Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Clutch of Eggs
by Debbie Young
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Young Tommy’s new passion for wild birds’ eggs causes him to put the village of Wendlebury Barrow on the map for all the wrong reasons. In the company of her kitten, a sausage dog, and a handsome stranger keen on birdwatching, Sophie Sayers tries to create order out of chaos, without driving her bookseller boyfriend Hector away.
This gentle, quick read (about 30% the length of a Sophie Sayers novel) includes your favourite characters from the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries and also introduces engaging new characters, from a lonely old widow to a trio of birdwatching brothers – not forgetting cute sausage dog Bunty!
Blood Song
by Johana Gustawsson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
‘Historical sections highlight, in distressing detail, the atrocious treatment of mothers-to-be in Franco’s Spain … A satisfying, full-fat mystery’ The Times
Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, AliÉnor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre.
The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary’s Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town’s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret — a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
A Breath After Drowning
by Alice Blanchard
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The stunning new psychological thriller from the award-winning author of Darkness Peering and The Breathtaker.
Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe’s world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate’s past, things she shouldn’t know, forcing Kate to face the murky evidence surrounding her own sister’s murder sixteen years before, bringing Kate face to face with her deepest fear.
Veil of Night
by Linda Howard
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, yet the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed. Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there’s too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, now a prime suspect, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie’s death.
Unreal Complete Series Boxed Set
by Cindy Gunderson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Channel is Unreal. Mila is Real. Two communities. One technological power play.
A conflict primed to ignite.
When Mila’s and Channel’s paths collide, they are torn between the worlds they thought they knew and a mind-bending, brazen reality they could never have imagined. Will they risk it all to understand what it truly means to be Real?
Grab this complete series boxed set to find out what is real.
The Bonds of Brotherhood
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure
Pat Bond went through hell after his parents were killed. His sister and uncle did their best, but he hated everyone and everything. Including himself. So he ran as far away as he could get. When he met Skeeter and Fox, his life changed for the better. They weren’t brothers by blood, but they were brothers just the same.
77 Shadow Street
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder – and whispers of things far worse – that have scarred its grandeur almost from the beginning.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths.