Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knot Ready for Murder
by Mary Marks
Rating: 4.7 #ad
One loose thread threatens to unravel Martha’s wedding plans: the groom-to-be married a pregnant teen to save her from scandal thirty years ago – and the marriage was never annulled. Now Crusher’s wife Hadas is coming to LA, along with his sister Fanya. But soon after she arrives, their houseguest goes missing, with her room ransacked and a chloroform-soaked cloth left behind. Could her apparent abduction be connected to her brother’s unsolved death from a hit-and-run six months ago? Martha and her quilting cohorts must find the pattern to solve the twin mysteries and determine if Crusher is still married—or now a widower . . .
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(A Quilting Mysteries)
Blood Moon
by Linda Castillo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder confronts a mysterious beast terrorizing the residents of Painters Mill in this original short mystery “Blood Moon” from bestselling author Linda Castillo.
On a foggy spring night, an Amish man crashes his buggy after a large, unidentified animal spooks his horse. Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the man shaken and bleeding, claiming he was attacked by a large beast. But his description of the creature sounds like something straight out of the Amish folklore from Kate’s childhood. Throughout the night, more incidents of an aggressive animal on the loose are reported, putting the citizens of Painters Mill on edge.
The Evil Ex-Wife
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When Max returns home from the Vietnam War earlier than expected, he finds his beloved wife, Helen, in their marital bed with her lover. Adultery is the one thing that Max will not forgive. Served with divorce papers, Helen goes into a rage, crumples the legal document and vows that, if it takes her a lifetime, she will have her revenge and reclaim everything she believes is rightfully hers.
Helen remarries a prominent attorney, Morris, and moves several states away. Yet, her compulsion to get revenge is so great that she never stops sending letters, phoning and following Max. With her aging mother living not far from Max, she harasses him and his second wife, Joan, whenever she visits.
Dead of Winter
by Annelise Ryan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A medical examiner is pulled into a case of human trafficking in this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Ringer.
Before medicolegal death investigator Mattie can smooth out the unexpected chaos of her new home, new marriage, and new family, duty calls. At the local ER, a battered and bruised teenage girl has been brought in by a mysterious man who claimed she’d fallen out of a car. The staff is suspicious, but while they attend to the teenager, the unidentified man slips out. Then the girl dies, but not before informing social worker Hildy Schneider that the man had her little sister as well.
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(A Mattie Winston Mysteries)
Test of Magnitude
by Andy Kasch
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Revenge is only justice when it can be administered without hatred.”
The spectacular Cardinal-4 space station overlooks Amulen and Banor, twin worlds sharing the same orbit. It is the pinnacle of Torian achievement and a wonder of the Erobian Sphere. But not all foreign visitors are arriving with pure intent.
A Torian half-breed suspected of being the first prophet in 300 years warns of an evil infection in the galaxy. It comes in the form of a game. He also pushes the radical agenda of reviving a primitive group of aliens from a planet outside the sphere known as Earth.
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(The Torian Reclamation Mysteries)
Keep Me In Your Heart
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Friessen family celebration turns tragic when the marriage of one daughter is preceded by the heartbreaking loss of another.
Three days before Sara Friessen’s wedding, her older sister, Chelsea, who is married to the son of a notorious criminal, disappears without a trace. The police have no leads, and her husband, Alaric Taft, has also gone missing. To find the couple, the Friessens must come face to face with the kind of deadly underworld they had never expected would touch their family.
Andy Friessen lives and breathes only one thing: protecting his family. He soon discovers the secret behind what has happened to his eldest daughter, and he’s plunged into a cat and mouse game, stonewalled at every turn by authorities who are supposed to be helping him…
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(The Friessens Mysteries)
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it.
Choose Me
by Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets.
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder…
Emperor’s Throne
by Shannon Mayer
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Three against one is not the best odds in any fight. But does she dare gamble on making an enemy into an ally?
The sixth installment in the USAT and WSJ bestselling Desert Cursed series blends epic and urban fantasy in a way that does not disappoint.
There might be no rest for the wicked, but there’s no rest for the exhausted either. We’ve barely survived one fight, and we have another blade at our throats-strike that, three blades. I can see only one possible chance at surviving the three evils we face, no matter how much I might hate it. I have to make my peace with one of them and pray that they will help me take down the other two before we turn on each other.
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(The Desert Cursed Mysteries)