Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Siena
by T A Williams
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A lazy weekend in the country… Dan Armstrong and the new love of his life, Anna, are heading to a hotel deep in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside for a long weekend, looking forward to some time away from the stresses of their day jobs. With the beautiful and historic city of Siena just around the corner, it promises to be relaxing and enjoyable. What could possibly go wrong?
A mutilated body… But when a mutilated body is discovered in the hotel grounds Dan is called in to help with the investigation. But who or what could have been responsible for such a vicious attack? Was it the work of wild animals, or is there a brutal murderer at large? A killer who cried wolf?
Special Agent Isabella
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Governor Stacy Bolden fears how the world can survive so much dysfunction.
When Tanner chooses to partner with Special Agent Isabella, she’s totally bummed. Desperately needing some downtime, she sure-as-he…ck doesn’t want to spend it with him. He’d been the bane of her teenage existence, and now, because of his demands, her boss is forcing her to work with him to protect a child.
How the hell could she do that when little people scared her silly? She’d rather face a drugged-up sicko with a loaded handgun and frequently has.
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Ben and the Witch
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sigrid Cadwell possesses a rare talent for herbal remedies and healing, but her abilities are misunderstood by the superstitious townsfolk. Gossips start to spread like wildfire, and soon enough, everybody begins to think that Sigrid is a witch.
Eventually the gossips reach the ears of a nearby Indian tribe. And once Sigrid flees her own town, the Indians pursue her. The tribe will not stop until they get hold of the witch. But for what?
Sigrid is prepared to face an onslaught, for which she will defy with her life… until she crosses path with gunslinger Benjamin Sterling.
The Flash Girls
by J.M. Cannon
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Charleston, South Carolina.
Years ago, three teenage girls vanished under similar circumstances. While alone outside at night, they saw a camera flash burst from the dark. A man standing in the shadows took their picture.
In the days following they’re stalked. They hear noises in their bedrooms. Find boot prints in the flower beds outside their windows. Not long after, the girls vanish…
Falling Darkness
by Karen Harper
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Forensic psychologist Claire Britten finds herself at the mercy of a treacherous sea in the third nail-biting South Shores novel.
Claire Britten’s training never prepared her for this—the forensic psychology curriculum didn’t cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter—and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
Shards of Earth
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man’s discovery will save or destroy us all.
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete…
The Lewis Trilogy
by Peter May
Rating: 4.5 #ad
‘Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth’ New York Times
The isle of Lewis is a land of strange beauty, harsh living and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
Detective Inspector Fin Macleod returns from Edinburgh to the island of his childhood to investigate a series of brutal killings. As old memories resurface and old friends reappear, Fin realizes that returning to the past will lead him into danger.
Hard to Be a God
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.
It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play?