Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Pawprint Creek
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dog-loving sleuth. A baffling murder. To catch the killer, she’ll have to follow her nose.
Nikki Green wouldn’t trade her job as a dog walker and pet sitter for anything. But even she needs an occasional break from the tangled leashes of her daily routes. When she’s asked to pet sit a pair of adorable pugs in a quaint farm town, she thinks she’s found her perfect vacation. But the grass isn’t greener in Pawprint Creek. The crops are as dead as one of the town’s residents.
Smoke Screen
by Jorn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up … The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series.
Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert.
Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Semplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier … and never found.
Macy
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A serial killer is on the loose in Chicago. It’s a race against time to find her.
Cliff must garner all of his abilities, with help from his wife, Julia. The FBI profiler says that the killer is hiding in plain sight. Is she closer than Cliff can ever imagine?
Best Selling Author, Terry Toler, has a way of writing mysteries that captivates the reader from the first chapter to the end.
Sometimes you know who the killer is from the beginning. Sometimes you think you know and are wrong. Other times you have no clue. Every mystery is different.
The Mechanical Devil
by Kate Ellis
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Secrets never stay buried for long . . .
When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find.
Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of press attention for another reason when two people with no apparent connection to each other are found shot dead in nearby Manor Field, seemingly victims of an execution-style double murder.
Precious Little Things
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A prequel to the magical novella Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Precious Little Things” is a Tor.com Original short story offering a new perspective while set in the same action-packed gaslamp world.
“A world of fantasy, where magic rules and where those, unaware of the little made things, pay with their lives for their careless breaking into the realm of pure magic, beware for their size does not matter but the power of their magic and resolve does. This short story ties the lose ends in the sequel very nicely for those of us who have read it.” by Amazon Customer
The Victorious Redemption Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jasmine’s world should have ended when she tumbled from that 17th-story window…
Instead, she dug herself out of her own grave.
Now she’s on a search for answers about herself and her past.
Get this complete series boxed set and join Jasmine in her fight to discover the truth of her own origin!
Jasmine is coming back for the man who killed her.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Fudge-Laced Felonies
by Cynthia Hickey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Diamonds, cash, and a bloody gardening glove.
Summer Meadows went to church not to find God, but to hunt for a killer.
While transplanting the rosebush her church’s handsome greeter, Ethan Banning, inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody-gardening glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer.
The House on Serpent Lake
by Brenda Hill
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dreams of a lover from another time haunt her sleep….
A ghost? Reincarnation? Or was she losing her mind?
Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. Hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her through the house. A stirring of air whispers, “Remember . . . remember.”
When her husband inherits his abandoned childhood home on a north woods lake, Lindsay Peterson is delighted. But when she sees the decaying home for the first time, strange things happen: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. A sense of loss overwhelms her. After they move in, hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her footsteps and awaken memories of a past life in that house. Dreams of a lover haunt her sleep, then intrude on her days with déjà vu until the present blurs with the past. A stirring of air caresses her with a whispered touch: Welcome home.
Haunted
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times–Bestselling Author: She’s a paranormal investigator. He’s a skeptic. But ghosts don’t care whether you believe in them or not . . .
Sheriff Matt Stone doesn’t believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house.
But he isn’t ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne. As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable…
Four Days Famous
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mylas Grey doesn’t want to be famous. Not even for a day. As a private investigator, he prefers to fly under the radar.
However, when a well-known doctor asks Mylas to investigate his father’s murder, that’s exactly what happens. Suddenly, Mylas is dodging reporters while interviewing suspects and searching for the dead man’s elusive girlfriend.
In the end, he narrows his suspects down to three people . . .
First, there’s the fired employee . . . The man had opportunity and means, but did he have enough fire in his belly?
Then, there’s the ambitious daughter . . . She had motive, opportunity, and means, but would she really kill her own father?
And finally, there’s the disgruntled client . . . He had motive and means, but did he have opportunity?
The Lies We Tell
by Debra Webb
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn’t know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved killer actually know her mother? And how many lies have been spun in the years since she took her own life?
Working alongside her childhood friend Police Chief Billy Brannigan, Rowan is determined to get to the bottom of her mother’s puzzling suicide once and for all—even if it means exposing an unsettling past.
Manhattan Ember
by Olive Collins
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“The Bestselling Award-Winning Author has produced the greatest novel on the Irish-American story,” The Post
In 1866, onboard an immigrant ship bound for New York, events play out which have an everlasting effect on their lives, and the lives of their offspring.
Marguerite Kelley, the daughter of an esteemed Irish immigrant grew up in a home that was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle. On a windy morning in November 1905, she is the first to hear about the discovery of a skeleton tucked under the eaves of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan. Suspecting the remains are that of her uncle who worked on the construction of the Cathedral, she wants to be the first person to break the news to Roisin, his widow, and to her Irish-born father Patrick Kilbane. She hopes the discovery will solve a mystery that has over-shadowed her family for a quarter of a century…
Bitter Flowers
by Gunnar Staalesen
Rating: 4.0 #ad
PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk.
A man is found dead in an elite swimming pool and a young woman has gone missing. Most chillingly, Varg Veum is asked to investigate the ‘Camilla Case’: an eight-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of a little girl, who was never found.
House Beside the River
by David Burnett
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A coming-of-age novel with a strong heroine, a sweet love story, and a suspenseful struggle between good and evil
Running from vile rumors and merciless ridicule, thirteen-year-old Nicole Beaumont flees her home in Parsons Valley, Georgia. In the farming community where she lived, almost any transgression could be tolerated, excused, or overlooked, any transgression, save one that smacked of sex, and, according to rumor, that was exactly what she had done while lying with Chris Miller on the bank of Parsons Pond. It was a lie, the worst part at any rate, but Chris̶ refused to deny the rumor. Chris, the boy who had been her best-friend-for-life, her soul mate, the one with whom she was supposed to spend her life, he allowed everyone to believe the rumor to be true.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Miss Riddell and the Pet Thefts
by P.C. James
Rating: 5.0 #ad
If this pup doesn’t get found fast, her feisty younger sister could be on the hook for a life-threatening crime…
Manchester, England, 1960s. Miss Riddell has no taste for modern fashions. Which gives her yet another bone to pick with the youngest and wildest family member whom she blames for their father’s recent death. But the stern-minded amateur sleuth puts aside her grievances when her sibling is accused of stealing a murderous mobster’s dog.
Teaming up with her sister and a now-retired friend from the police force, Miss Riddell discovers that the former cop is hot on the tail of a vanished feline film star…
The Warsaw Protocol
by Steve Berry
Rating: 4.4 #ad
After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder—blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons.
The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself.
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
Rating: 4.7 #ad
He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
Danger around every corner.
The Accidental Witch
by Jessica Penot
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Phaedra Michaels is a small town psychologist who is beginning to lose hope. Two of her patients at the local hospital in Dismal, Alabama have just killed themselves, she’s still reeling from her divorce and what turned out to be a disastrous marriage, and her father has died, leaving her without any notion of who her real mother is.
Just as Phaedra decides to commit herself to a serious drinking problem and an eating disorder, or two, a mysterious spell book arrives in the mail. Feeling desperate, Phaedra uses it to cast spells to save her fading patients. Suddenly, good things start happening. Phaedra’s patients begin to get better and she even starts dating the sexy doctor from the hospital.
The Moth Catcher
by Ann Cleeves
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter, a young ecologist, to look after the place while they’re away. But his dead body is found by the side of the lane—a lonely place to die.
When DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene, she finds the body of a second man. What the two victims seem to have in common is a fascination with studying moths—and with catching these beautiful, intriguing creatures.
Shall We Tell the President?
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.
The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy—in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…
Her Shifter Fire Chief
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
He was supposed to save my bed and breakfast from burning down.
Instead… he accused me of starting the fire. Not only that… he then threw me over his shoulder and locked me in his truck.
Let me get this straight. I’m not an arsonist. My only wish is to keep my bed and breakfast running along with the seven women I grew up with.
That was until this fire chief came along. Now my goal is to keep my distance from him. He could be working for the clan of wolf shifters that tried to kill me when I was born.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Blackberry Burial
by Sharon Farrow
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Between a booming art scene and elaborate Independence Day festivities, July in lakeshore Oriole Point, Michigan, is always a blast. Especially when an explosive murder case crashes the fun . . .
As owner of The Berry Basket, Marlee Jacob has learned a thing or two about surviving the summer tourist season in Oriole Point. So she gladly agrees to help run the annual road rally in honor of the local Blackberry Art School’s centenary celebration. While alumni arrive from around the country, Marlee hopes the expansive Sanderling farm will make an appropriate starting point for the race—despite rumors that the land is cursed . . .
Splinter the Silence
by Val McDermid
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her beloved series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and former DCI Carol Jordan . . .
Vicious online attacks seem to be driving outspoken women to silence themselves through suicide. Yet for profiler Tony Hill, who knows a thing or two about patterns in human behavior, something doesn’t add up.
Carol Jordan, meanwhile, is too busy tackling her own demons to think about a potential serial killer. But when she gets an opportunity for a second chance, it’s game on. This time around, though, the stakes have never been higher.
Slivering Curse
by D.D. Croix, DeAnna Cameron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Fayte Guardian with secrets. A dark fae craves her power. Only one will survive their battle of wits, wile, and magic.
After rescuing Queen Victoria from an otherworldly enemy, Jane has settled comfortably into her new life as a Fayte Guardian, working as a maid in the royal kitchen while standing ready to protect the sovereign from any worldly—and otherworldly—threats. She finally has friends, a purpose, and a promising romance. But when she visits Balmoral Castle in Scotland’s misty hills, she discovers the battle she thought she won isn’t over at all.
Something evil lurks in the heart of the Fayte stronghold, and when she investigates, she’s drawn into a conspiracy that threatens everyone and everything she holds dear…
Creeper
by Stuart James
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Do you believe in Creeper?
Keep telling yourself he’s not real. He’s not real. A story so terrifying, the locals won’t mention his name. It’s said that Creeper is an urban legend, a chilling, made-up character fabricated to scare children into behaving themselves. He’s known as Painswicks own Bogeyman. Parents tell their children that Creeper will come if they’re naughty. Adults continually look over their shoulders. It’s said that he hides out front late at night or crawls around in the basement. Others believe Creeper watches them as they sleep.
Bleed a River Deep
by Brian McGilloway
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When a controversial US diplomat is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is disciplined for the lapse in security. The gunman turns out to be a young environmentalist – related to an old friend of Devlin’s. Within days, the killing of an illegal immigrant near the Irish border leads Devlin to a vicious people-smuggling ring. Then Bradley himself is found dead near the mine and Devlin begins to suspect that the business is a front for something far more sinister than mere mining. Bleed a River Deep is the new novel from one of the most acclaimed young crime-writers around, a labyrinthine tale of big business, the new Europe, and the dispossessed.
The Bad Place
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.5 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers terrifying thrills in this novel about a man caught in a never-ending nightmare.
Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning he awakes, he discovers something strange—like blood on his hands—a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person—a young man with Down’s syndrome—can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns…
Midlife Magic Omnibus Books 1-3
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Martina Spencer hits the big 40 – she makes big changes in her life.
She retires from her job as homicide lieutenant on the Las Vegas Police Force, packs up her worldly goods, and hits the road with her K-9 partner, Backup.
Her adventures take her to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and her life changes in ways she never imagined possible. Follow Martina as her magical powers develop and she discovers she can handle anything that comes her way!