Mysteries
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. These quirky amateur sleuths use creative, unconventional means to uncover evidence to find the murderer. What did Priscilla stumble upon that made her a killer’s target?
Guarding Her Heart
by Laura Haley-McNeil
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Threatened by a stalker, she turns to the only man who can help her – the man who walked out of her life ten years ago.
Artist Victoria Whitloch escapes the clutches of a stalker only to stumble into the arms of the man she never wants to see again, bad boy prosecutor Garrett Reynolds. To protect Victoria, Garrett whisks her away to an isolated lodge. Major problem for Victoria – how does she help Garrett capture the stalker while guarding her heart against the man who broke it once before?
Garrett thought his heart had healed when Victoria left him ten years ago. Garrett’s bigger problem – capture the stalker determined to imprison Victoria. Keeping Victoria safe is no easy task for Garrett, but getting her to trust him is an entirely different challenge.
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(Crystal Creek Mysteries)
The Broken Room
by Peter Clines
Rating: 4.4 #ad
You can still owe the dead.
Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.
Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.
And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.
Special Agent Charli
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
You can still owe the dead.
Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.
Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.
And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
We Shall Inherit the Wind
by Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett
Rating: 4.1 #ad
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made.
Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics. Then, in one of the most heart-stopping scenes in crime fiction, the first body appears…
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(Varg Veum Mysteries)
The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two
by Fritz Leiber
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Hugo and Nebula Award – winning series of sword and sorcery – featuring two unorthodox heroes – from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Long before George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones became a worldwide phenomenon, Fritz Leiber ruled the literary universe of sword and sorcery. This novel and two short story collections chronicle the adventures of Leiber’s endearing and groundbreaking antiheroes: the barbarian Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a former wizard’s apprentice – in the series hailed as “one of the great works of fantasy in this century” (Publishers Weekly).
Swords Against Wizardry,
The Swords of Lankhmar,
Swords and Ice Magic
A Better Heart
by Chuck Augello
Rating: 4.5 #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. These quirky amateur sleuths use creative, unconventional means to uncover evidence to find the murderer. What did Priscilla stumble upon that made her a killer’s target?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Old Friends and New, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A touch of nostalgia, good friends, and murder. When a former colleague is implicated in his neighbor’s demise, Sheridan Hendley returns to Cold Creek to prove his innocence. Annoying as Max can be, she can’t imagine the quirky professor is capable of murder. Unfortunately, not everyone shares her opinion. Of course, it doesn’t help that Max threatened his neighbor in a public place soon before the man was murdered. Or that the victim’s drug shipments had a habit of turning up on Max’s doorstep. Only as Sheridan asks more questions, she again puts a target on her back. Twists and complications make this an enjoyable read.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Terranavis Adventures – Two Complete Series
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Magic exists. Too bad it might kill us all. Austin Detective Maggie Parker’s world is about to be turned upside down in a frantic search for 4 Elementals.
Meanwhile, her neighbors down the road have an entirely different problem to handle. A deadly creature has been locked away for millennia. It was accidentally released. The three sisters must put it back in the vault.
Get both complete adventures in this 12-book urban fantasy boxed set to discover their stories!
A deadly creature has been locked away for millennia in plain sight. But big sister, Laura accidentally set the creature free and no one remembers how to put it back. Find the witch-killer and stop its path of destruction on Austin. But what spell to use? Can the sisters figure it out?
Black Evening
by David Morrell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
David Morrell, whose many bestsellers include Double Image, Extreme Denial, and The Brotherhood of the Rose, has consistently redefined the modern thriller. Now he turns to a darker side of suspense in a powerful collection of tales, many of them award winners, that delve into the weird, uncanny terrors that lurk just beneath the comforting surfaces of daily life.
Fear of loss, fear of pain, fear of madness, fear of being trapped, fear of the inescapable, unspeakable horrors that fester deep within the soul…. No matter who or where you are, fear is always with you, always ready to attack from behind the masks of thought and dream.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.4 #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. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Autumn’s Risk
by Mary Stone
Rating: 4.5 #ad
No risk, no reward . . . After five months of training at Quantico, Dr. Autumn Trent is ready for her first day on the job as an official special agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. She left for training with a heavy heart, feeling responsible for all that happened to her best friend and fellow agent, Winter Black. Now, her heart is just as heavy, but her spirit has grown stronger as she and Winter continue their fight against evil.
She’s only home a few days when a woman with a paralyzing fear of water jumps to her death from a waterfall. Was it suicide or was something much more sinister at play? Autumn’s team is sent to small-town Beechum County to investigate what becomes a slew of suicides and the cult connected to it all.
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(Autumn Trent FBI Mysteries)
The Fatal Flying Affair
by T E Kinsey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong—with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.
In between strolls to the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in aeronautics, the stakes are high—sky high—and the suspects soon mount up.
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(A Lady Hardcastle Mysteries)
The Banker’s Wife
by Cristina Alger
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“First-rate…Slick, heart-hammering entertainment.”—The New York Times Book Review
On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew’s death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Antiques Fruitcake
by Barbara Allan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
During the dress rehearsal for a festive Christmas play in small-town Serenity, Iowa, star Madeline de Morlaye topples over – on stage! – after a bite of prop pastry. Since the frosty actress had earned plenty of enemies through her offstage dramatics, the cast of suspects is longer than Santa’s “Naughty or Nice” list. Prop mistress Brandy Borne and her diva-turned-director mother, Vivian—assisted by their savvy shih tzu, Sushi—must solve this fruitcake fatality before it’s curtains for anyone else.
Includes A Tasty Recipe!
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(A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mysteries)
Ice Cold Spy
by Blake Banner, David Archer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Why was Dr. Robert Magnusson murdered? More to the point, why was he murdered five hundred miles from anywhere, in the frozen wilderness of Greenland?
And then there is the question of what he was doing seventy miles north of the UCLA base camp, where he should have been – and what were the instruments he had secretly set up and housed in the shack out there?
And then again. there is the question of who killed him. Thor Olafson, his colleague and friend, blames the United States’ Presidential Commission on Sustainable Energy, because his findings defied the Commission’s wishes.
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(Alex Mason Mysteries)
Wagon Train
by Ash Lingam, Casey Nash
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The first Western adventure in a brand new series from Ash Lingam and Casey Nash!
When the Hardwood brothers decide to lead a wagon train of 200 from Galveston, Texas to Wichita, Kansas, they have no idea what a challenge it will be given the diversity of the people. There are at least six different languages spoken between the overlanders.
But Willis and Walt are smart enough to ask their uncle, Slim Hardwood, a former Texas Ranger and Indian fighter, to join them. He is a seasoned guide—salty, gritty, and has the hair of the bear.
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(Wagon Train From Texas Western Mysteries)
Stratton
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 4.0 #ad
To an enemy with an impressive lifespan, one failed campaign is not an obstacle. It is a challenge.
It took millennia for Earth to join the galactic community. Some thought the long wait was worth it. Some thought…otherwise. And while the Earth did get to wear a name-tag of “Core” world, the title was more ornamental than functional. After all, the Confederation Alliance of Planets and Star Systems was already six-thousand years old when Earth finally climbed on board.
To Karin, Shakespeare’s plays are classics, twelve-thousand years old. To Kitaya, the Rimworlder with Caritan roots, they’re incomprehensible collection of metaphors. To Alvin, the prototype AI who runs the STRATTON Space Post, they’re simply an infrequently retrieved data collection he stores in his vast memory.
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(Rim Chronicles Collection)
All Things Slip Away
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Rating: 4.6 #ad
All Things Slip Away, (the second book in the Spookie Town Murder Mysteries Series; third book: Ghosts Beneath Us; fourth book: Witches Among Us).
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who’d kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he’d fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found. But the killer wasn’t dead. He’d only been waiting to take his revenge on Frank and those he cares about now…ten years later. Frank retired early and is living back in his hometown of Spookie when the killer resurfaces to take up where he left off. Kidnapping more innocents and tormenting Frank and the people he cares about.
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(Spookie Town Murder Mysteries)
CREEP
by William Cook
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A dark story of a young woman’s date with death!
CREEP is a short psychological thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Serial Killers don’t always get away with murder, no matter how hard they try.
Includes bonus short story – Legacy.
“Creep is indeed a good story. Imagine being kidnapped, abused and chained in a dark place. William Cook, has sparked fear in this read. Travelling alone can be deadly. An enjoyable read page after page.” by Amazon Customer
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Lord Peter Views the Body,
Hangman’s Holiday,
In the Teeth of the Evidence,
Striding Folly
“I recently discovered Dorothy Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey series and I am addicted. I’ve been reading, listening, watching the different presentations of her books and enjoying each. She was truly original. Her characters are endearingly human and appealing. Lord Peter’s character changes and develops as he ages. This collection are unlike any I read in earlier sets. Perhaps because they are short stories. Any fan would want to include these, I think.” by Amazon Customer
Gabriel Hansen
by William Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Civil War veteran and cowboy Gabriel Hansen is called to serve as a deputy in order to stop Rube Bauer, an evil and unstable man who has a sinister plan to become wealthy.
Bauer’s plan involves murder and illegal land sales in Arizona Territory. He wants to swoop up lands in small towns Newton and nearby Grove. But the town of Newton is an all-black settlement, which no longer trusts white authorities especially in the aftermath of the killing of a black family. The lynching has concerned officials from Tucson to Washington.
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(Post-Civil War Western Justice)
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on an Irish Farm
by Carlene O’Connor
Rating: 4.6 #ad
If only her mother could be here! The entire O’Sullivan brood—not to mention the regulars from Naomi’s Bistro – have gathered at St. Mary’s Church for the wedding of Siobhán and Macdara. It’s not every day you see two garda marrying each other. Only Siobhán’s brother James is missing. They can’t start without him.
But when James finally comes racing in, he’s covered in dirt and babbling he’s found a human skeleton in the old slurry pit at the farmhouse. What farmhouse? Macdara sheepishly admits he was saving it as a wedding surprise: he purchased an abandoned dairy farm. Duty calls, so the engaged garda decide to put the wedding on hold to investigate.
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(An Irish Village Mysteries)
Three Weeks in Washington
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Titus uncovers a plot to attack the nation’s capital with chemical weapons. Can he convince a Syrian asset to help him stop the deadly attack?
Encountering a Shooter . . . CIA intelligence operative, Titus Ray, arrives in Washington, D.C. on the day a terrorist enters the Washington Navy Yard and murders five people. Convinced the incident is connected to a Hezbollah plot to use chemical weapons on an American city, Titus jeopardizes his own career to interrogate the killer and learn the truth.
Exposing a General . . . After the shooter reveals the identity of an Iranian deep-cover operative living in Washington, D.C., Titus embarks on an intelligence operation spanning two continents and exposing an Iranian general obsessed with destroying America.
Engaging an Enemy . . .
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?
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(A Thursday Murder Club Mysteries)
The Vanishing
by Wendy Webb
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia has always admired . . . and who the world believes is dead.
When she arrives at the Sinclairs’ enormous estate on Lake Superior, Julia begins to suspect that there may be sinister undercurrents to her “too-good-to-be-true” position.
The Disappearing Act
by Catherine Steadman
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A woman has gone missing. But did she ever really exist?
A leading British actress hoping to make a splash in America flies to Los Angeles for the grueling gauntlet known as pilot season, a time when every network and film studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows entice a fresh batch of young hopefuls—anxious, desperate, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it.
Instead, Mia Eliot, a fish out of water in the ruthlessly competitive and faceless world of back-to-back auditioning, discovers the sinister side of Hollywood when she becomes the last person to see Emily, a newfound friend.
Subject A36
by Teri Polen
Rating: 4.3 #ad
If genetic engineering could guarantee you and your family perfect health and unparalleled beauty, would you pay top dollar for it? Would you kill for it?
Residents of the Colony would. And do. Only the Insurgents can stop them. Seventeen-year-old Asher Solomon is a premier operative with the Insurgents. He and his team have rescued countless hostages, saving them from painful deaths in Colony labs as desirable genetic traits are stripped from their bodies.
He’s also suffered more losses than anyone should have to.
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(The Insurgent)
Unhinged
by Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in the department. But before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home – execution style. And in the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim.
Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service. Blix has shot and killed a man, and Ramm saw it all happen.
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(Alexander Blix Mysteries)
The Girl in the Letter
by Emily Gunnis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved.
1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret’s, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave.
Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret’s. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child.
Kingdom of Sails
by Levi Werner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lox has made friends and gotten a good start to his new life in WoM.
After spending some time hunting down the remnants of the pirate fleet, Lox is guided by Vannessa down to the Kingdom of Sails. There he gets swept up a quest that will shake this kingdom to its core.
Sailing his ship, the Audacious, Lox embraces a life of the high seas and explores this strange realm nestled in one of the most beautiful and enormous archipelagoes in any world.
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(World of Magic Mysteries)