Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Wine Country
by Janet Finsilver
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Weeding out killers wasn’t part of the job description . . .
Kelly Jackson, manager of the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast, is excited to participate in an event to raise awareness for the plight of struggling veterans in their Northern California coastal community. Local wineries are sponsoring tastings, and to prepare for a culinary competition, professional chefs will forage for wild edible greens. Kelly plans to come along, despite a warning to beware of poachers, who have been stealing the highly valued succulent Dudleya farinosa.
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(A Kelly Jackson Mysteries)
I Am Not A Serial Killer
by Dan Wells
Rating: 4.3 #ad
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.
He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.
He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.
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(John Cleaver Mysteries)
The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen’s coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead…yet.
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(John Cleaver Mysteries)
The Girl from Oto
by Amy Maroney
Rating: 4.5 #ad
1500: Born during a time wracked by war and plague, Renaissance-era artist Mira grows up in a Pyrenees convent believing she is an orphan. When tragedy strikes, Mira learns the devastating truth about her own origins. But does she have the strength to face those who would destroy her?
2015: Centuries later, art scholar Zari unearths traces of a mysterious young woman named Mira in two 16th-century portraits. Obsessed, Zari tracks Mira through the great cities of Europe to the pilgrim’s route of Camino de Santiago—and is stunned by what she finds. Will her discovery be enough to bring Mira’s story to life?
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(The Miramonde Mysteries)
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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The fantastic adventure of a brilliant young scientist and a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
A renowned scientist was orphaned at age eight and has grown to adulthood with no knowledge of his own ancestry. When he is awakened by an unusual visitor with an extremely urgent message it leads to events that topple everything he has believed about reality.
While still coming to terms with the unbelievable truth about his ancestry, he must defend the ancient Niergel (Near – ġ – el – Mysterious Secret) against brutal enemies. He is soon fighting a dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate and a powerful evil faction from his family’s past, along with a horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels, known as the Eljo, who threaten the entire world…
A Royal Pain
by Rhys Bowen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lady Georgiana finds herself in a heap of royal trouble in the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness Mystery series.
London, 1932. Poor Lady Georgiana–thirty-fourth in line to the throne–has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there’s the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess’s unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It’s enough to drive a girl mad…
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(The Royal Spyness Mysteries)
Q Is For Quarry
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lady Georgiana finds herself in a heap of royal trouble in the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness Mystery series.
London, 1932. Poor Lady Georgiana–thirty-fourth in line to the throne–has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there’s the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess’s unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It’s enough to drive a girl mad…
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(A Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)