Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Diva Says Cheesecake!
by Krista Davis
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.
Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn’t the only thing missing from the evening – Tate, Bobbie Sue’s husband, is too, much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate’s dead body is discovered.
Elvenshore: The Complete Series
by Clark Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the first meeting of Dwarf and man in the Westwood Forest, the series covers four lands and many races, including; Dwarves, Elves, Druids, Dragons, Valkyrie, Satyr, Minotaur, Trolls, and a whole host of other races. With epic battles and large armies.
“The author is very good at creating believable characters in this collection. Would have rated it 5 stars but the E-books had too many grammatical errors that made you read the sentence twice to figure out what it was saying. There is plenty of action and surprises that otherwise make it an enjoyable read.” by Amazon Customer
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.
Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related?
The Hunted
by Lisa Childs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
YOU’RE GOING TO PAY
The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing, and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe . . .
It’s been twenty-five years since Sheriff Deacon Howell discovered his first dead body on these grounds. Back then, Halcyon Hall was an asylum known as Bainesworth Manor. Others have perished here since, including Deacon’s wife…
Wintervention
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The next book in the Jamie Austen series is bone-chilling! Literally.
Jamie’s next CIA mission takes her to the Arctic Circle. Where there’s only one hour of daylight every day and the temperature is fifty below zero. Complicated when she confronts a Tuniit. A giant who stands more than seven feet tall.
This book will have you laughing and crying. In the same chapter! International #1 Best Selling author, Terry Toler, doesn’t disappoint. When you get to the end, this fast-moving page turner will warm your heart.
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law and The Stranger at the Door
“Adventure and mystery always happens to Billy Jo. After taking a late night call her nightmare becomes reality. Can Mark save the day and solve the mystery.” S. Jordans, Goodreads
An Almost Perfect Murder
by Gary C. King
Rating: 3.6 #ad
A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story by the author of Stolen in the Night.
A Woman with A Passion For Power . . .
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball—and pushing her way through the old boy’s network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people shed tears—including the man who killed her.
A Killer with A Foolproof Plan . . .
Crystal Creek Boxed Set
by Laura Haley-McNeil
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Welcome to Crystal Creek where the women are strong, and powerful men will do anything to protect the women they love.
Steeling Her Heart: She agrees to enter a loveless marriage, but the man who stole her heart will do anything to stop her. The holidays are over, and aristocrat Anna Whitloch must leave Crystal Creek and return to Eastern Europe. She made a promise, a promise that will save her mother’s estate.
Risking Her Heart: A novel of suspense, revenge and a love so deep that it can only be released through forgiveness.
Defending Her Heart: He longs for peace. She stirs things up. When the past comes calling, will he risk it all to come to her rescue?
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Basement Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’ll love Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, a novel by Ann Hazelwood, you’ll get to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs will seem so familiar you’ll identify with her right away. Anne decides to learn to quilt to help her aunt, and in the process learns family secrets. Then she uncovers a mysterious presence in her mother’s basement, or does she? Anne learns about love, too, in various forms. She and the members of the Colebridge community go through some big life changes. Are their decisions wise or does trouble lie ahead?
Dead in the Water
by Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up – and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered.
Fog City Fraud
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Why would a law-abiding citizen hold a knife to a young girl’s throat and drag her onto the ledge of a high-rise building in San Francisco?
Returned war hero, Josh Kennelly, is hiding a dark secret and knows he risks being exposed if he attempts to save her. A police bullet ends the standoff, and when the man plunges to his death, he takes the reasons for his momentary madness with him.
Devastated, his heartbroken daughter seeks Josh out and asks him to help find out why her father snapped.
Winter Chill
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 3.7 #ad
A small town is rocked by a string of suspicious accidents in this suspense thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Child.
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian’s husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground.
Friends and colleagues in Marian’s Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents.
Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he’s shocked to see her—because, he explains, she hasn’t worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance journalist; she’s married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories materialize and yet she still can’t recall anything about the previous two days.
Now That You Mention It
by Kristan Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.
Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There’s only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn’t necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.
Witching the Night Away Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.7 #ad
12 witch romance novellas by New York Times, USA Today, and other bestselling authors.
I was so excited to see this wonderful anthology become available! It is filled with some of my favorite authors I have been reading for years, and here they are gathered up in this wonderful book! I highly recommend giving this Anthology a try. There are also new-to-me authors I can’t wait to “meet” here. Below is a review of one of those “favorites” to give you an idea of what you can find in this collection.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dog-Gone Dead
by Jackie Layton
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who’d have thought mulch could cause such a stink?
Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother’s landscaping jobs—until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark.
Worse, her brother’s landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have “caught their man,” Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. She’ll risk everything to prove her brother’s innocence. Even if it means turning over every rock in town.
Hide
by Kiersten White
Rating: 3.9 #ad
The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win – to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that. It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.
The Last House on Needless Street
by Catriona Ward
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“The buzz…is real. I’ve read it and was blown away. It’s a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end.” – Stephen King
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!
A World Fantasy Award Finalist!
Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
Chronicles of Zoey Grimm Complete Series Boxed Set
by Theophilus Monroe, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.1 #ad
My brother is taking over the family business…
It was something I’d trained for my entire life. I was more suited for it than he was in almost every way. Except for the most important one… the ability he’d inherited from our father.
Why wasn’t I born with the same powers? I’m leaving the underworld. I don’t belong there anymore. Of course, I only have one marketable skill: Kicking ass and taking names. How can I use that to start a new life for myself on Earth? Unfortunately, vigilantism doesn’t pay the bills.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Badlands
by C.J. Box
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In C.J. Box’s New York Times bestseller, Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever encountered. . .
Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard dreams of getting out of Grimstad and leading a better life. Even though Kyle has been written off as a “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine. One day, while delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Suddenly he’s in possession of a lot of money—and packets of white powder—and Kyle can’t help but wonder whether his luck has changed…for better or for worse.
Killing the Legends
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more.
Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life—until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted.
In Killing the Legends, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.
Runaway Dragon Mates
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
“The series is tied together with the thread of death and corruption. Wonderfully strong female characters and of course the passion that comes with Dragons who are beyond their human world.” by Amazon Customer
Vanished
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
‘A 2016 Readers Favorite Award Winner in Suspense’
She thought her nightmare was over
Abby has married the man of her dreams. He rescued her, and he’s the father of her child. Everything should be perfect, but she begins to relive her nightmare from when she was taken… and one night she disappears, leaving her children alone in the dead of night, her husband on a military ship halfway around the world. But when Eric arrives home and the search begins, there are two disturbing questions: Was someone in the house? And how is it possible for Abby to simply vanish?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Relaxation, Reunions & Revenge
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mary’s daughter, Cathy, is visiting Dune House, the majestic B&B on the beach, for a few days. Best friends Suzie and Mary are so excited to spend time with her. They are looking forward to catching up, enjoying each other’s company and relaxing on the beach with their boisterous yellow Labrador, Pilot. Suzie, Mary and Cathy manage to get a last-minute appointment at a new salon and spa. They are ready for a day of relaxation and pampering.
But when a well-loved and influential resident dies at the spa, they find themselves right in the middle of a baffling murder investigation…
The Boy in the Cellar
by Stephen Smith
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.
Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve’s parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar…for thirteen years.
Starved and beaten, the little boy’s world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try and block out the physical and mental torture inflicted on him by his brutal father. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his ‘imprisonment’, Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school, and human contact until he’d reached his teenage years.
Brothers in Arms
by James Holland
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The renowned historian and author of Normandy ’44 recounts the operations and personal experiences of the legendary Sherwood Rangers during WWII.
One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and became the first British troops to cross into Germany. Their courage, skill and tenacity contributed mightily to the surrender of Germany in 1945.
Allegiance
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.6 #ad
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES.
A dead man. EMT Freya Olson has lost her faith, but not her drive to save those who need her help. When the past that her family left behind after her mother’s death shows up in Benson, Freya lands on the target list as well. But things aren’t what they seem, and Freya’s loyalty will be pushed to the limit.
A disgraced cop hiding a dangerous secret. Police Detective Lucas Westbrook has served his whole career under the shadow of his mother’s betrayal. Only his faith keeps him from crossing the line or becoming the cop everyone assumes he is. This time there’s no escaping the connection between his deepest pain and the case on his desk.
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(Benson First Responders Mysteries)
Pearl Fields and the Oregon Meltdown
by Drew Faraday
Rating: 3.5 #ad
For most survivors sheltering in the wilderness along the Upper Alsea River, Pearl’s raspy voice announcing her arrival was music to their ears. Little wonder since she was the only outlier with enough nerve to trade goods out of a drift boat upriver and down through a dystopian landscape, patch up the wounded, bury the dead, and share the latest news about the Meltdown dragging on into its fourth year.
But a few months ago, her luck went from bad to worse. Bounty hunters tracked her down. Jailers locked her away in a single cell with the well-worn gallows in her line of sight. A military court found her guilty of gunrunning during a declared disaster.
The Runaway
by Nick Petrie
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series.
War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle.
Dreamsnake
by Vonda N. McIntyre
Rating: 4.5 #ad
On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the frightened clan kills her dreamsnake.
Ashamed of being misjudged and grieving the loss of her dreamsnake, Snake has one choice to maintain her livelihood: she must travel to the city, which jealously guards its knowledge.
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 Secret Husband
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A shocking phone call. An ex-husband in deep trouble. Will a lawyer’s decision to help him take a dark turn she’ll regret?
Small-town lawyer Karen O’Connell believes that all of her clients who have found themselves recklessly embroiled in scandal and trouble have done so foolishly because of love. She has heard far too many times that the heart wants what it wants.
But one night, Karen receives a call from Jack Curtis, her vengeful ex-husband, whom she’s never told anyone in her family about. He’s found himself in a world of trouble, arrested and in jail, charged with murder.
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)