Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Turkey Trot Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The last surviving flowers on Lucy Stone’s porch have fallen victim to the first frost of the season. On the bright side, Thanksgiving, and the annual Turkey Trot 5K, are coming up in Tinker’s Cove, Maine—though sadly, Lucy’s four kids won’t be home today. But the holiday turns tragic when Lucy finds beautiful Alison Franklin dead in Blueberry Pond.
No one knows much about Alison, except that she was the daughter of ultrawealthy investor Ed Franklin, whose new wife is around Alison’s age. With heroin use increasing in town, police blame an accidental overdose, while her father casts vague accusations rooted in prejudice. But Lucy can’t understand what terrible forces could lead a privileged woman to ruin…
The End Game
by Catherine Coulter
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nicholas Drummond, “a new son of Bond licensed to shine”(Kirkus Reviews), returns in the third Brit in the FBI thriller.
Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, rush to stop the deadly bombings and cyber attacks of an environmental terrorist group. But when the organization is infiltrated by an international assassin, it will take help from fellow FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to stop something much bigger from going down…
The Praxis
by Walter Jon Williams
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Space opera the way it ought to be […] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” — George R.R. Martin
All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis
For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos.
Facets of Death
by Michael Stanley
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Kubu’s first case may also be his last…
Recruited straight from university to Botswana’s CID, David ‘Kubu’ Bengu has raised his colleagues’ suspicions with his meteoric rise within the department, and he has a lot to prove…
When the richest diamond mine in the world is robbed of 100,000 carats worth of gems, and then the thieves are killed, execution-style, Kubu leaps at the chance to prove himself. But where are the diamonds? And what role does a witch doctor and his son play?
Breakers
by Doug Johnstone
Rating: 4.3 #ad
There are two sides to every family…
Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum.
On a job, his brother Barry stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead, but that’s just the beginning of their nightmare, because the woman is the wife of Edinburgh’s biggest crime lord, Deke Holt.
Just One Look
by Harlan Coben
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in this shocking thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn’t belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it’s him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past….
23 1/2 Lies
by James Patterson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer’s estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. (with Maxine Paetro)
FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he’s put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. (with Andrew Bourelle)
WATCH YOUR BACK: When a starving artist is paid to expose his client’s cheating wife, can he paint the picture that will save his own life? (with Loren D. Estleman)
Ultima Skylar
by Omayra Vélez
Rating: 4.3 #ad
I am Ultima Skylar, and I am in big trouble. You see, I witnessed the assassination of the Prince regent of my Kingdom, then the assassin tried to kill me. I survived because I’m an expert at kicking the groin of any man with my high heels.
Yes, my friend, now I am a suspect. The assassin is after me, and my owner is doing nothing to protect me. Oh, but to add insult to injury, I must work with a broken leg, must hide my magic, or my owner will kill my daughter. Life sucks for me…