Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Bingo Hall
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. The stakes are high and the crowd is large. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I 17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead with her two lucky trolls, Jasper and Seymour, and her rosary beads by her side. But her two best friends and bingo buddies have good reason to believe she’s been murdered. Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case. These quirky amateur sleuths use creative, unconventional means to uncover evidence to find the murderer. What did Priscilla stumble upon that made her a killer’s target?
Guarding Her Heart
by Laura Haley-McNeil
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Threatened by a stalker, she turns to the only man who can help her – the man who walked out of her life ten years ago.
Artist Victoria Whitloch escapes the clutches of a stalker only to stumble into the arms of the man she never wants to see again, bad boy prosecutor Garrett Reynolds. To protect Victoria, Garrett whisks her away to an isolated lodge. Major problem for Victoria – how does she help Garrett capture the stalker while guarding her heart against the man who broke it once before?
Garrett thought his heart had healed when Victoria left him ten years ago. Garrett’s bigger problem – capture the stalker determined to imprison Victoria. Keeping Victoria safe is no easy task for Garrett, but getting her to trust him is an entirely different challenge.
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(Crystal Creek Mysteries)
The Broken Room
by Peter Clines
Rating: 4.4 #ad
You can still owe the dead.
Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.
Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.
And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.
Special Agent Charli
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
You can still owe the dead.
Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.
Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.
And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
We Shall Inherit the Wind
by Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett
Rating: 4.1 #ad
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made.
Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics. Then, in one of the most heart-stopping scenes in crime fiction, the first body appears…
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(Varg Veum Mysteries)
The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two
by Fritz Leiber
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Hugo and Nebula Award – winning series of sword and sorcery – featuring two unorthodox heroes – from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Long before George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones became a worldwide phenomenon, Fritz Leiber ruled the literary universe of sword and sorcery. This novel and two short story collections chronicle the adventures of Leiber’s endearing and groundbreaking antiheroes: the barbarian Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a former wizard’s apprentice – in the series hailed as “one of the great works of fantasy in this century” (Publishers Weekly).
Swords Against Wizardry,
The Swords of Lankhmar,
Swords and Ice Magic
A Better Heart
by Chuck Augello
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. The stakes are high and the crowd is large. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I 17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead with her two lucky trolls, Jasper and Seymour, and her rosary beads by her side. But her two best friends and bingo buddies have good reason to believe she’s been murdered. Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case. These quirky amateur sleuths use creative, unconventional means to uncover evidence to find the murderer. What did Priscilla stumble upon that made her a killer’s target?