Mysteries
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Burnside Body Snatcher
by G.G. Morris
Rating: 3.9 #ad
The residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood’s favorite auntie goes missing–on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.
When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic cult and a frightening legend from the Alphabet District’s shadowy past. Will Wanda uncover the identity of the Burnside Body Snatcher, or will she become the killer’s next victim?
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(The Ankeny Arsonist)
Gifts from a Stalker
by Blye Donovan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
His small town had been marred by violence—violence he couldn’t shake.
He is used to helping others, but after he is unable to move past the death of one of his junior officers that occurred in the line of duty, Dillon is forced to ask for help from local therapist, Lydia Mason.
Dillon is soon offering to help Lydia instead when a figure from her past comes back to haunt her. She has recently moved to Rolling Brook from Chicago hoping to escape a man who is stalking her. Dillon and Lydia are attracted to each other but know anything other than a professional relationship is out of the question . . . or is it? Can Lydia help Dillon let go of the past, and can he keep her safe from hers in the process?
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(Hunted at Whiteford Farm)
The Exceptional Sophia Beaufont Omnibus
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The first dragon rider in over a hundred years has been born. And it’s a girl.
Never before has a female been chosen to ride a dragon. Join Sophia as she conquers evil, as the dragon riders should have been doing for centuries with the first 12 books in The Exceptional Sophia Beaufont series!
The Elite, a guild comprised exclusively of dragon riders, is dead according to most. No one has seen a rider in decades. The problems they used to fight overwhelm the world. Dragons are thought to be near extinction. However, the Elite aren’t dead…
To Love and To Kill
by M. William Phelps
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A bizarre love triangle leads to a brutal murder in Florida in this true-crime story by the New York Times bestselling author of One Breath Away.
The missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives. When the file was handed to a veteran investigator, he knew Heather was dead. The challenge was to find her body – and whoever killed her. Soon, a sordid triangle of sex, jealousy, and rage came to light. The killers were cunning, manipulative, depraved – and they were as close to Heather as a man and a woman could possibly be. Vividly recreated by master investigative journalist M. William Phelps, this riveting account of seething small-town passions is a classic tale of crime and justice.
Cycles of the Moon
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The sun illuminates all things, the moon nothing but the shadows of our minds
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas awakens from a vivid dream in his French Quarter apartment. He finds an antique double-moonstone pendant placed in his hand by the ghost of a voodoo mambo. One of the two moonstones is missing, and both gemstones are needed to make the pendant magical. There are other problems. The rightful owner of the pendant is a supernatural fairy named Maurelle. Someone chopped off Maurelle’s wings and buried her alive in the ruins of a French Quarter Creole townhouse…
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Quiver
by Lisa Borne Graves
Rating: 4.8 #ad
What would you do if you could live forever? Could you hide it from the one you truly loved, especially if her life depended on it?
Thanks to his dysfunctional Olympian family, Archer Ambrose finds out firsthand how difficult this can be. He never falls in love but bestows it on others—until he meets Callie.
When Callie Syches moves to the Upper East Side to prepare for her father’s impending death, she doesn’t expect to meet the boy of her dreams. She also never believed her father’s harebrained theory about myths, but her uncanny ability to “see” uncovers godly secrets Callie can hardly fathom.
Uncharted
by L.T. Ryan, Gregory Scott
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A runaway in over her head proves not what she seems. Brier must navigate UNCHARTED waters if he’s to bring her back alive.
The latest installment from USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan & former Detective Gregory Scott, Blake Brier returns in the thrilling sequel to Unleashed. “A FIVE STAR story that grabs you immediately and you do not breathe until the book ends.”
When Blake Brier gets a call from FBI Special Agent Andrew Harrison asking for help, he’s obligated to assist. Looking out for a family member in need whose daughter has run away, Harrison asks Brier if he can use his unofficial channels and unorthodox approach to bring this to resolution.
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(Blake Brier Thrillers Mysteries)
The Glory
by Herman Wouk
Rating: 4.6 #ad
This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 – and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel’s dramatic struggle for survival across the years. The Glory takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor—ending with the final hope for peace.
Illuminating the inner lives of real Israeli leaders – including David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Ariel Sharon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning “master of the historical novel” (Los Angeles Times) tells the story of Israel’s struggle to exist with a compelling sense of both the broad significance of this time in history, and its personal impact on those who lived through it.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Crust No One
by Winnie Archer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Business is booming at Yeast of Eden. But with a deadly mystery taking over the seaside town of Santa Sofia, the Mexican bread shop can’t possibly leaven a killer’s appetite . . .
For once, Ivy Culpepper feels fulfilled. An apprenticeship at Yeast of Eden has opened her world to time-honored baking techniques under owner Olaya Solis’s guidance—as well as the freshest small-town gossip, courtesy of chatty regulars known as the Blackbird Ladies. Ivy even begins accepting that she and restaurateur Miguel Baptista may never again rekindle their romance—despite the undeniable tension between them . . .
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(A Bread Shop Mysteries)
Swann Series: Books 1 – 3
by Ryan Schow
Rating: 4.7 #ad
How do you turn a broken girl into a weapon? And what do you do with her when she loses control? Meet Savannah Van Duyn…
USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Amazon ALL-STAR AWARD winner, and Top 10 Sci-Fi writer, Ryan Schow, presents a deliciously dark tale that begs the question, can you genetically alter and perfect an imperfect child? And what happens when an experiment spins wildly out of control?
“A series of transformations turn an ugly duckling into a beautiful Swann, but this is not a fairy tale, it is more a fable, a moral tale. Which will win? Evil or good?” by Amazon Customer
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(The Rise of a Legend Boxset Mysteries)
Darkness Stirring
by J.R. Erickson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Inspired by an eerie true story.
Lorraine Hicks is fourteen-years-old when she watches her best friend, Beverly climb into a tree in the forest and never come back down. It’s a mystery that haunts her small town and embeds itself in Lorraine’s life.
Fifteen years later, Lori is a grown woman, doing her best to move on from her troubled childhood. She reluctantly agrees to a night of camping, despite her secret terror of the woods. As she sits by a roaring bonfire, a man stands and tells the story of two fourteen-year-old friends who walked into the Manistee National Forest-only one of them walked back out.
The Heckler
by Ed McBain
Rating: 4.2 #ad
With crooks to cuff and pimps to put behind bars, detectives Carella and Meyer of the 87th Precinct simply don’t have the time or patience to deal with a prank caller – even if he has phoned murder threats to two dozen local shop owners. What they fail to realize, however, is they aren’t dealing with a heckler who’s ringing round for kicks but rather a modern-day Moriarty known only as the Deaf Man – and these phone calls are just his first move in a calculated scheme to pull off the bank robbery of the decade. Further calls darken a lovely spring with suspicion and fear, before a brutal murder whips things into a frenzy, prompting Carella and Meyer to scour the town for clues to the Deaf Man’s identity.
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(87th Precinct 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. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Murder at Morrington Hall
by Clara McKenna
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can’t be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match—and a murderer . . .
Like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she’s asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold, ambitious father reveals that he has arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly’s financially strapped son . . .
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(A Stella and Lyndy Mysteries)
The Killing Kind
by Jane Casey
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Ingrid will never forget what John did. The people he hurt. The way he lied about it so easily. The way she defended him.
Now he’s back. He says a murderer is after her. He says only he can protect her.
Would you trust him? The clock is ticking for Ingrid to decide. Because the killer is ready to strike…
The Waxman Murders
by Paul Doherty
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Murder, treachery, intrigue and betrayal abound in Paul Doherty’s fascinating fifteenth tale to feature medieval sleuth, Hugh Corbett. Perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Michael Jecks.
October 1300: The Waxman, most feared of war cogs, is carrying the Cloister Map – an ancient manuscript alleged to chart the whereabouts of a legendary treasure – when it is overrun by ships flying the colours of the Hanseatic League.
December 1303: Wilhelm Von Paulents, a representative of the Hanseatic League, arrives in Canterbury in possession of the Cloister Map. Sir Hugh Corbett is sent, by Edward I, to negotiate for ownership of the chart. But shortly after his arrival, Von Paulents and his companions are assassinated.
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(Hugh Corbett Mysteries Mysteries)
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Murder by Month Romcom: Books 1-4
by Jess Lourey
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Let these romcom mysteries take you away…to a cozy world of romance, humor, and happy endings!
The day Mira’s father chose alcohol over his family, the pain about crushed her. She fled the tiny town where everyone knew her business and built a new life in the big city, one short on friends but long on emotional safety. When she caught her bass-playing boyfriend tuning another woman’s instrument, though, the life she’d carefully crafted came crashing down.
She became that abandoned girl all over again, fleeing to a small town very much like the one she’d escaped…
How to Be A Badass – 3 Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Virtutis gloria merces. Translation: Glory is the reward of valor
Fed up with playing the normal game, recent university graduate, ex-cum laude, ex-soccer star, ex-popular and mostly broke Kera MacDonagh changes her life when she decides to research how to be a witch… And believes it.
Kera didn’t want to go back east and deal with her overbearing Mom. So, when university was done, she stayed behind in Los Angeles. Little did she realize how controlling moms can be from the other side of the country. Feeling a little desperate to make her own way, she buys a few books on business.
Haunted A Love Story
by Emmaline Givens
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A not so typical love story. A story that will make you laugh, cry, and laugh again. A story of family, loss, laughter and moving forward. My hope is that each reader takes away something from the story that they didn’t expect to find.
Kate and Matthew Chapman have spent their entire life together, and just celebrated their thirty-seventh wedding anniversary. High school sweethearts who raised a family and grew a business together… it was finally their time to find time to relax and reconnect. Although their four children have left the nest, between running their hardware store and Matthew’s volunteer work at the local fire house, their days had been full. But when tragedy strikes, Kate finds herself suddenly with too much time on her hands and too many opinions about what she should do next.
The Saracen’s Mark
by S. W. Perry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Betrayal has many guises…London, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot…
Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once again recruits Nicholas to embark on a dangerous undercover mission that will take him to the back alleys of Marrakech in search of a missing informer. However, while Nicholas hunts for the truth across the seas, plague returns once more to London – ravaging the streets and threatening those dearest to him.Can Bianca and Nicholas’ budding relationship weather the threats of pestilence and conspiracy?
Murder at the Mena House
by Erica Ruth Neubauer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel—an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows . . .
WINNER OF THE 2021 AGATHA AWARD
Egypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won’t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie’s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane’s plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of Mr. Redvers, a roguish banker she can’t quite figure out…
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(A Jane Wunderly Mysteries)
HELL
by Tom Lewis
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Evil Has a Child’s Face. A wave of occult-themed killings sweeps across Los Angeles, leaving a grisly trail of corpses in its wake. The only lead is a mysterious young girl caught at one of the crime scenes. A girl who scares the hell out of the police and the guards at the prison where she’s being kept. A girl with a terrifying secret. The power to raise the dead.
From the author of ‘Hell: The Possession and Exorcism of Cassie Stevens,’ comes a terrifying new tale of supernatural horror. Sometimes evil has a child’s face.
No Rest for the Dead
by Sandra Brown, David Baldacci, Lisa Scottoline…
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this New York Times bestseller, twenty-six renowned thriller authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel—a collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest storytellers to produce a single gripping, spellbinding mystery.
Alexander McCall Smith. Sandra Brown. Faye Kellerman. J.A. Jance. Jeffery Deaver. Kathy Reichs. Lisa Scottoline. Jeff Lindsay. These are only a handful of the names that make up the all-star lineup of authors behind No Rest for the Dead, a tale of vengeance, greed, and love that flows seamlessly, in the words of David Baldacci, “as it passes from one creator’s mind to the next.”
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tails, You Lose
by Carol J. Perry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After losing her job as a TV psychic, Lee Barrett has decided to volunteer her talents as an instructor at the Tabitha Trumbull Academy of the Arts—known as “The Tabby” —in her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts. But when the school’s handyman turns up dead under seemingly inexplicable circumstances on Christmas night, Lee’s clairvoyant capabilities begin bubbling to the surface once again.
The Tabby is housed in the long-vacant Trumbull’s Department Store. As Lee and her intrepid students begin work on a documentary charting the store’s history, they unravel a century of family secrets, deathbed whispers—and a mysterious labyrinth of tunnels hidden right below the streets of Salem.
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(A Witch City Mysteries)
The Kate Hamilton Mysteries Boxed Set
by Fiona Quinn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Join teacher Kate Hamilton as she puzzles her way through crimes from rural Virginia to inner city Washington D.C. in this USA Today bestselling series.
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“I have read this whole series and really enjoyed these books. Fiona Quinn is a very gifted writer. She has the rare talent of truly bringing her characters to life. I become so involved in her stories that it truly breaks my heart when I get to the end of her books knowing I now have to wait for the next one to be written. “ by Amazon Customer
The Forbidden
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
She is someone’s darkest desire. Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Grayson Avery, the investigator working the case.
With a rising body count and zero leads, Gray can’t help but be impressed by Avalon’s amateur sleuthing, which takes her to the darkest corners of the internet, where killers confess their crimes.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)
Hidden Thrones: The Rise of Darkness
by Russ Scalzo
Rating: 4.6 #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 drawn much attention. A powerful secret society desperately seeks to harness this mystical power for its own gain.
Author and prayer warrior Jack Bennett can see evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons. Jack’s special ability makes him the FBI’s newest hire, serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. Together with Special Agent Frank Lederman, they investigate the improbable and the unexplainable.
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(Hidden Thrones Series)
The Kill Clause
by Gregg Hurwitz
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.
Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job—until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.
Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options—a quest that leads him into a shadowy no-man’s-land between justice and the law . . . and into the welcoming fold of “the Commission.”
Wounded Hearts
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Join the men and women of Tidal Falls as they learn love can conquer any odds. Adventure Romance Super Bundle. Four action-adventure romance stories set in the quaint little town of Tidal Falls, Washington, where all is not what it seems.
Tidal Falls
The Rebel’s Redemption
Twilight’s Encore
The Sheriff Meets His Match
Cold Blooded
by Toni Anderson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“With Cold Blooded, the talented Toni Anderson has penned yet another nail-biter. From beginning to end, the pages sizzle with thrilling suspense and romantic tension.” —Melinda Leigh, Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
A journalist searching for the truth about her best friend’s death—and the FBI agent who needs her to stop.
Disgraced investigative journalist Pip West is devastated when she discovers her best friend’s body face-down in a tranquil lake. When cops and federal agents determine that her friend overdosed then drowned, Pip knows they’re mistaken and intends to prove it.
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(Cold Justice Mysteries)
Mirrorland
by Carole Johnstone
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Cat lives in Los Angeles, far from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs, full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross.
But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to 36 Westeryk Road, which hasn’t changed in twenty years. The grand old house is still full of shadowy corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone—El?—has left Cat clues: a treasure hunt that leads back to Mirrorland, where the truth lies waiting…