Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Peril in Paris
by Rhys Bowen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpected trip to Paris will thrust them straight into a tangled web of international intrigue in this all-new mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen.
What a delight it is to finally be able to enjoy a simple meal again! I have been in the throes of morning sickness for the last few months as Darcy and I prepare to welcome a brand-new addition to our little family. Now that I am feeling better, I have realized I am dreadfully bored! It seems that all my nearest and dearest are off leading their own busy lives while I sit at home and attempt to train our two adorably naughty puppies. Fun as it may be, it is hard not to long for a little adventure, a change of pace, before my true confinement begins when the baby comes.
End Game
by Logan Ryles
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A small town governed by greed and corruption. Then Mason Sharpe rolls in.
On a dark Alabama highway, army veteran Mason Sharpe witnesses a terrible accident. As he fights to rescue a woman from the burning vehicle he notices one of her eyes is bright blue, the other deep brown. Then, she vanishes. Gone without a trace.
When Mason describes her to local police, they’re stunned. His description matches one Delia Crawford, famed for her unusual eyes. But Delia disappeared as a child, eleven years prior. How could she possibly show up in a car accident now?
A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.
A Touch of Malice
by Scarlett St. Clair
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“I am not sure who you think I am,” she said. “But let me be clear—I am Persephone, future Queen of the Underworld, Lady of Your Fate—may you come to dread my presence.”
Persephone and Hades are engaged. In retaliation, Demeter summons a snowstorm that cripples New Greece, and refuses to lift the blizzard unless her daughter calls off her engagement. When the Olympians intervene, Persephone finds her future in the hands of ancient gods, and they are divided. Do they allow Persephone to marry Hades and go to war with Demeter, or prohibit their union and take up arms against the God of the Dead?
Traded
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jake Wilde has two loves, but neither is going his way.
Pro football star, Jake Wilde is the youngest of the Wilde Brothers and to anyone who doesn’t know him, he appears to be a man who as it all. Only he wears his heart on his sleeve, has been traded from a team he believes is family, and the woman he’s head over heels in love with has walked out the door.
Alone now in a new city, Jake knows no one and tells himself there is nothing to like about this new team.
But when he meets Chris Jeger, a cheerleader who overheard him outside the locker room on the phone begging the woman he’s so twisted up in knots over to give him another chance, he’s not only humiliated, but instead of ignoring him she offers him some unexpected friendly advice.
Abandoned in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They’re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma—a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself…
The Cliff’s Edge
by Charles Todd
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.
Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn into the fray as two once close families take sides, even as they are forced to remain in the same house until the inquest is completed.
House Beside the River
by David Burnett
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lives hang in the balance in this story of romantic suspense featuring a strong heroine, a sweet love story, and the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Running from vile rumors and merciless ridicule, thirteen-year-old Nicole Beaumont flees her home in Parsons Valley, Georgia. She leaves Chris behind, the boy who had been her best friend for life, her soul mate, the one with whom she was supposed to spend her life, and she takes refuge at a boarding school in rural Pennsylvania. Chris had betrayed her, and Nicole vows she will never trust another person as she had trusted Chris.
But when Nicole meets Richard, she finds herself unable to deny the connection between them. He accepts Nicole as she is. He keeps her secrets. When others doubt her, he stands in her defense. They begin to fall in love.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
by William Landay
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A wonderful, well-written novel that crackles with suspense.”—Stephen King
One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.
So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?
The Panther and The Pearl
by Doreen Owens Malek
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The American Beauty: When an innocent excursion to Constantinople took an unexpected twist, Sarah Woolcott found herself a prisoner in the harem of young and virile Kalid Shah. Headstrong and courageous, Sarah was determined to resist the handsome foreigner whose arrogance outraged her– even as his tantalizing touch promised exotic nights of fiery sensuality.
The Turkish Prince: Never had he encountered a woman who inflamed his desire like the blonde Westerner with the independent spirit. Although she spurned his passionate overtures, Kalid vowed to tempt her with his masterful skills until she became a willing companion on their journey of exquisite ecstasy!
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Lioness
by Chris Bohjalian
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests – including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness – will spend their days taking photos, and their evenings drinking chilled gin and tonics back at camp, as the local Tanzanian guides warm water for their baths. The wealthy Americans expect civilized adventure: fresh ice from the kerosene-powered ice maker, dinners of cooked gazelle meat, and plenty of stories to tell over lunch back on Rodeo Drive.
Exocet
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Based on true events surrounding the Falklands War, the New York Times–bestselling master of modern spy-craft delivers a tale of warfare in the shadows.
1982. The Falkland Islands in South America – long claimed by Great Britain – are being contested by Argentina. When Argentina makes a move to occupy the islands, war breaks out as the world holds its breath to see what happens next.
Determined to stay ahead of the enemy at the onset of hostilities, British Intelligence orders beautiful agent Gabrielle Legrand to seduce a high-ranking military official in the Argentine Embassy in London. But what begins as a mission becomes genuine love – and Gabrielle will soon be forced to make a tragic choice between her heart and her country.
Facing the Darkness
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 4.8 #ad
She scuttled the CCP’s biowarfare plans. When they catch her, she will pay.
Dr. Meiling Chen is a brilliant young virologist with a groundbreaking discovery that could change the face of biowarfare. But when she discovers the Chinese Communist Party’s plans to misuse her work, she knows she must act – even if it means risking her own life. On the run from CCP agents, she must find her way to America while staying one step ahead of her pursuers.
Ryan Adams, a meteorologist and well-known blogger in Bend, Oregon, is desperate for reliable information on China’s bioweapons program. But when Meiling’s path crosses his, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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A Killing of Innocents
by Deborah Crombie
Rating: 4.8 #ad
New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spreads across London.
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London’s historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she’s been stabbed.
Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes which are on the rise. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma aids the investigation.
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
Rating: 4.2 #ad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in “the best horror novel of the new century” (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture!
Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site … and the terrifying presence that lurks there.
Through the Motions
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Josie survived a dark childhood by making one promise to herself: once she was an adult, she would allow no one to hurt her again. That promise became even more important when she had a daughter of her own. Four-year-old Katie is her world, and as a brilliant, hyper child, she takes all her energy. But when she meets Calvin, a charming man with a wild past, Josie must fight even harder to keep that promise.
Finder
by Suzanne Palmer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“The zippier, zanier side of space opera.” —B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia’s Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He’ll slip in, decode the ship’s compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep space colony called Cernee. But Fergus’ arrival at the colony is anything but simple.
An Awakened Life, A Journey of Transformation
by Julie Hoyle
Rating: 4.8 #ad
An Awakened Life, A Journey of Transformation is the incredible story of a radical, and unexpected spiritual awakening. At the age of thirty-three, Julie Hoyle was a stressed-out, overworked school teacher. Even though she was not conscious of being on a spiritual search, Julie meets a Master Yogi in a lucid dream. He taps her on the top of the head and bestows her with shaktipat, an ancient form of initiation. Julie feels as if she has been hit by lightning. She is right. Her energy is set ablaze. She is blessed with a radical opening of consciousness, activating a wide range of psychic phenomenon, and affecting every aspect of her life. From that point on, nothing is ever the same again.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
To Kill a Troubadour
by Martin Walker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists’ ire, and it’s up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police.
Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, “Song for Catalonia,” when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence…
The Summer Girls
by Marissa Finch
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Some girls don’t get to grow up…
Six years ago, Maggie Shiner endured the unthinkable when she was abducted and tortured. But her ordeal only worsened after she escaped — because no one believed her. Written off as a troubled teenager with a penchant for drama, Maggie’s been unable to heal from the trauma she underwent. In the years since, she’s hidden herself away on a rural homestead, with only her beloved chickens for company.
That is, until an unexpected visitor threatens her fragile sanctuary.
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith
by Adam Christopher
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine’s forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace.
Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol. The disturbance in the Force is undeniable . . . and Luke’s worst fears are confirmed when his old friend Lando Calrissian comes to him with reports of a new Sith menace.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
An ancient mystery… A skeptical genius… Powerful evil ancestors… A dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate… A horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels who threaten the entire world!
A renowned scientist was orphaned at age eight and has grown to adulthood with no knowledge of his own ancestry. When he is awakened by an unusual visitor with an extremely urgent message, it leads to events that topple everything he has believed about reality.
The Gryphon Stone
by Thomas Watson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Of all the worlds in the multiverse, Adrathea is the last David Render would willingly revisit. What happened there broke his heart and drove him to retire from the UN Multiverse Survey. To hang up his sword forever.
Then Treyvar of the Alvehn brings disturbing news. Adrathea is in peril, and David’s old comrade needs his help to stop a rogue Alvehn from usurping the throne and ruling the planet forever as an immortal tyrant. To set things right, David must return to the one place he never wants to see again.
The Patient
by Jasper DeWitt
Rating: 3.8 #ad
In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient.
We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility’s most difficult, profoundly dangerous case—a forty-year-old man who was originally admitted to the hospital at age six. This patient has no known diagnosis. His symptoms seem to evolve over time. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide…
The Devil May Dance
by Jake Tapper
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation’s capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the security of the United States itself.
Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles, where they’ll face off against a dazzling world of stars and studios. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a rumored mob crony, whom Charlie and Margaret must befriend to get the inside scoop.
Vampire
by Kevin Sullivan
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The author of The Bundy Murders tells the harrowing true story of “one of the most bizarre serial killers in America” (Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of Confession of a Serial Killer).
A city under siege, held captive while a psychopathic vampire serial killer instills fear in its residents, taunts the authorities, and brutally kills his victims.
This book is a chilling and stomach-churning look into the life of a twisted, sick man, so evil one would wonder if he was even human. From his early days when he would liquify rabbits in a blender to drink their intestines and blood to mutilating his victims, his thirst for killing could not be satiated.
Press Your Luck
by Ajme Williams
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Todd Marshall is my hot boss billionaire I’ve been semi-successfully resisting… until I fall into his lap at a wedding.
Suddenly he’s no longer the intimidating handsome playboy who pays my bills. He’s a man I cannot keep my hands off of. I break all my rules with him. All hell breaks loose when his ex arrives in town with their grumpy teenage son… in time for me to realize I’m going to have Todd’s baby, too.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Clutch of Eggs
by Debbie Young
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Young Tommy’s new passion for wild birds’ eggs causes him to put the village of Wendlebury Barrow on the map for all the wrong reasons. In the company of her kitten, a sausage dog, and a handsome stranger keen on birdwatching, Sophie Sayers tries to create order out of chaos, without driving her bookseller boyfriend Hector away.
This gentle, quick read (about 30% the length of a Sophie Sayers novel) includes your favourite characters from the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries and also introduces engaging new characters, from a lonely old widow to a trio of birdwatching brothers – not forgetting cute sausage dog Bunty!
Blood Song
by Johana Gustawsson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
‘Historical sections highlight, in distressing detail, the atrocious treatment of mothers-to-be in Franco’s Spain … A satisfying, full-fat mystery’ The Times
Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, AliÉnor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre.
The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary’s Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town’s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret — a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
A Breath After Drowning
by Alice Blanchard
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The stunning new psychological thriller from the award-winning author of Darkness Peering and The Breathtaker.
Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe’s world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate’s past, things she shouldn’t know, forcing Kate to face the murky evidence surrounding her own sister’s murder sixteen years before, bringing Kate face to face with her deepest fear.
Veil of Night
by Linda Howard
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, yet the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed. Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there’s too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, now a prime suspect, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie’s death.
Unreal Complete Series Boxed Set
by Cindy Gunderson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Channel is Unreal. Mila is Real. Two communities. One technological power play.
A conflict primed to ignite.
When Mila’s and Channel’s paths collide, they are torn between the worlds they thought they knew and a mind-bending, brazen reality they could never have imagined. Will they risk it all to understand what it truly means to be Real?
Grab this complete series boxed set to find out what is real.
The Bonds of Brotherhood
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure
Pat Bond went through hell after his parents were killed. His sister and uncle did their best, but he hated everyone and everything. Including himself. So he ran as far away as he could get. When he met Skeeter and Fox, his life changed for the better. They weren’t brothers by blood, but they were brothers just the same.
77 Shadow Street
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder – and whispers of things far worse – that have scarred its grandeur almost from the beginning.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths.