Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Travel Can Be Murder Box Sets
by Jennifer S. Alderson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Travel, anyone? Here is your passport to murder – three clean cozy mysteries set in Budapest, Paris, and Amsterdam! Join tour guide Lana Hansen as she leads tourists and readers to fascinating cities around the globe on intriguing adventures that often turn deadly.
Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest
Death by Baguette: A Valentine’s Day Murder in Paris
Death by Windmill: A Mother’s Day Murder in Amsterdam
Ghost of a Chance
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder
Who killed aunt Emma. Paranormal investigator Buck McDivit needs to know. When he inherits her island, marina, and rustic fishing lodge on a primordial lake in east Texas, he finds the ghost of a long-dead little girl haunting it. The restless spirit is the least of his problems. To hold on to the property, he must deal with foreclosure, murder, and the New Southern Right, a radical group that seeks the island for nefarious purposes. If Buck fails, he’ll lose his inheritance and suffer the same fate as his aunt Emma.
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(A Buck McDivit Paranormal Mysteries)
Vanquish My Agony
by Ann Watters
Rating: 5.0 #ad
For centuries, the vampire known as Viper has led his army to protect humanity from the evil that lives among them. His desire to find his one true soulmate has long since died. With a single-minded focus, he stomps out those who would destroy the world he’s devoted his deathless life to protect. Yet when he steps into a small bookstore, his once lifeless body begins to waken at the sight of her, his soulmate, his Cariturnus.
After surviving a failed marriage, Alyse desires only one thing… peace. The kind of solace that only comes from the stillness of the mountains…
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(Vampire Souls Mysteries)
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
When MacArthur is appointed the U.S. Army chief of staff, he becomes the youngest four-star general and one of America’s most powerful men. Out of hubris, he takes Isabel with him to America without marrying her.
Tsar
by Ted Bell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Somewhere in Russia, there dwells a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is only speculated upon, only whispered about in American corridors and CIA strategy meetings. Though he is practically invisible, he is pulling strings—and pulling them hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever thought possible.
The Russians have their finger on the switch to the European economy and an eye on the American jugular. And, most importantly, they want to be made whole again. Should America interfere with Russia’s plans, well then, America will pay in blood…
The Perfect Spy
by Amy Martinsen
KINDLE BARGAIN #ad
She’s got the best undercover crew. But will a sinister secret undo them?
Kate Ross has lost way too much in the last six months. With her mother’s death from breast cancer, an agent she handled killed on the job, and her career in jeopardy, the beleaguered CIA officer’s faith in God seems like another casualty. So she’s relieved to be offered a shot at redemption by managing an innovative team of “mom spies”… until they saddle her with a more experienced man as a babysitter…
Can Kate find the guiding light to solve the case before her personal crisis threatens national security?
Daring Deception
by Barbara Freethy
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He didn’t just break her heart, he broke her soul…
When a bomb exploded at her college, Caitlyn Carlson’s life changed in an instant. Ten years later, she’s no longer a vulnerable, trusting girl, but a tough, ruthless, FBI agent. But her hard exterior covers a deep, aching hole in her heart.
Quinn Kelly has changed his life, too, trying to make up for the horrific mistakes of his youth. But some mistakes can’t be outrun or forgiven. Some feelings don’t stay buried, no matter how hard you try.
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(Off the Grid: FBI Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Wine and Dead, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Wine tasting, murder and more. A murder and a toxic substance in a vineyard would spell doom for the manager of any winery. And when that manager is a woman, a rarity in the wine industry, people are quick to place the blame on her shoulders. Even though Sheridan’s husband, Brett, and his partner are already on the case, the amateur sleuth, is quick to jump in. In her search for clues, Sheridan and her friends explore the offerings at several nearby vineyards, where they discover more than great wine. Join Sheridan for a trip from your favorite chair, filled with friends, fun, and a two mysteries.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
The Ruin of Delicate Things
by Beverley Lee
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Barrington Hall is a place of secrets – something Dan Morgan has worked hard to forget. But when a heart-breaking loss brings him back to the place where he spent his childhood summers, Barrington Hall will do what it must to make him remember.
Faye Morgan blames her husband for the death of their teenage son. She doesn’t want to leave the place Toby called home. But after she catches a glimpse of a strange boy in the midnight woods and learns of his connection with Barrington Hall, her need to learn more pulls her further and further into a nightmare world filled with past atrocities and the burning flame of revenge.
Picasso’s Motorcycle
by Marc Sercomb
Rating: 4.3 #ad
France, 1940. An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned.
This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. In turn quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together many moods and colors to tell young Daniel’s story. Beyond engaging, Picasso’s Motorcycle has been hailed as a genuine “page-turner” by those who have so far encountered it.
Murder in Belleville
by Cara Black
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The second Aimée Leduc investigation set in Paris
When Anaïs de Froissart calls Parisian private investigator Aimée begging for help, Aimée assumes the woman wants to hire her to do surveillance on her philandering politician husband again. Aimée is too busy right now to indulge her. But Anaïs insists Aimée must come, that she is in trouble and scared. Aimée tracks Anaïs down just in time to see a car bomb explode, injuring Anaïs and killing the woman she was with.
Anaïs can’t explain what Aimée just witnessed. The dead woman, Anaïs says, is Sylvie Coudray, her cheating husband’s long-time mistress, but she has no idea who wanted her dead, and Anaïs officially hires Aimée to investigate.
Everywhere to Hide
by Siri Mitchell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
How does a woman protect herself from an enemy she can’t see?
Law school graduate Whitney Garrison is a survivor. She admirably deals with her mother’s death, mounting student debt, dwindling job opportunities, an abusive boyfriend, and a rare neurological condition that prevents her from recognizing human faces.
But witnessing a murder might be the crisis she can’t overcome. The killer has every advantage. Though Whitney saw him, she has no idea what he looks like. He knows where she lives and works. He anticipates her every move. Worst of all, he’s hiding in plain sight and believes she has information he needs. Information worth killing for. Again.
Thieves Dozen
by Donald E. Westlake
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The swift succession of heists, getaways, scrapes, and screwups gathered in Thieves’ Dozen epitomizes the venal joys of the comic caper. Each gambit is filled with engaging twists, such as when the gang tunnels into a bank vault only to find it packed with hostages from an armed robbery already in progress, or when they start a stampede while attempting to boost a stud racehorse. Then there’s the deceptively simple challenge of getting across town with a ham sandwich in which is secreted a stolen emerald brooch, or the synchronized scrapes of crooks converging on a bashed-in bank in “Fugue for Felons.” The short-story form is well suited to Westlake’s sly shenanigans, and he even finds room for snippets of the Runyonesque repartee that gives this inspired nonsense just the right touch of absurd panache.
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(The Dortmunder Mysteries)
The Ascent
by Ronald Malfi
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Six months after he almost died in a caving accident, sculptor Tim Overleigh spends his time crutching his broken body from bar to bar in downtown Annapolis. He has told no one that it was his dead wife, Hannah, who helped him survive – and that he’s still seeing her . . .
But a chance meeting with an old friend—and a plane ticket to Kathmandu—reawaken Tim’s passion for adventure. He agrees to join an expedition to one of the last unexplored places on earth: the Canyon of Souls in the Himalayas. The daunting climb will pit Tim and the other climbers against icy winds, mysterious forces, and the ghosts that live within each of them.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Y is for Yesterday
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace.
Now, it’s 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents—until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand.
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(A Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
Dead Serious
by Greg Stumbo
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the zombies showed up, the world changed quickly, as you can imagine. You want to know what doesn’t change quickly? People. My friends and I, unfortunately, are people. People who are now considered food.
How exactly does a group of friends survive when they have the combined life experience of a fifteen-year-old on the opening day of a sci-fi convention? Well, not by being the tough guys in an apocalypse movie. I mean, yeah, that’s how we all see ourselves – right up until the dead start walking and you realize that you don’t even know how a shotgun works.
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(Generation Zed Mysteries)
Long Shadows
by Cathe Swanson
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Old sins cast long shadows. Mona Vickers is forging a new life, building a safe and loving home for her girls far away from the ghosts of the past. She’ll do whatever it takes to make it work, including sending her girls to the Christian-based after school program despite her own lack of faith.
Roy Strough, Director of the Unity Plenkiss Community Center, wants to help the hardworking mother who’s captured his heart, but he’s already offended her pride once. Asking Mona to teach a class at the community center in exchange for tuition seems like the perfect solution…
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(Hope Again Mysteries)
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
by Hank Green
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who has the right to change the world forever?
How will we live online?
How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?
The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl’s path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories.
The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers
by Angie Fox
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York Times bestselling, breakout series
Demon slaying powers should come with an instruction book.
Seriously. Why does a new hair dryer have a twelve-page how-to manual, but when it comes to ancient demon-fighting magic, my biker witch grandma just gives me half a dozen switch stars and a rah-rah speech? Oh, and a talking terrier, but that’s another story. It’s not like my job as a preschool teacher prepared me for this kind of thing.
So I’ve decided to write my own manual, The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers. Because—frankly—I need all the help I can get.
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(Biker Witches Mysteries)
Dangerous Minds
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a volcano. And now it’s gone. Poof! Vanished without a trace.
Brilliant and boyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable, improbable mystery. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help.
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(Curious Minds)
A Merciful Promise
by Kendra Elliot
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. Lay low, follow rules, do nothing to sound an alarm, and relinquish all contact with the outside world. She’s ready to blend in.
As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges.
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(Mercy Kilpatrick Mysteries)
Dangerous Curves Boxed Set 1
by K.L. Montgomery
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Sunshine always manages to put the clues together just in time to avoid disaster!
This boxed set contains the first three books of the Dangerous Curves cozy Christian mystery series, set in the fictional small town of Bryce Beach. YA librarian and amateur sleuth Sunshine Baker, who hates her name and can’t even bake an edible muffin, always manages to put the clues together just in time to avoid disaster! Join this curvy redheaded librarian on her quest to keep Bryce Beach safe…and well-read, of course.
Book #1: Betrayal at the Beach
Book #2: Mystery at the Marina
Book #3: Shooting at the Shore
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Missing in Little Leaf Creek
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Living in the country comes with lovable animals, a stubborn next-door neighbor, two missing people and a murder…
Cassie Alberta is loving her new life in Little Leaf Creek. She is finally coming to terms with the ghosts from her past and moving forward. She loves living next to two cheeky goats and a lovable collie mix. But when two people from Little Leaf Creek go missing and one turns up dead, she finds herself right in the middle of two baffling mysteries.
Cassie joins forces with her ornery, next-door neighbor to try and solve the murder and find the missing person.
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(A Little Leaf Creek Cozy Mysteries)
Rory: Mountain Man And Longhunter
by Mike Mackessy
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The seventh Mountain Man adventure with Rory: Mountain Man and Longhunter from Mike Mackessy has arrived!
Rory is the mountain man the Penny Dreadful has named Rory Yellowstone. He hates the name and refuses to use it. Cara is his third daughter, the one that takes after her pa the most. She also seems to attract the same kind of trouble Rory does. Like her pa, trouble and problems only make her stronger.
Rory sends her to take delivery of horses he bought in Texas. The crooked sheriff and mayor frame her for rustling. They do not know who she is nor who her pa is. When Rory, her brothers, and a group of ranch hands reach that town to escort Cara and the horses, well, Cara has handled the problem in her typical way—before Rory rides into town.
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(The First Of The Mountain Men Western Mysteries)
The Dying Day
by Vaseem Khan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.
Bombay, 1950. For over a century, one of the world’s great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay’s Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia’s desk.
Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Complete Boxed Set
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Olivia Beaufont likes fixing things and keeping to herself. She’s simple like that—but her life is about to drastically change.
Liv is a rebel with royal blood who abdicated her birthright. A string of murders changes everything and the House of Seven asks her to take on a role as a Warrior, one of seven positions revered for protecting magic.
Although Liv would rather stay out of the politics and conspiracies that she ran away from years ago, her family needs her. It’s only a twelve-year stint until her sister, the next in line, can take over.
So, what’s the harm in activating her magic and accepting her place as a warrior?
Murder at Greysbridge
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Being adapted for a television crime series
Summer has arrived in Inishowen and solicitor Benedicta (Ben) O’Keeffe is greatly tempted by a job offer from a law firm in America. Yet before making any life-changing decisions, there is her assistant Leah’s wedding to attend at the newly restored Greysbridge Hotel—with its private beach and beautiful pier.
The perfect location—but the festivities are brutally cut short when a young American, a visitor also staying at the hotel, drowns in full view of the wedding guests. And when a second death is discovered the same evening, Ben finds herself embroiled in a real country-house-murder-mystery, where all the guests are suspects.
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(An Inishowen Mysteries)
Wild Vengeance
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Gavin Hammer was just a kid when his family was murdered in front of him. Ten years later, the event still haunts him. Everyone knows Stone is responsible for the crime, but he’s still running free. If the law can’t catch him, Gavin will. Capturing Stone won’t be easy though. The outlaw’s got men in every town throughout Texas, and there are sheriffs on his payroll.
When Gavin’s need for justice pushes him to a ranch run by the widow Essie Wilcox, he thinks it’s the sort of idyllic life he could get used to. But tragedy strikes again when Stone reappears, only this time it’s Essie’s family who pays the price.
The Cellist
by Daniel Silva
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia’s richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea’s exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia’s vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov’s name off his kill list.
Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents.…
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(Gabriel Allon Mysteries)
House on Fire
by Joseph Finder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nick Heller is at the top of his game when he receives some devastating news: his old army buddy Sean has died of an overdose. Sean, who once saved Nick’s life, got addicted to opioids after returning home wounded from war.
Then at Sean’s funeral, a stranger approaches Nick with a job, and maybe also a way for Nick to hold someone accountable.
The woman is the daughter of a pharmaceutical kingpin worth billions. Now she wants to become a whistleblower, exposing her father and his company for burying evidence that its biggest money-maker was dangerously addictive. It was a lie that killed hundreds of thousands of people, including Sean.
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(A Nick Heller Mysteries)