Mysteries

Old Man’s Adventure
by Nolan Stark
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Wesley Boone gave his company forty years. They gave him a fake gold watch. Retired against his will and driving home through the worst storm Wisconsin can throw at him, he is fresh out of reasons to get up in the morning. Then a broken barricade stops him in his tracks.
Something went over the edge of that ravine, and it’s still down there. Wesley should call for help and drive on. He climbs down instead. What he finds at the bottom talks. Right inside his head. It’s pushy, it’s snarky, and it has no intention of leaving.

Chosen By My Weredragon
by Celeste Raye
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She was building a future for his people. He was sent to protect it—and never expected to fall for her. Ganneth has spent years on dying Dobromia, hunting rebels who threaten peace. When weapons reveal a conspiracy on Earth, he is sent to find the hidden traitor.
Fiona is an engineer helping Weredragon refugees build a new future. Working beside Ganneth is dangerous enough, but resisting the fierce warrior proves impossible. As sabotage and rebellion close in, Ganneth discovers Fiona is his fated mate. To save worlds, he must risk everything for the woman fate chose for him.

Born in Texas Box Set #1
by Jo Grafford
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Five swoony hometown heroes face old wounds, dangerous secrets, and second chances at love in this heart-pounding Christian romantic suspense collection. A fiercely independent cowgirl and her family’s ranch are caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous enemy. A guarded soldier — just passing through — may be their only hope of surviving what’s coming.
A proud, injured cowboy. The EMT best friend he never stopped loving. When two desperate strangers seek refuge on his family’s ranch, their second chance at love becomes a fight to protect a found family from the dangerous men coming after them.

The Stars Shine Down
by Sidney Sheldon
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From the bleak poverty of Glace Bay to Manhattan’s skyline, one woman built an empire—yet a single misstep could bring it all crashing down. Lara Cameron, an insecure, ruthless, and beautiful self-made billionaire finds that everything she has ever desired and won has become swiftly imperiled.
Driven, proud, and fiercely uncompromising, she gambled fortunes on towering skyscrapers while perilous alliances shadowed her triumph. Across decades of relentless expansion, every luxury hotel and glittering tower demanded a calculated sacrifice. When world-class concert pianist Philip Adler enters her life, genuine devotion clashes with an empire built on secrets.

The Tucson Valley Retirement Community Cozy Mystery Series Book Set
by Marcy Blesy
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Thirty-nine-year-old Rosi Laruee—named Rosisophia Doroche after her mother’s beloved Golden Girls—decides that the end of her twenty-year marriage and her dad’s impending knee replacement surgery are all the excuses she needs to visit Tucson Valley Retirement Community.
But the drama follows Rosi when she finds the body of local tart and business owner, Salem Mansfield. The information she discovers using her newspaper reporter sleuthing skills coupled with the clues she picks up from lackluster Police Officer Dan Daniel lead to a surprise discovery when the murderer is revealed.

U is for Undertow
by Sue Grafton
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Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone’s office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure.

Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child. Kinsey has nearly nothing to go on.

O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.
by A.G. Russo
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The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy’s fight for survival was different.

Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself.

Quarry’s Reunion
by Max Allan Collins
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To celebrate, MWA Grand Master Collins is taking Quarry somewhere he’s never gone before: back home, to the town in Ohio where he grew up, before his tour of duty in Vietnam and his even bloodier experiences Stateside.
An old high-school girlfriend summons Quarry for his 50th reunion – but old times take a back seat when bullets start to fly. Thrilling, moving, and revealing, this new installment in Quarry’s Edgar and Shamus Award-nominated saga delivers a powerful capstone to the killer’s career – and a perfect entry point for readers new to Quarry’s story.

Blood and Ashes

by Eric Wilder

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In the sultry haze of New Orleans, where shadows whisper secrets and history bleeds through the soil, private investigator Wyatt Thomas—renowned for untangling the city’s haunted past—tackles the enigma of Belle Reve’s destruction. The antebellum plantation mansion lies in charred ruins, officially blamed on an electrical fault.

But the streets hum with darker tales: arson fueled by vengeance, fanned by social media vitriol hailing the fire as “justice” for the estate’s brutal slaveholding legacy. Some point to descendants of the enslaved, their pain etched into the land’s bones.

Not a Word
by Linwood Barclay
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Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story.

For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself. As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.

Faith Hunter
by William Pickrel
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Daniel Rowan used to find things for a living. Then he found something that cost too many people too much, and he disappeared to a cottage at the end of a dirt road. Now a foundation director has tracked him down with a clay jar from a dead collector’s estate.

Inside is a scroll written by a man who calls himself the son of Jesse. It tells where he laid down the sword of Goliath, and why he wrapped it in cloth: his own men had started turning on each other around it.

The Kate Dawson Mysteries, Books 1–3
by John L. Flynn
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Det. Kate Dawson is called to investigate a mass murder and soon finds herself putting her life on the line to stop a doomsday cult from stoking the fires of Armageddon . . .

A car full of corpses on San Francisco’s subway system has Kate facing illegal arms dealers and racing to stop a runaway train loaded with deadly toxins as it speeds toward a packed stadium . . . Kate is called to San Francisco International Airport after a corpse is found in the lavatory of Air Force One.

Deadlock
by Iris Johansen
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Emily Hudson is a renowned archaeologist who travels the world to save priceless artifacts from theft or destruction. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side—until one day, when her entire crew comes under attack. Joel and Emily are held hostage by a sadistic captor who is determined to find the missing link to a legendary treasure.

For weeks they struggle to survive against terrifying odds, pushed to their limits—and beyond . . . John Garrett has worked for the CIA, British intelligence, and whoever else was willing to pay for his services.

A Cornucopia of Murder
by Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)
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When Charlie accepts an invitation for a potluck Thanksgiving feast, she immediately decides to bring dessert. Homemade pies, of course. And they look so delicious that two of the guests decide to sneak a few bites before the meal.

Which wouldn’t be an issue, except they both end up dead! Obviously, Charlie didn’t poison the pies, but that’s not how it appears. Can she solve the case in time to save the day?

Paw and Order
by Spencer Quinn
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In the seventh book in the brilliant New York Times bestselling mystery series, canine narrator Chet and PI Bernie Little journey to Washington, DC, and the dog-eat-dog world of our nation’s capital. Chet and Bernie pay a visit to Bernie’s girlfriend, Suzie Sanchez, an ace reporter living in Washington, DC.

She’s working on a big story she can’t talk about, but when her source, a mysterious Brit with possible intelligence connections, runs into trouble of the worst kind, Bernie suddenly finds himself under arrest.

Clive Cussler Obsidian Sky
by Dirk Cussler
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When National Underwater and Marine Agency director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of archaeologists trapped in a cavern by an earthquake, an unexpected artifact is discovered that rewrites history. A two-thousand-year-old silver scroll contains a message in a language more ancient than Phoenician and offering clues to a priceless treasure from antiquity.

While they work to decipher the message, another mystery arises. A freighter has disappeared without a trace in the Mediterranean. When Pitt and his partner Al Giordino find the wreck, they discover that the cargo—a large scale particle accelerator capable of creating plutonium and radioisotopes—is missing.