Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Skeleton Makes a Friend
by Leigh Perry
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.
Sid reveals that he and Jen are part of a regular online gaming group that formed locally, and one of their members has gone missing. Sid admits that he might have bragged about his investigative prowess, enough so that Jen wants him to find their missing player.
Miss Silver Deals with Death
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Maud Silver, governess-turned-sleuth, investigates a case of blackmail in a once-grand London apartment house.
Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived; her husband did not. Then there’s Ivy, a sleepwalking maid with a curious past.
Witness in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
The opening night of the revival of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution” at New York’s New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death right on center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high-profile celebrity homicide on her hands…
Lord Valentine’s Castle
by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.
Then Valentine begins to dream—and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.
Spearhead
by Adam Makos
Rating: 4.8 #ad
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.” – The Wall Street Journal
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel—and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
For My Own Good
by Vanessa Garbin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Cocooned in her home, and wracked with guilt, a young mother tries to get her life back on track… Mary is on medication but it is making her forgetful.
She has been ever since her nine-month-old baby was injured whilst in her care.Mary can’t remember the details but fortunately the infant is fine now. Her husband is way over-protective, making her stay in the house and take on a nanny.
Mary knows it’s for her own good. She couldn’t bear the thought of anything else happening to her beloved child.
Accidentally Wonderful
by Michelle Zuriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A struggling single father discovers life’s tiny miracles in this wonderous debut novel from up-and-coming author Michelle Zuriel.
A moment’s mistake on the job lands dedicated police officer Avinoam Shaked with four months of community service to be served at his local day center. Still shaken by the accident, Avinoam’s mixed feelings about the center dissipate as he gets to know its caregivers and residents whose lives it has changed:
Young and upbeat Julie, looking for some small refuge from her psychotic episodes and relapses; Orna, the manager of the day center, who struggles to maintain both its day-to-day operations and her crumbling marriage; and Jonathan, Avinoam’s disabled son, whose condition is not the sole cause of their distant, fragile relationship.
Where’s Chuckawalla Bill’s Cabin?
by Kevin Heaton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
How does one become so hopelessly lost, even after considerable planning and preparation? The answer to that question is recovered here in this true tale of despair, & perseverance. From the moment his ill-fated hike begins, you will see what the author sees, & feel what he feels as, step by step, his precarious situation becomes increasingly desperate. Heaton is not likely to make it out of the desert alive, but you will find yourself hoping against hope that he does.