Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding—this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reporter talents to art. But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese cat, are in their element—sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder. This riveting beginning to the Cat Who series is the perfect cozy mystery for cat lovers to start sleuthing!
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(Cat Who… Mysteries)
Naked Prey
by John Sandford
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is the bodies are of a black man and a white woman. Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be. And there is worse to come – much, much worse.
“All but impossible to put down.” – The Washington Post
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(The Prey Mysteries)
Deputy Cooper
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He lost his family. He won’t lose the war.
When Deputy Cooper Franklin found his sister’s body among the rubble of an overturned carriage, he thought it was a terrible accident. Then he saw the bloody arrows. Now he wants justice, and if he can’t have that, he’ll take vengeance.
But it’s been years since Indians bothered the people of Tightwater, and Cooper isn’t convinced they’re the ones behind the series of attacks taking place now.
Elijah Bentley is a railroad baron who cares more about money than he does about people. With the help of the Predators, a notorious Texas gang known for their brutality and ruthlessness, he plans to take what’s his… and what isn’t.
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(A Western Adventure Fiction)
Danger in Numbers
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and deadly secrets.
A ritualistic murder on the side of a remote road brings in the Florida state police. Special Agent Amy Larson has never seen worse, and there are indications that this killing could be just the beginning. The crime draws the attention of the FBI in the form of Special Agent Hunter Forrest, a man with insider knowledge of how violent cults operate, and a man who might never be able to escape his own past.
The Jackal Man
by Russell C. Connor
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A creature older than legend stalks the small Texas town of Asheville. A beast rarely seen but greatly feared, the Jackal Man has haunted the minds of this sleepy hamlet for ages from the uninhabited woods to the south.
Now, a land developer has purchased the area with the intent to build houses, and Frank Stanford has moved into the strange town with his family to oversee the project. He and his punk son Willie will be forced to deal with the truth behind the myth, along with an obsessed cop…a quirky zookeeper…and a sadistic hunter that may be more dangerous than the beast…
Raised in Fire
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The exciting continuation of the Top 10 Amazon Store Bestseller by Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, K.F. Breene!
It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours.
The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch. It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all.
They’re being silenced by the Mages’ Guild, a corrupt magical institution that doesn’t want word to get out of what is plaguing the city. Worse, news of my magic might’ve slipped down to the underworld, hitting the ears of some extremely powerful demons.
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(Demon Days, Vampire Nights World Mysteries)
Knife Edge
by Blake Banner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two crime scenes, two multiple murders. Two multiple murders that had too much in common to be mere coincidence.
Cherise Brown, her small daughter Shevron, her husband Earl. The only survivor, eight year-old Leroy who witnessed the whole thing. His story, that his father broke his sister’s neck, his mother stabbed his father in the back and his dad, before dying, in a kind of berserker rage, took the knife and killed his mother.
Four years later Leroy Brown is murdered along with his adoptive sister, Lea. He is stabbed in the back, while his sister’s throat is cut, in a tool shed in the back yard of his adoptive family.
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(A Dead Cold Mysteries)
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries Boxed Set
by Lois Winston
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first two books in the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series:
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun – When Anastasia Pollack’s husband permanently cashes in his chips at a roulette table in Vegas, her comfortable middle-class life craps out…
Death by Killer Mop Doll – Overdue bills and constant mother vs. mother-in-law battles at home are bad enough. But crafts editor Anastasia Pollack’s stress level is maxed out when she and her fellow American Woman editors get roped into unpaid gigs for a revamped morning TV show.
The Lost Girl from Belzec
by Ravit Raufman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own?
Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are forced to leave their home and transported to the forbidding Belzec Extermination Camp, from whence no one has ever returned.
Ruthie’s mother knows that her daughter’s life is in grave danger. By a stroke of luck, she catches the eye of the camp commander and he makes her his housekeeper, delaying their death sentence for the time being.
Realizing that she must act fast, with no regard for her own life, Ruthie’s mother is able to smuggle her beloved daughter out of the camp to safety. But it is not long before the commander inevitably discovers her betrayal – and while he chooses not to kill her, he leaves her with a scar that will follow her for the rest of her life.
In the Still of the Night
by Ann Rule
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. “I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life,” she told her mother earlier the night before. “I just need a few days with you guys.” Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mother, who had met her daughter’s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
Faefever
by Karen Marie Moning
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. “I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life,” she told her mother earlier the night before. “I just need a few days with you guys.” Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mother, who had met her daughter’s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
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(Fever Mysteries)
Gated Prey
by Lee Goldberg
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A simple sting operation takes a violent and unexpected turn for Detective Eve Ronin in a gripping thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan.
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(Eve Ronin Mysteries)
Immodest
by L.S. Einat
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a world ruled by strict traditions and laws, one brave woman is willing to risk everything to earn her freedom.
Perele, a young Jewish woman, was raised in an extreme Ultra-orthodox society.
When she turns eighteen and her parents have a hard time finding a match for her, she is thrown into the arms of a cold and violent man, who makes her life unbearable.
A forbidden chance encounter with a man and the feelings that ensue, make her begin to question everything she has ever known – and even consider that maybe, she does not have to choose this life that has been thrust upon her. But she knows that once she makes a drastic decision, there will be no way back into the arms of the Jewish community.
Unforgettable Courage Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the stakes are high, and hearts are on the line… That’s the time you need UNFORGETTABLE COURAGE.
From a missing president’s daughter to escaping serial killers, hiding from human traffickers to protecting a political target, secret agents and hostages to uncovering hidden murders and outrunning organized crime, these heroic men and women must dodge bullets and defeat baddies all while falling in love – not exactly a walk in the park.
Curl up with your Kindle and these thrilling, action-packed, full-length romantic suspense novels by the bestselling and award-winning ladies of The Authors’ Billboard.
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…