Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Dreamer
by M. C. Beaton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Death of a Dreamer: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don’t last, but it looks as if Effie Garrard has come to stay. When Constable Hamish Macbeth calls on her, he’s amazed that she weathered the difficult winter. But Effie is quite delusional, imagining that she’s engaged to local artist Jock Fleming. Later, Effie is found in the mountains, poisoned by hemlock.
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(Hamish Macbeth Mysteries)
People Behaving Badly Collection
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.4 #ad
People Behaving Badly is a collection of thirteen short mystery stories exploring the folly of criminal behavior. Welcome to a world filled with strange and quirky characters where murder, vigilantism, jealousy, infidelity, sex, violence and people behaving badly are the norm.
These short mysteries were written as individual bite-size stories that can be devoured in one sitting. Perfect reading for your bus, train or subway commute to work, while you’re waiting at the doctor’s or dentist’s office, having your car serviced, enjoying a latte at your favorite coffee shop, or whenever you have a few minutes of free time.
Day of the Caesars
by Simon Scarrow
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Simon Scarrow’s DAY OF THE CAESARS is not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. ‘A new book in Simon Scarrow’s series about the Roman army is always a joy’ The Times
The Emperor Claudius is dead. Nero rules. His half-brother Britannicus has also laid claim to the throne. A bloody power struggle is underway.
All Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro want is a simple army life, fighting with their brave and loyal men. But Cato has caught the eye of rival factions determined to get him on their side. To survive, Cato must play a cunning game, and enlist the help of the one man in the Empire he can trust: Macro.
Killing the Ghost
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life’s hardships teach Sandy Greenmount to make lemonade from lemons—until a dead guy falls into her apartment when she opens the door and she is accused of murder.
No matter how sweet lemonade is to drink, Sandy finds herself submerged in a virtual sea of lemons: ghostly incidents at night; a hometown that ostracizes her for her father’s role in the drug-related death of three teens; ire when she refuses to paint signs for a bar owner, and ire when she does paint signs for an animal rescue organization and the signs are used at a protest at the local supermarket.
Sandy’s lemony philosophy of life gets a boost when Trig Webber sweeps into her life, but can she keep him when there’s competition from lovely red-headed Bekka, who works for Trig’s best friend?
Bones of Skeleton Creek
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Explosive action, gripping adventure, and a dynamic hero
When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires paranormal investigator. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human, and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women – or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.
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(Paranormal Cowboy Mysteries)
The Roses of May
by Dot Hutchison
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.
Down a Dark River
by Karen Odden
Rating: 4.6 #ad
London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous autumn left the division in ruins. Reluctantly, Corravan abandons his ongoing case, a search for the missing wife of a shipping magnate, handing it over to his young colleague, Mr. Stiles.
An Irish former bare-knuckles boxer and dockworker from London’s seedy East End, Corravan has good street sense and an inspector’s knack for digging up clues.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Among The Fishes
by Louise Clark
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
The long-promised Jamieson-Armstrong family camping trip takes a pause with news of murder at the local fish farm where the vacationing families recently visited. Even worse, it looks like their campsite neighbor’s brother-in-law, Adam, is the prime suspect in the fish farm Manager’s murder.
Ignoring protests from family, Christy and Sledge, along with Stormy the cat, start asking questions at the mayor’s office and quickly learn of political opposition to the fish farm and form a list of distinguished suspects.
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(The 9 Lives Cozy Mysteries)
Mushroom Murders: Fog Busters Detectives
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 3.9 #ad
When Susan goes into the forest to pick mushrooms for a café in her Scottish village, she gets lost, is threatened by a “monster man,” and finds a dead woman.
The Fog Busters Detective Agency, friends who prove that age is a number, not a malady, spring into action to solve the mystery. Alec is nearly blind, John and Peg are essentially deaf, Morag is on a crutch, and Rory and Susan – at sixty – are the youngest members of the group. Determining the “whodunit” seems impossible when Rory vanishes.
Further complicating the investigation for the amateur detectives, unexpected suitors materialize to pursue Susan and Rory, farm animals get mixed into the melee, and an attempt is made to purloin Rory’s want-to-be girlfriend out a window while she’s sleeping in Susan’s bedroom.
Tom Clancy Enemy Contact
by Mike Maden
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Jack Ryan, Jr.’s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend in this blistering entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
The CIA’s deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn’t know who, how or why.
Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail dead ends in a harrowing fight from which he barely escapes with his life.
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(A Jack Ryan Jr. Mysteries)
The Cursebound Thief
by Megan O’Russell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The world wants a hero. The curse needs a thief.
The party of the decade stands between Jerek Holden and saving the people he would do anything to protect. After twelve years, he’s finally found a way to break the curse that ripped all magic from the world and destroyed the peace that took generations to build. All he needs is one, simple artifact. But he can’t steal the heliostone alone.
A girl with a soul of fire. A vampire bound by a vow. A werewolf bent on revenge. A knight torn between honor and duty. A hacker to keep them all alive.
The Void
by J.D. Horn
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An otherworldly energy runs through the city of Savannah, betraying its sleepy, moss-cradled charm. The old, beguiling streets look welcoming to most…but certain families know what lurks under their genteel surfaces. Families like Mercy Taylor’s, which has the most powerful lineage of witches in the South, know this all too well.
Mercy and her husband, Peter, are happily preparing to welcome baby Colin into their lives. But their excitement quickly becomes overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: someone has scattered severed limbs throughout the city. After a troubling visit from an old foe, Mercy learns dark magic is at play, and someone – or something – wants her and her unborn child out of the picture.
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(Witching Savannah Mysteries)
Night Vipers Box Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Farrell Donovan heads up the newly expanded Night Vipers Squad, Harley riders against violent crime. Follow Farrell and his team as they work in conjunction with the Blackmore Agency to bring criminals to justice in the State of Texas.
A Tangled Web
by Leslie Rule
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone. Cari’s boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, accepted the breakup at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, had doubts. “I need to hear your voice,” Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing.
While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police believed Dave and his girlfriend, Shanna “Liz” Golyar, when they reported that the missing woman was cyberstalking them.
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Leaving New York on a night flight to Germany, the quiet, thoughtful Tom, and feisty, emotional Melly, are apprehensive about life in a foreign land. While they will attend the American high school in Würzburg, brother and sister realize they are the only stability each has had in their young lives. They also leave behind the sole adult they came to trust, their Aunt Deeny, a librarian who introduced them long ago to a way to cope with life’s ups and downs—reading and books.
In Search of Christian Origins
by J. Steven Paul
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There is the accepted, often-repeated version of Christian history—and then there’s the real story. In this gripping volume, author J. Steven Paul uncovers the little-known details of the world’s largest religion.
How did Christianity originate? Who created its earliest writings? Who decided which books would be in the Bible? Where did the ideas of heaven and hell originate, and when did people begin taking the Bible literally? How did Christianity evolve and fracture into the many forms it takes today? From fascinating background on its central tenets to curious details that have been largely swept under the rug, this comprehensive overview traces Christianity from ancient practices through its centuries-long rise in popularity, power, influence, and dominance.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Ghost Mortem
by Jane Hinchey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Whoever said that ghosts exist must be out of their mind.
Oh, wait. That was me. I said that. If you’d told me yesterday that ghosts were real I would have smiled, nodded, and called a shrink to fix your deluded little mind. Now it’s my turn to question my sanity when the ghost of my best friend turns up in my apartment. Was it the tequila shots the night before causing this apparition? Or one too many bumps to the head — let’s face it, clumsy is my middle name, it really wouldn’t surprise me if I’d done some irreparable damage to my grey matter over the years.
Now I have to accept that the paranormal does, in fact, exist. But sadly, my ghost friend is lacking something besides his body. His memory…
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(Ghost Detective Mysteries)
Stealth Power
by Vikki Kestell
Rating: 4.8 #ad
I must survive. For Dr. Bickel’s sake, I must survive.
Weakened by the nanomites’ drain, Gemma flees from General Cushing’s renewed pursuit. She finds temporary refuge in Dr. Bickel’s vacant safe house—refuge and time for her body to recover from the damage inflicted by the nanomites.
But how does an invisible woman with no identity survive in a visible world?
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(Nanostealth Mysteries)
Kiss Her Goodnight
by D.K. Hood
Rating: 4.8 #ad
She glances around as she locks the café door behind her. It’s growing dark and the quiet street is deserted. Tired, she starts on her short walk home. She thinks she’ll be safe inside within minutes, but the person watching from the shadows has other plans for her tonight…
When the body of a young woman is discovered in a local playground in the center of Black Rock Falls, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy David Kane rush to the scene. Jenna recoils with horror when she sees the body, dressed in a thin nightgown, her face covered by a terrifying Halloween mask.
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(Detectives Kane and Alton Mysteries)
The Secret of the Lost Pharaoh
by Carolyn Arnold
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In Egypt’s Western Desert lies the tomb of an unnamed pharaoh that hides a secret so powerful, it could destroy the world as we know it.
Archaeologist and adventurer Matthew Connor has made a career of finding legends the world has all but forgotten. Though there’s one in particular that has fascinated him for years—the Emerald Tablets. Myth says that they possess the knowledge of the universe, allowing humankind to traverse Heaven and Earth, and have the power to bestow wealth and wisdom upon whoever possesses them. But if they fall into evil hands, it could cause a global disaster.
So when a former colleague stumbles across an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic map that promises to lead to a pharaoh’s tomb and the Emerald Tablets, there’s no way he’s turning down her invitation to join the dig. He only has one stipulation: his best friends Robyn Garcia and Cal Myers come with him.
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(Matthew Connor Mysteries)
Wicked Ways
by Cari Silverwood
Rating: 4.2 #ad
What if a man could command you to do anything and you couldn’t make yourself say no?
Some people go through life without encountering evil. Zorie is not one of the lucky ones. As a teenager, she escaped a kidnapper. Now she’s stronger, smarter, and she avoids the dangerous men.
Until she meets Reuben and her avoidance strategy is chaff in the wind. He’s a collector and a mesmer, with the ability to control certain women at will. Zorie is to be his remote-controlled plaything.
She’s been collected.
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(Dark Hearts Mysteries)
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Niergel Chronicles – Quest
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: Pre-Order #ad
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Niergel Chronicles – Quest continues the fantastic adventures of Jeff Sutherland, a brilliant young scientist who encounters a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
Dangerous enemies are stepping up their attacks as dark forces grow increasingly threatened by our hero’s discoveries. He is, meanwhile, drawn more deeply into his search for the truth about his heritage and the earth’s past.
Book Two, Quest is the story of Jeff’s soul-stirring pursuit of truth. Not just the truth about his lost family but also the most extraordinary reality of all. One that upends everything he ever believed, as he realizes that it is the only defense against the dark forces who now threaten the entire world. Jeff’s most profound discovery is the one he least expects — the proof of God’s creative hand.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Deadly Shade of Gold
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes McGee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive.
Deception. Betrayal. Heartbreak. When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised…
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(A Travis McGee Mysteries)
Keeper of Scales
by Anne Mollova
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A princess with a secret. An ancient evil rising. A kingdom caught in the balance.
For centuries, the Trianid has kept the kingdom of Dúramair peaceful and prosperous. Formed by Dúramair’s greatest warrior, an abbess who weaves visions of the future, and the Keeper of Scales, a healer gifted with Sight of the faerie realm, the Trianid has passed on its wisdom and responsibilities generation after generation to its carefully sought and selected apprentices.
Alyen, crown princess of Dúramair, has trained her whole life to be queen. She’s kept her Sight a secret, trusting that the Keeper of Scales will find an apprentice soon—for surely one other candidate can be found. But when news comes from the north of dark magic returning to Dúramair, Alyen is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. A decision that could determine the fate of her kingdom.
The Long Way Home
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.5 #ad
While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache’s help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. “There’s power enough in Heaven,” he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, “to cure a sin-sick soul.” And then he gets up. And joins her.
Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow.
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(A Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries)
Sovereign
by C. J. Sansom
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London.
Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they’ve been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
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(Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Welcome to Nevermore Bookshop Collection
by Steffanie Holmes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What do you get when you cross a cursed bookshop, three hot fictional men, and a punk rock heroine nursing a broken heart?
You get the Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries – where all your book boyfriends come to life.
When Mina Wilde’s ex-best friend shows up dead with a knife in her back, she’ll have to solve the murder if she wants to clear her name. Will Heathcliff, Moriarty and Quoth the Raven be able to keep her out of prison?
More importantly, will she be able to keep her hands off the three fictional men who’ve taken up residence in her bookshop… and her heart.
Finding Dolly
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The blanket of snow covers the state of Colorado as Hudson Owens stands in front of his mother’s fresh grave. It is supposed to be a simple affair after which Hudson would travel back to his home town and carry on with his life.
As Hudson rides through a snow storm and into the town of Ashcroft, he notices a commotion at the sheriff’s office. It turns out that a stagecoach has just been robbed by a gang led by Johnny Daggers, a notorious outlaw of the state. One of the victims involved is a woman called Dolly Miller who had cared for Hudson’s mother before her recent death.
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(Western Justice Adventures)