Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Copenhagen Connection
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A strange twist of fate at the Copenhagen Airport brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar’s new private assistant. But luck can go from good to bad in an instant—and less than twenty-four hours later, the great lady is kidnapped by persons unknown.
Suddenly desperate in a foreign land, Elizabeth must cast her lot with Rosenberg’s handsome, insufferable son Christian in hopes of finding her vanished benefactor.
I Remember Now
by Robert W. Kirby
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Melinda never really knew her husband. Until he died.
When Melinda’s husband, Gabriel, is murdered while walking their dog in some local fields, her world is smashed to pieces.
Melinda, who was also attacked and knocked out during the terrifying ordeal, tries to get her life back on track, but the grief is overwhelming. Then, months after the incident, she has an intense flashback. The killer said something to Gabriel in the moments before stabbing him, something that seems to indicate they knew each other.
Christmas Family Style
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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The Garlucci Family is reunited as they prepare to celebrate Christmas in historic Savannah, Georgia. Carlita is thrilled to have all of her children and grandchildren with her once again.
Pete treats Carlita and her family to a special surprise when he invites them to join him on board The Flying Gunner for the Merry Bay Christmas boat parade. There is dinner and dancing, and even Santa is on hand for the children.
Killing Women
by Rod Sadler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free.
As a former youth pastor who attended the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, Don Miller seemed like a decent young man. But in 1978, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers. Police soon connected Miller to the disappearances of four women. In exchange for a controversial plea bargain, he led police to the missing women’s bodies.
Now, thanks to the deal he was offered and changes to Michigan law, Miller is allowed to seek parole once a year. In Killing Women, author Rodney Sadler examines the crimes, the “justice” meted out, and the possibility that Miller could be unleashed on the world once again.
Search the Shadows
by Barbara Michaels
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers—and a personal history—brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness, Haskell’s exposing much more than she bargained for. And now she’s racing against the clock to discover who she really is . . . and why someone is suddenly determined to kill her.
Shadow’s Secret
by Mary Stone
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Hidden secrets lead to deadly lies…
Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid.
However, her vacation is cut short when a seventeen-year-old goes missing with no leads or clues. When the girl’s body is found in a nearby marsh with strangulation marks around her neck, Rebecca can’t say no when the overworked sheriff asks her to help investigate.
The Extinction Trials
by A.G. Riddle
Rating: 4.2 #ad
After a mysterious event, six strangers wake up in an underground bunker. They don’t know where they are. Or how much time has passed. They soon learn that they’re part of an experiment to restart the human race. What they don’t know is that this experiment hides a secret. And so does the world outside.
From the bestselling author of Departure and Winter World, comes a standalone novel with a twist you’ll never forget.
The Christmas Scorpion
by Lee Child
Rating: 3.9 #ad
On Christmas Eve, Jack Reacher stumbles into a no-name bar in the California desert, desperate to take refuge from an unexpected snowstorm. Reacher came to Barstow for a little R&R. Instead, he’s sequestered in a dark little roadhouse with a bartender, a bewildered elderly couple—and two members of Britain’s Royal Military Police. They tell Reacher they were escorting a VIP to a top-secret meeting at a U.S. military base when they became separated from their charge. That’s when the threat came in from a notorious assassin: the Christmas Scorpion. Now they need a miracle to save the day. Or maybe all they need is Jack Reacher.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Silverhill
by Phyllis A. Whitney
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After decades away, Malinda Rice returns to the New Hampshire estate of Silverhill to make sure her departed mother is buried in her rightful place in the family plot. Still carrying the scars of her past, she’s determined to solve the mysteries behind the bad blood that has divided her family. But, like old memories, Malinda is not welcome at Silverhill.
She faces her embittered grandmother, a manipulative tyrant to be feared and never crossed. And her disturbed aunt is lost in a fantasy world, desperate to be rescued. Malinda finds solace with the handsome family doctor, whom she discovers is the only person she can trust, however guarded.
The Camelot Caper
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Lethal Stuff of Legends
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest…
Britannia
by Simon Scarrow
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Simon Scarrow’s veteran Roman soldier heroes face a cunning and relentless enemy in BRITANNIA, the unforgettable fourteenth novel in the bestselling Eagles of the Empire series.
Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries?
Wounded Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Prefect Cato leads an invasion deep into the hills. Cato’s mission: to cement Rome’s triumph over the natives by crushing the Druid stronghold. But with winter drawing in, the terrain is barely passable through icy rain and snowstorms.
Starship Found, Child Missing
by Miles Rozak
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The night I discovered the spaceship, we didn’t know why they’d chosen Earth…
Until they took my four-year-old and left me to die in the void.
But their miscalculation was taking what I hold most dear. Vast light years and galactic warlords won’t be enough to stop me from tracking down my boy. Whatever they think they’ve started, I’m on my way to end this. No matter what it takes.
It’s Your Turn Now
by Theo Baxter
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Daisy is desperate to escape her husband. But has she made a deal with the devil?
Daisy Costigan is desperate to leave her violent, controlling husband, Bruce. But she knows he’ll never let her go. And if she tries to escape, he’s promised he’ll do whatever it takes to track her down and have his revenge. She’s trapped.
One day Daisy meets a charming stranger in a bookstore. His name is Marco and he overhears Daisy’s terrified phone conversation with controller Bruce.
Marco makes Daisy an offer. He’ll take care of Bruce if she’ll help him with a little problem – his wife.
Half Past Midnight
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate suffers a fate worse than death
A grieving couple hires paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn’t dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the answer and soon learns death isn’t always a person’s worst fate. Will Wyatt solve the sticky mystery or fall victim to the seemingly supernatural killer and suffer a fate worse than death?
Half Past Midnight is Book 10 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans. Visit the Big Easy tonight. You might decide to stay awhile.
Family Sins
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Felled by a cowardly shot to the back, Stanton Youngblood has just enough time before he dies to leave a single clue to his killer’s identity: the word Wayne, scrawled in his own blood.
That word means everything to his widow. Leigh Youngblood was once Leigh Wayne, but she left her wealthy family behind thirty years ago when she fell in love with Stanton, a betrayal the Waynes have never forgiven. Now she publicly vows to discover which of her siblings thinks money and power are enough to cover up a murder.
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
When MacArthur is appointed the U.S. Army chief of staff, he becomes the youngest four-star general and one of America’s most powerful men. Out of hubris, he takes Isabel with him to America without marrying her.
Cabal
by Clive Barker
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, he seeks refuge and finds the last great creatures of the world – the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. They are possessed of unearthly powers-and so is Boone. In the hunt for Boone, they too will be hunted. Now only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction. And only the undying passion of a woman can save Boone from his own corrupting hell…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Bluebonnet Ballerina
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gracie Hofner returns, and chaos reigns—including a couple of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter.
As Gracie dances from problem to problem, she’s unaware the music has been orchestrated into a murderous symphony. When a different melody reaches Gracie’s ears from a guitar played by the new tenant living in her garage apartment, her tension vanishes. She listens unseen, cocooned in the shadows on her patio, and wonders who he’s longing for—and how it would feel for a man to crave her that much.
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The Body Falls
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Bridges Down – Roads Impassable – Killer Trapped
April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is taking place. The town is abuzz with excitement, but it starts to rain, causing the cyclists to postpone the start of their event and stay overnight in the town. The rain doesn’t stop—it becomes relentless, torrential.
In the middle of the night, Police Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap, where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has fallen onto a passing vehicle.
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Death Speaks
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Cordelia McNibbs leaves London, England, for the desert town of her childhood, Quartzsite, Arizona. She is prepared to make a decision about the future of the museum that her late aunt, Maybelle Peterson, left her. She is not prepared to solve the 30-year-old murder of Abel, her aunt’s best friend’s son, or to face Dorrie – a shrunken head in the museum that “speaks” and holds a clue to the murderer. She most definitely is not prepared to fall in love all over again with childhood friend Jacy Blackbird.
MB, as the town people affectionately called Cordy’s aunt, has left a directive: Cordy must solve the mystery of Abel’s death and she must not fall in love with Jacy – because he could be the killer.
Puppet Master
by Raoul Michelle
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The only constant is change.
Recently retired, Maurice Marceau hardly has a chance to rest. Not that he wants to. Madeleine, his daughter, a West Point graduate, now an attorney, could use his help, and her request is much too tempting.
Betrayal, a kidnapping, and a terrorist attack are just the beginning. This father-daughter duo will need to learn to work together. In doing so, they travel from Central Pennsylvania to New York, DC, Paris, Shanghai and throughout Turkey.
Ice and Bone
by Monte Francis
Rating: 4.1 #ad
On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, thirty-three-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one of six women, mostly Native Alaskan, slain that year, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. A tanned and thuggish twenty-year-old would eventually implicate himself in three of the women’s deaths and confess, in detail, to Della’s murder. Yet, after a three-month trial, Joshua Wade would walk free. In 2007, when Wade kidnapped a well-loved nurse psychologist from her home and then executed her in the remote wilderness of Wasilla, two astute female detectives joined forces to finally bring him to justice.
Even Dogs in the Wild
by Ian Rankin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rebus comes out of retirement…to save his nemesis.
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She’s investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what was left behind at the scene — an ominous note.
Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues because of his past in the Complaints bureau, he’s been reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance team — one that trusts him even less than his own boss does — track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping Clarke with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel like a real cop.
Dead in the Water
by Hailey Edwards
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave’s golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin.
A routine consultation goes sideways when a victim’s brother gets involved in the investigation. Riding the edge of grief, the warg will go to any lengths to avenge his sister’s death. Even if it means ensuring Cam’s cooperation at the jaws of his wolf.
When the killer strikes again, Cam is caught between a warg and a hard place. To save the next victim, she must embrace her past. Even if it means dragging her darkest secrets into the light of day.
An American in Scotland
by Lucy Connelly
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The small idyllic town of Sea Isle, Scotland, harbors some dark secrets, and Dr. Emilia McRoy is determined to uncover all of them – no matter what the diagnosis in this charming cozy, sure to enchant fans of Sheila Connolly and Charlene O’Connor.
Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter as a small-town doctor to the quirky residents who immediately welcomed her. When she stumbles across a dead body, she starts to think that she may not be as Scot free of the drama and intrigue as she initially thought.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Chosen Legacy Complete Series
by Brittany Hester
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When the pressure of spending the rest of her life shackled to someone else overwhelms her, Ren makes a choice that will change the course of her entire life.
She signs up for the yearly lottery. When she’s selected, she’s thrust into a game the whole world is watching.
Will she be able to win the life she desires, or will the outcome be something she didn’t expect?
Grab your copy of this complete 4-book series boxed set to lose your heart as The Bachelorette meets Hunger Games in the The Chosen Legacy Series!
The Man Trapped by Shadows
by Pete Zacharias
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A journalist. A serial killer. An invitation to the dark side. The risks are beyond imagining in the heart-racing sequel to The Man Burned by Winter.
Rooker Lindström is a reluctant consultant for the Minnesota PD. He can provide a window into evil. His horrifying past gives him the edge. When the body of a woman—missing for eight years—is pulled from the lake, evil comes knocking again. This time with a note meant just for Rooker: Won’t you come out and play?
A request from the police. A dare from a killer. And now a plea from a distraught mother whose daughter has suddenly vanished too…
Standing Dead
by Margaret Mizushima
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From critically acclaimed, master thriller author Margaret Mizushima, comes the eighth installment of the award-winning Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.
“Tense and satisfying,” (JA Jance) Standing Dead is the perfect read for fans of CJ Box and Longmire.
Deputy Mattie Cobb and her sister, Julia, travel to Mexico to visit their mother, but when they arrive, they discover that she and her husband have vanished without a trace. Back in Timber Creek, Mattie finds a chilling note on her front door telling her to look for “him” among the standing dead up in the high country.
A Fox in the Fold
by Candace Robb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A standout . . . Robb reinforces her place among the top writers of medieval historicals” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review
October, 1376. Owen Archer is summoned by sheriff Sir Ralph Hastings regarding a stripped and bloodied body discovered on the road north to York. Could it be connected to an attack on a carter and his labourers who were transporting stone destined for St Clement’s Priory? The carter fled, but his men stayed to fight and are now missing. Is the victim one of them?
At first Owen believes the catalyst for murder and menace in York is the arrival of the political pariah William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. But he soon suspects that a formidable and skillful adversary from his past has arrived in the city…
The New Wilderness
by Diane Cook
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature.
Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now.
It Waits on the Top Floor
by Ben Farthing
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Thursday night, it was a dirt lot. Friday morning, it was a 60-story skyscraper.
A tech billionaire wants the building’s secrets for herself. She hires a team to reverse-engineer the overnight construction. But she knows more than she’s letting on.
A curious 9-year-old decides there’s treasure inside, and goes exploring. His terrified dad chases close behind. Inside, the facade of an empty office building is quickly shattered. Ghostly figures stalk the explorers. The walls themselves are hungry. And something is waiting on the top floor.
Full Metal Jack
by Diane Capri
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Everything ends somewhere… For Jack Reacher, that was Carter’s Crossing, Mississippi, spring 1997. A desolate railroad track. A brutal murder. The end of a decorated soldier’s career. History repeats itself. Now there’s another woman dead in the same lonely place. FBI Special Agent Kim Otto is sent to find out everything she can, be on the lookout for Reacher, and ordered to turn him in for capture. But when she gets to Carter’s Crossing, the local sheriff and Mayor Elizabeth Deveraux have joined forces with two Majors from the Army’s 110th Investigative Unit to bury the truth forever. The Affair was the start of the Reacher saga. In Full Metal Jack, will Otto’s career end where Reacher’s began?