Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Storykeeper
by Daniel A. Smith
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The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando De Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty battle-hardened conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood-plains of eastern Arkansas.
Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition detailed a complex array of twelve different nations. Each had separate beliefs, languages, and interconnected villages with capital towns comparable in size to European cities of the time. Through these densely populated sites, the Spanish carried a host of deadly old-world diseases, a powerful new religion, famines and wars. During this short timeframe, ninety to ninety-five percent of the existing population perished according to current estimations…
Detection
by Lisa Phillips
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BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES.
A boy with no name. Officer River Gaines walks in the footsteps of the cop who rescued him from the ocean and gave him a name—and a family to belong to. River and his K-9 partner, Kutter, work side-by-side finding people in Benson, but the fact he never remembered who he is has become a weight he never let go.
A girl with no future. Search and Rescue handler Tessa Atkins is back from a dark FBI case she volunteered for in Arizona. Tessa and her dog Maverick live in Benson at the SAR training center during the warm Pacific Northwest months. But up in Washington she’s got to contend with her family, and their expectations, while she figures out what’s next.
Evidence of Love
by John Bloom, Jim Atkinson
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Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.
On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.
Taking Eve
by Iris Johansen
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As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan’s mission is to bring closure to the families whose loved ones have vanished. She knows their anguish—her own beloved daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her when Bonnie was just seven years old. It is only recently that this mystery was resolved and Eve could begin her journey to peace.
Now Jim Doane wants the same kind of answers that Eve always longed for. His twenty-five-year-old son may or may not be dead, and he has only burned skull fragments as possible evidence…
Evidence of Love
by John Bloom, Jim Atkinson
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Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.
On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.
Battleforged: Survivor
by M.H. Johnson
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To do list for the post apocalypse:
- Survive the orcs rampaging through your city.
- Survive the pod trying to steal your mind.
- Pull off the greatest heist of all time.
Eric was as shocked as everyone else when the apocalypse struck, but unlike his mother’s movie, there were no chosen heroes destined to fight the beast hordes now overrunning the planet.
Just people trying desperately to survive.
Yet there was a glimmer of hope that humanity could hold on to. A chosen few really could level up in this brave new world, and embrace magic, adventure, and the potential for limitless power!
Frogs and Margaritas
by Angel Ramon
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Welcome to Puerto Rico! Home to cold margaritas, warm beaches, cool mountains, marvelous ruins, and killer frogs! Wait, killer frogs? That doesn’t sound right!
Justin, a college student studying archeology heads to Puerto Rico to explore the ruins of the Taino Indians. What is supposed to be a fun expedition turns into a nightmare. There is a dark legend lurking on the island of Puerto Rico. Three valuable Taino relics keep Puerto Rico from being cursed by the spirits of the extinct people. However, grave robbers attempt to make a quick payday by stealing the relics.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
by William Landay
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A BOOKREPORTER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.
So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?
AWAKENINGS
by Chuck Cascio, Chuck Cascio
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The ten stories in this collection have many scenes, actions, settings, conflicts, moments. Different characters create awakenings–sometimes without knowing it–for one another, for themselves, and for others.
We all have those moments. It could be a word, a phrase, a look, an event, or just a thought that passes and then returns and then grows and then…we awaken! Many times, we do not realize the moments that made that impact until time has passed. And sometimes we do not see the moments in ourselves at all, yet we do see them in others. Perhaps we do not have to see inside ourselves in order to be awakened.
A Man at Arms
by Steven Pressfield
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From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new faith.
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire.