Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bluebonnet Ballerina
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gracie Hofner returns, and chaos reigns—including a couple of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter.
As Gracie dances from problem to problem, she’s unaware the music has been orchestrated into a murderous symphony. When a different melody reaches Gracie’s ears from a guitar played by the new tenant living in her garage apartment, her tension vanishes. She listens unseen, cocooned in the shadows on her patio, and wonders who he’s longing for—and how it would feel for a man to crave her that much.
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(Amazing Gracie Mysteries)
The Body Falls
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bridges Down – Roads Impassable – Killer Trapped
April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is taking place. The town is abuzz with excitement, but it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. The rain doesn’t stop—it becomes relentless, torrential.
In the middle of the night, Police Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto a passing vehicle.
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(An Inishowen Mysteries)
Death Speaks
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Cordelia McNibbs leaves London, England, for the desert town of her childhood, Quartzsite, Arizona. She is prepared to make a decision about the future of the museum that her late aunt, Maybelle Peterson, left her. She is not prepared to solve the 30-year-old murder of Abel, her aunt’s best friend’s son, or to face Dorrie – a shrunken head in the museum that “speaks” and holds a clue to the murderer. She most definitely is not prepared to fall in love all over again with childhood friend Jacy Blackbird.
MB, as the town people affectionately called Cordy’s aunt, has left a directive: Cordy must solve the mystery of Abel’s death and she must not fall in love with Jacy – because he could be the killer.
Puppet Master
by Raoul Michelle
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The only constant is change.
Recently retired, Maurice Marceau hardly has a chance to rest. Not that he wants to. Madeleine, his daughter, a West Point graduate, now an attorney, could use his help, and her request is much too tempting.
Betrayal, a kidnapping, and a terrorist attack are just the beginning. This father-daughter duo will need to learn to work together. In doing so, they travel from Central Pennsylvania to New York, DC, Paris, Shanghai and throughout Turkey.
Ice and Bone
by Monte Francis
Rating: 4.1 #ad
On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, thirty-three-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one of six women, mostly Native Alaskan, slain that year, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. A tanned and thuggish twenty-year-old would eventually implicate himself in three of the women’s deaths and confess, in detail, to Della’s murder. Yet, after a three-month trial, Joshua Wade would walk free. In 2007, when Wade kidnapped a well-loved nurse psychologist from her home and then executed her in the remote wilderness of Wasilla, two astute female detectives joined forces to finally bring him to justice.
Even Dogs in the Wild
by Ian Rankin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rebus comes out of retirement…to save his nemesis.
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She’s investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what was left behind at the scene — an ominous note.
Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues because of his past in the Complaints bureau, he’s been reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance team — one that trusts him even less than his own boss does — track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping Clarke with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel like a real cop.
Dead in the Water
by Hailey Edwards
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave’s golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin.
A routine consultation goes sideways when a victim’s brother gets involved in the investigation. Riding the edge of grief, the warg will go to any lengths to avenge his sister’s death. Even if it means ensuring Cam’s cooperation at the jaws of his wolf.
When the killer strikes again, Cam is caught between a warg and a hard place. To save the next victim, she must embrace her past. Even if it means dragging her darkest secrets into the light of day.
An American in Scotland
by Lucy Connelly
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The small idyllic town of Sea Isle, Scotland, harbors some dark secrets, and Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover all of them – no matter what the diagnosis in this charming cozy, sure to enchant fans of Sheila Connolly and Charlene O’Connor.
Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter as a small-town doctor to the quirky residents who immediately welcomed her. When she stumbles across a dead body, she starts to think that she may not be as Scot free of the drama and intrigue as she initially thought.
