Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Broadcast 4 Murder
by J.C. Eaton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Phee’s mother Harriet is going to be a star! At least, that’s how the Sun City West retiree describes her chance to host a live radio program of her book club’s Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour on Arizona’s KSCW. But instead of chatting about charming cozies, Harriet ends up screaming bloody murder over the airwaves after discovering the body of Howard Buell, the station’s programming director, in a closet—with a pair of sewing shears shoved into his chest.
The number one suspect is Howard’s ex-girlfriend Sylvia Strattlemeyer who believed she was going to host a sewing talk show before Harriet was offered the spot.
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(Sophie Kimball Mysteries)
Finding Maisy
by Glenda C Manus
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Reverend Rock Clark has scoffed at the term “pastor burnout” when he’s heard other pastors use it. Just an excuse for a sabbatical, he once told his wife, Liz. But now he’s eating his words. Eating crow is more like it, and he’s been doing a lot of that lately.
Maisy Martin thinks she’s lucky despite having a disappearing daddy and a momma everyone thinks is crazy. Her luck began the day she got caught stealing tomatoes. If not for that fateful day ten years ago, she wouldn’t have Tom and Zell Baker in her life and would likely be drifting from one foster home to another.
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(Southern Grace Series)
Fire and Ashes
by Harley Tate
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth. A government coverup. A family caught in the middle.
Welcome to Falling Skies. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Former Marine Caleb Machert is managing overworked line crews when reports of an impending world-wide disaster hit the news. His men panic, but he’s not buying it. The government would never hide something this important, would they?
Elizabeth is busy herding her students into the library when she discovers an asteroid is headed straight for the east coast. Her first instinct is to find her husband and daughter and flee west, but she can’t leave. Twenty first graders are depending on her.
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(Falling Skies Mysteries)
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
by SUSANNA BEARD
Rating: 4.0 #ad
THAT NIGHT. Lisa remembers the first part of the night: an evening in the pub with her best friend. Then nothing. She wakes up, days later. She’s in hospital. Her best friend is dead.
WHAT HAPPENED? Lisa holes up in a remote country cottage, plagued by guilt and flashbacks: how did their assailant know them? Why were they attacked? And what really happened that night?
With only vague memories of the event, she cuts herself off from friends and family, spending her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.
I’m the Grasshopper
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.0 #ad
When newspaper staff writer Stacy Estes trips over a man’s body in her grandmother’s yard, she goes from reporting the news to being the news. This is hard for the 48-year-old widow whose reactions to life are usually…Run. Hide.
Stacy fights to keep her secrets intact, including her physical disability, especially from the first love of her life, Kirk, who has moved back to the community. Lost treasure? Gold mining in Texas? Flying saucers on her grandmother’s hill? And what about the men who go into the Comanche Cliff store – and disappear?
Lake Silence
by Anne Bishop
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget….
After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns such as Vicki’s don’t have any distance from the Others, the dominant predators who rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what is out there watching you.
The CafFUNated Mysteries Collection
by Angela Ruth Strong
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Book 1: A Caffeine Conundrum. Solving a murder mystery is harder when you don’t trust your partner…or their taste in beverages.
Book2: A Cuppa Trouble. Can a couple of baristas chase down a car thief without spilling a drop of their favorite drink?
Book 3: A Latte Difficulty. Can two baristas track down a gunman after the espresso shot heard ‘round the world?
Book 4: A Mug of Mayhem Book. When their wedding venue becomes a crime scene, the bride and groom are in for a real trick-or-treat.
Harmony and Disharmony
by Bill Hiatt
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Orpheus is not interested in inheriting his father’s throne. He wants nothing more than to use music to bring joy to his fellow mortals. Jason believes that nothing is more important than wresting his father’s throne from a usurper. He wants to perform heroic feats that will earn him as much glory as possible. Under ordinary circumstances, Orpheus and Jason would probably never have met. Certainly, they would never have been allies. But scheming gods plunge them into adventures greater than either of them has ever imagined. Both of them want to achieve their respective dreams. But facing hostile armies, monsters, and even conflicts among the gods will force them into horrible dilemmas. Will they sacrifice their dreams, or will they die trying to preserve them?
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(Fateful Pathways)
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.
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(Alexandra Barnaby Mysteries)
The Heroes of Eastbrooke Series (Books 1-4)
by Juliette Duncan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From a USA Today bestselling author comes this page-turning, faith-filled romantic suspense series that will leave you guessing. For fans of Dee Henderson.
After twenty years, mystery still surrounds the death of Police Chief Stanley Carlton. His sons believe he was murdered. And now, strange things are happening in the picturesque mountainside village of Eastbrooke.
A teen is kidnapped. A body washes up in the river outside of town. A cult takes up residence in the mountains. The mountain pass offers a perfect smuggling route to the coast. Not just for drugs, but for weapons and human trafficking.
Could these happenings all be connected to their father’s murder?
Triple Strike
by Eli Evron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Recovering from a severe injury, Mossad special agent Oren is stationed as a case officer in Italy, tasked with recruiting essential covert assets.
But when one such informant provides a glance into a dangerous alliance forming in the Middle East – a cooperation centered around a complicated drug smuggling operation and united by a joint enemy – Oren is thrown right in the middle of a global conspiracy.
As Oren investigates, the drugs soon turn out to be merely a means to an elaborate narco-terrorism operation that, if successful, will result in a horrific coordinated triple terror attack against civilian targets.
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire – the fastest fighter aircraft in the world – to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
Politikill
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Take a bribe, meet your maker.
Imagine if someone recorded politicians accepting bribes. Or, an execution squad murdered corrupt legislators on camera, then broadcast politicians’ wrongdoings. What if politicians actually feared retribution for accepting payola? Consider the seismic reverberations which would occur within the DC infrastructure if politicians feared dishonesty and graft.
Could our current government still run as our founding fathers intended?
Nine Lives
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke—until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.
First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common?
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Our Wild and Precious Lives deals with the big questions of Life, Death, Love and Loss set against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean Conflict…it also deals with the social upheaval in families and societies caused by war, on both sides…” Amazon Review
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.
Diamonds in the Rough
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you risk if you had nothing left to lose?
Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma holding a black diamond, his only clue to finding his brother gone missing in the wilds of Arkansas. He meets Amber Armstrong, neo-pop poet turned police officer, and Mary Ann, a willowy teen, as his journey begins. Their magical adventure leads them into a cloud-cloaked valley fraught with beauty, timeless mystery, and imminent peril.
Will Tom find love, redemption, and his missing brother or die facing the two things he fears most?
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Bingo Hall
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. The stakes are high and the crowd is large. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I 17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead with her two lucky trolls, Jasper and Seymour, and her rosary beads by her side. But her two best friends and bingo buddies have good reason to believe she’s been murdered. Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case.
Zapped
by Carol Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.3 #ad
As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it’s not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action.
A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them.
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(Regan Reilly Mysteries)
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.
The Serpent’s Mark
by S. W. Perry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
London, 1591: Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London’s lawless Bankside. But, when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious doctor from Switzerland, Nicholas is soon embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not just the life of an innocent young patient, but the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth herself. With fellow healer and mistress of the Jackdaw tavern, Bianca Merton, again at his side, Nicholas is drawn into a sinister world of zealots, charlatans, and dangerous fanatics.
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(The Jackdaw Mysteries)
Skin and Bones
by Paul Doiron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Skin and Bones, an original short story in the Paul Doiron’s bestselling Mike Bowditch series, the killing of a bald eagle unearths ties to a tragic case from mentor Charley Steven’s past.
When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch discovers a bullet-ridden bald eagle in the Maine woods, he is surprised by the memories it brings back for his mentor, retired warden pilot Charley Stevens. Decades earlier, Charley briefly teamed up with Mike’s father, the notorious poacher Jack Bowditch, on an unsettling case that has haunted Charley for years. The two enemies, both war veterans, found common cause over the senseless shooting of a magnificent eagle.
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
The Sentinels: The Complete Collection
by J. S. Scott
Rating: 4.7 #ad
This boxed set of The Sentinels includes all four books in this series . These paranormal romances contain graphic language, steamy love scenes, and lovable alpha males that also happen to be just a little bit demon.
“Absolutely Awesome! A great story it pulled me right in and I couldn’t stop reading. J.S. Scott has a definite talent for the paranormal. I hope there are more books along this line. I am a definite fan and will continue to read his stories.” by Amazon Customer
Shakeup
by Stuart Woods
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help, Stone realizes peace and quiet are no longer an option.
As it turns out, the mastermind behind the malfeasance rocking New York City and the nation’s capital wields a heavy hand of influence. And when Stone is unable to recruit those closest to the case to his side, he is left with few leads and a handful of dead-ends.
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(A Stone Barrington Mysteries)
Tidal Falls
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman and child in danger teaches Nick life is worth living.
ALL SHE WANTS IS TO LIVE HER LIFE Abused, Sara Sheridan finds the courage to escape her husband. She has no interest in getting mixed up with another alpha, attitude-laden male. Especially with her ex hot on her trail.
ALL HE CRAVES IS PEACE AND QUIET Marine, Nick Kelley prefers solitude, away from the memories haunting him. So what is it about his reticent neighbor and her child that tempts him to give it up?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Antiques Chop
by Barbara Allan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Brandy Borne and her dramatically ditzy mother, Vivian, are stars of the new reality show Antiques Sleuths. The season opens in a perfect location—a quaint old house echoing with the unsolved whispers of a sixty-year-old axe murder. But when the show’s producer meets a similarly grisly end, Brandy and Mother must chop around for clues, axe the right questions, and get the edge on a murderer’s mysterious motives. Otherwise our sharp-witted sleuths may face cancellation—on the cutting room floor!
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(A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mysteries)
Anasazi Medium
by G G Collins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Eight of the nine signs signaling the end of the Fourth World of the Hopi have come to pass. The ninth is hurtling toward Earth!Rachel is recruited by the spirit world to prevent a cataclysmic occurrence: the end of the Fourth World of the Hopi. The ancient spirit tells her: “Everyone you know and everyone you do not know will die. You will die. Your feline will die.” In this fourth Rachel Blackstone paranormal adventure, ancient peoples enlighten contemporary humankind in a mystery as old as time. As earthquakes occur in Santa Fe and a New Mexico supervolcano threatens to blow, it becomes imperative she discover the root of all evil. But can she stop the greedy men intent on having their way and willing to kill to achieve it?
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(Rachel Blackstone Paranormal Mysteries)
The Descent
by Jeff Long
Rating: 4.5 #ad
We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them.
In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari Desert, a nun unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old. In Bosnia, something has been feeding upon the dead in a mass grave. So begins mankind’s most shocking realization: the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth populated by another race of beings.
Hidden Thrones:The Rise of Darkness
by Russ Scalzo
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As current as this morning’s newspaper, this series will challenge the reader’s belief system, introduce him or her to the invisible world of spiritual warfare, and ensure that the reader will never look at the world in quite the same light ever again.
The spirit world is astir as the coming of the Lord draws near. The mystery swirling around the rise in supernatural activity has attracted much attention. A powerful secret society desperately seeks to harness this mystical power.
Author and prayer warrior Jack Bennett can see evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons. Jack’s unique ability makes him the FBI’s newest hire, serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. With Special Agent Frank Lederman, they investigate the improbable and the unexplainable.
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(Hidden Thrones Mysteries)
What the Devil Knows
by C. S. Harris
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe’s diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together. With peace finally at hand, London suddenly finds itself in the grip of a series of heinous murders eerily similar to the Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before.
In 1811, two entire families were viciously murdered in their homes. A suspect–a young seaman named John Williams–was arrested. But before he could be brought to trial, Williams hanged himself in his cell.
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(Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries)
Hawthorn Academy Complete Series
by D.R. Perry
Rating: 4.2 #ad
We all start as strangers. Why does that make me so nervous?
I can’t imagine life without Mom, Dad, Bubbe or my friends in Salem. And that’s what I’ll be living at Hawthorn Academy, the campus between worlds. But Hawthorn Academy’s the place to be if I want to join the family business as a veterinarian for magic critters.
It’s magi only at my new school, so I’m going without my besties. The only person I’ll know there is my snarky big brother. At least I’ve already bonded with a familiar. But my dragonet means I’m destined for above-average power levels.
The last thing I want to do is scare people off. You only get one chance at first impressions, after all.
Trouble in Mind
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists. Twelve diabolical tales.
A devoted housekeeper embarks on a quest to find the truth behind her employer’s murder. A washed-up Hollywood actor gets one last, high-stakes chance to revive his career. A man makes an impulsive visit to his hometown, and learns more about his past than he bargained for. Two Olympic track hopefuls receive terrorist threats. And Deaver’s beloved series characters Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn Dance, and John Pellam return in stories now in print for the first time.
A Dark and Bloody Ground
by Darcy O’Brien
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky – and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime…