Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Bloom
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
This winter promises record-high temperatures-and A DESIRE that reaches the boiling point…
Beaumont, South Carolina, is on “sizzle” this February. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother’s B&B. According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-not the kind of publicity the Peachtree Bed & Breakfast needs if it’s hosting millionaire Max Holt’s upcoming wedding! If rumors of a prank-playing ghost aren’t stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived with an eye on Annie and her master suite. Wes Bridges is all leather and denim, sporting a two-day beard, straddling a Harley, and sending the B&B’s testosterone level through the roof.
The Western Star
by Craig Johnson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff’s Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them.
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.
Long Way Home
by J. B. Turner
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Long Way Home is an action-packed new thriller from bestselling author J. B. Turner and the follow-up to the electric No Way Back.
When Jack McNeal threw Henry Graff’s body in the reservoir, he thought he had closed the book on Graff and his nefarious associates. But when Graff’s body is exhumed from the water, McNeal’s troubles really begin. Plagued by flashbacks and nightmares from his murderous past and unable to move on from the tragic deaths of his wife and young son, McNeal is on the verge of a breakdown…
The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
Rating: 4.4 #ad
NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras “Kaz” Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it.
But even as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is quite who they were thought to be. With political stakes stretched to the breaking point, the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts collide on the lunar surface, far beyond the reach of law or rescue.
The Unconventional Agent Beaufont Boxed Set
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Fairy Godmother Agency has been operating without a need to change for centuries—until now.
Why? Because Love is dying… Can the agency adapt to how love works in a modern world?
Grab the complete 9-book series to find out!
When a young halfling with snark, an attitude, and a criminal record breaks into the ranks of agents at FGA a lot of members aren’t happy.
Unfortunately, those upset can’t argue Agent Paris Beaufont’s results are incredible. She just doesn’t follow the rules to get things done. For some incredible results just aren’t enough! Corruption has insinuated itself deep inside the ranks of agents at FGA.
Bright Expanse
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Are humans alone in the universe? Everyone wants to know the answer—until suddenly the truth is staring them in the face.
The ExPAnSE Project is a bold new advance in SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. With this project, humankind is poised to answer some of its biggest questions. Are we just one of millions of civilizations in the galaxy? Are advanced alien life forms reaching out to us even now? Is Earth ready to join a galactic community of planets? Or instead, are we completely, terrifyingly, alone?
Gideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Walks a Dog
by Tess Baytree
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now that she’s in her fifties, Penelope Standing has life pretty well figured out. Her pet sitting business keeps her busy, her neighbors are conspiring to get her boyfriend, Jake, to propose, and she has just enough free time to make the corrupt mayor’s life miserable.
Then she arrives to walk Brutus, the lovable but ill-behaved mastiff — and finds his owner, Jezza, dead.
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Tick Tock
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
The women of the Sisterhood have developed a motto: “Whatever it takes.” Regardless of how dangerous an adversary may be, or how overwhelming the odds against them seem, the group’s devotion to each other and to their cause has helped them achieve the seemingly impossible…
The Progenitor
by Sara Wright
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Peace was all Xendara desired, but her enemies hunger for her power.
Princess Xendara is the heir to the throne, but her life is turned upside-down when a mysterious spaceship attacks. She learns her father had secrets. With his untimely demise, she must uncover them before her enemies remove her from power.
In her quest to keep peace within the Six Systems, she discovers a power she didn’t know she had; a power that everyone is looking to exploit. With the help of her childhood friend Darijus, she unlocks long lost memories of her past, only to find his destiny is intertwined with her own.
If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe
by Jason Pargin
Rating: 4.8 #ad
If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of “Undisclosed”. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults worshipping demonic entities, vengeful teenage sorcerers, we’ve got it all.
Stone Kiss
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a Manhattan rabbi is brutally murdered, an LAPD officer and his wife begin a dangerous mission to save a young girl from kidnapping — and investigate a deadly new case that puts them both at great peril.
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi’s brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy hotel room in upper Manhattan, and the victim’s 15-year-old niece, with whom he was spending the day, is missing. Decker, with Rina at his side, immediately heads out to New York to assist in the investigation.
The Burial Hour
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman’s noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest order is absolutely essential. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.
Soon the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer…
The Catherine Wheel
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An entire family falls under suspicion when the prospect of an inheritance stirs up passions in this novel in the beloved British mystery series.
An advertisement appears in the newspaper, asking for genealogical information from descendants of a certain Jeremiah Taverner, who died in long-ago 1888. It looks like an ordinary notice by a curious scholar, but the question is not nearly as simple as that. The man behind the ad is a Taverner himself: estranged, wealthy, and looking for a suitable relation to name in his will. The case grows complicated quickly, for there are many who bear the name, several illegitimate relatives aside.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Blast
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Turn up the heat and slip into something comfortable…
There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave’s spiked the mercury – and everyone’s sex drive. When newspaper owner Jamie Swift runs into millionaire playboy Max Holt, it’s all she can do not to tear his clothes off—and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he’s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, the bakery’s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes, and even Jamie’s dog is dodging passes from an amorous French poodle!
Hack
by Mark Pawlosky
Rating: 4.7 #ad
1st place award in the 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards, Mystery/Suspense category
When a top secret and powerful US surveillance technology is stolen and offered for sale on the black market, an exiled reporter races to expose the theft and untangle the plot—before the story is spiked, and he is silenced for good.
Coming off a successful investigation into a major banking scandal, Newshound reporter Nik Byron arrives in Washington, DC, with high hopes for his career. But a disruptive corporate merger and a vengeful boss quickly dash his plans. Relegated to scut work and the graveyard shift, Nik’s career and emotions are in a tailspin…
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life.
Reacher is the ultimate loner – no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know…
Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge’s phone number and the words “Next of Kin.” Ravinia insists she doesn’t recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn’t believe her. He can tell that she’s one of them—the Siren Song women.
Five years after moving away from The Colony, Ravinia has carved out a life as a private investigator whose specialty is helping others locate their missing loved ones. Yet sometimes, it’s better if the missing are never found…
The Charity
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Police Chief Mark Friessen and his wife, social worker Billy Jo McCabe, keep a watchful eye on their small island town in the Pacific Northwest. As the couple comes to grips with the fact that a hub of crime run by the political elite has turned the quiet, sleepy Roche Harbor into a playground for the rich and powerful, a young executive of a major international charity moves to town. When Mark and Billy Jo dig deep into the secrets and lies that seem to follow the man, they uncover a twisted truth, one they may wish they had never found.
Brimstone Bound
by Helen Harper
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A werewolf killer. A paranormal murder. How many times can Emma Bellamy cheat death?
I’m one placement away from becoming a fully fledged London detective. It’s bad enough that my last assignment before I qualify is with Supernatural Squad. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next.
Brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, I wake up twelve hours later in the morgue – and I’m very much alive. I don’t know how or why it happened. I don’t know who killed me. All I know is that they might try again.
Flash Point
by JL Crosswhite
Rating: 4.7 #ad
She was the last contact with a missing man… …He will stop at nothing to protect her. But will the cost be too high?
Directionally-challenged architect Sarah Brockman never thought getting lost on the way to a job site would put her in danger. But she finds it when the man who assists her goes missing. Attempts to help the police thrust her into a series of events that could cost her everything.
Fire Captain Joe Romero has let too many things get in the way of his pursuit of Sarah. And now she is in danger, he’ll stop at nothing to protect her. No matter the price.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
MURDER OF A GENTLEMAN
by Pippa McCathie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The unusual, romantically attached crime-solving duo return to investigate a ruthless murder!
Charming film writer and director Geraint Denbigh is found lifeless in the garden of his Welsh home. It looks like he fell from a window, but eagle-eyed Detective Chief Inspector Matt Lambert soon finds irregularities in the crime scene. Before long he determines it was murder.
Recently retired, the victim was writing about his eventful life and many of his former colleagues and associates could have had reason to stop him before he spilled the beans on their transgressions.
The Grand Finale
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn’t prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer’s pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams?
She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?
Treasure State
by C.J. Box
Rating: 4.5 #ad
#1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box’s Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who’s disappeared somewhere in the “treasure state”. A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that’s the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie begins to wonder if her client is telling her everything.
The Barracks of the Holocaust: The Complete Series
by Elyse Hoffman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The complete boxset collection of Elyse Hoffman’s The Barracks of the Holocaust Series, including Barrack Five, Barrack Four, Barrack Three, Barrack Two, and Barrack One. Read the full series!
Vilém Rehor is a guard at a concentration camp turned Holocaust memorial. Tasked with guarding the grounds against neo-Nazi attacks, he gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that ghosts are roaming the grounds—the ghosts of Holocaust victims desperate to fulfill their last wishes before moving on…and the ghost of a vicious Nazi determined to keep them trapped at the Camp for all eternity.
The Complication
by Amanda DuBois
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The first in the Camille Delaney Mystery series, The Complication is a fast-paced legal and medical mystery filled with greed, murder, and intrigue.
After her friend Dallas Jackson suffers a fatal complication during routine surgery, Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is determined to find out why. Dallas was like a father to Camille, and she feels she owes it to him and his family to get answers. Knowing she could lose her partnership at her high-profile law firm for undertaking such an investigation, Camille takes a huge risk and starts her own firm, determined to bring Dallas’s killer to justice. She turns for help to her friend Trish Seaholm, a quick-witted chameleonlike private investigator with an uncanny knack for blending into any situation.
The Book of the Dead
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw’s battered old edition of The Tempest—and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge. Gamadge, of course, is not only an expert in solving pesky problems but also an expert in rare books, and his two sets of expertise combine to uncover the extraordinary puzzle of Mr. Crenshaw, which began in California and ended on the other side of the country, at a chilly New England rendezvous.
Treachery and Redemption Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
This collection of exciting, adventurous mystery and romantic suspense stories will keep you up turning pages. Leave the light on!
TIME WILL TELL; DEADLY PRIDE
ACCUSATIONS; REDEMPTION’S CALL
HATTERAS ISLAND MYSTERY; SHADOWS OF TIME
TRICKS AND TREACHERY; DANGEROUS EXPOSURE
Lethal Resuscitation
by Mairi Chong
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A medical conference becomes a murder scene, in this mystery starring a doctor in rural Scotland by the author of Shooting Pains.
Dr. Cathy Moreland welcomes the chance to stay at a country hotel for an advanced life support course. But the atmosphere among her fellow practitioners seems fraught with tension – and the equipment meant for saving lives is instead used to kill a bad-tempered doctor.
Contamination Box Set
by T.W. Piperbrook
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination – The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading!
The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day…