Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Spines and Slaughter
by ACF Bookens
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces.
When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they’re having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake.
Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it’s too late?
Special Agent Walker
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Agent Walker drops his beloved goddaughter off at the same school where minutes later a shooter begins the devil’s work.
Lori Page, an FBI profiler, spots a boy on a bus who’s acting strange. When he disembarks, she notices what appears to be a rifle in his backpack. Suspicions triggered and her instincts screaming, she follows him into his school where all hell breaks loose.
Intrigued by the weird behavior of a mysterious beauty, Beau follows her into the building and they both find themselves at the same crime scene. He eventually pairs up with this fascinating woman to stop the coming violence.
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The Millennium Trilogy
by Stieg Larsson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover the books that changed the way the world reads crime – Stieg Larsson’s phenomenal global blockbuster, the Millennium Trilogy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
“So much more than a thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a dazzling novel of big ideas” Harlan Coben
Hard to Be a God
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.
It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play?
DEMON SEED
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 3.9 #ad
This frightening cult-favorite thriller now features a NEW BONUS SHORT STORY, “Friend of Man and Woman.”
Susan Harris lived in self-imposed seclusion, her mansion featuring numerous automated systems controlled by a state-of-the-art computer. Every comfort was provided. Her security was absolute.
Until her security system is breached – from the inside. In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, she will experience an inconceivable act of terror and become the object of the ultimate computer’s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.
Season of Skulls
by Charles Stross
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain’s avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he’s dead. But though she’s now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she’s not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge–and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions.
Blink of an Eye
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Don’t blink
A gripping thrill ride begins when Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit witnesses a murder and finds himself possessing an ancient artifact with mystical powers. The investigation leads him to the Spiro Mounds Archeological Museum, where he meets the gorgeous Chief Archeologist Thorn Little Deer and discovers someone recently stole the artifact he now possesses – the priceless Black Cup of Oklahoma.
A deadly ex-Army Ranger with the nickname Blade may be responsible for both the theft and the murder. As Buck sets out to catch the thief, he joins a cryptid expedition to the rugged Kiamichi Mountains.
Harm’s Way
by John Gilstrap
Rating: 4.0 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
Unstoppable Jonathan Grave uncovers a major threat to American security in the latest action-packed adventure in the long-running, bestselling black-ops series.
Twelve missionaries have been snatched in a remote area of Venezuela and are being held for ransom. The high-priority rescue mission comes as a personal plea from FBI director Irene Rivers. It also carries a Presidential demand: no international incident. Just get in and get out—with hostages who are far from cooperative, but nonetheless precious cargo.