Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Gavels, Tinsel and Murder
by Victoria Tait
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A charity ball. A dead guest. Can an amateur sleuth solve the case or will it ruin Christmas for ever?
Aspiring antiques expert, Dotty Sayers, is excited about organising a ball in a Cotswold country house. When a lecture on modern art leads to a kiss under the mistletoe she thinks all her Christmases have come at once. But her festive cheer turns sour when a partygoer is found dead on the dance floor.
The police ask Dotty to help wrap up the case of a stolen painting, but as the search continues she becomes entangled in the murder investigation. When this amateur detective realises the culprit could be a close friend, will she face the Yuletide music?
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(A Dotty Sayers Antique Mysteries)
Bright Eternity
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What if you could cheat death? How much would you pay for fifty more years of life? How much would you pay for eternity?
NewEden Life Sciences promises that its revolutionary scientific breakthroughs can add decades of prime years to its clients’ lifespans. What’s more, their research team is relentlessly pursuing an even bigger goal—redesigning the human species to conquer death forever. Clients who have graduated from the NewEden program are ecstatic, but their families are worried about changes they see in their loved ones.
Enter Carmen Norrell, a gutsy journalist and nature photographer who decides to infiltrate the program and uncover its secrets. Carmen has never backed down from a challenge, but she fears that NewEden’s charismatic leaders may present a different kind of danger than she’s ever faced before.
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(The Brightness Trilogy)
Vendetta
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Blockbuster bestselling author Iris Johansen brings back fan favorite Catherine Ling—and introduces readers to a whole new world of danger, intrigue, and red-hot passion with Vendetta.
With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon’s final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber—the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months.
Brandon and Catherine Ling, Rachel’s longtime ally and fierce protector, are determined to keep Rachel out of danger, but she knows that it’s impossible to stay hidden when Max Huber wants you dead.
Cape Grace
by Nathan Lowell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Son of the shaman is a shaman. But what of the daughters?
When Otto Krugg’s daughter follows in his footsteps,, he’s faced with the task of changing a century long rule that will force her to make decisions no one should have to make.
When Jimmy Pirano gets tasked with enforcing that rule – no matter what – he goes down the rabbit hole to try to find out who established the rule. And why they can’t let it go.
Live to Tell
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide.
On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.
The Secret Family
by SL Harker
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Peter’s world shatters when his beloved wife, Stella, is ripped away from him in a sudden hiking accident. But while he navigates the treacherous landscape of grief, a stranger, Andrew, appears on his doorstep claiming to be Stella’s husband.
Which isn’t possible because he, Stella, and their teenage daughter Katy are the perfect family. Unless it was all a lie. Peter’s worst fears come true as he discovers that Stella had a secret life… a secret family. Including a son, Theo. How is this possible?
A Death in California
by Joan Barthel
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A troubled Los Angeles socialite is both terrorized and tempted by a killer in this “brilliantly written” true story by the author of A Death in Canaan (Ann Rule).
Hope Masters lived in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Beverly Hills—but was entitled to food stamps. Pretty, petite, and privileged, she was recovering from two failed marriages and a string of poor decisions. But when Hope met and fell in love with a handsome advertising executive, she believed her life was finally back on track—until the morning she woke up to find the barrel of a gun in her mouth.
Hope’s fiancé lay dead in the next room. His killer was a new acquaintance who’d been visiting the couple in a remote ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. He claimed to be a journalist, but his real identity was as mysterious as his motivations…
The Wintringham Mystery
by Anthony Berkeley
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Originally serialized in 1926, this classic English countryside mystery contains a puzzle that even acclaimed crime author Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
A secluded country manor in the dead of winter seems like the perfect place to hold a house party. Even better, one of the guests declares that an after-dinner séance would be so much more entertaining than bridge. And it’s all fun and games until a young woman goes missing. Assuming the disappearance is someone’s idea of a joke, the well-heeled host Lady Susan doesn’t want to ruin a good party by calling the police. So it’s up to her footman, a down-on-his-luck young army veteran, along with the lovely lady he once hoped to marry, to solve a mystery that soon turns to murder, with the only suspects being the eccentric party guests . . .
Resurrection Walk
by Michael Connelly
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false.
Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at an Irish Castle
by Ellie Brannigan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fans of Hannah Dennison and Carlene O’Connor’s mysteries are in for a treat with Ellie Brannigan’s captivating debut cozy mystery, complete with a sharp and endearing protagonist.
Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she’s on a plane to Ireland where she discovers that she’s inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin’s will contains a few caveats—for example, if Rayne doesn’t turn McGrath Castle around within a year, the entire village will be financially destroyed.
Backrush
by Jana DeLeon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A new women’s fiction/romantic suspense series by NYT bestselling author Jana DeLeon.
The sea heals all things.
Tempest Island has weathered the worst of storms and still stands proud, providing its residents with the healing power of the sea and sun. When Alayna Scott’s life falls spectacularly apart, both professionally and personally, the executive chef’s only thought is getting back home to the island and her aunt Bea. Between the two, she hopes to put the past behind her and figure out how to move forward.
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(A Tempest Island Mysteries)
Fatal Complications
by John Benedict
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anyone Can Put You to Sleep—It’s the One Who Wakes You Up That’s Important
When a colleague’s patient suffers a bizarre reaction in the operating room, Luke Daulton, a newly minted anesthesiologist, volunteers to help. Despite the surgical team’s best efforts, the patient succumbs to a rare anesthetic complication. Luke becomes perplexed, even suspicious, over their inability to save the woman. Is it possible that the diagnosis was wrong? Or, worse yet, was the diagnosis faked? Luke even wonders if his boss Dr. Katz is involved.
Olympic Mountain Pursuit
by Jodie Bailey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Can this K-9 get a child to safety?
Four years ago, former US Marshal Jackson Dean left his job after falling for a witness—who’s suddenly the target of an assassin. Now it’s up to Jackson and his K-9 partner to protect single mom Everly Lopez and her young daughter when Everly’s identity is blown. But with hired killers looking for a payday, Jackson must use all his resources to stop them from silencing Everly permanently.
A Three Book Problem
by Vicki Delany
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sherlockian bookshop manager and frequent amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle is back on the case when a poisoned dart ends in demise . . .
It’s a crisp, early October weekend, and business is slowing down as fall descends at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and adjacent Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room. Wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian David Masterson has rented Suffolk Gardens House, where he plans to entertain his friends in a traditional English country house weekend.
The Mimosa Tree Mystery
by Ovidia Yu
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mirza, a secretive neighbour of the Chens in Japanese Occupied Singapore, is a known collaborator and blackmailer. So when he is murdered in his garden, clutching a branch of mimosa, the suspects include local acquaintances, Japanese officials — and his own daughters.
Su Lin’s Uncle Chen is among those rounded up by the Japanese as reprisal. Hideki Tagawa, a former spy expelled by police officer Le Froy and a power in the new regime, offers Su Lin her uncle’s life in exchange for using her fluency in languages and knowledge of locals to find the real killer.
The Grave Tender
by Eliza Maxwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A chilling psychological suspense novel, The Grave Tender explores the dark boundaries people cross to save loved ones, and the limits of family bonds tested by the deepest of betrayals.
Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon. People said her mother, Winnie, was never quite right, but with one single, irreparable act, life as Hadley knew it was shattered. The aftershocks of that moonlit night left her reeling, but the secrets and lies had started long before.
The Nurses
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A third-year nursing student, Emma Wilson was excellent in her field. Working rotations in the Chicago Southside hospital, she became fascinated with eight student nurses of the past whose black and white photos were on display in the hospital’s cafeteria. She cared too much for her patients, however, and passion overtook her when she lost one of them. As tears and distress overwhelmed her emotions, she gazed at the photos on the wall and lost consciousness. When she came to, she was looking up at the faces of two of the nurses from the wall. She had somehow entered the body of a beautiful nursing student named Joanne Walsh back in 1966.
Reactions and Solutions
by Dr. Ilana Fried
Rating: 4.6 #ad
An exciting journey from acids and bases to aspirin and bananas.
How much do you actually know about the scientific processes behind everyday things like cooking, cleaning, and taking medication?
For example, do you know why water expands when it freezes instead of decreasing in volume like all other materials? Or that monosodium glutamate (MSG) is no more harmful to your health than any other seasoning?
So many of the choices we make daily are influenced by popular opinion or unfounded trends. It’s time to take knowledge into your own hands and acquire the information that will allow you to lead a safe and healthy life.
Shaman
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories — to teach those who would follow in his footsteps.
There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together. There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change. And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple — and where it may lead is never certain.
Shaman is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man’s journey into adulthood — and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.
