Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Too Chili To Die
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The future doesn’t bode well for Mackendra Evans when she discovers a murder victim on her first assignment at a new job. It gets worse. An investigation links her to the victim and makes her the chief suspect when police discover she’s the victim’s daughter – and is in line to receive a large inheritance after his death.
Mackendra’s dream is to become a staff writer at a local newspaper and, although it seems to have come true when she is hired by editor Carilee Vinson – her success comes at a steep price. Her editor can be as prickly and barbed as a cattle fence. She discovers siblings she never knew existed – but most of them hate her.
Cold, Cold Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.
GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.
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(A Temperance Brennan Mysteries)
Rose and the Cowboy
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“Don’t touch him there! He’s bleeding.” “I know that he’s bleeding! Both of my hands are covered in blood.” “Well, be careful.” “I am being careful, Rose. I don’t want to make it any worse!” “I think he’s waking up.”
Ted was convinced that he was dreaming. And when he opened his eyes, he was sure that there were two angels looking down at him.
“Hello, mister,” Rose said. “How are you feeling?” “Don’t ask him that, Rose,” the other woman replied. “You can clearly see that he’s been shot.” “I just wanted to make sure, okay, Lilly?”
Ted was still in a great deal of pain, but it was obvious that his shoulder had been tended to. He could feel a tightness around his wound. The women were putting pressure on it and preparing to cauterize his gunshot wound.
The Seven Dials Mystery
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery.
Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.
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(Superintendent Battle Mysteries)
Pirates Come Down
by Christopher McMaster
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Fishing in the future takes more than a net!
Rickets is a PAC-Man, his patrol and attack craft the first line of defence against encroaching vessels. Moss is a Fisheries Observer, tasked with seeing that companies abide by the quotas set on target species. Together they play a part in ensuring the waters are not fished to extinction.
But as fisheries elsewhere play out, New Zealand waters start to look more attractive until every ship protects itself with PAC boats, missiles that skim the surface, and kamikaze drones equipped with explosives.
The Missing
by Sarah Langan
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . .
The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel boy unearths an ancient horror—a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry . . . and inhuman.
The Spires
by Kate Moretti
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Strung between two teenagers, an unemployed husband, and a tenuous career, Penelope Cox barely has her life together when the past comes knocking at her door. Willa Blaine, her old roommate, needs her help: refuge from an abusive husband. “Two weeks tops,” she says—but it’s not the imposition that bothers Penelope; it’s the memories Willa brings with her.
Twenty years earlier, Penelope, Willa, and three friends lived together in a converted church. Insular and closed off from the rest of the world, the five roommates formed their own dysfunctional family, celebrating the pinnacle of their lives; they called themselves “the Spires.”
The Snake and the Spider
by Karen Kingsbury
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona Beach unchaperoned. When the boys missed their agreed-upon daily check-ins, their parents were disappointed. When they failed to come home on their planned return date, their parents were terrified. They could not have known that their innocent sons would encounter two violent men on the Florida coast. They could not have imagined the torture their children would endure before their bodies turned up four months later in a Florida swamp. What starts as a dream vacation, ended as every parent’s worst nightmare . . .