Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Itch of Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A well-dressed man killed at a demolition site, at night in a snow storm.
Izzie Di Sante loves a challenge and Chance Corcoran’s murder sparks her curiosity. While managing the day-to-day business of the family restaurant, she searches for some connection between the victim and the site of the future Elite Townhomes. A co-worker of the victim disappears, the foreperson of the construction site is injured, and someone’s after Izzie. As her sister, Chloe, prepares for an Easter buffet like none other, Izzie needs to put the pieces together before it’s too late.
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(Izzie Di Sante Mysteries)
The Secret of Chimneys
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.3 #ad
International intrigue leads to murder at an English manor house in this classic mystery introducing the detection skills of Superintendent Battle.
Never do favors—that’s the lesson it would’ve behooved Anthony Cade to learn before getting himself wrapped up in a case of conspiracy and murder. Politician George Lomax has persuaded Lord Caterham to host a weekend party at Chimneys, his country estate. Lomax hopes to cement plans to reinstate the monarchy in Herzegovina. But when the prince of Herzegovina turns up dead, Cade has a lot of explaining to do. After all, his footprints were found on the grounds . . . though not inside the house.
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(Superintendent Battle Mysteries)
Intent: Return of Evil
by Krista Wagner
Rating: 3.8 #ad
Someone won’t let them forget that dreadful night. . .
It’s been eleven years since the nightmare ended, when Raylee and Crystal were nearly killed by someone they trusted. The small peaceful town of Silver Canyon is back to normal. Happily married to Paul, Raylee now runs a successful business, with Crystal as her manager. Life is good. Until Raylee receives a note: “Fate has opened another door, this time for us.”
Fate. The same word the killer used in that long-ago nightmare. Raylee and Crystal become shaken, their faith rattled, as they both are bombarded with clues from that terrible past.
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(Small Town Secrets Mysteries)
Ominous
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, Rosalind Noonan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows—and the vow of secrecy they take.
CAN PREPARE YOU Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they’ve tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the feeling that someone is lurking in the shadows. When a local girl vanishes, Kat is convinced there’s a connection to that long-ago night. But as the friends unite to find the missing teenager, a killer sends a chilling message. FOR A KILLER’S VENGEANCE
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(The Wyoming Mysteries)
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the 20th century, Elric is the brooding, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melnibone. With Melnibone’s years of grandeur and decadence long since passed, Elric’s amoral cousin Yrkoon sets his eyes on the throne. Elric, realizing he is his country’s best hope, must face his nefarious cousin in an epic battle for the right to rule.
Elric of Melnibone is the first in Michael Moorcock’s incredible series, which created fantasy archetypes that have echoed through the genre for generations.
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(The Elric Saga)
The Ursulina
by Brian Freeman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this gripping prequel to his Edgar Award finalist and New York Times bestseller The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman takes us on Rebecca’s dark journey to reveal the truth about the Ursulina … a journey that ultimately leads to an excruciating choice that will change her life forever.
The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti.
In Black Wolf County, he’s called … the Ursulina.
The Fate of Mercy Alban
by Wendy Webb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.
Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace…
Bound By Blood
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
At ten years old, Austin was in over his head. He only joined the Confederate Army because his brothers told him to, but then they went and got themselves killed. If not for Dwight Crawford, a Union soldier, Austin would have died alongside them.
From that day on, Dwight became Austin’s hero, friend, and father. Years later, they’re still fighting together, but the enemy has changed.