Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dying to Eat at the Pub
by Beatrice Fishback
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Chief Inspector Sean O’Reilly stormed into the pub. “Mrs. Weathervane, you are under arrest.”
My chair rattled and clanked backwards onto the stone floor as I jumped up. “You can’t be serious.” I whimpered.
Even though he had been retired for quite some time, Jim’s military bearing took over as he wrapped a protective arm around my shoulder. “What are you talking about, O’Reilly? What’s this all about?”
The policeman barked, “That’s Chief Inspector, Mr. Weathervane. Please stay out of this.” He nodded in my direction. “Your wife has withheld vital evidence in the murder of Dan Swansey.”
Azimuth
by Rennie St. James
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Trapped in an office job, Mia Rayner dreamed of adventure. And then it came true.
When she finds the body of her Gypsy teacher, Mia’s life will shift into a blur of martial arts, mythology, and murder. Taught by the enigmatic Cayden Jodhani, she’ll learn the warrior’s path in a Rahki world where magic hangs heavy between Mia and her destiny. With a young orphan by her side, Mia will have to fight to earn her place as a guardian protector. Ancient prophecies claim she and the gifted child are destined to save mankind; Mia is more worried about saving them from the next attempt on their lives.
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(The Rahki Chronicles)
The Serial Killer’s Daughter
by Alice Hunter
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here.
But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she’s spent her whole life running from who she really is.
And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago…
Rizzoli & Isles: Listen to Me
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mothers know best . . . But who will listen?
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run from months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe.
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(Rizzoli & Isles Mysteries)
The Deserter
by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer’s Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared.
When Mercer is spotted a year later in Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division to fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America—preferably alive.
A Duty to the Dead
by Charles Todd
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Charles Todd, author of the resoundingly acclaimed Ian Rutledge crime novels (“One of the best historical series being written today” —Washington Post Book World) debuts an exceptional new protagonist, World War I nurse Bess Crawford, in A Duty to the Dead. A gripping tale of perilous obligations and dark family secrets in the shadows of a nightmarish time of global conflict, A Duty to the Dead is rich in suspense, surprise, and the impeccable period atmosphere that has become a Charles Todd trademark.
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(Bess Crawford Mysteries)
Experimental Film
by Gemma Files
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918.
Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid.