Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Chapter on Murder
by Sue Minix
Rating: 4.4 #ad
I loved writing murder mysteries, until I was thrust into the centre of one … It’s Christmas in Riddleton and crime novelist turned amateur sleuth, Jen, is in desperate need of a cozy festive season running the town’s local bookstore.
But, between trying to drum up business for Ravenous Readers and attempting to finish her latest novel, Jen is totally run off her feet. Matters get worse, however, when a man’s body is found outside the bookstore, along with a scrap of paper in his pocket with none other than Jen’s address on it!
Don’t Trust Her
by Cathryn Grant
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Parker had the perfect marriage. Then Eden came home.
Twenty years have passed since Dylan’s beloved sister, Celeste, was brutally murdered. Now he plans an anniversary memorial for the sister he misses to this day.
When their childhood friend, Eden, comes home to attend the memorial, Dylan invites her to stay with him and his wife, Parker.
But Parker is apprehensive. She remembers a time when Eden had designs on her husband, and she worries she still carries a torch for him. Her fears seem confirmed when Eden openly flirts with Dylan and captivates their pre-teen daughter.
Shady Grove
by Jackie Zack
Rating: 4.7 #ad
There’s Something Shady in Shady Grove
Reporter Katy Russell looks forward to her assignment with Nick Hinchman in the town of Shady Grove, affectionately known as the Antiques Capital of Michigan. Surely, no trouble will befall them while gathering information about the stores filled with collector’s items.
Katy and Nick soon learn that a well-known hoarder has died from an awkward accident. Sadly, her passing is in good timing. Vintage shop owners snap up her collections for their stores’ big summer season for pennies on the dollar.
Be Buried in the Rain
by Barbara Michaels
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A young woman uncovers dark secrets when she returns to her ancestral home in this suspenseful gothic romance by a New York Times bestseller.
There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family’s decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch’s eyes—yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place. But her hope—and her life—are seriously threatened by a nightmare reborn . . . and by the grim discovery on the lonely road to Maidenwood of the earth-browned skeletons of a mother and child.
Four Steps Missed
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA covert operative Titus Ray is used to keeping secrets. This time, it’s different.
This time, he’s keeping secrets from his boss, his handler, and his wife.
Operation False Flag is the secret Titus is keeping from his boss . . .
While his boss, Deputy Director of Operations, Robert Ira, would ordinarily be aware of any operation being run out of the Agency, this mission concerns the DDO himself, a mission that could cost him his job.
The whistleblower behind the operation is the secret Titus is keeping from his handler . . .
Even though his handler, Douglas Carlton, has been tasked with directing Operation False Flag, he has no idea Titus knows the identity of the whistleblower who gave the Inspector General the files that set the operation in motion.
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…
Sleepless City
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When you’re in trouble, you call 911. When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan.
Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don’t talk about him at all. He doesn’t wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who’s vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city.
Iris
by Susan May Warren
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Iris Marshall never wanted to be anything more than what she is—an official for the European League of (American) Football. So, why she said yes to being a courier for the CIA? She’s not sure, especially when it lands her in an international thriller that has her on the run from a killer. And worse, the person she’s on the run with? Arrogant, bossy, playboy Hudson Bly football player and the last person on earth she wants to go into hiding with.
Hudson knows his days as a wide-receiver are numbered. Too many head injuries, starting with a violent TBI in college have caught up with him…
Forevermore
by Kristen Callihan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Isolated and alone, Sin Evernight is one of the most powerful supernatural creatures in heaven and on earth. As an angel of vengeance, he hunts down the darkest evil, but when his long-lost friend, Layla Starling, needs him, he vows to become her protector. Even though she will be horrified by the man he has become.
Now a famous singer and the toast of London, Layla believes that Sin is only here to guard her from rabid fans and ardent suitors. However, the truth is far more sinister. Desperate to avoid losing Layla a second time, Sin will face a test of all his powers to defeat an unstoppable foe – and win an eternity with the woman he loves.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Crafting for Murder
by Barbara Emodi
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beware! A crafty killer lurks in Gasper’s Cove. First in a cozy mystery series set in a fictional Nova Scotia town where crafting and community collide.
Seamstress, crafter, and empty-nester Valerie Rankin has plans to open a crafter’s co-op that will put Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia on the map. One month before opening day, she still has to pin down a venue, patch up the family business, iron out corruption in the town council, and unravel why anyone who tries to help her ends up dead. With the help of her Golden Retriever, an ex-con who loves cats, and a community of first, second, and third cousins, she just might pull it off.
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The paperweight—a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind?
Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
The Patient
by Cole Baxter
Rating: 4.1 #ad
James thought he’d be safe in this old house. He was wrong.
Ten years ago, James Owens was convicted of a murder he couldn’t remember committing. Now, finally released from the mental institution where he’s served his time, he is placed under house arrest in the sprawling family home he has inherited from his father.
Living in isolation, visited only by his therapist, parole officer, and supportive but controlling twin Janet, he at least has something resembling peace. But he is still haunted by hallucinations, nightmares, and bizarre memories which may or may not be real.
Pretend You Don’t See Her
by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark sends chills down readers’ spines with the story of Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene. One day, while showing a luxurious skyline co-op, Lacey is witness to a murder—and to the dying words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced that the attacker was after her dead daughter’s journal—which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It’s an impulse that later proves nearly fatal.
Placed in the witness protection program and sent to live in the Minneapolis area, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date—until the strain of deception makes her break it off.
Ghostwritten
by Ronald Malfi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe!
In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride.
In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book. A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality in The Story.
Full of creepy, page-turning suspense, these collected novellas are perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Supernatural Criminal Investigations Complete Set
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s hidden her identity for years, all to keep her and her family safe, but running from supernatural beings comes at a cost.
After her daughter dies, Kat is pulled back into a world she desperately tried to escape to get answers and expose the truth.
Grab this 6-book complete series boxed set today to join the team as they discover the dark reality behind myths of the supernatural!
Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money…
Enter tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen it all – and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory: a place of lies and corruption, where trusting anyone could get them killed, and where nothing is sacred.
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils
by James Lovegrove
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.
The companions retreat to Holmes’s farm on the Sussex Downs, and it is not long before a client comes calling. Three young women have disappeared from the nearby town of Newford, and the locals have no doubt who is responsible.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Takedown Twenty
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because—just Stephanie’s luck—the godfather is his actual godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail.
Colton Day
by William Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Colton Day, a rugged cowboy tired of bloodshed, yearns for a simple life in the wilderness.
Leaving behind his love, Caroline, and the town he once protected as sheriff, Temple Ridge, he thinks he can escape the shadows that haunted him. Little did he know that his past would come roaring back with a vengeance.
Buck Mantooth, a cold-blooded outlaw, and his malevolent father, Virgil, engineer a prison break, unleashing a horde of ruthless criminals upon Temple Ridge. Plundering and killing are not enough for them – they crave the death of Colton Day, a thorn in their side.
But what they fail to realize is that Colton is no ordinary prey.
Where the Truth Lives
by Mia Sheridan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The follow-up to Where the Blame Lies—Where the Truth Lives is a gripping, page-turning, romantic thriller that will leave you gasping for breath.
When the director of a local mental health hospital is found murdered and mutilated, Homicide Detective Reed Davies is first on scene. What was done to the body is gruesome. Inexplicable. But Reed is dealt another curveball when he finds that the doctor who discovered the victim is someone Reed is intimately familiar with—a woman with whom he shared one passionate night weeks before.
The Fourth Bible
by J. Robert Kennedy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the 7th century, three Bibles were painstakingly created by Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey monks. Over the years, one was destroyed, one remains today in tatters, and the third, still intact, became known as the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible.
Until today. A fourth Bible, unknown to history, has been discovered.
Invited to inspect the priceless find, Archaeology Professors James Acton and Laura Palmer head for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and while there, eco-terrorists overrun the location. Under threat by the terrorist leader, the professors are forced to steal the ancient bible to save the hostages.
Maggie’s Revenge
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This is the long-awaited sequel to my popular Wounded Hearts series. Many readers have asked about the missing DEA Agent, Maggie Holt, who was captured by sex traffickers.
This is her story:
She wasn’t his responsibility. Frank barely knew DEA Agent Holt well enough to call her Maggie. But he wanted to, and that was a problem. Because his buddy, retired Navy SEAL and now her partner, Adam O’Connor, had the jones for her too. And if that wasn’t bad enough, she’d gone rogue, deep undercover, and gotten herself into a mess she might not survive. He was better off forgetting about ink-black hair and cinnamon sugar eyes and concentrate on what needed to be done here.
The Summer of the Danes
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The twelfth-century Welsh monk is caught up in civil war and captured by Danish mercenaries, in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series.
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and the Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing. Still, a little excitement never comes amiss to a former soldier, and Cadfael is delighted to accompany a friend on a mission of diplomacy to his native Wales.
Wash Away
by J.S. Bowers
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Grad-student chemist Zenna Cherny is in thrall to a stubborn adolescent mermaid, genetically engineered by Zenna’s mad-scientist grandmother. The execs at Fospey Industries would like to buy that mermaid, but they’d prefer to take her by force.
Zenna’s cousin Alex is helping a band of emancipated customer-service robots build weapons out in the barn. And the town is currently overrun by obsessed fans who want to discover the siren voice on that viral video.
The Street Between the Pines
by J.J. Alo
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Curtis Reynolds hasn’t slept well in months. Years, even, if you include the deadly DUI that ruined his life.
Returning home today to a pile of debt, his estranged wife, and son between third-shift work assignments has been anything but bliss.
This morning, his elderly neighbor was brutally murdered, and the local police are now prodding him for answers.
And later today, the haunting visions will return with a vengeance…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death on the West Cliff
by Jan Durham
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Murder stalks the art world in this seaside town.
The long summer days bring visitors flocking to the little fishing town of Whitby… and the short summer nights bring murder. When the night watchman at the West Cliff Art Gallery is found dead, everyone in the town is baffled.
All the gallery alarms were disabled, and the thieves had free run of the place. So why didn’t they steal anything? Widow Liz McLuckie is determined to find out.
Dead Man’s Folly
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.
Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that’s something sinister is about to happen….
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious. Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She quickly learns that putting the past behind is not always an option. Sometimes it will chase, overtake, and try to kill you.
Baghdad Heist
by J.J. Carson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amidst the chaos of war-torn Baghdad, a relentless FBI agent must unravel the web of deception that threatens to consume her team and her very existence…
Female FBI agent Charlie Glass is assigned to recover treasures stolen from the Baghdad Museum during the Iraq War. The suspense explodes when she uncovers an international crime syndicate within her own team. Mysterious murders and bitter betrayals plunge Charlie into a deadly fight for survival.
Who Knows You Best
by M. Ocampo McIvor
Rating: 3.6 #ad
Eight-year-old Kayla is hit with a baseball and her eyes change color. But something else changes as well—she begins to see apparitions and dreams of events before they happen. That summer, Terry moves next door to Kayla, a boy who dreams of voyaging to outer space. They become fast friends, and along with Camille and Bianca, they bike around their Chicago neighborhood sharing adventures like typical children. Only, they are not typical.
After Bianca’s humiliating turn during a game of Spin the Bottle in middle school, the four friends start to pull away from each other. Years of petty jabs and a series of misunderstandings slowly fracture their friendship until it seems impossible to mend.
Execution Day
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When justice is on the line, the courtroom becomes a battleground for a prosecutor obsessed with victory, a defense attorney hired to thwart it and a wily defendant making a bid for freedom.
Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, has been arrested for murder. Evidence suggests he’s an accomplice of the sadistic killer Paul Offenbach. County district attorney Evan Quill believes in his heart that Ross is guilty, but as the trial unfolds, doubts emerge. He presses forward anyway, in a legal fencing match against a brilliant big-city defense attorney. Will Quill’s uncompromising beliefs put an innocent man in jail? Or will a misstep let a killer go free?
System Reborn Vol 2
by Kaz Hunter
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Sloan continues to defy expectations. He’s leveling quicker than almost anyone in recorded history, but he has problems two.
For one, the police are on to him and want questions. This didn’t make a lot of sense to me, because he’s not the one responsible for what happens in most of the rifts. Still, it does add a twist.
For two, he has a big bad guy following him for reasons I won’t explain. When they do meet it should be good.” by Amazon Customer
Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula
by Christian Klaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sherlock Holmes is dead. His body lies in a solitary grave on the Sussex Downs, England. But Dr. Watson survives, and is now given permission to release tales in Sherlock’s ‘classified dossier’, those cases that are, dear reader, unbelievable – for their subject matter is of the most outré and grotesque nature.
In this thrilling first instalment of The Classified Dossier, a Transylvanian nobleman called Count Dracula arrives at Baker Street seeking the help of Sherlock Holmes, for his beloved wife Mina has been kidnapped.