Mysteries
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead Editor File
by G G Collins
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Preston Endicott, Jr. was hated by most of the staff at his book publishing house. At least until he turned up dead in his locked office in this debut of the Taylor Browning Cozy Mystery series. Taylor, the new mystery editor at the Santa Fe book publisher, sees plenty of possible perps right in the office suite. But the employees are hardly the only people to count as suspects.
Dominique Boucher, their bestselling author, just submitted her latest manuscript. It’s a locked-room mystery with a similar story line to the real life puzzle. His ex-wife wasn’t a fan either. And there is the matter of a large inheritance: a successful company and many financial assets. Who stands to gain the most?
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(Looking Glass Editor)
Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he’s been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam.
President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can’t move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest.
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(A Jack Ryan Mysteries)
The Carving Tree
by Terry Thomas Bowman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Forty-six years ago Jake pledged his love to Sadie by carving their names into the Carving Tree. Now newly retired, Sadie is eager to take on life’s newest adventures with Jake by her side. But when the symbol of their enduring love begins to wither and Jake is diagnosed with a heart condition, Sadie’s dreams are put on hold.
Bitter towards God, Sadie is determined to nurse Jake and their beloved Carving Tree back to health on her own. Sadie’s luck takes a turn for the worse when she and Jake are threatened with a false lawsuit and Megan Thompson, an aspiring model, goes missing after leaving her young son in Sadie’s care…
The 8th Confession
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Join the Women’s Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before.
Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women’s Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco’s most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it’s the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
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…
The Children
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.6 #ad
She picked up the wrong file, and now everything is falling apart.
From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a new Billy Jo McCabe mystery set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. When social worker Billy Jo McCabe accidentally picks up the wrong file, she discovers a shocking, twisted mystery plotted by a high-ranking social worker in the DCFS.
When Billy Jo McCabe accidentally picks up the wrong file, before she realizes her mistake, she discovers a secret no one was supposed to find.
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(Billy Jo McCabe Mysteries)
Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination – claiming that they were not hired because they were men—Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer is Nick Machiavelli, who has already lost to Mary once and is now back with a vengeance —determined not to not only win, but destroy the firm. It soon becomes clear that Machiavelli will do anything in his power to achieve his end…even after the case turns deadly.
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(A Rosato & DiNunzio Mysteries)
Valediction
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn’t afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn’t want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man’s bullet is wearing Spenser’s name. But Boston’s big boys don’t know Spenser’s ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.
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(The Spenser Mysteries)
Highland Vengeance
by Melanie Karsak
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Everything Gruoch loves has turned to ash.
Scotland, 1032
With Gillacoemgain gone, Gruoch rides north with her newborn son and a broken heart. While she desperately clings to hope, Gruoch’s new alliance with Macbeth proves more challenging than she ever anticipated. Only her unexpected reunion with an important person from her past offers solace. All may yet be well, but the raven’s wary eyes cannot help but notice clouds gathering on the horizon.
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(The Celtic Blood Mysteries)
Until I Met You
by Candy York
Rating: 4.7 #ad
At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Grace Cooper had a crush, and it was on police detective Daniel Sullivan of all people! What on earth was she supposed to do about it?
Daniel had never seen Grace as anything more than the little sister of his best friend’s husband. But suddenly, he was entertaining all kinds of inappropriate thoughts about her, and she was way too young for him. Can Grace get over her crush, or does she even really want to?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
My Daughter’s Keeper
by Adiva Geffen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you?
Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful… and short-lived.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing all over the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto…
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(World War II Brave Women Fiction Mysteries)
The 9th Judgment
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Women’s Murder Club takes on two deranged killers, but Detective Lindsay Boxer begins to wonder if the mysterious case is also breaking apart her closest friendships.
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.
The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn’t left a shred of evidence, except for a foreboding and cryptic message: WCF, the letters written in blood-red letters.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Can a stalled murder investigation in Halcyon Springs pull Izzie Di Sante back into investigative journalism?
The mere thought of getting involved in the investigation shifts Izzie’s mind into overdrive. A former reporter turned restaurant owner, she’s determined to find out everything she can. Only the more she discovers about Drew Scanlon’s murder and his new wife’s hurried placement in a psychiatric facility, the more questions she has.
With the detective instructed to tread carefully given the social status of the family, the investigation of Drew’s murder stalls. His parents spin a story that casts his wife, Bethany, as the prime suspect.
Evidence of Things Seen
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet who died just one year ago in the cottage Clara is now renting, merely adds to the local color. It’s all nothing more than a spooky game, until the woman’s sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara’s panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!).
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(Henry Gamadge Mysteries)
Warrior Saints – Creator
by Carla Thorne
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the supernatural battle of good vs. evil, whose side are you on?
Strange days have come to the halls of Stonehaven Academy. From brutal fights in the supernatural realm with a demon-like presence, to battling obstacles in the halls at school, Mary knows she’s different. She just doesn’t understand why. Then it gets even weirder.
As her supernatural battles increase, she is drawn into friendships with others who seem to be as confused about their bizarre abilities and encounters as she is. Now that Mary, Deacon, Scout, and Ivy have found each other, what is their purpose and why?
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(Warrior Saints Mysteries)
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan’s 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in prosecuting her innocent husband or lose her daughter. When the couple doesn’t give in to pressure, Susan loses custody of her daughter, and her husband is charged with a felony that carries a 16-year prison sentence.
No one wants to hear the facts. No one wants to know the truth…
The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
by Brad Meltzer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories.
Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination. This richly illustrated book serves up those fascinating, unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy lovers: Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman “Spear of Destiny?” Where did all the Confederacy’s gold go? What is the government hiding in Area 51? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone?
The Promises Between Us Trilogy
by Angela Christina Archer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
After France surrenders to the Nazis, all eyes turn to the Channel Islands off the coast. Knowing the Germans could invade their quiet home the resident children of Guernsey are evacuated. Among them are Amelia Ashton, and her older sister Evelyn.
The Promises Between Us
The promise to stay safe.
The promise to survive.
Pursuit of Justice Collection
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Frontier Avengers – Book 1: Sloan Ferrell and his brother James stared at their parents lifeless bodies on the floor. The outlaw gang leader Cole Marsh spent the Civil War years riding with one of the most infamous soldiers of any war, Captain William Clarke Quantrill, the architect of the 1863 Lawrence massacre.
A Cowboy’s Ride for Justice – Book 2: Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can’t take it any longer…But can the courage of one man stand up against a ruthless mob?
Taking on Injustice – Book 3: The Civil War veteran stands alone in his fight for justice and safety for his townsfolk… But will his guns alone be enough?
Empath
by Silvia Hill
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Understand the empath in you and learn how to better value hypersensitivity in yourself and others.
Do you get dragged into the emotions of others so much that it distracts you from your own feelings? Does your spouse, parent, or child have a hypersensitive nature that affects their growth and happiness?
Did you know that empaths and highly sensitive people are different biologically? It’s not just a mental disposition.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Made in Savannah Mysteries Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Follow the Garlucci family saga as Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s “Made in Savannah Mystery Series.”
Stay
by Stephanie Hurt
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Brand New Release from Stephanie Hurt. Ginger just wanted to get to the photoshoot safely. She leans on her faith and takes a chance driving into a blizzard. But when she becomes snowbound, her only place to take refuge is an old cabin she saw before she ended up in a snowbank.
Dakota can’t believe who’s at the door during the worst snowstorm in years. The woman that had haunted his dreams since that fateful trip to Paris. Now he was on the run from the law, but he couldn’t just close the door in her face.
While they are stranded, they begin to grow closer. A call informs Dakota that the men after him are headed in his direction. Dakota must keep Ginger safe, but how?
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(In Harm’s Way Mysteries)
The Perfect Child
by Lucinda Berry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own – and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.
Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own…
Steel Dragon Omnibus
by Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Dragons rule the world. Their claws are into every aspect of human life, from government to industry. But Kristen Hall is about to throw a wrench into all of that.
Because she’s a dragon, too. She just doesn’t know it…yet! A dragon raised by humans, in the human world.
After graduating from the police academy, she’s dropped right into the ranks of Detroit’s elite SWAT team. A rookie, in SWAT? Unheard of. But what the dragons want, they get…
Hidden Thrones: The Rise of Darkness
by Russ Scalzo
Rating: 4.0 #ad
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12
As current as this morning’s newspaper, this series will challenge the reader’s belief system, introduce him or her to the invisible world of spiritual warfare, and ensure that the reader will never look at the world in quite the same light ever again.
The spirit world is astir as the coming of the Lord draws near. The mystery swirling around the rise in supernatural activity has attracted much attention. A powerful secret society desperately seeks to harness this mystical power…
A supernatural thriller. A titanic clash between good and evil. An unexpected love story.
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(Hidden Thrones Mysteries)
16th Seduction
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Still recovering from her husband’s betrayal, Detective Lindsay Boxer faces a series of heart-stopping crimes and a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy San Francisco.
Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer’s life was perfect. She had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe, who helped her catch a criminal who’d brazenly detonated a bomb in downtown San Francisco, killing twenty-five people. But Joe wasn’t everything that Lindsay thought he was, and she’s still reeling from his betrayal as a wave of mysterious and possibly unnatural heart attacks claims seemingly unrelated victims across San Francisco.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
Space Village One
by Bob Price
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Escaping an abusive partner is as tough in 2060 as it was in 2020. You just have further to run. Running as far away as possible was top of Melissa’s list especially as her husband was President of an authoritarian regime the British Democratic Republic. Finding a neutral haven close enough to reach quickly key to her escape plan. Hence she chose Space Village One a neutral colony of settlers orbiting two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth.
These days the only safe haven for anyone not wanting to be included in a future war was to leave the planet. Space Village One offered much for those able to reach it including fortifications made from minerals found on Mars and Venus that made it stronger than anything built on Earth.
Broken Ground
by Val McDermid
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A woman digs up a buried treasure – and a buried body – in the Scottish Highlands: “There are few other crime writers in the same league.” – Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Karen Pirie is dealing not only with this cold case but with a domestic violence case, and as as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is.
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(Karen Pirie Mysteries)
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Santa, Sunrises, & Suspicions
by Tonya Kappes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Around here we say BLESS HER HEART and sometimes it’s just not in a good way.
Take Neva Hudson for instance, bless her heart, she’s the town gossip, not to mention someone who likes to toot her own horn.
Two toots too many ’cause bless her heart, someone has strangled Neva and left her for dead in of all places…the church’s Christmas play. Trust me when I say there’s no shortage of suspects since her tongue lashed a few too many lies about people.
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(A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mysteries)
The Amber Isle
by Ashley Capes
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Adventure? Check. Magic? Check. Sarcasm? You bet.
After years of running down dead-end clues, the rogue Never has nearly given up his quest for answers; his blood is cursed and his true name a mystery, yet no library, no healer, and none who claim to know dark magics have ever been able to help.
Until he steals a map to the mysterious Amber Isle, which might just hold the answers he needs. But Never isn’t the only one who wants the map – an old enemy, Commander Harstas, also seeks it, and Harstas craves revenge for the deaths of his men.
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(Book of Never Mysteries)
4th of July
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world’s bestselling detective series has never been more suspenseful. Trapped in deadly showdowns, courtroom trials, and dangerous secrets, the Women’s Murder Club must fight for their lives.
In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and Lindsay herself at the mercy of twelve jurors. During a break in the trial, she retreats to a picturesque town that is reeling from a string of grisly murders-crimes that bear a link to a haunting, unsolved case from her rookie years.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
Curse of the Huntsman’s Jewel
by Kirsten S. Blacketer
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Once upon a time, an ancient darkness consumed the land. It cursed the innocent and seduced the powerful. No man could break it for none possessed the knowledge or the will to do so.
After seven years hunting the beasts who killed her aunt and grandmother, Scarlett returns to her cousins, Bianca and Rose, only to find her uncle slaughtered in the forest near their cottage. The man who once protected them from the queen was gone.
When three handsome brothers appear at the village market selling their wares, Scarlett and Bianca hesitate to welcome the outsiders, but Rose takes an immediate liking to the burly, quiet middle brother.
A Prayer for the Dying
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
An IRA hit man is on the run and out for redemption in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and Dark Justice.
Martin Fallon has more blood on his hands than any man has a right to. And once upon a time he had no problem with that, killing for his IRA brethren without remorse or regret. But when a mistake leads to the explosion of a school bus full of children, Fallon flees to London to hide with his guilt.
His seclusion is broken when he agrees to make one last killing on behalf of the criminal Meehan brothers—and that may be his greatest mistake. For the hit is witnessed by a priest—and now the Meehans want him dead, too…
Secret Agent Mom
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.5 #ad
An IRA hit man is on the run and out for redemption in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and Dark Justice.
Martin Fallon has more blood on his hands than any man has a right to. And once upon a time he had no problem with that, killing for his IRA brethren without remorse or regret. But when a mistake leads to the explosion of a school bus full of children, Fallon flees to London to hide with his guilt.
His seclusion is broken when he agrees to make one last killing on behalf of the criminal Meehan brothers—and that may be his greatest mistake. For the hit is witnessed by a priest—and now the Meehans want him dead, too…
Psychic Development
by Silvia Hill
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discover how to develop your psychic abilities. Do you want to learn more about psychics and their abilities? Are you curious about contacting the spirit world and how it is done? Have you ever wanted to learn how to use the various divination tools?
This book serves as the ultimate guide to psychic abilities, mediumship, and divination. After reading this, you’ll realize that you are more psychic than you have ever believed.
This guide is ideal for both beginners and experienced practitioners, especially since it is aimed at helping individuals grow, develop, enhance, and harness their intuitive and psychic powers.