Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Car Rally
by Sonia Parin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lighthearted 1920s cozy mystery. She can run, but she can’t hide.
When Evie Parker, Countess of Woodridge, decides to spend a day in London unaccompanied she has no idea she will encounter the one person she has hoped to spend the rest of her life avoiding. There’s no escaping Isabel Fitzpatrick’s exuberant energy and desire to show off her new husband. However, the encounter sets off a series of events and brings trouble right to Evie’s doorstep.
Even when Evie manages to return to her country house in Berkshire, she finds the only way to avoid her childhood friend is to flee by joining a car rally group, but trouble pursues her and now a man has died under suspicious circumstances.
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(An Evie Parker Mysteries)
The Novels of Jimmy Breslin
by Jimmy Breslin
Rating: 4.5 #ad
World Without End, Amen; The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight; Table Money; and Forsaking All Others
World Without End, Amen
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Table Money
Forsaking All Others
Time Bomb
by Jonathan Kellerman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn’t escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? Intrigued by a request from the sniper’s father to conduct a “psychological autopsy” of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern—it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper’s past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware’s future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.
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(An Alex Delaware Mysteries)
The Protector
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A heart divided . . . An enemy unseen . . . A riddle of trust.
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, must defend her home in the Pine Barrens while she struggles to revive her career and salvage a long-distance romance.
What is God doing? And who can she trust?
“OUTSTANDING!!! What a saga! Mystery, intrigue, breathtaking moments, romance. This series had it all. I felt part of the story and the adventure. Lived in New Jersey a lot of years,but never visited the Pine Barrens. Got a good sense of them in this saga.” by Amazon Customer
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(The Dumont Chronicles Series)
Spirit of Gettysburg
by S. Elizabeth Calvert
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice?
Apparently so!Washington, D.C. psychic to the powerful elites headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister flees a contemporary, shattered life into the ghostly, loving arms of Confederate soldier Major Clayton Fontaine Douglas, her former husband and one-true-soulmate. He is the only man she loves and trusts. Clayton, an unrepentant Rebel and proud, brave officer in General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, is now a ghost stuck in time in her inherited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania estate. He is furious at God for the loss of his Country and her. He is dying again because of her.
We Must Save Jepson!
by Mark Petersen
Rating: 3.7 #ad
Britain’s Greatest Bumbler and His Extraordinary African Expedition:
Suspense! Murder! Tea breaks! In this hilarious historical thriller, H. R. Huxtable sets out to rescue a British outpost. Someone has ventilated his tent with bullet holes. But despite harsh jungle, cannibals, an oversexed female, and his own unhinged troops, he will succeed. Er … won’t he?
We Must Save Jepson! is a satirical romp through the Victorian era of exploration and expansion, wherein our hero discovers hitherto unknown depths of character despite the self-satisfied arrogance of his age.
Black Magic Woman
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return…
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Medieval Magick
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.0 #ad
This is the complete Elemental Series by Elizabeth Rose all in one boxed set. The set includes:
The Dragon and the DreamWalker – Book 1: Fire: Lord Drake of Dunsbard is a Pendragon and known as the infamous Dragon’s Son. He saves Brynn from being sacrificed to the dragon only to discover she is feared by the villagers and known as a witch, or lady of fire. Just what he needs to help him with his quest…
Also includes: The Duke and the Dryad – Book 2: Earth, The Sword and the Sylph – Book 3: Air, The Sheik and the Siren – Book 4: Water – CLICK above to read the full description!
The Girl Beyond the Gate
by Becca Day
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to Kensington Grove, the safest place to call home…
Jodie Madison can’t think of a better place for a fresh start than the exclusive, gated community of The Grove. But from the moment she passes through the wrought iron gates, she starts to suspect she’s made a mistake.
Despite her vow to keep apart from the other residents, Jodie can’t help but feel drawn to her unnerving neighbour, Norah Williams, and terminally ill daughter, Lacey. Jodie knows she should stay away, but something draws her in.
A Witch in Time
by Constance Sayers
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.
Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930’s Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles — only she doesn’t know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he’s watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning.
At first, Helen doesn’t believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman’s. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Plainly Murder
by Isabella Alan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Angela Braddock has come to Rolling Brook to lend a hand at her Aunt Eleanor’s traditional Amish quilt shop. But when Eleanor’s quilting circle mourns the loss of their oldest member, Evelyn, they make a startling discovery about a tragic event in Evelyn’s past. More than a decade earlier, during a barn raising, Evelyn’s son Eric fell from the roof and died. Evelyn had always insisted that Eric was pushed, and now a clue in an old quilt convinces Angie to dig up the truth…and discover one of Rolling Brook’s darkest secrets.
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(Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries)
Secrets of Honor
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Except when they’re not.
By the end of a long evening working as a special set of eyes for the presidential security detail, all Kat Marengo wants is to kick off her shoes and stash two not-really-stolen rings in a secure spot. Plus maybe sleep wth Dave Krizak. No, make that definitely sleep with Dave Krizak. The next morning, she wishes her new top priorities were so simple.
As an operative for a covert agency buried in the depths of the Department of Homeland Security, Kat is asked to participate in a matter of life or death–locate a kidnapped girl believed to be held in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The King of Shadows
by Robert McCammon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the year 1704, Matthew Corbett is about to go up against an antagonist completely different from any he has faced before. On a trip to Italy to track down Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro, Matthew and Hudson Greathouse find themselves marooned on a beautiful island known as Golgotha—a place that hides a multitude of secrets and puts both of them at terrible risk.
The islanders welcome them with a massive feast—but as the island pulls them deeper into its influence, the castaways struggle to maintain their grip on reality, even their very identity.
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(The Matthew Corbett Mysteries)
Beauty and the Beast
by L. Steele
Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Run my Beauty… If I catch you, you are MINE…”
Michael Byron Domenico Sovrano. The Capo of Sicily’s notorious Mafia company. My father owed him,
so he took me to repay the debt. And married me to further his own ambitions. I hate him, I am determined to resist him. But what happens when I begin to fall for my new husband…?
A feisty fashion designer goes toe-to-toe with a brutal gangster in this marriage of convenience age gap, Mafia romance boxset and teaches him the meaning of love.
Watch Her Disappear
by Lisa Regan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The girl’s prom dress, the color of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist. She is perfectly still, lying on the ground like a delicate china doll, trapped forever in a sleep from which she will never wake…
When a call comes in about a young girl found dead at a high school prom—her life drained away from a fatal stab wound—Detective Josie Quinn drops everything to attend the scene. Taking in the girl’s neatly braided hair, Josie feels a flicker of recognition. But no one comes forward to identify this innocent child, murdered on what should have been the happiest night of her life.
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(Detective Josie Quinn Mysteries)
The Affair
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercoverto find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justiceand an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Just a Kiss
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Knight: Sir Arnon de Bar has just been released from a curse by the old witch Hecuba. The problem is, some side effects still linger. He sees a beautiful but mysterious woman at the swamp one night, and he catches her kissing a frog before she vanishes into thin air. The baron of Slapton is holding a competition with the winner being rewarded his daughter’s hand in marriage. To his surprise when he approaches the castle, he discovers the baron’s daughter is also the girl he saw in the swamp.
The Witch: Freya Fane is more eccentric than most ladies. She is a witch with a pet frog as her Familiar that she kisses in order to teleport from place to place. Her father has devised a competition to marry her off, and she doesn’t like it. Especially since she is trying to make a potion to cure her ailing mother.
Final Scream
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Deadly secrets ignite the truth about a killer in this thriller “full of exciting and unexpected twists” from the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Fresh Fiction).
For the wealthy Buchanans, the town of Prosperity – in the shadow of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains – has delivered everything its name promises. Not that Cassidy Buchanan cares about money, cars, or expensive clothes – unlike her beautiful older sister. All Cassidy wants is to ride her horses. Then her father hires Brig McKenzie, a handsome troublemaker who ignites a storm of rivalry. By summer’s end, a fatal fire rages through the Buchanans’ sawmill, tearing the family apart – and Brig disappears, presumed guilty of arson.
Email from the Future
by Michael Rogers
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s 2084, and Aldus, an elderly robot repairman, is writing the history of the 21st century for his grandson, Luca. Born in 2010, Aldus lived through it all – the War on the Warming, the repair of the planet, the rise of true artificial intelligence, automation everywhere and much more. “I was but a foot soldier,” Aldus tells his grandson, “but there is value in that perspective.”
Aldus also fears his time is short. Unlucky members of his generation sometimes experience long-delayed side effects from childhood infection with COVID. Aldus could be among them, and so his writing may have a literal deadline.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Bearly Departed
by Meg Macy
Rating: 4.2 #ad
As manager of the family teddy bear shop and factory, thirty-one-year-old Sasha Silverman leads a charmed life. Well, except for the part about being a single divorcée with a ticking biological clock in small-town Silver Hollow. And that’s just kid’s stuff compared to Will Taylor, the sales rep who’s set on making drastic changes to the business her parents built from scratch – with or without Sasha’s approval . . .
But before Will digs his claws in, someone pulls the stuffing out of his plan . . . and leaves his dead body inside the factory. Reeling from shock, Sasha’s hit with more bad news—police suspect her hot-tempered Uncle Ross may have murdered him.
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(A Teddy Bear Mysteries)
Fear Thy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. With no family and no ties, she’s drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right place to settle down, she’ll know. And when she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it.
The small, close-knit island community seems to have everything Alison needs. On a hunch, she contacts the island’s only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. Miraculously, it’s in her budget, and Alison takes it as another sign that she’s in the right place.
The Smell of the Night
by Andrea Camilleri
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he’s on the outs with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The Smell of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive.
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(The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
Bjorn Cursed
by N.J. Walters
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lucifer is up to his old tricks, causing problems for the Forgotten Brotherhood. This time, he’s had a woman removed from the Norse afterlife and placed her right in the path of Bjorn Knutson. After the slaughter of his wife and family centuries ago, tortured and broken, Bjorn was cursed as the first Norse werewolf. Now he’s been tasked by Odin himself with killing the woman who escaped. Failure is not an option.
Before he can track her, he stumbles across a woman being accosted by three men in the middle of the night. Even though she’s human, he intervenes and is shocked to recognize the face of the one woman he could never kill – his wife Anja.
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(Forgotten Brotherhood)
Locke & Key Vol. 5
by Joe Hill
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis—Lucas “Dodge” Caravaggio—has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge’s ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own—one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face both their own legacy and the darkness waiting behind the Black Door. Because if they don’t learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out…
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(Locke & Key Mysteries)
Heart Full of Lies
by Ann Rule
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Liysa — attractive, charismatic, seductive, an acclaimed surf photographer, with a tanned, perfect body. Their son, Bjorn, looked just like his dad, and they were raising Liysa’s son by a previous marriage. They had beautiful homes on the mainland and in Hawaii.
But it wasn’t long before Chris saw a side of Liysa that he hadn’t glimpsed before. Nothing was quite enough for her — she wanted more money, more property, and a future that included fame as a Hollywood screenwriter. She complained to her closest friends that her husband was a heavy drinker who beat her…
The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content)
by Jean M. Auel
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Walking Bread
by Winnie Archer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Beloved Mexican bakery Yeast of Eden has scored the catering deal at the annual Santa Sofia, California, art car parade and ball. But when a contestant turns up dead, making bread will be the yeast of their problems . . .
Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns. Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia’s annual spring event, she’s the official photographer, documenting the elaborate cars, outspoken artists, and riotous celebrations. Even her family’s in on the act: her brother Billy has been runner-up in the competition more times than she can count—but this is going to be the year he celebrates his win in the victory lane.
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(A Bread Shop Mysteries)
The Forbidden Door
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.7 #ad
She was one of the FBI’s top agents until she became the nation’s most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society’s terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn’t save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills—and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice—Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal.
But Jane’s enemies are about to hit back hard. If their best operatives can’t outrun her, they mean to bring her running to them, using her five-year-old son as bait…
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(A Jane Hawk Mysteries)
The Eden Stories Boxset (Books 1-3)
by Terry Toler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Award Winning Series.
What if there has been more than one Garden of Eden? What if every planet in our solar system has had intelligent life, an Adam and an Eve, and a tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Nine planets. Nine garden of Edens. Nine Adam and Eves. Nine trees of the knowledge of good and evil. Would they all eat the fruit? Is that why the other eight planets are desolate?
Filled with biblical truths. Ripped from yesterday and today’s headlines. You won’t want to put them down until you devour every word. A great read for believers and seekers.
Book One: The Longest Day (Winner of 2020 Best Book Award for Religious Fiction)
Book Two: The Reformation of Mars
Book Three: The Late, Great Planet Jupiter (Finalist 2021 Best Book Award for Religious Fiction)
Wings of Fury
by Emily R. King
Rating: 5.0 #ad
From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age.
My mother told me that men would speak about the Golden Age as a time of peace and happiness for all… However, the women of our age would tell a very different story…
Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions.
Special Agent Sophia
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sophia’s mane of silver hair gives her the look of a mystical warrior, a female not of this world. Some colleagues defend her, others are jealous, most fear her, yet everyone respects her abilities. An ace sharpshooter, she’s called on for the most difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the twins of the frantic governor whose rejected husband intends to make her suffer. The fact that they are whisked to Greece also works in her favor since she’s spent most of her summers in Rhodes visiting family and can show up there without anyone becoming suspicious. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Why her?
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
The Serial Killer’s Girl
by L. H. Stacey
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Does a killer’s blood run in the family? Lexi Jakes thought she could run from her past…she was wrong.
Because when her biological mother is found dead, with all the same hallmarks of her own serial killer father, Lexi knows someone is out for revenge, and that she and her small daughter, Isla, could be next.
Determined to protect Isla, Lexi travels back to Lindisfarne, the small remote island where she grew up. There, cut off from the mainland, Lexi hopes they’ll both be safe.
But as the tide comes in and the causeway slowly closes, Lexi’s greatest fear comes true: now they are trapped with no way out.
Serpentine
by Thomas Thompson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka “The Serpent.”
A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the “hippie trail” between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naïve travelers into a life of crime. When they threatened to turn on him, Sobhraj murdered his acolytes in cold blood.