Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
PLOTTED IN CORNWALL
by JANIE BOLITHO
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rose Trevelyan is making quite a name for herself as an artist. After the success of her solo exhibition, she is commissioned to paint the portraits of two sisters in a remote farmhouse on Bodmin Moor.
But there’s something curious about the sisters . . .
With no partners or children between them, the sisters are on their own. They want their portraits painted ‘just for fun’, as there will be no one left to remember them when they’re gone.
The Persuasion
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy Seal Joe Quinn are about to give Seth Caleb their trust for the most important duty of his life: keeping their daughter, Jane, safe at any cost. Her talent as an artist has caught the attention of a brilliant psychopath with a violent past.
Seth, Jane’s strongest ally and fiercest protector, is determined to keep her out of danger, but that becomes nearly impossible when Jane is forced to take matters into her own hands and confronts the madman who wants her for himself . . . and wants Seth Caleb dead.
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shelby McKinney thought she had it all…a great marriage, three wonderful children and a beautiful house in Summerville, South Carolina. On the surface, everything appeared near-perfect until her beloved grandfather, Luther Mellon, died and purposely left her out of his will in order to get her full, undivided attention.
Everything quickly crumbles, rendering Shelby completely inconsolable, until she mysteriously hears from her late-grandfather, Luther Mellon, from the grave. In this hand-written letter, he informs his granddaughter that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
From the Shadows
by James R. Benn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Southern France, 1944: Ex-Boston cop and wartime military investigator Billy Boyle is given a dangerous assignment—to extract a British Special Operations Executive officer from Crete and take him to France to serve on a security detail to identify fascist sympathizers. The mission gets even more complicated when Billy realizes how many enemies the officer he must protect has accrued. In the aftermath of the failed, and costly, Vercors uprising, tensions among Resistance groups are running high, and the mission turns far deadlier than expected.
The Lying Room
by Nicci French
Rating: 4.1 #ad
One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.
In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence.
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.
Queen’s Bounty
by Fiona Buckley
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I Ursula helped foil a few months previously.
Ursula dismisses the countess’s letter as idle threats, but then a series of strange events rocks Ursula’s household—and Ursula herself is accused of witchcraft. Could Anne Percy really be orchestrating a plot against Ursula from her exile in the Netherlands? And, if so, how can Ursula prove it before she is hanged as a witch?
Grave Descend
by Michael Crichton
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it.
For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it’s his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story. How did the ship really sink? What was its cargo? And why is this whole project starting to feel like a suicide mission?
Song of the Pearl and Oyster
by Patty Duffy
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nora is a surprise guest at her mother’s 75th birthday party, and she’s not sure her mother will be happy about it. Nora was sent away from home when she was six years old. Song of the Pearl and Oyster is based on real events following three generations of women. Beginning in 1938 with a Japanese pearl diver and a dream, the narrative charts a path to America’s internment camps, post-war change, and the journey of a lonely, young girl. When young Nora overhears her grandmother speaking bitterly about her Japanese father in California, she makes a decision. She’ll leave the woman’s sharp-tongued abuse and run away to find him with only their shared last name to guide her. Nora dreams that her violin will help her find a place in a culture that has no place for her.