Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Gavels, Tinsel and Murder
by Victoria Tait
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A charity ball. A dead guest. Can an amateur sleuth solve the case or will it ruin Christmas for ever?
Aspiring antiques expert, Dotty Sayers, is excited about organising a ball in a Cotswold country house. When a lecture on modern art leads to a kiss under the mistletoe she thinks all her Christmases have come at once. But her festive cheer turns sour when a partygoer is found dead on the dance floor.
The police ask Dotty to help wrap up the case of a stolen painting, but as the search continues she becomes entangled in the murder investigation. When this amateur detective realises the culprit could be a close friend, will she face the Yuletide music?
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(A Dotty Sayers Antique Mysteries)
Bright Eternity
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What if you could cheat death? How much would you pay for fifty more years of life? How much would you pay for eternity?
NewEden Life Sciences promises that its revolutionary scientific breakthroughs can add decades of prime years to its clients’ lifespans. What’s more, their research team is relentlessly pursuing an even bigger goal—redesigning the human species to conquer death forever. Clients who have graduated from the NewEden program are ecstatic, but their families are worried about changes they see in their loved ones.
Enter Carmen Norrell, a gutsy journalist and nature photographer who decides to infiltrate the program and uncover its secrets. Carmen has never backed down from a challenge, but she fears that NewEden’s charismatic leaders may present a different kind of danger than she’s ever faced before.
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(The Brightness Trilogy)
Vendetta
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blockbuster bestselling author Iris Johansen brings back fan favorite Catherine Ling—and introduces readers to a whole new world of danger, intrigue, and red-hot passion with Vendetta.
With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon’s final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber—the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.
Brandon and Catherine Ling, Rachel’s longtime ally and fierce protector, are determined to keep Rachel out of danger, but she knows that it’s impossible to stay hidden when Max Huber wants you dead.
Cape Grace
by Nathan Lowell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Son of the shaman is a shaman. But what of the daughters?
When Otto Krugg’s daughter follows in his footsteps,, he’s faced with the task of changing a century long rule that will force her to make decisions no one should have to make.
When Jimmy Pirano gets tasked with enforcing that rule – no matter what – he goes down the rabbit hole to try to find out who established the rule. And why they can’t let it go.
Live to Tell
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide.
On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.
The Secret Family
by SL Harker
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Peter’s world shatters when his beloved wife, Stella, is ripped away from him in a sudden hiking accident. But while he navigates the treacherous landscape of grief, a stranger, Andrew, appears on his doorstep claiming to be Stella’s husband.
Which isn’t possible because he, Stella, and their teenage daughter Katy are the perfect family. Unless it was all a lie. Peter’s worst fears come true as he discovers that Stella had a secret life… a secret family. Including a son, Theo. How is this possible?
A Death in California
by Joan Barthel
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A troubled Los Angeles socialite is both terrorized and tempted by a killer in this “brilliantly written” true story by the author of A Death in Canaan (Ann Rule).
Hope Masters lived in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Beverly Hills—but was entitled to food stamps. Pretty, petite, and privileged, she was recovering from two failed marriages and a string of poor decisions. But when Hope met and fell in love with a handsome advertising executive, she believed her life was finally back on track—until the morning she woke up to find the barrel of a gun in her mouth.
Hope’s fiancé lay dead in the next room. His killer was a new acquaintance who’d been visiting the couple in a remote ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. He claimed to be a journalist, but his real identity was as mysterious as his motivations…
The Wintringham Mystery
by Anthony Berkeley
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Originally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house party. Even better, one of the guests declares that an after-dinner séance would be so much more entertaining than bridge. And it’s all fun and games until a young woman goes missing. Assuming the disappearance is someone’s idea of a joke, the well-heeled host Lady Susan doesn’t want to ruin a good party by calling the police. So it’s up to her footman, a down-on-his-luck young army veteran, along with the lovely lady he once hoped to marry, to solve a mystery that soon turns to murder, with the only suspects being the eccentric party guests . . .
Resurrection Walk
by Michael Connelly
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false.
Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own.
