Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Hot and Sour Suspects
by Vivien Chien
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At the Ho-Lee Noodle House, murder is on the menu.
When Lana Lee’s best friend, Megan Riley, asks her to help host a speed dating contest at Ho-Lee Noodle House, she doesn’t see the harm in lending a hand. The night goes better than anticipated, and both Lana and Megan are beyond thrilled with the results. But before they can break out the champagne, Rina Su, fellow Asia Village shop owner and speed dating participant, calls to inform Lana that the date she’s just matched with has been murdered. Under suspicion of foul play, Rina enlists Lana’s help in finding out what really happened that night.
Lost Souls
by J. T. Bishop
Rating: 4.5 #ad
No secret is safe, not even with the dead. Former Texas Ranger and now private investigator, Mason Redstone, can investigate the dead, but as a medium, he can also talk to them.
When Mason’s estranged partner, Trick Monroe, appears asking for Mason’s help to solve a murder, it forces Mason to confront the past and attempt to rebuild their fractured relationship. But when Trick reverts to his old ways, Mason must question whether it’s best to leave the past behind…
Despite the difficulties, their efforts rouse a killer’s interest and before they can discover the answers, Mason’s life, and others, will be at risk. Can they find a murderer before they become the next victims?
The Mirror Man
by Lars Kepler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sixteen-year-old Jenny Lind is kidnapped in broad daylight on her way home from school and thrown into the back of a truck. She’s taken to a dilapidated house, where she and other girls face horrors far beyond their worst nightmares. Though they’re desperate to escape, their captor foils everyone of their attempts.
Five years later, Jenny’s body is found hanging in a playground, strung up with a winch on a rainy night. As the police are scrambling to find a lead in the scant evidence, Detective Joona Linna recognizes an eerie connection between Jenny’s murder and a death declared a suicide years before.
The Age of Witches
by Louisa Morgan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In Gilded Age New York, a centuries-long clash between two magical families ignites when a young witch must choose between love and loyalty, power and ambition, in this magical novel by Louisa Morgan. In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves by whatever means necessary. This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She’ll need to claim her own power to save herself-and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all.
MISTAKEN ASSASSIN
by Cynthia Hickey
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Marilu Hutchins wakes up one morning realizing the man next to her is not her husband.
That awareness is the beginning to ten years of lost memories returning. One of which leads her to believe she is a paid assassin.
As she struggles with the realization of who she is and what she was, she begins a search for her daughter. Things are complicated when she runs into Brad Morrison, the undercover agent who is the brother to the man Marilu had been hired to kill. Together, the two go on the run to prove that all is not as it seems and Marilu is nothing more than a Mistaken Assassin.
Lapidius
by Matthew Runals
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Novum Albion had been the melting pot of the world, where cultures, intellect, ideas, and even freedom defined the young nation. Yet, many no longer had the hope that once defined Novum Albion. Sadly, inspiration and confidence drained from the land. Hope became nothing more than feeble happiness, and happiness turned to selfish desires. Selfish desires turned to greed, and greed turned into numbness to life. Many citizens of Novum Albion were trapped in their own minds, yet they were still filled with pride, though they accomplished nothing.
As the young of the land grew ignorant of their identity and their past, the very fiber of the home started to unwind, and uncertainty and ignorance in every aspect of life began to grow…
Identity
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Brand New Release a REGULAR PRICE. The #1 New York Times-bestselling author’s terrifying new thriller about one man’s ice-cold malice, and one woman’s fight to reclaim her life.
Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan’s job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party – attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who’d been chatting her up at the bar – her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.
Daughter of Babylon: Alaska
by Jamie Lee Grey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
“He who holds Alaska holds the world.” – U.S. Army General Billy Mitchell, testimony to Congress, 1935
President Alana Mills arrives in Alaska, intending to secure the state and steady the country. Instead, she finds more trouble, including from Russia, which originally sold the strategic territory to the Unites States. They’ve always wanted it back. And now that America is weak, they may attempt to seize it by force.
Meanwhile, Evan Nelson wants justice for his brother Zach, and he plans to root out the corruption that led to Zach’s being framed for terrorism. Facing a significant disagreement, Evan and Elizabeth discover that romance can be challenging, especially in dire circumstances. Will love win? Or will the apocalypse wipe out their budding relationship?
The Neckerchief Revolution
by Maya Wizel
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Education innovator and international expert Maya Wizel showcase the dramatic “full-scale change” required for designing better, more relevant education systems for all.
The so called “formal” and “nonformal” education systems are seemingly polar opposites. Where one system is didactic and academically oriented, the other is more flexible, and oriented towards problem-solving and social skills. Both systems can undoubtedly work simultaneously toward the same goal – but can they coexist together under one roof? What can formal educators in schools and in higher education adopt and learn from the experience of non-formal educators?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Terror on Top
by CeeCee James
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Georgie agrees to help her friend Stella O’Neil clean up a house she’s listing, neither of them are prepared for the dead body that tumbles out of a closet. Stella suspects it’s the house’s previous owner but is shocked to see it’s the man who hired her, the bank representative. As Georgie and Stella dig for answers, they find that everyone involved in the prior sale of the house is now dead… and they could be next. But Georgie can’t walk away from this mystery. The secrets that unfold shake her to her core as they involve her fiancé who died years ago. How does this derelict house connect to her life?
The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
For fans of The Girls with No Names, The Silent Patient, and Girl, Interrupted, the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector blends fact, fiction, and the urban legend of Cropsey in 1970s New York, as mistaken identities lead to a young woman’s imprisonment at Willowbrook State School, the real state-run institution that Geraldo Rivera would later expose for its horrifying abuses.
Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living as near strangers in their Staten Island apartment, Sage is stunned to discover that Alan has kept a shocking secret: Rosemary didn’t die. She was committed to Willowbrook State School and has lingered there until just a few days ago, when she went missing.
Dead by Dawn
by Paul Doiron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn.
Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, Bowditch crashes his Jeep into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they’re coming for him.
Forgotten in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change—and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and other such offenders is nowhere to be found.
Then Eve is summoned away to a nearby building site to view more remains—in this case decades old, adorned with gold jewelry and fine clothing—unearthed by recent construction work.
Salt and Bone
by Alyssa Grimley
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Birch Patterson served his country. Now he’s saving his home.
When Birch returns home from the war, he’s shocked to discover how much Brigand’s Gate has changed. The town he loved so much is gone, and in its place is a den of iniquity.
Become a Life Architect
by Odelia Alexandrovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Form your own tailor-made recipe for success with the Life Architecture Method!
What is success? Success is hard to define, because it is different for each of us. We each aspire to achieve our own form of success – in our careers, our relationships, our health, our life. But our experiences and personalities are so varied that success simply cannot be one size fits all.
The Life Architecture Method acknowledges this and focuses on diagnosing and defining each individual person’s own perception of success and forming the rules and conditions that will help them make the right decisions and achieve their personal best.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Flicker of a Doubt
by Daryl Wood Gerber
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Fairies are trending hard, especially when it comes to fairy garden décor in Walmart and Target and on Amazon. The latest installment in the nationally bestselling Daryl Wood Gerber’s Fairy Garden mysteries is a perfect read for Laura Childs readers and all fans of whimsy and charm.
With a theater foundation tea and an art show planned at Violet Vickers’s estate, Courtney is hired to create charming fairy gardens for the event. It’s not so charming, however, when her best friend Meaghan’s ex-boyfriend turns out to be Violet’s latest artistic protégé. Even worse, not long after Meaghan locks horns with him, his body is found in her yard, bludgeoned with an objet d’murder.
Every Vow You Break
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Abigail Baskin never thought she would fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind—a refreshing change from her previous relationships.
But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident – and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name—out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Their honeymoon on a luxurious, secluded island will be the beginning of their blissful lives together.
Blackout
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.6 #ad
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES
A missing woman. Cut loose from the CIA after a devastating injury, Ember Hendryx only wants one thing—to live long enough to find her missing sister. The clock is running down. She’s got the skills to do this, but she’ll need the one thing she can’t do for herself if she’s going to succeed. With no leads and little idea what her sister was into, this just might take everything she’s got. And give her a future she can’t even dream of.
An EMT with a choice to make. Trey Banning got sidelined after he was stabbed a few weeks ago. Now he wants back on the ambulance so he can be who he is: a hero just like his dad. Except all his attempts to get his life on track again get him is social media attention he doesn’t want…
Thunder Point
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
1945 The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to South America in a German U-boat.
1992 Terrorist Sean Dillon is saved from a Yugoslavian firing squad—if he agrees to help the British government retrieve the long-lost documents of Martin Bormann. The wreck of Bormann’s U-boat has been discovered in the Caribbean, along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain—and may implicate the Duke of Windsor himself.
Love’s Beating Heart
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.4 #ad
After Cat Majors’ boyfriend, Ty, leaves her beaten and bloody on a Texas Hill Country road, Cat hides in the back seat of a pickup truck and is rescued by a Christian family. Although the Creekmores’ beliefs and behavior are as foreign to Cat as if she’d been dropped on another planet, she feels safe with them.
But Ty finds and kidnaps Cat, beating her viciously and leaving her for dead. Sky and family friend, Jesse, save her. Believing herself in love with Sky, Cat is determined to win him away from his wife. Meanwhile, Cat’s younger sister, Dena, whom she has always protected, runs away with her best friend, Natasha, who is pregnant and being abused. Natasha’s stepfather insists on an abortion and threatens to cut the baby out himself if she refuses.
The Latina President
by Joe Rothstein
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What happens when a fun-loving, charismatic, reform-minded Mexican-American billionairess becomes president of the United States and strikes fear in the pocketbooks of a cabal of the rich and powerful? Conspiracy. Impeachment. Murder. Assassination. It’s all here. The world knows President Tennyson as “Tenny.” And once you meet her, you will never forget her.
Kirkus Reviews says she’s “An enthralling protagonist at the heart of a gripping tale.” Another reviewer writes, “If Grisham wrote political thrillers, they’d feel like this!” “A great escapist gem!”
Run
by Rich Restucci
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The dead have risen, and they are hungry.
Slow and plodding, they are Legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat you do the only thing you can: You run.
Survivors escape to an island stronghold: A cop and his daughter, a computer nerd, a garbage man with a piece of rebar, and an escapee from a mental hospital with a life-saving secret. After reaching Alcatraz, the ever expanding group of survivors realize that the infected are not the only threat.
The StorySelling Method
by Philipp Humm
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Master The Art Of Storytelling To Build Trust, Stand Out, And Boost Sales
Do you struggle to connect with your customers on a personal level? Do you want to stand out in a very competitive market? Or do you want to accelerate your sales career? The StorySelling Method will teach you how to tell powerful stories that actually work in sales! No fluff, no BS… just straightforward and effective storytelling tactics that will transform your sales game. The techniques you’re about to learn are the same ones that have helped thousands of professionals at top companies like Google, Oracle, and Visa win more business.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Claws for Alarm
by Cate Conte
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Claws for Alarm, the fifth book in Cate Conte’s delightful and cat-filled series, it’s the heart of the busy season, and JJ’s House of Purrs is booming—until a killer is let off the leash.
Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina’s pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they’re now up to fifteen purring friends. In fact, JJ’s House of Purrs is making such a splash that she’s getting national attention. The Shoreline Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive director.
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
by Ashley Winstead
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year…
Margaret Truman Thrillers Collection
by Margaret Truman
Rating: 4.2 #ad
These three political thrillers by the acclaimed author – and daughter of President Harry Truman – offer an insider’s look into the dangerous shadows of D.C.
Murder in the Supreme Court
Murder on Embassy Road
Murder at the FBI
All That Remains
by Sue Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards
A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, Kathy Reichs, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives. It is a treat for CSI junkies, murder mystery and thriller readers, and anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all.
Spirituality Why Give a ****
by Oagis Revilo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What it means to be spiritual but not religious is in need of a clarifying facelift. In this non-narrative and non-bs deep-dive, spirituality aims to connect and reconcile with its debunking adversary science.
So why care? What’s in it for you?
Let this book tell you why developing a spiritual shield to deflect ego-seeking projectiles is a no-brainer when it comes to personal growth and pivoting gracefully through life’s twists and turns.