Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Face to Die For
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world’s most beautiful woman. Professor Smith put his life on the line to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen.
Riley seeks the help of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, who has the unusual skills necessary to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships—revealing Helen’s true appearance for the first time in history. But convincing Eve to take on the challenge will be difficult because her efforts could come at great personal risk to her and her family…
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(Eve Duncan Mysteries)
High Bluffs
by Sally Royer-Derr
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Joanna Dresden lives an idyllic life in High Bluffs, Maine, running her family inn with her husband and daughter. She’s devastated when her husband is killed in a car accident, leaving her emotionally shaken and vulnerable. The inn they have spent their lives tending no longer interests her, and some unusual occurrences are happening around town.
A relationship develops between Joanna and a younger man, much to her surprise. Rick reawakes her in a way she didn’t realize was possible, but something isn’t quite right in High Bluffs. The dark secrets surrounding her in this supposed idyllic existence have started to surface.
The Good Sister
by Sally Hepworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.
There’s only been one time that Rose couldn’t stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be…dangerous.
The Foundation
by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear comes a deadly battle of wits between hunter and hunted.
“What good is being the last person standing if all that’s left is smoking ruins?”
Captain Brenda Pepper used to be special forces. Now? She’s a bodyguard for rich people, and this weekend her job is keeping international banker Chantel Simond alive at all costs.
Chantel Simond is a woman shrouded in mystery, not only for Brenda, but for Ohio senator Thomas Jesse Ortega. Newly elected to the senate, Tom Ortega is in Jackson to learn all he can before voting on Senate Bill S-107, legislation that will totally rewrite American banking law.
Don’t Look Now
by Mary Burton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Austin homicide detective Jordan Poe is hunting a serial killer she fears is the same man who assaulted her sister, Avery, two years ago. The details line up: the victims are the same age, same type, dead by the same grim MO. Luckily Avery survived. But the terrible memories linger, making Jordan more determined than ever to stop this monster in his tracks.
Texas Ranger Carter Spencer isn’t one to poach on a detective’s territory. Yet no matter how resentful a capable lone wolf like Jordan is, when she is attacked at a third crime scene and suffers a trauma that leaves her with limited vision, it’s up to Carter to help Jordan navigate a world she no longer recognizes.
One Fine Mess
by Mark Petersen
Rating: 3.8 #ad
It’s time to show some ovaries. All Jules Nichols wants is to off her abusive hubby. But once he’s dead, mobsters and drug dealers are popping out of the woodwork, the staties are suspicious, and her wacko sister won’t go away. There’s also that darn head in a box.
Who could’ve known it’d be so hard to commit one little murder?
“I really, truly enjoyed this story and found myself laughing out loud frequently – something I rarely do. The premise is solid but the execution of “one little murder” so hilariously botched this story stayed with me for weeks. Highly recommended.” by Amazon Customer
The Circle Series 4-in-1
by Ted Dekker
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Ted Dekker’s bestselling and most beloved series—together in one volume. It’s an epic tale of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, and a terrorist threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.
Thomas Hunter is an unlikely hero who finds himself pulled between two worlds. In our reality, he works in a coffeehouse. In the other, he becomes a battle-scarred general leading a band of warriors known as the Circle.
Every time he falls asleep in one reality, he wakes in the other—and both worlds are facing catastrophic disaster. In one world, Thomas must race to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating a global pandemic by releasing an unstoppable virus…
Later
by Stephen King
Rating: 4.5 #ad
SOMETIMES GROWING UP
MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Thick as Thieves
by Sandra Brown
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father’s involvement in a heist gone wrong.
Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it.
Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago—presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice – has never reconciled with her father’s abandonment of her and her sister…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Death on the Shelf
by Allison Brook
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Librarian Carrie Singleton sleuths a murder at her best friend’s wedding in Agatha Award nominee Allison Brook’s fifth Haunted Library mystery.
Clover Ridge librarian Carrie Singleton is thrilled to attend her best friend Angela’s wedding, but Angela’s family can be a bit…much. Angela’s wealthy cousin Donna hosts an extravagant bridal shower at her resplendent home, but the celebrations turn to gossip as the guests notice Donna’s surgeon husband, Aiden, spending a bit too much time with Donna’s cousin Roxy. At the wedding reception, the sweet occasion turns darkly bitter when Aiden topples into the chocolate fountain–dead.
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(A Haunted Library Mysteries)
Moonlight Mile
by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 4.3 #ad
As local merchants unite to attract tourists for a much anticipated weekend quilting event, business is sure to spill over into eateries like Daisy’s Tea Garden. Gorgeous craftwork is hanging everywhere – but among the quilts, potholders, and placemats, one gallery owner is wrapped up in some dangerous affairs . . .
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(Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Mysteries)
Fall Felonies Collection
by Multiple Auhtors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
DECEPTIVE PEACE: A woman wanting to hide… A man who wants to be left alone… A mother with a big secret that sets the two on a collision course.
DEER EYES: Her eyes reflect fear, but looks can be deceiving. The fewer people who know her story, the less danger she’ll bring to their lives.
A SPY, A MARSHAL, AND A MURDER: All Ethan wanted to do was guard the treasure. He forgot to ask how far he should go to discourage unwanted visitors to their salvage operation. And he certainly didn’t know he’d fall in love in the middle of it…
Killing Her Softly
by Beverly Barton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless predator who always gets what he wants. In the bedroom, it’s no different. Quinn is an accomplished seducer with a long list of conquests. But now, someone has brutally slaughtered one of them, and Quinn has no memory of the night he was found in her home . . .
Annabelle Vanderley wants justice for her murdered cousin. If Quinn Cortez swears he can find the true killer, she’s willing to give him the benefit of a doubt. But then another body is discovered.
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(Griffin Powell Mysteries)
Primal Creatures
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When you hear the howls, don’t go near the swamp
Paranormal investigator Wyatt deals with a heinous death on an island resort for actors, artists, and writers. Strange monks, Cajun werewolves, and people in a fishing village who practice voodoo populate the island. An old voodoo woman tells Wyatt, “There are creatures on this island that only walk at night.” Will Wyatt solve the murder mystery and uncover the island’s dark secret, or become a victim to the swamp’s horrid creatures?
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Cursed
by Carol Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Abigail Feeney, a young woman who had lived across the hall from Regan in an apartment complex in the Hollywood Hills, is on the line. Abigail believes her life has been cursed since birth. She was born on Friday the 13th of January, and her parents gave her a name with 13 letters. A hairdresser on movie sets, Abigail was recently injured at work when a piece of scaffolding fell and knocked her over, and her arm was broken in two places. But that isn’t why she is calling. “Regan!” she exclaims. “The ‘no good bum’ has been spotted in town. I desperately need the money he owes me. Can you please come out here and help me find him?”
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(A Regan Reilly Mysteries)
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.
“Runaway Dragon mates is a series you don’t want to miss. Each book builds a new step into what will be a masterpiece of literature knowledge. I loved each book for its self, but couldn’t resist the next book in the series. Fantastic reading!” by Amazon Customer
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cookies and Chaos
by C. A. Phipps
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Murder comes to town! Using her bakery and expertise, Madeline Flynn helps the sheriff’s twin nephews with their cookie sales – until strange things happen at the community center where they sell them.
With a puzzling death, vandalism and a nasty scam, the danger on their doorstep can’t be ignored. Maddie is once again whisked up in an investigation that will take all her sleuthing skills.
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(Maple Lane Mysteries)
The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
Star-Crossed Dragons
by Chris Cannon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ice-princess, Sara Sinclair, is the most un-Blue Blue Dragon of her Clan. And now her parents signed a marriage contract to an absolute asshat. Sara has no interest in being one half of a snobby Blue power couple. In fact, all she can dream about is biting her obnoxious fiancé’s head off and burying him in the garden. Since that can’t happen, her future seems like a lost cause, until she meets Ian, a fire-breathing Red Dragon—who is everything her fiancé is not.
Now Sara’s jumped from the frying pan into the fire because dating outside of your Clan is against Directorate law. Ian could be thrown in jail or executed without a trial. But now that she knows what love feels like, she can’t imagine being with anyone else.
Flesh for Punktown Collection
by Jeffrey Thomas
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three stories of body modification and genetic engineering in the nightmarish future city its citizens call Punktown.
OPEN MINDED – H. P. Lovecraft’s “Mi-Go” feature in this story about a secretive alien race and the conscience-stricken human technician who’s working for them.
TRANSFORMATION – A young woman working in a brothel that caters to jaded rich people with extreme tastes asks a flesh artist to turn her into…a werewolf.
SACRED MEAT – A man obsessed with an alien actress in adult movies tracks her down to an exclusive club where the darkest of fantasies are fulfilled.
Close Up
by Amanda Quick
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer…
Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills.
After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the murderer the press has dubbed the “Dagger Killer,” Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous victims – details that only another photographer would have noticed – details that put Vivian at the top of the killer’s target list.
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.
All He Ever Wanted
by Anita Shreve
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A marriage is always two intersecting stories.”
This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal.
Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve’s bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Rating: 4.0 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system? Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Too Chili To Die
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The future doesn’t bode well for Mackendra Evans when she discovers a murder victim on her first assignment at a new job. It gets worse. An investigation links her to the victim and makes her the chief suspect when police discover she’s the victim’s daughter – and is in line to receive a large inheritance after his death.
Mackendra’s dream is to become a staff writer at a local newspaper and, although it seems to have come true when she is hired by editor Carilee Vinson – her success comes at a steep price. Her editor can be as prickly and barbed as a cattle fence. She discovers siblings she never knew existed – but most of them hate her.
Cold, Cold Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.
GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.
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(A Temperance Brennan Mysteries)
Rose and the Cowboy
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“Don’t touch him there! He’s bleeding.” “I know that he’s bleeding! Both of my hands are covered in blood.” “Well, be careful.” “I am being careful, Rose. I don’t want to make it any worse!” “I think he’s waking up.”
Ted was convinced that he was dreaming. And when he opened his eyes, he was sure that there were two angels looking down at him.
“Hello, mister,” Rose said. “How are you feeling?” “Don’t ask him that, Rose,” the other woman replied. “You can clearly see that he’s been shot.” “I just wanted to make sure, okay, Lilly?”
Ted was still in a great deal of pain, but it was obvious that his shoulder had been tended to. He could feel a tightness around his wound. The women were putting pressure on it and preparing to cauterize his gunshot wound.
The Seven Dials Mystery
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery.
Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.
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(Superintendent Battle Mysteries)
Pirates Come Down
by Christopher McMaster
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Fishing in the future takes more than a net!
Rickets is a PAC-Man, his patrol and attack craft the first line of defence against encroaching vessels. Moss is a Fisheries Observer, tasked with seeing that companies abide by the quotas set on target species. Together they play a part in ensuring the waters are not fished to extinction.
But as fisheries elsewhere play out, New Zealand waters start to look more attractive until every ship protects itself with PAC boats, missiles that skim the surface, and kamikaze drones equipped with explosives.
The Missing
by Sarah Langan
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . .
The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel boy unearths an ancient horror—a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry . . . and inhuman.
The Spires
by Kate Moretti
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Strung between two teenagers, an unemployed husband, and a tenuous career, Penelope Cox barely has her life together when the past comes knocking at her door. Willa Blaine, her old roommate, needs her help: refuge from an abusive husband. “Two weeks tops,” she says—but it’s not the imposition that bothers Penelope; it’s the memories Willa brings with her.
Twenty years earlier, Penelope, Willa, and three friends lived together in a converted church. Insular and closed off from the rest of the world, the five roommates formed their own dysfunctional family, celebrating the pinnacle of their lives; they called themselves “the Spires.”
The Snake and the Spider
by Karen Kingsbury
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona Beach unchaperoned. When the boys missed their agreed-upon daily check-ins, their parents were disappointed. When they failed to come home on their planned return date, their parents were terrified. They could not have known that their innocent sons would encounter two violent men on the Florida coast. They could not have imagined the torture their children would endure before their bodies turned up four months later in a Florida swamp. What starts as a dream vacation, ended as every parent’s worst nightmare . . .