Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Pumpkin Carver
by Lee Hollis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A sleuthing food writer must cope with a visit from her ex-husband—and it gets even worse when he becomes a suspect in a homicide . . .
For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costumes and holiday treats – until a killer crashes the party . . .
This Halloween, Hayley can’t imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor. Her kids may be happy to see their dad, but Hayley’s determined not to be taken in by his charms, and suspects he’s in financial trouble – again.
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(A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries)
One Day Gone
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mylas Grey is a private investigator but don’t call him a private detective.
That title belongs to his father – not to him.
Mylas is the Chief Investigator for Senator Davis Allen, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. His job is to do background investigations for the President’s judicial nominees, and that’s the only kind of investigation he’s interested in doing.
But then Lizzie, the Senator’s daughter, goes missing from her campus apartment. And suddenly, just like that, Mylas finds himself back in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, investigating her disappearance as if he were a run-of-the-mill private detective.
Nothing about the investigation is easy. Discovering a motive isn’t easy . . .
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
The Vacant Lot
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A heart-pounding time-travel, romance mystery.
Ian had reached a higher level of love for Eunice, a love that was pure. His feelings for her were beyond that of a friend, sister, or lover. It was a love, devoid of the labels most people need to put to their feelings. That’s what he told her the last time he saw her back in 2019 or was it 1984 since Ian believed Eunice was a time-traveler. She came to him when he was eight years old in a vacant lot near his house, and when she left, he spent the rest of his days searching for her.
He solicited the help of a friend, Jill, a fragrance expert who discovered through the use of scents and the moon, they could transport to the past in search of his lost love.
Dead By Nightfall
by Beverly Barton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
To save his wife, a Southern detective is drawn into a final showdown with his sadistic nemesis in this romantic suspense series finale.
Malcolm York is a sadistic murderer. And with his endless wealth he’s funded a series of depraved human hunts. The few who survived can never forget. They can only be thankful the terror is over. Until rumors start swirling . . .
Griffin Powell knows the twisted depths of York’s madness. He’s also sure that York is dead. But then Griff’s wife, Nicole, disappears. And the phone calls begin—that familiar voice taunting him, promising to destroy everything Griff loves.
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(Griffin Powell Mysteries)
Winter’s Malice
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three bodies in the span of twenty-four hours…
It’s the dead of winter, and in Weeping Rock, South Dakota—a small town crippled by racism, drugs, and violence -Sheriff’s Deputy Liam Matthews has his work cut out for him when he steps in to take over the duties of sheriff from his father, who for far too long has turned a blind eye to certain crimes for what he says is the overall good of the town.
Coming under scrutiny for hiring a Lakota to fill his position as deputy, things quickly go from bad to worse for Liam when the body of retired pro-baseball player Hector Ramirez, who had recently returned home to coach ball at his high school alma mater, is found floating in Crow’s Foot Lake.
No Turning Back
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Danger lurks in the secrets of a small town in this blistering novel of intrigue and suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Babysitter.
They find the body deep in the woods, lying beneath a carpet of wet leaves, eyes still open in a sightless stare. Three dark stains across his chest, and another bullet hole in his forehead.
Child psychologist Liz Havers made a mistake sixteen years ago, and she’s ready to face it. That means confronting Detective Hawthorne “Hawk” Hart, who’s come back to Woodside, Washington, after a case in LA went tragically wrong. His teenage son, Jesse, is finding it difficult to adjust, and stumbling across a dead man doesn’t help.
Ether War: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Resource as Precious as Life
Ether. It revolutionized human technology. Made faster than light travel possible. With this new form of energy, people expanded beyond Earth to distant stars in other galaxies across the cosmos. After years of conflicts, a rebellion, and countless skirmishes, the Human Confederacy is a thriving government, a beacon of civilization.
Until an ether facility is destroyed out of the blue with no one taking credit for the destruction. Enter the Morrigan, a state of the art ship with a brilliant but inexperienced crew. Their captain Noah Markel is no stranger to battle and he believes this may not be as simple as an act of terrorism but rather an incursion. Their first contact with an alien race. One bent on crippling human space travel in preparation for something far worse than a border dispute.
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(John Walker)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
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