Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Taylor Texas Box set (Books 1-3)
by Vikki Walton
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Small Town Secrets. Homemade Pies. Unshakeable Faith.
Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and comes home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest and contemplate her future. And finally, she has time to pursue her love of baking pies. What she doesn’t expect is that her nursing skills will be needed when Pop is seriously injured. And her Texas backbone is strong against developers who refuse to stop in their pursuit of acquiring their land. Or that strangers can quickly become family. Set against the warm, wide Texas Hill Country, these cozy mysteries are the kind of stories that remind you: truth always finds its way home, faith is forged in struggle, and love always wins.
BOOK ONE: Death Takes A Break
BOOK TWO: Death Makes A Move
BOOK THREE: Death Stakes A Claim
The Last Flight from Moscow
by Andie Newton
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In the shadowy underbelly of Cold War Moscow, Mae Pierce, once a formidable OSS agent, has found herself once again thrust into a perilous mission that could spell redemption—or ruin.
Tasked with posing as a model at the American Exhibition, Mae is haunted by the ghosts of her past. Her plan had been simple: lie low, collect her paycheck and get home. Instead, she must navigate the treacherous waters of deceit, betrayal, and the ruthless Russian Mafia.
When her new partner vanishes, Mae soon realizes that the stakes are higher than she ever imagined…
The Chaos Squad Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
One catastrophic mistake ended Marc Black’s mercenary career — now he’s getting one last shot to earn it back.
Recruited into the Vanguard Syndicate’s most chaotic squad, Marc finds himself leading a demolitions addict, a razor-tongued infiltrator, a gadget genius with a questionable survival rate, and a Vorath warrior who communicates mostly in controlled violence. Training simulations push them to the edge — but when their final test drops them into a live black-market operation, Marc discovers that redemption doesn’t come from a simulation. It comes from deciding whether his team is worth dying for.
Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall
by Hannah Dennison
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
All’s fair in love . . . and antiques wars!
Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, she’s also got a new date: Piers Carew, Viscount Chawley, who owns the estate next to Honeychurch Hall.
Unfortunately, Kate has a rival. Impossibly beautiful Cassandra Bowden-Forbes is also in town, conducting valuations at the same fairs as Kat – and she makes no secret of the fact she’s got her eye on Piers . . .
Going Home in the Dark
by Dean Koontz
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As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams—and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?
After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.
The 23rd Midnight
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.
Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.
An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own.
Now Lindsay’s tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Jeff Samuels never could have predicted the wild ride his life would take.
Saved from death by a mysterious man in an invisible flying car, he soon discovers his own extraordinary abilities and a secret fortune he never knew he had. But as he begins to fall in love, Jeff also finds himself in the midst of a war against supernatural forces bent on his destruction. Welcome to the Niergel Chronicles, where fantasy, science, and faith collide in a thrilling adventure unlike any other.
In this action-packed tale, Jeff Samuels is a brilliant scientist and professor who has always been curious about his unknown ancestry. But when he is awakened in the middle of the night by an unusual visitor, his entire understanding of reality is turned upside down. As he tries to come to terms with his newfound heritage, Jeff encounters a host of mysterious characters and shocking revelations. But his biggest challenge comes when he must protect the ancient Niergel and stop a ruthless Crime Syndicate and powerful evil ancestors from destroying the world.
Thick as Thieves
by Sandra Brown
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Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it.
Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago—presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice—has never reconciled with her father’s abandonment of her and her sister. After countless personal setbacks she decides to return to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake, and finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Little does she know, two of her father’s co-conspirators—a war hero and a corrupt district attorney—are watching her every move.
Murder Takes a Vacation
by Laura Lippman
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Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery…that only she can solve.
Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dangling by a Thread
by Lea Wait
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Mainely Needlepointers are about to learn that no man is an island—especially when greedy developers want his land . . .
Hermit Jesse Lockhart lives alone on King’s Island, three miles east of Haven Harbor, Maine, where he’s created a private sanctuary for the endangered Great Cormorants. But when a wealthy family wants to buy the island and Jesse’s cousin petitions for power of attorney to force him to sell, Jesse is the one who becomes endangered.
Mainely Needlepointer Dave Perry, who befriended Jesse in the VA hospital, rallies the group to his defense.
“D” is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
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He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who’d done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he’d stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett. Ex-con. Inveterate liar. Chronic drunk. And dead. The cops called it an accident—death by drowning. Kinsey wasn’t so sure.
Pulled into the detritus of a dead man’s life, Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies. There’s the daughter who grew up with a cheating drunk for a father, and the wife who’s become a religious nut in response to an intolerable marriage…
Avenue for an Assassin
by Steve Haberman
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Jonas Shaw, ex New York detective, ex-Winston Churchill spy, gets a call from France at his Cotswold manor near London. An old World War II friend has a brother-in-law who is a cop in a tiny hamlet.
A routine traffic stop on a country road has turned out to be far from routine. Can Jonas fly out to investigate?
The answer will lead to one of the bloodiest events in the history of Paris that will echo for years.
Charade
by Sandra Brown
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than just a new heart. With her second chance at life, Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer.
But her new world turns sinister when fatal “accidents” begin killing other heart transplant recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally—and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy
by Timothy Zahn
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Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Ruling Families that lead them.
The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy dispatches one of its brightest young military officers to root out the unseen assailants. A recruit born of no title, but adopted into the powerful family of the Mitth and given the name Thrawn.
Never Really Left
by Wendy Jordan Saffel
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When Wendy Jordan Saffel lost her twenty-year-old son, Hugh, she discovered that grief is a well without a bottom. But even as she felt herself sinking into despair, she was offered an unexpected lifeline—one that changed her perception of the world forever.
A rational thinker, Wendy focused on the facts—the tangible and the measurable. That is, until she began experiencing profound spiritual connections with her son shortly after his passing. These initial moments of contact propelled her on a yearslong journey to understand what happens when we die, what comprises the afterlife, and how a relationship with our lost loved ones can persist in ways that are real, true, beautiful, and sacred.
The Dark Tower II
by Stephen King
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The second volume in Stephen King’s #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.
“Stephen King is a master at creating living, breathing, believable characters,” hails The Baltimore Sun. Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower.
Chasing Castles
by Barbara File Marangon
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Author Barbara File Marangon begins her incredible journey of self-discovery in her grandmother’s Bronx kitchen. With a glimpse of her Irish ancestry she makes a heartfelt promise to find her ancestral castle in Ireland someday.
After the poignant finale of a Hollywood show she choreographed, an appreciative cast presents her with a ticket to Italy. She is offered a job teaching ballet in Venice, but after a painful marriage to a Venetian comes to an end, she moves to a small Italian town with a castle. For nineteen years she lives there, and teaches ballet after opening her own school.
Barbara battles loneliness, bigotry, and corruption, even standing up to the Mafia. With courage and determination she prevails and finds love again.