Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Banana Slit
by Angela K. Ryan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The grand opening of Anna McBride’s seaside ice cream shop is anything but sweet.
After the tragic death of her Irish twin sister, Bella, Anna needed a radical change. So, she closed her counseling practice in Boston to embark on a new adventure as an ice cream shop owner.
Now all she wants is to settle into her new town, attempt to turn her black thumb green, and build her ice cream shop into a community hub that hosts quality entertainment and group gatherings – just like Bella had often fantasized about doing before her fateful boating accident…
Bella’s body was never found. Could she still be alive?
The Possessed
by Kirk Kilgrave
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jocelyn doesn’t believe in the supernatural, but she senses that something is in her home.
When her mother and sister begin using a Ouija board to contact their dead father, Jocelyn worries that it may lead to horrible consequences. Like the footsteps outside her bedroom door late at night. Or the pounding in the walls. Maybe even the reason why her sister is trying to ruin her life.
Jocelyn finds a rational explanation for every strange incident until logic breaks down and sinister events ratchet up, convincing her that an evil entity has infested her home. With the help of a pair of paranormal investigators named Eloise and Nona, Jocelyn hopes to defeat the malevolent entity before it destroys her family.
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(Sadistic Souls Mysteries)
Balloon Body Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.9 #ad
When Rik Patience – who has no patience – trips over the body of a murder victim sticking out from under the envelope of a hot air balloon, it turns into a sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, sometimes heartbreaking ride.
Rik and her over-sixties group of fellow sleuths endeavor to solve a mystery that even the sheriff’s department can’t solve. Things never go well for Rik in life or love in spite of her best intentions. She finds herself on the wrong side of her Mason, Texas, friends when she becomes “public enemy number one” after refusing to help with a festival that will bring tourists into town—but also promotes alcoholic beverages…
Until Thy Wrath Be Past
by Åsa Larsson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.
Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream?
Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.
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(The Arctic Murders Mysteries)
Twice a Daughter
by Julie Ryan McGue
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren’t happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents—and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background.
Leaving Annalise
by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A new life on the horizon. An old flame at the door. When a dead body turns up in the freezer, Katie’s island lifestyle turns stormy.
Katie Connell’s new life in St. Marcos is cruising right along. She’s got a restaurateur boyfriend, a singing venture with her best friend, and a new streak of sobriety. Even better, she’s purchased a rainforest home that came complete with a centuries-old house ghost. With her legal career well behind her, she’s hopeful her new chapter will lead her to happiness.
But when a man from her past enters the picture, a murder in her boyfriend’s restaurant and a child in need throw everything into chaos…
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(A Katie Connell Caribbean Mysteries)
Daughters of Dusk
by Emma Shelford
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Switching bodies was a piece of cake. Too bad my new body is already occupied.
I was a successful woman in my mid-fifties, a champion of vulnerable women and a seeker of the arcane. From a troubled past, I earned poise, confidence, and experience. Until an explosion killed me.
It’s a shock when a friend’s desperate spell forces my soul into a nearby woman’s dying body. But I won’t say no to fewer aches, unlined skin, and a youthful renewal of my old ambitions, even if the body’s emotional baggage is heavy. The problem is, an elemental spirit took possession of that same body during the explosion, and spirits don’t make good roommates.
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(Magical Morgan Mysteries)
Jack and Mary
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jack Osborn is on his ranch, teaching his son how to ride a horse. His wife and daughter are in the house.
The peace is shattered when Frank Ridge and his gang ride through the ranch and gun down the whole family. Jack wakes up later in pain from bullet holes through his shoulder.
Jack’s family has been murdered by the gang, and for what? Jack knows that he has to go after these outlaws and bring them to justice, whatever it takes.
Matters of the Heart
by Ashley Farley
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The genie is out of the bottle. After decades of secrecy, Stella has finally made her resort’s natural hot springs available to guests. Little does she know, the waters have magical healing powers. Not only do the springs cure physical ailments, but matters of the heart as well. When word gets out, she has a riot of opportunity seekers on her hands.
Presley could use a bit of that healing magic. She returns to the inn for an unexpected visit, pregnant, planning to stay for the summer, and refusing to talk about her new husband. Did she leave Everett’s concert tour because of the pregnancy? Or is there trouble in paradise already?
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(Hope Springs Series)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen days before Christmas, a letter arrives in the mail—a letter that was never meant for Candy Friessen. When she opens it, she discovers a lie that rocks her world, and she begins to question everything she and Neil have created together, including his love for her and their family.
Seven days before Christmas, Candy’s heart is breaking. She makes plans to leave, but when a call one night alerts all the Friessens that Becky, their mother, is fighting for her life in the hospital, they rush to her bedside without a second thought. Faced with uncertainty, Brad, Neil, Jed, and their wives are together for Christmas, but there’s no happy celebration, no gifts piled under the tree.
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(The Friessens Series)