Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Chili Cauldron Curse
by Lynn Cahoon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Mia Malone’s grandmother asks her to take a week away from her restaurant job and come to Magic Springs, Idaho, she’s happy to oblige. Like Mia, Grans has witchcraft running through her veins, and life with her is never boring. Plus, the cause is a good one—helping Grans get the local food bank up and running again. But there’s an unappetizing surprise in store.
While Mia is knee-deep in boxes of donated produce, she encounters the body of Dorian Alexander.
Two Days Taken
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author Luana Ehrlich.
Two days. That’s all it’s supposed to take. But when Mylas suddenly discovers the truth, it isn’t two days anymore.
Private investigator Mylas Grey is anticipating photographer Whitney Engel’s visit to Washington. He’s been planning their itinerary, looking forward to spending time with her, and wondering if the spark between them will ignite into a roaring fire.
He isn’t anticipating having to do a favor for Senator Allen. However, the favor isn’t supposed to take more than two days. All he has to do is take a trip up to Baltimore, spend a couple of days investigating a matter for another senator, and then he’ll have the rest of the week to entertain Whitney. But then . . .
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
The Adirondack Witch
by Patrick Reuman
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Three friends set out on a mountain hiking adventure meant to pull one of their minds away from the sorrow of losing his wife. But things take a quick and sinister turn when they are forced to camp for the night at the mountain’s dark peak.
Something is out there, something evil. It hides in the black of the forest and it waits. It stalks. And it wants all their lives.
Infinity’s Shore
by David Brin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef.
It’s illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there for some time. They’ve successfully hidden from watchful law enforcers of the Five Galaxies—until now . . .
After making an amazing discovery far away—a derelict armada whose mere existence triggered interstellar war—the Terran exploration vessel Streaker and its crew of humans and dolphins arrive at Jijo in search of sanctuary from the Galactic forces out to destroy them…
Mackenzie’s Mountain
by Linda Howard
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Available digitally for the first time ever, Mackenzie’s Mountain is a classic novel of romantic suspense from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard
Mary Elizabeth Potter is a self-appointed spinster with no illusions about love. When she meets Wolf Mackenzie, a man with a chip on his shoulder the size of Wyoming, she sets out to convince the whole town he’s a man worth loving. But Wolf’s not sure he’s for the taming of Wolf Mackenzie.
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(Mackenzie Family Saga)
The Unexpected Guest
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A classic from Agatha Christie, the original queen of mystery.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
Sinister
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, Rosalind Noonan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
As fear and distrust spread through Prairie Creek, soon all the Dillingers, and those closest to them, are targets—and suspects. A killer has been honing his skill, feeding his fury, and waiting for the moment when the Dillingers come home—to die . . .
In Blood Ira Dillinger, the family’s wealthy patriarch, has summoned his children home for his upcoming wedding. Eldest son, Colton, and his siblings don’t approve of their father’s gold-digging bride-to-be. But someone is making his displeasure felt in terrifying ways, setting fires just like in the past. Only this time, there will be no survivors. Will Be Rewarded
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder, Take Two
by Carol J. Perry
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As a Salem, Massachusetts, native, WICH-TV field reporter and amateur sleuth Lee Barrett is well versed in the region’s lore. So when the murder of revered local professor Samuel Bond resembles a killing from almost two centuries ago, everyone is on edge. Especially assistant professor Cody McGinnis . . .
Not only did Cody have differences with Bond, he even taught a course on the historic murder. And when his fingerprints and ladder are found at the crime scene, the police are certain of his guilt…
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(A Witch City Mysteries)
Wicked Charms
by Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Before he was murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier “Peg Leg” Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate’s treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice—the very item reluctant treasure seeker Lizzy Tucker and her partner, Diesel, have been enlisted to find. While Lizzy would just like to live a quiet, semi-normal life, Diesel is all about the hunt. And this hunt is going to require a genuine treasure map and a ship worthy of sailing the seven seas . . . or at least getting them from Salem Harbor to Maine.
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(Lizzie & Diesel Mysteries)
Ghost Fleet
by P. W. Singer, August Cole
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes the story even more notable is that every trend and technology in book—no matter how sci-fi it may seem—is real.
The Big Fang
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
22 fun mystery and crime “tails”, each featuring a rescue or adopted animal, from 22 amazing authors. This benefit anthology from Harbor Humane Society (West Olive, MI) includes cozies, capers, and humorous crime and mystery stories.
“This is such a fun read! I saw the advertisement of this book for Harbor Humane Society and knew I had to have it. My favorite story so far is Mullet and the Nope Rope. First paragraph had me laughing out loud. I highly recommend this.” by Amazon Customer
The Night Searchers
by Marcia Muller
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When new clients Jay and Camilla Givens come to Sharon McCone with Camilla’s stories of devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, the detective is skeptical, to say the least. However, when she discovers that Jay is involved with the treasure hunting group The Night Searchers, she starts looking into what exactly he and the other participants are up to after dark. As she digs deeper into the Searchers, Sharon joins their ranks in order to find out more-while someone is searching for her.
Daniel Boyd
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The last time Daniel saw his family was seven years ago, before his father was killed in the war. When his sister sends a letter telling him of their mother’s gruesome murder, he knows it’s time to go home.
Zachariah Truett prowls the roads of Texas, waiting for people to rob and kill. His gang has been terrorizing El Cotas for weeks, and they’re just getting started. But if they can hunt the innocent, then Daniel can stalk the guilty.
He goes after them with nothing but his gun and his courage. They’re all he’s ever needed. When he meets Amelia and learns the brutality she’s suffered at Zachariah’s hands, he knows he can’t leave her behind.
The Scholar
by Dervla McTiernan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal–her card identifies her as Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland’s most successful pharmaceutical company. Darcy Therapeutics has a finger in every pie, from sponsoring university research facilities to funding political parties to philanthropy–it has even funded Emma’s own ground-breaking research.
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(Cormac Reilly Mysteries)
Seven Deadly Sins Complete Boxed Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Follow The Creed and their leader, Annie Powell, as they fight their way through the crew’s first seven assignments.
The Creed works undercover for top levels of government, risking their own lives while they battle for the greater good.
Read all seven of the deadly sins in this boxed set.
Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Wrath, Sloth and Gluttony.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
April Fool Dead
by Carolyn Hart
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool’s prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic — if rarely tranquil — South Carolina island of Broward’s Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward’s Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it’s up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail of the vicious trickster — or a secret slayer’s next lethal “joke” may very well be on her!
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(Death on Demand Mysteries)
50 States
by Richard R Becker
Rating: 4.6 #ad
An Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area.
These and 46 more shorts make up an anthology that will surprise readers with each new thought-provoking story as they skip across different genres, moods, and states of mind. Together, they provide a character-driven sampling of the American experience over the last 60 years — the kind and the cruel, the heroic and criminal — in unpredictable and suspenseful ways.
The Private Patient
by P. D. James
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past.
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(Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
The Escape
by D.C. Brockwell
Rating: 4.3 #ad
They say humans utilise a mere ten percent of their brains’ potential. Disgraced neurosurgeon Klaus Jancke believes this unused brain matter holds the key to supernatural powers.
The Notorious Six are the UK’s most evil serial killers, incarcerated at HMP Longstone, Gwynedd, Wales. They are Dr. Jancke’s test subjects, and the neurosurgeon has just made a breakthrough.
Using powers bestowed upon him by Jancke, Freeman Gander, his younger brother, Mitchell and Freeman’s psychotic girlfriend, Autumn Hacker (who was once one of the Ganders’ victims) break out of Longstone Prison and decide to pay someone special a ‘visit’.
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(The Last Hope)
Birthday Party Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The town of Tinker’s Cove is looking forward to the celebration marking former librarian Julia Ward Howe Tilley’s ninetieth birthday. Lucy Stone, Miss Tilley’s closest friend, dreamed up the party idea—around the same time she decided she’s not getting old without a fight. Noticing crow’s feet and a potential jelly belly, she’s resolved to exercise more and purchase some heavy-duty wrinkle cream, asap!
That sounds like a plan—until Lucy realizes her daughter’s fourteenth birthday bash, a coed sleepover, may turn her hair white overnight. What was she thinking?
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
So Cold the River
by Michael Koryta
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man’s past — just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he’s kept his entire life.
In Bradford’s hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history — a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria…
Vicious Cycle
by Terri Blackstock
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she’s the newborn daughter of a meth addict he’s been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse.
His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan—the man she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own.
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(Intervention Mysteries)
The Broker
by John Grisham
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis.
Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Comes to London
by Catherine Lloyd
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Murder makes a debut on the London social scene in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Village.
With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London. At the same time, Lucy’s special friend Major Robert Kurland is summoned to the city to accept a baronetcy for his wartime heroism.
Amidst the dizzying whirl of balls and formal dinners, the focus shifts from mixing and matchmaking to murder when the dowager Countess of Broughton, the mother of an old army friend of Robert, drops dead…
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(Kurland St. Mary Mysteries)
Arcane
by Sever Bronny
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Fourteen-year-old Augum apprentices under a mysterious mentor in the forbidden art of magic. He is joined by Bridget and Leera, two passionate and quirky girls willing to give a lonely orphan like Augum a chance. Together they dare to train as warlocks.
But Augum’s mentor turns out to be none other than Anna Atticus Stone, a legendary warlock—and she possesses a mythical artifact. When a warlord suddenly turns up demanding that artifact, the group is plunged into a harrowing adventure, one in which Augum will have to use his newly learned spells to try to save the only thing he has left . . . a friendship forged in fire.
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(The Arinthian Line Mysteries)
Ranger Protection
by Lynn Shannon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Dr. Tara Sims is robbed, she fights back to protect her daughter and nearly pays with her life. She’s rescued by Texas Ranger Grady West. Her childhood friend is now a handsome lawman, but Tara refuses to acknowledge the chemistry sparking between them. With a little girl to raise and a growing medical practice, she has no room in her life for romance.
Grady suspects the vicious assault wasn’t a random act. What he can’t figure out is why anyone would attack the single mother. He vows to protect Tara and her little girl while keeping his growing feelings for them out of the equation. Getting romantically involved with his sister’s best friend is more hazardous than hunting criminals.
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(Texas Ranger Heroes Mysteries)
Woman In Scarlet
by Karen L. Adams
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Karen Adams’ dream became possible the day the RCMP finally included women in what was then, an unashamed boy’s club. When Karen joined the very first group of female RCMP recruits at age 22, she never anticipated the indelible mark this would leave on the landscape of Canada’s iconic police force and the women who came after her. Karen, least of all.
Fueled by equal measures of naiveté and a relentless pursuit of excellence to win the respect of her fellow officers, Karen found her passion in life despite a hostile work environment, both inside and outside the RCMP. Her story pulses with excitement as she recounts her initial forays into drug busts, surveillance and undercover missions–all the while suffering silently with PTSD after a physical assault perpetrated by a trusted member of the vaunted force she strived so hard to become part of.
“An engaging, no-frills account of the challenges and rewards of being a female Mountie.” ~ KIRKUS REVIEW
The Girl and the Deadly End
by A.J. Rivers
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Small towns have secrets. The dark mysteries of Emma’s life are ready to be told.
It has been more than a year since Emma Griffin stumbled upon a clue behind the dangerous secrets of her past. Now, she has the answers at her fingertips. The only question is will she survive long enough to find them?
As Greg struggles to recover, Emma keeps watch over him. She’s desperate for answers, answers locked inside him. And she will do whatever it takes to keep him safe.
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(Emma Griffin® FBI Mysteries)
The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth
by Leonard Goldberg
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale.
Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner’s patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England’s military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security.
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(The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries)
Logan Caine: Blood on the Uncompahgre
by C. Wayne Winkle
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Following their escape from the Utes that resulted in the death of Katy’s parents, Logan and Joshua get her to Taos. Naturally, she is mourning.
Her friend begins telling her that Logan is not good for her. Katy, in her sadness and loss, questions her feelings. She rejects Logan when he tries to talk to her. Senor Ruiz hires Logan and Joshua to establish a trading post for him. Through a series of misfortunes, they get the job done.