Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Killer Comfort Food
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A soybean processing plant is trying to buy up the land around the small farm Angie’s beloved Nona left her. If Angie doesn’t sell, she’ll be surrounded by the plant and the congestion that comes with it. On the other hand, it’s Nona’s farmhouse. What is Angie supposed to do without it? Move into a condo in town with Precious, Mabel, and Dom—respectively, a goat, chicken, and dog. Worse, a troubling rumor is circulating about the lawyer who’s heading up the development: His socialite wife seems to be missing. When Barb, owner of the local bar, asks Angie to look into the woman’s disappearance, she’s hesitant—until Barb reveals her surprising connection.
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(A Farm-to-Fork Mysteries)
Saving Sara
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finalist for American Bookfest 2021 Best Book Award in the thriller/adventure category.
Sara is missing in the Cayman Islands. No one knows it. Except her abductors, of course.
Beloved CIA heroine, Jamie Austen, is sent to Tampico, Mexico, to rescue four girls, abducted on their senior class trips. Are the cases related?
All of Jamie’s skills are tested as she must overcome the powerful drug war lord, El Mata, his ruthless band of heavily armed killers, and a hurricane that’s bearing down on the Caribbean islands.
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(THE JAMIE AUSTEN THRILLERS)
Calculated
by Nova McBee
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Soon to be a major motion picture, with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, Ann Peacock, best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, to adapt the novel for screen.
Set in Shanghai and Seattle, Calculated is a gritty, modern day blend of the Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.
She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her.
In seventeen-year-old Jo River’s complicated world of numbers, there’s no such thing as coincidence. When she is betrayed by someone she loves, kidnapped by the world’s most wanted smuggler, and forced to use her talent to shore up a criminal empire, Jo deems her gift a curse—until she meets Red.
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(Calculated Mysteries)
Pale Kings and Princes
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A hotshot reporter is dead. He’d gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.
Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?
Spenser will stop at nothing to find out.
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(The Spenser Mysteries)
The Tangled Web We Weave
by Roger Stelljes
Rating: 4. #ad
She was young and beautiful but now she was dead. How far will someone go to protect the secrets now that so many are tangled up in the lies? Or will the search for the truth get you killed? Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
An absolutely gripping, compelling and intense mystery that will keep you racing through the pages long into the night. A chart-topping bestseller, that turns fans of John Sandford and James Patterson into Stelljes addicts.
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(McRyan Mysteries)
Hint of Her Blood
by Sarah Spade
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Aleks looks at me, he sees his past. I see a future that I just can’t have…
For most of my life, being Luna-touched was a blessing. Then I met Jack “Wicked Wolf” Walker and it wasn’t long before it became a curse.
I thought I’d be trapped in my gilded cage forever—until his long-lost daughter returned to the Wolf District, handing him his first defeat in more than twenty-five years. She spared his life, but our laws are clear: an Alpha who loses a challenge is no Alpha. Our pack was forced to disband, and I finally was free.
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(Claws and Fangs Mysteries)
The Last Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Orson Scott Card’s The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender’s Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania.
One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions. Is the only answer another great Xenocide?
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(Ender Sextet Mysteries)
The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she’s becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn’t know – what she can’t know – is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete devastation on her life and plans.
As she recovers from those consequences, Robin heads home to her small town of Elk Grove and the bosom of her family. As she tries to recuperate, a unique legal challenge presents itself—Marjorie Loman, a surrogate, is accused of kidnapping the baby she carried for another couple, and assaulting that couple in the process.
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(Robin Lockwood Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Tea is for Trouble
by Karen Sue Walker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A new life complete with tea, scones, and… murder? And let’s not forget the ghost…
When your fiancé breaks up with you on your 49th birthday, what do you do? If you’re April May, you buy a huge Victorian home on a whim and open a tearoom featuring lace tablecloths, exotic teas, and dainty sandwiches.
No one told her the house came with a cat in the attic who might just be guarding a treasure. How else to explain people breaking in?
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(Haunted Tearoom Cozy Mysteries)
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.5 #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.
Coyote’s Road Trip
by Laura Koerber
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Coyote Jim, a shapeshifter, takes off in search of a new home.
In a post-climate change dystopian future, Coyote, the guardian spirit of a desert valley in Nevada, is forced out of his home by the heat, the drought, and the deaths of his friends. He hits the road on a journey through the Pacific Northwest, looking for new home. Along the way he discovers a new purpose for his existence.
The Widow
by K.L. Slater
Rating: 4.3 #ad
My husband was not a monster. No matter what they say…
The day my husband, Michael, stepped in front of a lorry after being questioned by the police, my world fell apart. He was devoted to me and our six-year-old daughter. But they’d connected him to the disappearance of a young mother from our tiny village.
Now I stand at Michael’s funeral, clutching my little girl’s hand, with tears in my eyes as I insist to all our friends that he died an innocent man. Yet the questions have started, and nothing I say will stop them digging for the truth.
But none of them can read the secrets in my heart, or know about the phone I found hidden in his toolbox…
City of Spirits
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas deals with murder, Mardi Gras, and a forbidden love triangle
It’s Mardi Gras in the Big Easy, an escaped killer on the loose, and a sunken boat in the shipping channel preventing cruise ships from entering or leaving the city. Wyatt’s rich new client wants him to prove he isn’t a passeblanc—a person of black heritage passing as white. Wyatt becomes enamored with his client’s beautiful daughter, a conflict of interest that threatens to get him killed. Oh, and N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia is having a torrid affair with the daughter of his best friend.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Sword of Destiny
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games.
Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.
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(The Witcher)
OFF GRID
by J. P. Redding
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the halls of D.C. to the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, OFF GRID is a wild ride through a dystopian near future of mass surveillance.
In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides.
A Mayhem of Murderous Monks
by Howard of Warwick
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From Best Selling Howard of Warwick comes yet more mysterious nonsense…
In what should be a straightforward investigation, Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances, (look him up), sends Hermitage, Wat and Cwen to find out who murdered one Brother Egeus.
Or does he?
It quickly becomes apparent that the bishop has more ulterior motives than a conclave of liars.
If they can find out who killed Egeus that would be nice, but there are far more important matters to resolve. Matters that virtually everyone seems to have a hand in.
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(The Chronicles of Brother Hermitage)
The Treadstone Transgression
by Joshua Hood
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum.
The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes’ mind is planning his son’s upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world’s most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he’s ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn’t mutual.
Levi Shaw, Treadstone’s director, calls Hayes back for one more mission. “It’s a walk in the park. You don’t even have to go in with the strike team. I just need you to set up the safe house. You’ll be home in time to pick up the birthday cake.”
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(A Treadstone Mysteries)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Gracie Andersen Cozy Mystery Box Set
by Laurinda Wallace
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gracie Andersen is starting over again after the tragic death of her husband. As a co-owner of the new Milky Way Kennels, she has plenty to keep her busy. Her hometown of Deer Creek is filled with family and friends ready to help her–sometimes a little too much. With Haley, her precocious Labrador tagging along, Gracie discovers she has a knack for solving mysteries.
Family Matters
By the Book
Fly by Night
Calculated Risk
by Lynn Shannon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez’s body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night.
Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home and nearly kills her, Addison is rescued by an unlikely protector. But the threats against her aren’t over and she needs help.
Danger around every corner.
THE PERFECT LIFE
by SUSANNA BEARD
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The woman who has it all. Heather has lucked out. She has a beautiful house, a happy marriage to James Jessop, with two sons, Ben and Harry — and she’s just won the lottery. £29 million!
The loyal best friend. Natalie has never quite kept up, but she’s finally in a relationship with a new boyfriend, Nick. She’s been best friends with Heather since they were bullied at school. But will her friend’s new fortune change their friendship?
A dream come true turns into a paranoid nightmare
Revenant Files Complete Series
by D’Artagnan Rey, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Johnny’s mentor and partner, Vic Kane, a literal ghost detective, joined forces after a strange occurrence in his youth.
Are they joined at the hip? Will both die if one passes? Johnny and Vic are on a new case that takes them to one of the most ghost-inhabited places in the world.
Why? To try to hook up with a potentially big case and equally big payday. If they live to cash it in. They soon realize this is beyond a simple haunting. Their paths cross with many players, all wanting this nightmare to be over for different reasons.
Should this surprise the pair? After all, this is the Big Easy. The only question is…
Dwarves of Elvenshore
by Clark Graham
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Four lost dwarves have ventured out of the Lonely Mountain. To Sarchise and the rest of the Royal Scouts, it’s a bad omen. He stands at the edge of the clearing wondering if he should save them or not. He knows perils of the Westwood but he doesn’t know that an evil is growing more powerful each day, and if left unchecked, will destroy not only the Westwood, but the entire land of Elvenshore. Will he and his new dwarf allies be enough to save the land?
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(Elvenshore Mysteries)
Near the Bone
by Christina Henry
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry.
Mattie can’t remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all.
There’s something in the woods that wasn’t there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws.
Troubled Blood
by Robert Galbraith
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
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(A Cormoran Strike Mysteries)
Deacon Leeds and the Pyramid of Symbols
by Grant Morris
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A must-read for fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Series
Deacon Leeds is spending his school break on a scientific expedition in frigid Antarctica. Unfortunately, the only other teen staying at the Terra Nova Station is a royal jerk named Broderick Norsworthy. But when a football-sized golden pyramid—covered in curious symbols—is discovered buried below the ice, Deacon quickly learns that Broderick is more than just a pimple-faced nuisance: He’s a thief on a dark mission.
Now it’s up to Deacon and Fitz, an old driller, to track Broderick down and rescue the ancient artifact. The unlikely companions are thrust into a harrowing adventure across the polar plateau, where they must survive the brutal climate, as well as a mysterious entity that will stop at nothing to prevent them from acquiring the golden Pyramid of Symbols.
On The Edge of Time
by Russ Scalzo, Steve Mamchak
Rating: 4.8 #ad
On the Edge of Time involves the human heart’s earnest search for heaven in the midst of Hell come to Earth. It is two weeks after millions of people have mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth, and, like millions of others, Jerry Westfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is upset and perplexed at that loss, particularly since it took his best friends, Jeremy and Kathy Palmer. His personal concerns must be set aside, however, when the international situation frantically signals the immanent destruction of the state of Israel.
It is there that Jerry is sent to cover the story of his journalistic career and is reunited with Jacob Klausman, a ‘retired’ member of the ‘Mossad,’ Israel’s secret service. It is also there that he will meet with a cataclysmic series of monsters and miracles, including Ruth, the woman who will change his mind about marriage, and the charismatic Demetrius Strapollos, who soon is hailed as the ‘Messiah’ who will rescue Israel and restore her former glory.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Killed on Blueberry Hill
by Sharon Farrow
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Blueberry Blow Out festival has begun and it’s time for Marlee Jacob, owner of The Berry Basket, to shine. Unfortunately it’s also bringing out the worst in her fiancé Ryan Zeller. Ryan’s rivalry with Porter Gale, owner of Blueberry Hill Farm, spills over into a very public and very ugly fight. And after they compete in the pie-eating contest and a raucous tug of war, their orchard blood feud takes a deadly turn . . .
The death of the king of Blueberry Hill is a shock but not too surprising—he was a diabetic whose last pig out meal was deliciously fatal.
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(A Berry Basket Mysteries)
Thirst for Sin
by Kennedy Layne
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Brooklyn Sloane works as a special consultant to the FBI as one of the most adept profilers in the agency’s history. She had been recruited at a relatively young age from her career in academics, but her colleagues have no idea the disturbing motive for her success.
While her current investigation into a cold-blooded serial killer garners the attention of the media, Brook is able to discover the unsub’s first kill. When a tragic shooting takes place involving one of the agents assigned to the case, Brook finds herself unexpectedly out in the field searching for evidence that will eventually lead her to a viable suspect.
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(Touch of Evil Mysteries)
Burden’s Edge
by Sever Bronny
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a young man chooses a forbidden calling, he must prove his worth . . . or watch his kingdom fall.
Sixteen-year-old Augum Stone is a warlock prodigy suffocating under the weight of expectations. Students idolize him. Nobles plot to exploit him. Commoners think he’s a miracle-maker. And with invasion looming, his already war-weakened kingdom expects him to be its champion.
But Augum doesn’t want to be a pawn in someone else’s game. He’ll forge his own path: that of the Arcaner—not a warlock or a knight, but a lethal combination of both. Legend says Arcaners once had the power to summon dragons. If true, it could change everything.
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(Fury of a Rising Dragon Mysteries)
Fire
by Lynnette Bonner
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She’s a first-year teacher in a school where kids are dying because of a new drug. He’s an undercover cop who’s been sent in to find the dealer.
Years ago, Kyra Radell’s brother died from a drug addiction, so when students in her new school start buying a new street drug called Fire – and dying because of it—she’s determined to help in any way she can. Even if that means putting her own life in danger.
Case Lexington, an undercover cop, has been sent in to pose as a high school senior. He wants her to stay safe and mind her own business. The only problem is, she’s not willing to listen to a mere student.
The First Day of Spring
by Nancy Tucker
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But Chrissie rules the roost — she’s the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a feeling of power that she never gets at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.
Twenty years later, adult Chrissie is living in hiding under a changed name. A single mother, all she wants is for her daughter to have the childhood she herself was denied. That’s why the threatening phone calls are so terrifying.
Godless County
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jed Walker, the newly appointed deputy, has long been wary of Father Davenport, a charismatic man who is slowly influencing the youth of his town.
When Jed hears about the death of one of his townsmen, Luke Hamilton, due to a tragic farming accident, he suspects murder, and his investigation points toward the Church of God’s Righteous Justice on Earth.
With the help of Mayor Bill Hicks, Mayor Ace Knight and the gutsy Persephone Cross, Deputy Jed strike out at this menace but they have severely underestimated the kind of power Father Davenport holds on his congregation, and how they’re willing to die and kill for him.
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in this brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler.
On a spring morning in London’s Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is nearly killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes celebration. It’s an absurd near-death experience, but the government is more interested in investigating the Speaker’s state of mind just prior to his accident.
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(Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries)
Tough Karma
by Laura Simmons
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A chilling tale of loss, tragedy, psychic warfare, and eternal love.
Amber Macklin’s world is cruelly shattered when she loses her baby girl three months after her husband’s sudden death. Her cousin, Bryce, comes to her rescue, moving her into his home for fear she will kill herself from the grief. He provides solace and a shoulder to cry on, and he has loved her as more than a cousin for a long time. Amber and Bryce soon discover they are not blood relatives, which opens the door for romance as he pulls her through her darkest hours. When Mike, a college friend of Bryce’s, stops by to visit, Amber senses a deadly secret behind his nice guy persona.
Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3
by Frank Herbert
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike−this eBook collection includes the first three novels in Frank Herbert’s Dune saga: DUNE, DUNE MESSIAH, and CHILDREN OF DUNE
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In the far future, on a remote planet, an epic adventure awaits. Here are the first three novels of Frank Herbert’s magnificent Dune saga—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction series of all time.