisoner of Fear is an evocative, unpredictable, and disturbing horror mystery with a supernatural twist that will keep you wide awake long after you have closed the book.
It is 1889 in Philadelphia, and detective John Doyle is restless. Along with his miserable partner, Thomas Braham, Doyle pursues mysteries, strange sightings, and other obscurities tossed aside and disregarded by the police. For years, Doyle has taken on these cases in the hopes of discovering something supernatural – something that could upend and dispute his long-standing, debilitating fear that immortal souls do not exist.
Hampshire Stories
by Joe Giampaolo
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Collection of Tales Set in 19th-Century England
- Gold Medal, Literary Titan 2020 Book Awards
- Bronze Medal, Historical Romance, 2022 Global Book Awards
- An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller (USA, Canada and Italy, in several categories)
“Mr. Giampaolo has a clear grasp of painting a story within your mind with his carefully curated words… His writing conveys an old-world charm, an uncontrived elegance wherein he is very much in control of the tone and style of his writing… Overall, this regency romance novel is elegant, meticulously crafted and an absolute joy to read. I consider it a rare jewel in its genre.” – Mary-Lisa Russo, Author of Excerpts from the Wandering Mind, 2021