Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
My Daughter’s Keeper
by Adiva Geffen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you?
Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful… and short-lived.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing all over the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto…
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(World War II Brave Women Fiction Mysteries)
The 9th Judgment
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Women’s Murder Club takes on two deranged killers, but Detective Lindsay Boxer begins to wonder if the mysterious case is also breaking apart her closest friendships.
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.
The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn’t left a shred of evidence, except for a foreboding and cryptic message: WCF, the letters written in blood-red letters.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Can a stalled murder investigation in Halcyon Springs pull Izzie Di Sante back into investigative journalism?
The mere thought of getting involved in the investigation shifts Izzie’s mind into overdrive. A former reporter turned restaurant owner, she’s determined to find out everything she can. Only the more she discovers about Drew Scanlon’s murder and his new wife’s hurried placement in a psychiatric facility, the more questions she has.
With the detective instructed to tread carefully given the social status of the family, the investigation of Drew’s murder stalls. His parents spin a story that casts his wife, Bethany, as the prime suspect.
Evidence of Things Seen
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet who died just one year ago in the cottage Clara is now renting, merely adds to the local color. It’s all nothing more than a spooky game, until the woman’s sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara’s panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!).
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(Henry Gamadge Mysteries)
Warrior Saints – Creator
by Carla Thorne
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the supernatural battle of good vs. evil, whose side are you on?
Strange days have come to the halls of Stonehaven Academy. From brutal fights in the supernatural realm with a demon-like presence, to battling obstacles in the halls at school, Mary knows she’s different. She just doesn’t understand why. Then it gets even weirder.
As her supernatural battles increase, she is drawn into friendships with others who seem to be as confused about their bizarre abilities and encounters as she is. Now that Mary, Deacon, Scout, and Ivy have found each other, what is their purpose and why?
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(Warrior Saints Mysteries)
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan’s 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in prosecuting her innocent husband or lose her daughter. When the couple doesn’t give in to pressure, Susan loses custody of her daughter, and her husband is charged with a felony that carries a 16-year prison sentence.
No one wants to hear the facts. No one wants to know the truth…
The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
by Brad Meltzer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories.
Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination. This richly illustrated book serves up those fascinating, unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy lovers: Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman “Spear of Destiny?” Where did all the Confederacy’s gold go? What is the government hiding in Area 51? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone?
The Promises Between Us Trilogy
by Angela Christina Archer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
After France surrenders to the Nazis, all eyes turn to the Channel Islands off the coast. Knowing the Germans could invade their quiet home the resident children of Guernsey are evacuated. Among them are Amelia Ashton, and her older sister Evelyn.
The Promises Between Us
The promise to stay safe.
The promise to survive.
Pursuit of Justice Collection
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Frontier Avengers – Book 1: Sloan Ferrell and his brother James stared at their parents lifeless bodies on the floor. The outlaw gang leader Cole Marsh spent the Civil War years riding with one of the most infamous soldiers of any war, Captain William Clarke Quantrill, the architect of the 1863 Lawrence massacre.
A Cowboy’s Ride for Justice – Book 2: Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can’t take it any longer…But can the courage of one man stand up against a ruthless mob?
Taking on Injustice – Book 3: The Civil War veteran stands alone in his fight for justice and safety for his townsfolk… But will his guns alone be enough?
Empath
by Silvia Hill
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Understand the empath in you and learn how to better value hypersensitivity in yourself and others.
Do you get dragged into the emotions of others so much that it distracts you from your own feelings? Does your spouse, parent, or child have a hypersensitive nature that affects their growth and happiness?
Did you know that empaths and highly sensitive people are different biologically? It’s not just a mental disposition.