Mysteries
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Hair of the Dog
by Laurien Berenson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The dog days of summer have just begun, and Melanie Travis is looking forward to savoring them. And where better to enjoy herself than at her Aunt Peg’s Fourth of July barbecue? It sounds ideal, until an uninvited guest proves that even the laziest dog day of the year can suddenly turn vicious.
Melanie knew someone should have kept Barry Turk on a short leash. The star poodle handler and ladykiller had a habit of chicanery that bred contempt in the dog show circuit, particularly among its female members. But when Barry is shot dead in his own driveway, even Melanie is stunned at how unsporting the competition can get.
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(A Melanie Travis Mysteries)
Jedidiah Taylor: Forging Of A Lawman
by Brayden C. Hawke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Orphaned at a young age, Jedidiah Taylor is taken under the wing of kindhearted rancher William “Boss” Kingston and the denizens of his Double-A ranch. Before you know it, young Jedidiah has learned to ride and rope, to track and shoot. His journey to manhood will take him through encounters with crooked cowboys and bloodthirsty Indians, and from Nacogdoches, Texas, to San Francisco, California.
Chase Wilson, born in Tennessee, is also orphaned at an early age. But Chase doesn’t have a kindly rancher to shepherd him to adulthood. In fact, it seems that every guiding influence that enters young Chase’s life is soon stripped away. Still, Chase struggles to build a better life for himself.
The Scarpetta Factor
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame….
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events, culminating in an ominous package—possibly a bomb—showing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she and her husband, Benton, live.
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(Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she’s helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel’s life seems neatly on track–a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna – everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
The Native Land: The Olive Rogers Story
by Bill Shuey
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Native Land: Book Two continues the story of the western migration on the Santa Fe Trail. This time the story deals with the Oliver Rogers family and their decision to use the Cimarron Cutoff.
After they are attacked by Indians and their numbers reduced, Oliver and two other families join with a group of Mormons headed for Utah to continue their journey.
Oliver finds a wagon train scout who was captured by the Kiowa and managed to escape. He joins the wagon train and enters into an agreement with Oliver to form a partnership on a ranch once they arrive in New Mexico.
Succubus On Top
by Richelle Mead
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. If she so much as kisses Seth Mortensen, the shy, sexy writer she’s been dating, she’ll drain his life force. Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks of a succubus are terrific, but it’s completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can’t get down with the one mortal who accepts her for who she is…
It’s not just her personal life that’s in chaos. Doug, Georgina’s co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, and Georgina suspects something far more demonic than double espressos.
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(Georgina Kincaid Mysteries)
The Keepers of the Library
by Glenn Cooper
Rating: 4.4 #ad
England, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn’t just superstition. It’s a secret with the power to save the world—or destroy it.
In less than four hundred days, most of the world’s population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027.
Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few who will live “Beyond the Horizon.” Fifteen years ago, he revealed the prophecy to the world after the hunt for a madman led him to the mystical Library of Vectis, now housed at Area 51, in an unmarked location in the Nevada desert.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Foundations, Funny Business & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The best of intentions shouldn’t include murder.
An HR specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie is on the board of a fledgling non-profit foundation set up to benefit victims of domestic violence. After a slashed tire, attempted break in, and a murder, Stacie isn’t buying coincidental bad karma. Someone wants her off the board – at any cost. Her fancy surveillance equipment, impressive alarm system, and a ferocious Maltese dog offer only so much protection. That may not be enough when politics are involved. Enter Kevin McNair, a smooth talker with piercing blue eyes. Can she trust him with her heart or her life?
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
Over My Dead Body
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit—a cold case squad—to catch the criminals nobody else can.
In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner—convicted of forgery and theft—was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client?
On a luxury liner en route to New York, the battle for power within a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder.
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(William Warwick Mysteries)
House of Lies
by D. S. Butler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dark secret. A haunted past. And a house full of lies.
When two teenage girls vanish without a trace from an educational retreat at Chidlow House in Lincolnshire, the students and teachers are put on high alert.
Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart questions everyone who came into contact with the two girls, Cressida and Natasha, in the days leading up to their disappearance.
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(Detective Karen Hart Mysteries)
Reincarnation of the Morrigan
Complete Series Boxed Set
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What’s a girl to do when she finds out she has a great destiny? Reject it, of course.
Angelica Morgan doesn’t have a clue what fate has in store for her. She’s about to find out! Grab this 9-book complete series boxed set to join her on this urban fantasy adventure! The world is on its second pandemic in a decade and EMT Angelica Morgan is burned out.
An old boyfriend, and surprise her new boss, puts her on administrative leave. Believing tea and cookies are a good solution, Angelica heads to her grandmothers. Can the world get weirder? Yes, yes it can. What Angelica learns sends her careening down an entirely new path.
Turkey Day Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tinker’s Cove, Maine, has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone’s impressive pumpkin pie. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends to discover who left Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan dead – with an ancient war club next to his head.
The list of suspects isn’t exactly brief. Nolan had a habit of disagreeing with just about everybody he met. Between fixing dinner for twelve and keeping her four kids from tearing each other limb from limb, Lucy has a pretty full plate already.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
Jealousy
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
HATRED LEADS TO OBSESSION . . . It’s taken time for the plan to unfold, years spent waiting, watching, hating. And after the first victim, the killing gets easier and easier . . .
OBSESSION LEADS TO JEALOUSY . . . The Crissmans, owners of Crissman & Wolfe department store, were once one of Portland’s most powerful families. There’s still enough fortune left to sow mistrust between Lucy, her bohemian sister Layla, their brother Lyle, and his grasping wife Kate. When a charity event at the Crissman Lodge ends in a fatal poisoning, Lucy becomes a prime suspect. But the truth is even more twisted, and Lucy can’t be sure which of her family is being targeted . . . or who to fear.
AND JEALOUSY LEADS TO MURDER . . .
The Hive
by Gregg Olsen
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets in #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s mesmerizing novel of suspense.
In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposé. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who’s pulled millions into her euphoric orbit…
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Margin for Murder
by Lauren Elliott
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant while she travels to the neighboring town of Pen Hollow to attend a book sale at a library that is closing due to lack of funding. But the real find is a bookmobile bus, which she’s excited to refit as a traveling bookstore to hit all the summer festivals. The bookmobile also holds a surprising treasure: several classic first editions and an early edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses.
But before the bookmobile can be delivered to Addie, a fatal car crash occurs. When an autopsy reveals poison in the victim’s system and the first editions go missing, it’s up to Addie to determine what would drive someone to murder.
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(A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries)
Alterations
by Jane Suen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Gigi, Ellen, Lilly… three women so desperate to change their lives that they turn to the mysterious Dr. Kite, who offers them an implant that can control their mind.
Will Gigi find her true love? Can Ellen’s miraculous, sudden weight loss bring her romance and self-respect? Can Lilly put her bitter divorce behind her? They’re willing to risk it all to find the happiness they’ve always searched for.
But sometimes your deepest desire can become your worst nightmare.
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(Alterations Trilogy)
Stolen Angels
by Rita Herron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Twisting her hands together, she bites back a sob. She only turned her back for a second, and then her daughter was gone. Every mother in town would be hugging their children tighter tonight.
Lara is baking cupcakes when her six-year-old daughter Ava runs to catch the school bus just one block away. Chasing after her, Lara sees the bus tumbling past, and waves. But Ava never turns up at school.
Detective Ellie Reeves is in arace against time to find her––in missing child cases, every second counts. Searching the small town of Crooked Creek, she finds the girl’s bunny in the local park, the toy Ava carried around everywhere. Did Ava ever get on the bus?
Bula Bridge
by J Drew Brumbaugh
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The exciting sequel to “War Party.” Tommy has another vision and this one shows a plot that will endanger thousands of innocent people. The only problem is the vision doesn’t provide the exact location, only a railroad bridge that will be destroyed. What can he do?
“I read “War Party” and really enjoyed it. I had hoped for a second book, so snapped it up when I heard about this one. I enjoyed it as much as the first one, and am very glad to have read it!” by Amazon Customer
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 . . .
The Stars Are Fire
by Anita Shreve
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In October 1947, Grace Holland is experiencing two simultaneous droughts. An unseasonably hot, dry summer has turned the state of Maine into a tinderbox, and Grace and her husband, Gene, have fallen out of love and barely speak. Five months pregnant and caring for two toddlers, Grace has resigned herself to a life of loneliness and domestic chores. One night she awakes to find that wildfires are racing down the coast, closer and closer to her house. Forced to pull her children into the ocean to escape the flames, Grace watches helplessly as everything she knows burns to the ground.
Magician: Apprentice
by Raymond E. Feist
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A worthy pupil . . . A dangerous quest
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry.
Yet Pug’s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.
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(The Riftwar Saga)
Trained to Hunt
by Simon Gervais
Rating: 4.5 #ad
No limits. No rules. No mercy. Can one man take down an entire drug cartel?
Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is second-guessing his decision to join a CIA hunter-killer team that will take him far away from his daughter. But when a new performance-enhancing drug kills four football players—including his daughter’s boyfriend—settling down becomes the last thing on Hunt’s mind.
When Anna Garcia, Hunt’s lover and head of the largest drug cartel in Miami, becomes the prime suspect in the investigation, the stakes become even more personal.
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(Pierce Hunt Mysteries)
The Ghost in Room 119
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Something dangerous is lurking in room 119 of a Barcelona hotel. Something vicious. Something evil. Something that wants revenge.
Arriving in the city for a short break, Penny and Steve are looking forward to a week of sun, sea and sand. Those plans are ruined, however, when Steve thinks he recognizes a woman at the hotel bar. Ten years ago, he dated a girl named Annabelle, but the relationship ended badly. The woman at the bar looks a little like Annabelle, not enough for him to be certain that it’s her, but enough for him to worry.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunting Past in Savannah
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.8 #ad
While renovating an old storage building for the upcoming Savannah Spooky Eats and Inns event, Carlita finds a mysterious cigar box which holds a secret involving some of their closest friends, the “family,” and the former property owner. Will the Garlucci family’s haunting past finally be their undoing?
BONUS: RECIPE INCLUDED!
“Haunting past of Savannah keeps you turning pages in order to find out “who dun it”. Having carefully followed the Garluchi family’s deeds and misdeeds, I thought they had found all the surprises that Savannah had to offer but I was wrong! Can hardly wait for the next adventure! Great read!!!” by Amazon Customer
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(Made in Savannah Mysteries)
Three Debts Paid
by Anne Perry
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.
A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt’s university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something in common beyond the weather. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel’s good friend and now officially one of the first female pathologists in London, to tap her scientific know-how to find details he and Daniel have missed.
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(Daniel Pitt Mysteries)
The Twisted Road Ahead
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.3 #ad
- Finalist in the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition – Short Story Genre (Florida Writers Association)
Our journey through life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. The road is filled with unexpected twists and turns and sometimes things are not as they seem. In The Twisted Road Ahead, John D. Ottini leads us on an excursion through eight suspenseful tales, each filled with joy, heartache, mystery, intrigue and a pinch of humor.
In “Tormented Heart” Austin Drummond discovers that fulfilling his departed wife’s final request is more than he ever bargained for.
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.”
Mango, Mambo, and Murder
by Raquel V. Reyes
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith becomes a seasoned sleuth in Raquel V. Reyes’s Caribbean Kitchen Mystery debut, a savory treat for fans of Joanne Fluke and Jenn McKinlay.
Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith’s move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women’s Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad, never to nibble again.
Clash by Night
by Doreen Owens Malek
Rating: 4.2 #ad
United by love, divided by war As the German war machine claims Europe, tanks roll into the peaceful French village of Fains Les Sources, and the brave French Resistance fighters wage their desperate struggle for freedom. But for three proud, passionate women, the same fierce conflict that rages throughout France burns in their own hearts…and will forever change their lives. From the sun-drenched beauty of the French countryside to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the dark and terrible days of the Occupation to the glory of liberation, this is the magnificent story of the men and women, lovers and enemies, whose passionate dreams and undying patriotism shape the destiny of their land and their lives.
Rogue Agents of Magic Complete Series Boxed Set
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Who do you call when magical trouble threatens?
The Feds used to call on Diana Scheen and her team of agents. What happens when the Feds they trusted no longer trust them?
Pick up this complete 8-book action-packed, urban fantasy series to continue the story from Federal Agents of Magic in the Oriceran Universe.
Diana Sheen and her team have been the Feds go-to Agents when magical trouble threatens. Their ongoing mission to collect dangerous Rhazdon Artifacts is more important than ever. Enemies don’t stand a chance. Cutting-edge technology, honed magical skills and artifact weapons gave them an advantage.
But what happens when the Feds they trusted no longer trust them?
The Hangman’s Song
by James Oswald
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An Edinburgh detective suspects a rash of apparent suicides is something more sinister in this Scottish mystery thriller by the author of Book of Souls.
The body of a man is found hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force, this is a simple suicide case. But something about the scene strikes Detective Inspector Tony McLean as being off. Days later another body is found hanging from an identical rope, with a noose tied in the identical way. McLean is convinced that these people are either being murdered or somehow coerced into taking their own lives. Then a third body is found.
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(Inspector McLean Mysteries)
The Army Ranger Rescue
by Jenna Brandt
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An ex-Army ranger trained in patrol and sentry search and rescue, a high school principal who catches his eye, and an earthquake that shakes up Dallas.
Sergeant Dylan Burke and his K9 partner, Scout, conducted dangerous war-zone search and rescue missions all over the world. Three years later, he’s settled into a simpler life, teaching students at the DCSR academy and responding to routine SAR calls. He doesn’t think he needs anything else, but when his boss tells him he’s going to a career day at a local high school and meets the leggy, brunette principal, he realizes he might be wrong…