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Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Cry for Vengeance
by Ernesto Patino
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Moments before he dies, terminally ill Karl Muller makes a startling deathbed confession: he admits to killing thousands of Jews during World War II. His nurse, Helen Dobson, is understandably shocked. She refers the matter to Bryan De Luca, a part-time professor with experience in international affairs. De Luca soon learns that shortly after the war, Muller and dozens of former Nazis were recruited by American Intelligence to work as spies against the Soviets.
De Luca also learns that Sam O’Hara, a former immigration investigator, had compiled a secret list of ex-Nazis in America—a list that so-called contractors hired to protect them are desperate to obtain. They’ll stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep the identities of the Nazis from falling into the hands of the JFJ, Jews for Justice, whose sole objective is to kill them…
Guardians of Petra
by William Pickrel
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Some things are not meant to be kept. They are meant to be poured out.
Thirteen months after he buried his wife, archaeologist Michael Dale hasn’t touched a trowel — until a single headline drags him out of the dark. A mass discovery beneath the Treasury at Petra. Twelve skeletons arranged in a perfect circle. A thirteenth at the center, cradling a chalice the tabloids are already calling the Grail.
Michael knows that chamber. Lydia’s notebooks led straight to it — the secret work she was chasing the day she died. So he goes back to the rose-red city one last time, telling himself it’s only to finish what she started.
Death on the Edge
by Sara Paretsky
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Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski is no stranger to the sound of bullets. Growing up in the Windy City, it was a way of life: loved ones taken too early, gangs patrolling the streets by night, police too quick to touch a trigger. Now, in the wake of a string of high school shootings across the United States, V.I.’s hometown has become impassioned by the growing movement to tackle gun violence. News reaches her old high school on Chicago’s South Side that an essay competition spearheaded by renowned newspaper The Edge is calling for high school students to write about how gun violence has affected their young lives. Overseeing the contest is Marcena Love, a British journalist V.I. has tangled with in the past.
Essence of Illusion
by R. F. Whong
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A perfect murder… until it isn’t. Paying homage to the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie, this contemporary whodunit weaves an atypical tale of illusion and intrigue set in the picturesque Amish enclave of Paradise, Pennsylvania.
A year ago, still haunted by the tragic events of September 11, Tina Sheng reluctantly served as a Christian summer camp counselor in Paradise.
Now working as an insurance fraud investigator in nearby Lancaster, Tina, along with her quirky friend Amelia Pak, finds a series of internet posts about a faceless doll that appears with each occurrence of death. The writer warns that a serial killer is at large.
The Iron Tiger
by Jack Higgins
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Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he’s made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he’s ready to hang up his wings.
Unfortunately, a short stop in the tiny Himalayan country of Balpur ends with his plane in flames and Drummond out of luck—until he’s approached with a very strange offer. He must help deliver a sick child over land to the Indian border. It’s not his typical job, but it’s all he’s got. Accompanied by a nurse and an elderly priest, he sets out to make one last delivery.
The Alaskan Lady
by Richard Heard
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A young married couple travel to Alaska’s Denali National Park for their honeymoon and face a female specter inside cabin eight. The newlywed couple(Ron and Jackie Boston) travels from Pennsylvania to Alaska. However, the honeymoon quickly turns grim upon arrival. Denali National Park turns into a battle for breath and lives as the wooden cabin they rent has an uninvited lady who escapes her portal to reek utter terror on Ron and Jackie Boston for a murder committed on her 40 years prior.
The couple, and their guest couple and an Alaskan shaman simultaneously become captive inside cabin eight. The owners of the resort know the history of the property but stay button lipped to continue business as the specter holds and terrorizes the folks over three days in the winter snow drenched mountain retreat. Achak, the Air force veteran and air taxi pilot, uses his sage and Haida warrior background to fend off the raging deceased Native lady’s onslaught. Not until the entity’s murder cold case ( investigated by an Anchorage Alaska Detective Robinson ) is solved will her soul be at peace.
Five Chimneys
by Olga Lengyel
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Experience one of the most harrowing accounts of survival and resilience with Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys, a firsthand narrative of her time in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Told with unflinching honesty, this day-by-day account captures the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of a woman who endured it.
Lengyel’s vivid storytelling offers a raw, deeply personal perspective on one of history’s darkest chapters, shedding light on the brutality of concentration camps while also highlighting the strength of the human spirit.
The Lies I Tell
by Julie Clark
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Two women. Many aliases.
Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.