Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Murder Under the Mistletoe
by Fiona Leitch
Rating: 4.2 #ad
THE PERFECT RECIPE. It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event run by a notorious millionaire at a 13th-century abbey in Cornwall.
A PINCH OF PARANOIA. Things get more complicated when a snowstorm descends, stranding them all, and the next morning they find one of the guests has been gruesomely murdered in their bed…
A DASH OF DECEPTION
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(A Nosey Parker Cozy Mysteries)
Angels & Imperfection
by Dan Arnold
Rating: 4.4 #ad
JOHN WESLEY TUCKER IS NEITHER AN ORDINARY DETECTIVE NOR AN ORDINARY MAN.
Private Investigator John Wesley Tucker is hired to do a routine background check for a wealthy oil man, an aspiring politician. His investigation is complicated by his involvement in other cases and events which may be tied to a person associated with his client.
His partner, Christine, finds herself struggling to come to grips with her own ideals and beliefs. She and John are being followed by members of an unknown agency. When they learn there is a connection between the agency and Christine’s former boss, all the disparate threads are woven together into a tapestry of death.
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(Angels & Imperfection Mysteries)
Wicked Hot Magic
by Riley London
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There’s a new strike team in Salem.
Three hot guys… and me. I’m Max: part-time demon hunter, brand new witch, and all-around tough girl.
I’m on a mission to save Father Gabriel, the only person in my life that ever cared. When an exorcism goes bad, demons drag him down to the fiery pits of Hades. I’m going to get him back, but I can’t do it alone.
The Protectors of Salem add me to their elite hit squad with three hardcore warriors who are supposed to help me come into my powers and pull off this rescue mission. It’s going to take a miracle for us to all get along.
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
Dwarf Bounty Hunter Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“One of the best damn bounty hunters. Period.” James Brownstone
Johnny Walker was a good bounty hunter in his day. James Brownstone good.
But everybody has a line, including Johnny, and he retreated from the world to lick his wounds. But now the bad guys are back and he’s not going to let another young woman be murdered.
When Johnny’s teenage daughter was murdered, everybody’s favorite Dwarf retreated to his cabin in the swamp with his two hound dogs by his side, and retired with his guns, his whiskey and his memories. Who was the killer? Even Johnny couldn’t figure it out. At least not yet. But magical monsters weren’t done with him… yet.
Tiny Little Thing
by Beatriz Williams
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the summer of 1966, Christina “Tiny” Hardcastle stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Unlike her spirited sisters, Tiny was the consummate well-behaved debutant, poised and picture-perfect, raised to serve as a consort to a great man. Now, as her handsome husband, Frank, runs for a Massachusetts seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, that long-sought destiny lies nearly within reach.
But behind her glamorous facade, Tiny’s flawless life is cracking. She and Frank both have secrets in their pasts that could shatter their political ambitions and the intricate truce of their marriage.
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(The Schuler Sisters Mysteries)
A Second Chance
by Walt Mussell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
***Quantum Leap meets Shogun***
Her only future lay in her death…in the past.
Kira Sakamichi is a career-driven woman, trying to achieve success before her mother’s constant interference sentences her to a relationship. But when a grudging drive to meet her mother’s latest “selection” ends in a lake accident, Kira wakes up lost in the past, part of the household of a 16th century samurai, and mother of a six-year-old son. When actions in battle lead to the samurai’s condemnation, Kira learns that the house will share the samurai’s fate. Only by understanding duty and family in both time periods can they survive.
(For Nook readers, use discount code: BNPONLY99 at checkout)
Men in Green Faces
by Gene Wentz, B. Abell Jurus
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Because it’s a novel, the truth can be told. Because it’s the truth, you’ll never forget it…
Gene Michaels carries an M-60, eight hundred rounds, and a Bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they’ll take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives.
In this stunning novel, former SEAL Gene Wentz brings to life what it was like to be a SEAL in Vietnam, running an endless tour of top-secret, death-defying operations deep in enemy territory. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America’s most feared warriors as you’ve never seen them before.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Here Today, Scone Tomorrow
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
Former city dweller Flora Miller, new to the quaint English village and in charge of the recently restored Tearoom on the Rise, is the unlucky recipient of the late man’s parrot. Her new feathered companion has no filter and a vibrant personality that cannot be ignored! Witness to Harold’s murder, the bird won’t let the matter lie, and it’s not long before Flora becomes suspicious.
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(Baker’s Rise Mysteries)
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system?
Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
Genesis
by Robin Cook
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs.
Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was–or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive.
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(Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Mysteries)
Songs of Earth and Power
by Greg Bear
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Greg Bear explores the power of music to open a portal between worlds in this pair of brilliantly imagined fantasy novels.
The Infinity Concerto: Following the instructions of a virtuoso composer—whose controversial Concerto Opus 45 is actually a song of power—young poet Michael Perrin passes through a gateway between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic, and Michael’s epic journey begins . . .
Deserves To Die
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are struggling with a new acting commander while Sheriff Dan Grayson is in a coma after being shot. It’s the worst possible time for a homicide. A woman’s body has been found, frozen and missing a finger. Alvarez hopes this was an isolated case of a murderer with a personal grudge. But then a second body turns up. . .
Meanwhile, Anne-Marie Calderone has just arrived in town hoping Sheriff Grayson could help her escape a dangerous stalker. But now Grizzly Falls is starting to feel like a trap…
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(An Alvarez & Pescoli Mysteries)
The Sanatorium
by Sarah Pearse
Rating: 3.9 #ad
You won’t want to leave. . . until you can’t. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.
An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.
Need to Know
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Justice is music to the Sisterhood’s ears as they delve into the dark side of celebrity—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crash and Burn.
Through all their missions and adventures, the tightknit group of friends who make up the Sisterhood have learned one vital lesson: everybody has a weak spot. In the case of Yoko Wong’s dear friend Garland Lee, the multimillion-selling performer known as America’s beloved songbird, that weak spot was trusting her lawyer, Arthur Forrester. For years, he’s taken advantage of her faith in him to amass a secret fortune. And now, in the deepest betrayal yet, he’s dragged her into a lawsuit that could cost her everything.
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(Sisterhood)
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chock full of mystery, suspense and intrigue, The Pelican Trees allows each reader to do just that, each step carefully orchestrated by a loving grandfather (already in Heaven) trying to rescue his precious granddaughter and the rest of his family from eternal condemnation.
Shocking…
Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida. Exciting…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Millie’s Cruise Ship Mysteries
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels in THE ORIGINAL Cruise Ship Mystery series from bestselling author Hope Callaghan!
Hoping for a fresh start after her recent divorce, sixty something Millie Sanders, lands her dream job as the assistant cruise director onboard the “Siren of the Seas.” Too bad no one told her murder is on the itinerary.
Starboard Secrets: Book 1; Portside Peril: Book 2
Lethal Lobster: Book 3; Deadly Deception: Book 4
Vanishing Vacationers: Book 5; Cruise Control: Book 6
Killer Karaoke: Book 7; Suite Revenge: Book 8
Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’: Book 9; High Seas Heist: Book 10
61 Hours
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman he’ll risk his life to save.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Body Count
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A ten-million-dollar reward!
To the person who kills Jamie Austen!
Is Pok still alive and the one behind it?
In this gripping new adventure from International #1 Best Selling author, Terry Toler, Alex must use every bit of his considerable skills to protect Jamie when he discovers on the dark web a ten million dollar hit out on her life. Is Pok behind it? He can’t be. He died in a cruise missile attack several months before. But Alex has his suspicions. Someone is behind it and it’s a race against time to find the killers before it’s too late.
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(THE JAMIE AUSTEN THRILLERS)
Merfolk
by Jeremy Bates
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the latest book in the bestselling WORLD’S SCARIEST LEGENDS series.
“Jeremy Bates knows how to sneak up on readers and scare them senseless. In Merfolk Bates unleashes a chilling adventure tale that’s loaded to the gills with suspense, mystery, and scientific terror. If you love old-school movie monsters, don’t miss out—Merfolk is Creature from the Black Lagoon for the Netflix generation.”—Brandon McNulty, author of BAD PARTS and ENTRY WOUNDS
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(World’s Scariest Legends)
The Border
by Don Winslow
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on?
The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin?the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera?has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul.
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(Power of the Dog)
Runaway Train
by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rating: 4.2 #ad
They told me I was an out-of-control train about to crash… Everything changed when the police officer knocked on the door to tell me – a 16-year-old – that my older sister Kristen had died of a brain aneurysm. Cue the start of my parents neglecting me and my whole life spiraling out of control.
I decided now was the perfect time to skip town. It’s the early 90’s, Kurt Cobain runs the grunge music scene and I just experienced some serious trauma. What’s a girl supposed to do? I didn’t want to end up like Kristen, so I grabbed my bucket list, turned up my mixtape of the greatest 90’s hits and fled L.A.. The goal was to end up at Kurt Cobain’s house in Seattle, but I never could have guessed what would happen along the way.
Hard Cash Valley
by Brian Panowich
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir.
Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard.
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(Bull Mountain Mysteries)
Onyx Flame
by Morgan Elliott
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Paige Bradshaw has been heartbroken one too many times. The most recent betrayal has her swearing off love. But fate laughs her feeble attempt to escape the snares of love, further complicating things by bringing Alpha Colin into her life. The Alpha who is a hopeless romantic and would do anything to have his mate, even if she’s unsure of him. He could never hurt her, right? Danger sets its sights on the young wolves throwing them into a blood-soaked maze of secrets. Their lives begin to crumble as they untangle the web, unknowingly pushing them closer to a killer that no one saw coming.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson’s thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Beauty Expos Are Murder
by Libby Klein
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister is about to see the ugly side of beauty expos . . .
Easter weekend on the Jersey Shore is hopping. Poppy’s Bed and Breakfast is busier than ever, but she needs to leave things in the hopefully capable hands of Aunt Ginny—and paws of Figaro the black smoke Persian. She’s selling her paleo muffins and keto cookies at the Health and Beauty Expo in Cape May’s Convention Hall. Normally sharing a booth with the love of her life would be a treat, but she’s recently discovered secrets that throw her new romance into chaos.
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(A Poppy McAllister Mysteries)
The Witch’s Lost Love
by Cathy A. Corn
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Did Stephanie Gray suffer great tragedy in a past life and could it be coming back to haunt her?
STEPHANIE PREFERS HER SIMPLE LIFE of waiting tables at a diner and living with her silly cat. Then she joins a Wiccan group of healer women to live in harmony with the earth, and her world begins to tilt and whirl when a circle member disappears into thin air.
THIS IS NO MAGIC TRICK and foul play is strongly suspected. Soon Stephanie’s life spirals into chaos and she’s facing more questions than answers: Who is or was the missing Flo, the witch that nobody liked? Could Stephanie have some strange connection with her disappearance? And can facing the past bring back the missing pieces of Stephanie’s present-day life?
Saving Sara
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Finalist for American Bookfest 2021 Best Book Award in the thriller/adventure category.
Sara is missing in the Cayman Islands. No one knows it. Except her abductors, of course.
Beloved CIA heroine, Jamie Austen, is sent to Tampico, Mexico, to rescue four girls, abducted on their senior class trips. Are the cases related?
All of Jamie’s skills are tested as she must overcome the powerful drug war lord, El Mata, his ruthless band of heavily armed killers, and a hurricane that’s bearing down on the Caribbean islands.
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(THE JAMIE AUSTEN THRILLERS)
Cruel Summer
by Wesley Southard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Melissa Braun is a broken woman. Only wanting what’s best for her family, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to mend her fractured relationship with her abusive boyfriend. In a last ditch effort, she hopes the sun and sand of a much-needed Florida vacation will bring them and her son closer together.
Patrick Braun is a demoralized kid. Quiet and sullen, he only wants his mother to see her boyfriend’s torment as it cripples everything he loves. After years of silence, he refuses to stand by and let the abuse continue to tear them apart…
Chasing Freedom
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 4.8 #ad
How far would you be willing to go if you were chasing freedom?
When Allie Santiago, international scholar at Oregon State University, and her family are captured and labor trafficked by the same drug cartel that drove her father from Mexico, she learns the cartel thugs plan to sell her to human traffickers. Allie escapes, running a marathon through the mountains of Northern California, and collapses in the arms of Jeff Jacobs, a disgraced Olympic decathlete who wants to regain both his honor and his former glory. When Jeff’s actions engage the FBI and US Marshals to protect Allie and free her family from the cartel, a war breaks out in the mountains along the Oregon-California border.
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(Against All Enemies Mysteries)
The Girl from Widow Hills
by Megan Miranda
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from Widow Hills.”
Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and help vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and disappeared from the public eye.
You Will Pay
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The deadly secrets of a long-ago summer lead to a reunion with a ruthless killer in the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s detective thriller.
It starts as a prank – a way for teenage counselors to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe on the Oregon coast. Jo-Beth Chancellor wants to give Monica O’Neal a little scare. Monica has it coming, and no one will get hurt – so what could go wrong? Everything.
Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff’s department, is investigating human remains discovered in a cavern on the former campgrounds…
Big Bluff
by Jackie Zack
Rating: 5.0 #ad
An Ordinary Day Turns Deadly. Katy Russell travels with Nick Hinchman to the wannabe art town of Big Bluff, Michigan. Their job—to report on the town’s second annual art festival. Mystery strikes when a down-on-his-luck painter witnesses a prominent artist tragically falling from the bluff. When the police arrive, the body has vanished. What devious plan has been set in motion? Is a murderer planning his next step? Artists and townspeople unwittingly hold fragments of clues. Can Katy and Nick piece it together before time runs out and another person falls victim?