Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Bonded in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…
His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes…
Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition.
Take it to the Limit
by Linda Opdyke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A high school reunion is supposed to be a night of laughter and nostalgia. Instead, it ends in murder.
When Nashville private investigators Ethan and Mickey Jenks return to Ethan’s hometown of Morgan’s Ridge, Kentucky, old rivalries ignite. But nostalgia turns lethal when a classmate’s wife is shot, and a dying man claims he’s next.
Nick Yearwood insists someone has planned his murder. His story sounds paranoid until Ethan uncovers a five-year-old tragedy. One tied to an intricate cover-up and a dark secret someone will kill to keep buried…
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising
by Raymond A. Villareal
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This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman in an Arizona border town disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, the case threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish.
Soon, the U.S. government – and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church – must come to terms with what they’re too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world.
Came a Gentle Whisper
by Rebecca A. Cathey
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An orphan, raised by her grandmother in the beautiful mountains of the Missouri Ozarks in the early 1900s, leaves the security of her idyllic secluded home and travels to Little Rock, Arkansas on a mission to help her friend, Ruby, only to find herself caught up in the seedy world of a speakeasy working as a dime-a-dance girl.
Cora Lee wrestles with her need to find a “belongin’ place,” and her desire to stay “true to her raisin'” while learning to negotiate life in a rapidly changing world at the dawn of “The Jazz Age.” After facing unthinkable losses, overwhelming challenges, and the sting of social judgement, she must decide if she can stay true to her faith and her values while resisting the lure of sin, gin, and easy money, in the glitzy, superficial world of a big-city dance hall.
Rescued Hearts
by Hope Toler Dougherty
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He sacrificed his cover to save her life. Now protecting her may cost him his heart.
Children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball never imagined rescuing a stranded kitten would land her in the hands of dangerous criminals. Beaten, bound, and held captive in an abandoned farmhouse, she believes her chances of escape have disappeared when a third man arrives.
But Brett Davis isn’t another criminal.
After three months undercover, Brett is close to exposing a dangerous trafficking operation. Rescuing Mary Wade means destroying his cover and jeopardizing the entire investigation, but leaving an innocent woman behind isn’t an option.
The History Hunters: Four Complete Novels
by K. R. Eckert
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Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are historians. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are adventurers. Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh are The History Hunters. Here, for the first time, four of their most daring and exotic adventures are collected together in one volume.
The Templar Succession
The Gettysburg Cypher
The Templar Fire
The Masonic Manuscript
Shadow Play
by Iris Johansen
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Shadow Play is a New York Times bestselling Eve Duncan novel from Iris Johansen.
Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands.
When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity and investment in the case puzzle her.
The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks
by John Railey
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In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound.
This riveting narrative, built on unique access to the state investigative file and multiple interviews with insiders, searches for the truth of her unsolved murder. This island odyssey of discovery includes séances, a suicide and a supposed shallow grave. Journalist John Railey cuts through the myths and mistakes to finally arrive at the long-hidden truth of what happened to Brenda Holland that summer on Roanoke Island.
Indie Darling
by Lauren Nossett
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Nashville is a city of two faces, where the glitter often masks the grit.
Kelly Williams, a Dolly Parton–loving, sports-car-driving private investigator in Nashville, helps women. Sisters in search of lost siblings. Wives determined to uncover affairs. Daughters haunted by men lingering outside their windows. Clients trust her because she listens, she believes them, and over the years she’s honed a specialized skill set.