Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Other Devil’s Name
by E. X. Ferrars
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped his former colleagues from dumping problems in his lap. This time around it’s peppery Constance Camm, whose neighbors keep disappearing. Miss Camm and her sister, Mollie, would probably shrug it off if not for a frightening letter that reads “I know where you buried the body.”
But . . . to which disappeared neighbor does the letter refer? And why was it sent to Mollie, who hasn’t buried anything?
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition
When tragedy strikes, Blake Thomas is left with a broken heart and a guilty conscience. Rather than searching within his heart for the forgiveness he needs, he decides that sometimes it’s easier to just “Blame it on the Weather.”
In “One Shot to the Head,”* Brie’s longtime boyfriend takes her for a romantic dinner on Valentine’s Day, so she naturally assumes that he will at long last propose to her. What she doesn’t expect is an evening that ends in humiliation.
The Pallbearers Club
by Paul Tremblay
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.
What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?
Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friendthought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses…
A Twist of Fame
by Jennifer Youngblood
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Forge Chasing is a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie who makes his living off of danger. He never backs down from a challenge—be it professional or personal.
When he crosses paths with beautiful but cagey Jetta Jones he falls hard and fast. Forget that Jetta has a ruthless ex-husband who has no intention of letting her go.
Forge is determined to win Jetta’s heart at all costs …
The Book of Uriel
by Elyse Hoffman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the fires of World War II, a child must save his people from darkness…
Ten-year-old Uriel has always been an outcast. Born mute in a Jewish village known for its choir, he escapes into old stories of his people, stories of angels and monsters. But when the fires of the Holocaust consume his village, he learns that the stories he writes in his golden notebook are terrifyingly real.
In the aftermath of the attack, Uriel is taken in by Uwe, a kind-hearted linguist forced to work for the commander of the local Nazi Police, the affably brutal Major Brandt. Uwe wants to keep Uriel safe, but Uriel can’t stay hidden…
Obsession Falls
by Christina Dodd
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do–she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to face with the knowledge that, to live her life again, she must enlist the help of the man who does not trust her to defeat the man who would destroy her.
Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection
by Cheyna Roth
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Examine the evidence in this volume of notorious true crimes that remain unsolved, from mystifying heists to shocking murders and more.
Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world’s most famous cold cases. Written for true crime junkies and armchair detectives, this book delves into the investigations of JonBenét Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more. Each chapter examines the facts, while also illuminating the many theories surrounding these baffling cases…
The Unknown Sun
by Cheryl S. Mackey
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The world of Skyfall will die unless Moira finds the lost immortals.
Seventeen-year-old Moira is haunted by the accidents that claimed her family. When she is attacked by a strange boy who seems to know too much about her past, Moira fears death will come for her a third time. Saved by twins Airi and Bel, she is taken to their world and safety.
Or so they thought.
Skyfall is dying, the land destroyed during a supernatural war. Those who had protected it, the lost immortals, have gone missing and the land has decayed beyond redemption unless their magic can restore it. Armed with a mysterious talisman Moira, Airi, and Bel must find a journal left by the twins’ dead mother that will tell them how to find and free the Immortals known as The Unknown Sun.
Comes the Dark Stranger
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Martin Shane is looking for someone to kill. He just doesn’t know who . . . yet.
Eight years earlier, Shane and five other soldiers were captured in Korea. Tortured by a sadistic Chinese colonel, they vowed to stay strong. But one of them broke, revealing all he knew in exchange for his own life. Before Shane could uncover the traitor, explosive shrapnel shredded his brain—and his memories.
Then, after years in a mental institution, a fateful slip awakens Shane’s mind. He’s not sure what happened to him; it feels like the war happened only yesterday. The only thing he knows is that someone has to pay.
Experimental Film
by Gemma Files
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918.
Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Smokin’ Seventeen
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clearis that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving the killer’s identity, Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it’s time for her to choose between her longtime off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger…
Immortal North
by Tom Stewart
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author
Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Notable Author
2020 Canada Book Awards Winning Author
He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the encroachment of civilization at odds with their lifestyle. A tale told in captivating prose of wild living, where human skin is no boundary for either the beauty or cruelty of nature. After the arrival of a foreign presence, the forest in all its naked majesty becomes an arena for the dueling forces of life: joy and suffering, good and evil, compassion and vengeance…
The Starless Crown
by James Rollins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:
A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own.
An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact – one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe.
Vampire Shadow
by Kristin Kova
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In positive news, London’s supernatural secret is safe. In not-so-positive news, there’s a demon on the loose and he’s not my biggest fan.
The countdown clock is still ticking, and Lorn is AWOL. But the demon he summoned – the demon I took clumsy control of – is hiding in the city, and when bodies of dead seers start turning up, I know he’s hunting me.
Lazarus has sworn to protect me, but even with the deadly vampire at my side – and our chemistry becoming explosive – I can feel death breathing down my neck. The demon won’t stop until he finds me and wrestles back control.
Check out:
(The Shadow Order Mysteries)
Innocent Blood
by P.D. James
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
The Phantom of Payne Priory
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Payne Priory has been many things over the years. A church. A hospital. A hideaway. Now that it’s about to become a home, however, the building’s past is beginning to stir.
Mercy Willow just wants to get back to her old life as a Cornish estate agent. As soon as she sets foot in Payne Priory, however, she realizes that something is very wrong. A strange shadow haunts the building, and whispers of death can be heard late at night. Local children claim that someone or something is living in the priory’s darkened rooms, and Mercy knows that there’s only one way to uncover the truth.
The Secrets of Winter
by Nicola Upson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.
December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael’s Mount – and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary – interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins.
You Will Be Financially Free
by Tiffany Thomas
Rating: 5.0 #ad
You’re about to discover the transformational journey one woman took to go from a shy saver to a financially free millionaire.
Learning the steps to take to become financially free, and applying what you are learning, is what will actually help you achieve financial freedom. That is exactly what is discussed in the book.
You will be able to get the 5 essential financial freedom steps and ‘the how’ of applying those steps in your own life.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Date with Betrayal
by Julia Chapman
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Death is coming to Bruncliffe: its target is Samson O’Brien. Oblivious to his impending date with fate, Samson is busy juggling a number of cases at the Dales Detective Agency. Too busy, in fact, to notice his partner behaving oddly.
Because Delilah Metcalfe knows what is coming. A hitman. Sent from London with one objective: to finally silence the troublesome O’Brien before his corruption case can make it to court.
Reckoning
by Catherine Coulter
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N. – Eliot Ness – and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savich’s help. Savich brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the young detective who’d saved Kirra years before.
The Mazatlan Showdown
by Patrick Weill
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jeff Walker is furious. His father was murdered before he was born, and his mother died of a broken heart. Longing to confront the killer, Walker moves to the United States, but he can’t find the man. Then, when he sees a shooting on a yacht and swims out to the rescue, he finds himself up against a vicious gang of smugglers that wants him dead.
With the help of fellow lifeguard Tony Park and their best friends, Walker struggles to survive while working with law enforcement to investigate the smugglers, and the case takes a personal turn when he’s captured by an enemy from the past.
The Hunt
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York.
But that’s not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with.
Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina’s foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy divorce. But LA is no escape from her problems—she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly. When she wakes, barely conscious, Teresa discovers that both of her children are gone and frantically calls Gabe for help.
The Couple at Number 9
by Claire Douglas
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Victims . . . When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains. The remains of two bodies, in fact.
The Investigation . . . Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Saffy has nothing to worry about—until the police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage’s former owner. Her grandmother, Rose.
The Witness . . .
Last Seen
by Rick Mofina
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society’s darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban River Ridge to protect the person most precious to them. Until the unthinkable happens.
When their son disappears at a local carnival, the Hudsons’ storybook world is shattered. A frantic search begins to uncover splinters in their carefully crafted facade, revealing secrets that cast just as much suspicion on Cal and his wife as any ill-meaning stranger.
Jeb Strauss and Grant’s Gold
by John Suter
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A lost gold shipment from Ulysses S. Grant lies buried in the sediments of the Tennessee River.
Treasure hunter, Jeb Strauss, is hired by a mysterious woman to find the wreck and the treasure hidden within. It should be a simple recovery operation, but someone doesn’t want the gold to ever see the light of day.
Cleaning the Gold
by Karin Slaughter, Lee Child
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble.
Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 4.2 #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.
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
by Susan McBride
Rating: 4.1 #ad
In the second installment of Susan McBride’s Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin … before she becomes the killer’s next target.
Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps lifestyle hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren’t for the underhanded machinations of Andy’s upper-crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy’s donning designer duds to attend a launch party at the intolerable domestic diva’s new Dallas TV studio—and she’s on hand to witness the celebration site go up in flames!
Apexian warriors omnibus
by Arcadia Shield
Rating: 4.5 #ad
These alien warriors might be trouble, but their human partners are more than a match for them.
This 3-book omnibus of sci-fi romance action novels has a crew of feisty, smart human women, gorgeous Apexian alien warriors, action-packed battles, funny, quirky alien critters, and steamy scenes set in space. If you like muscled alien warriors, women who know how to hold their own, and hot romance, you’ll love the Apexian warriors series.
The Truth With Lies
by Stephanie Hurt
Rating: #ad
Leah Carson led a simple life. But all of that changed when her friend Dana, whom she hadn’t seen for five years, knocked on her door in the middle of the night. Five days later Dana turns up dead, Leah’s house is ransacked, and things begin turning up about Dana’s last five years that don’t add up. Just as Leah is wrapping her head around everything, Dana’s death is labeled a homicide and Leah is the prime suspect.
Jake Truitt steps in to investigate the break-in at Leah’s house and the missing friend, Dana. The more he finds out about Dana, the crazier this story gets. Then when the DA puts a bullseye on Leah, Jake makes it his mission to clear her name. But the battle is only just beginning.
Ballistic Kiss
by Richard Kadrey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive, high-octane page-turner – the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey.
As the battle between warring angels continues, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared—and how to get rid of them – it’s Stark…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Here Today, Scone Tomorrow
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
Former city dweller Flora Miller, new to the quaint English village and in charge of the recently restored Tearoom on the Rise, is the unlucky recipient of the late man’s parrot. Her new feathered companion has no filter and a vibrant personality that cannot be ignored! Witness to Harold’s murder, the bird won’t let the matter lie, and it’s not long before Flora becomes suspicious.
The Outlaws of Sherwood
by Robin McKinley
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father’s small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian—and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester.
Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian…
Deadly Innocence
by Scott Burnside, Alan Cairns
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Karla and Paul seemed like the picture-perfect newlyweds, but were really a pair of vicious killers who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered innocent schoolgirls, videotaping their evil acts in suburban Niagara Falls.
Billed as the crime of the century in Canada, this case has received a great deal of media coverage on both sides of the border. Includes eight pages of photos.
Made in Savannah Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Follow the Garlucci family saga as Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s “Made in Savannah Mystery Series.”
The Neighbors
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.3 #ad
If you lived here. It’s one of the most exclusive addresses in town—a luxury development with pristine lawns and steep price tags. But there are unforgiving people living in the Villages, who know your secrets and have plenty of their own . . . secrets that no one lives to tell . . .
You’d be dead by now. Mackenzie Laughlin has reluctantly moved to the Villages as bodyguard to Daley Carrera, who claims someone is pranking her and her husband. Mac expects a simple case of petty squabbles between new and longtime residents. Instead, she hears rumors of squalid affairs and sinister disappearances that tie in to a missing persons investigation led by her partner, Jesse James Taft.
Welcome to the neighborhood . . .
EMBRACE THE WIND
by Susan Denning
Rating: 4.5 #ad
What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man. To conceal her disgrace, she abandons her job, her home, her family and friends. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own.
Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. But in this rough town, with its prejudice, violence and lawlessness, it’s not just difficult to do what you believe is right─ it’s potentially deadly.
Galactic Derelict
by Andre Norton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A sequel to Time Traders, the Cold War race through time remains Norton’s background. Both search for abandonded wrecks of a race that had interstellar travel in Man’s infancy. Travis Fox, Apache, joins Ross Murdock and Dr. Gordon Ashe, time agents, in an attempt to transfer an intact alien ship through 20,000 years to the present… mayhem ensues.
Shifter Wolves of Pleasant Valley
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A small Texas town is bursting with secrets, deceptions…and forbidden relationships with the enemy. When a wolf shifter sets eyes on his one and only – there’s no turning back. He’ll do anything to protect the woman that brings him to his knees.
“There was just enough suspense throughout the series that I could not put it down. There was plenty of romance and hot shifters! I am sad that the series is done, and hope in the future there will be some sort of spin off of this series. Definitely one to go back and read again!” by Amazon Customer