Mysteries
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Wedding Bell Blues
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, becomes more engaged in sleuthing than wedding preparations when there’s a murder in a dress shop . . .
Jill couldn’t love police chief Greg King more—so why does that engagement ring still feel funny on her finger? At least she’ll have a chance to show it off this Saturday at their engagement party. Just in time for the event, a new dress shop has opened in town, Exquisite Gowns for You, specializing in designer wedding gowns and other custom-fit dresses.
But Jill’s excitement turns to shock when she comes by to pick up her dress for the party and discovers a dead body in the shop.
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(A Tourist Trap Mysteries)
Vendetta in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless.
The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company’s human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims—but they don’t know that his crimes go far beyond workplace harassment. Lady Justice knows. And in one shocking night of brutality, she makes him pay a much steeper price.
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(In Death Mysteries)
Dragons and Magic
by Blair Babylon
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mathonwy, Duke Draco, absolutely, positively, definitely isn’t falling into a mating fever for the new little witch, Bethany Aura, whom his company just hired to whip a new Las Vegas casino into shape. The casino is behind schedule, over budget, and a shambling mess of construction debris and dirt. Angel investors are arriving in a month, and someone in the finance department is embezzling money.
But his eyes are changing color to flowing, molten gold, he keeps showing up to hang around Bethany, and he obsesses with buying diamonds and gold to drape all over her, as if she had been dipped in his hoard.
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(Dragon’s Den Casino)
Truth and Justice
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right.
When Alexis Thorn and Joe Esposito encounter a young woman sobbing alone in a restaurant, they step into action and offer their comfort and sympathy. They soon learn that the woman’s husband was recently killed in action in Afghanistan. Before he reported for duty, they took steps to preserve their chances of having children. But when Bella visits the fertility clinic, she discovers her eggs are no longer there—and the circumstances are beyond suspicious.
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(Sisterhood Series)
The Break
by Daniel Hurst
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It seems like a lovely little house. But it has dark secrets…
Karen is a busy wife and mother. Between work, her husband Peter, and their two children, Oscar and Noah, she doesn’t have a minute to herself.
So when it all begins to feel too much, Karen knows just what she needs – to get away for a little while. Nothing big. Just a short break.
Her friend, Eve, tells her about a quaint little holiday home, and Karen books herself a short stay. She’ll have time to read, take bubble baths, unwind. Perfect.
Silverhills
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the 1870s Brandon Wade is driving a herd of longhorns over the Chisholm Trail when a youth appears out of nowhere riding a magnificent black stallion and packing a deadly looking six-gun. In need of trail hands, Brandon hires the young man. Not until weeks later, during the middle of a terrible stampede, does Brandon learn that his young sharpshooter is a beautiful woman.
A woman full of fire and passion who he burns to possess. A woman steeped in mystery who refuses to disclose her past. Alexandria O’Malley is on the run and must be able to disappear at a moment’s notice. When she hires on to the cattle drive, she doesn’t expect the powerful attraction between herself and her trail boss or the response of her treacherous body.
Dead Silence
by S.A. Barnes
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Titanic meets The Shining in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn’t yet ended.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.
What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right.
Love Potions
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Love potion is a collection of 6 stories with magic, romance, and conflicts. The books are firsts in the series to introduce you to the author and the series. Just a teaser to get you started. I enjoyed this collection, I only found one of the stories to be a slow starter but it picked up after the back story was established. This collection of stories has a bit of everything. From time travel to towns full of supernaturals and so much more. It gave me a chance to read from some new authors and a few of my favorites. I love these types of collaborations because it gives you a chance to find new authors to follow. I highly recommend this collection of stories. I found them to be entertaining and well worth reading it has something for everyone.” by Amazon Customer
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Garden Girls (Books 1-3)
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“Murder She Wrote meets the Golden Girls in this clean, fun-filled mystery series!”
Garden Girls – The Golden Years is the brand new spin-off series of the Garden Girls Mystery series.
You’ll enjoy the same fun-loving characters as they solve mysteries in the cozy town of Belhaven. Each book features the Garden Girls as they enter their “golden years.
Book 1: Double Date Disaster
Book 2: Christmas Crisis
Book 3: Michigan Mayhem
Blood Grove
by Walter Mosley
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the city’s outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences – the bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.
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(Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Vengeance is Mine
by Urcelia Teixeira
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She’s the one they hired to get the job done. Now they want her dead! Meet Jorja Rose, master art thief.
Twenty years ago, Jorja Rose was at the top of her game. An artisan, supremely skilled, greatly sought-after, and the one who got the job done, no matter the stakes.
Only, she catches her crooked business partner double-dealing with the world’s most ruthless mogul and things take a deadly turn for the worst. Forced to expose them, she gives up her identity and takes refuge in a small coastal town in the south of England…
They’ve come for her, to settle the score, to take revenge…
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(Valley of Death Mysteries)
The Stranger You Know
by Andrea Kane
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a copycat killer is targeting college-age girls with long red hair, Forensic Instincts recall a case that put a serial offender behind bars for life. But, as more red-haired victims are added to the body count, it becomes clear that each one has been chosen because of a unique connection to Casey Woods.
Now the Forensic Instincts team must race to uncover the identity of a serial killer before his ever-tightening circle of death closes in on Casey as the ultimate target. One thing about the perpetrator is clear: he knows everything about Casey and he won’t stop until she’s dead.
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(Forensic Instincts Mysteries)
YOU BETTER RUN
by Willow Rose
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When 19-year-old Meg Briggs wakes up after having a crazy party with her friends, she finds a girl in the pool.
Dead. Who is this girl? How did she end up in the pool? Was she even at the party? Even more strange is when they pull her out of the water, Meg realizes the girl looks very familiar. As a matter of fact, she looks just like her.
Like an identical twin. But Meg has no twin, at least none that she knows of, and no one at the party knows this girl or can say where she is from.
What is Meg’s mom hiding from her? FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is caught in distress at home with her children and between the two men in her life when she is asked to help out on the case.
Who killed Meg’s identical twin and why? And where did she come from?
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(Eva Rae Thomas Mysteries)
The Killing of Sheriff Paddon: The Murder
by Dave P. Fisher
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Clement Paddon, sheriff of Keith County, Nebraska, was narrowing down his investigation into a local stock theft ring. His probing made someone nervous enough to assassinate him along a lonely stretch of track between Ogallala and Alkali. The only witness was Long Rider, an Absaroke warrior, Army Scout and horse thief who had ridden away from the Little Big Horn disgusted with the Army’s inability to defeat the Sioux.
Jack Seaver, Paddon’s deputy, who had left his own stormy history behind in Arkansas, was determined to hunt down his friend’s killer. Whoever it was, had no qualms about killing one lawman and would have no problem with killing another, and it could be anyone around him.
I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy.
An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid.
A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity.
Play Me Back Home In Texas
by Connie Lewis Leonard
Rating: 4.9 #ad
What if the things you left behind are better than you remembered, better than you ever imagined? Thirty years ago LeAnn Kane left the dust and dirt of West Texas behind, vowing never to return. After a successful career with the Chicago Symphony, now she’s running back home – running for her life. While hiding from a murderer, the last person she expects to see is her high school sweetheart, her first and only love. His laughter sounds better than any melody she could play on her violin. His smile, as smooth as butter on hot cornbread, melts her insides, tempting her to stay in Texas. But her life is in Chicago – or is it?
Donald Howard worked hard to rise above the back-breaking work of the oil fields. The sought-after success hasn’t brought happiness or fulfillment. His failed marriage to a Houston socialite didn’t help, either. Seeing LeAnn again brings back the raw emotion of his first love, his innocent love, his trusting love, full of fantasies and hopes. After thirty years of telling himself he hated her, his heart betrays him. Or maybe he has betrayed his heart all these years. She’s dead set on returning to Chicago. He’s going with her – even if it kills him…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Crafty Christmas
by Mollie Cox Bryan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Christmas is just around the corner, and the ladies of the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook Crop are thrilled when Sheila wins the first place prize in a scrapbooking design contest: a ten-day scrapbook-themed cruise in the Caribbean. Vera and Paige decide to tag along, which should pose the perfect opportunity to learn some new techniques, mingle with fellow croppers, and get in some rest and relaxation before the chaos of Christmas. But when Sheila finds a famous crafter dead, and investigators determine she was poisoned, the luxury cruise veers toward disaster as Sheila becomes the number one suspect–or was she really the intended victim?
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(A Cumberland Creek Mysteries)
Do No Harm
by James B. Cohoon
Rating: 4.2 #ad
2020 American Fiction Award winner for Best Medical Thriller
Doctors go to medical school to save lives… right?
When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Preston’s neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, Matthew’s lifelong obsession is to somehow get into the prison, gain access to Nash, and exact the ultimate personal revenge. He devises a plan to become a prison doctor to gain access to Nash.
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(The Medical Students Mysteries)
Cause of Death
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia’s Elizabeth River, a scuba diver’s body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative reporter Ted Eddings is found.
Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim, Scarpetta orders the crime scene roped off and left alone until she arrives. What was he doing there, searching for Civil War relics as the officer suggested, or was there a bigger story?
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(Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross
by Harry Kemelman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Retired millionaire Barney Berkowitz, from the small Massachusetts town of Barnard’s Crossing, invites Rabbi David Small to come to Israel and bar mitzvah him, as Berkowitz never went through the ceremony in his youth. On what should be a joyous occasion—and an all-expenses-paid trip to the Holy Land—the rabbi discovers danger lurking in every corner and a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the state of Israel.
An innocent American has been murdered and when the sleuthing rabbi begins his investigation, he finds the death may have been part of an international conspiracy fueled by religious radicals and an arms-smuggling scheme.
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(The Rabbi Small Mysteries)
Tell Me
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O’Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. Though she swore she was innocent, the prosecution insisted that Blondell did it all to be with her lover. But Blondell’s son has now recanted his crucial testimony.
Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the truth for her true crime book—as well as personal reasons. Amity was Nikki’s childhood friend. The night she died, Amity begged her to meet with her, insisting she had a secret to tell, but Nikki didn’t go.
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(Savannah Mysteries)
Razor Sharp
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O’Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. Though she swore she was innocent, the prosecution insisted that Blondell did it all to be with her lover. But Blondell’s son has now recanted his crucial testimony.
Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the truth for her true crime book—as well as personal reasons. Amity was Nikki’s childhood friend. The night she died, Amity begged her to meet with her, insisting she had a secret to tell, but Nikki didn’t go.
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(Sisterhood Mysteries)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Don’t Mess with Gracie
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ghosts never lie.
The mysterious Mr. Ott is trying to intimidate Gracie Hofner into being his internal spy at The Bastion Group. She’s learned a lot about him through several sources, even using information provided by the pair of ghosts trying to save their granddaughter. But it isn’t enough. Mr. Ott is an expert in hiding his true identity.
Gracie isn’t as worried for herself as she is for her family, her friends, and her new tenant, Milo Porter. Her feelings for him have grown, but she can’t show them. Mr. Ott’s threats involve those she loves, and one friend has already been killed. Besides, she’s certain there is someone else in Milo’s life.
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(Amazing Gracie Mysteries)
My Perfect Daughter
by Sarah A. Denzil
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple falls far from the tree.
Zoe didn’t meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened for Maddie’s safety, she picks her up and takes her back to her father, not knowing what she’s about to step into. Because Maddie wasn’t just lost, she was there to lure her serial killer dad’s new victim.
After escaping from the clutches of Maddie’s dangerous father, she bonds with the little girl. Only Maddie knows what it was like to be at that house. And when no family members come forward to claim Maddie, Zoe decides to adopt her. They move away to a safe house on the Cornish coast and become a family of their own. Zoe gets married and has another child, a baby brother for Maddie.
The Native Land
by Bill Shuey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Travel the early frontier with this action-packed, gripping story about one family’s migration from Missouri to Colorado on the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail.
Indians, disease, weather, cutthroats, swollen rivers, and the challenge of the Raton Pass are just parts of the adventure.
After getting to Colorado, acquiring land and building a herd of Longhorn cattle is the new test that awaits them. In the wilderness and surrounded by hundreds of Indians, they have to contend with the elements, cattle rustlers, and the land baron, Lucian Maxwell.
Hellfire
by John Gilstrap
Rating: 4.7 #ad
For hostage rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, every mission is a matter of life or death. But he faces his most personal challenge yet when two boys are abducted while being driven to Resurrection House, the school Jonathan founded as a sanctuary for children of incarcerated parents. The boys were entrusted to Jonathan’s care. Now they’re missing. It’s time to fight fire with fire . . .
The boys’ mom, Connie Kendall, is awaiting trial on drug smuggling charges. Prosecutors want her to testify against the brutal Cortez Cartel to help bring down their ruthless operations. If she cooperates, she’ll get an easier sentence. But with her kids in the grip of the cartel, her lips are sealed.
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(A Jonathan Grave Mysteries)
Just One Bite
by Jack Heath
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The shocking, fast-paced and queasily funny follow-up to Jack Heath’s international bestselling thriller, Hangman
Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn’t supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Blake in to investigate a missing university professor, Blake recognizes him as the dead man in his freezer.
Then another man goes missing. And another.
There’s a serial killer in Houston, Texas, and Blake is running out of time to solve the case. His investigation takes him to a sex doll factory, a sprawling landfill in Louisiana and a secret cabin in the woods.
Bone Cold
by Erica Spindler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Twenty-three years ago Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark thrillers under another name. She finally feels safe.
Suddenly Anna’s quiet life takes a frightening turn. Letters start to arrive from a disturbed fan. Anna is followed, her apartment broken into. Then a close friend disappears.
Deadly Fate
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Alaska – the final frontier? When Clara Avery, an entertainer working on the Fate, an Alaskan cruise ship, goes to nearby Bear Island, she comes across a scene of bloody mayhem. She also comes across Thor Erikson, who will soon be a member of the FBI’s elite paranormal unit, the Krewe of Hunters.
Thor’s been sent from the Alaska field office to investigate several grotesque killings, with the dead posed to resemble the victims of notorious murderers. The prime suspect is a serial killer Thor once put behind bars. The man escaped from a prison in the Midwest, and all the evidence says he was headed to Alaska…
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)