Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Cookbook Author
by Lee Hollis
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell will be cooking alongside top chefs at a cookbook author’s party. But a killer plans to ruin her appetite…
When Hayley Powell’s idol, cookbook author and TV personality Penelope Janice, invites her to participate in a Fourth of July celebrity cook-off at her seaside estate in Seal Harbor, Maine, Hayley couldn’t be more flattered. She just hopes she can measure up. With a who’s who of famous chefs whipping up their signature dishes, this holiday weekend has all the ingredients for a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience.
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(A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries)
Brothers of Wrath
by Matthew Newson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the thrilling sequel to The Wrath Walker, Brandon Farmer’s life has finally turned around after saving the city of Black Castle and surviving his brush with death from the evil buried there.
For the last three years he’s been married to Elizabeth and pastoring a church, but everything is about to change. Wrath returns to Black Castle with a new assignment from God—and Brandon must answer the call. A new enemy has set their sights on Black Castle. Brandon must become The Angel of Death for The Wrath Walkers in order to save the city he loves so much, but Brandon struggles between his new obligation and his current call of being a pastor.
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(The Wrath Walker)
Burned
by Carol Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.6 #ad
L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly gets a call from her best gal pal, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls’ weekend before Regan ties the knot with Jack “no relation” Reilly, and so she happily packs her bags.
At the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, the body of Dorinda Dawes, the hotel’s gossipy PR woman, washes ashore wearing a valuable lei that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess and was stolen from a museum in Honolulu thirty years ago.
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(A Regan Reilly Mysteries)
Exile
by Melion Traverse
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Vengeance. Atonement. Exile. After killing a paladin in revenge for her family, Squire Bryn is cast out by order of the god Avgorath himself. Now she seeks atonement with the father of the dead paladin. But machinations far greater than a disgraced squire are at play. Unicorn riders—believed to be only legend—ride through the land. A young sorcerer needs help in finding his father, and a mystery brews that could hold the fate of two worlds.
Will hatred prove stronger than the need to preserve a crumbling world?
Lambs to the Slaughter
by Jon Athan, Matthew Berry
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A cold case turns blood-hot when the butchered remains of a mobster are discovered in a gory crime scene resembling the murder of a veteran detective. Chase Hauger, a homicide detective diagnosed with terminal cancer, suspects the Enigma Killer – a serial killer known for using elaborate traps to ‘teach’ and torture his victims – has returned after years of dormancy. Chase sets out to bring the Enigma Killer to justice and avenge his slain friend, but he quickly finds himself caught in a web of lies and a storm of bloodshed.
Can he catch the killer before death catches up to him?
Shallow Ground
by Andy Maslen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets?
Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but Ford can sense that there’s a serial killer at work. After all, he knows from brutal personal experience how killers cover their tracks…
It’s been six years since Ford lost his wife in a climbing accident—an accident he caused. He is desperate to keep the truth hidden, especially from his son, Sam.
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(Detective Ford Mysteries)
Locked On
by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again.
But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack Sr. launches a privately-funded vendetta to discredit him and connect him to a mysterious killing in his longtime ally John Clark’s past. All they have to do is catch him.
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(A Jack Ryan Mysteries)
Witch World
by Andre Norton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
On a planet in a parallel universe where magic is a reality, these three high fantasy novels of the Witch World set on the eastern continent of Estcarp once again illustrate why prolific author Andre Norton was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Trey of Swords
Ware Hawk
The Gate of the Cat