Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Plainly Murder
by Isabella Alan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Angela Braddock has come to Rolling Brook to lend a hand at her Aunt Eleanor’s traditional Amish quilt shop. But when Eleanor’s quilting circle mourns the loss of their oldest member, Evelyn, they make a startling discovery about a tragic event in Evelyn’s past. More than a decade earlier, during a barn raising, Evelyn’s son Eric fell from the roof and died. Evelyn had always insisted that Eric was pushed, and now a clue in an old quilt convinces Angie to dig up the truth…and discover one of Rolling Brook’s darkest secrets.
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(Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries)
Secrets of Honor
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Except when they’re not.
By the end of a long evening working as a special set of eyes for the presidential security detail, all Kat Marengo wants is to kick off her shoes and stash two not-really-stolen rings in a secure spot. Plus maybe sleep wth Dave Krizak. No, make that definitely sleep with Dave Krizak. The next morning, she wishes her new top priorities were so simple.
As an operative for a covert agency buried in the depths of the Department of Homeland Security, Kat is asked to participate in a matter of life or death–locate a kidnapped girl believed to be held in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The King of Shadows
by Robert McCammon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the year 1704, Matthew Corbett is about to go up against an antagonist completely different from any he has faced before. On a trip to Italy to track down Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro, Matthew and Hudson Greathouse find themselves marooned on a beautiful island known as Golgotha—a place that hides a multitude of secrets and puts both of them at terrible risk.
The islanders welcome them with a massive feast—but as the island pulls them deeper into its influence, the castaways struggle to maintain their grip on reality, even their very identity.
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(The Matthew Corbett Mysteries)
Beauty and the Beast
by L. Steele
Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Run my Beauty… If I catch you, you are MINE…”
Michael Byron Domenico Sovrano. The Capo of Sicily’s notorious Mafia company. My father owed him,
so he took me to repay the debt. And married me to further his own ambitions. I hate him, I am determined to resist him. But what happens when I begin to fall for my new husband…?
A feisty fashion designer goes toe-to-toe with a brutal gangster in this marriage of convenience age gap, Mafia romance boxset and teaches him the meaning of love.
Watch Her Disappear
by Lisa Regan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The girl’s prom dress, the color of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist. She is perfectly still, lying on the ground like a delicate china doll, trapped forever in a sleep from which she will never wake…
When a call comes in about a young girl found dead at a high school prom—her life drained away from a fatal stab wound—Detective Josie Quinn drops everything to attend the scene. Taking in the girl’s neatly braided hair, Josie feels a flicker of recognition. But no one comes forward to identify this innocent child, murdered on what should have been the happiest night of her life.
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(Detective Josie Quinn Mysteries)
The Affair
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercoverto find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justiceand an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Just a Kiss
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Knight: Sir Arnon de Bar has just been released from a curse by the old witch Hecuba. The problem is, some side effects still linger. He sees a beautiful but mysterious woman at the swamp one night, and he catches her kissing a frog before she vanishes into thin air. The baron of Slapton is holding a competition with the winner being rewarded his daughter’s hand in marriage. To his surprise when he approaches the castle, he discovers the baron’s daughter is also the girl he saw in the swamp.
The Witch: Freya Fane is more eccentric than most ladies. She is a witch with a pet frog as her Familiar that she kisses in order to teleport from place to place. Her father has devised a competition to marry her off, and she doesn’t like it. Especially since she is trying to make a potion to cure her ailing mother.
Final Scream
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Deadly secrets ignite the truth about a killer in this thriller “full of exciting and unexpected twists” from the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Fresh Fiction).
For the wealthy Buchanans, the town of Prosperity – in the shadow of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains – has delivered everything its name promises. Not that Cassidy Buchanan cares about money, cars, or expensive clothes – unlike her beautiful older sister. All Cassidy wants is to ride her horses. Then her father hires Brig McKenzie, a handsome troublemaker who ignites a storm of rivalry. By summer’s end, a fatal fire rages through the Buchanans’ sawmill, tearing the family apart – and Brig disappears, presumed guilty of arson.
Email from the Future
by Michael Rogers
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s 2084, and Aldus, an elderly robot repairman, is writing the history of the 21st century for his grandson, Luca. Born in 2010, Aldus lived through it all – the War on the Warming, the repair of the planet, the rise of true artificial intelligence, automation everywhere and much more. “I was but a foot soldier,” Aldus tells his grandson, “but there is value in that perspective.”
Aldus also fears his time is short. Unlucky members of his generation sometimes experience long-delayed side effects from childhood infection with COVID. Aldus could be among them, and so his writing may have a literal deadline.