Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Siena
by T A Williams
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A lazy weekend in the country… Dan Armstrong and the new love of his life, Anna, are heading to a hotel deep in the gorgeous Tuscan countryside for a long weekend, looking forward to some time away from the stresses of their day jobs. With the beautiful and historic city of Siena just around the corner, it promises to be relaxing and enjoyable. What could possibly go wrong?
A mutilated body… But when a mutilated body is discovered in the hotel grounds Dan is called in to help with the investigation. But who or what could have been responsible for such a vicious attack? Was it the work of wild animals, or is there a brutal murderer at large? A killer who cried wolf?
Special Agent Isabella
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Governor Stacy Bolden fears how the world can survive so much dysfunction.
When Tanner chooses to partner with Special Agent Isabella, she’s totally bummed. Desperately needing some downtime, she sure-as-he…ck doesn’t want to spend it with him. He’d been the bane of her teenage existence, and now, because of his demands, her boss is forcing her to work with him to protect a child.
How the hell could she do that when little people scared her silly? She’d rather face a drugged-up sicko with a loaded handgun and frequently has.
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Ben and the Witch
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Sigrid Cadwell possesses a rare talent for herbal remedies and healing, but her abilities are misunderstood by the superstitious townsfolk. Gossips start to spread like wildfire, and soon enough, everybody begins to think that Sigrid is a witch.
Eventually the gossips reach the ears of a nearby Indian tribe. And once Sigrid flees her own town, the Indians pursue her. The tribe will not stop until they get hold of the witch. But for what?
Sigrid is prepared to face an onslaught, for which she will defy with her life… until she crosses path with gunslinger Benjamin Sterling.
The Flash Girls
by J.M. Cannon
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Charleston, South Carolina.
Years ago, three teenage girls vanished under similar circumstances. While alone outside at night, they saw a camera flash burst from the dark. A man standing in the shadows took their picture.
In the days following they’re stalked. They hear noises in their bedrooms. Find boot prints in the flower beds outside their windows. Not long after, the girls vanish…
Falling Darkness
by Karen Harper
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Forensic psychologist Claire Britten finds herself at the mercy of a treacherous sea in the third nail-biting South Shores novel.
Claire Britten’s training never prepared her for this—the forensic psychology curriculum didn’t cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter—and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
Shards of Earth
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man’s discovery will save or destroy us all.
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete…
The Lewis Trilogy
by Peter May
Rating: 4.5 #ad
‘Peter May is a writer I’d follow to the ends of the earth’ New York Times
The isle of Lewis is a land of strange beauty, harsh living and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
Detective Inspector Fin Macleod returns from Edinburgh to the island of his childhood to investigate a series of brutal killings. As old memories resurface and old friends reappear, Fin realizes that returning to the past will lead him into danger.
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?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Good Dog’s Guide to Murder
by Krista Davis
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The great Gingerbread Dog & Cat House competition has come to Wagtail, along with another murder to solve for Holly and her supersmart Jack Russell terrier Trixie in the New York Times bestselling Paws & Claws series by Krista Davis!
Visitors are arriving in droves to spend Thanksgiving in the mountains of pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia. Many of them are bringing dog and cat gingerbread houses to enter in the contest that will be held in the new convention center. Wagtail resident Orly Biffle bequeathed the land to the town in his will, provided that they not cut down the grand old oak tree on the property. Orly’s children are mighty miffed that they didn’t inherit the prime piece of property overlooking the lake.
Synapse
by Steven James
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant humanoid robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what machines?know,?but with what they?believe.
Soon after experiencing a personal tragedy, Kestrel witnesses a terrorist attack on a nearby artificial factory and is drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her Artificial, have to untangle. With a second, more brutal attack looming on the horizon, their best chance of stopping it is teaming up with federal counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon. But the clock is ticking—and all the while, Jordan is asking questions Artificials were never meant to ask.
Inside Man
by Jeff Abbott
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sam Capra’s friend Steve has been murdered, shot dead in the rain outside of his Miami bar. The only lead: a mysterious, beautiful stranger Steve tried to protect. To avenge his friend, Sam goes undercover into the Varelas, one of Miami’s most prominent and dangerous families.
Now on the inside, playing a part where one wrong move means death, Sam faces a powerful, unstable tycoon intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who each may hold murderous secrets of their own.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“THIS WILL STIR YOUR FAITH…” “YOU’VE NEVER READ A BOOK LIKE THIS…” “AN EMOTIONAL AND STIRRING READ…”
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing! When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike…
The Lightness of Water
by Toni Cabell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion Award
2022 Winner – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
2022 Gold Medal – Best Fantasy Romance – Global Book Awards
The only thing more dangerous than divining for water is falling in love with the enemy…
Solace is beautiful, strong-willed, and called the water witch by her neighbors. She divines for water in the arid hills of her home – a dangerous pastime across the border, where the king controls access to all the water.
Rhees is brooding, bitter, and hiding a deadly secret. But he’s determined to find a way to help the thirsty people of his land – even if it means kidnapping the last living water diviner.
The Deeds of the Disturber
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Back in London after an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody—“rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one”—discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in the shadow of a mummy case (The Washington Post Book World).
There are murmurings about an ancient curse, but a skeptical Amelia is determined to find an all-too-human killer. Soon, she’s balancing family demands, including the troubles of her precocious son, Ramses (aka Walter), with not just one unsolved crime, but two . . .
The Ashes of the Unknown
by Ryan Schow
Rating: 4.6 #ad
USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR & #1 POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION AUTHOR
“Amazing characters, non-stop action, and enough plot twists and turns to make it impossible to put this book down. Looking forward to book three.” – Libby, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★
Cody Banks destroyed his life before enlisting in the Marines. But tough decisions in America drained the military’s resources, leaving the nation vulnerable to attack. When Cody’s detachment returns to a powerless country, he finds himself steeped in the blood of a brand new war. His enemies are swift, brutal, and at times, scattered; to get back home to Burning Hollow, he’ll have to cut a path straight through them, and the middle of Hell itself…
Cradle and All
by James Patterson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Cradle & All
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant–even though she is still a virgin.
In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition.
And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tied Up With a Bow
by Sheila Connolly
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pub owner Maura Donovan is still learning the local customs of the Irish village she now calls home, and with the holidays approaching she’s unsure how much, or how little, to decorate. She’s also puzzled by the small construction project going on across the street, which is shrouded in secrecy and has the whole of West Cork guessing what it might be. But most troubling of all is the secretive young boy who shows up at the pub’s door, hinting that he and his mother had to leave Dublin–in a hurry.
Sensing danger, Maura becomes more alarmed when an unknown man shows up and begins lurking around the pub…
Psychological Thriller Box Set
by Cole Baxter
Rating: 4.2 #ad
INTRODUCING FOUR GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS BY COLE BAXTER.
‘Do not start this book until you have cleared your schedules as you will not be able to put it down!! -Bookworm86
IN THIS FOUR-BOOK BOX SET:
THE PERFECT SUITOR
THE NIGHT NURSE
THE BETRAYAL
I WON’T LET YOU GO
Blazing China
by R. F. Whong
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Leesan wants to produce heirs to carry on the Lee family name and manage their enormous estates. When she delivers identical twin girls, Ann-Ann and May-May, just before the Cultural Revolution in China, she cannot imagine how much their world is about to change. Now, with her husband dead, their land forfeited to the government, and their lives in jeopardy, Leesan, her mother-in-law, Su-Ann, and her daughters must surrender all that’s left of the past, even as they struggle to hold on to their Christian faith.
As the persecution intensifies, Red Guards murder those caught attending their home church, and the survivors are scattered in different directions. From Beijing to Inner Mongolia, from Hong Kong to California, hardship and the clash between ideologies challenge their faith, love, and loyalty.
The Walker in Shadows
by Barbara Michaels
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A mother learns evil resides in the house next door in this chilling classic gothic mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author.
The house next door to Pat Robbins – eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Markha – s been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark’s heart on first glance. But something is not right – something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next door – and it means to feed on the fears of two families . . . and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
by Clive Barker
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the archipelago of Abarat, each island is governed by a different hour of the day. But the Lord of Midnight is determined to rule them all. Ever since Candy Quackenbush arrived here from Chickentown, Minnesota, she’s been caught up in his devious schemes. But Candy’s adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour.
Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?
Cauldron of Blood
by Jim Schutze
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Mark Kilroy vanished while on spring break in Matamoros, Mexico, the search for the missing pre-med student led to a gruesome discovery on a lonely stretch of land called Rancho Santa Elena: a mass grave containing Mark’s mutilated corpse along with the remains of thirteen other people. The investigation uncovered how the victims were brutally killed at the hands of drug trafficker and cult leader Adolpho Constanzo, known by his followers as El Padrino, or The Godfather. Constanzo was a serial killer who, along with his followers, tortured and cannibalized innocent people in the barbaric religious ritual of human sacrifice.
Twilight Falling
by Paul S. Kemp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Newly dedicated to the Mask, an assassin-turned-butler returns to the shadowy lifestyle he once left behind
Over one decade ago, the Night Knives placed spy Erevis Cale into the wealthy Uskevren household, tasking him with gathering intel that would tarnish the family’s name. But as Cale’s relationship with his employers deepened with time, he grew tired of serving two masters—and ultimately sided with Thamalon, the Uskevren patriarch.
The Edge
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.5 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America’s dirtiest secrets—can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out?
When CIA operative Jenny Silkwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives. In need of someone who can solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information, the U.S. government knows just the chameleon they can call on.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Pilgrims Way
by Julie Wassmer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother, Dolly – an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel – the newly named Villa Pellegrini.
Pellegrini – the Italian word for pilgrims – reflects the fact that the building lies on the old Pilgrims Way into Canterbury, and Pearl is looking forward to the break, not least because DCI Mike McGuire has been neglecting her due to his work. But when she discovers that she’s actually booked in for a cookery course from the Italian celebrity chef, Nico Caruso, she begins to think again . . .
The Deception of Fear
by Kevin M. Mansoor
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Haunted by nightmares and feelings of loss, Sarah struggles to be strong for her family. She should be happy. . .
Seven years after the conclusion of Avenging Love, deep within the ocean, a familiar demon stirs, deep within Hell, a new plot is unleashed, and deep within David’s heart, the seed of fear takes root.
Which David will show up for the fight? In an ending that surprised even the author, this novel continues the fast-paced thrill ride of Avenging Love yet leaves the reader at the edge of. . .
The Artist
by Cathryn Grant
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sitting for an oil painting might feel like torture, but what if it truly is? What if you wind up dead?
Everyone keeps telling Morgan she’s incredibly lucky to get the chance to have her portrait painted by the fabulous Ember West. But Ember’s demands are increasingly uncomfortable and almost impossible to meet.
The rest of her family is gushing with praise for Ember’s talent, but slowly Morgan begins to uncover a family with secrets, a family who lies as easily as they enjoy Ember’s wealth and fame.
Rosie
by Jonathan Dunne
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A deep well of the darkest wishes.
Rosie and Victor Ryan, real estate investors, land a massive sale to the mystery buyer of Wishing Well House. But the same night the Ryan family celebrate the sale, a bizarre accident robs Rosie of her mobility, freezing their idyllic life in tragedy.
Victor volunteers to be quadriplegic Rosie’s full-time caregiver. But the accident has turned his wife into a paranoid stranger in a wheelchair she calls Winter. Rosie is convinced an evil entity of untold horror lurks outside their house and is trying to come in. Her obsession with protecting the household triggers Victor’s descent into madness.
Cup of Blood
by Jeri Westerson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
ACTION-PACKED MEDIEVAL DETECTIVE: When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest—disgraced knight turned detective–begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope. Further complicating matters are two women: one from court with an enticing proposition, and another from Crispin’s past, dredging up long-forgotten emotions he would rather have left behind. And as if all that weren’t enough, a cunning young cutpurse by the name of Jack Tucker has insinuated himself into Crispin’s already difficult life
Thunder Heights
by Phyllis A. Whitney
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on the Hudson where her mother died under mysterious circumstances, Camilla complies, partly out of curiosity for the family she never had, and partly because of whispers of an inheritance.
What she finds there is a demanding and unwelcoming tyrant, two wraithlike aunts haunted by an unnamable grief, a cunning idler living off the Judd fortune, and her grandfather’s rigid and suspicious aide.
Wrecked
by Joe Ide
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Isaiah Quintabe — IQ for short — has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go to the corner store without being recognized. Dodson, once his sidekick, is now his full-fledged partner, hell-bent on giving IQ’s PI business some real legitimacy: a Facebook page, and IQ’s promise to stop accepting Christmas sweaters and carpet cleanings in exchange for PI services.
So when a young painter approaches IQ for help tracking down her missing mother, it’s not just the case Isaiah’s looking for, but the human connection.
The Cutting Edge
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City to investigate a triple murder and confront a killer terrorizing couples at their happiest–and most vulnerable in this explosive New York Times bestseller.
In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan’s Diamond District, a brutal triple murder shocks the city. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs quickly take the case. Curiously, the killer has left behind a half-million dollars’ worth of gems at the murder scene, a jewelry store on 47th street. As more crimes follow, it becomes clear that the killer’s target is not gems, but engaged couples themselves.
Alien – Inferno’s Fall
by Philippa Ballantine, Clara Carija
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A gargantuan, horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that creates Xenomorph-like monsters worse than the darkest of nightmares.
As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists’ only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals—an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendricks, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they arrived time?