Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Deception
by Timothy Glass
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The discovery of a young woman’s body in a ditch sets the town of Lakewood on edge. As more people go missing, the Lakewood Police suspect there is a serial killer targeting their city. Other than the motive appears to be money, there are few clues and little evidence to go on. As more bodies are found, tortured, and discarded like trash, Detectives Connor Maxwell, Kate Stroup, and K9 beagle, Sundae, feel the pressure to catch the dangerous criminal in their midst. Is the killer purposefully leaving misleading clues or just lucky?
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White Fox
by Owen Matthews
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A page-turning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK.
1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy’s death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin’s new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, are sent to disappear and die quietly. But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy.
Grey for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Zitter Wilson agrees to trade houses for the summer with a friend, which means traveling to Scotland. Scotland is strange to her, but she might enjoy the experience were it not for finding a dead man in the yard next to hers, meeting a rude neighbor, being falsely arrested on a drug charge and being adopted by a mischievous cat that likes to tangle her crochet basket and destroy her Create A Mate creations.
Once Zitter forgives neighbor Roper Nickles for his initial rudeness, their relationship quickly spirals into…love? That part is a bit confusing, because someone is determined to oust her from her borrowed house, and when Roper’s friend Scooter shows up to watch her back – she is inexplicably drawn to him.
The Pied Piper
by Ridley Pearson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A wave of babynappings has terrified parents from San Diego to Portland. And when the Pied Piper — named for the penny flute he leaves in the cribs of his victims — claims his first Seattle infant, the investigation draws in homicide detective Lou Boldt. Assigned temporarily to Intelligence so he can spend more time with his kids while his wife is hospitalized for chemotherapy, Boldt’s role is to keep the FBI out of the Seattle Police Department’s way.
But FBI special agent Gary Flemming is a tough adversary — so tough it almost seems as if he’s intentionally sabotaging the SPD’s investigation. Then the Pied Piper snatches Boldt’s own daughter, promising that unless Boldt throws both the Feds and the SPD off his trail he’ll never see his child again.
By the Light of Dead Stars
by Andrew Van Wey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
On the Lost Coast, some things should never be found.
When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. It’s a chance to heal, a chance to build a new life together.
But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror that has long coveted these lands.
It looms over redwood groves and lurks in the foundations of homes. It festers in the dark hearts of the wounded. And now, this cosmic horror has found a new weapon: a means to worm its way into our world.
Bad Blood
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance Sometimes good men do bad things.
Finch Collins grew up on the wrong side of the law, stealing from people who never did a thing to him. But when he had to choose between money or a boy’s life, he did what was right. And he’s been paying for it ever since.
When he left Pike Hudson’s gang, he left a lot of bad blood between them. Pike swore he’d find Finch wherever he went. But it’s been eight years, and Finch is starting to feel safe again.
Funny Meeting You Here
by Holly Schindler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cross paths. Bump into. Encounter. Come face-to-face. Three cheers for the happy accident!
Oftentimes, the very best part of a story is the section in which the characters meet. The initial spark. The twists of fate. The you’ll never believe what happened to me todays. That’s what you’ll find here: a delightful array of characters – young and old and in-between – meeting for the first time in the most unexpected ways. Six light, humorous, sweet tales of how they came into one another’s lives. When you’re through, you’ll find yourself feeling glad to have spent time with them. Yes, you’ll think, thumbing back through the pages, funny meeting them here.